The grumpy thread

[Sheefag]

Pissed off with local post office. Have filled in an online complaint form to lower my blood pressure but Still annoyed about it all. My only real power is to go to sunninghill po instead - nice people I've seen since 2001.

 

As an alternative to Sunninghill, Lightwater PO is run by nice people.

[meshking]

 

 

Not an excuse but I do feel sorry for the guys that do this type of work - 180 drops a day for pennies each. Horrible work.

Oh for sure, this is why I held off complaining to Amazon - their solution would probably be to let the guy go.

[Junkman]

Maybe I shouldn't put having Asperger's on my (shit; very little experience) CV.

 

Of course you shouldn't. It's nobody's business but yours.

[chaseracer]

Of course you shouldn't. It's nobody's business but yours.

 

Exactly.

 

Take it off your CV, Max - you're not required to declare it, and life chucks enough obstacles in your path without providing them yourself.

[Richard]

It would be useful if somebody who knows their stuff could vet Ghosty's CV, to make sure he's presenting himself in the best possible light. Is that in your area of expertise chaseracer?

[Tickman]

There's also the problem of not having a car - I've heard of a few things like railway jobs instantly binning people's applications because they ticked 'no' to 'Do you have your own transport/Do you own a car' etc.

But you do have your own transport, yes it is a bike but you could like many people have a car and cycle to work for keep fit reasons.

Plus if you got a job and needed a car then I doubt you would have too much difficulty getting sorted.

 

Regards the CV, I am quite good at phrasing things on such documentation where there is a good appearance and no miss truths!

[Richard]

I nearly had an interview terminated once because I said I would probably walk or cycle, even though I did have a car.

[cobblers]

Had a call from Autoworld (now part of the Stoneacre group) Chesterfield, it's only taken them a week to regas the aircon and replace exhaust rubbers and now want their demonstrator back asap.  Well after having to make three phone calls and wasting all day Saturday expecting a call back they can fucking wait until I'm ready to come for it.  So pissed off with the hairdressers 500 I took the Kreg auto panda to work instead.   Ahhh now that was nice to drive!

They're the feckers that arsed me about with my Abarth 500. Took them 5 return trips and nearly 6 months to get a brand new car "right".

They mean well and are pleasant enough but somehow just can't get stuff done.

[scruff]

Good luck Ghosty!

[MarvinsMom]

"Quote me happy" and their shit-bag website....

 

have just renewed the insurance for the Rover, and want to print off the Certificate thing, mainly for the breakdown should I ever need it.

 

everything is ion the website cos that is so much easier*. only I cannot for the life of me remember what the pass word was. I've tried the 3 or 4 common ones I use a lot, and it isn't one of them.

 

ok, i'll get them to reset it and start again.

 

so they send me an email with a link to reset the password

 

which takes me back to their website to reset the pass word,

 

which sends me an e-mail to reset the password,

 

which takes me back to their website to reset the pass word.....

 

and on and on and on in a loop....

 

fuckin' websites, fuckin' interwebs and fuckin' computers....

 

why oh why oh why can I not just friggin' speak to someone instead!!!!!!

[Supernaut]

"Quote me happy" and their shit-bag website....

 

have just renewed the insurance for the Rover, and want to print off the Certificate thing, mainly for the breakdown should I ever need it.

 

everything is ion the website cos that is so much easier*. only I cannot for the life of me remember what the pass word was. I've tried the 3 or 4 common ones I use a lot, and it isn't one of them.

 

ok, i'll get them to reset it and start again.

 

so they send me an email with a link to reset the password

 

which takes me back to their website to reset the pass word,

 

which sends me an e-mail to reset the password,

 

which takes me back to their website to reset the pass word.....

 

and on and on and on in a loop....

 

fuckin' websites, fuckin' interwebs and fuckin' computers....

 

why oh why oh why can I not just friggin' speak to someone instead!!!!!!

 

Have you tried opening the link in a different browser? I.e. I usually use Firefox but some links are shit and only work properly in Internet Explorer.

[anonymous user]

Ghosty, when my nephew was asked if he had transport at a job interview he just used to say yes. He did get offered a job that needed a car and was lucky enough to borrow his mother's car for the first month or so. I'm sure the combined might of autoshite could sort you something if you needed it in a hurry (and weren't too fussy)

[Kiltox]

Ghosty - how much would insurance be on the Colt of many shiters? F774 NDL

[chaseracer]

It would be useful if somebody who knows their stuff could vet Ghosty's CV, to make sure he's presenting himself in the best possible light. Is that in your area of expertise chaseracer?

 

Happy to take a look.

[beko1987]

I can run it past a lady in hr at my company I'm very pally with if you like Ghosty?

 

I don't do recruitment so I can't help, my CV is probably very shit

[chaseracer]

I can run it past a lady in hr at my company I'm very pally with if you like Ghosty?

 

That might well be the best bet.

[strangeangel]

My new phone arrived today (Lenovo) and it's going straight back

 

 

Good eh?

[dugong]

My new phone arrived today (Lenovo) and it's going straight back

 

 

Good eh?

No! Terrifying! Are you with EE? I've had better customer service falling head long into dogshit.

[Barry Cade]

Remember how Elvis famously shot his Pantera?

 

I've just seen someone punch his Liana...

 

Livin' the life in Methil.

[Kiltox]

My new phone arrived today (Lenovo) and it's going straight back

 

 

Good eh?

Lenovo? Not surprised in the slightest.

[Ghosty]

Thanks for the offers to look over my CV folks. I've not much of a clue about it aside from looking at a couple friends' and a CV writing seminar I went to about 2 years ago... 

I also realised I'd written a couple of contradictory things and I've since got rid of them. I'll have a look over it again tomorrow when I'm not knackered (I'll miss something, been ill all week, head and sleeping pattern are a mess) and PM it on. 

 

 

Kiltox: for some reason Gocompare is giving me £3000 quotes for the Colt at the moment. That's three Felicia estates, or two P6 V8s (hnnng).

[Cavcraft]

Honestly a whisker away from telling work to FRO, can't take anymore of their bollocks.

[Cavcraft]

I've just found something even more boring than Phil Collins records: listening to him being interviewed.

You'd have more fun listening to Nigel Mansell describing beige paint using 15,000 words as you pulled your own teeth out with rusty fucking pliers.

[Supernaut]

I just managed to mortify myself with my sheer stupidity today.

 

 

Basically, at my work, if we have a faulty component we log a call with HP, who send out a new part. We then send the old part back in the same box, as they supply the return shipping label. This process only takes a couple of days. I've had a case open for a couple of weeks where I was convinced I hadn't received the new part. I just happened to notice a box on the floor down the end of my desk this morning... Yep, that's the replacement part that arrived back on the 6th of October. EPIC facepalm and an apologetic email to HP later, and it's now waiting to be collected by the courier.

 

BELM.

[Kiltox]

Thanks for the offers to look over my CV folks. I've not much of a clue about it aside from looking at a couple friends' and a CV writing seminar I went to about 2 years ago...

I also realised I'd written a couple of contradictory things and I've since got rid of them. I'll have a look over it again tomorrow when I'm not knackered (I'll miss something, been ill all week, head and sleeping pattern are a mess) and PM it on.

 

 

Kiltox: for some reason Gocompare is giving me £3000 quotes for the Colt at the moment. That's three Felicia estates, or two P6 V8s (hnnng).

Gutted - it's pretty surplus to my requirements so I thought we would've been able to get you on the road cheaply

[reb]

Could this be any more bloody useless? A heads up on why you couldn't quote maybe? If it's the fact I'm 20, fine, but if it's something else I can change, it'd be really useful to know.

[320touring]

If its for the polo, would it mibbe be better looking at short term insurance (say up to 28 days?)

[LC Torana]

I've just found something even more boring than Phil Collins records:

[Richard]

If its for the polo, would it mibbe be better looking at short term insurance (say up to 28 days?)

I think it's going to take a bit longer than that.

[reb]

If its for the polo, would it mibbe be better looking at short term insurance (say up to 28 days?)

My half-formed plan was change the insurance over to the polo again, then get classic insurance for the 205. Possibly not really going to work, I'll have to do it the old fashioned way with telephones and whatnot I think.

 

Are Adrian Flux the good ones or the crap ones?