We rocked, frankly and acheived a score of 59 ouut of 70, including full marks on the music round. The results were read out, in ascending order, we were not mentioned, then he announced:
"and the winners, with 59 [the score the people who marked our paper said we had]......"NOT OUR TEAM!!!!
Apparently the bloke had "lost" our paper after being handed it. We were swizzed out of 70 quid, and felt bad, very bad, remonstrations got us a bottle of wine.
I'm glad I got that off my chest, thankyou for listening.
Anyway the question at hand, what have you been cheated out of in swiz like episodes?
― chris, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Does car insurance count? The grasping fuckers. But I'm just bitter.
― Markx, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
On a more serious note, our last landlord before we boarded the property-owning juggernaut ripped us of for £150. It didn't seem like much at the time, but I could really use it now... We did get our deposit back even though the place was a shithole, which was some consolation.
― Andrew Williams, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Getting cheated is pretty rampant in the media, d'oh. If people believe they can get away with it, they do it. It's that simple. I never do, because ultimately I'd have to live with myself afterwards and would be annoyed at slipping up in the principles department. The thing is, it's considered even more unprofessional to remind an editor that they've allowed something unethical to happen, it's as good as a virtual P45.
However there is a little thing called KARMA. The person that cheated me most carried on treating others just as badly after I'd stopped having anything to do with her and now she's having trouble getting a project off the ground. People just don't want to deal with her and she moves onto new circles of aquaintances every few months thinking she's on her way to the top. She isn't. She'll never be headed to the dole office as is a Thatcherbaby, but started out believing she would be more famous than Madonna. The silver lining is what was once seen as a massive and squalid form of betrayal has now diminished into something I don't need to take personally, to boot.
― suzy, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Sarah, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― fritz, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Landlords are the be-all and end-all of rip-offs. Day before we move out: I use cooker. Next week: you broke the cooker, goodbye deposit. That was an attempted rip-off not a successful one I'm happy to say.
― Tom, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)