The grumpy thread

[chaseracer]

Be unfortunate if this happened...

 

 

[DodgeRover]

It's a dead end road so I and everybody past me will be stuck

[chaseracer]

4x4+towrope.

[Cavcraft]

You rang 999 because there was a car blocking your drive? 

[omegod]

Brick through window, handbrake off, problem fucking solved 

[Guest Hooli]

4x4+towrope.

 

I once moved a car blocking a neighbours drive for them. Oddly enough leaving in the middle of a busy road at 3am meant it'd gone shortly afterwards...

[DodgeRover]

You rang 999 because there was a car blocking your drive?

Yes because I needed to get out to collect my kids

[fordperv]

4x4+towrope.

I was going to say the same thing

[Hertz]

Grump 1 need to go out to sort a job for tomorrow am start

 

Grump 2 silver car parked blocking driveway

 

Grump 3 3/4 of an hour on hold on 101, gave up and rang in on 999 as also need to pick up kids

 

Grump 4 no contact details for the owner and no resources to Hiab it.

 

Fuck sakes 6am start tomorrow got to ring in again and they'll Hiab it then if it's not gone

 

Edit kids sorted, there's no space to move it to on a jack either.

 

Is it a Panda?

 

[3VOM]

Every guide I've ever read on building bathrooms (& I read a few when restoring a cottage) says plasterboard in a bathroom should either be waterproof or tanked with waterproofing compound. You could get a leaflet from Wickes to prove this point, they don't have a leg to stand on.

If it is a shower they should be using cementitious board like Hardie board or Aquapanel. It sounds like they have done the job as cheap as possible.

The absolute minimum for just trimming around a bath would be sealant and using waterproof tile adhesive in a continuous layer.

 

As far as the law or court case, I think you have done all you could be expected to do before taking it to court.

[Bianconeri]

Does anyone in any of these offices actually know what the terms of the Data Protection Act are?  Or am I being naïve and people just use it as another excuse when they can't be arsed to do something?

Data Protection has long been the clarion call of the half-witted, the bone idle, the incompetant, the self-important, and custodians of corporate fuckwittery in the headlong race to mediocrity. Just ask which of the basic principles are being breached, no one can ever answer.

 

Best response is often that YOU are infringing MY rights under Data Protection by not telling me what I need to know so I am reporting YOU (personally) for a breach. It usually carries no weight but it will ruin their day and one self-appointed guardian of legislation they haven’t a clue about (but which saves them from doing what they are paid to do) who goes home thinking they might get fired has to be a good thing.

[robinmasters]

https://haynes.com/en-gb/ghostbusters-owners-workshop-manual

 

 

These things. They're not proper Haynes manuals. They don't actually explain how to diagnose faults with the warp drive in the starship enterprise, or how to change the regulator valve on the flying Scotsman or whatever. They're just like a very long Wikipedia entry.

[mercrocker]

I read thoroughly the "Woman" edition and I still don't understand them.

[bramz7]

I've worked with people who have been fired due to breaching DPA in the past. Weird that there's people out there who use it as a line to withhold info to the persons whose data is is though.

[Timewaster]

But remember to tell them you're recording it. I think you need to, if you wish to use it in court later.

Please use the phrase "Calls may be recorded for training and quality purposes".

[meshking]

Data Protection has long been the clarion call of the half-witted, the bone idle, the incompetant, the self-important, and custodians of corporate fuckwittery in the headlong race to mediocrity. Just ask which of the basic principles are being breached, no one can ever answer.

 

Best response is often that YOU are infringing MY rights under Data Protection by not telling me what I need to know so I am reporting YOU (personally) for a breach. It usually carries no weight but it will ruin their day and one self-appointed guardian of legislation they haven’t a clue about (but which saves them from doing what they are paid to do) who goes home thinking they might get fired has to be a good thing.

If they actually know what's going on, mentioning GDPR should get things moving nicely. I'm working with a lot of companies right now who are quite rightly shitting themselves about it.

 

Tragedy is that even my kids primary school needs to adhere, interesting time ahead....

 

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[wuvvum]

Tragedy is that even my kids primary school needs to adhere, interesting time ahead....

Well, until Brexit at least...

[Bianconeri]

Well, until Brexit at least...

We will doubtless retain GDPR. I have a lot of former customers who are in denial (or trap 3) about it and I’m getting a call a week about coming out of retirement to sort out the corporate knicker knots they seem to be tying for themselves.

 

Data Protection was always a stupid name anyway. The very definition of ‘data’ is that it needs shape, form and context to turn it into ‘information’ at which point it acquires value.

 

You want to see real Information Protection? Go to Switzerland.

[cort16]

I think half the companies in the U.K Don't know about or are ignoring gdpr. Dangerous when the fine is a % of your turnover especially if youre a car dealer who has big turnover but low margin .

[anonymous user]

 

These things. They're not proper Haynes manuals. They don't actually explain how to diagnose faults with the warp drive in the starship enterprise, or how to change the regulator valve on the flying Scotsman or whatever. They're just like a very long Wikipedia entry.

I could be sarcastic and say they are just like most Haynes Manuals then.

[Eddie Honda]

Yes because I needed to get out to collect my kids

Emergency of the century that.

 

(I understood about you phoning 101 and being on hold for ages, but its still not a fucking emergency.)

[DodgeRover]

Car gone now so no hiabing photos, woman shifting it looked to be well distressed already so didn't push it. Would have felt really bad if it turned out she had had a death or similar.

 

Got out and dropped off a load of bits, no chance to load anything up on my own though. Plus the van ran out of LPG and I had to run on the year old petrol in the tank.

 

Tomorrow mornings work is fucked now though

 

Contrary to popular post apocolyptic fiction petrol is still ok after a year even if untreated.

[Guest Hooli]

Emergency of the century that.

 

(I understood about you phoning 101 and being on hold for ages, but its still not a fucking emergency.)

 

Well plod should do something when people phone 101 then.

[Inspector Morose]

Anyway, to stop the bickering, I've a tale to tell. Yes, I've been out on another job with the bus this week and visited such wonderous places such as Redditch, Skipton and Milton Keynes.

Last day today with an evening event outside the front of what was once called GMEX or Central Station, in Manchester of course. A surprise early finish make me eschew the pre booked travelodge for the night for a 3 hour jaunt back to base and then my own bed (with hot and cold running wife). A stop at keele services for fuel. What's that? It's water pouring out the back. A closer inspection revealed a failed water pump and many litres of coolant freely flowing onto the road below.

Bollocks.

Limp back the wrong way along the services to the coach bays, which are full of not coaches and find a space for recovery.

Recovery won't be out till the morning.

Bollocks.

Costa del back of bus then for me tonight instead of either my own bed or the hotel that was booked for me.

Bollocks.

Bollocks indeed.

[Bianconeri]

I think half the companies in the U.K Don't know about or are ignoring gdpr. Dangerous when the fine is a % of your turnover especially if youre a car dealer who has big turnover but low margin .

Got to hope that “advertising tarted up shite at extreme premium prices by photographing it in white rooms” becomes GDPR unfriendly then.

[DodgeRover]

Emergency of the century that.

 

(I understood about you phoning 101 and being on hold for ages, but its still not a fucking emergency.)

Yeah, bollocks to the kids eh, I'll just leave two 10 year olds alone miles from home in the fucking dark.

 

If I hadn't been on hold 45 minutes I could have been sorting a taxi, a neighbour offered to pick up one while I was door knocking and we managed luckily to get in contact with another parent to pick up the other

 

Actually I'm not in the best frame of mind for being articulate at the moment so I'm leaving it now.

[Craig the Princess]

Had a lovely birthday yesterday, booked on the Flying Scotsman charter train Ely to Norwich. The Flying Scotsman broke down earlier in the day at Peterborough so it was replaced by a diesel locomotive.

 

Now this was disappointing but old vehicles break, can't be helped, just one of those things.

 

The grump is the fucking self important arseholes kicking off at the restaurant car staff for the entire return journey. How I didn't glass one man remains a mystery to me.

[chaseracer]

The grump is the fucking self important arseholes kicking off at the restaurant car staff for the entire return journey. How I didn't glass one man remains a mystery to me.

 

Like you, this vexes me greatly.  As if the hardworking, poorly-paid catering staff can have ANY CONTROL WHATSOEVER over the reliability or even presence of a 94-year-old steam locomotive!

 

Attention-seeking twats.

 

And breathe...

[dean36014]

I know i have a high tolerance to pain killers but I honestly thought I'd get some relief with morphine, not so. Just spent a long nice not being able to sleep due to back pain and feel as grumpy as hell. Plus just tried to have my morning piss and can't manage it. If this doesn't rectify itself I'll be going down A+E later as this is a red flag. Specialist has told me the next op will be a support cage around my lower spine and can't say I'm looking forward to having this done at all.

[strangeangel]

Off work today, new alternator arrived yesterday. Will I be fitting it to the BX this morning?

 

 

Will I fuck