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Indie_Kid

Trying to pay some money in this morning. First of all, I go into Nationwide. (my new bank) and have a right panic. They have machines where you can put notes in. I put the notes in the wrong way. It swallows my note and doesn't credit my account, which panicked me slightly. I was then shown how to use the machine properly.

I then went to natwest to pay in the coins I have. No matter how much I tried, 3 pesky coins would not stop spitting themselves out. I then discover that one is a 5 cent coin. I don't know if it's just me; but they look virtually identical to 1 pence pieces? They're a tad different in size; although, it's not that obvious.

codemonkey

Ugh I know that one Indie. No matter how much I work in IT or how tech savvy I may be, supermarket self service checkouts will always defeat me. Either they don't recognise the item I've just put in the bagging area or it won't take my money. I've had some of the 5 cent coins too instead of 1p and not noticed at the time. Annoying!

Wellyboots6

I threw a hormonal strop in our NatWest Indie!
There were no people you could queue up to see, just machines to use. I had cheques and cash to pay in and changes I needed to make to my account, so wanted to see a person so they could do it all. Queued for a machine for half hour to then find it couldn't do what I wanted. They told me to sit and wait and a person would help me, waited half hour then realised they had forgotten me.
Eventually saw a person who could only do half of what I wanted and so had to queue for a machine again. Got to the machine to find out it couldn't accept the amount of coins we had.
I got rather angry and loud! Bearded one had to drag me out the bank, and we ended up going to his to finish the job and then transferring the money to me.
I'm not usually a public ranter but I got so angry at being made to use machines when I didn't want to, and then them not working anyway.

Indie_Kid

The first time I used the machines you put coins in, I broke them. In my defeence, it does not tell you to take the coins out of the bag...

My local Natwest are useless. They told me it's absolutely fine for me to have to come in whenever I need money transferring from one account to another. (I can't read the pin pad thing) Nationwide have been much more helpful.

And now the fun task of changing bank and card details for everything. Meh.

Pyxis

codemonkey wrote: »

Ugh I know that one Indie. No matter how much I work in IT or how tech savvy I may be, supermarket self service checkouts will always defeat me. Either they don't recognise the item I've just put in the bagging area or it won't take my money. I've had some of the 5 cent coins too instead of 1p and not noticed at the time. Annoying!

I don't like them. Firstly, they are different in every shop. Secondly, they never seem to like my bag in the bagging area. Thirdly, I can't stand the voice. It never gives you enough time before it starts repeating everything. Drives me mad. I keep telling it that I'm doing it, I'm doing it, but it won't listen!
Fourthly, I often have some beer in my basket, so I then I have to wait for a assistant to come and verify that I'm over 18.
And even if none of that happens, there's usually another problem with one of the items, not scanning/not being recognised/something. So it rarely saves me time, and I end up irritated and/or stressed.

In Waitrose, where I use the self-scanning handset as I go round the store, packing up as I go, (I just love it, saves so much time and effort!) they've now introduced a machine instead of a person to download the scan details from the handset and take payment. That's not quite so bad, as there's a lot less to do, but if there's beer, I still have to be ok-ed by an assistant.

Indie_Kid

Pyxis wrote: »

Fourthly, I often have some beer in my basket, so I then I have to wait for a assistant to come and verify that I'm over 18.

I was once in Reading and it asked me to verify that I was over 18. I had purchased alcohol free beer.:rotfl:

elsien

This is my do with a somewhat blurred piccy of last years event for clothes hints - I notice one or two shorter dresses going on.
http://ntf-association.com/tag/award-ceremony/
I'm away at the weekend for two weeks so it's either try to find something tomorrow or have a mad rush when I get back.
Any further sartorial advice welcome - evening dnner and presentation finishing at 10.30 ish.

I also have to decide how to get there and whether to have the full day off work - am not travelling by train in my glad rags, and was planning to just take the afternoon off work but we have to be suited and booted by 5.30. All being well it's a 21/2 hour drive for me so if I set off at 1 it should be ok, but the M6 being what it is........

Pyxis

Elsien, I'd deffo go for a shorter (not full-length) cocktail dress, unless you know you'll definitely wear a long one again.

And if you can, do look in as many charity shops as you can. You might be surprised! If you do, also look at sizes one down and one up from your size, as sometimes the charity shops don't put them on the right hangers!

Georgiegirl256

Alot of those automated machines are a PITA most of the time. I use the ones in the supermarket quite often but only when I've only got a few items, although, most times there's always some sort of problem where staff have to come over to sort something out, so I don't know why I bother tbh?

I do wish we had one of those machines (as mentioned above) in our bank where you empty your coins into it and it goes straight into your account though. I think that would be very handy, instead of having to either count them or take them to the Supermarket where they charge you for the privelage.

calleyw

Indie_Kid wrote: »

My local Natwest are useless. They told me it's absolutely fine for me to have to come in whenever I need money transferring from one account to another. (I can't read the pin pad thing) .

Do they not have a large card reader you can have?

My husband use to be with a HSBC and they gave him a keyfob thingy for internet banking. Being one handed it was too small.

He asked and they provided a large button one the size of a calculator that talked to him. You can even put a set of head phones in. And it was so polite it said goodbye when it turned off :rotfl:

It was funny though trying to get it as they sent on empty box to him the first time:rotfl:

Yours

Calley