Let’s get the Terms & Conditions fascists
Thursday 26th August 2010, 6:36AM BST.
Peter Rhodes writes: In the online debate about nurse Gill Bowie, who was asked to pay £730 by Flybe to fly a suitcase from Jersey to Scotland, one little dictator (anonymous, as always) thunders: ” Read the guidelines before you fly. Fed up with people whining about budget airlines when the terms and conditions are there in black and white.”
Oh, your time will come, sonny. Come the revolution, we will have to devise an exquisitely painful punishment for the “terms and conditions” fascists.
I am sure you have encountered them. They are the wage-slaves who wrap themselves so closely in their company’s viperish ethics that they lose all sense of common humanity and become little more than buffers to deflect criticism.
The moment you complain, they begin a triumphant chorus of “Did you read the terms and conditions?” knowing full well that no-one ever does.
So let me spell it out. The terms and conditions for the revolution are that anyone who has ever demanded of a fellow citizen: “Did you read the terms and conditions?” will be chucked on a very large bonfire made of millions of terms and conditions.
And if they complain as the flames lick about their nethers, the rest of us will gleefully chant: “Did you read the terms and conditions?”
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Unless your tongue is firmly in your cheek, that is one idiotic statement Peter. Whilst you may not like terms and conditions and you may stand on your soap box shouting “nobody ever reads the terms and conditions” you seem to forget that if nothing in life had terms and conditions there would be anarchy! Terms and conditions, rules, guidelines call them what you will, they are there for a reason – to stop people taking advantage! And before you say that some terms and conditions allow the person imposing them to take advantage I would add that (a) that is unfortunately too often true and (b) that is the reason why legislation exists to prevent unfair terms. Now, stop going for easy points scoring and identify some unfair terms and conditions which you have a problem with rather than tar them all with the same brush.
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Fight Back! “Terms and Conditions” is a game two can play.
All passengers should apply their OWN “Terms and Conditions” to every ticket purchase they make. Maybe we could set up a standard pro-passenger set of Passenger Terms and Conditions which could be downloaded from the internet.
Every passenger should then demanded that rhat Flybe abide by the Passenger Terms and Conditions when a ticket it purchesed.
If Flybe won’t play ball then Flybe won’t sell the ticket – any ticket – and they’d be bust within a week.
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Hooray Richard! Great idea! Another British firm bust with the loss of jobs and the misery for passengers who have spent money booking holidays with them! Any more bright ideas?
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Fascism
an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization
(in general use) extreme right-wing, authoritarian, or intolerant views or practices
Still, you can’t say anything these days can you?
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