The grumpy thread

[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.

[Pillock]

UPS. Bought something off a 'shiter in Dundee, and the courier sent me a text message to say it would be delivered Wednesday. It was dropped into the system 3pm Tuesday.

 

I wasn't going to be in Wednesday, so on Tuesday evening I used their online service to redirect it to a UPS Parcelshop no more than a couple of miles from my house. Tracking shows it arrived in Tamworth, which isn't a million miles from my house, at 11pm Tuesday evening. So far, so good.

 

This redirect seemed to put it on hold and it's showing as "exception", and it doesn't move for all of Wednesday. I phone up to ask why, and apparently "3pm is too late for next day delivery". I said the tracking showed it was picked up the same day, but he just said only I could undo the redirect using the website. I try, all sorts of error messages. Give up, decide to just let it get redirected even though I'm at home Thursday.

 

Check tracking Thursday morning expecting to see that it's out for delivery to the dropoff. Parcel is now headed back to Dundee where it arrives at 2pm.

It leaves Dundee at 6pm, destination Tamworth. Seemingly putting a redirect in makes them send it all the way back to the start point to try again!

Arrives Tamworth 1am Friday, "out for delivery" 2am. Arrives back at Tamworth 6pm Friday after seemingly being just on a day trip.

 

WTF??! They're just driving my parcel around the country! Fair play to the seller, there are no decent couriers so this is not their fault but the level of tracking offered means this is just a farce. It's done a 360 mile trip three times, for a cost of about £8.

[richardmorris]

Grrr. Citroën traction I was after went in the magazine this month (arrived today) and my mechanic friend Pete has just phoned to arrange a time to go up but two people are going to view tomorrow, one with a trailer.

 

Oh the annoying money burning a hole first world issues.

[anonymous user]

Grrr. Citroën traction I was after went in the magazine this month (arrived today) and my mechanic friend Pete has just phoned to arrange a time to go up but two people are going to view tomorrow, one with a trailer.

 

Oh the annoying money burning a hole first world issues.

Buy a Land Rover, surplus money would soon be a thing of the past

[richardmorris]

Buy a Land Rover, surplus money would soon be a thing of the past

The theory* of this flight of fancy is that all being well I can sell it for what it has cost me if I don’t get on.

[DeeJay]

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 had a step ladder.

 

 

Couldn't have a ladder of my own.

[New POD]

Somehow, on the way to somewhere 1.5 hours North, tomorrow afternoon, I have to detour south to the centre of Liverpool to stop off at my 22 year old daughter's flat to fit a fucking h7 bulb to the front headlight of a Bini.

This has got to be the easiest job in the fucking world but apparently it's too fucking difficult for a woman with a 1st class masters degree in pharmacy or her boyfriend whose got a music degree.

I'm still waiting to be paid for half the cost of a clutch and now it needs a gearbox.

I've not got 5 mins to wash my own car, let alone look at the things that are not right with it, but this takes the fucking Mickey mouse.

[SiC]

Somehow, on the way to somewhere 1.5 hours North, tomorrow afternoon, I have to detour south to the centre of Liverpool to stop off at my 22 year old daughter's flat to fit a fucking h7 bulb to the front headlight of a Bini.

This has got to be the easiest job in the fucking world but apparently it's too fucking difficult for a woman with a 1st class masters degree in pharmacy or her boyfriend whose got a music degree.

I'm still waiting to be paid for half the cost of a clutch and now it needs a gearbox.

I've not got 5 mins to wash my own car, let alone look at the things that are not right with it, but this takes the fucking Mickey mouse.

It's what dad's are for!

[SiC]

Actually reminds me of the time my dad had to drive 3 hours roundtrip to fix my sisters car when she was at uni. She managed to smash the rear light cluster by reversing into a tree. A tree that was the only one in the car park.

 

This was only a week after he had to do the same, except replace a headlamp. That time she tried parallel parking and ended up hitting the back of a neighbours pickup truck. Luckily (for her) the neighbours truck wasn't really damaged nor did he care.

[Pillock]

Parcel update.

 

It's now held because of an "incomplete address".

That's the address that their system put on it when I redirected it. The address that is indeed awfully formatted ("name of shop, road name, house number, city, postcode") but I didn't get an option to correct it. And actually anyone with an ounce of sense can work out where to send it, it's one of their regular pickup points.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Somehow, on the way to somewhere 1.5 hours North, tomorrow afternoon, I have to detour south to the centre of Liverpool to stop off at my 22 year old daughter's flat to fit a fucking h7 bulb to the front headlight of a Bini.

This has got to be the easiest job in the fucking world but apparently it's too fucking difficult for a woman with a 1st class masters degree in pharmacy or her boyfriend whose got a music degree.

I'm still waiting to be paid for half the cost of a clutch and now it needs a gearbox.

I've not got 5 mins to wash my own car, let alone look at the things that are not right with it, but this takes the fucking Mickey mouse.

Slave to the rhythm?

[New POD]

It's what dad's are for!

Yeah. Went to local motor factors and paid £10 for 2. Popping in after lunch.

Am now waiting wife coming out of physio appointment. Which will doubtless not improve her mood as she'll be in pain lots of pain.

But if it fixes the pain long term...it must be worth it.

[treehugger]

To continue parcel stories, I had one from Holland, thought was fortnight late, turned out to be in local post office for a fortnight. I didnt know, no card through door. Thought it was still in Holland. Wasnt even Royal Mail, so God knows how it ended up at Post Office.

[omegod]

Finally got round to servicing the focus, spark plugs were "oh fuck these are going to snap" tight, finger tight and nip them up for fuck sake 

[Wack]

I was going though some YouTube videos when I came across this one which has been updated

 

Guy leaves his car parked and this twat keys it , only 12 months on there's an update , police agreed this was a video of the guy damaging his car , they traced him, his excuse , parked too close and he'd had a bad day

 

Agreed straight away to pay the £1300 repair cost but no charges , what's the point in having a criminal damage law if they're not going to do anything about it, he needs to be answering yes to do you have any criminal convictions on every form for the next 5 years

 

[Jazoli]

Somehow, on the way to somewhere 1.5 hours North, tomorrow afternoon, I have to detour south to the centre of Liverpool to stop off at my 22 year old daughter's flat to fit a fucking h7 bulb to the front headlight of a Bini.

This has got to be the easiest job in the fucking world but apparently it's too fucking difficult for a woman with a 1st class masters degree in pharmacy or her boyfriend whose got a music degree.

I'm still waiting to be paid for half the cost of a clutch and now it needs a gearbox.

I've not got 5 mins to wash my own car, let alone look at the things that are not right with it, but this takes the fucking Mickey mouse.

 

 

Should have told her to go to halfords and pay to have one fitted, my daughter tried the same with me, she was told to learn or pay, she paid the first time then when she came home I showed her how to do it, fucking useless boyfriend who can't even wipe his own arse without help.

[The Moog]

I can't find the remapped ECU from the 406 . Was hoping to sell it for car bits.

 

I think it might have gone to the crusher with the rest of the car

[greengartside]

Daily Fiesta is being a pain.

 

Went to dad’s earlier, got stuff out of the boot, put stuff in and shut it again. Go to drive off and *bleep bleep bleep* goes the car. The info display says ‘Boot open’. Open and shut boot again and *bleep bleep bleep* it goes, interior lights come on. Turns out the micro switch has failed in the boot latch, so that’s another £30+ down the drain. I can’t even unplug it because it sets the alarm off when I lock it. I’ve had to disconnect the battery to stop it going flat because of the lights staying on! Fucking modern toss!

[HillmanImp]

I've managed to overexert myself whilst standing still looking at my bike and have put out my back.

 

I was literally stood there doing nothing and then was bent over in pain.

 

Fuck knows why.

 

I desperately need to sort the rear drum on the GT6 today too but don't fancy my chances when I'm like this FFS.

[MikeR]

In a caravan with Newpod...

 

Its raining. ...

 

And going to rain all day !

[MikeR]

The rain /sleet /snow is now horizontel .......

[Timewaster]

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