Grr and argh.
The people who make government websites generally tend to do a halfway decent job of meeting the spec, but they really really need to learn to push back when the spec is FUCKING STUPID.
Having just completed my "Annual Filing" with Companies House - and why is that even a thing, we're not posting fucking vellum to Victorian clerks who scurry up ladders to deposit the sacred paperwork in the appropriate filing cabinet any more - I got a new scary email
Well, that looks important I thought. Better get on that right away, I thought. Luckily my brother and I have already verified our identities, because we had to do it as Directors, and as the PSCs and the Directors ARE THE SAME PEOPLE I can just enter out personal codes and everything will be easy.
But no. For some fucking reason I have to wait for a strictly limited 14 day window AROUND EACH OF OUR BIRTHDAYS before typing in the code that they already have.
@jribbens I've just been through that with the Web Filing - had to pay twice, and they raised the price from £34 to £50 in between the first go and the second go like fucking Ryanair jacking up the prices of a flight you've looked at once before, they assure me that the £50 will be refunded "automatically" but I'll believe that when I see it - so I am fully expecting it to fail.
I seriously don't understand why I can't make a start on it now.
Ben Curthoys
Jon Ribbens