How Much More Bull S****

[teacake44]

Email from my car insurance, Quote: We are here to help you get through covid, email contains quotes for all sorts of insurance cover.

Message from my online bank, Quote: We are working hard to help you during covid 19, Please don't phone us, we are very busy.

Dentist, Quote: We are here to look after your smile, but at the moment we can only see you in an emergency. In other words, unless you have a fat wallet, forget it.

Doctor's surgery, Note on door, Quote: We are here to keep you safe from covid, but don't visit, please call in an emergency. In other words sod off unless your nearly dead, in that case call 999.

As you may now be well a wear I'm getting a little sick of this nonsense being rammed down my throat, and that's before I turn the TV on and watch all the adds that have be made around covid. :0)

[Mamyalynne]

Gosh, you are cross today.

[sherrardk]

And? It’s not like you’re being singled out.

[Baldric]

You sound paranoid to me, just live with it.

[teacake44]

Yep, I am a little bit. that's how bad its getting, for me to get mad. :0)

[teacake44]

14.03 No more paranoid than your posts.

[sanmac]

I went to my optometrist the other day and there was a note on the door: "Don't bother knocking, we can't see you."

[SparklyKid]

All getting very silly, now. Sick of TV adverts with folk wearing masks.

[woofgang]

I never watch ads

[Prudie]

Teacake you have the honour of being my 'most irritating poster through Covid' BUT I have to say I have never agreed with you more on this, you are spot on.

[Bazile]

Oh it's not all doom and gloom

That fat Welsh bloke is offering you £250

[sanmac]

I also went to see my psychiatrist and there was a note on the door: "Are you absolutely mad, attempting to get help during the present crisis?"

[bookbinder]

Regarding dentists: my annual checkup was delayed because of the lockdown. A week after my dentist opened his doors again, he asked me to go for my delayed checkup, which was about 6 weeks late. I am a private patient, and my wallet was made lighter by £139.95. My wife is a patient at the same practice, and her annual checkup was also delayed. She is still waiting for a new appointment. She is an NHS patient. Money talks.

[New Judge]

Absolutely agree, teacake.

All these individuals who are insisting they are just as productive working at home obviously don't have to contact anybody themselves. Every you have dealings with is the same: "We're here to help you through the pandemic [as if they could even if they wanted to] but unfortunately we've nobody to answer your phone calls, nobody to deal with your online enquiries and don't you DARE come near any of our staff or expect any of them to come near you."

It's beyond a joke. This has been going on for the thick end of six months and there seems no indication that companies are making arrangements under what they quaintly call the "new normal". The new normal seems to be companies cutting their costs on the pretext that they are coping with an "unprecedented situation" and the result is crappy service for their customers.

[gulliver1]

14.05, Have to agree " Here we go again ".

[iluvmargie]

teacake, I agree with you 100% on this. Sick to death of all the ads on radio seemingly every five minutes from some do-gooder telling us to wash our hands, wear our masks, keep our distance etc etc etc. Sick of not being able to get into my dentist, sick of being held up forever in building society because most of the staff are 'working from home', sick of having to wear a mask every time I go shopping (not that I conform all the time anyway) and lastly sick and tired of all the different edicts coming out of the Government on a regular basis, although I admit, I sometimes feel sorry for Boris in these unprecedented times! Oh for normality once again.

[iluvmargie]

And NJ is right, whenever you ring anyone up these days you get a message asking you to be patient because of changes in staffing structure due to covid and hang on forever until you get fed up and have to hang up! Is it always going to be like this now ??

[Togo]

We are not alone....millions of people feel the same Teacake.

[Hopkirk]

Well I don't think it's nonsense

[iluvmargie]

Brilliant Togo.

[MartinMillar]

I have worked on phone lines for a government agency during lockdown from home and get very peeved when government agencies get slated for doing nothing whilst working from home.