LU fraud
 

Took the tube to work this morning. The gate failed to read my card at the
exit gate but because I was walking so fast I was most of the way through
before the gates closed. Anyway , went to the ticket machine and sure enough
I had a non complete journey fair deducted so I went to the ticket office.
The ****** in their , after chatting to his mate for 2 minutes and deigning
to serve me, tried to convince me that the 6 quid the gate had taken off
was actually the balance on my card before I entered the system and he
then took ANOTHER amount off for the journey I'd just done. Since I knew how
much I had on there as I'd topped it up only 50 minutes earlier I knew the
**** was lying and made a big bloody fuss until he refunded me the 6 quid.

Now I've seen this guy before working there months ago so he's not new
and it clearly said "CHARGE" on his screen next to the 6 quid so quite
obviously he was attempting to defraud me. Should I report him to his station
manager? Has anyone else come across this sort of thing?

B2003

LU fraud
 

On 13 Sep, 09:59, wrote:

journey fair
in their

Why don't you deign to check your spelling?

Quite obviously he was amused at what a tosser he had at his window.

LU fraud
 

On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 23:57:52 -0700 (PDT)
contrex wrote:
On 13 Sep, 09:59, wrote:

journey fair
in their

Why don't you deign to check your spelling?

Quite obviously he was amused at what a tosser he had at his window.

LOL :) Thus speaks a man whose sole comment has been to point out a standard
issue typo.

Thank you for brightening up my morning with your ridiculous puffed up
pomposity. Do you hold a scented hankie under your nose when you type? ;)

B2003

LU fraud
 

On 14 Sep, 09:50, wrote:

LOL :) Thus speaks a man whose sole comment has been to point out a standard issue typo.

"Fair for "fair" and "their" for "there" are not "typos". They are
errors caused by ignorance.

LU fraud
 

wrote in message
...
Took the tube to work this morning. The gate failed to read my card at the
exit gate but because I was walking so fast I was most of the way through
before the gates closed. Anyway , went to the ticket machine and sure
enough
I had a non complete journey fair deducted so I went to the ticket office.
The ****** in their , after chatting to his mate for 2 minutes and
deigning
to serve me, tried to convince me that the 6 quid the gate had taken off
was actually the balance on my card before I entered the system and he
then took ANOTHER amount off for the journey I'd just done. Since I knew
how
much I had on there as I'd topped it up only 50 minutes earlier I knew the
**** was lying and made a big bloody fuss until he refunded me the 6 quid.

Now I've seen this guy before working there months ago so he's not new
and it clearly said "CHARGE" on his screen next to the 6 quid so quite
obviously he was attempting to defraud me. Should I report him to his
station
manager? Has anyone else come across this sort of thing?

B2003


Irrespective of fraud and spelling mistakes, actually, if you had taken an
extra second to make sure the doddery old Oyster card reader had woken up,
there would have been no problem. A case of more haste less speed, (or a tap
in time saves nine)!

MaxB

LU fraud
 

In message
,
contrex writes

"Fair for "fair"

ITYM "for fare" :(

and "their" for "there" are not "typos". They are
errors caused by ignorance.

You said it :)
--
Paul Terry

LU fraud
 

On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 10:48:58 -0700 (PDT)
contrex wrote:
On 14 Sep, 09:50, wrote:

LOL :) Thus speaks a man whose sole comment has been to point out a standard
issue typo.

"Fair for "fair" and "their" for "there" are not "typos". They are
errors caused by ignorance.

ROTFL!

Ah , the irony.

I think you meant "Fair for fare" old chap. Just ignorance on your part
I guess eh? :o)

B2003

LU fraud
 

On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 19:29:47 +0100
"Batman55" wrote:
Irrespective of fraud and spelling mistakes, actually, if you had taken an
extra second to make sure the doddery old Oyster card reader had woken up,
there would have been no problem. A case of more haste less speed, (or a tap
in time saves nine)!

Yes , mea culpa , but these things happen. What shouldn't happen is an LU
employee deliberately try and rip off a customer.

B2003

LU fraud
 

On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 08:22:05 +0100
Paul Terry wrote:
In message
,
contrex writes

"Fair for "fair"

ITYM "for fare" :(

and "their" for "there" are not "typos". They are
errors caused by ignorance.

You said it :)

I'm going to have to keep his post, its the best foot in mouth I've seen
in many a year. :)

B2003

LU fraud
 

On 2010\09\15 09:47, d wrote:

I'm going to have to keep his post, its the best foot in mouth I've seen
in many a year. :)

You must have yourself in your own killfile, then.

LU fraud
 

On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 10:11:06 +0100
Basil Jet wrote:
On 2010\09\15 09:47, d wrote:

I'm going to have to keep his post, its the best foot in mouth I've seen
in many a year. :)

You must have yourself in your own killfile, then.

I'm not entirely sure of the leap of logic you used there but I'll just nod
and smile and hope you go away before you start shouting at pigeons.

B2003

LU fraud
 

On 2010\09\15 10:40, d wrote:
On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 10:11:06 +0100
Basil wrote:
On 2010\09\15 09:47, d wrote:

I'm going to have to keep his post, its the best foot in mouth I've seen
in many a year. :)

You must have yourself in your own killfile, then.

I'm not entirely sure of the leap of logic you used there but I'll just nod
and smile and hope you go away before you start shouting at pigeons.

That whooshing sound ain't pigeons.

LU fraud
 

On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 11:13:31 +0100
Basil Jet wrote:
That whooshing sound ain't pigeons.

No , its the realisation that your "joke" didn't work passing you by. I never
mentioned killfiling the guy because of what he said so quite how you made
the leap to your attempted gag about killfiling myself is anyones guess.

Better luck next time.

B2003

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wrote in message

On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 19:29:47 +0100
"Batman55" wrote:
Irrespective of fraud and spelling mistakes, actually, if you had
taken an extra second to make sure the doddery old Oyster card
reader had woken up, there would have been no problem. A case of
more haste less speed, (or a tap in time saves nine)!

Yes , mea culpa , but these things happen. What shouldn't happen is
an LU employee deliberately try and rip off a customer.

If you're as aggressive in real life as you are here, is it possible
that you don't bring out the very best from those LU employees who have
the pleasure of serving you?

LU fraud
 

"contrex" wrote in message
...
On 14 Sep, 09:50, wrote:

LOL :) Thus speaks a man whose sole comment has been to point out a
standard issue typo.

"Fair for "fair" and "their" for "there" are not "typos".

but its for it's, more often than not, is!

tim

LU fraud
 

On 15 Sep, 09:45, wrote:

What shouldn't happen is an LU employee deliberately try and rip off a customer.

Whilst I accept what you say about the perceived rip off, I am trying
to fathom out just what benefit the ticket office
clerk (starts with a C but so much nicer) could have gained from this
"fraud". It would be next to impossible for him to pocket the cash
without a defecit on his balance. I don't think even you would believe
that there is any instruction issued to staff to deliberately defraud
passengers in this way. If there were, do you think that the staff
would do this without whistleblowing in the current climate ?

To be "fair", is sounds to me like two people may have wound each
other up.


Richard

LU fraud
 

On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 04:42:30 -0700 (PDT)
Fat richard wrote:
Whilst I accept what you say about the perceived rip off, I am trying
to fathom out just what benefit the ticket office
clerk (starts with a C but so much nicer) could have gained from this
"fraud". It would be next to impossible for him to pocket the cash
without a defecit on his balance. I don't think even you would believe
that there is any instruction issued to staff to deliberately defraud
passengers in this way. If there were, do you think that the staff
would do this without whistleblowing in the current climate ?

No idea. I thought it rather odd which is why I mentioned it here.

To be "fair", is sounds to me like two people may have wound each
other up.

Maybe. He did keep me waiting for a long time while he chatted to his colleague
about foorball so perhaps I wasn't as genial as I could have been when he
finally decided to do his job.

B2003

LU fraud
 

On 15 Sep, 12:21, "tim...." wrote:
"contrex" wrote in message

...

On 14 Sep, 09:50, wrote:

LOL :) Thus speaks a man whose sole comment has been to point out a
standard issue typo.

"Fair for "fair" and "their" for "there" are not "typos".

but its for it's, more often than not, *is!

tim

I've often typoed "their" for "there" and vice versa; usually
correcting it before hitting "send" or whatever. This is because my
fingers often type a familiar word that is not the one intended, and
nothing to do with my knowledge.

It's not really any different from typing "for" instead of "of", which
I sometimes do.

LU fraud
 

On 14/09/10 09:50, d wrote:
On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 23:57:52 -0700 (PDT)
wrote:
On 13 Sep, 09:59, wrote:

journey fair
in their

Why don't you deign to check your spelling?

Quite obviously he was amused at what a tosser he had at his window.

LOL :) Thus speaks a man whose sole comment has been to point out a standard
issue typo.

I think you probably have the answer there. People can make mistakes,
even with things that aren't complicated, and that they know perfectly
well the answer to, just as you did with your typos.

Maybe he was tired or unwell, or had otherwise had a bad day; such
things really affect your concentration and make it much easier to make
silly mistakes.

It's pretty unlikely he did it deliberately, as others have said.

LU fraud
 

On 15 Sep, 09:47, wrote:

I'm going to have to keep his post, its the best foot in mouth I've seen
in many a year. :)

Fair cop. That'll teach me. Isn't it some kind of law that any post
slagging off the grammar or spelling of another person will inevitably
contain at least one of the type of error complained of?

LU fraud
 

On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 23:20:25 -0700 (PDT)
contrex wrote:
On 15 Sep, 09:47, wrote:

I'm going to have to keep his post, its the best foot in mouth I've seen
in many a year. :)

Fair cop. That'll teach me. Isn't it some kind of law that any post
slagging off the grammar or spelling of another person will inevitably
contain at least one of the type of error complained of?

Don't know , but we can call if the Contrex Law if you like? ;)

B2003

LU fraud
 

wrote in message
...
On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 23:20:25 -0700 (PDT)
contrex wrote:
On 15 Sep, 09:47, wrote:

I'm going to have to keep his post, its the best foot in mouth I've seen
in many a year. :)

Fair cop. That'll teach me. Isn't it some kind of law that any post
slagging off the grammar or spelling of another person will inevitably
contain at least one of the type of error complained of?

Don't know , but we can call IF the Contrex Law if you like? ;)

B2003


I saw the typo first! What's my prize?

Max B.