Category Archives: Random Rants

Watch this space

Let’s make this a guessing game. Assume, a colleague has no place to stay. Well, she did, but she chose to rent part of a room from me, as temporary accommodation and agrees to pay (part of) rent and bills. Now, … Continue reading →

Posted in Customer Service, Ireland, Me, Random Rants, Uncategorized, Work | Tagged Claus, Claus-Dresfeldt, cynthia, Cynthia Gorisse, Dishonest, Dresfeldt, gorisse, Theft, Trust, unpaid, unpaid bills, unpaid rent | Leave a comment

Job application frustration

Is it ignorance, arrogance, an abundance of unemployed people or something else? So far, I have done around 200 job applications in about a year or so. Apart from the odd automatic replies you seem to get, around 90 – … Continue reading →

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No weapons to be kept at home…

Here we go again.. Recently, there have been shootings domestic and abroad. Sadly, quite a few lives have been lost. Most high profile recent shooting was the one in Norway (Utoya, Anders Breivik). Of course, this warrants a kneejerk reaction. … Continue reading →

Posted in Me, Random Rants | Tagged Anders Breivik, Guns, Norway, Shooting, Wapens | Leave a comment

Trouble at bol.com (Pt 2)

Several tweets later and still no news. Last update was that they ‘were looking into it’. This was on the 29th of July. Now, this whole sordid mess has been going on for a month and a half, without any sign of … Continue reading →

Posted in Customer Service, Me, Random Rants | Tagged boeken, bol, bol.com, books, customer service, faal, fail, klantenservice, probleem, slecht | Leave a comment

Trouble at bol.com (Pt 1)

Bought some books over a month ago at bol.com. They are very good. The customer service at bol.com, less so. Granted, I paid the bill, when a reminder was sent. That’s where it went wrong. For my convenience, they combined … Continue reading →

Posted in Customer Service, Me, Random Rants | Tagged boeken, bol, bol.com, books, customer service, faal, fail, klantenservice, probleem, slecht | Leave a comment

Job applications, so far….

I’ve been unemployed for quite a while (or on a sabbatical, as I’d like to call it). I have extensive Helpdesk/Supportdesk/Functional Application Management experience for over 10 years. Granted, I’m not a fully fledged Business Consultant yet, but a few … Continue reading →

Posted in Random Rants, Work | Tagged Baan, baan zoeken, discriminatie, leeftijd, moeilijk, werk, werkloos | Leave a comment

Second-hand car

Bought an Audi A4 Avant 2.6 a while back. The seller claimed it used to belong to his father. Truth be told, the car was in reasonable nick for it’s age, so no trouble there. The trouble starts when he … Continue reading →

Posted in Customer Service, Me, Random Rants | Tagged 06-15340024, 06-52176902, 0615340024, 0652176902, Auto, Berkenlaan 20, bo-oot@hotmail.com, Car, Marktplaats, Meijden, Papieren, Pedro, Pedro van der Meijden, Sleeuwijk, Spete, Tweedehands, van der Meijden, van der meijden auto, van der meijden auto's | Leave a comment

Oh dear, no updates.

Oh dear, no update in nearly 6 months. Oooops. I shall see if I can do more about this updating lark. First port of call: get an interesting life

Posted in Me, Random Rants | Tagged Hello, Jellema, Pieter, Spete | Leave a comment

Elections 2010 (NL)

Last Wednesday, there were elections in the Netherlands. In one of the debating rounds, our current prime-minister didn’t want to answer a question. Instead of just not answering, he decided to be funny and said to the journalist, live on … Continue reading →

Posted in Me, Politics, Random Rants | Tagged 2010, election, election 2010, Jan Peter Balkenende | Leave a comment

Conditioning

Caught a bit of Little House on the Prairie. Laura walks off to talk to God. Her brother died and she wants to take his place, so her parents can have a son (again). She meets an older guy (Jonathan … Continue reading →

Posted in Me, Random Rants | Tagged Child Abuse, Ingalls, Jellema, Laura, LHoTP, Little House on the Prairie, Pieter, Spete | Leave a comment

Category Archives: Random Rants

Watch this space

Job application frustration

No weapons to be kept at home…

Trouble at bol.com (Pt 2)

Trouble at bol.com (Pt 1)

Job applications, so far….

Second-hand car

Oh dear, no updates.

Elections 2010 (NL)

Conditioning

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