Reply to: Service

[Mustang]

Is immigration to blame?

In a word "yes"! Partly!!

Slippage in service standards are based on a number of factors, one of which is the change in social values. Social values over the years have been influenced by immigration.

I am not advocating that immigration is 100% of the problem, just that it is a contributary factor.

[stackpole]

I ran a search for: "how to set fire to your bayswater branch"

and got the response:

You searched for "how to set fire to your bayswater branch", more results were found under "how to set fire to your fa water branch"

So where is fa water?
And where can I buy the matches?


Interestingly when I asked it how to set fire to the Basingstoke branch, it replied:

You searched for "how to set fire to your basingstoke branch"

...So it agrees!

Keep up the good work, KP.

[KentPhilip]

I ran a search for: "how to set fire to your bayswater branch"

and got the response:

You searched for "how to set fire to your bayswater branch", more results were found under "how to set fire to your fa water branch"

So where is fa water?
And where can I buy the matches?


Interestingly when I asked it how to set fire to the Basingstoke branch, it replied:

You searched for "how to set fire to your basingstoke branch"

...So it agrees!

[TheMonkey]

Is immigration to blame for everything?

Yes - apart from new labour which is the cause of the problem so they're ultimately responsible for everything bad (including cancer).

[Numptycorner]

This thread is so spot on!!

Standards in this country are being eroded slowly but surely. More and more people are willing to accept 98% when they want 100% and before you know it standards start to noticeably slide.

As the make up of society is altered through imigration, so what it means to be British will change. What used to be a standard reaction/response, no longer becomes "standard". Society has allowed things to slide.

If people believe in something, then give the shop feedback. Request that someone acknowledges that standards are sliding. It seems the only thing we have retained as Brits is our desire not to make a fuss, to not complain when we are not happy with something.

If you are prepared to accept something then accept it, if you are not prepared to accept it then take some action. However, don't accpet the spotty kid serving you to understand your beef!!

How did you get to immigration from some spotty faced youth being rude. Bizzare!

Is immigration to blame for everything?

[The Master]

Sorry, BM, it won't happen again. Honest. Promise.
Désolé....

You keep it up, Fleetwood. I find your corrections most amusing.

[Hart-floot]

are the ladies from EAT also polite and courteous ?

Oh yes Service with smile. Speak better English than the M&S crowd too!

[eternalnomad]

The manager at my local branch of EAT in the City seems to recruit only hot looking Latvian and Lithuanian women

M&S seems to stick with the crowd from London's banlieue

are the ladies from EAT also polite and courteous ?

[TheMonkey]

The manager at my local branch of EAT in the City seems to recruit only hot looking Latvian and Lithuanian women

M&S seems to stick with the crowd from London's banlieue

Sounds like the Bengys on Farringdon road. Seems to be full of eastern european goths. Rar.

[Hart-floot]

No, but a small amount of common courtesy would be nice.

M&S Waterloo - terrible service by gormless spotty oinks
M&S Marylebone - generally much better service with the occasional please and thank you from the staff.

Perhaps it's all down to the local store manager the way they recruit and retain staff.

The manager at my local branch of EAT in the City seems to recruit only hot looking Latvian and Lithuanian women

M&S seems to stick with the crowd from London's banlieue

[bogeyman]

Just looked if you could send in complaints via the M&S website (last day on site today, winding down). Entered 'Complaints' in their search bar, message returned saying ...
You searched for "complaints", more results were found under "complements".

Priceless

[Clavdivs]

Just looked if you could send in complaints via the M&S website (last day on site today, winding down). Entered 'Complaints' in their search bar, message returned saying ...
You searched for "complaints", more results were found under "complements".

[Fleetwood]

Did you actually contribute anything other than snide little spelling and grammar corrections?
Please feel free to repond with some smug little bon mot as usual.

Sorry, BM, it won't happen again. Honest. Promise.
Désolé....

[Mustang]

Thin end of wedge

This thread is so spot on!!

Standards in this country are being eroded slowly but surely. More and more people are willing to accept 98% when they want 100% and before you know it standards start to noticeably slide.

As the make up of society is altered through imigration, so what it means to be British will change. What used to be a standard reaction/response, no longer becomes "standard". Society has allowed things to slide.

If people believe in something, then give the shop feedback. Request that someone acknowledges that standards are sliding. It seems the only thing we have retained as Brits is our desire not to make a fuss, to not complain when we are not happy with something.

If you are prepared to accept something then accept it, if you are not prepared to accept it then take some action. However, don't accpet the spotty kid serving you to understand your beef!!

[bogeyman]

prole

Did you actually contribute anything other than snide little spelling and grammar corrections?

Please feel free to repond with some smug little bon mot as usual.