Inconvenient Annoyances

Ick. Brexit is such a pain. In a music group I'm in it was brought up again, and I was literally told to leave (the country) if I don't like it. By someone who doesn't know the difference between racism and xenophobia. And who thinks a "trade union" is all that the EU was, ignoring the common travel area in Ireland and all of the laws set by the EU that protect our food safety and more. Blah. How is our future in the hands of such poorly educated brainwashed people?

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Please tell me other people chimed in and told him to stuff it?


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Please tell me other people chimed in and told him to stuff it?


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They tried to poke holes in his very flawed logic, but not really unfortunately. There's this weird attitude that if you don't like something you can just up and leave, but we all know that's not how it works. It ended up pretty amusing as he talked himself in circles but the number of brexit fans was bewildering.

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I'm suffering from FOMO today.  It's half term and my husband is off with our daughter.  Meeting up with her BFF from nursery and going to a bouncy castle park.  I'm wishing I could be there!  I know they will have so much fun.

They are coming to meet me for lunch tomorrow which is fun.  I'll get to show my little girl off around the office.  Considering the one time she came in she started vomitting, I'm hoping it's a better visit. 

 

Sugar crashing today....

The IA is that there are no good choccys left in our work bench pot (I basically have a tuck shop). The reason why is because SOME people (one guy named friggan Steve) who are like 4 pay-bands above me take from the pot and NEVER buy any choccys or contribute to the pot in any way.

Sugar crashing today....

The IA is that there are no good choccys left in our work bench pot (I basically have a tuck shop). The reason why is because SOME people (one guy named friggan Steve) who are like 4 pay-bands above me take from the pot and NEVER buy any choccys or contribute to the pot in any way.

RUDE!  With all the extra pay, he could afford to put in the quality stuff, too.  I'm outraged on your behalf.

RUDE!  With all the extra pay, he could afford to put in the quality stuff, too.  I'm outraged on your behalf.

Right! There are at least 4 of us who are fuming about it because he always takes out (yesterday he took out 2 or 3 pieces!!) and never puts in....but we are all farrrr to British to say something directly to him lol. We just roll our eyes and tut VERY quietly or make a passive aggressive "joke" towards him, as one would expect LOL. We're like HE PROBABLY MAKES MORE THAN ALL OF US! HE CAN AFFORD IT THE MOST!

Also, I just ate a mini-bag of chocolate buttons. In fairness, it was nearly 10 and I work with a line manager who's a feeder and basically threw the bag at me to eat so she wouldn't eat alone. It's going to be one of those days.

One of the people who used to live is here is pretending they still do. We've received notices in the past week from banks, collection agencies, DVLA, and this morning had a collector knocking on our door. The person confirmed THIS MORNING that they lived here with that company. What is wrong with people, they weren't even the previous tenant when we moved in. Makes me concerned that less savory people could think they live here or incorrectly associate us with them.

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One of the people who used to live is here is pretending they still do. We've received notices in the past week from banks, collection agencies, DVLA, and this morning had a collector knocking on our door. The person confirmed THIS MORNING that they lived here with that company. What is wrong with people, they weren't even the previous tenant when we moved in. Makes me concerned that less savory people could think they live here or incorrectly associate us with them.

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That is the worst thing to open your door to. Hopefully they didn't give you too much hassle when they realised you weren't the person in debt. That person sounds like a scumbag.

Make sure you're writing posting the letters all "return to sender" when you receive them and add "does not live at this address". If you continue to get the letters after doing a "return to sender: doesn't live here", try phoning them up...like with the DVLA, maybe ring them and say "I keep getting letters for a person pretending to live here that isn't..." and see what they say/can do.

I spend too much time watching TV, but there is this show about people who go bad on debts. The Sheriff sends along guys who come into homes to evaluate the worth of the property within and then haul it away. There was one episode with a case similar to yours - the woman didn't actually live there and hadn't for some time. The reposessors were still going to take the current resident's stuff because they had a court order to do so, until the people at that address could prove to them that their name was on the lease and not the deadbeat's. (!)  Might do to keep a copy of your council tax letter and your lease agreement handy?

We've been getting mail for the former tenants of our place, who haven't lived here since early 2017. I was marking it "not at this address, return to sender."  On one (which was a bank card statement) I wrote on it "has not lived here since Feb 2017, return to sender". They kept sending them, though. So after I year I just started binning it as it arrived. There was even a supposed delivery of some baby-associated item (a pram?) that we had to turn away, six months into our own tennancy. I was wondering if it was a collector trying to sort out if we were "them" by doing a "signed delivery to" scam? Then the dunning (I assume) notices started arriving. Some stuff from HMRC, that I did the "return to sender" thing on. Every now and then we STILL get stuff for them, which promptly gets binned. It's been almost two years, so, really?

Sugar crashing today....

The IA is that there are no good choccys left in our work bench pot (I basically have a tuck shop). The reason why is because SOME people (one guy named friggan Steve) who are like 4 pay-bands above me take from the pot and NEVER buy any choccys or contribute to the pot in any way.

Oh, I ~hate~ it when people do stuff like that!

One of the people who used to live is here is pretending they still do. We've received notices in the past week from banks, collection agencies, DVLA, and this morning had a collector knocking on our door. The person confirmed THIS MORNING that they lived here with that company. What is wrong with people, they weren't even the previous tenant when we moved in. Makes me concerned that less savory people could think they live here or incorrectly associate us with them.

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That's scary. Be safe Margo.

I spend too much time watching TV, but there is this show about people who go bad on debts. The Sheriff sends along guys who come into homes to evaluate the worth of the property within and then haul it away. There was one episode with a case similar to yours - the woman didn't actually live there and hadn't for some time. The reposessors were still going to take the current resident's stuff because they had a court order to do so, until the people at that address could prove to them that their name was on the lease and not the deadbeat's. (!)  Might do to keep a copy of your council tax letter and your lease agreement handy?

We've been getting mail for the former tenants of our place, who haven't lived here since early 2017. I was marking it "not at this address, return to sender."  On one (which was a bank card statement) I wrote on it "has not lived here since Feb 2017, return to sender". They kept sending them, though. So after I year I just started binning it as it arrived. There was even a supposed delivery of some baby-associated item (a pram?) that we had to turn away, six months into our own tennancy. I was wondering if it was a collector trying to sort out if we were "them" by doing a "signed delivery to" scam? Then the dunning (I assume) notices started arriving. Some stuff from HMRC, that I did the "return to sender" thing on. Every now and then we STILL get stuff for them, which promptly gets binned. It's been almost two years, so, really?

Are you thinking of "Can't Pay We'll Take It Away"?  Believe they can't actually take an item of value away if you can prove that the item belongs to you and that you are not the person in debt or co-signed for the person in debt (although I imagine there are so many people that won't hang on to an old TV receipt if there's no warranty - for example - or anything like that so could be tricky for some people). Alternatively, they can prove the person's name is not on the lease (as you said). Imagine Margo could just phone up the landlord who could confirm that such person hasn't lived at the address for x-period of time but I don't know how the different court orders work etc. (so I'm sure it's much more complicated than that and how they make it look in some of the episodes). Thankfully haven't experienced this so happy to not be knowledgeable here lol

 Yeah we still have the old owners (we bought the house in Feb of 2016) getting mail - like important mail from Banks etc. - coming to the house. They refused to leave us a forwarding address (wanted to be private) so all we could do is "return to sender" but that didn't even stop the mails. We've accepted that we're just going to be getting their mail forever and are prepping for the day collectors turn up at ours looking for them!

I'd be pretty concerned about someone claiming to live at my address!  I'd get the locks changed at least, and look into ways to protect the security of my mail. I'd also look into ways to get my accounts flagged as an identity fraud risk.

Have you thought of calling the police?  It must be illegal to do that.

The only thing I have learned from watching bailiff programs, is never let them in.  Don't leave the door open either.

Thankfully, I always insist the locks are changed when I move into a place. Heaven only knows who has keys to the locks if you don't!