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May your customers ovens break from now till Christmas Eve and all you have to do is run about replacing fan oven elements like crazy so you can pay for the whole holiday thing.
That’s one Christmas tradition I have no truck with at all. 😉
At least it’s a couple of days off before the inevitable whining after as well as an excuse to eat and drink far too much. H&S be damned for a couple of days.
As you may have guessed, I’m not exactly a Christmas person. 😆
But, have a nice Christmas when that apocalyptic event finally arrives.
K.
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Thank god for Beko’s fan motors and element’s let’s hope they don’t improve!
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I’m with you KW on this. I used to bloody hate it!
No trimmings up in this house yet, will get done possibly next week. Kids left home years ago, and what’s the point? It’s a women thing! And I suppose ok for the kids.
Flashing white/blue lights all around where I live, and there are no kids in any of the houses in the close except one with teenagers, and they haven’t done theirs yet, so why? One lot is so bad we keep thinking there’s a cop car outside, and on all bloody night.
Went to a garden centre 11th September, they were selling all the Christmas tat, a whole area dedicated to this litter.
This is the first time in over 40 years we have not had to endure those who saved it up for 6 months, we have all had them. The screamers! “How are we gonna manage without a dishwasher, flap for my fridge chiller, extra shelf for my cooker, we have 12 people for Christmas day”
What is the point in dragging in a tree then covering it with rubbish? Why do the shops start telling us it is Christmas in September? What is the point in having a turkey the size of one of the Sizewell reactors, then make up meals for the next 3-4 days out of the remains, then bin 40{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} of the thing. I’d just have well have a salad.
This one and half day pagan festival which has naff all to do with J.C. (He was born in March) has been blown out of all proportion.
Saying all that though, I will enjoy it a bit more as the pressure has been taken off, no working until late Christmas eve, not doing bookwork Boxing day. Now we can visit distant family if we wish, stay a bit longer, not have to come back to all the messages on the answering machine demanding, “This is not good enough, you are an emergency service and should be open”
Any way. Have a good one if you so choose.
Alex
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Christmas…. ❓ = days off 😀
other than that the weeks leading up to are a profitable pain in the back side 😉
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I informed a person yesterday that although the cooker may not be working xmas day they could still cook the turkey in the dishwasher.
Im still laughing at the response.
I havent had a single xmas card this yr, l guess peeps are starting late.
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its the nutters with the range cookers who decide they better get the right side oven repaired on the 23rd , been broke since the summer
then they decide to get a bit arsey on the phone when their little Christmas dinner bubble bursts after you alert then to the fact that you have other customers already booked in.
they normally hang up when you advise your call-out for such a special service.
its the panic food buying in the lead up that really cracks me up – people filling their trolleys ups with 12 loafs .. you just want to slap them..
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I know some may use their cookers more this time of year but in no way can that alone affect the amount of cookers I’ve been called to recently. I agree with funky that these fault have been on going for months but they decide at the last minute to get it repaired. I got called to one this week with a faulty selector switch that she says had been faulty for ages, oh can you get it done by the weekend as I’ve a big dinner party, this was on the Wednesday. Some choice words muttered under my breath
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and no doubt afterwards we will get the tales of woe when their fan oven packed up on xmas day, turkey ruined etc……and then you calmly point out the convection setting on their oven that would have done the job perfectly….after the smoke burn off of course.
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Haha. They always wondered what the setting with 2 horizontal lines was for
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Hum buggers! I love Christmas, a full week off, bliss! Tree been up since the first and looking great, I love Christmas and all the free gifts from theASM’s come in handy, and look forward to my Franke Christmas pudding!
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eastlmark wrote:and no doubt afterwards we will get the tales of woe when their fan oven packed up on xmas day, turkey ruined etc……and then you calmly point out the convection setting on their oven that would have done the job perfectly….after the smoke burn off of course.
Plus they will remove the oven, drag it into the garden, douse it with water themselves & call the fire brigade.
Finally they will leave a message on your ans/mach that their cooker caught fire & it was your fault as you were closed.
I used to love the three ceramic plates on the hob reported a week before Xmas. Ask the question “did they all fail at once” which of course they didn’t. Then you phone D&G for authority & they write it off, then of course as per D&G request to you whilst on the phone to the claims (ber) dept to leave it for them to write to the customer.
Dishwasher Christmas eve, open the door and it is chocker full of plates etc and a pool of stinking water a week old in the base.
The ones who cannot understand why you have to order a part two days before Xmas, and cannot guarantee a return visit; yet they ordered all the pressies from Amazon 2 weeks ago to ensure delivery.
Oh how I miss it all!
Alex
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Don’t knock what is the best and busiest time of the whole year. Desperate pleas for help from customers you otherwise would not have chance to serve. Work a plenty AND come home to enjoy an extended weeks rest and relaxation. What a lovely prospect…. 😀
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Martin wrote:Don’t knock what is the best and busiest time of the whole year. Desperate pleas for help from customers you otherwise would not have chance to serve. Work a plenty AND come home to enjoy an extended weeks rest and relaxation. What a lovely prospect…. 😀
Problem I had Martin was I (my company) was answerable to others, being manufacturers, insurers etc. For example, if Christmas day falls over a weekend, one manufacturer expected us to provide a full service on the bank holiday day that would have normally been considered as a day in lieu of the associated weekend day. Meaning, not a four day break as per normal mortals. We were expected to provide office service on the fourth day of the bank holiday. This would entail all office staff having a shorter time with families than most, and the wages bill accordingly.
Yes I get what you are saying regards income, it was our “high season” The stress and demands & abuse however were so apparent they in turn extinguished any good-will feelings to the extreme.
One hidden advantage of retirement, my wine bill is almost non-existent.
Alex
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Alex wrote:
One hidden advantage of retirement, my wine bill is almost non-existent.Alex
huh, don’t get it, explain?
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Alex wrote:Yes I get what you are saying regards income, it was our “high season” The stress and demands & abuse however were so apparent they in turn extinguished any good-will feelings to the extreme.
A normal day really, just a bit worse than usual because of the seasonal nutters. 😉
K.
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