Chris the Fish wrote:
Sussex wrote:
Not sure if this is a gripe, more of a 'what the f***?
Mrs is abroad and for Halloween wants to do the pumpkin thing in a country that doesn't do it. They celebrate some other thing at the same time.
So she goes on line to the food store and order 'one pumpkin'.
When her food arrives she unpacks it and sees what they have sent.
They sent a slice of pumpkin.

When I was a Catering Logistician in The Royal Navy, alongside in Portsmouth I ordered 28LB of fresh Strawberries amongst many other stores.
Next day the NAAFI lorry pitched up and I checked the stores against delivery notes.
I rejected the 30 Catering size tins of Gooseberries - I hadn't ordered them.
I rejected the fresh tomatoes - not in useable condition.
You get the idea.
I then rang the NAAFI to go through things, asked where the missing strawberries were. "They have a substitute" said the young lady. "Really" said I, "didn't see a substitute". The reply was "30 tins of Gooseberries". "You have to be joking" I said. "No, the Strawberries were substituted with tinned Gooseberries - they're both Berries" said she!

I worked for a catering supplies company and they ordered 60 x large tins of Nescafe
a bit later they realised the order quantity was "per tray" of 6 so reduced the order to 10
the truck arrives with......60 TRAYS..x 6 tins per tray....360 tins.
the paperwork said 10 trays...60 tins
so.....warehouse manager says take em back...driver says "its 5pm, the yard will be shut, its friday, my last shift as im off driving an army convoy to Bosnia, ill just chuck my keys and tacho in the drop box"
so we did the only decent thing we could do
bunged the driver £50 cash (out the warehouse pallets sold cash tin) and divided coffee up