Red Tape and Form Filling.

[Christmas Lights]

My Dad (retired teacher aged 79) rang vhi looking for a form. Girl asked security questions, name..no problem
DOB...no problem, phone number....no problem, address? Dublin Road, Mullingar, ...................anymore? no that's my address, that's not correct there is more to that address, (now my dads knows whats she is looking for but cant believe that's what she is insisting on) he says that's the address, no it isn't she said and I cant proceed until you tell me, is it a county you are looking for? Yes it is, she says, he replies most school children would know what county Mullingar is in. She says you have to say it or I won't proceed! He said he wouldn't and rang back later on!

Thats incredibly immature from your dad IMO.  Made more hassle for himself by having to ring back later an answering the same questions again.
She was only doing her job. 

[Christmas Lights]

A woman i work with just told me she was in the bank getting a £100 draft to send to a relation in England for a Christmas present. In the ban kthey asked her and it had to be filled out on the form - what is it for? She told them it's a bit late for them to be getting so tight on matters!

[spuds]

My Dad (retired teacher aged 79) rang vhi looking for a form. Girl asked security questions, name..no problem
DOB...no problem, phone number....no problem, address? Dublin Road, Mullingar, ...................anymore? no that's my address, that's not correct there is more to that address, (now my dads knows whats she is looking for but cant believe that's what she is insisting on) he says that's the address, no it isn't she said and I cant proceed until you tell me, is it a county you are looking for? Yes it is, she says, he replies most school children would know what county Mullingar is in. She says you have to say it or I won't proceed! He said he wouldn't and rang back later on!

Thats incredibly immature from your dad IMO.  Made more hassle for himself by having to ring back later an answering the same questions again.
She was only doing her job.

Ah go and have a sh1te with yourself, I found it very funny and deducted that Mr. Keegan senior must be a good character.

[Christmas Lights]

My Dad (retired teacher aged 79) rang vhi looking for a form. Girl asked security questions, name..no problem
DOB...no problem, phone number....no problem, address? Dublin Road, Mullingar, ...................anymore? no that's my address, that's not correct there is more to that address, (now my dads knows whats she is looking for but cant believe that's what she is insisting on) he says that's the address, no it isn't she said and I cant proceed until you tell me, is it a county you are looking for? Yes it is, she says, he replies most school children would know what county Mullingar is in. She says you have to say it or I won't proceed! He said he wouldn't and rang back later on!

Thats incredibly immature from your dad IMO.  Made more hassle for himself by having to ring back later an answering the same questions again.
She was only doing her job.

Ah go and have a sh1te with yourself, I found it very funny and deducted that Mr. Keegan senior must be a good character.

Eh? I'm just saying he made more work for himself by not answering standard security questions completely. Had he just said the county as requested, he would have saved himself a second call later that day. Just seems stubborn to me, like he was trying to gain some moral victory

[Hound]

Mr Keegan was completely right. The VHI girl is a complete idiot. Mr Keegan just had to confirm his address, which he did.

Hopefully the hanging up will cause the girl to sit back and think about whether she was correct about being so anal. Maybe she'll ask her supervisor, who would tell her not to be so stupid in future - the gentleman has given his street address and town, thus had proven his address - county and country not required!, now cop da fook on

[Bud Wiser]

Tell me this and tell me no more then ! I had a ten year lisence that just expired and when I went to fill in the form a while ago the lady at the desk said " you cant get it renewed without an eye test and a medical report"  ( I had all levels on my lisence, trucks, artic's etc)
She then said " you can get your lisence if you exclude trucks"

So why would it be OK to drive down the motorway in a big landcruiser, as blind as a bat and with a bad pacemaker but not in a truck?

[David McKeown]

At the risk of displaying a rare lack of knowledge on every day matters, but why is excessive bureaucracy referred to as "red tape?"

Red tape was originally used to bind important documents together

Do you mean to tell me this is wrong?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27TwTHvlbYQ

Sorkin how could you?

[gerrykeegan]

My Dad (retired teacher aged 79) rang vhi looking for a form. Girl asked security questions, name..no problem
DOB...no problem, phone number....no problem, address? Dublin Road, Mullingar, ...................anymore? no that's my address, that's not correct there is more to that address, (now my dads knows whats she is looking for but cant believe that's what she is insisting on) he says that's the address, no it isn't she said and I cant proceed until you tell me, is it a county you are looking for? Yes it is, she says, he replies most school children would know what county Mullingar is in. She says you have to say it or I won't proceed! He said he wouldn't and rang back later on!

Thats incredibly immature from your dad IMO.  Made more hassle for himself by having to ring back later an answering the same questions again.
She was only doing her job.

Ah go and have a sh1te with yourself, I found it very funny and deducted that Mr. Keegan senior must be a good character.

Eh? I'm just saying he made more work for himself by not answering standard security questions completely. Had he just said the county as requested, he would have saved himself a second call later that day. Just seems stubborn to me, like he was trying to gain some moral victory

Did you read or understand the story?
-Retired school teacher, 79 years old (unlikeky to be immature!)
-looking for a form (not looking for anything that is not downloadable from VHI's own website)
-gives name, date of birth, phone number and road and town on his address (standard security questions)
- gets clown who trys to make him say a county which everyone in the country knows where the town is
- refuses to deal with such a clown who tries to bully him into saying a word because she thinks she can
- hangs up rings back later on, gets his form (I left out wasn't asked which County Mullingar was in the second time)