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      CommentAuthorToby Wrong
    • CommentTimeApr 2nd 2010
     
    I don't ever work for City circuits but I had a drop at City Point in the week.
    Last time I was there it was a loading bay job. You presented yourself to a monkey in a hutch down the ramp. The monkey took your photo and signed you in. Then you walked about five yards and handed the parcel to another monkey who was as competent with a pen as the first monkey was with a camera.
    This week I was told to go to the front entrance. One Hispanic receptionist who didn't speak much English. By the look of her she probably didn't speak much Spanish either. Five people waiting to sign in. I eventually sign in and get told that I have to leave my bag in a cubby hole behind a door before I go upstairs. Bollocks to that. The bag was over £100, never mind my stuff in it. Let's not ever mention that I've two other parcels in it. One of them was from a bank. It could have been worth anything. I ring the office and get told "You'll have to risk it."
    Very fucking professional but I'm confident it's what most firms would say.
    This was a drop and I don't think the firm I'm working for have a client in City Point. Lots of firms do have clients in City Point. What the hell do they think of that arrangement? What do their other clients think of it? When I came back down to collect my bag there was an equally expensive courier bag next to mine.
    I'm not sure I'd have got away with liberating the bag but what might some of you have done if that bag had been plastered with a "City Sprint" or "Churchill Express" or "Courier Systems" logo?
    If one of my parcels had gone missing I can imagine the twat who told me I'd have to risk it screaming, "Why did you leave your bag with the security muppet!?" and probably fining me or sacking me and nicking my deposit.
    • CommentAuthorsleepy
    • CommentTimeApr 3rd 2010
     
    not delivered there since 07 but i remember that some accounts were loading bay and others were reception, was no biggy till they brought in the photo system and then the thumbprint recognition thing at front desk. there was a massive kerfuffle over the whole thing, one courier (who i suspect is actually count baise [nut]) has his picture behind reception after threatening to bomb them. the first time i had to go there after the thumbscanner was brought in i rubbed my thumb on my chain, for some reason it couldn't scan me and didn't work fantastically after that...

    a certain claustrophobic courier named after the purveyor of britain's favourite meal used to insist on taking the stairs at city point, or at least that's what he said he was doing when it took him an hour to call pob on a job he was next to.
    • CommentAuthorRapattack
    • CommentTimeApr 6th 2010
     
    ah the ole thumb scanner. I refused that crap. Sadly they do have my photo on their lovely computer database of London scum.
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      CommentAuthornish
    • CommentTimeApr 6th 2010
     
    isnt the legal firm that won George Bush a term based up there? on the top floor
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      CommentAuthoroverdrive
    • CommentTimeApr 6th 2010
     
    I am trying to work out who this claustrophobic courier is.Is it Chris the curry house currier?Or maybe Chris the shish?F*ck sake sleeps help me out here!Funky chicken tikka masala?F*ck knows!
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      CommentAuthoroverdrive
    • CommentTimeApr 6th 2010
     
    Chris and chips?
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      CommentAuthoroverdrive
    • CommentTimeApr 6th 2010
     
    sorry about that.
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      CommentAuthoroverdrive
    • CommentTimeApr 6th 2010 edited
     
    Chinese Nigel.Yeeeaarghhh!
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    Mad Angus McMarmiteontoastwithacupoftea.., the real name of the guy with the dog. You newbies know nothing.
    • CommentAuthorRapattack
    • CommentTimeApr 7th 2010
     
    What, ponytail, no shirt, moobs and a dog guy?
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    Orange dog, punctured football for a toy.
    • CommentAuthorsleepy
    • CommentTimeApr 7th 2010
     
    "Chris and chips?"

    so close it's fucking painful :rolling:
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      CommentAuthoroverdrive
    • CommentTimeApr 7th 2010
     
    I know who it is now.:thumbup:
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    is it mr DiscoTrolley by any chance?
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      CommentAuthorpornomike
    • CommentTimeApr 7th 2010
     
    I want "toby wong" under a bus.
    • CommentAuthoreggpie
    • CommentTimeApr 7th 2010 edited
     
    The best(!) thing about CityPoint's bullshit thumbprint system was that theyd insist on taking your fingerprints and photo, then fail to check your name/ID (which I obviously faked) or the contents of your bag, or that massive fucking tube that was sticking out the top of it. So at least once youd blown the top 20 floors away with the RPG and the 20kg bomb in your bag that theyd missed whilst studiously xraying the envelope you were holding, they be able to recognise your fingers amongst the wreckage. Wankers.

    I fucking hate fake security theatre. I think I might start stealing from bags there just to see what happens. They still dont have my real name.
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      CommentAuthorpornomike
    • CommentTimeApr 7th 2010
     
    "One Hispanic receptionist who didn't speak much English. By the look of her she probably didn't speak much Spanish either." That is just appalling. Do you speak Spanish yourself? Calling people monkeys when you clearly haven't got yourself an education and work on a par level with these "monkeys" shows what a prick you are. And who do you think is gonna nick your "expensive" bag and leave theirs behind? You suggest that any of us would have thought of stealing yours if possible. That just shows that you are a thieving cunt. Oh yeah, I think "You'll have to risk it." was somewhat sarcastic. Idiot
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      CommentAuthorpornomike
    • CommentTimeApr 7th 2010
     
    @ eggpie. Oh GoGuevara.
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      CommentAuthorpornomike
    • CommentTimeApr 7th 2010
     
    When was the last time anybody carried 20 kilos?
    • CommentAuthoreggpie
    • CommentTimeApr 7th 2010
     
    *estimated average weight of bomb carried by suicide bomber

    Based on exactly zero research, I might add. Obviously Id never carry that much, but I work for creative, so all I ever carry is my skinny lattecino back to the corner..
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      CommentAuthorpornomike
    • CommentTimeApr 8th 2010
     
    giggle
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      CommentAuthoroverdrive
    • CommentTimeApr 8th 2010
     
    I asked for the little photo they took of me when I went there ages ago.It now adorns the riders room wall alongside two other riders' mugshots.The lighting is horrendous and it looks like I'm having a bad attack of the paranoids!
    In the photo not the riders room.
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      CommentAuthorToby Wrong
    • CommentTimeApr 9th 2010
     
    Right!
    That settles it!
    I'm going to nick something from City Point next time I'm passing.
    You want me under a bus, Pornomike?
    I know there's a market for some pretty sick porn, but who the hell would be into that? Clarkson? Livingston? I'm curious.
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      CommentAuthorpornomike
    • CommentTimeApr 10th 2010 edited
     
    Not any more I don't. Watch you're tongue though. You got to respect the mighty(er?) than though. I will never succumb to petty bitchiness. Oh shit, I just did... Well played. (Edit was a repeat)
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      CommentAuthorpornomike
    • CommentTimeApr 10th 2010
     
    @ Toby Wong.I know who you are now. Sorry. Must be a right bummer to know you have a right kicking....

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