Tim Hobbs

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[Tim Hobbs @timhobbs]

If your are facing the choice of eating or avoiding repossession, having to extend your mortage another decade or simply resigned to living with your parents forever - just hold your nerve…

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It’s always the longest day if you @Visit_Wakefield

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@PeopleofLeeds Are you doing it on a narrow boat? It’s a plan we have for next year, I’m taking the Mrs on a 3 night trip next month from Leeds up to Salts and hoping she gets the bug to do a fortnight next year. Or even buy a boat…

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@ThePollitt All the haters are overlooking that free pair of overalls they are throwing in with the sale. I was on the fence until I read that.

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@JohnLewisRetail Thank you - the order turned up out of the blue today so all is well that ends well.

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@JohnLewisRetail Still no delivery (due pre 10:30). No reply to email. Chat puts me in a queue. Now being ignored on Twitter.

Your “service” is a shambles - you have £400 of my money and zero interest in customer satisfaction.

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Government and finance sector continuing to normalise “pay rises are causing inflation” line.

I’m an employer. We set pay based on availability of staff and current inflation. We don’t raise pay because we feel like it.

Pay is the symptom of cost of living and shortage of staff

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Finally through to chat. Through broken English it seems they don’t know where it is. All they can say is “give it 48 hours and call back”! When I tell them to cancel the order I’m told they can’t because it’s been processed.

Reputations fall much quicker than they rise.

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Go on - put me through to a Partner. Been waiting 15 minutes for you to do so.

I’m not being patient; I just have no choice but to put up with this nonsense to get a any response from you.

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@steeliebobs I’ve been cheeky and booked with 2 dogs. Might be a challenge!

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Today I should be in New York. Instead of the smog I’m here, day off, Comfortably Numb quietly playing under the birdsong. No other humans around.

Winning.

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The trouble with public transport in Leeds is that it’s slow, only comes every 15 minutes and is powered by old fashioned diesel. No WiFi but at least it’s contactless…

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ParentPay 2 factor authentication is pretty hopeless. If you can’t find your 2FA device you can just request to turn off 2FA from the login screen!

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John Lewis was a bastion of good service and reliability. What happened?

Pre-10:30 delivery hasn't shown up. LIve Chat puts me in a queue. Page after page of crap just to get an email form.

All reasons to use them (price guarantee, service) are evaporating

@johnlewishelp

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@Calibremag @ThePollitt I had one in the ‘90s. Stupidly expensive to run and fabulous to drive. What’s the worst that could happen?

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My claim has been ignored by the pet insurance company for weeks & I have just looked at referring it the ombudsman.

It seems the company has 8 weeks to reply to my complaint before they will consider it. Then it will take them 6 months to even process the complaint.

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@robgreen78 @adamjennison I keep trying different dough recipes from various famous Italian chefs but so far the best results are from a Jamie Oliver one!

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@adamjennison @robgreen78 I peaked with this. Tomato sauce still too wet but base about right

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@adamjennison I can’t really think how you’d do it without!