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I just got a summons for unpaid council tax (a large figure) that was paid - I have the credit card statement right here - a month ago. Cunts.
Slow Hands
05-07-2007, 18:51
Laminate it!
treefrog
05-07-2007, 18:51
and use it to decapitate them. In the face. Yes.
:D I might. I'm going to have some fun phone calls tomorrow, I can tell.
bluestreak
05-07-2007, 19:04
kill kill kill
d'you want me to see if i can remember how the system worked...
kill kill kill
d'you want me to see if i can remember how the system worked...
http://home.houston.rr.com/epasveer/TypingMonkeyLarge.jpg
Something like that, I imagine.
memespring
05-07-2007, 19:25
They just handed the contract back to crapita so not that unexpected. Crapita is teh shittest.
wrysmile
05-07-2007, 19:27
And their recycling system SUCKS - you can't feckin' recycle anything. :mad: :mad:
Yes you can! Card/paper, glass, cans and plastic bottles. That's a lot more thatn most councils.
:D I might. I'm going to have some fun phone calls tomorrow, I can tell.
You won't have fun - you'll just end up wanting to go postal in Hambrook House.
I can sympathise - I have had a letter from a debt collection agency for a NTL bill I don't owe.
memespring
05-07-2007, 19:38
Yes you can! Card/paper, glass, cans and plastic bottles. That's a lot more thatn most councils.
not on electric avenue - no official rubbish collection either (the market traiders pay for their own but kindly take ours if you put it on the street). boo.
gaijingirl
05-07-2007, 22:24
They still haven't fixed the main Tulse Hill gate into Brockwell Park...:mad:
bluestreak
05-07-2007, 22:25
http://home.houston.rr.com/epasveer/TypingMonkeyLarge.jpg
Something like that, I imagine.
nope, that would be more efficient.
take a load of undertrained people. add one very expensive council tax database that shouldn't make mistakes like this.
add an extremely stressful work situation.
carry on not training.
repeat until fail.
I'm going to make some poor jobsworth have a really bad day aren't I :(
That was actually really painless. Turns out the system can't figure the link between last year's balance - which was £xxx in debt, and this year's balance - which was £xxx in credit. Everything's back to normal. Thank you Lambeth Council Tax Department (never thought I'd say that!)
bluestreak
06-07-2007, 08:47
the system can figure the link. it just requires trained monkeys to be able to make it do so. untrained monkeys make expensive computer systems cry.
i once managed to turn someone in credit on the database into someone who owed in excess of 14K. it took a trained monkey four hours to work out how to fix it. i was well proud.
Sigh. After calmly paying it all year, I just got ANOTHER one. They reckon I owe them 470-odd quid. Fuck's sake, guys.
agricola
18-12-2007, 22:19
Sigh. After calmly paying it all year, I just got ANOTHER one. They reckon I owe them 470-odd quid. Fuck's sake, guys.
Is it a summons where you have to go to Camberwell?
Mrs Magpie
18-12-2007, 22:22
That's Magistrates, It's usually the one down a little side street in Kennington. The road begins with a C
sleaterkinney
18-12-2007, 22:22
Sigh. After calmly paying it all year, I just got ANOTHER one. They reckon I owe them 470-odd quid. Fuck's sake, guys.
Isn't modern technology wonderful.
Isn't modern technology wonderful.
In a way, it is. It took me 5 seconds to bring up a comprehsensive email list of all the payments made this year, with reference nos. for each :)
Urbanblues
19-12-2007, 02:59
That's Magistrates, It's usually the one down a little side street in Kennington. The road begins with a C
Chokey Street? Clink Street? Calaboose Street? Cage Street? Cooler Street?
happyshopper
19-12-2007, 09:47
It's Cleaver Street
Gixxer1000
19-12-2007, 10:21
It's Cleaver Street
Come in handy for getting their pound of flesh.
My fault for being a week late with a payment - they wanted the whole remaining year's worth :(
My fault for being a week late with a payment - they wanted the whole remaining year's worth :(
They did that to me too. I tried to point out to them that if they could enforce their side of the contract with collecting the money, I should be able to enforce them with respect to actually providing decent schools, housing, library etc. They weren't having it and made me pay by DD.
Brainaddict
19-12-2007, 10:40
They did that to me too. I tried to point out to them that if they could enforce their side of the contract with collecting the money, I should be able to enforce them with respect to actually providing decent schools, housing, library etc.
:D
I would have said "I'll pay you if, and only if, you can perform the very simple task of KEEPING THE FUCKING STREETLAMPS ON THE MAIN ROAD THROUGH BRIXTON LIT. I mean forget the sidestreet I live on, I've come to accept that I must run the gauntlet of semi-darkness to reach my front door, BUT THIS IS THE MAIN STREET IN YOUR BOROUGH, OUTSIDE YOUR FRONT DOOR.
*sigh* I'm sure there's some very good reason they can't manage it. It's probably a contractor over whom they have no control or something :mad:
vauxhallmum
19-12-2007, 10:43
Oh how do I detest thee, Lambeth Council? Let me count the ways.
Ask me about Lambeth LEA, go on, ask me!! BASTARDS
Whilst we're talking about Lambeth and council tax, is it Jan or feb you don't need to pay - cos they spread it over 10 months, rather than 12.
I've feeling it's feb eh, but jan would be well weapon!
Whilst we're talking about Lambeth and council tax, is it Jan or feb you don't need to pay - cos they spread it over 10 months, rather than 12.
I've feeling it's feb eh, but jan would be well weapon!
Feb/March I'm afraid
vauxhallmum
19-12-2007, 22:57
sorry, got a bit aerated there
Orang Utan
19-12-2007, 23:28
They're the best council I've ever dealt with.
nino_savatte
20-12-2007, 14:00
They're not that good to work for. :(
Oh how do I detest thee, Lambeth Council? Let me count the ways.
Ask me about Lambeth LEA, go on, ask me!! BASTARDS
:(
Now the only time I sit and count my blessings about Leeds LEA is when faced with realisation I could be living
a) In London
b) In Bradford
or C) someplace smaller than Bradford.
The same thing happened to me when i lived in Lambeth it took nearly 6 months to sort out. Twats.
Tricky Skills
20-12-2007, 17:32
There's always Lambeth Lou (http://www.lambethlou.blogspot.com) ;) although sadly she's been a bit quiet of late.
They just handed the contract back to crapita so not that unexpected. Crapita is teh shittest.
Didnt know that.Do u know why? (Apart from Capita being Nu labour friendly)
I've had a similar experience, them demanding money I didn't owe. Court summons, etc. etc.
I'd never take out a direct debit with Lambeth Council! Far too risky. You can't let them be in control. I just pay via internet banking every month.
We just noticed that Lambeth have given us a parking permit with the wrong zone written on it, which means that technically, we can't park outside our house. Although we've been doing so for the past three weeks, without getting a ticket. :confused: It's bloody lucky we haven't been fined, actually, as I've been parking in permit only zones in Herne Hill because I was under the impression that our permit was for that area, when in fact it's for Brixton at the moment.
So now one of use has to go to the parking office to sort it out, which will probably take about an hour. :mad: And they'll probably insist we take in the permit, which is a bit tricky when you've got wardens circling all the time in our street.
*sigh* And £160 for the privilege.
Are you sure you're not in a dual-zone street? Streets near the borders of zones usually allow both permits.
At least you have a CPZ ... Lambeth, in its wisdom, drew an arbitrary line when they implemented the Brixton E CPZ, which means my street is the first street outside the CPZ, and therefore the closest to all the tube stations with free parking. Can't park in my street, or the one next to it, or the one next to that ... grrrr.
Tricky Skills
28-12-2007, 12:35
Here's another wonderful local find:
Stockwell Toilet Watch (http://recycledbogrollblues.blogspot.com/)
"I am a Stockwell pensioner, with diabetes type 2, cancer of the prostate, and in need of public conveniences"
:D
Are you sure you're not in a dual-zone street? Streets near the borders of zones usually allow both permits.
At least you have a CPZ ... Lambeth, in its wisdom, drew an arbitrary line when they implemented the Brixton E CPZ, which means my street is the first street outside the CPZ, and therefore the closest to all the tube stations with free parking. Can't park in my street, or the one next to it, or the one next to that ... grrrr.
We are, but we're several hundred yards from where it changes.
Hendo braved the parking office today, and actually got it sorted remarkably quickly as they were in a post-Xmas lull. Hurrah!
We are, but we're several hundred yards from where it changes.
Hendo braved the parking office today, and actually got it sorted remarkably quickly as they were in a post-Xmas lull. Hurrah!
Actually I had to go to the parking office a few weeks ago for the first time ever (due to not owning a car). And it was an extremely efficient process.
Given how shit the council usually are I was in a slight state of shock.
Still since I've just moved house and they seem to have failed to have logged that so far they're still getting it wrong somewhere. :D
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