i have a fuel card
allocated to me
with an unlimited credit limit on it
so i can basicly fill up every van in the fleet, day in, day out, for a month and no one bats an eyelid as it all gets paid form one central account from head office (they work out how much fuel should be required for our office, then add 25% margin for over usage) and this is paid for at the end of the month so no need to fuck around
if it goes above this limit i get a phone call asking if it's been stolen, but it's only happened once in the past 8 years so it's not common
so i gave it to one of the guys to fill up with yesterday and they said it had reached its limit
wtf?
it hasn't GOT a limit (well, it has, but only if they've not paid it up)
so i asked the attendant what the score was and he was like "i'm keeping the card, you must leave your vehicle here until you can pay up"
"don't i get 7 days to pay for it?"
"no, we don't oeperate that scheme any more, it's now 24 hours"
"so we can give you our details and then go and come back tomorrow?"
"no, we've stopped the 24 hour one as well"
"?"
"we have had too many people drive off and not return"
"and that's my fault why exactly?"
"don't know, next please"
now, this was the same fucktard who screwed me out of a tenner a good while back so we wern't on the most friendly of terms
then some other doofus came trotting out from round the back and asked the guy when he'd last filled up
"this morning, on this card"
"you sure?"
"here's the recipt"
"oh, um, hang on then"
out comes the manager
who said "if you can write your name and contact details down you can come abck tomorrow and pay for it"

so why did have to wait half an hour after i'd made the initial fuss to hear this

so then i went to another petrol station and the card worked fine

twats

or the other day, some lad from sky calls up and says "do you want to pay less money for your phone?"
"sure"
"ok the, once we've done this, all we need to do is contact your old provider and swap you over"
"but i'm already with sky"
"oh, um, right then"
"......"
"well, yes, i see that you are, hang on"
<on hold>
"right then, um, i've got to tell you other stuff as well"
"you're new at this malarky aren't you"
"yes "
"don't worry, i'm in a good mood today so i'll let you off wth the deal you've given me "

and so i have now got half price line rental, free calls 24/7 to canada, america, australia, etc (within reason)

 

Far too many words so I didn't read it

 

I run a fleet of nearly 100 vehicles and about 150 trailers and I never have as much grief in the transport industry as you seem to have.

I'd give it in if I was you.

SMG

 

No need to read it. If it follows a theme it'll go like this:

• He tries to do something.
• Someone tries to stop him doing it.
• He whinges at them in a heroic way because they're an idiot.
• He is now able to do that something he tried to do but the idiot wanted to stop him from doing.
• The other person is an idiot.

Or there's always the wrestling theme.

 

card gets deliclined
30 minutes of arguing with both dipshits beihnd the counter gets the manager who sorts it in 30 seconds

truck drivers have it much easier

 

lmao

dojj you have to much time on your hands to write that up

 

but it's true the next time i'm about to herocily start an argument with an idiot, i'll record it and stick it up o youtube

 

trust me mate, it's not time i've got, i've been tapping away words at a time, then doing other stuff, then coming back, then having to reset the screen saver, etc, etc

and the guy who probably fell asleep and wrote the van off into the back of an artic on the M4 the other day has come back and is giving me grief too

 

Bet he's cloned your card and all his mates/ family are happily filing up on fuel your company are paying for.

.

 

fuxake!!!

Dojj, your company must have the worst safety record in the industry. What is it you do, what do you deliver, what vehicles do you use?

I can't think of the last time we had any equipment either damaged or involved in an accident. You must be employing clowns.

 

i have expressly told the drivers that, under no circumstances, are they to fill up there again, if them clowns can't make the card work, and yet the next petrol staion along happily excepts the card 15 minutes later, before i have called the issuer to ask wtf was going on, then somethings not right is it

we had one guy about 3 weeks ago, put a full sized transit on it's nose and rolled it end over end into a field too, he's on his last few days as a driver

 

Dojj is the clown. YOu can only imagine what sort of dick heads he employs when he is so unstable himself

 

i have some say in the hiring, and some say in the firing, but seeing as it's such a specialist job, there is bound to be a high turnover of staff

even the agency staff we use gets 2 days worth of training, and about 50% of them get told they won't make the grade about 15 minutes in on the first day

so nothing like circus school