Corporate Idiocy
Comedian Al Murray recounts a run-in with industrial-scale stupidity: "Car insurance company rang, without having sent me a renewal letter, asking for money. Made them answer security questions." In the same vein, tell us your stories about pointless paperwork and corporate quarter-wits
( , Thu 23 Feb 2012, 12:13)
Comedian Al Murray recounts a run-in with industrial-scale stupidity: "Car insurance company rang, without having sent me a renewal letter, asking for money. Made them answer security questions." In the same vein, tell us your stories about pointless paperwork and corporate quarter-wits
( , Thu 23 Feb 2012, 12:13)
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Energy supplier security questions
Called my energy supplier to give them a new set of readings for my bill.
They started asking for my date of birth. I asked why. They said it was a security question, so I said "no", not that there was anything that they could do about it because they didn't actually know; I'd never supplied that information to them.
OK, says they, what's your phone number. Not telling, says I.
Is your house owned or rented? Not telling.
Look, you have to answer at least one of our security questions, says they. Why replies I, they're just the same questions that everyone else asks and they're not very secure are they; anyone can find that information out.
They're not the same questions, and if anyone calls pretending to be you, they don't know what we're going to ask them, counters they.
But you don't know who I am, and you've just told me what the questions are.
Erm, says they
( , Thu 23 Feb 2012, 20:17, 2 replies)
Called my energy supplier to give them a new set of readings for my bill.
They started asking for my date of birth. I asked why. They said it was a security question, so I said "no", not that there was anything that they could do about it because they didn't actually know; I'd never supplied that information to them.
OK, says they, what's your phone number. Not telling, says I.
Is your house owned or rented? Not telling.
Look, you have to answer at least one of our security questions, says they. Why replies I, they're just the same questions that everyone else asks and they're not very secure are they; anyone can find that information out.
They're not the same questions, and if anyone calls pretending to be you, they don't know what we're going to ask them, counters they.
But you don't know who I am, and you've just told me what the questions are.
Erm, says they
( , Thu 23 Feb 2012, 20:17, 2 replies)
It's all produced by workers on minimum wage in a in a rat infested semi-derelict industrial unit somewhere in Hounslow, isn't it?
I wonder if they've stopped passing blue water off as expensive vodka drinks...
( , Thu 23 Feb 2012, 20:37, closed)
I wonder if they've stopped passing blue water off as expensive vodka drinks...
( , Thu 23 Feb 2012, 20:37, closed)
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