The grumpy thread

[Parky]

I haven’t actually been paid yet. Merely told I am being paid.

 

Waiting for the “Derek in the back office is the only one who can do it and he has gone on long term sick...”

 

Reckon it will be done in their next pay run, despite the unnecessary delays. That’s going to be a massive pain when I can’t pay two bills due Friday....

 

I will mention tomorrow that I am going to incur charges because of their tardiness, who do I send the bill to? Especially as one is a student loan payment for Mrs P, that’s a chunky old amount and the late payment penalties are LARGE.

[MarvinsMom]

I don't really see what point it is making though, its just the byproduct of simple math....fuel duty is a fixed amount per litre, if the price of a litre goes up then tax as a percentage comes down.  Seems to be an article stating the obvious.

 

As for private sector wastage - so what, its their money to waste.

ah but you forget that fuel also is subject to VAT,

 

the higher the pump price goes, the more VAT it raises.....

[Fumbler]

Grump set in advance for 1st October. Road on route to place of educational institution and vital artery to the notorious A21 is to be closed for X weeks for a full gas main replacement. On the plus side there will be no more cast iron and lead, on the minus they had the entire summer to do it but they did fuck all and scheduled everything to do with digging up the road for September. Very good forward planning on an already choked town.

[xtriple]

There are some right bloody idiots around, the best one is... ME! I got a nasty letter from 'One Call' insurance this morning saying my policy on the Jaguar would be cancelled on the 6th of October because I hadn't supplied my drivers' licence details. I'd seen the request for this on the form when I filled it in and was sure I had done it, I hadn't.

 

Went on their website and did it straight away but I still feel such a fool, old age I guess?

 

Then went on their 'Live Chat' thing to try and confirm all was now well, it doesn't bloody work! Tried about ten different ways to get on but unless I am being a fool again, it really does NOT work. That makes me nearly as grumpy as being a tool. 

[The Moog]

Had this with performance direct.

 

They then threatened that they would cancel the insurance and I would have to tell all future insurance companies I had insurance cancelled impacting on future premium.

 

Now i avoid them like the plague

[cort16]

I flew to Birmingham on Monday and my flight was cancelled and I had a big delay and flew to a different airport. Today I go to check in for the return and the website doesn’t work .

 

I call them up and they say oh youre a no show for your Monday flight so we cancelled your return flight .

No show I says you cancelled the flight.

It says here you didn’t turn up for the flight

How could I there wasn’t a plane to get on

Says no show here

 

Eventually they but me back in the flight . Made me grumpy though.

[Lacquer Peel]

I don't really see what point it is making though, its just the byproduct of simple math....fuel duty is a fixed amount per litre, if the price of a litre goes up then tax as a percentage comes down. Seems to be an article stating the obvious.

 

As for private sector wastage - so what, its their money to waste.

Not always if it's a taxpayer subsided or funded privately run public service, and it could be money that goes into your pension or could cover a pay rise all round.

[Pillock]

In a similar way, my wife went to the dentist. Checked in at reception, took a seat.

 

Woman comes in and asks if they have an emergency slot... "Aaaah yes, someone's just cancelled. You're in luck, the dentist can see you straight away".

 

60 minutes pass, people come in, sit down, go in, come out. Wife still sat.

 

"When will I be seen?".... Receptionist looks flustered, runs off to see the dentist. Comes back, "ever so sorry, please go straight in". Dentist then told her that they'd had her down as a cancellation whilst she was sat there, simply pressed the wrong button and immediately forgot she was sat there, feet from the desk.

 

That emergency slot was hers!

[artdjones]

∆It somehow didn't happen in the terrible days before IT which was going to make all our lives more simple.There was a story yesterday about the halt of progress in life expectancy statistics.I expect it's because of all the heart attacks,embolisms and strokes produced by having to deal with computers.

[DVee8]

Booked the car into the main stealers yesterday for a service and MOT.

 

Sunday afternoon the car was cleaned and polished all levels checked and topped up.

 

We took the car in at 09.15 we had already discussed that the car had to be ready by 3.00 as i have to get to work,if not the next morning would be ok."no the car will be ready" they said.On handing over the fob i again asked  will  it be ready by 3 "oh yeah no problem we will ring if there is a problem"

So by 3 no call,so MrsV8 rang them yeah it all done just going for a wash and valet.Mrs V8 why its just been done? To late it's gone.

 

We drive straight over the car is at the front of the building,we walk in and are jumped on by a over enthusiastic greeter.

Yes its ready but we can't find the fob.

 

I say I have to get to work we said it had to be ready by 3". Yeah but we can't find the fob sorry" that dosn't help me. Fob found I leave and left MrsV8 to pay the bill.

In 26 years I have never been late till yesterday only a couple of mins,no one noticed but still late.

 

Having a look through the bill this morning i have been charged 1.68 for 1 ltr of screen wash.There is no way the could have poured 1 ltr of screen wash in and if so they use the same pink, screen wash from Halfords that  I do.Now its only 1.68 but so.

 

They did wash the very clean and polished car again or put a hose pipe over it as its now covered in dried on water marks.Grrr.

 

Still waiting a return phone call from them..

Yesterdays return phone call didn't happen.

So i rang them again this morning,explained that i didn't want to book a service i would like to speak to a person in the dealer service department about a previous service.If you ask for the service dept they think you want to book and transfer you to somewhere else off site.

 

Can i get someone to ring you back? Well i'm still waiting for yesterdays return call.15mins later a call from the dealer service manager.

Yes the screen wash was drained and refilled as they don't know whats in the system even though it's full.They just happen to use the same pink screen wash that smells the same blueberry i think,and a  refund

 

As for the car being late,yes the should have rang and given use the option of whether we still wanted to collect that day.

 

As for returning the car in a worse state than dropped off.He offered a valet and wash/wax this i refused.1. I don't have the time even though they offered to collect and return. and 2 after the condition from Monday why should I.

He explained the they have started to use a external valet company that are told to wash and hoover everything no matter what.I am not the first complaint.He said he would sit down with the company manager.

In all,a part refund and a discount for the next service.

No shouting just a conversation and a little banter with a what seemed,as a decent bloke with a difficult at the moment job.

 

So a happy out come..

[AMC Rebel]

Can we leave the politics please?

 

Grump about fuel costing lots fine, but back into another discussion about government and cash will end in the same place as always. 

 

This seems be a reoccurring issue - if you want to discuss it do it by PM or another site. We have had a no politics rule for a while,. 

 

I've been asked (and fully agreed) to knock the politics on the head.  I agree fuel costs a lot and is taxed a lot - beyond that I will now shut up about it for the promotion of greater harmony and old brown cars

[Tadhg Tiogar]

∆It somehow didn't happen in the terrible days before IT which was going to make all our lives more simple...

 

Back then, we just had a room full of filing cabinets and those stacks of little drawers containing index cards, a diary and a typewriter...

[chadders]

I flew to Birmingham on Monday and my flight was cancelled and I had a big delay and flew to a different airport. Today I go to check in for the return and the website doesn’t work .

 

I call them up and they say oh youre a no show for your Monday flight so we cancelled your return flight .

No show I says you cancelled the flight.

It says here you didn’t turn up for the flight

How could I there wasn’t a plane to get on

Says no show here

 

Eventually they but me back in the flight . Made me grumpy though.

I had this with Alitalia a few years ago but they managed to lose my luggage as well.

I checked in, they took my hold luggage and then transferred me to another flight when mine was cancelled

The luggage turned up on the morning I was travelling back, after being lost for 3 days.

I had to buy a new ticket back to Heathrow and then reclaim the amount  - I'd had a shit week and was getting nowhere with the check-in at Milan so thought bollocks my employer can pay and we''ll sort it out later.

[chaseracer]

Back then, we just had a room full of filing cabinets and those stacks of little drawers containing index cards, a diary and a typewriter...

 

...and an older bloke/lady who knew where everything was...

[bub2006]

Hateful fuckin cuntin twatting modern shitbox cockeyed fucking nissan bastard qashqai poxy DCI engined wank stain heap of shit

[beko1987]

Hateful fuckin cuntin twatting modern shitbox cockeyed fucking nissan bastard qashqai poxy DCI engined wank stain heap of shit

Wow, that only took mere weeks!

 

What happened?

[hairnet]

Hospital.

 

Bastard.

[DVee8]

Hateful fuckin cuntin twatting modern shitbox cockeyed fucking nissan bastard qashqai poxy DCI engined wank stain heap of shit

Whats gone wrong now?

[SiC]

There are some right bloody idiots around, the best one is... ME! I got a nasty letter from 'One Call' insurance this morning saying my policy on the Jaguar would be cancelled on the 6th of October because I hadn't supplied my drivers' licence details. I'd seen the request for this on the form when I filled it in and was sure I had done it, I hadn't.

 

Went on their website and did it straight away but I still feel such a fool, old age I guess?

 

Then went on their 'Live Chat' thing to try and confirm all was now well, it doesn't bloody work! Tried about ten different ways to get on but unless I am being a fool again, it really does NOT work. That makes me nearly as grumpy as being a tool.

I had this with one-call not chat working too. Not sure if its an adblocker plug-in I use or something else. Anyway opening up one-call in a Incognito window did the trick and chat worked fine.

[bub2006]

Engine knock,red light of death hunting when cold, hunting when hot now too. Took it into nissan and it's got multiple Comms error fault eci fault,turbo fault. It's got 3k on clock,always warmed up turbo and allowed to cool down,never driven hard,never been over 3k either.

[SiC]

What on earth do you do to cars bub! I've never known someone to be so efficient at breaking them!? You ought to try getting a job as a endurance test driver for one of the car manufacturers.

[New POD]

The bloke I spoke to this morning in the garage I take all our cars to for Mots refused to be drawn on a price or availability of qualified labour for some additional work.

I told him the plan - I sort the omegas hand brake at the weekend.

I drop it off with the parts and locking tools to do the cam belt.

If it fails Mot on handbrake they can fix that too.

He says bring it in Monday and we'll see if it passes on the hand brake and then.we.can discuss what other work is needed.

I explain that I am away all week and as I'm without the car all week, I just want to book it in for next week, because (and I only inferred this) if I can't get it done next week near home, I'll bring it down to where I work and get it done during the following week, so that I don't have to use the mx5 3 weeks on the run.

 

No amount of explaining will change him from his original suggestion which does not work for me.

 

I'm just trying to give them work that I can't be added with, but to be honest my wife is away for the week end in 3 weeks time so I'll just have to man up and crack on then.

[Kiltox]

Relax bub - it’s not yours. They’ll give you a courtesy car.

 

I know it’s a pain when it goes wrong but it’s NYFP - let Motab/Nissan worry about it.

[bub2006]

It's a 1.5dci I think the French has shit itself personally! I've got to take it in in the morning and pick a new car up. I'd not mind if I drove it like I nicked it but I don't!

[Bobthebeard]

Being anxious all the time for no reason...

[captain_70s]

My mate has had several new Nissan company cars. He's had a few problems with several of them despite being low millers and even when they are working he finds them tediously dull.

 

Speaking of tediously dull my cassette adaptor seized up at bit on my way to work today so I had to listen to the radio during my commute. The only station that didn't make me very angry was BBC Radio 3...

[beko1987]

It's a 1.5dci I think the French has shit itself personally! I've got to take it in in the morning and pick a new car up. I'd not mind if I drove it like I nicked it but I don't!

You want a nice reliable laguna 2!

[Tadhg Tiogar]

... I had to listen to the radio during my commute. The only station that didn't make me very angry was BBC Radio 3...

 

God Almighty, does Classic FM piss you off?

[captain_70s]

God Almighty, does Classic FM piss you off?

Probably not but it takes longer to tune in to with the Acclaim's "digital" tuner which defaults to 88MHz whenever you turn the car off...

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

Can I have a word........ 

Sure

I wanted to talk to you about your hours..... Tuesday

 

Tuesday my ex didn't show at the school, 'in a bad way' as is the usual excuse. I had to scoot and get my son before guarderie closed at 6pm. So I only did 7ish hours (bit over).....  Neither you, nor any of the regulars have said a fucking word about the 11and 12hr days I've done doing the catch up on projects because of your internal incompetence. I'm putting in processes and scripts in place so your monkeys can do everything by clicking a fucking button then I'm surplus to requirements. I clock 8hr days...... if you want, we can go back and I'll take all the timecard swipes and work out how many hours you lot owe me....... OK

 

er..... I didn't mean...... 

 

Fuck Off - you did mean........ and I don't appreciate it - it was one fucking day for a stranded 8yr old. Do I leave site now - or can I get on with making your monkeys' lives easier?

 

I think I meant.....

 

I'm busy..... fire me for that or leave me alone. 

 

He's a tedious little weaselling management wannabe spineless fucking arse....... Only a month to go and I'm done here. The IOS and JS experience is the only thing keeping me interested. The crew I'm with are great and apart from this little shit I'd be having a blast...... 

 

/endrant