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I'm told it feels good when you stop, but that doesn't help when the stupidity never ends and there's always another reason to 
A general round up. I go weeks without posting, and these are very very much the minority of the people I deal with. Most are nice. Most have common sense. Most are very satisfying to help, and then there are...
Just a small celebration....
My least favourite customer is being deported.
And it couldn't happen to a nicer woman
She has cemented her position as worst customer ever by getting hold of the home number of an ex-worker here to call her for advice. (Ex-worker just told her to come in properly, but we have made it quite clear to the manager that if she tracks us down we'll raise hell. And we did get to give her a warning about it).
How did she get into this mess ?
Well - it's not that easy. Mostly the government is pretty slow to keep track of people and it's easy to be illegally in the country. Hard to live decently, but not hard to stay.
This woman has a job, she's actually getting benefits.
Due to hugely complex immigration reasons (which would take too long to explain and would be rather to identifying for comfidentiality purposes) with the same paperwork all along she appears to have gone from being here legally to being here illegally.
No one would ever have noticed. It would take the equivalent of dancing past the home office buildings holding a big sign saying "I'm illegal".
Or.... applying for a British Passport when you aren't a citizen, and shouldn't even be in the country.
We don't like this woman, but we'd still do whatever we can to help. It's our job. She's not being deported anywhere horrible, but she's got sweet children at school and if nothing else we feel for them.
But this woman is so jaw droppingly idiotic even those slight good intentions are wasted.
She got the notice of deportation in January. 6 months notice. She came in one week before it's carried out. She has actually been here a couple of times since January and not mentioned anything
My coworker found an immigration solicitor to see her the day before, but they won't be able to help in that time scale (even if something could have been done). Our manager always supports us when we're trying to actually deal with her - but also rolls his eyes and acts as if we're being unreasonable when we complain about her. When asked if she could be booked to see the immigration adviser we know he said "Hell no. I'm not letting the woman near him".
You might as well just say it.
Customer has had his electric supply stopped because of possible tampering with the meter. Customer says he has not been charged with this offence (we wouldn't help with that - just the electric supply) but the police did seize other things. The lights that he was running to grow "things".
I really can't imagine what those things might be
Baffling and pointless
Customer "I want to renew my family"
turned out she wanted to bring them to the UK. So I asked what her immigration status was....
"I don'tknow. I didn't bring the papers"
...
"I should have brought the papers".
Why yes. Yes you should. I have no idea whether you can bring your family. I'm pretty sure renewing them isn't a good idea though...
Baffling and sinister
Customer was nice. Customer's neighbour needs some botany classes I think.
Customer's neighbour has taken against customers cherry tree. Neighbour has 2 cherry trees of his own, but the customers tree may have looked at him funny, or something. Apparently he's always disliked it.
So he is accusing the customer of being responsible for the small cherry tree shoots that come up on his lawn.
Now these may come from the customers tree. Or from the 2 trees next to the lawn. Or from cherry pips from just about anywhere via a helpful animal with a taste for cherries, and no respect for lawns.
The neighbour however claims that the customer's tree is putting roots down under hislawn and these are coming up as small cherry trees.
My advice - that there appears to be some confusion with mushrooms
The customer is getting an arborealist (which I discovered I couldn't say) to confirm this is not the case.
Victoria J
A general round up. I go weeks without posting, and these are very very much the minority of the people I deal with. Most are nice. Most have common sense. Most are very satisfying to help, and then there are...
Just a small celebration....
My least favourite customer is being deported.
And it couldn't happen to a nicer woman
She has cemented her position as worst customer ever by getting hold of the home number of an ex-worker here to call her for advice. (Ex-worker just told her to come in properly, but we have made it quite clear to the manager that if she tracks us down we'll raise hell. And we did get to give her a warning about it).
How did she get into this mess ?
Well - it's not that easy. Mostly the government is pretty slow to keep track of people and it's easy to be illegally in the country. Hard to live decently, but not hard to stay.
This woman has a job, she's actually getting benefits.
Due to hugely complex immigration reasons (which would take too long to explain and would be rather to identifying for comfidentiality purposes) with the same paperwork all along she appears to have gone from being here legally to being here illegally.
No one would ever have noticed. It would take the equivalent of dancing past the home office buildings holding a big sign saying "I'm illegal".
Or.... applying for a British Passport when you aren't a citizen, and shouldn't even be in the country.
We don't like this woman, but we'd still do whatever we can to help. It's our job. She's not being deported anywhere horrible, but she's got sweet children at school and if nothing else we feel for them.
But this woman is so jaw droppingly idiotic even those slight good intentions are wasted.
She got the notice of deportation in January. 6 months notice. She came in one week before it's carried out. She has actually been here a couple of times since January and not mentioned anything
My coworker found an immigration solicitor to see her the day before, but they won't be able to help in that time scale (even if something could have been done). Our manager always supports us when we're trying to actually deal with her - but also rolls his eyes and acts as if we're being unreasonable when we complain about her. When asked if she could be booked to see the immigration adviser we know he said "Hell no. I'm not letting the woman near him".
You might as well just say it.
Customer has had his electric supply stopped because of possible tampering with the meter. Customer says he has not been charged with this offence (we wouldn't help with that - just the electric supply) but the police did seize other things. The lights that he was running to grow "things".
I really can't imagine what those things might be
Baffling and pointless
Customer "I want to renew my family"
turned out she wanted to bring them to the UK. So I asked what her immigration status was....
"I don'tknow. I didn't bring the papers"
...
"I should have brought the papers".
Why yes. Yes you should. I have no idea whether you can bring your family. I'm pretty sure renewing them isn't a good idea though...
Baffling and sinister
Customer was nice. Customer's neighbour needs some botany classes I think.
Customer's neighbour has taken against customers cherry tree. Neighbour has 2 cherry trees of his own, but the customers tree may have looked at him funny, or something. Apparently he's always disliked it.
So he is accusing the customer of being responsible for the small cherry tree shoots that come up on his lawn.
Now these may come from the customers tree. Or from the 2 trees next to the lawn. Or from cherry pips from just about anywhere via a helpful animal with a taste for cherries, and no respect for lawns.
The neighbour however claims that the customer's tree is putting roots down under hislawn and these are coming up as small cherry trees.
My advice - that there appears to be some confusion with mushrooms
The customer is getting an arborealist (which I discovered I couldn't say) to confirm this is not the case.
Victoria J
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