Monday, April 10, 2006

Adventure of getting a travel quote

Applying for funding is an absolute pain in the butt. (More about that in my Lucifer's Cheesecake blog today. I'll update that later). Not only do I have to jump through hoops to defend my rights to have some funding to go to a conference, I also have to get some quotes for the travel, from the uni's preferred supplier.

Except I can't find just exactly WHO this "preferred supplier" is.

After bugging a friend who've applied for the fund before, I found out who they are, except no one knew the email address to send to to bug them. Their website didn't quite help either. So I've decided to call them up. (Which is quite something, considering I have an irrational fear towards using the phone.)

So I called them, and was on hold. (surprise)

After about 3 apology voice messages, I got to a human, who told me I just have to email a consultant. And finally got hold of a consultant's email address. I sent an email to them asking for a quote, and said that I need it by the end of the week, if possible.

Half an hour later, I got a reply. Here's the reply. Word for word:
Hello Lisa
Thank you for your email.
we will reply soonest possible

Thanks
name deleted

I'm giving up. *sigh*

3 comments:

Bird said...

What can I say, that is what happens when you want to get some money off other people, they avoid you lol~~

Lisa said...

Yeah but I'm not asking them for money though. In fact, if the funding goes through, they'll GET money from uni.

*sigh*

Bird said...

What? that is so retarded! Give me the form, I'll sign it and get the money then we'll grab Pete then go out for dinner!