Frequent readers of this blog (if such a thing existed) and my close friends will already know of my extreme disdain for the general public. I hate people. One by one they're not too bad, but as a general populous they are stupid and ignorant.
In the first of what is bound to be a lengthy series on the stupid things people do, we have the filling in of forms. This is related to my job at a certain ISP.
Most people can just about manage the Name section. Where they seem to consistently fall down is the Address part.
If the form asks for Street Number and Street Name, why would you put (for example) 4 in the first part and 4 Main Street in the second?
This means that when you get any correspondance it will come in addressed to 4 4 Main Street.
Add to that the fact that by simply reading it you would understand that nowhere in the street name is the number of your house. Have you ever heard of a street called Four Main Street? No. Therefor you do not put the number in the Name section.
Secondly, towns and localities. I think the word 'locality' must throw people off. But some people insist on putting the same thing in both sections. So we now have a letter going to:
Mr A Nonymous
4 4 Main Street
London
London
Can anyone else see the problem here? Is there a London inside London? No I don't think there is. It's all the same city. Maybe inside Greater London, but certainly not contained within itself. If you were asked to put something in the car, would you look for the car inside the car? I don't think you would.
These are the kinds of stupid things I have to correct dozens of times every day. Can there really be that many stupid people out there? Sadly it would appear so.
The People Suck series will no doubt be continued later...
1 comment:
A few years ago our company changed operating systems and went over to SAP which is a pile of crap anyway but made 5000 times worse by the fact the address fields were all cocked up! I too had to correct hundreds of poxey addresses that suddenly read:
7 7 Dumb Arse Street
Dumb Arse Street
Berkshire London
London
Berkshire
RG5 blar blar blar
Now this wasn't down to hundreds of dumb arse people but just a few technical IT bods, you know, programmer bods that should know flipping better!!!!!!!!!!! To top it off they couldn't even work out how to do a mass fix and these pillocks are paid crap loads of money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A regular reader for sure - when your pissed off it pops up in my google reader which is quite refreshing as most people I know don't rant, they just moan and you have a wickedly funny way of ranting!!!!!
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