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[Noor]

It is perhaps the single most frustrating aspect of living here. Having to call again and again to get a simple problem sorted out, and each time having to deal with a different person and explain the problem again from the beginning.

The most suitable coping strategy seems to be reduced expectation.

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[helenl]

Or you could just do what they seem to want - give up!

[Noor]

An expectation beyond which reduction is impossible.

[D. Merit]

If there is one thing I've learned in the last four years it's that any kind of communication that isn't 'in their face' communication might as well be smoke signals.