Comments on: Have a Rant Monday – People who can’t fill out application forms

By: Shannon

Shannon — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:53:17 +0000

Consider that an 83c rise on what I am making from my blog

I secretly love filling in application forms. And I always do it neatly and if I make a mistake, I ask for a new form.
I realise this makes me a weird and quite rare creature.

By: Ruin

Ruin — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:37:05 +0000

Personally, I love when students (I may or may not work at a Uni) fill in the space where it asks Address and they put their email address, ignoring the fact that right under that spot was the Email space. I especially love it when they go on to write “Same as above”.

By: Ally

Ally — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:44:40 +0000

Rant: Forms continued.

Ok, so you know that form we have, that Internet Security Declaration one? Yeah, the one that says in big (well, 12-point) letters “Please complete this form if you have a website?” Please don’t ring and ask me if you need to complete it. You should know.

Oh, wait, you shouldn’t have to do it? Why is that? Oh, because you don’t sell online, you just advertise.

Newsflash, buddy: the form doesn’t say “Please complete this form if you sell product online.” It says “Please complete this form if you have a website.” You know, that thing you use to advertise online.

But if it did say “Please complete this form if you sell product online,” I have a horrible feeling you’d still ring and ask if you needed to complete it.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:23:00 +0000

Well said.

A friend of mine just emailed me and said she had a customer who faxed a form through to her with a mistake on it. When she called the customer and asked them to fax it through again, the customer said, “But I’ve faxed it to you, I don’t have it anymore. You have it.”

People used to do this to me all the time when I was in an office job! Silly Customers – when you fax something through to another office, it is not THE ACTUAL DOCUMENT YOU HOLD IN YOUR HAND that goes through. It MAKES A COPY.

Thanks for the rant space!

By: Beth

Beth — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:58:50 +0000

Rant: Instructors who are idiots.
I don’t care if you have it on your PowerPoint presentation, it’s still impossible for the “office of notary public” to have started 2,000 years ago on the docks of North Carolina! And while we’re at it, people who don’t want to swear on the Bible don’t choose to swear on the “Corinthian.” You meant the Koran. Immigrants do not get ID cards at the “concierge office.” It’s the consulate. And something you can’t read is illegible, not “ineligible.”
Thanks, I feel better now.

By: shilvia

shilvia — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:51:51 +0000

i just found out about this blog…and i’m in awe!!! wonderful to bits…and you’re funny!!!

By: Eyeliah

Eyeliah — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:41:29 +0000

I work a 9-5 too.

By: katiecrackernuts

katiecrackernuts — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:32:28 +0000

Oh so deliciously funny. My equivalent is people who phone to get a story in the music / arts newspaper supplement I edit and say, as an introduction, “I’m in a band”. Imagine that mumbled and the background noise of passing traffic, like they’ve just thought to phone and tell me and are stopped at a red light.
Me: A-ha.
Them: Well, I wanna get in the paper.
Me: So, you’ve got a gig coming up? Where is it?
Them: No, I just saw the paper and I’m in a band and wanna get in it.
Me: Well, the section does tend to publicise events and gigs people can go to in the coming week, so when’s your next gig …

The frustration continues in that vein until they realise that banging on a drum or screaming some death metal chorus doesn’t necessarily guarantee them a place on the pages of the local rag.

By: KD

KD — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:02:16 +0000

Well-said. I’m in much more of a mopey mood than an angry one so no rant today.

By: Jordan Best

Jordan Best — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:55:06 +0000

I would love to have a rant about my monday, but I think you’ll have to come and have tea so I can do it in person. It’s not a generalised bitch, but a really specific one. Come over. I will bake.