NDLS centres

frozenfrozen

I was in one in Limerick today. The only one in Limerick, mind you. It was like being somewhere in india.
The stacks of sheets to fill out were stacked on the floor in the corner.
There were three 'kiosks', and by that I mean three wooden partitions which black curtains around them.

Everyone had to line up by sitting on a seat going around the room, and every time someone went in, every single person had to move up one seat in the chain.
This included a very old woman who looked like she couldn't handle a single more move by the time she got to the top of the queue, only to be told she would have to come back in two weeks when she would be allowed to renew her license, because she had come too early.

It was comical and also extremely unfunny every time the woman working there came out to remind everyone to move up a seat.
She said "this is the only way we can keep everyone in order". I replied that I could think of a few better ways. She laughed, but I wasn't joking.

I'm a bit sour now as after following the instructions to the button which are on their mobile app, which most definitely cost a ****ing fortune to have developed, I still hadn't brought the unmentioned eyesight test, despite filling out the section on the page which stated that I didn't need glasses, for which reason I'm not quite sure, if they're going to need an eyesight test anyway.

I've been told I can go back and skip the two hour long queue. Which in turn will cause there to be a two hour long queue for someone else, just because they choose to run the place in such a farcical way.

On top of that it will take 6 weeks for them to post the license once I've gone through all that again... What's the point of these places again? It's someone transcribing my info onto a word document, letting me take my own picture at the kiosk, and then emailing it away for someone to actually process the license. A really effective method of pissing away money...

I'll have to go back to the place later to do it, as they're down to two of the three kiosks as one of them has gone off for lunch anyway... For an hour.

loada bollox

Fratton Fred

I was at the Leopardstown one the other day. Very nice people and all that, but the shuffling up one seat at a time was a bit comical.

It would be just as easy to use the local post office for what it is they do.

jimgoose

Fratton Fred wrote: »

...It would be just as easy to use the local post office for what it is they do.

...or even the perfectly decent network of driving license offices that was and indeed is in existence!

So they don't even have a ticketing system like the terrible motor tax offices of old? Sounds like progression :rolleyes:

Nemeses

I'll keep my pink piece of paper for the next 5 years so..

yeppydeppy

oh sweet jebus! Please tell me this can be done on-line? Mine is due to expire next year.

SparkySpitfire

The one in Wicklow town is exactly the same. Farcical indeed.

jimgoose

yeppydeppy wrote: »

oh sweet jebus! Please tell me this can be done on-line? Mine is due to expire next year.

Apparently you have to traipse in to them the first time to have your mugshot taken.

Fratton Fred

On the downside, a visit to the NDLS centre means I can no longer drive a 7.5 tonne lorry,
On the upside, I can now drive a tractor!

Oh how my life has changed.

MadsL

Gap in the market there for some enterprising soul.

MVD as characterised by the Simpsons is indeed hell on earth, so private express companies take the pain out of it.

http://www.mvdexpress.com/

Even offering a queueing by proxy service might help someone off the dole.

You're welcome, just send me 1% of the profits when you are a millionaire.

zetalambda

that's limerick city

MadsL

zetalambda wrote: »

that's limerick city

Well spotted. Now for your bonus question "What country is Limerick in?"

The Diabolical Monocle

btw ndlc aka national drivers licencing centre iifc imho

Hootanany

I thought they were state of the art the Leo was banging on about them.

Nemeses

MadsL wrote: »

Well spotted. Now for your bonus question "What country is Limerick in?"

..Its not in the USA anyway........ :P

The Pheasant2

Not surprised - the RSA love nothing more than good 'ol bureaucracy and maximum inconvenience to everyone who has to deal with them.

Capt'n Midnight

MadsL wrote: »

Well spotted. Now for your bonus question "What country is Limerick in?"

Nemeses wrote: »

..Its not in the USA anyway........ :P

Montgomery County.


http://www.examiner.com/article/limerick-nuclear-power-plant-has-1143-metric-tons-of-uranium-spent-fuel-on-siteactually...

Limerick has 1,143 metric tons of uranium spent fuel on site. At Limerick, the waste is stored above the ground in pools and in casks. It is 20 feet above the groundwater, and it is on the Schuylkill River, which is 40 miles from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. That is where we currently store high-level nuclear waste.”

This, of course is a huge problem because Limerick was never designed for long term disposal of nuclear waste.

131spanner

My bit of pink paper is valid til October 2021, hopefully I wont lose her in the meantime :pac:

Nemeses

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Montgomery County.


http://www.examiner.com/article/limerick-nuclear-power-plant-has-1143-metric-tons-of-uranium-spent-fuel-on-siteactually...

Link now dead

westcoast66

Feckin system is a joke. I went down to the centre in Wicklow to get an application form for a trailer licence. Apparantly since I never did a car theory test, I have to do one before I do the trailer test. What happens if I fail it? Well I can still keep my car licence.

Stavros Murphy

They fecked up big time there - they could have had a big slide and everyone could slide down it forming an orderly "queue" in the slide-tube. Then the first person coming out of the slide could be photographed, fingerprinted and tested for theories. A stout bar could retain the rest of the queueees. By angling the slide, they could optimize "pop-out" speed and minimise pressure on the next person. Would make almost as much sense anyway.

Sir Arthur Daley

westcoast66 wrote: »

Feckin system is a joke. I went down to the centre in Wicklow to get an application form for a trailer licence. Apparantly since I never did a car theory test, I have to do one before I do the trailer test. What happens if I fail it? Well I can still keep my car licence.

You will.