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[bubosquared]

After much swearing at Telewest and many exclamations of "I am TRYING to GIVE YOU PEOPLE MONEY, you UTTER BASTARDS, WORK WITH ME, HERE!" I finally got through to an operator by employing the sneaky method of pressing the "other option" option, and managed to pay my bill, yay. (Now if only I could get the damned ebilling to work, that would be grand. HATE!)

I've spent the last four and a half hours writing The Completely And Utter Idiot's Guide To My Job. No, seriously. It has many screenshots and step-by-babystep instructions so detailed you could plant a ten-year-old in my chair for the week I'll be gone and they'd do just fine.

I also finally sent my wish list for my birthday/Christmas/New Year to my parents. It's basically the one I posted here, with all the fanfic stuff taken out, which means it consists of a link to my amazon wish list, yarn, long striped socks, and a cowboy hat. I'm pretty sure I heard my mum WTF all the way over here, heh.

Also, PSAish: Due to being busy and other practical problems, expect your Christmas cards and presents some time in January. Sigh. Next year, I swear to god, I'm going to start buying these things throughout the year so I'll have them all ready by November. Dammit.

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[cangetmad.livejournal.com]

Argh, yes! I spent this morning trying to pay my Telewest bill, too, and used the same method to talk to someone. It makes me so annoyed, because in fact I rather like talking to machines, but their automated service has never yet let me actually pay - we do voice recognition, we do typing things in, it's horribly, disastrously slow, and in the end I have to go through it all again with a person anyway. But this morning's "press 1 and wait for half an hour while NOTHING AT ALL HAPPENS" was a new low.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Oh, I gave up after a full minute of nothing happening. I work in a call centre, I know that complete silence means something's wrong. :D

The girl I ended up talking to was very nice and helpful an even offered to keep an eye on my account and put on the Talk International thing once my service was back on, so I'd not have to call again to arrange that, but still, I prefer avoiding people as much as possibly, really.