The grumpy thread

[LostnotFound]

If you think thats bad, try dealing with them when you've actually paid off the loan*. Took me 4 calls to get that sorted.

 

When I did my Self Assessment it came through that I was still needing to pay my loan back. Took 6 calls to the HMRC before eventually someone there got it sorted.

 

Seems like they don't expect you to ever pay it back...

 

 

* I (just) was on the older system (changed the year after I started), so I only had ~1k p/a of fees then ~3k p/a of loan. So it was plausible for someone to actually pay it back. Very much feel sorry for those that have 48k+ of loan/tax which they have to repay.

 

 

My eldest son paid his off quite quickly and a year later discovered that he had paid double the amount he should have.

He did have the excess refunded but not without a fight.

 

 

My older sister had the same fun paying hers off. It's impossible to find anyone with a good word to say about what is a huge multi million pound operation.

 

They lose a lot of money when people who move abroad don't bother paying, often with the reason it's more effort than it's worth with tales of people teaching English as a foreign language in Asian countries being expected to post shed loads of paperwork to prove their income and bank accounts which then get 'lost' something I can well believe. 

[rainagain]

Just had my yearly review at work, despite getting a good review it translates into another below inflation pay rise which in other words is a pay cut. I could understand it if the company wasn't doing very well but profits in our section are up 23% this year, this is the Dollar increase if you look at the increase in local currency it's actually 38%, no doubt helped by shafting all their employees. My colleagues are the same and also got below inflation 'rises'.

 

I'm going to spend the rest of today updating my LinkedIn page and dusting off my CV, sick of their tightness. 

[Aston Martin]

Jeremy Vine is normally awful.... Today was life endingly bad

[sierraman]

Just had my yearly review at work, despite getting a good review it translates into another below inflation pay rise which in other words is a pay cut. I could understand it if the company wasn't doing very well but profits in our section are up 23% this year, this is the Dollar increase if you look at the increase in local currency it's actually 38%, no doubt helped by shafting all their employees. My colleagues are the same and also got below inflation 'rises'.

 

I'm going to spend the rest of today updating my LinkedIn page and dusting off my CV, sick of their tightness.

Some companies work in a funny way with stuff like this, if you are at the top of the pay scale you get a paltry amount whereas if you are new to that grade you get a hefty rise. Consider yourself lucky you didn’t get a pay cut as I did.

[rainagain]

Some companies work in a funny way with stuff like this, if you are at the top of the pay scale you get a paltry amount whereas if you are new to that grade you get a hefty rise. Consider yourself lucky you didn’t get a pay cut as I did.

 

Sorry to hear about your cut, my boss did the usual bit of dangling the carrot of moving up grade again, he does this every year but nothing ever happens. 

[beko1987]

There's a scrap wagon parked outside the office and although I'm not sure what the car is, it's made me very sad that the red car is on there

 

 

We all agreed that it was grandads car, who died 3 months ago and the kids got rid. Made me slightly happier that I wasnt the only person to be sad by that.

 

What a waste

[Lacquer Peel]

It's a Mk1 SEAT Ibiza.

[Aston Martin]

Seat Ibiza I think

[Snipes]

I think it's an Ibiza.

Facelift though, which makes it look a bit VW to my eye.

 

I'm grumpy because work expect me to commute to London on a rate waaaaaayy below what I should expect (about £6 or £7 p/h less). I'm not getting on the bloody train with all my gear for nothing to show for it.

[Uncle Jimmy]

Jeremy Vine is normally awful.... Today was life endingly bad

Jeremy Vine is a high end ..... (searches mind for something that won't upset the mind police), I think he knows it though. I imagine he's married, fuck knows what kind of level of patience the unlucky lady must have.

[Uncle Jimmy]

FUCKING shitty aluminium step ladders.

Flimsy, noisy, skiddy twats that slide around the place.

Anyone know of somewhere you can still buy a good old skool wooden job?

[Eddie Honda]

https://www.hulley-ladders.co.uk/about/

 

"MADE IN SHEFFIELD TO YOUR SPECIFICATION – Please contact us if you don’t see just what you are looking for"

[myglaren]

Some on Amazon but they look like crap.

My wooden ones were made by my dad, 65 years ago :)Have you looked at fibreglass electricians steps.  Considering some myself as my ally ones have taken up residence with my daughter.

[treehugger]

Jeremy Vine is normally awful.... Today was life endingly bad

He's worse on "Eggheads".

[MikeR]

according to my Chinese fitbit , I wonder if I sleep at night or just die for short periods of time ?

 

more alcohol needed ?

[Supernaut]

Fucking Yodel fucking incompetent fuckwits couldn't find their own arse with both hands.

 

Parcel was due for delivery on Monday. I wasn't in. Yodel didn't even leave a card.

I selected to pick it up from the local depot. Their local depot is actually a local courier company under a different name altogether.

 

I turn up to collect it and the shift supervisor admits that somebody has made a massive cock-up. After only one attempted delivery, somebody has sent the whole lot back to Ebuyer! FFS!

 

Now I've had to contact Ebuyer and explain it all, asking them to resend it, refund my postage, and give Yodel a stern talking to.

 

I'm never buying anything from Ebuyer again knowing that they use those fucking chumps for delivery purposes.

[omegod]

The other stuff on that transporter doesn't look scrap and I think I spy a broken tail light on the Ibiza, I'll keep an eye on Copart !!!!!!

[beko1987]

The other stuff on that transporter doesn't look scrap and I think I spy a broken tail light on the Ibiza, I'll keep an eye on Copart !!!!!!

3 were smashed up at the front, but probably modern enough to be sold. I wasn't interested in those though!

[Louise2cv]

People treating me like a moron and lying through their teeth. Especially over petty nonsense.

[richardmorris]

People treating me like a moron and lying through their teeth. Especially over petty nonsense.

I hope you called them on it?

[anonymous user]

FUCKING shitty aluminium step ladders.

Flimsy, noisy, skiddy twats that slide around the place.

Anyone know of somewhere you can still buy a good old skool wooden job?

 

They've all ended up in artisan markets, upcycled with chalk paint, sorry about that. (Not sure if I still have one left in the cellar, I'll have a look tomorrow)

[sierraman]

Gumtree throws some up sometimes. I do prefer a wooden ladder as well. Just got to check the steps aren’t loose on them otherwise they’re a fucking hazard.

[puddlethumper]

Fucking Yodel fucking incompetent fuckwits couldn't find their own arse with both hands.

 

Parcel was due for delivery on Monday. I wasn't in. Yodel didn't even leave a card.

I selected to pick it up from the local depot. Their local depot is actually a local courier company under a different name altogether.

 

I turn up to collect it and the shift supervisor admits that somebody has made a massive cock-up. After only one attempted delivery, somebody has sent the whole lot back to Ebuyer! FFS!

 

Now I've had to contact Ebuyer and explain it all, asking them to resend it, refund my postage, and give Yodel a stern talking to.

 

I'm never buying anything from Ebuyer again knowing that they use those fucking chumps for delivery purposes.

Agreed about effing Yodel. With me they tried to deliver and left a card. Fair do's. 

Same day got the phone number of driver. Rang for ages, no answer. Rang again

next morning, no answer. Tried calling during the day, no answer. Got home from

work, another card. Tried ringing, no answer. Was on their site and was told it was

out in the van so I couldn't pick it up. Next day, guess what ? Yep, another fuckin 

card. The next day was precisely the same. Took me four days to get it.

I don't like to cast aspersions on the intelligence of anyone but Mr Yokel driver,

I have to say, was the blunt tool in the wooden edifice.

I live in an old house turned into flats and the front entrance doesn't have bells

so coming here once and finding there was no way of alerting the occupant leaving

a card is a good first move. Coming back 3 days in a row knowing the outcome would

be EXACTLY the fuckin same and NOT ANSWERING the phone strikes me as 

someone who is far removed from Einstein, or anyone else with a modicum of common

sense for that matter. 

When I did eventually get it from the depot I told what had happened and the nice lady

said she would give him a kick up the arse. I hope she did.

[Tamworthbay]

I won’t order from a company if they use Yodel BUT I do feel sorry for the drivers, the number of drops they have to do is crazy. The reason he didn’t answer you is probably because he didn’t have time to stop.

[richardmorris]

I won’t order from a company if they use Yodel BUT I do feel sorry for the drivers, the number of drops they have to do is crazy. The reason he didn’t answer you is probably because he didn’t have time to stop.

Yodel is easily the worst from my experiences - owned by the weirdo telegraph Barclay brothers isn’t it? I’ve stopped using a few companies because of yodel and told them exactly why.

[beko1987]

Very overworked! I caught our local hermes woman struggling to see out of her windscreen over christmas, she'd run out of screenwash and didnt have time to top it up before she had to leave. I did it for her from my bottle of pre-mix as she delivered a few parcels around our square of houses. She likes us because Amy told her to just leave anything in the playhouse in the garden, gate's a;ways open.

 

I've seen the Amazon van (yodel or hermes) outside the office many times with the guy hoofing boxes off the van onto the car park, getting the massive pile for the office, then lobbing everything back on the van... Then struggling to do 2 or 3 trips worth into reception to scan them all in in one trip.

[puddlethumper]

FUCKING shitty aluminium step ladders.

Flimsy, noisy, skiddy twats that slide around the place.

Anyone know of somewhere you can still buy a good old skool wooden job?

I know what you mean Nibbles. Being a carpenter I make my own swing backs.

Hulleys look good if you want to spend the money but £120 for a small

swing back ? Blimey, sounds a lot to me. I might look into how much I could 

make one for. Probably a limited market though.

[puddlethumper]

I won’t order from a company if they use Yodel BUT I do feel sorry for the drivers, the number of drops they have to do is crazy. The reason he didn’t answer you is probably because he didn’t have time to stop.

I understand they have to go like shit but if that's the case then don't give out the

drivers number, and after two failed attempts why go for a third knowing the outcome ?

[Tamworthbay]

I understand they have to go like shit but if that's the case then don't give out the

drivers number, and after two failed attempts why go for a third knowing the outcome ?

It’s that typical shit management thing though, someone will have decided it works and is a good idea but is actually a total cockwomble who has no idea what the job really entails.

[richardmorris]

Most of our couriers are great and enjoy themselves- dhl, fed ex, dpd, in particular but yodel are bad. Ups don’t seem to bother about staff trainging either and our local driver doesn’t say a word but thrusts the parcel at you and hands out his pad to sign at the same time.

 

Yodel drivers in the past have chucked a nesspresso machine over the gate at work ( not mine a neighbours), left a box of books from Waterstones outside the gate in the rain and stolen -to my count, three cases of wine.