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Why can't customer service teams have people from the country they are serving ( sorry if this sounds racist but not meant to be )
Spent nearly an hour trying to get a new SIM card from Vodafone it was painful

Maybe it's because we aren't an English speaking country, but our customer service teams are generally within the country.

Alas, this doesn't make interactions with them any easier.
 
I took advantage of the sunny dry weather and went out for my first cycle ride of the year. It was still a bit cold so I wrapped up and set off for my usual ride . There is an awful lot of water about . Our garden and the grassy area in front of our house are squelchy but I discovered that some of the lanes are very wet . One of the roads that I usually use had large puddles either side which almost met in the middle . When I arrived at Reybridge there was a Road Closed sign . The river had burst it's banks and was flowing across the road on one side , luckily there is a raised platform for pedestrians which I used to get across. There was only one other section of road which had large puddles on but wasn't too bad . I discovered that the road from Bowden Hill to Lacock was also closed to traffic due to flooding so I went back by the route I used, apart from a deviation to Notton . It's easier to cross the A 350 at the traffic lights at Lacock. I did 12 miles.
 
Try 'three'!!! Unbelievably awful.

As are Virgin... I couldn't even get past their bot to speak to a human when they axed their PAYG service last year, and I was left hanging in the queue for hours. Was so cross I jacked it in, gave up the phone number I'd had for 20 years, didn't bother with a refund for the credit left on the account and got a Tesco sim instead.

At least with Tesco there's a mobile shop in store, so if I've a problem, I can actually go and talk to someone face-to-face.
 

PeteXXX

Cake or ice cream? The choice is endless ...
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Location
Hamtun
Sausages, chips & beans for dinner tonight 👌
 

biggs682

Itching to get back on my bike's
Location
Northamptonshire
Try 'three'!!! Unbelievably awful.

Vodafone were a joke when i moved to Virgin about 20 years ago , but today was really shocking , i eventually managed to get hold of a member of staff at our local vodafone shop and he said he might be able to sort the issue out if i went into shop with the account holders id and there Power Of Attorney paperwork
 

Jenkins

Legendary Member
Location
Felixstowe
Picked up a basic calendar while in town this aftrenoon and transferred the family birthdays over, but got to December and had a nagging feeling I'd missed one. I checked back and sure enough, one of my step nieces was missing and I couldn't see her details on last years calendar either. It got to the stage where I was just about to contact my step brother when I found her name in small print squeezed in where there was a clash of music/racing events in April last year. Shows what my priorities are :laugh:
 

PeteXXX

Cake or ice cream? The choice is endless ...
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Hamtun
I'm trying to decide which album to put on.

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Lovely supper of cold salmon (a portion of the St Clements half-side I picked up on YS last week*), triple-cooked chips and braised red cabbage, with half a ripe mango for afters.

* would definitely buy this again if they do it next Xmas, it's very nice. The orange, lemon and chilli are more subtle than expected, but the combo works. Wouldn't buy it at the full whack of £10, but if it were on a good offer, not necessarily yellow sticker, I'd definitely bite.
 
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