The grumpy thread

[wuvvum]

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WTF is the point in this kind of thing? Surely a company the size of eBay must have somebody on their staff who has thought "hang on a minute, having this computer-generated shit at the bottom of all our search pages is making us look completely fucking stupid"? For some reason this kind of thing really winds me up.

[Guest]

Unfortunately I'm stuck with them as they are the only company that would insure me for a reasonable price (19 years old and classic cars). You might be pleased to know I was ringing for a quote for the 2CV

I went with FJ because I was sick to fucking death of Flux and their utter inability to send me things like covernotes, policy documentation and valuation documents to my home address.FJ's service seems alright to me, and their cover is well cheap for the crap I've got luzzed about the place. I have the Amazon insured fully comp on unlimited mileage for £130. The Celeste (were I to get it back on the road) would be £127.50 for 6000 miles. The potential new purchase would be £360.60. Not bad, Mr Bond.I've paid the Amazon insurance off already. FTW.

[M'coli]

Bloody insurance call centres that are permantly "experiencing unusally large call volumes" and you keep you hanging for 30mins+.

I was just about to post this very grump! Were you trying to get hold of Footman James?'Footman James is a trading name of AON Ltd, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority' - Feck off.

Ah, sorry, I was hogging the line at that point.

[shite_meister]

Bloody insurance call centres that are permantly "experiencing unusally large call volumes" and you keep you hanging for 30mins+.

I was just about to post this very grump! Were you trying to get hold of Footman James?'Footman James is a trading name of AON Ltd, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority' - Feck off.

Ah, sorry, I was hogging the line at that point.

I was waiting for so long for the bastards that the battery in my cordless land-line ran out of juice. That message winds me up as its the same one no matter when you call. Being in Jersey we have to have windscreen insurance discs as a legal requirement and I always explain this to to the droid on the other end being in England which is fair enough, I do however feel its taking the piss when I have to request one about four times for each car guaranteed without fail.To be fair I do find them cheap (except when I renewed a policy a month after it expired and they'd bung £150 on top ) and the free European breakdown cover for the camper is worth almost as much as the policy.

[sporty-shite]

The potential new purchase

Details, s'il-vous-plait!

[Guest]

The potential new purchase

Details, s'il-vous-plait!

Not yet, it might offend. Well, it will offend Pete :DToday my right ear has decided it doesn't want to play, and has filled with sludge again. Work said 'Go home, you look half dead.'Aaaaaaarghhhhhhhh.

[trigger]

Why the hell do websites have to keep updateing "For the better"?!!! I'm trying to upload photos of some alloys and lowering springs i want to sell on ebay and it's now telling me i need to install a program so i can upload them, But all it does now is keep crashing my computer and freezing everything, I used to work fine so why change it!.Fuckin wankers!! Grrr...

[Guest]

Why the hell do websites have to keep updateing "For the better"?!!! I'm trying to upload photos of some alloys and lowering springs i want to sell on ebay and it's now telling me i need to install a program so i can upload them, But all it does now is keep crashing my computer and freezing everything, I used to work fine so why change it!.Fuckin wankers!! Grrr...

It's because of:1. "Progress"2. "Optimisation"3. "Built In Obsolescence"Brooks Stevens, you bastard.

[trigger]

They want you to use their new 'quicker' listing page which is well and good as my photos upload using that but it has less options than before and will only let you upload 4 photos.You still end up going back to the old way to update the listing after you have posted it to correct all the stuff you couldn't add.I can now see why people don't bother with egay anymore.

[maxpower]

And this guy expects to sell a car... barking orders like this...I do not tolerate test pilots, tyrekickers or timewasters & especially people that say allomyte what is best price. THE CAR IS ADVERTISED ELSEWHERE & I DO RESERVE THE RIGHT TO END THE AUCTION EARLY BECAUSE THE CAR BELONGS TO ME & NOT EBAY & I WILL DO WITH IT AS I SEE FIT & NOT BE DICTATED TO.Calls that are withheld may not be answered as I find not showing your number ruder than me & completely uneccesary unless you have something to hide! can't help wondering if he was bullied at school

[Pete-M]

The potential new purchase

Details, s'il-vous-plait!

Not yet, it might offend. Well, it will offend Pete

What?

[CIH]

yeah it was FJ I was hanging on for. Took me all morning, on and off.

[Pete-M]

I've been in my new job for about 6 weeks now. I enjoy the job, I'm good at it, and it pays ok. It's not bad. I get on with almost everyone there and there's nothing stressful about it...... other than one wanker who's doing his utmost to get me to deck him. Sniping little comments, giving me the least amount of information possible, trying to cause me to make mistakes and generally being a shit.Arrgh.

[Guest]

And this guy expects to sell a car... barking orders like this...

 

I do not tolerate test pilots, tyrekickers or timewasters & especially people that say allo mate what is best price.

THE CAR IS ADVERTISED ELSEWHERE & I DO RESERVE THE RIGHT TO END THE AUCTION EARLY BECAUSE THE CAR BELONGS TO ME & NOT EBAY & I WILL DO WITH IT AS I SEE FIT & NOT BE DICTATED TO.

Calls that are withheld may not be answered as I find not showing your number ruder than m & completely uneccesary unless you have something to hide!

 

can't help wondering if he was bullied at school

Most of it sounds *fairly* reasonable, but he will get reamed for writing that he'll end the auction early. I've had listings removed over that for 'breaching eBay policy'.

 

At least in the bold he admits he's an acerbic little so and so. You don't know, he might have been pissed about before and is trying to deter the mouth breathers.

[Pete-M]

At least in the bold he admits he's an acerbic little so and so. You don't know, he might have been pissed about before and is trying to deter the mouth breathers.

I write really snotty ebay ads. It does deter the mouth breathers, well, most of 'em.

[Rocket88]

I've been in my new job for about 6 weeks now. I enjoy the job, I'm good at it, and it pays ok. It's not bad. I get on with almost everyone there and there's nothing stressful about it...... other than one wanker who's doing his utmost to get me to deck him. Sniping little comments, giving me the least amount of information possible, trying to cause me to make mistakes and generally being a shit.Arrgh.

Eyedrops [Optrex works best ]in his coffee, tasteless and odourless, has a devasting effect on one's bowel movements [very frequent, and very messy] lasts for about 6 hours........

[Mike D]

The garage that was meant to be repairing my Capri has got my goat today, i was waiting for a phonecall on the 14th after being told at the start of the month they could repair it then, no call came, so |I phoned them today and they reckon another 2 or 3 weeks. Pass the slide hammer, i'm going to tackle it myself!

[CIH]

why did they lock the camber thread over there ? I wanted to see if somebody would come out in defence of those stupid tyres but it seems whatsisface is bored of it, so lockage. Wouldn't mind but the earlier sniping had calmed down.

[MrDuke]

'Camber' is now another title to add to the List, where it joins 'cut springs', 'is it retro?', 'wobble bolts', etc etc... Basically there's too many "haterzzzz" to risk keeping it open, in case it turns into (yet) another bitch-fest. Happy days.

[RedSparrow]

I think someon else has mentioned this but...Thick people who are 'stranded' abroad at Calais.One woman complained on the news 'we had to pay E2500 for a chauffer driven car to get here from the south of France'.Why didn't you get on a fucking train or bus like everyone else you fat lazy bitch?

[Slaighty]

I think someon else has mentioned this but...Thick people who are 'stranded' abroad at Calais.One woman complained on the news 'we had to pay E2500 for a chauffer driven car to get here from the south of France'.Why didn't you get on a fucking train or bus like everyone else you fat lazy bitch?

Surely no better excuse for buying random french shite to drive home in?

[Parky]

Agreed. Someone sitting in Bogota Airport is stranded. Someone in Rio de Janeiro is stranded. Calais aint exactly that far is it? I wouldnt be surprised if the authorities dont start employing asylum seekers to run tuk tuks through the service tunnels in exchange for a passport......I have to admit, I am enjoying this. For every wily clever genius who makes it home for €5 theres another munter who has spent their life savings to still be abroad. Nice to see some people have guile and imagination though.

[MrDuke]

Me. More specifically, my fat, useless f*cking body.

 

Not that many years ago (OK, it was quite a few), I'd think nothing of heading off on a 40-mile bike ride at the weekend, heading off down the lanes then blatting across the fields for a couple of hours, just to work up a nice appetite. I'd do regular 20-30 mile circuits round the local villages with friends 1 or 2 evenings a week, barely sweating.

 

Tonight I struggled to do 500 friggin' yards before my chest started burning and my legs turned to jelly. I'm still feeling weak an hour later. I wouldn't mind if I was middle-aged, but I'm barely into my 30s.

 

FFS

[FredTransit]

Agreed. Someone sitting in Bogota Airport is stranded. Someone in Rio de Janeiro is stranded. Calais aint exactly that far is it? I wouldnt be surprised if the authorities dont start employing asylum seekers to run tuk tuks through the service tunnels in exchange for a passport......I have to admit, I am enjoying this. For every wily clever genius who makes it home for €5 theres another munter who has spent their life savings to still be abroad. Nice to see some people have guile and imagination though.

Yeah, why are people spending ten quid a time on airport butties when they could get some old chod and drive home?

[Guest]

As many will know (as it sits on my mind), I work in a pretty lousy local government job which largely revolves around giving people hassle until they pay me. It's a shame as it was originally a job I didn't mind doing, it was even faintly satisfying at times, but things have all gone downhill as time has gone by.e.g.- Office moved from 10 minutes away to some crummy ex-mining town in the middle of nowhere- Any interesting tasks have been gradually transferred away to other offices via re-organisation, so there is now absolutely nothing in my job I enjoy doing, pretty much just call centre work- Moved into a lower payscale as part of a national "equal pay" job evaluation which sees me, a skilled specialist office worker, to be moved down to the same grade as school toilet attendants (nice to feel valued!)Anyway, I consider the job to have limited mileage - it is very difficult to appear enthusiastic when the highlight of your work day is going for a slash. Especially when you know that here is near-zero chance of promotion, as your office has been lumped in with a poor-reputation section over in some forgotten slum miles away, so any internal job applications will ultimately be reshaped into a ball and dropped into a bin. If you're not on the gravy train, there's no easy way of obtaining tickets, basically.But that's all just a bit of background - the short story is that I'm in a doomed job, so I've just got to get out. I've made one last stab at an internal secondment which would see me back in a decent office for a year. I'm confident that if I got that, it'd be my entry into the VIP club so I could press on and do something which doesn't make me consider launching a blunt biro through my eye just to end it all. I reckon my chances are reasonable, but if I don't get it, it's the last straw - I'm going to make proper efforts to look at jobs outside the organisation.I've spent the last few hours having a bit of a dry run at external jobseeking. My criteria isn't particularly stingy - I want to be on £15K, office-based or similar, within about 15 minutes drive of my house. The last point sounds tight, but I'm in a good location. 15 minutes gives me access to all of Wakefield, Horbury, Ossett, plus outlying places - Dewsbury wouldn't be out of the question. So loads of office blocks, various industrial estates and city/town centres within my reach.But there's nothing. I don't care if an hour each way is considered the norm, I don't want any of it - I live in a sodding city in the West Yorkshire conurbation - is it too much to ask for a job that isn't miles away? The businesses are all there, don't any of them have jobs going? And the few jobs that are on offer are ridiculous - loads of demands for qualifications and experience which are no way close to what the job would expect. There's jobs on nearly minimum wage which expect you to either have or be working towards advanced accountancy qualifications - why?! Do you think someone who has spent years pissing around doing accountancy nerd stuff is going to be happy in your little flea-pit on 6 quid an hour? Just hire some forgettable loser like me - I'll turn up, do what is expected of me to the required standard and sod off when the clock turns over. Give me normal hours, a car parking space, a blue biro, a "Rexel" stapler, some apprentice birds to perv at, a grand a month in my account, no rubbish on the interview, no demands for qualifications and experience I won't need. And nearby. It's all I ask, employers. Be an acceptable employer and I'll be an acceptable employee! It's all I want. You don't have to provide motivation workshops, cycle facilities, even the promise of a promotion - just let me know that I'm only 15 minutes away from the whisky bottle on my desk at home. It's the only job satisfaction I'd need.

[shite_meister]

I think someon else has mentioned this but...Thick people who are 'stranded' abroad at Calais.One woman complained on the news 'we had to pay E2500 for a chauffer driven car to get here from the south of France'.Why didn't you get on a fucking train or bus like everyone else you fat lazy bitch?

I saw that fat sow that you speak of on the televisual box and couldn't quite belive what I was hearing it almost smacks of someone who can't make a decision themselves and thinks the state should wipe their arse everytime they run into a slight pickle. I bought a £450 snotter last year and it not only got me 3000 miles around Europe admirably but I still have it. Twats.Anyways what I find really irritating apart from a runny 'arris is two words that are without doubt an Americanism that has spread over here, no offence to our colonial cousins who frequent the good ship Autoshite but by buggery-fuck the words 'Re-imagined' or varients thereof and 'Season' with regards to TV programs really do piss me off, Series Five not Season Five and its a re-make not a re-imagining you can call it all you like but if you RE-MAKE something along the same lines but slightly different ITS A FUCKING RE-MAKE alternatively why not just come up with a new idea or is that too passé?

[Minimad5]

WHEN WILL YOU FIX MY CAR !?How about can you please wait ?You suddenly turn up at my house demanding i stop what i am doing, travel to wales and fix your car.It does not work that way i am afraid.So saturday i have the great task of travelling to wales, just to find out what this guy wants me to do.Just tell me what is wrong !! , bleeding hell.Never messed with a Nissan Serena before. Easy to work on ?

[Father Ted]

I want to be on £15K, office-based or similar, within about 15 minutes drive of my house..

Keep an eye on Here and Here for suitable jobs - of course with the former link you also can get a tw@tting stick.

[shite_meister]

WHEN WILL YOU FIX MY CAR !?How about can you please wait ?You suddenly turn up at my house demanding i stop what i am doing, travel to wales and fix your car.It does not work that way i am afraid.So saturday i have the great task of travelling to wales, just to find out what this guy wants me to do.Just tell me what is wrong !! , bleeding hell.Never messed with a Nissan Serena before. Easy to work on ?

A swift curt "Get Fucked" should suffice. Whats the crack there then?

[MrDuke]

Keep an eye on ...Here for suitable jobs.

NOOOOO!!! Don't do it!! The NHS is the living embodiment of every bureaucratic failure imaginable. You may well find yourself in a better position, but you will also be crying yourself to sleep most nights, and living in morbid dread of ever having to actually go into hospital. At the same time, you'll never bring yourself to leave, because it will be the 'safest' job of EVAH.Can you tell I work for them? Of course, maybe it's just the provinces that are so incredibly shit. I suspect the health boards in the Fatherland may well be less soul-destroying.