http://www.whereisjt.co.uk Strong views on topical issues Sat, 13 Dec 2008 15:35:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A business collegue was recently caught out by the parking ticket happy Gateshead council. He was running the Great North Run for a great charity but failed to realise a Parking Officer was looking to make up his quoter of the day. See story below: A Great North Runner's hit out at ... http://www.whereisjt.co.uk/2008/10/14/on-the-line-or-parking-fine/ Unfortunately I recently had a death in the family and used the Co-op funeral service to deal with the arrangements. The funeral was well organised but the Co-op have done something which I feel is unacceptable and I see as operating unethical business practices. The Co-op sell themselves as being ethically guided ... http://www.whereisjt.co.uk/2008/10/11/grave-robbing-with-the-co-op/ I thought I'd write a very short post about a particular Health & Safety situation I had at work. I recently discoved that all employees require fire extinguisher training. I'm not sure if the information I've been given is correct but I've been told that if we have a fire ... http://www.whereisjt.co.uk/2008/09/28/health-safety-gone-mad/ I received a letter from a person called Ron Beadle from the Liberal Democrats which after reading the letter I wondered if he was related to the TV personality Jeremy Beadle. The reason I came to this conclusion is the content of the letter was a joke and it provided ... http://www.whereisjt.co.uk/2008/09/23/beadle-about-with-the-lib-dems/ The other evening I picked up my home phone to get a pre-recorded marketing message from someone called Nick Clegg. After realising that I wasn’t getting a personal message from Cleggy from last of the summer wine I put the phone down. This was in fact from Nick Clegg of ... http://www.whereisjt.co.uk/2008/09/20/last-of-the-summerlib-dems/ One of my colleagues at work was expecting a delivery from City Link which he had arranged to have delivered to our work village as he knew he wouldn't be home. Our office has a manned reception from 8am to 5:30pm and as it happened we both didn't leave the ... http://www.whereisjt.co.uk/2008/06/19/usless/ Today has seen Gordon Brown begging with oil industry leaders to try and improve supplies in the Uk and ease prices. Based on Gordon Brown's track record so far the outcome will no doubt be less than satisfactory. How does this bumbling idiot expect to make a difference to money ... http://www.whereisjt.co.uk/2008/05/28/bad-boy-brown-begs-like-a-dog/ Hey JT Good blog, it’s about time there was a site to let people have a rant at the increasingly crazy way our country is being run. My beef tends to be about the outrageous waste of money of local councils and national government. These people don’t earn a penny doing ... http://www.whereisjt.co.uk/2008/05/25/government-outrage/ I have recently been contacted by one of my readers to discuss the incompetence of one of the UK’s cheap and cheerful airlines. The airline in question is Jet2.com and the shocking way they handle their customers via the telephone customer service system. After looking carefully at my reader’s email I ... http://www.whereisjt.co.uk/2008/05/23/crazy-customer-service-with-jet2com/ I quite often get asked about the best way to complain when things have gone badly wrong. This could be with banks, tradesmen, noisy neighbours, suppliers, faulty goods, etc just to name a few. It is most peoples' nature not to make a fuss and to suffer in silence. What I would say to these ... http://www.whereisjt.co.uk/2008/05/23/how-do-i-complain/