I hate

I always carry a bunch of our shop stickers to put over the TERFy nonsense - I used to peel them off, but I heard of some, whether true or not, that had razor blades put under them for when people tried to remove them.

Meal time should be sacrosanct, just say you have another engagement without specifying. If they push, say it’s personal; if they blame you for taking lunch say you have/had to eat lunch at a certain time for medical/health reasons, which isn’t untrue as it is a recommendation to keep a regular eating schedule, then they’ll have to go pound sand because pushing any further is illegal.

Or attend the meeting, we’re just here to give our opinions, which may or may not be worth the price of site membership.

Attend the meeting with your usual lunch, a surströmming sandwich with durian fruit for afters.

Funny it'd never occur to me to worry about booking time over lunch. I'm cognisant of timezone hours, but that's as far as it goes.

However, this is probably a product of the insanely high number of meetings in my organisation. So you just book whatever you can with the fewest clashes from the most important attendees, then hope people will sack off their other meetings. Also people often fake book meetings to manage their time, so it's worth a shot.

I really miss old school telephones where you'd just call someone, and if they were free, they'd pick up and you'd just ask them your question. Insted of:

Hi
Hi
{an hour later}
Hi
Hi
Do you know about xyz?

If I work over lunch I just clock off earlier

https://nohello.net/en/

This is what I do - block out Fridays and lunchtimes with "Private".

Oh wow. And they still booked everyone in! WAC.

There was actually an organisational email about this done in a politer way.

Having had a big chunk of time off before joining, I assumed this was just the etiquette. So I used to write my message, then split out the "hi" and immediately follow up with the question.

Fucking estate agents. Obviously doesn't need more adding but they're shit.
I'm moving into a new place (ignore the fact I've been secretly subletting for a year) the tenancy is up anyway but someone is moving out so I'm taking it on. The other tenants said this months back and gave my details, we heard nothing until a week ago, they then asked my housemate to provide my income details etc, like he would even if he knew it. She eventually got hold of me so I said what I earned which is split over a job and a ltd company I own half of. They then go on about needing company records and shit, I say there aren't any as it's the first year of trading as a ltd company, I eventually manage to say I can get copies of all my payslips if needed as I pay myself PAYE to prove it, they then say I don't need to do that just confirm I earn that, which I fucking did in the first place when I fucking said it. They now said they're charging £180 to put me on the tenancy which I obviously question, fucking chancers need to swap a fucking name. This is ignoring the fact they sent about 6 different gas guys round over the last year, each one saying they can't put a meter in without something being done to the house first, but all they do if send out a gas guy to come say the same thing, trying to charge us if we miss their pointless visit.

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The "Fuck you and the horse you rode in on" button is missing from your autoreplies.

Just got one of those "we thought you might like" notifications from Amazon. Because i looked for some polo shirts last week:

Polo equipment - riding hats, knee braces, a bike polo mallet connection kit

No small mints?

#malgorithms

Was there a Prince Andrew pre-owned sweaty polo shirt?

No, because he doesn't sweat.

You've made your bed.

But only if you're a prepubescent girl.

Huge if true

cognisant

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/128276/

Charging for referencing isn't even legal anymore, is it? Ditto the other shit.

I dunno, but they'll be a shirty email on Monday where I suggest changing my name instead for £42.44 and whatever else citizens advice say, unless there's a person on here who knows how to tell them to fuck off nicely.

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tenant-fees-act

From 1 June 2019, the only payments that landlords or letting agents can charge to tenants in relation to new contracts are:

rent
a refundable tenancy deposit capped at no more than 5 weeks’ rent where the total annual rent is less than £50,000, or 6 weeks’ rent where the total annual rent is £50,000 or above
a refundable holding deposit (to reserve a property) capped at no more than 1 week’s rent
payments associated with early termination of the tenancy, when requested by the tenant
payments capped at £50 (or reasonably incurred costs, if higher) for the variation, assignment or novation of a tenancy
payments in respect of utilities, communication services, TV licence and Council Tax
a default fee for late payment of rent and replacement of a lost key/security device giving access to the housing, where required under a tenancy agreement

There's no such things as "changing the name on the deposit". Deposits belong to the tenant, and aren't assignable with any of the deposit protection agencies, afaik

Yeah, just read all that, they can fuck off, but still house me.

With you on that.
My partner was selling her place (remotely) through one agent and got fed up with no viewing appointments. In tears, not able to deal with it, she asked me to go and ask them for the key to the house and tell them we’re going with another agent. I did this and they were fine about it.
I’d never been in there before and they just handed me the key to a fully furnished house, telly, hi-fi, appliances, personal effects, the whole shebang. No ID required, no call to my partner, zilch, zippo.

I’m choosing to believe you guys had a free afternoon and decided to teach the estate agents a hard lesson that they won’t ever forget.

Thank you, on behalf of renters and decent landlords everywhere.