Gripe of the day - What is yours?

[timwilky]

I have a mate who drives the things.

He has splatted two in the past couple of years, people tend to forget the the psychological impact on the drivers.


My former employers provide train cleaning service. They love a messy one as well.

But having had friends succeed and family try. I feel for anyone who thinks there is nothing left to live for and we should be a lot more tolerant of people with problems.

Even if I have shouted jump when stopped for over 2 hours for idiots on the wrong side of bridges.

[Bibio]

Originally Posted by maviczap

This was the rear disc cable, that passes through the chain stay. I could pass a cable the wrong way down the tunnel, but the other way it snagged. The tunnel had a teflon liner inserted during its build, but it had a crease in it, preventing the cable passing through and I took it out.

Stripped down a gear cable & took out the teflon liner, then threaded that onto an old cable & fed it down the tunnel until it got to the other end, and pulled the liner into position. Then the cable fed through no problem.

I got the idea from a Youtube video!

Helped being in the daylight, so I could see what I was doing

Nightmare

this is why you tie a bit of thread/cord to the end of the old one before you take it out

[maviczap]

Originally Posted by Bibio

this is why you tie a bit of thread/cord to the end of the old one before you take it out

Twas only a section of the old liner, which was stuck in the tunnel, so couldn't tie it on, and not even enough room for a knot to pass through the tunnel. The teflon liner is 1.8mm dia, the tunnel is only about 2mm dia. A brake cable just fits the liner.

Hence my problems

[Littlepeahead]

I posted something on Facebook today in response to an earlier post from Loz about service received in dealers which I've re-griped below. How to fail at customer service and make assumptions about who your customers are.

Walk into Kawasaki in Colchester while Stu parks the car. I am in need of a new helmet and have a budget of, oh, up to £500 give or take a few quid.

3 members of staff completely ignore me even though I have already taken a look at a couple of their bikes on show in case I fancy chopping in both the SV and the GS and then I start looking at helmets.

Stu walks in. Before he's even got 10 feet into the store all three members of staff have leapt up and asked how he is, what he's looking for and does he need any help?

Only when he says he's here with his wife who needs a new helmet do they seem to become aware that I am even in the room.

They have one helmet in size XS - and it's bright pink because as they guy said 'pink would suit me'. Yeah, right.

Just about to order this online (it's not pink), it's £80 cheaper with a load of free extras. Normally I like to buy in store but those guys blew it big time today.

[Adam Ef]

Similar to your experience... Had a friend recently walk into John Lewis trying to buy a TV. Sales guy pretty much refused to talk about tech aspects of the TVs with her and suggested she get her husband to have a look at the technical stuff!!! Needless to say, they lost a sale. Pretty shocking for a company like John Lewis.

[maviczap]

Had the same when a guy came to give us a quote for new windows, would only talk directly to me. Ignoring my wife totally.

So coupled with, that and his old school double glazing salesman techniques it cost him £5k

[Littlepeahead]

One of the reasons I take my car where I do is because they talk to me straight. They've taken me into the pit under the car to point out the bit that was making a weird noise. There's no assumption that because I'm a woman I don't know how my car works. I think they quite like that I'm 5 foot nothing yet drive a huge 7 series with a bike for weekend fun.

[NTECUK]

The southway Colchester needs wider lanes for filtering.
Scratch my mirror

[Heorot]

Same thing in reverse happened to me in Curry’s. I do all the ironing in our household because Sue doesn’t like doing it and is, therefore, useless at it. I told the female shop assistant exactly what I wanted in an iron and she then proceeded to explain to Sue all the features of the various irons, ignoring me. I twice more told her it was for me, but she continued to talk to Sue. It was only when Sue piped up that she needed to talk to me that she finally got it. Very confused by the idea that a man would do the ironing.

[littleoldman2]

When I'm buying clothes, if it needs ironing it stays in the shop.