The grumpy thread

[Negative Creep]

Job agencies - at about 5pm today I get a call out of the blue asking me to do a midnight to 9am shift in a warehouse. For some reason they didn't see the explanation that a previous back injury makes heavy lifting difficult, I've never done a night or warehouse shift in my life and that I'd been up since 7am so it would be utterly impossible to stay awake that long, let alone work and drive home afterwards as valid, just getting shirty about how they'll find someone else instead. Good luck with that.  

[Supernaut]

Job agencies - at about 5pm today I get a call out of the blue asking me to do a midnight to 9am shift in a warehouse. For some reason they didn't see the explanation that a previous back injury makes heavy lifting difficult, I've never done a night or warehouse shift in my life and that I'd been up since 7am so it would be utterly impossible to stay awake that long, let alone work and drive home afterwards as valid, just getting shirty about how they'll find someone else instead. Good luck with that.

I once got a call from a job agency asking me if I could do a nightshift that night, driving a forklift.

 

I was on the train back from Glasgow after a day spent down there, and 3 pints, so I had to explain that to them and decline.

[alcyonecorporation]

That's OK, I'm not stopping

 

[robinmasters]

£5.55 is the OCD price

 

The decimal point isn't in the middle. I'd have offered 05.50.

[Lord Sterling]

"Dead ended"? I used to get that. Reject a job to Scotland or somewhere because there ins't a return car to get back. 5 mins later I get a call back "we've got a return job! Drive up and we'll text you the details" Of course, this return job never existed and I get the "sorry, job cancelled" text when i'm half way there.

Well, the way my company seem to work is, they like to keep you away from home as much as possible because of "mileage" and the "the nature of the job" is there is excuse. Of course it's complete horseshit as other outfits seem to be able to direct thier drivers homeward at the end of the day, yet this lot don't. However, we do get paid a whats called a "night out fee" on top of the job pay which is around £42 which is probably why we get paid more than your average BCA/IT Fleet plater/driver and do a bit less than they do.

 

We usually know what job we've got before we deliver a car otherwise a driver will hold a car until he gets another job so the office need to provide us with a job. We used to get a whole days worth of jobs to our PDAs so we could sit and work out roughly how long it'll take to get to the next job etc... but somehow since an office reorganisation, jobs have been coming in dribs and drabs, we still usually know what we have before we finish our current job,

 

The problem I'm finding is its becoming ever more difficult to keep up with this job in having free money to spend on hotels/hostels, plus keeping up with own bills and keeping Mrs_Sterling where she is until I can bring her over. I did try another plating outfit but they turned out to be a buch of lying cunts, paying pittance and keeping you out sometimes until gone 11pm.

 

I think the office like to try and play you sometimes. I rejected a job to Norwich on Monday and explained I didn't want to go there because of high prices for accommodation, but I still ended up there hoping for a car outwards which didn't happen because the last job they got me wasn't ready until this morning at Saxmundham.

 

I usually "smudge" the pictures for the mileage, add on a 100 or so miles and go home because it's cheaper to stick an extra £5/£10 in the vehicle (as you only get an allocated fuel allowance) do a bit of extra mileage, go home and sleep in your own bed, eat your own food, check bills and out rubbish out rather than spending £30 to £40 on a room, spending another £5/£10 on food on top of spending out on bus/train fares to travel to another job.

 

I need to find something that pays about as much as I'm getting without spending out what I'm spending. A taxi driving mate of mine suggested working for Uber, another mate suggested another plating firm, but I'll be checking out both of these with a fine tooth comb before I make a decision. I'll also take a sabbatical to try out these jobs so in case they don't work out, I've got something to walk back into.

[M'coli]

More to the point Ghosty, why on earth are you paying to use a train when you could be cruising to your destination in comfort in a motor car?!

Drink?

[Eddie Honda]

Feck

[Mr A Lawrence]

Ah go on go on go on go on go on

[captain_70s]

I once got a call from a job agency asking me if I could do a nightshift that night, driving a forklift.

 

I was on the train back from Glasgow after a day spent down there, and 3 pints, so I had to explain that to them and decline.

I once got a call asking me to come in to work the back shift while I was on site having already been phoned in to work the early shift...

 

I'm on a 0 hour contract so never turn down a shift as you can never tell how much work you'll get, but a 17 hour shift would have been a bit much!

[Cavcraft]

Well, the way my company seem to work is, they like to keep you away from home as much as possible because of "mileage" and the "the nature of the job" is there is excuse. Of course it's complete horseshit as other outfits seem to be able to direct thier drivers homeward at the end of the day, yet this lot don't. However, we do get paid a whats called a "night out fee" on top of the job pay which is around £42 which is probably why we get paid more than your average BCA/IT Fleet plater/driver and do a bit less than they do.

 

We usually know what job we've got before we deliver a car otherwise a driver will hold a car until he gets another job so the office need to provide us with a job. We used to get a whole days worth of jobs to our PDAs so we could sit and work out roughly how long it'll take to get to the next job etc... but somehow since an office reorganisation, jobs have been coming in dribs and drabs, we still usually know what we have before we finish our current job,

 

The problem I'm finding is its becoming ever more difficult to keep up with this job in having free money to spend on hotels/hostels, plus keeping up with own bills and keeping Mrs_Sterling where she is until I can bring her over. I did try another plating outfit but they turned out to be a buch of lying cunts, paying pittance and keeping you out sometimes until gone 11pm.

 

I think the office like to try and play you sometimes. I rejected a job to Norwich on Monday and explained I didn't want to go there because of high prices for accommodation, but I still ended up there hoping for a car outwards which didn't happen because the last job they got me wasn't ready until this morning at Saxmundham.

 

I usually "smudge" the pictures for the mileage, add on a 100 or so miles and go home because it's cheaper to stick an extra £5/£10 in the vehicle (as you only get an allocated fuel allowance) do a bit of extra mileage, go home and sleep in your own bed, eat your own food, check bills and out rubbish out rather than spending £30 to £40 on a room, spending another £5/£10 on food on top of spending out on bus/train fares to travel to another job.

 

I need to find something that pays about as much as I'm getting without spending out what I'm spending. A taxi driving mate of mine suggested working for Uber, another mate suggested another plating firm, but I'll be checking out both of these with a fine tooth comb before I make a decision. I'll also take a sabbatical to try out these jobs so in case they don't work out, I've got something to walk back into.

 

It's a crying shame you have to put up with all this crap, Mo. Sadly, there's sod all doing at my place or I'd try and get you in there.

[Lord Sterling]

Cheers Billy! It's all good fun but hey ho, I just take it on the chin and get on with it. My long term plan is to either qualify to teach English as a foreign language or failing that try and get in to being a driving instructor. For now because of the Mrs_Sterling situation I've just got to take what pays well. My plating job wasn't doing too badly but recently wages have dropped to the floor and I'm seriously struggling so looking out for something else to pay me well that doesn't force me to spend half of what I earn on trains/busses/hotels and other stuff.

[The Moog]

LS if you want to do TEFL you can do the courses online often they are mega cheap through Groupon.

[Captain Furious]

When did talking into your phone like a normal human being get replaced by the apprentice method?  (Incase you're not an apprentice viewer its where you have it on loudspeaker and hold it perpendicular to your mouth speaking into the bottom of it)

 

Everyone I see is doing it, why?  Stop it.

[Lankytim]

There's a van driving job going at our place in Stoke, LS. It's piss easy, about 12hrs a day.

[Cavcraft]

When did talking into your phone like a normal human being get replaced by the apprentice method?  (Incase you're not an apprentice viewer its where you have it on loudspeaker and hold it perpendicular to your mouth speaking into the bottom of it)

 

Everyone I see is doing it, why?  Stop it.

 

That's been my pet hate for a few years now. I don't want to hear what these w*nk*rs are saying, let alone their stupid friends. Put the 'phone to your ear and stop being a twat.  

[Kiltox]

National Express customer service emailed me today

 

"After contacting the depot and staff at Victoria unfortunately your wallet has not been found"

 

Yet the coach company have it at their depot and have confirmed to me!

[Des]

When did talking into your phone like a normal human being get replaced by the apprentice method?  (Incase you're not an apprentice viewer its where you have it on loudspeaker and hold it perpendicular to your mouth speaking into the bottom of it)

 

Everyone I see is doing it, why?  Stop it.

Thanks, I have wondered from where that had spawned.

[DeeJay]

National Express customer service emailed me today

 

"After contacting the depot and staff at Victoria unfortunately your wallet has not been found"

 

Yet the coach company have it at their depot and have confirmed to me!

 

 

Covering their arses just in case the finder was a thieving get?

[Richard]

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[Eddie Honda]

John Craven could use a phone like a normal person 40 years ago but apparently it's no longer possible.

So could Archie MacPherson

 

 

https://youtu.be/J22K13OJeKs?t=3m5s

 

(and you can just about hear the other side of the conversation too)

[DeeJay]

 

 

 

Catweasel, versatile.

 

[Eddie Honda]

Michael Rodd struggling with this mobile though even though he holds it correctly.

 

[FakeConcern]

Just found out someone I knew, liked and respected was killed recently.

 

http://www.bexhillobserver.net/news/family-pay-tribute-to-extremely-caring-husband-and-father-1-8022050

[fordperv]

Fucked my leg up at work yesterday because of someones stupidity, i slipped on a plastic wrapper that was left on the floor where it shouldnt have been, into a chair which had its footplate left in the highest elevated position which it shouldnt have been, it shows the metalwork and trust me it's bloody sharp

 

[chaseracer]

Ouch...

 

Make sure the 'accident book' and any other relevant reports are completed.

[Lankytim]

My Hermes are trying to charge me £6.20 for a parcel I sent that was overweight. Like bollocks it was, bloody liars!

 

Last time this happened they delivered the item anyway and so the paypal invoice they sent me remains forever unpaid. Hopefully they'll just deliver this one, too. 

[UmBongo]

When did talking into your phone like a normal human being get replaced by the apprentice method?  (Incase you're not an apprentice viewer its where you have it on loudspeaker and hold it perpendicular to your mouth speaking into the bottom of it)

 

Everyone I see is doing it, why?  Stop it.

 

I do this at the mo because my ears are blocked up. It's the only way I can hear the convo.

[Cheggers]

So much for sleeping in...noisy fecker.

 

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[Eddie Honda]

So much for sleeping in...noisy fecker.

That's "the authorities" coming to getcha.

[Cheggers]

That's "the authorities" coming to getcha.

It's the Coastguard rescue helicopter. I didn't realise my bath was that full

 

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