Pumpkin`s rant of the day: £49 to print a certificate

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So I should be starting with another agency. They need my qualification certificates. That's fair enough. Unfortunately, I don't have them. I believe they were either destroyed in a fire or lost in a move. Either way, I don't have them. Afterseveral attempts over the past 5 years to contact the college where I studied to ask how to go about getting replacements, they finally acknowledged my most recent request. They gave me information about whom to contact. I looked uo what I needed to look up. The cost of a replacement certificate is £49 for one of them, and something similar for the others. Apparently that's admin costs. While I may not know a great deal about admin or computers and such like, I am fairly confident that searching for, and printing a document which exists in their archives is not goingto cost £49. The ridiculous thing is that, becase I can't start work without the certificate, I am going to find it difficult to come up with the fee. But I need the certificate before I can begin work. It is a lot of money especially when there are multiple certificates. I'll have toget them one by one. Hopefully I can begin work once I have the main one, and get the others at a later date. Then I will keep them in a safe place (but not too safe, we all know that some of those safe places are actually black holes).