My Kindle Paperwhite has taken the headstaggers and I'm hoping it'll let me transfer all my docs and books to my laptop while it's doing it

I could understand if it was ancient, but it's only two years old and wasn't used every day or anything. There were times it wouldn't be used for weeks. It actually told me it needed repairing! I can't help thinking it's stuck in a loop rather than being strictly broken.

I'm vaguely hopeful they'll repair it for free since I've ordered around six Kindles over the years for me and others (they paid for them ).

I've got some of my books and docs back (by the look of it) at least... Jesus, Windows is asking for a scan and fix... might as well try it, little to lose now.

What an absolute waste of a day. Since the boiler drama at stupid o'clock this morning, I've done nothing but make calls, trying to get gas engineers and electricians out. Then making more calls, trying to get the gas men out again, to fix it... since they didn't finish the job first time around.

It doesn't help that I am bloody knackered.

Suppose I'd better go and see what I can make the wife for tea, since she's still at work.

Dell have added an extra ten days delivery on top of their website estimate for my shiny shiny

I'm off next week, it would have been the perfect time to get everything installed on it.

Some GP's really shouldn't be doing that job if they're already grumpy and dismissive t 9am


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I can get grumpy and dismissive; it's human nature - you can't be 100% polite, professional and courteous the whole time. But it can be indicative of what's happening in the GP's personal life, professional life, workplace etc.

What's the ratio you're allowed to dismiss and not provide adequate care then? 5%? 10%?
GPs aren't special. Anyone with a people facing job would get fired if they did such a poor show of their job.

Probably. I imagine if I was miserable and grumpy all the time, it would be noticed by patients and either they wouldn't come back to see me, or they'd report it (and around here that's something they'd happily do). As I said, depends on what's happening in that person's life. I imagine if there were problems with a staff member, the line manager would pick it up and at least have a discussion about what's going on. GP might have had a young relative die or diagnosed something nasty in a young person - it puts a massive spin when the next patient walks in complaining about (say) their back problem that they've had for years, and has been checked out to be nothing serious but the patient still complains about their pain. In the greater context, having longstanding back pain is probably more tolerable than being diagnosed with terminal cancer and a few months to live.

But irrespective of what's going on, the bottom line is that the GP should be safe ie they might not look or act like they care but if they at least have done the basic checks or investigations then they're not clinically negligent.

So that justifies being unkind? It justifies being callour when telling someone they probably just had a miscarriage?
everyone has [LIFTED] in their life. It should not influence how good you are at your job. If I did my job badly 10% of the time i'd be fired.

If I did my job badly 10% of the time it would be a massive improvement.

Sorry, I tried to resist, but ultimately failed.

you're still doing better than the other muppets from what I hear

If you feel that strongly, then kick up a fuss with the practice and put in a complaint.

Damnit, that what I should have said, instead of talking bollox, as usual! This is why my life is going nowhere!

But, in all seriousness, I agree with c_w. Kick up a fuss. When all's said and done, they are offering a service, and if it's not good enough you have every right to complain.

It's Friday afternoon, an app is supposed to be going to the client for submission to the app store, the md has left for the day, the head of mobile/my department are playing games in the meeting room and the client is having issues with the app.

Glad it's not my problem any more as I've only got 10.5 days left before I'm gone

Spotify - what is it with companies updating their product and making it less functional than it was before? Leave my settings alone, you berks.

Christ, if you wanna do something useful, clear out the BS clutter or give the user the option instead of taking options away!

You have to wonder if the people who update apps and programs have ever actually used them for more than five minutes.

Do you know what? If I didn't have kids I'd walk right now.
That's how I feel.
But I do, so I won't .

/rant