I hate ...

[nazar]

 thank you cookie
 my husband did it    l think its so cute
l am not shore where he found it
 we have a love of golden  labs  

[judydawn]

He must be so tired by now though nazar 

[nazar]

ah she just like  a  kid has lots of energy  theres  no stopping her

[Amanda]

Cuillidh,  I understand your frustration it's such a shame they won't allow business numbers on the register. I think your put off is inventive and quite funny, I just find the leaving them hanging on the line very rude and I feel sorry for people needing to work as a telemarketer for a living - it's such a thankless job and they would so rarely come a cross a caller that is happy to talk to them it must be very depressing. Although I don't feel that bad that I engage with them!!!

I agree - it is a crap job, but I didn't ask them to call me and what this tactic does is get you listed as a time-waster and scrubbed off the lists. After my husband did this 2 or 3 times we had no cold calls for months.

[andiesenji]

When I get calls like that (my phone shows the incoming number or if it is "unknown caller"), I just say hello, hello, hello - is anyone there - hello, hello, and then hang up.  Meanwhile there is someone shouting on the line but I pretend I don't hear them.

After two or three episodes like this, that particular caller never rings back. 

[kylie]

Australia Post - we pay to have our mail redirected and they still send it to our old address. Also our parcels were delivered to our old address and when I queried them they said that the mail redirection doesn't include parcels, and pointed out their terms and conditions. I read the T&C's and pointed out right back to them that it clearly states in there that it DOES include parcels! Still.... many went missing.
Vodafone - so frustrating!! The connection is terrible unless you live in a capital city. I spent ages on the phone with them telling me that if I can just wait for 3 months, the signal will improve. Eventually I convinced them to let me out of my contract and went elsewhere - and got $200 credit on my account for bringing a Vodafone account!
Dishes.... we have 7 kids of varying ages but the two teenagers are the worst at hiding dishes away in their bedrooms and it always seems like it's just when I've done a major clean up that more dishes (or washing) appears.
Phew! I'm done!

[Amanda]

I'm still hating Vodafone too, but they don't seem to care.
I'm a bit hurt, really. I was under the impression that they valued their customers ...

[cookie1]

Kylie I feel your frustration at Australia Post. I'm busy checking through the diary to see just how many things they have mucked up this year and on Monday I am going to call them and I intend to be very angry.

[kylie]

I've actually written to them twice stating that I'd like them to treat my letter as a formal complaint... and have had no response whatsoever!

[Bedlam]

Kylie,
I second the dishes and washing appearing when all done. I hate washing full stop. Never ending and then it creates another hate ironing!
I too paid for redirection of mail that didn't happen and was disappointed that the new owners although having left a note with our new address returned an important business parcel, not too difficult to forward on I wouldn't have thought!
I think too many just don't do that...think!  Treat others as you would like to be treated, that's my motto and would make a nicer place to live I think.

[kylie]

Oh I second that! I'd certainly make an effort to get the parcel delivered to the rightful owners. Apparently not everyone thinks the same way.

[cookie1]

Kylie I agree with you. I complained to Australia Post just after we moved here, about 6 years ago stating that our mail wasn't being delivered. I heard nothing for ages and when I rang them their reply was 'we wrote to you about it.' They couldn't understand the irony when I replied that I had never received the letter. I kept saying 'this is what I'm complaining about' and they were just hopeless.

[Vivaroo]

... dishes & folding laundry. If I ironed I would hate that too.
I'm not too fond of those hideous electronics/whitegoods store ads on TV that yell at you and every day is a sale. I won't shop there because of these ads, who are they aiming at I wonder?   Thank goodness the TMX drowns it out.

[Cuilidh]

I was once preparing to post a tube and wanted to check the cost with Aust. Post so gave them a ring and the "very helpful" "customer service" representative just couldn't comprehend that, whilst the tube definitely had a length, I could only give him either the width or the depth but not both as, being round, it only had one (I must admit, I was getting fairly annoyed with him and perhaps I was being just a bit obstructive by this time)!  What made it worse was that it was one of their own postal tubes.  If I can, I always ring the local post office directly now as you generally get more sense out of the counter staff who usually know what they are talking about.

[Bedlam]

I hate it when you can't sleep, turn to the forum for company and quickly run out of new posts to read. Lol