i'm hormonal and pissed off

[Fetlock]

not the best of time for either of the following to have happened to me, would you be a bit miffed if:
bought dd something to eat having checked the allergy label (no egg mentioned in allergy section). bored in lg queue in supermarket so read list of ingredients and discovered that egg was an ingredient but left off allergy section. phoned food company (large household food brand name) to tell them as someone could be seriously ill, or worse and they as a company too would have serious repercussions. they didn't thank me for bringing it to their attention, barely anyway, although they sent me an email telling me how they had cleared the stock from supermarket shelves across the country and relabelled the packaging all on the back of my telling them of their mistake (all i would have liked was a bit of appreciation, as some other person may have milked the situation to their interests)

also, bought something on ebay, they sent me two instead of one (large item), again i did the right thing and called them (nightmare to get through) to tell them of their mistake (i could have kept the bloody item). instead of saying thanks for your honesty they start lecturing me about making sure i packaged it up properly for their courier and that their bloody courier cannot give an eta so i have to stay in all bloody day waiting for them to collect it, i am really pissed off

Hey we all have bad days! don't let it get you down. Well done on the allergy label issue :)
All egg-allergy sufferers reading this will be thanking you!

ah fetlock I LOVE you thankyou thankyou thankyou so much for pointing it out to them. They are rubbish for not saying thankyou.

Ebay person is stupid too. so many people would have kept it.

Tell the eBay person to sod off, you will not waste your time waiting around.

hi chaps, thanks for responses. i sent the ebay seller a pissed off email telling them i had sealed the box that it had come in with the other item but that i wasn't 'stuffing it' (!) as i had nothing to stuff it with but that i was pissed off about having to wait in all bloody day blah blah. re allergy thing, dd up until recently could not have egg in any form at all, the last month she is able to oddly enough eat egg (only) as a cooked ingredient (yippee), previously to that she would have been SERIOUSLY ill had she of eaten this item. it was with this in mind that i called them (although i would have done anyway). i can't believe they left egg off the allergy section. it's just nice to be appreciated sometimes and in both instances it went flat. still feel good about the allergy thing though, funny to think they cleared shelves, had bulletins in supermarkets etc of recalled food etc all because of me! on a different thing, dd had a reaction this afternoon, first one in ages, no idea why as she ate nothing that she shouldn't have, possibly cross contamination but she had erticaria on arm and on neck and behind one ear, scary, good old piriton brought it down within two hours. sorry to waffle, i did say i was hormonal :)

As a DD with dairy and egg allergy... Thank you!!!!

Ebayer should be thanking you. Asking you to stay in all day is very unreasonable!

Egg is listed in the ingredients.. people are allergic to lots of things... so why should there be a specific warning for every separate ingredient.. just read the list.

What goes around comes around, OP... expect some nice karma!

I found a stripey sort of beetle in a paella from a well-known supermarket... not a word of thanks but after arguing that it was a cardamon pod (it wasn't), they quickly whipped all the remaining packets off the shelf.

OP thankyou

A friend of mine who was 14yo at the time, died of cardiac arrest after analphylatic shock. It was to a toffee yoghurt that had nut traces in and it didn't mention it on the label.

squeaky no ones suggesting every possible allergen be mentioned but egg is one of the well known and commen allergens. Just like nuts/ dairy.

mumbar - that is awful, about your friend. dd has nut allergy and up until she was 5/6 was allergic to all dairy and eggs (cooked and uncooked). we have been told that she now is allergic to 'only' peanuts and hazelnuts and that we should thus get 'all the other nuts down her as often as we can.....' yeah right, not a chance, packets rarely say which specific bloomin' nuts they (may) contain. awful for the mother/parents of your friend who died, with food allergies you just never know. dd ate something tonight that she had had last night and didn't have a reaction then but there was something different in it tonight, i hate it that her immune system is so hyper. (i know i am rambling on and this is not the allergy section).
squeaky - some products list loads of allergens but main ones are milk, eggs, wheat, gluten, soya, nuts although some people are allergic to ie celery, strawberries etc but as mumbar has said, they tend to list the common ones and certainly the ones that are more common is causing anaphalactic reactions such as dairy, eggs & nuts must always be listed in the allergy section,that is what the allergy section is for, a quick reference. some products have ingredients the list as long as your arm, it makes shopping take forever so the allgery section is great

Gotta love appreciation haven't you.

On Christmas Eve I was supposed to be meeting friends for drinks when I found a stray terrier wandering around the village. It was really snowy and bitterly cold so I couldn't leave the poor thing out on its own. Bought it back home and my dog hated it and then the lost dog proceeded to piss all over my house. So I put it in the back yard and made several phone calls trying to locate its owners. Eventually, after going to see a man in the village who knows everything about everyone and showing him the dog, I found who it belonged to. Due to all the ice and snow the place it came from was not accessible without a 4x4 so I had to trudge across snowy fields on foot in the pitch black with this sodding dog. Finally got there and put it in its kennel. Left a message with their neighbours to say what had happened.

Thought I might get some thanks for for efforts. But no, not a word. Some people are just arseholes, that's the sad truth.

igetmorelove - do you think perhaps they didn't get your message? always possible