What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[MrDuke]

My job. Yes it really is utterly and totally shit, but sometimes it does make me quite happy.

 

We're allowed up to 5 days per year classed as "carer's leave" on full pay, solely for, well, looking after family members with severe illness. I'd already used up nearly 4 days by the beginning of last week, ferrying Mrs_Duke to and from hospital at very short notice, sitting with her while the doctors talked bollocks & wound her up, stopping her punching them etc etc.

I was on the point of taking a week off with stress, being physically unable to talk politely to stroppy public on the phone, or even concentrate on the paperwork for 8 hrs at a stretch, but my line manager suggested I try working half-days, from 10-2, which I've been doing for a week.

When he called me into the office on Friday for an update, I asked him how much annual leave I needed to take to make up all the time - to which he replied that as far as he was concerned, I'd just worked a 40-hr week. No questions asked

It also appears that he's been personally taking over huge chunks of my workload in my absence & taking most of the crap from other depts whose demands haven't been met in time. He hasn't been offered any cover for my post by his superiors, nor will he get any cover, at all, when I have to take 2+ weeks off for Mrs_Duke's op early next month (all ur public sector budgetzz r gon etc).

 

The strangest thing about the situation is, no-one else has a nice word to say about him. When I moved to his office a year ago, I genuinely believed him to be a total cnut based on everything that I'd heard, even from 'reliable' sources. Nowt as queer as folk....

[chaseracer]

...my line manager suggested I try working half-days, from 10-2, which I've been doing for a week.

When he called me into the office on Friday for an update, I asked him how much annual leave I needed to take to make up all the time - to which he replied that as far as he was concerned, I'd just worked a 40-hr week. No questions asked

It also appears that he's been personally taking over huge chunks of my workload in my absence & taking most of the crap from other depts whose demands haven't been met in time...

This helps to restore your faith in human nature, doesn't it?

[Cavcraft]

For some obscure reason (medication?) I actually quite like this in a 'laughing with it and at it' way...

 

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... =2&afsrc=1

[autofive]

For some obscure reason (medication?) I actually quite like this in a 'laughing with it and at it' way...

 

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... =2&afsrc=1

thats hideous - much prefer John Dodd's fake roller

 

[Mr Lobster]

Telling my boss my thoughts and then handing in my notice this morning. I am now on 'gardening leave'.

 

Grinning like a Cheshire cat now

 

Does mean that I'm going to be fully self employed from now on though

[Station]

[Angrydicky]

I have just put down a deposit on some fantastic, BEIGE shite to replace the 2CV, all being well it should be delivered here on Thursday

[Alexg]

excellent, I can imagine him beating the shit out of you... then patching you up

[dollywobbler]

I have just put down a deposit on some fantastic, BEIGE shite to replace the 2CV, all being well it should be delivered here on Thursday

Would this be Maestro shaped by any chance? They aren't as much fun in the bends as a Tin Snail, but hopefully the insurance situation will sort itself out!

[Angrydicky]

I have just put down a deposit on some fantastic, BEIGE shite to replace the 2CV, all being well it should be delivered here on Thursday

Would this be Maestro shaped by any chance? They aren't as much fun in the bends as a Tin Snail, but hopefully the insurance situation will sort itself out!

Yup, you guessed it! I have managed to negotiate a very reasonable settlement for the 2CV from the insurance company. Sadly I just think it needs too much work for me to put it back on the road, so it will be going on Ebay soon

 

Although it will probably end up being broken for spares, it would be great for it to be restored, as it really was spot on mechanically and very nippy before the accident.

[Guest]

[Station]

Is this the same cafeteria you acquired the squits from?

 

Was driving from Betws-y-Coed to Wrexham today, trying to find a single petrol station. Seriously low on petrol, couldn't find one anywhere!

Went round a corner and the car cut out - I conveniently stopped next to the driveway of a large farmhouse type home. Christ, I thought, I haven't got a clue where a petrol station is, I haven't got a petrol can, and I've only got a card on me! Before I set off for the mystery petrol hunt, the presumed owner pulled into his driveway in one of these (don't know what it is):

 

 

and I then got the 'Excuse me excuse me'. He asked what the problem was, and I said I'd run out of petrol. He offered to drive me down to the nearest petrol station! As he was having a barbeque he went up to tell his wife, but came back with a can full of petrol which he put into my car, he wouldn't even take money for it, no matter how much I offered. I went to start the car, and the battery was dead! Argh. I must've looked like a complete idiot! So he ran up to the house again, and him and his son gave me a push. Awesome!

I've stopped many times for soft buggers walking with petrol cans, and I believe this is some sort of karma returning.

[Minimad5]

Fantastic story Dave.

 

What makes me grin is the effort some guy has gone to, to make this CLICK HERE

[vicsmith]

Those Blueberry Muffins look like a good deal at first, but they also don`t look very big. Are they selling mini-muffins at 25p a pop, and thinking they`re doing folk a big massive favour by doing that?

[ashmicro]

Fantastic story Dave.

 

What makes me grin is the effort some guy has gone to, to make this CLICK HERE

Didn't make me grin - it made me gasp! Awesome work, very clever.

[Tayne]

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[Parky]

Cleared my garage out and fitted some shelves from Ikea. Bought two sizes, three large and one small and I noticed when I got home that the girl on the till scanned the small one four times as she thought I had four shelf kits the same! Cheers love, thats saved me thirty quid!

[brammy777]

Well, Ive started driving lessons again and somehow they are actually going really well. I have to admit, the Fiesta is a brilliant car, miles ahead of the Mini I was learning in previously.

Also, last Friday, we had to move the college Nova, so three of us got in and someone bump started it and we did four laps of the college in a rusty 20 year old Nova, it was brilliant.

[Parky]

Good stuff Brammy, I remember learning to drive in my Dads Renault 12 over local industrial estates on Sunday mornings. That was followed up with mates letting me have a go after they'd passed their tests.

 

Ah, happy memories of kangarooing Chevettes around school playgrounds Like you say, brilliant stuff!

[Guest]

Those Blueberry Muffins look like a good deal at first, but they also don`t look very big. Are they selling mini-muffins at 25p a pop, and thinking they`re doing folk a big massive favour by doing that?

Have a look at the spelling on the sign...

They're not mini muffins. They're so briliant (sic) that the Superlative Department got their spelling wrong....

[Station]

I can't stop drinking fluids, and I bought two cans of these today:

 

 

And they're flipping amazing.

[Guest]

Rubicon is absolutely amazing, a proper "old skool" pop where you feel like you're taking whole years off your life when you drink it down. Check out the carton-based non-fizzy efforts too, the watermelon one is possibly the best Ribena-esque drink ever made.

[Minimad5]

I purchased afew of those Rubicon drinks whilst on a date the other day, Guava flavour ... interesting taste to say the least.

(Buy them from Asda nice and cheap )

[autofive]

I can't stop drinking fluids, and I bought two cans of these today:

 

 

And they're flipping amazing.

mmmm, i ll have try that tomorrow

[warren t claim]

I purchased afew of those Rubicon drinks whilst on a date the other day, Guava flavour ... interesting taste to say the least.

(Buy them from Asda nice and cheap )

When she asked you to take her for a drink that is probably not what she had in mind!

[Mr H Sceptre]

I can't stop drinking fluids, and I bought two cans of these today:

 

 

And they're flipping amazing.

Passion fruit Rubicon is the dog's bollocks.

[Minimad5]

When she asked you to take her for a drink that is probably not what she had in mind!

no complaints were filed , i call that a success.

 

Back to this "what makes you grin" business ...

 

My photography skills, took a number of good pictures yesterday.

Small things amuse small minds

[mouseflakes]

Check out the carton-based non-fizzy efforts too

Rubicon Guanabana drink is tops! Hard to find it though, suggesting I might be in the minority on this.

[Richard]

I can't stop drinking fluids, and I bought two cans of these today:

 

 

And they're flipping amazing.

I've never seen that. Can't be much good if it contains real fruit juice. Fizzy pop should be 100% mineral, unadulterated by animal or vegetable.

[Mr Lobster]

Don't want to turn on Milford on everyone, but do we really need to see a can of Rubicon four times on one page

 

What makes me grin though - long distance drives on relatively quiet roads early in the morning when the sun is out. Left home very early this morning and did Burnley-London-Milton Keynes-Derby-Burnley andrather enjoyed at least the first part.