Richard Wilson
I don’t watch a lot of TV, but we caught the Richard Wilson rant against automated call services last night and although teh programme and the man got on my nerves I do find the whole topic interesting.
I have a lot of sympathy for the topic and while I find the systems clever, I also find them utterly infuriating. Where I lost patience a little was when he took his rant to the parking machines. In my experience it’s a choice whether you pay by phone or coin. Is that not the case everywhere? If there are areas where you can’t but pay by phone I think that is a huge imposition, especially on the older folk, many of whom don’t have mobiles, and those who do are often sort of scared of using them.
Just writing this reminded me of the need to change the registration details of my car with Ringo who run a lot of the mobile call meters. It was easy. Really easy. I actually like the meters you can pay on the phone as I rarely have enough cash on my. The slight down side for me is the fact that I usually pay for more time than I would if I did have the cash on me, just because it doesn’t seem like real money.
So back to Grumpy old man Wilson. Yep, got the point. Should have been 30 minutes not an hour. And it scares me how many people will be losing their jobs as a consequence of such systems. And so so cheap!