Well as expected I didn’t get a call back from Tesco this morning about my order. I managed to get through to the store after about 10 minutes of trying but the delivery manager wasn’t there so I left a message. Of course I never got called back.
Called a bit later and she finally answered the phone. She gave me some story about a driver being ill last night which she didn’t find out about until I started chasing the order! So if I hadn’t chased it would I never have seen my money or my order again!!
So she reschedules it for tomorrow, two days after the order was due, but while she’s tapping away on her keyboard she mutters “At least I didn’t lie to you…”. WHAT THE HELL! I expect you to be honest with me! That’s not a bonus! It’s not a good thing that I should be pleased about, its a normal thing that should always be the case.
She offered me a ¬£10 discount which isn’t nearly enough for the trouble we have been through. I think she expected me to be impressed by that gesture but I totally wasn’t. She should have driven over here herself and filled my fridge, freezer and cuboards with all of my food to make up for all this crap.
I hope for their sake that it comes tomorrow.
UPDATE: Order finally arived at 1:30pm (44 hours late)
UPDATE 2: Thanks to Matt for pointing out some of you may be seeing Google ads for Tesco even though I am bashing them on this site. I am rather conflicted on whether you should click on them or not ;-).
It’s no secret that as students with no car and living in the middle of Birmingham that doing a big supermarket shop is near impossible. And so we rely on internet orders and deliveries from the major supermarket chains to keep us fed. Out of all the supermarkets that provide this serivce Tesco are without a doubt, hands down the worst around and we have literally tried them all.
So please peruse the following list of atrocities inflicted on us by Tesco (I’m sure there are more I have forgotten, feel free to comment):
- Van ‘broke down’ so delivery was rescheduled for later in the week
- No delivery because the driver ran out of time and went home
- Driver dumps all the food crates on the pavement with no method of moving them to the flat and drives off
- Driver spends five minutes on the phone before stopping to look in my direction and give me the delivery
- Delivery never made, rescheduled for the following day. No vans available so a staff member turns up in his car with our delivery in his boot! Most of the things after being taken on and off vans and in out of cars several times is damaged. While we load up our trolley he discusses with us the finer points of Tesco deliveries.
That was the last time we dealt with Tesco delivery until today. I recieved an email from them earlier in the week that encouraged me to try them again after the recent bad service I had. What the hell I needed some food, they couldn’t be as bad as last time I thought! Lets book them for between 5 and 7 tomorrow.
So 5pm came and went. Two hours elapsed and still nothing.
So we call head office who have no idea what is going on with the order. They phone the local branch but there is no reply and tell us they will call back when they do.
No call back is made. So we call again and the branch still isn’t responding. In the year 2006 a huge supermarket is incapable of answering the phone. This supermarket is open 24 hours. They run deliveries right up till midnight.
What the hell! Where is my food!
So now we wait to be called back tomorrow morning when hopefully someone can actually pick up a phone and put it to their face. But I know this is not going to happen.
This was your last chance. I gave you one more try after you pleaded forgiveness. Why offer what you can’t deliver? Why tell me you have changed when you clearly haven’t? You messed up and screwed us over. So I only have one thing to say,
FUCK YOU TESCO!!
This is an interesting, yet speculative, article about how World of Warcraft is harming the sales of other PC games. I have got to agree with this largely due to the number of people I hear talking about it and the amount of time they seem to be playing it for. It’s the level grind, the possibility of new content and the exploration that keeps people playing.
Several years ago when Diablo 2 came out I played it to death and was solidly addicted to it for a least a few weeks. But at one point while playing I suddenly had a realisation that I was doing the same thing over and over again just to level up, get the next weapon and see the next dungeon. That was the exposure of the game’s mechanic and it’s the point at which many people stop playing as I did.
The mechanic I was so addicted to in Diablo is also the same in WOW but is hidden away beneath the layers of exploration and multiplayer. As players realise this for themselves and strip these elements away in their own minds they are left with a shallow game they no longer want to play or pay for.
Is WOW hurting the PC games market in the short term? Of course. Will it affect it long term? Apart from the clones and greater number of MMOs definately not.
… but can’t due to exams and a certain disertation. All these are out or will be during my uni crunch time. Dammit!
- Elder Scrolls IV : Oblivion - Holy moly I need to play this, collectors edition on its way
- Civilization IV - Was out last year but I still don’t think I have spent enough time with it.
- Ghost Recon: AWF - Looks fantastico
- The Movies - Still waiting on that one
- Galactic Civilizations 2 - Civ in space!
- Half Life 2: Episode 1 - Nuff said
- Sin Episodes: Emergence - More episodic source engine goodness
- Space Rangers - because Kieron Gillen keeps banging on about it
That’s a big pile to get through. Unfortunately they are going to have to wait till mid May when my final year wraps up. I just hope nothing else huge comes out between now and then.
Props to Nintendo for getting Sega on board with their virtual console feature on the Revolution.
Props to Sony for including the hard drive and online service as standard in the PS3.
Props to Microsoft for expanding PC and Xbox 360 compatibility.
It should be a fun year!
My interest in Formula 1 was very lacking towards the end of the last season. It was strange really because finally Schumacher was losing but I wasn’t enjoying it as much. This was probablly down to the bizzare rules that had been introduced that made the races less interesting.
So it’s quite a breath of fresh air this weekend to see the sport reinvigorated by a return to tyre changing and a genuinely exciting qualifying session. If you gave up last year like I did, it’s looking like it may be worth returning if it continues at this pace.
The 90 minute season finale of BSG was everything we could have hoped for and more. I have never seen a show jump a year ahead and then continue the story line without batting an eye lid. Many shows such as Star Trek would jump about in the timeline but that was for one off episodes and they’d be right back in the present the next week.
It’s a testament to the quality of the writing and the characters that we have seen develop over the past few years that Ron Moore was able to accomplish such a feat successfully. Everything was in place, Baltar’s colonisation plans were doomed to fail and all the character’s relationships were in lined up and holding firm.
It certainly has huge implications for the next season which may or may not wind up on NBC proper in October. It’s going to be a totally different show and I can see it having more of a secret rebelious feel to it rather than the huge space battles we are used to. There’s only a skeleton crew manning the fleet so it will be a while before we see that sort of thing again.
As for the potential move to NBC there are arguements for and against. On the plus side more people are going to see the show and with NBC comes HD, rather than the god awful quality that is being used in the first runs at the moment. On the flip side the season is going to start much later and there will be more ratings pressure making it more likely to fail and get canceled on that network.
Personally I believe it should be moved to NBC as the iTunes downloads and DVD sales can more than make up for any lost revenue from ratings. The gains of HD and an increase in the budget would allow the already epic series to ascend to new heights.
Roll on October.
Even with the lackluster internet provided by Ubroadband here at the flat (yes Unite I am calling you out) I occasionally manage to get a small amount of good old fashioned peer to peer traffic through via bit torrent. As this was happening today I was informed by uTorrent that an update was available and boy was it seemless.
I have been simply running it as a single exe off the desktop for several weeks now and the updater literally replaced and upgrading everything in two seconds flat. Strange…I didn’t notice my downloads stop and they added a bucket of new features! So against my better open source tendancies I am sticking with it, bye bye Azureus.
Now with support for “Moore” a language spoken in Burkina Faso!
Maximum whoopage!
Get it here. See what has changed here.
Update: More importantly the thesaurus for British English now works.
UFC announcer Joe Rogan has made another classic outburst this week, he’s trying his best but I still don’t think it tops his endorsement of DMT.
In the “I hope I never waste my time on something like this department,” UFC announcer Joe Rogan, responding to someone on MySpace who e-mailed him in public to say “I hate you. You’re not funny.” After back-and-forth, Kevin whomever wrote to him, “You’re only accomplishment in my memory is taking a highly successful show (The Man Show) and running it into the ground merely by your presence alone. I also don’t think playing second-fiddle to Brooke Shields is much of an accomplishment.” Rogan wrote back, “I was never on a show with Brooke Shields. I was, however, on two shows that made it to syndication, Fear Factor and Newsradio, which means I never have to worry about money for the rest of my life. Think about that when you’re getting told what to do by your boss and struggling to pay your bills. I agree that the Man Show sucked, but unfortunately, there wasn’t a whole lot I could do about it at the time. I did, however, make a fuckload of money from it, and had the time of my life. You’re an ugly, fat faced zero, and I’m a famous multi millionaire. Those are the facts there, dear sweet Kevin.”
[via Dave Meltzer]
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