What's annoying me today

I'll sell you a bib. Bidding starts at £300.

The chances of it fitting are, ironically, slim.

Also did not get a London Marathon place.

I didn’t get a London Marathon place.

Largely because I did not apply.

same

URME etc etc etc

Dad not up to golf after last night’s game went to extra time.

You are all heart

I may have expressed myself badly. I was annoyed at England's inability to do the job in normal time.

Oh yes. Of course. Now you say that…

Fedex. I was due in the office today for a conference but I got a notification that a large delivery scheduled for tomorrow was arriving today, meaning I had to change my plans and stay home. A few minutes ago I received a notification from them that there was a problem with my delivery as the shipper has provided an incorrect address, and they're trying to resolve it. I go onto the Fedex website and they're not showing me the address they're trying to deliver to. I call their Customer Support number and after fighting with their incredibly inefficient and badly designed auto attendant, finally get to a mailbox that tells me that only the shipper can change the address. The shipper tells me that it's a problem at the Fedex end. So now I'm sitting here unable to talk to anyone despite being the person who can actually fix the fucking thing.

Update: I got an email asking me to call them to provide the correct address. Once again had the auto attendant telling me that only the shipper could do that. Managed to finally get through to someone who asked for my address for security purposes, she seemed quite confused when I told her that providing my correct address would clearly fail the security check as they apparently have my incorrect address and if I have to guess what incorrect address they have on file for me we might be there some time given the infinite number of possibilities. She seemed a little confused by that, but it was easily fixed by me providing my correct address and her confirming that that was indeed the address they have on file, so in fact they clearly did not try to ship to an incorrect address and their shithead driver clearly needs to find another line of work. Anyway, she submitted it for reattempted delivery which will likely be tomorrow, as was originally planned.

20 minutes after this I received another call from a different Fedex agent wanting to confirm my correct address. I explained that I had already done this 20 minutes prior and that they do in fact have the correct address on file for me, but she said she had to go through the process anyway so I humoured her and she immediately read me my incorrect address (the unit number and street number were switched around). So it seems that somehow Fedex are managing to do their whole consolidated supply chain solutions business using multiple unconnected systems, which seems like a bad idea. Anyway, having taken my correct address she then informed me that the address must be wrong because she couldn't find it on Google Maps, at which point I may have become a little snippy in my responses, and upon confirming my address for a third time it turns out that she was in fact able to find it on Google Maps after all and would be submitting it for redelivery, something which the previous agent had told me she had done.

How is it possible that a company that exists to do one thing can be so catastrophically appalling at doing that thing?

No wonder they are so expensive if they have two people doing every job.

It could have been worse. You could have gone for a piss

Or fingered someone.