The grumpy thread

[Zelandeth]

Amazon have got their wish.

 

Need new tips for my soldering iron, usually picked up from Maplin every few years...but of course now there's no Maplin.

 

Ones on Amazon are now bloody more expensive than the four (two chisel, two conical) pack I used to buy in store.

 

Guess I now go and try to not get ripped off by some knock offs on eBay...

 

I used that store a lot for random odds and ends and really am finding it's passing a real pain.

[robinmasters]

Fucking hell I've just realised I've become a hipster. I drove all the way to Hebden Bridge to buy some ethically sourced hand crafted trousers off a man with a massive beard who rides a weird pushbike. You won't have heard of the brand.

[AMC Rebel]

the event that shall not be named is already been used as a reason to deregulate how workers are treated 

 

I think we need to see concrete evidence of that outrageous claim, please.

 

Most of our labour laws (the vast majority) are our own and always have been.  Many of our workers rights far exceed the EU minimums and always have done.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Amazon have got their wish.

 

Need new tips for my soldering iron, usually picked up from Maplin every few years...but of course now there's no Maplin.

 

Ones on Amazon are now bloody more expensive than the four (two chisel, two conical) pack I used to buy in store.

 

Guess I now go and try to not get ripped off by some knock offs on eBay....

Dunno how much you are paying via Amazon. I usually buy replacement tips via modelling suppliers like this one

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

NHBC (new home warranty company) started spamming me over and over about filling in a questionnaire about my house over email, ignored them because I had too much other stuff to do at the time.

 

So then they started sending them through the post.

 

Then they started texting me.

 

Fuck off! If I wanted to fill it in, I would have the first time.

 

We in construction want them to fuck off too. You are not alone.

[Mr A Lawrence]

My initial reaction was "how much!"

But then thought about it, and if they really last it's worth it.

Personally I just have a dapper tailor called Geraint from the valleys knock me up custom suits. Not that much more expensive...

you could get an entire winter wardrobe from primark for the price of those moleskins!!!

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

Milk wars. 6 pints in 2 days. The Kidz use up every last drop on submerged cereal or hot bedtime drinkies and there is none for my morning coffee. Well, I have of this morning hatched a plan. I transferred half a pint into another vessel and hid it in the fridge on the top shelf behind some instaroll pastry and hey presto! Kids have gone off to school and I have some white liquid goodness all to myself... SUCCESS! 

 

Now I've run out of coffee....!

[Ohdearme]

My new electric toothbrush and the end of my nose appear to have the same resonant frequency.

 

I now have to brush my teeth with my other finger on my nose or I get that weird feeling like when you try to play a comb kazoo through tracing paper.

[SierraMikeHotel]

 

 

I think we need to see concrete evidence of that outrageous claim, please.

 

Most of our labour laws (the vast majority) are our own and always have been. Many of our workers rights far exceed the EU minimums and always have done.

When I did my Unison steward course it was all about EU employment law.

 

Granted, some of that will have come from existing UK law and some from other countries.

[AMC Rebel]

When I did my Unison steward course it was all about EU employment law.

 

Granted, some of that will have come from existing UK law and some from other countries.

 

I was trying to stick to the facts  Even EU based rights are enshrined in our own laws - that's one of the main principles of the EU and often cited as a counter to charges the EU is anti-democratic.

 

That aside - we already had most of the requirements before the EU even existed - and (just for a couple of examples) our maternity leave and pay exceeds EU standards and has done for some time, and the EU doesn't mandate a minimum wage - Sweden doesn't have a min wage.

 

Would love to see the examples of deregulation that has allegedly already happened - particularly odd given we haven't even left yet.

 

Mike Ashley clearly wasn't too troubled by any of these marvellous workers rights we got from the EU.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Hello Hastings? Yes if someone nicks something out of my car everyday am I covered once my policy starts?

I am? oh good.

 

 

 

I part of a four man team who all do the same work to the same level, yet the other three are a pay band higher. So yes I think the management in my department stink for taking the piss when in every other department this would be sorted out within months, it's been almost four years now.

I've been to HR myself & demanded a grievance is raised, as is my legal right. Yet they've ignored me & forced it down informal channels everytime. Then nothing happens as my boss always defaults to option 3 when the choices are -

 

1) sort it

2) bodge it/tell the staff to piss off they aint getting it etc

3) do nothing

 

Even getting told it won't happen would be better than being lied to for years about how they'll look at it soon etc etc

 

 

But surely when you whip out your union card, it must make you feel like superman? Do you think you'll get your way if you strike for higher pay?

[Captain Furious]

Women are way too objectified. It has been nearly 100 years since the suffragette movement and in my eyes women are treated no better.

 

Actually serious?  Incredible

[alcyonecorporation]

I'm beginning to hate where I live.

Three emergency stops in as many minutes is not right.

 

First was a Civic which charged out of a driveway and went straight across the road; I was under the speed limit and just about stopped without locking up. I hit the horn and he stands on his and screams abuse.

 

Next, a mini cab pulled away from the kerb without signalling. I was almost past them and locked up. Driver mouthed off and gesticulated because I stood on the horn (you know, because the useless prick nearly caused an accident).

 

As I was heading out of town there was a bloke on crutches stood at the side of the road; the light was on green and he was at the crossing. The traffic light was on green (my right of way) and he decided to walk across the road, very slowly.

I came a halt and he decided to scream abuse at me. Thanks, dude. Can't think why your legs might be broken with an attitude like that.

 

By this stage the brakes on the Pug were starting to smoke, as was my brain.

 

I carried on out of town and a kid on a pushbike blatted across a gap in the road. No lights, no hi vis, just blinkered and flat out across the road, straight into traffic. By this point the smoke and smell from the pug's brakes were very noticeable.

 

Oblivious and selfish, or psychotic. No half measures where I live. Don't even get me started on the race canned, plateless supercars that roar up and down the local roads at three figure speeds all hours of the day or night, or the unfair parking restrictions, or the INCREDIBLY SELFISH way people park in restricted bays, or........

 

I couldn't be a bus driver here. I'd rage quit after a week.

 

If anyone thinks I'm exaggerating, come and live and commute to work with me for a week. I guarantee you'll want to knock someone out by day three.

[Des]

Sounds like you reside within the M25 ring-o-shit.

[dollywobbler]

Sounds like you reside within the M25 ring-o-shit.

 

Even worse. Peterborough.

[Guest Hooli]

It does sound fun doesn't it?

[eddyramrod]

Today, September 12th, marks six years since we moved out of our Cyprus house to come back here.  It was a Wednesday too.

[Guest Hooli]

Today, September 12th, marks six years since we moved out of our Cyprus house to come back here.  It was a Wednesday too.

 

Happy anniversary?

[alcyonecorporation]

It does sound fun doesn't it?

Provided you don't have kids, want to cross the road or want to sleep in the small hours, yeah, living in a badly lit Adam4C video is great. At least the rent's cheap and the restaurants are good. Great variety, too. I do love me some goulash.

 

This forum, eh? This forum.

[alcyonecorporation]

Yo, is there a way to stop [name of recovery service] spamming one's email service with surveys? 

 

Lads, you lost my Subaru temporarily and although you got it back, it seems pointless me feeding back because the people on the ground will get the blame, not the control centre spouting gibberish who caused the confusion in the first place. 

 

'No comment' is the best you're going to get from me; can we just call it quits?

 

Today, September 12th, marks six years since we moved out of our Cyprus house to come back here.  It was a Wednesday too.

I swear the suspension of my C4 cursed you during the DUGONG SHIPPING SERVICE years.

[AMC Rebel]

Agree with that about 99% of surveys - they are useless in terms of anything improving and in the worst cases will be used to punish the wrong people for the wrong things.

IMHO the majority of big businesses don't actually give a fuck about individual customers.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Agree with that about 99% of surveys - they are useless in terms of anything improving....

 

The only thing I've found them useful for is for earning Nectar points.

[Timewaster]

Agree with that about 99% of surveys -

IMHO the majority of big businesses don't actually give a fuck about individual customers.

They do care about an aggregate score though. "We are rated 9/10" is a typical advertising blurb.

 

But the more people they survey the less each individual survey means in the overall outcome.

 

I absolutely hate surveys and internal company ones are the worst where every department surveys every other department and don't take no for an answer, sending daily reminders about the surveys I have no intention of completing.

And if you do complete it with anything less than 9/10 then the manager of that department will ring you up and ask why the low score and what could they do better? Then they explain why they are do things the way they do and how changing anything is beyond their remit.

[AMC Rebel]

They do care about an aggregate score though. "We are rated 9/10" is a typical advertising blurb.

 

But the more people they survey the less each individual survey means in the overall outcome.

 

I absolutely hate surveys and internal company ones are the worst where every department surveys every other department and don't take no for an answer, sending daily reminders about the surveys I have no intention of completing.

And if you do complete it with anything less than 9/10 then the manager of that department will ring you up and ask why the low score and what could they do better? Then they explain why they are do things the way they do and how changing anything is beyond their remit.

 

Exactly.  I worked at a really wanky software company once and all the customers hated us.  We had a meeting to try and dream up ways to improve customer satisfaction.  Someone suggested a customer survey - but I pointed out that since the top brass didn't give a fuck about existing customers and wouldn't let us spend any money on improvements, all the survey would do would be to anger the customers even more by creating the false impression we might do something.

[Lord Sterling]

Exactly.  I worked at a really wanky software company once and all the customers hated us.  We had a meeting to try and dream up ways to improve customer satisfaction.  Someone suggested a customer survey - but I pointed out that since the top brass didn't give a fuck about existing customers and wouldn't let us spend any money on improvements, all the survey would do would be to anger the customers even more by creating the false impression we might do something.

Sounds like where I work (except we don't do software). Really, it does.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

I've just unsubscribed from the Argos survey email.  They kept sending them.

 

Fuck off.  Unless you're going to pay me for doing the survey, I'm not doing it and the onus is on you to spend some of your own fucking money rather than assuming that my time is worthless.  I refuse to do all surveys on this basis...

[SierraMikeHotel]

I've just unsubscribed from the Argos survey email. They kept sending them.

 

Fuck off. Unless you're going to pay me for doing the survey, I'm not doing it and the onus is on you to spend some of your own fucking money rather than assuming that my time is worthless. I refuse to do all surveys on this basis...

Likewise. I do them if there's a reward, I *occasionally* do them if it gets me a raffle entry, but I never ever do them for free. Why on earth would I?

[Timewaster]

If a company the size of Argos doesn't know how it is performing, don't expect me to waste my time telling you.

[adw1977]

 

Fuck off, it's September.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

I'm beginning to hate where I live.

Three emergency stops in as many minutes is not right.

 

First was a Civic which charged out of a driveway and went straight across the road; I was under the speed limit and just about stopped without locking up. I hit the horn and he stands on his and screams abuse.

 

Next, a mini cab pulled away from the kerb without signalling. I was almost past them and locked up. Driver mouthed off and gesticulated because I stood on the horn (you know, because the useless prick nearly caused an accident).

 

As I was heading out of town there was a bloke on crutches stood at the side of the road; the light was on green and he was at the crossing. The traffic light was on green (my right of way) and he decided to walk across the road, very slowly.

I came a halt and he decided to scream abuse at me. Thanks, dude. Can't think why your legs might be broken with an attitude like that.

 

By this stage the brakes on the Pug were starting to smoke, as was my brain.

 

I carried on out of town and a kid on a pushbike blatted across a gap in the road. No lights, no hi vis, just blinkered and flat out across the road, straight into traffic. By this point the smoke and smell from the pug's brakes were very noticeable.

 

Oblivious and selfish, or psychotic. No half measures where I live. Don't even get me started on the race canned, plateless supercars that roar up and down the local roads at three figure speeds all hours of the day or night, or the unfair parking restrictions, or the INCREDIBLY SELFISH way people park in restricted bays, or........

 

I couldn't be a bus driver here. I'd rage quit after a week.

 

If anyone thinks I'm exaggerating, come and live and commute to work with me for a week. I guarantee you'll want to knock someone out by day three.

 

 

 

You need a sound, running Ford D Series or a Bedford TK. On one hand it's stylish and interesting, on the other you can just rip the side out of cars with impunity.Both cars you mention would have been left smashed by the side of the road, damaged beyond repair. I doubt you would have laughed, much.