Bloody M&S. I'm so pissed off with them. Again.
Yesterday I went and bought a pair of trousers from their smart Italian range. Today I had a really important pitch to a new local client. Unsurprisingly, as I wanted to look half-way competent, I put on the new strides.
It's important to me get this job. I need more clients locally so I can spend less time driving up and down the poxy A34, and more time working on the rent paying business.
And today was the first of these. A new concept for a new client who could, potentially, be a significant source of work and hence of income. Something that is in short supply at the moment.
So all in all an important pitch.
I was focused and concentrating hard. The meeting was going well. That'll be why I didn't realise that the crappy plastic zip in these trendy, relatively expensive M&S trousers had comprehensively failed. It's not that they're tight or anything. It's just (now I examine them closely) that the zip has been incompetently put in and the bottom lugs can't connect, so it does up, and then slowly unzips from below. Sneakily. Silently.
No wonder they were all laughing as I strode out after a good presentation and a good meeting. Please be advised, if you work in M&S in Oxford, try and take the next few days off. I know it's not your fault Ms/Mr Shop Assistant, but they are going back and I'm not a happy shopper. I need to rant. Duck, because its coming and its not pretty.
Button flies, every time
9 comments:
sounds like you proposed an impressive package there. Fnaaar
Good evening - the beep
all I might add is that "smart Italian collection" it may be in design, but that doesn't reflect the functional integrity of a zip
it's all in the detail - as you have now found to your cost; however, M&S it was and the returns policy is excellent
my mother taught me to examine each piece of clothing (before potential purchase) in minute detail for correct sewing on of buttons, good hem stitching, (sorry this is tedious I know), etc etc; thus I was never allowed to buy anything from 'fashion' shops as the quality wasn't good enough
these days I sometimes wonder if clothing items (from certain shops) are almost designed to fall apart, so we go back and buy new items each season (guilt free) (as some of us don't possess needle and thread or a mending basket*); sadly for you - on this occassion - that happened too soon
P&P (especially where clothing is concerned)
(*my mother even used to darn her stockings) (sorry, too tedious now for any more - - -
GSE. I wish! I think that may have been why everything was so jolly: at me, not with me.
P&P: I always mean to do exactly as your mother suggested. But I never do. Something to do with beng a male and totally disinterested. See it buy it wear it wash it chuck it.
Ooh kill!!
Have to say M&S are dreadfully good at returns. You'll have to be quick to get your rant in before you get your money back:)
hi
why would you bother washing something before you chucked it?
bye
word ver: phwoar fuz der (quite an apt description of your exit, by all accounts)
insert wear it wash it wear it until bored. then chuck it.
That'll learn ya for shopping at M&S for anything other than cake :)
aw, that's terrible. Hopefully you get some business out of it.
Yes I did thanks!(but not the kind that some people have hinted at) We're re-designing their website, which was the pitch, and it's our first! I suppose that might include some flash. But that's the only place: the boxers were securely fastened.
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