{"id":4,"date":"2007-05-31T13:42:31","date_gmt":"2007-05-31T12:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/?p=4"},"modified":"2009-09-28T09:49:06","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T08:49:06","slug":"who-gives-you-extra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weeklywhinge.com\/?p=4","title":{"rendered":"Who gives you eXtra???"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last time I went into The Halifax<\/a> I had to queue because they were dealing with some stupid idiot who had lost his paying in book or something… and when I got to the counter she said “you can pay it in at the machine – you don’t need to have deposit envelopes already, it will give you one”<\/p>\n

So this time, when I went in and there’s only one cashier and two people waiting I thought “I’ll give it a try”…<\/p>\n

So I went to the machine, pressed “deposit” and “cash”, and the amount, upon which it spat out an envelope and said “this deposit will not be available until 5\/6\/07” (that’s 5th June to any American cousins)<\/p>\n

Now that’s not good enough – it’s a cash deposit, FFS!, so I figured “I’ll go inside and put it in there”, except now the machine is waiting for me to put the envelope in the slot…<\/p>\n

So I press “cancel”… nothing happens<\/p>\n

I press “clear”… nothing happens<\/p>\n

So now there’s a queue of people behind me thinking “what’s this tosser doing”… and I can’t just put the empty envelope in because the bank might think I’m trying to defraud them or something…<\/p>\n

So I have to wait 90 seconds while the machine just sits there beeping at me… I can’t even walk away cos it still has my card.<\/p>\n

Eventually I get my card back and I go back inside and there’s no queue, so I walk straight up up and she says “sorry, would you mind waiting, I’m just in the middle of a transaction”, and I’m like “can’t someone else help me” and she’s “I’m just finishing this transaction, I’ll only be two minutes”, and I’m “oh, only two minutes, well that’s F*CKING FINE then, after all my time isn’t worth ANYTHING, I’m just the F*CKING CUSTOMER, I’ll just STAND AROUND LIKE A C*NT waiting for you F*CKING DO YOUR JOB PROPERLY you STUPID B*TCH.”<\/p>\n

Of course I didn’t say any of that, I just pouted like a spoilt child and mumbled “Like I have a choice”.<\/p>\n

So the whole thing from start to finish took about 10 minutes for a transaction which actually takes about 30 seconds.<\/p>\n

The only “Extra” I’m getting there is a few points on my blood pressure.<\/p>\n

Bah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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