The grumpy thread

[Tamworthbay]

I love it when work tries to take the piss, a new policy doc magically appears that makes me responsible for H&S for an entire different section with a lot of high risk stuff and shit loads of paperwork. When annoys me is that they try and bullshit when they got caught out saying it’s been like that for ages and that I agreed it. So just waiting for them to supply me the signed copy or the email where I agreed it. Looking forward to what bullshit they will come up with now, Twats.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Things like this and listening to the stuff my wife and kids complain about makes me glad I haven't had a job for the last 27 years. The occaisional wobble about not having enough money after a quiet month or minor jealousy about holiday pay is nothing compared to the stress having to make it through a day without twatting some cunt for behaving like this.

[Kiltox]

Sitting a certification renewal exam this morning that I’m not even slightly prepared for and if I fail will cost me a good few grand. Joy. 

[chaseracer]

<sending positive vibes>

[Lankytim]

Taking the wife for a check up, a brick pillar outside a neighbours house has been pushed over and round the corner a fuckton of waste has been flytipped, including a full pallet of glue or something. 

Folk who do this sort of stuff to the neighbourhood need to be put on a decommissioned ferry, towed to the middle of the Atlantic and torpedoed. 

And don’t get me started on dog fouling. 

[Cavcraft]

Yes, of course I'll deliver a fucking £10 hose free, it's only a 24 mile round trip.

[xtriple]

Just had a text from the vets, both dogs are due their boosters, they are also due their 3 monthly flea treatment and Phoebes pills. So there goes at least a couple of hundred quid, probably more  

[barefoot]

I wouldn't bother with the flea treatment until next spring/summer.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

I've been asked to tech a show at my (soon-to-be-old) job.  Snag for them is that I would have left by then.  Annoyingly, it's three days of show and a Sunday rehearsal the week before on top of a new full-time job.

I don't really want to do it but I can probably negotiate a good freelance rate.  I'm thinking £35 per hour.  So grumpy because I've now been asked and don't really want to - but entertained because I have them over a barrel...

[High Jetter]

Not sure what level of tech is involved (sound? light?) but do you know the going freelance rate - is £35 is enough?

[Cavcraft]

1 hour ago, barefoot said:

I wouldn't bother with the flea treatment until next spring/summer.

Or the dogs.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

33 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Not sure what level of tech is involved (sound? light?) but do you know the going freelance rate - is £35 is enough?

Sound.  I've been looking at a couple of Unions (MU and BECTU).  Neither of them fit exactly with what I'm doing but the MU musician hourly rate is £41.50.  I do some side work in my current job for £30 - which is roughly the old MU rate for peripatetic music teachers (it's a bit more now).  £35 is around what I was thinking, plus travel.  Which gets me to quite a nice, round number.

The last freelance gig I did I was DSM at a theatre (dance show) and got paid £500 for four shows and a rehearsal.  That was slightly under but I didn't mind because I knew them and was a student at the dance school.  I'm leaving my current employer partly because of their low pay rate, so I think I'll quote them £35 an hour.  And that's being nice.  Depending on how they approach me, I might decide to charge the full MU rate.  I don't really care if I do it or not...

[Aston Martin]

Manchester is underwater and traffics fucked.

[Saabnut]

19 minutes ago, Aston Martin said:

Manchester has  been improved but the traffics still fucked.

FTFY

[Aston Martin]

18 minutes ago, Saabnut said:

FTFY

I'm in Bredbury and leaving in about 15.

Even if I go through Oldham, I'm fucked.

[barefoot]

BALLS - I've just realised that the MOT ran out on the Scirocco 6 days ago. Not the end of the world, but I've not done that for as long as I can remember.

[somewhatfoolish]

4 hours ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

I've been asked to tech a show at my (soon-to-be-old) job.  Snag for them is that I would have left by then.  Annoyingly, it's three days of show and a Sunday rehearsal the week before on top of a new full-time job.

I don't really want to do it but I can probably negotiate a good freelance rate.  I'm thinking £35 per hour.  So grumpy because I've now been asked and don't really want to - but entertained because I have them over a barrel...

They're pricks, you're doing them a favour, it's not your problem any more and you'd rather be somewhere else; £50/hr at least.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Entirely depends on how they ask me, I think...

[HH-R]

Not had that fucking Jazz a month yet and the bastard exhaust has snapped. £270 FFS. Every month there's some unexpected shit to pay for, isn't there? Makes you wonder what the fucking point is sometimes.

 

[nomiST]

52 minutes ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

Entirely depends on how they ask me, I think...

Please don't undervalue yourself. 

 

I don't often post but my hourly rate has gone from £45 to £75 and I can count on the finger of no hands how many customers have said "sorry, too much" .

 

You're doing them a favour... not the other way around.

[Lord Sterling]

On 9/26/2019 at 8:04 PM, Tamworthbay said:

I love it when work tries to take the piss, a new policy doc magically appears that makes me responsible for H&S for an entire different section with a lot of high risk stuff and shit loads of paperwork. When annoys me is that they try and bullshit when they got caught out saying it’s been like that for ages and that I agreed it. So just waiting for them to supply me the signed copy or the email where I agreed it. Looking forward to what bullshit they will come up with now, Twats.

This. This has happened to me before. When I was hack in my old job, I got an email stating that I hadn't had completed a job that was never listed the previous day.  I argued the toss with the office manager for a few hours. Then they had a meeting with the owner and my manager. There was talk of asking me to leave that day and terminate my contract but my manager managed to save my job.

Glad I'm outta there.  Office work seems to just get more and more toxic. Even way back when when my Gran started an office job it was pretty shit then.

[SiC]

Got to go into work tomorrow as we're up against a hard deadline and stuff needs to be done. Fixed salary so I won't be getting any more dosh.

Glad it's payday today. Reminds me why I do this shit. 

[New POD]

3 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said:

They're pricks, you're doing them a favour, it's not your problem any more and you'd rather be somewhere else; £50/hr at least.

What would it cost them if he said no? 

There's a reason why occasionally hourly rates go through the roof in engineering.

Penalty clauses for not hitting a deadline. 

 

[Kiltox]

13 hours ago, Kiltox said:

Sitting a certification renewal exam this morning that I’m not even slightly prepared for and if I fail will cost me a good few grand. Joy. 

Passed this no bother and to restore the balance karma has rewarded me with a leaking toilet in my nearly new home. Loving life. 

[loserone]

3 minutes ago, Kiltox said:

Passed this no bother and to restore the balance karma has rewarded me with a leaking toilet in my nearly new home. Loving life. 

Previewing this post before opening the thread, came here hoping not to see stools.

 

 

Good work.  What cert?

[Kiltox]

Splunk Certified Admin - they’ve hopped on the Cisco-esque recertification gravy train. 

[dollywobbler]

On 9/25/2019 at 6:31 PM, vulgalour said:

Has the engine shop called me to say the Princess head job is done today like they promised on Monday?  Have they?  Of course they haven't.  This either means getting an early call tomorrow saying it's done and apologies for the delay (unlikely), or I'll turn up and they'll try and get more time out of me to complete the job.  I think two months is plenty of time to insert a pipe into a hole, I begin to think I would've been better off trying to do it myself at this point.

Oh, and the BX is letting water in on the passenger side somewhere that isn't the windscreen, it seems to be coming through the passenger door somehow, I just can't figure out how.  The recent downpour highlighted the issue, not a serious one, but still annoying.  I hate water ingress, it's always a palaver to locate.

Bit late here, but door seals are a favourite leak point on BXs, and not always the one next to where the puddle is...

[loserone]

Could be worse, I've paid ISC (2) $385 this year and they want another 85..

[Kiltox]

Ah yeah it’s the biggest thing putting me off bothering with CISSP - they’re robbing bastards. 
 

Splunk make their training courses pre-requisite for exams though - if I’d failed today I would’ve had to resit a few training courses at a grand each!  Shouldn’t need to going forward but because it was certifying using the new exam process for the first time you only had until Oct 1 to pass. 

[vulgalour]

32 minutes ago, dollywobbler said:

Bit late here, but door seals are a favourite leak point on BXs, and not always the one next to where the puddle is...

Funny you should say that because we think we found the leak earlier today. It looks like the passenger door seal is letting water in right on the a pillar to sill seam and the water is then going under the carpet and sitting right in the middle of the footwell.  It's not a lot, it only happens when its absolutely chucking it down, and checking in the car while it's raining has shown it's not coming through the windscreen or anything daft like that.  I'll pull off the seal, inspect, and reseat, see if that improves matters.  The driver's door seal is often wet around the top when it's been chucking it down but doesn't seem to let any water actually into the car, though that might explain the window on that door fogging up as fast as it does sometimes.  Old car nonsense, nothing cracking a window open can't solve most of the time.