The grumpy thread

[danthecapriman]

Last Friday when I felt grim I didn't go to work, just rang in sick and it was no bother. No point going in, spreading the evil to others and they wouldn't get a good job out of me feeling like that anyway.

They just said to stay indoors, keep warm and get better!

[Louise2cv]

"bugs" generally need biological material to survive so unless you've crapped your pants you're fine.

 

Which lets face it is one of the top 3 activities for babies.

 

...and with the price of car seats, I can't risk shrinking the covers so daren't wash hotter. It just seems like a bad design brief for baby items if washing isn't one of the top considerations.

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

Sodding heating pump......... I'm not a feel the cold person so the heating is rarely if ever required chez moi......... until GF shows up and it's like I'm living in an ice-road episode and she's dying! So of course she turns everything on......

I found a huge lake of water in the basement washroom about 5weeks back - could not for the life of me work out what was the source - so everything got opened up, cleaned out, reseated and sealed etc.... with washers/seals/rubber bits replaced - just to be sure. All OK and no more lakes..... job jobbed - or was it?

 

Last night - GF pumps up required heatage........ nothing doing. I noticed nothing from the radiators - eventually clicked after she confessed she'd turned it on back then (lake day) noticed a 'problem and noise' and shut it off....... without a bloody word to me. Now I know* the lake was the pump shitting its load and the water cascaded from the 1st floor all the way down, behind the false wall covering all piping, to the basemement where it pooled.

 

This evening will be begging a teeth sucking plombiere - not to butt rape me for winter emergency rates I reckon.......... fuck it!

[Des]

we get free electricity on saturdays

 

Where do I sign up for that?

And if you don't already have a forklift charger the size of a washing machine hooked up to a garage full of lead acid then kindly explain yourself.

[Supernaut]

Where do I sign up for that?

And if you don't already have a forklift charger the size of a washing machine hooked up to a garage full of lead acid then kindly explain yourself.

 

Electric goona!

 

WCPGW?!

[Pillock]

Which lets face it is one of the top 3 activities for babies.

 

...and with the price of car seats, I can't risk shrinking the covers so daren't wash hotter. It just seems like a bad design brief for baby items if washing isn't one of the top considerations.

Yeah, fair point. Kiddie stuff absolutely should be able to survive a boil wash, I'd gone off on a tangent. Sorry!

[Guest Hooli]

Where do I sign up for that?

And if you don't already have a forklift charger the size of a washing machine hooked up to a garage full of lead acid then kindly explain yourself.

 

British Gas I think.

 

Homemade UPS sounds a great plan to pair with it.

[Guest Hooli]

Which lets face it is one of the top 3 activities for babies.

 

...and with the price of car seats, I can't risk shrinking the covers so daren't wash hotter. It just seems like a bad design brief for baby items if washing isn't one of the top considerations.

 

Poor design of babies I'd say, it's about time they upgraded them.

[captain_70s]

Stay at home then, don't take it to work and smit everyone. Do they give out medals at your place 'cos they don't at ours?

0-hour contract, have a sick day too many and your shifts start mysteriously vanishing. Also got a right grilling the last time I phoned in as apparently you have to give at least two hours notice.

 

Unless I literally can't come in physically I've not much choice... Not to mention I didn't get a shift on Monday so I'm 8 hours pay behind on this month's finances.

[barefoot]

I didn't know this;

 

Aviva is the second largest shareholder in MoneySuperMarket, while Confused.com is owned by Admiral.

[eddyramrod]

MrsR has banned me from winning any more Roffles.

[scaryoldcortina]

So not banned from entering, just winning then?

[The Moog]

MrsR has banned me from winning any more Roffles.

Not buying cars then? 

 

Or lending me £3 which I return as a couple of tickets? 

[5speedracer]

0-hour contract, have a sick day too many and your shifts start mysteriously vanishing. Also got a right grilling the last time I phoned in as apparently you have to give at least two hours notice.

 

Unless I literally can't come in physically I've not much choice... Not to mention I didn't get a shift on Monday so I'm 8 hours pay behind on this month's finances.

IMO zero hrs contracts are really no fucking contract at all and should be outlawed. Legitimised version of waiting on the corner for a gangmaster to arrive and choose you or not.

Of course you already know this! Spread that cold around then so you're not suffering alone, he said hypocritically.

 

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[eddyramrod]

So not banned from entering, just winning then?

 

 

When you win, claim it was not a roffle dearest, it was a raffle.

 

note: It would probably be best if you are in your best running gear or a suit of armor at this point. 

 

 

Not buying cars then? 

 

Or lending me £3 which I return as a couple of tickets? 

 

Sadly, I suspect it also means buying the tickets, just in case I should win!  I've booked tickets for the Nightfire Rover and the 106 (not paid for either yet) but if anybody wants to take them over, please feel free.  Otherwise I'll just have to hope I don't actually win one.

[AMC Rebel]

IMO zero hrs contracts are really no fucking contract at all and should be outlawed. Legitimised version of waiting on the corner for a gangmaster to arrive and choose you or not.

Of course you already know this! Spread that cold around then so you're not suffering alone, he said hypocritically.

 

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I agree about zero hours - except where it genuinely suits both parties.  I could now go on to offer an opinion in relation to "EU Worker's rights" - but I probably better not.

[HH-R]

Being off with a cold is a funny one, when I worked in a school I literally seemed to have one every six weeks. You're told in one breath not to come in because you're just perpetuating the problem, but if you were off three times in a year it was a disciplinary.

[ruffgeezer]

I hit and killed a dog on my way home tonight. I feel terrible for the owner who had been looking for her from the roadside, and left my details with his mother and the police.

 

This has also caused significant damage to the Volvo, ergo I am now without any working cars.

[clayts450]

Sorry to hear that mate, that's terrible on so many levels. 

 

There is absolutely nothing you can do right in that situation.

[chaseracer]

But you stopped, Tim, and did the right thing when so many would not.  But that's the kind of bloke you are.

[Pillock]

Oh dear ruffgeezer, that's harsh. You've done all you can, but it's the kind of thing I dread happening. Hopefully doggo didn't suffer and the owners were comforted by you stopping and doing the right thing.

[beko1987]

You stopping is 99% more than anyone else would do.

 

Want to buy a laguna? (sorry)

[eddyramrod]

That's a bummer!  But, you did the best you could at the time.  With luck the family will understand that.

[richardmorris]

You stopping is 99% more than anyone else would do.

Want to buy a laguna? (sorry)

Now that’s kicking a man when he’s down!

[cobblers]

That's really a shit do for everyone involved, I'm sorry it's happened. 

[Negative Creep]

Horrible news, you did all you could in the circumstances

[Guest Hooli]

Poor dog

 

Glad you stopped.

[purplebargeken]

Poor Fido, hopefully it was quick. You did the right/good/responsible thing.

[omegod]

It'd take balls to ask if the poor dog was insured but our cover does indeed cover such eventualities for 3rd parties from what I recall, poor fido 

[New POD]

I hit and killed a dog on my way home tonight. I feel terrible for the owner who had been looking for her from the roadside, and left my details with his mother and the police.

 

This has also caused significant damage to the Volvo, ergo I am now without any working cars.

 

You have the details of the owner, he has a responsibility to fix it, for letting his dog escape.

 

That said I do feel both the owners pain and yours.