Aviva sent me the money they owed me for services rendered.
Only took three months this time...and if you ever have to do work for these muppets you will appreciate that this really is a victory.
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Wed 16 Feb 2011, 17:53, 8 replies)

I think you're well out of order...
at least the muppets were entertaining...when you're 4 anyway, I don't think Aviva are funny at any age.
(RTFM May your god go with you, Wed 16 Feb 2011, 20:04, closed)

Point well made.
How about instead of muppets we have ' inbred spawn of Satan's nipple wax' ?
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Wed 16 Feb 2011, 20:44, closed)

Who are they, a private police force?

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Wed 16 Feb 2011, 23:58, closed)

Seems like that sometimes
What with their secrecy, unwritten rules and curious use of occult practices to increase their revenue. (insurance company really)
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Thu 17 Feb 2011, 7:40, closed)

And they don't even have
fucking meerkats.
( Not Pineapple anymore, Thu 17 Feb 2011, 11:27, closed)

I went to their head office
to do a job before they changed their name, and got into the glass lift in the centre of the building.
"Which floor?" said a helpful chap
"Top floor please"
Silence. Top Floor is the Highest Execs' floor, no plebs or shit munchers allowed.
As the lift rose, the chap nervously eyed me, dressed head to toe in black - combat trousers, donkey jacket collar up, wool watch cap and gloves, I'm a rough-arse at the best of times, not the kind of person you usually find in any office environment, let alone Company HQ.
He meekly asked, "Um, are you going to shoot anybody up there?"

I just kept a straight face and muttered "You never know"
He got out at the next floor, though he would probably have gladly got out in between floors if it had taken any longer to reach the stop, I genuinely think he had me down as a hitman. (Monday morning, 10am, Company HQ - hmmm, hardly likely now is it?)

Oh, and they paid up within their allotted 30 days. Good job too, considering I was in possession of confidential info they really wouldn't have wanted anyone else finding out about. Funny how a jokey reference to spilling the beans if my cheque was late must have filtered to the Accounts Payable Dept!
(Rsoles, Thu 17 Feb 2011, 11:20, closed)

Pfft.
You wouldn't get to know what colour bogroll they have without signing an NDA.

The slightest whiff (jokey or not) of a threat to disclose anything would have had you in front of the beak.
( Not Pineapple anymore, Thu 17 Feb 2011, 11:30, closed)

Not me
I signed no Confidentiality Agreement, though I guess the guy I was sub-contracted from did. It's amazing how lax some companies are - the bigger they are, the more anal they are about the cleaner keeping secrets, but then they let in people like me without a whisper. Good job I DO keep secrets isn't it? ( Though I'd never get any more work if I couldn't, so there'd be no advantage in me blabbing) They have some beautiful birds-eye maple wooden panelling up there, absolutely enthralled me, I REALLY wanted some for guitar body tops. I couldn't impress upon them enough that if they ever thought of a remodelling up there, to give me first dibs on a couple of pieces of that timber. They probably thought I was barking after that.
(Rsoles, Thu 17 Feb 2011, 11:35, closed)