What is your MSE bug bear?

Rage_in_Eden

Just pickin gup on the credit card drinks thing. Mr Rage and I met a couple of our friends in the centre of town before they moved to another part of the UK. They are a consultant and professor respectively and we met them at a cocktail bar. :beer: The cocktails were a minimum of £8 each :eek: and most of them were a lot higher. Fortunately we were all having a good natter so didn't drink (and in any case we got there first and when Mr Rage had picked me up off the floor where I fallen in a dead faint at seeing the bar tarrif I'd said 2 drinks maximum!). The place was HEAVING and people were queueing about 5 deep at the bar and buying rounds of 6/7 drinks and waving their CCs in the air (like they just don't care) . I very nearly climbed on the bar and gave an impromtu MSE lecture......

jak

Oh my God. I've done that! (Hangs head in shame...)
BUT not anymore!!!!!!
Jak
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Curious_Moose

I once went out for a meal with a friend who used my tip to subsidise his share of the bill so the waiter didn't get a tip!!

violetblue

supersavershal wrote: »

Another bugbear is DS school, they always want money for something.I dont mind school trips but they do lots of sponsored events.The last one was to grow a sunflower to raise money for myasthenia gravis - I dont know anyone with this condition and DS did not know what it was, apparantly the teacher had an aunt with it.

Ooh, constant sponsered events, that's another one I can relate to! Every other week we have someone coming round the office asking us to sponsor them for something or other. And I object being made to feel guilty if I say no! It's my decision which charities I give to, and I shouldn't have to explain myself, but I've yet to find a polite way of saying no without automatically being apologetic about it - any suggestions?!

And don't get me started on the constant office collections...:mad: I work in a large office, and there always seems to be someone having a baby, getting married, leaving, or with a "big" birthday coming up. I used to give to everything, but in all the years I've worked there I've never had an occasion for a collection myself. Then when nobody bothered for my "big" birthday recently I decided not to bother any more either. Petty, moi?!:p

Oh dear, that all makes me sound like a real miser - I'm not, honest, but I don't like people guilt-tripping me into giving my money away when I don't want to!!

jak

Hey Violet, that's rubbish. I can't believe they didn't bother for your b-day. They sound pants...

violetblue

jak wrote: »

Hey Violet, that's rubbish. I can't believe they didn't bother for your b-day. They sound pants...

Aw thanks Jak, yeah it did upset me a bit at the time, especially as I get on well with everyone there... Oh well, I'll save my money and buy my own prezzies in future!!

ikkle87

1) I used to work in car insurance so for some strange reason my family all think I am really knowledgable about car insurance so get me to do them online quotes etc and get there renewals down then when I get them a cheaper quote and tell them they get cash back through quidco they say there must be a catch and renew their original policy anyway.

2) There is a woman who goes in my local social club on a Sunday and takes her son who is 6 and imo a spoilt brat! Her dad is the committee man for the social club. About once a month she gets her dad to play a song and gets her son to get on stage and dance or sing. Then when its over she gives him a glass and tells him to go round the club and collect money off people. If it was for charity or something I wouldnt be as peeved but it just lines their pockets. GrRrRrR

moggylover

For me it is food snobs, car snobs and "designer lablel" snobs! But I do try and tell myself not to be cross, they cannot help it if they are dumb enough to be taken in by the ad-men!

Biggest non-comprende for me is those that will pay out £100 for a pair of plastic shoes/trainers, made in a third World country for peanuts and shipped here to mug them with! Also "designer" specs! For GS - they are specs - and for the price of some of them they could get lazer surgery !

Have hated it since my eldest son went up to Senior school - and keeps looking longingly at football boots made of crappy "man-made materials" that cost £100+, cos his so-called mates have them, and whilst I'm not going to give in I do know that he gets teased/bullied about anything that does not have the "right" labels!!

God, what a horrible World it has become when one is judged according to a fancy name on your shoes or bag at the age of 12!

wherediditallgo

I'd forgotten about the phone. Everyone who knows me knows I go to work, yet some people will leave messages during the day from their work phone for me to call them back. When I used to do so from my home phone & therefore on my bill, it was invariably nothing important & I could be on the phone half an hour or more. Unless it's my mum (she lives overseas, so I know she genuinely forgets the time difference), I either call when it's cheap rate or I don't bother at all unless there's something that I want to tell them, & I make sure I get my bit in first. If it's someone who regularly tries it on, I sometimes play them at their own game & ring them the following day from work, leaving a message on their answering machine saying "Sorry I missed your call yesterday - I got home too late to call you. I'll be home by *pm if you want to call me back". Why should I pay for a call for them to tell me something I'm not desperate to hear?

You can bet that if I don't call them back at all, they'll either ring again & ask why, in which case I say "I haven't been in 5 minutes - what's the problem?" or they don't call, in which case it was just as well I didn't waste time ringing at my expense since they were clearly too busy to use the phone. :rotfl:

Rage_in_Eden

violetblue wrote: »

And don't get me started on the constant office collections...:mad: I work in a large office, and there always seems to be someone having a baby, getting married, leaving, or with a "big" birthday coming up. I used to give to everything, but in all the years I've worked there I've never had an occasion for a collection myself. Then when nobody bothered for my "big" birthday recently I decided not to bother any more either. Petty, moi?!:p

Oh dear, that all makes me sound like a real miser - I'm not, honest, but I don't like people guilt-tripping me into giving my money away when I don't want to!!

I totally relate to this. We used to buy our own presents for people at work (I used to buy bottles of wine on offer for an average of about £2.50 each). Then it was decided whilst I was in hospital that everyone would give a £5!!! It's also not the kind of office where you can say "no" without laying yourself open the snideness. I would say that I too can't believe that that forgot your birthday but having been very ill in hospital and not got a get well card I can well believe it!!