boisdevie wrote:
Oh dear. Don't like garlic or accordion music then?
Like them both, I was also a fan of the local, very smelly cheese and it was Beaujolais nouveau week whilst i was there, which was very good this year by all accounts.
That was were the joyousness ended!
The bureaucracy was mind blowing,you could get nothing done unless you had the right form (think Vogons from hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, "sorry prisoner release form should be blue")
One incident last week went like this.
On presenting a form to a government dept, not between 12 and 2 obviously that was lunch or Tuesday morning or Friday afternoon that was another unknown reason, I was informed that I had to email the form. Ahhhh, all sodding week I was informed that they would not accept anything by email (efficiency is a dirty word, makes pointless bureaucrats redundant).
So, off to hunt down a Wifi signal, found one, emailed to said pointless bureaucrat. Went back to gov' office to watch the pointless bureaucrat print the f**king form I had sent by email and file it.
Why could the pointless bureaucrat not accept the form I had in my hand on the first visit? Because he would have to sign it and he prefers using an electronic signature!!
Anyway, won't be going back there. I have submitted an invoice for exactly double the amount it should have been, itemising all the waiting, the printing, the hanging around, the talking to four people instead of one………..
Trains were clean.
