Inconvenient Annoyances

Your health board sounds awful margo!

I thought of you the other day when there were two ladies on the train behind me on Saturday heading back to the Highlands from Edinburgh who were chatting away about EDS, struggle to get diagnosed and  resources available, etc and having to travel to the central belt from the Highlands for medical care. They must have both been at a talk In Edinburgh on Saturday and were coming back up on the late train. I was like, hey, margo isn’t alone!!

Anyways, I hope pals can help you!!

Your health board sounds awful margo!

I thought of you the other day when there were two ladies on the train behind me on Saturday heading back to the Highlands from Edinburgh who were chatting away about EDS, struggle to get diagnosed and  resources available, etc and having to travel to the central belt from the Highlands for medical care. They must have both been at a talk In Edinburgh on Saturday and were coming back up on the late train. I was like, hey, margo isn’t alone!!

Anyways, I hope pals can help you!!

Yeah, they had a conference up there on Saturday! I'm steadily working on getting more involved with the charity, but it was bad timing with work. Hoping to make it to their next European one.

I think the issue with my local trust is they've joined up 3 areas and the geographical coverage is now about 1.5 hours end to end. I'm close to 2 hospitals (25-45+ mins depending on traffic to the nearest A&E, tests and consultants available at a closer one but that's still 45 mins on a bad traffic day, and a few others smattered about). I would have been OK waiting a week or two more, but not another full 6 weeks. If they hadn't been completely patronising I wouldn't have complained too loudly but by then I didn't trust that they were following their actual procedures for rescheduling.

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Sounds like you had a scheduling person who was on her high horse. Uggh.

My SIL does that for a job actually .She tells of sad tales of people getting letters over Christmas, missing them, and missing the cutoff and having to start over on the wait list (this is priority and consultant dependant)

Thankfully there must have been a cancellation so PALS helped, and I'll actually get it sooner. It must be nice when there is something within their remit to fix. This is good because I'm in so much pain I can barely think straight today

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Wearing the same shirt today as I wore Monday.  Ooops.  Distinctive too.  We've all laughed.   

Arrggg!!!!!!  I need to get some important papers to scotland as fast as possible so I went to post office on Tuesday to mail it.  Don’t know if the young man helping me was new, confused or incompetent.  Took 45 minutes for him to finally figure out how to post it.  Could feel the daggers in my back the whole 45 minutes as I held up the line waiting for him to figure it out.   Luckily there was 2 other windows open.  Was willing to pay the $95 for 1-3 day delivery but he couldn’t figure out how to find documents as the option as what I wanted to send.  Ok, to make things easier, I said let’s go for the 3-5 day option for $65 since that seems to have a document option to choose.  Great, now that way isn’t accepting the post code into the computer.  He kept having to ask the lady working the next window to help him punch info into computer.  She said just leave the post code field blank since it wouldn’t take it and move on.  Finally, he seemed to have it figured out and I left not feeling to confident on my papers getting there.  Got home and checked the tracking , yeah, it was showing up so at least I know it’s on its way.  I mailed it Tuesday October 22 at 11:43 am and as of today Friday October 25 at 4:03 pm it finally left Honolulu airport on its way to its destination.   ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME USPS!!!!!!!   It just took you over 3 days to get a express international envelope 14 miles down the road.  I am so pissed off right now am seeing red.  God knows how long it’s going to take to get to Scotland once it lands in London.  I should have went to Fedex.......and if it takes more then 7 days I’m going to see about getting some sort of refund because it would have cost $35 for the 7-10 day option and I’ll want my $30 difference in price if it takes that long.

Had to resend some documents and was smart this time and used UPS.   Last time using the post office it took over 3 days to make it 14 miles down the road and 7 days to deliver a letter package I paid $65 for 3-5 day delivery on. . Using UPS, I got the last mail going out Monday night at 6:45 pm and 53 hours later it is out for delivery in scotland....cost $67....2 dollars more.   And they wonder why the post office is losing money    It’s because of their crappy service....never again 

Oh, I hear you! Been there, done that, would never use the mail for anything that absolutely-positively needs to get somewhere quickly. I've had tracked Royal mail disappear between countries - UK says they gave it to USA, USA says they never got it. Each party claiming the other was responsible, neither allowing any compensation because it was just documents (and a cheque).    I had a US sim chip supposedly sent to me here in the UK from the USA that never made it, as well. It went into the black hole that is the London mail facility and never came back out, apparently.

Then again, one time with Fedex I was sending next-day Urgent to Ireland from here in Glasgow. Paid extra for it. It got sent to Paris. From there it went to Indianapolis. Then to London, then to Ireland. So next day was actually about five days.  And I FedExed tax returns to the USA two years ago (I think it was) and they were supposed to be there in Austin in two days. They arrived on day 14.

Never had a problem with UPS (at least not here in the UK) or DHL (ever).  My current favorite is DHL.

That feeling when your letting agent tries to pull a sneaky and charge more for a rental contract renewal than was in your existing contract.

New law says that until May 2020 if there was a renewal fee of more then £50 they are allowed to charge it, and after that they can only charge for changes to the contracts and a max of £50 unless they can justify in writing why they are charging so much. Grrr.

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Moved to a new building for new job last week. In this building,they turn the heat off for the weekend, since no one is in it. It's taking forever to come back up to temperature this morning. I'm frozen solid! 

Moved to a new building for new job last week. In this building,they turn the heat off for the weekend, since no one is in it. It's taking forever to come back up to temperature this morning. I'm frozen solid! 

I will NEVER understand that method.  Puts so much more pressure on the system to get it to temperature.  Turn it down, of course.  But not off!!

I will NEVER understand that method.  Puts so much more pressure on the system to get it to temperature.  Turn it down, of course.  But not off!!

I agree! Turn it down low your going to waste more energy trying to get it back up than to just run it on low.

I hope it warms up soon for you phatbeetle!

That feeling when your letting agent tries to pull a sneaky and charge more for a rental contract renewal than was in your existing contract.

New law says that until May 2020 if there was a renewal fee of more then £50 they are allowed to charge it, and after that they can only charge for changes to the contracts and a max of £50 unless they can justify in writing why they are charging so much. Grrr.

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They pulled this with us back in September. After doing research begrudgingly I paid it but so glad it’s the last year for us to have to pay that fee.

They pulled this with us back in September. After doing research begrudgingly I paid it but so glad it’s the last year for us to have to pay that fee.

We are asking for clarification on the fees because it looks like they are trying to charge us an extra £60 for the contract amendment to return our extra deposit, and £150 to renew the contract. What snakes! (neither are the fees in our existing contract, so they will be reducing them or we'll be talking to the landlord.)

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Moved to a new building for new job last week. In this building,they turn the heat off for the weekend, since no one is in it. It's taking forever to come back up to temperature this morning. I'm frozen solid!

We have no heat in my store (I work in the basement) AND we have a sewage problem so it's freezing and smelly right now.



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We have no heat in my store (I work in the basement) AND we have a sewage problem so it's freezing and smelly right now.



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Oh gosh that’s absolutely awful...