Comments on: Things People Say to Me http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/things-people-say-to-me A Site About Everything and Nothing Tue, 22 May 2012 01:09:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on Things People Say to Me by: Rod http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/things-people-say-to-me#comment-2975 Sun, 25 Feb 2007 10:25:43 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/things-people-say-to-me#comment-2975 OMITK you are clearly swimming against the tide, it's a wonder you don't get tired and just give in ! You show remarkable restraint in not assaulting your staff any longer, is this a sign of your age or the times ? Being unable to beat your employees seems like political correctness gone mad :) OMITK
you are clearly swimming against the tide, it’s a wonder you don’t get tired and just give in !
You show remarkable restraint in not assaulting your staff any longer, is this a sign of your age or the times ?
Being unable to beat your employees seems like political correctness gone mad :)

]]> Comment on Things People Say to Me by: Our Man in the Kitchen http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/things-people-say-to-me#comment-2974 Sat, 24 Feb 2007 23:31:21 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/things-people-say-to-me#comment-2974 Rod, Hot off the press tonight: "Mr...loves the menu you've written for him but doesn't want to pay that much-can we do it cheaper?" Me: "No" Later.."He's asking why not" Me: "Because we're in business, the same as he is" Reply: "He won't be happy" Me: "He charges people for writing them a letter, I don't charge him for writing a menu-he should be more grateful. Would he go into Waitrose and say "I really want to drink that bottle of Saint Veran but don't want to pay that much, will you knock a couple of quid off?" Reply: "Probably" This in the middle of a sixty cover dinner service, one day off in three weeks and a young French chef telling me that the horseradish cream needs to be whipped before I could quennelle it. I thanked him for pointing that out as after twenty two years in the trade coupled with the fact that it was my dish I would have been unable to figure that out for myself. I walked away longing for days gone by when I'd have felled the young upstart with a rabbit punch to the kidneys. There's no justice. Rod,
Hot off the press tonight:
“Mr…loves the menu you’ve written for him but doesn’t want to pay that much-can we do it cheaper?”
Me: “No”
Later..”He’s asking why not”
Me: “Because we’re in business, the same as he is”
Reply: “He won’t be happy”
Me: “He charges people for writing them a letter, I don’t charge him for writing a menu-he should be more grateful. Would he go into Waitrose and say “I really want to drink that bottle of Saint Veran but don’t want to pay that much, will you knock a couple of quid off?”
Reply: “Probably”

This in the middle of a sixty cover dinner service, one day off in three weeks and a young French chef telling me that the horseradish cream needs to be whipped before I could quennelle it. I thanked him for pointing that out as after twenty two years in the trade coupled with the fact that it was my dish I would have been unable to figure that out for myself. I walked away longing for days gone by when I’d have felled the young upstart with a rabbit punch to the kidneys.
There’s no justice.

]]> Comment on Things People Say to Me by: A Retired Bookdealer http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/things-people-say-to-me#comment-2973 Sat, 24 Feb 2007 19:07:11 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/things-people-say-to-me#comment-2973 " Never understood why we need business accounts anyway, I stopped using mine many years ago, I was not using any of there services, so why give them money to spend my own ! ..................... Regarding cold calls from banks, offering insurance, loans, cards, etc. Since I started asking them to confirm to me who they were, I no longer get calls from them. ..................... So a tip for you all, next time your bank calls you for no reason and asks you to confirm you are the account holder by answering a couple of security questions, ask them a couple of security questions back to confirm who they are - they soon get the message. After all if they need to contact you - they will write. .................... Ps - This does Not work with Kitchen, Window and Conservatory cold callers, upset one of them and believe me they call and call and call, I upset one bloke and I am sure the first thing he did in the morning when he go to work was grab the telephone and call me !. ARB. ” Never understood why we need business accounts anyway,
I stopped using mine many years ago,
I was not using any of there services, so why give them money to spend my own !
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Regarding cold calls from banks, offering insurance, loans, cards, etc.
Since I started asking them to confirm to me who they were, I no longer get calls from them.
…………………
So a tip for you all, next time your bank calls you for no reason and asks you to confirm you are the account holder by answering a couple of security questions, ask them a couple of security questions back to confirm who they are - they soon get the message.

After all if they need to contact you - they will write.
………………..
Ps - This does Not work with Kitchen, Window and Conservatory cold callers, upset one of them and believe me
they call and call and call, I upset one bloke and I am sure the first thing he did in the morning when he go to work was grab the telephone and call me !.

ARB.

]]> Comment on Things People Say to Me by: Rod http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/things-people-say-to-me#comment-2972 Sat, 24 Feb 2007 18:31:56 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/things-people-say-to-me#comment-2972 ARB I told my business account manager never to call me again or I'd come in and close my accounts - amazingly they never called again. It followed roughly this conversation: <ol> Hello is that Mr Collins Yes I'm your business account manager How nice for you Can we do anything for you Yes, stop bothering me, I'm trying to run a business Sorry, just wanted to touch base Silence from me...... pause I notice you seem to use more paying in books than cheque books ! Sounds like a good thing to me ! Why don't you write many cheques ? Because you charge me £0.96 + VAT for every one I write Oh ! What do you use then ? I use cash and my personal account that I have with you You're not meant to do that Mr Collins I know - the feelings of guilt plague me continually I'd better let you get on then Mr Collins</ol> ARB
I told my business account manager never to call me again or I’d come in and close my accounts - amazingly they never called again.
It followed roughly this conversation:

    Hello is that Mr Collins
    Yes
    I’m your business account manager
    How nice for you
    Can we do anything for you
    Yes, stop bothering me, I’m trying to run a business
    Sorry, just wanted to touch base
    Silence from me…… pause
    I notice you seem to use more paying in books than cheque books !
    Sounds like a good thing to me !
    Why don’t you write many cheques ?
    Because you charge me £0.96 + VAT for every one I write
    Oh ! What do you use then ?
    I use cash and my personal account that I have with you
    You’re not meant to do that Mr Collins
    I know - the feelings of guilt plague me continually
    I’d better let you get on then Mr Collins
]]> Comment on Things People Say to Me by: Rod http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/things-people-say-to-me#comment-2971 Sat, 24 Feb 2007 18:20:32 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/things-people-say-to-me#comment-2971 OMITK I am literally laughing out loud - superb ! Well it is to read, not sure how funny it is as daily way of life though ! <blockquote>Reception:”Your interview is here” Me: “It’s tomorrow: Reception: “He says he can’t do tomorrow so it will have to be today” Me: “Wish him luck with his future career”</blockquote> Love it ! OMITK
I am literally laughing out loud - superb ! Well it is to read, not sure how funny it is as daily way of life though !

Reception:”Your interview is here”
Me: “It’s tomorrow:
Reception: “He says he can’t do tomorrow so it will have to be today”
Me: “Wish him luck with his future career”

Love it !

]]> Comment on Things People Say to Me by: Rod http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/things-people-say-to-me#comment-2970 Sat, 24 Feb 2007 18:19:02 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/things-people-say-to-me#comment-2970 WoE sounds like a typical day in the life of a Domestic Witchified Goddess. Though I did expect to see: <i>Where's my sextant ?</i> <blockquote>p.s. old Motorhead T-shirts make great cleaning kit</blockquote> Don't make me come over there ! WoE
sounds like a typical day in the life of a Domestic Witchified Goddess.

Though I did expect to see:
Where’s my sextant ?

p.s. old Motorhead T-shirts make great cleaning kit

Don’t make me come over there !

]]> Comment on Things People Say to Me by: Witches of Eastwick http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/things-people-say-to-me#comment-2969 Sat, 24 Feb 2007 17:30:15 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/things-people-say-to-me#comment-2969 ARB, The coven certainly gets through its fair share of cleaning products, one glance in the under sink cupboard proves that. CB crystals are one of these oxygen active cleaners and for our kitchen floor it's good but does require rinsing afterwards. Can't say we've tried it on anything else but it says you can use it on countertops, work surfaces, sinks, draining boards, gardening furniture, ceramic tiles and glass. Hopefully the Witches will be asked to do the next advertising campaign if they can beat what Dettox have offered! WoE p.s. old Motorhead T-shirts make great cleaning kit .... ARB,

The coven certainly gets through its fair share of cleaning products, one glance in the under sink cupboard proves that. CB crystals are one of these oxygen active cleaners and for our kitchen floor it’s good but does require rinsing afterwards. Can’t say we’ve tried it on anything else but it says you can use it on countertops, work surfaces, sinks, draining boards, gardening furniture, ceramic tiles and glass.

Hopefully the Witches will be asked to do the next advertising campaign if they can beat what Dettox have offered!

WoE

p.s. old Motorhead T-shirts make great cleaning kit ….

]]> Comment on Things People Say to Me by: A Retired Bookdealer http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/things-people-say-to-me#comment-2968 Sat, 24 Feb 2007 15:42:10 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/things-people-say-to-me#comment-2968 Hello All, The one that always gets me is "Hello my name is ------ and I am calling from ----- bank", Can you please verify you are the account holder ?. Reply - No" Why not Sir ?, Reply - Your the one with the details on the computer, you verify it with me, "Sorry Sir we are unable to do that for security reasons" Reply - Well what about my security - plus I did not ask you to contact me - Bye ! Hello All,
The one that always gets me is

“Hello my name is —— and I am calling from —– bank”,
Can you please verify you are the account holder ?.
Reply - No”
Why not Sir ?,
Reply - Your the one with the details on the computer, you verify it with me,
“Sorry Sir we are unable to do that for security reasons”
Reply - Well what about my security - plus I did not ask you to contact me - Bye !

]]> Comment on Things People Say to Me by: Our Man in the Kitchen http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/things-people-say-to-me#comment-2967 Sat, 24 Feb 2007 15:28:52 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/things-people-say-to-me#comment-2967 Rod, Here's a couple; "Have you had time to write the Christmas menus yet?" "Sorry, We're out of stock-do you need them?"-"No-I just thought I'd ask" "They're out of date but we can do a good price on them" Reception:"Your interview is here" Me: "It's tomorrow: Reception: "He says he can't do tomorrow so it will have to be today" Me: "Wish him luck with his future career" Sales Rep: "Do you like our new price list?" Me: "No" Rep: "What about the photographs?" Me: "What about the prices-there aren't any" I could go on. Rod,
Here’s a couple;
“Have you had time to write the Christmas menus yet?”
“Sorry, We’re out of stock-do you need them?”-”No-I just thought I’d ask”
“They’re out of date but we can do a good price on them”
Reception:”Your interview is here”
Me: “It’s tomorrow:
Reception: “He says he can’t do tomorrow so it will have to be today”
Me: “Wish him luck with his future career”
Sales Rep: “Do you like our new price list?”
Me: “No”
Rep: “What about the photographs?”
Me: “What about the prices-there aren’t any”

I could go on.

]]> Comment on Things People Say to Me by: A Retired Bookdealer http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/things-people-say-to-me#comment-2966 Sat, 24 Feb 2007 15:24:41 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/things-people-say-to-me#comment-2966 <i>The floor needs cillit bang</i> Hello WoE, Is that cillit bang any good, seen it advertised on the TV, often wondered whether or not to give it a go. ARB. The floor needs cillit bang
Hello WoE,
Is that cillit bang any good, seen it advertised on the TV, often wondered whether or not to give it a go.

ARB.

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