The grumpy thread

[MikeR]

3 hours ago, louiepj said:

16 hours ago, Cavcraft said:

I researched the legality of stun guns in case (unlikely as it is) I go through London on a scooter one day. Seems it's a very bad idea being caught with one (a stun gun or a scooter!), which is a shame. They can't be far off inventing something that remotely cuts the power if some little fucker has your bike off though.  

Those wrist strap and safety cut off switches for jetski's and motorcross bikes should be an easy mod onto a moped?

another one to look at is the kill cord on a running machine , it can just be a socket near the seat that you plug in to , ?

[MikeR]

just been the shops , some people have not a clue where they are walking , like f in spiders on crack , all over the place   ..and unaware of whats going on

one chap just walked at me ,,,

so I stepped aside and he met the lamp post I was leaning on ....  FFS

[Cavcraft]

Regarding work, in sales it would seem the biggest shit talkers and arse lickers seem to remain, regardless of actual ability or sales.

 

 

Is it possible to go on social media without someone posting a fucking link to Lewis Capaldi proving what an ordinary bloke he is by chatting to Mavis on the till at the local Spar, or something?

 

 

[New POD]

Video conferencing in an open office.  Now that fucks me off.  I'm trying to concentrate. Please fuck off and talk loudly somewhere else. 

* offices should be quiet. 

[Lankytim]

On 7/19/2019 at 4:01 PM, Lankytim said:

Popped back into Halfords this morning to exchange a couple of broken items from my socket set and buy some replacements for sockets lost over the years. Got there at 9.15, two members of staff on site, one changing a bulb outside and the other frantically trying to deal with customers inside. 

I managed to get an exchange universal joint thingy (abused to death) and buy 3 replacement sockets but the poor woman was rushed off her feet, didn't know how to use the system and didn't know what a 13mm double ended ratchet ring spanner was known as on the system, so couldn't order a replacement for my broken one and advised me to come back another day when there was more staff on but didn't know when that would be. I gave up on the 6 or so other replacements I needed for lost sockets, as they were all 1/4 inch and again, she couldn't find them on the system, she also didn't know if replacement cases were included in the warranty. All the time the queue of customers was getting longer and longer and I could feel eyes burning into the back of me.

 

I did like the buzz of shiny new tools going into my elderly socket set though.

 

I'll go back another day.

 

 

The saga continues.

I returned a few days later to find someone that did know how to use the system* and they ordered me a replacement ratchet spanner and blow molded case, "come back in a few days and they'll be here" I decided to ring up after 5 to make sure.... "oh, I can't find them, but they might be here, I'm not sure" Popped in the next day to find the receipt they gave me didn't work as they had pressed the wrong button when ordering and cancelled everything. Right.. thanks.

Much apologising by staff and a re-run of the ordering process. "Theyll deffo be in after 3 days or so" 

Return a week later (today), the girl on the check out needed to find someone who someone who could "work the system" (she was attractive, but I then remembered how old I was and I ended up feeling a bit ashamed) 5 mins later a guy walks up to the desk...

 "they're not here yet, but they should be here by tomorrow, they're all ordered"- Que uncharacteristic outburst from myself, explaining how i don't believe him and how i've been waiting a month odd and been up and down 4 times to his poxy branch and got nowhere.

Speed off home and make a complaint on their live chat system.

I deal with someone called Jay who i;m not sure is a real person or a robot. Jay says the case isn't included in the warranty, but will email the branch to reiterate my acute dissatisfaction with their quite frankly shit service. As i'm chatting to Jay I miss a call, it's Mark from Halfords and he wants me to ring them back. 

I ring back but get through to the bike department upstairs.. The youngster on the phone sounds a bit flustered. Turns out he doesn't know how to transfer me to the phone downstairs so tells me the best thing to do is to hang up, ring back and hope that Mark answers...

This I do and Mark himself answers... It's the guy I accused of lying earlier on.

Apparently the ratchet spanner and the case are there, and have been there for days "but we forgot to book them in" he awkwardly chuckles. Sorry about that.

I'm popping back in tomorrow to pick them up. Anybody want to give me odds on them either,

A) Getting lost between today and tomorrow,

b) Being the wrong bits

C) not existing in the first place

 

PRACE BETS NOW.

[louiepj]

Kill switch from a jet ski?

Yup most jet ski's are 12v and the switches should* be waterproof and perfect on a moped in summer

[anonymous user]

7 hours ago, louiepj said:

20 hours ago, Cavcraft said:

I researched the legality of stun guns in case (unlikely as it is) I go through London on a scooter one day. Seems it's a very bad idea being caught with one (a stun gun or a scooter!), which is a shame. They can't be far off inventing something that remotely cuts the power if some little fucker has your bike off though.  

Those wrist strap and safety cut off switches for jetski's and motorcross bikes should be an easy mod onto a moped?

But not much good if they hack your hand off with a machete.

[Parky]

3 hours ago, HarmonicCheeseburger said:

I see no rules about being dressed as Batman for said calls. 

I am thinking of getting a hat saying “xxxxx is a cunt” and wearing that.  After all if I am in my own home dialling in i can wear home working attire

If he complains or threatens me, I will do the next one in a hat saying “last hat still applies”

[MikeR]

4 hours ago, New POD said:

Video conferencing in an open office.  Now that fucks me off.  I'm trying to concentrate. Please fuck off and talk loudly somewhere else. 

* offices should be quiet. 

and you always get the one who does not need a phone to talk to the other side of the world ....

[richardmorris]

1 hour ago, MikeR said:

and you always get the one who does not need a phone to talk to the other side of the world ....

My Grump would be the other way - those that phone you up but you can’t hear because they are holding their mobiles flat  like brain dead idiots off the tv. 

[chaseracer]

6 hours ago, Cavcraft said:

...Lewis Capaldi...

Who?

[3VOM]

14 hours ago, Parky said:

I am thinking of getting a hat saying “xxxxx is a cunt” and wearing that.  After all if I am in my own home dialling in i can wear home working attire

If he complains or threatens me, I will do the next one in a hat saying “last hat still applies”

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwiGoOu3ufrjAhWm34UKHU8CB2wQjRx6BAgBEAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FPaused-Game-Here-Gamer-Baseball%2Fdp%2FB07DKPDR6G&psig=AOvVaw3ZV7rogUHjzyQGdwF3reKS&ust=1565600216262531

[EssDeeWon]

5G IS COMING! Whoopee Doo!

Still waiting to see proof this shiz is safe to be blasted out around us mere mortals and the wildlife.  

For anyone who thinks 5G is just a better quicker version of 4G maybe read up and make your own minds up. 

[Parky]

I personally welcome our Chinese masters knowing that I saw a Hyundai Grandeur in Frinton three weeks ago

[Noel Tidybeard]

20 hours ago, HarmonicCheeseburger said:

I see no rules about not being dressed for said calls. 

EFlols

[richardthestag]

last company I worked for had this poxy webcam rule even though we were 100% homeworkers, although it wasnt strictly enforced.

some used to wear onsies , amusing t-shirts, unshaven, mirrored sunglasses, eating ice creams etc. 

The system displayed the main speaker in the big window on every participants screen. we found that by tapping my mic every 4 seconds that individual appear briefly before flicking back to the speaker.

Then we found that you could type anything in textually as your name in the web conference, I was often Bob for no good reason, misspelling their own name seemed to amuse some. Mild profanity others.

Text messages could be sent to every participant also by anyone. "I cannot believe I am being paid for this!" "there is another 1hour of my life I will never get back" etc etc

The biggest crime was changing your on-hold tone of your work mobile phone to a loud piece of company theme music and going on hold during a web conference. nobody could hear anything else. I never did that but a number of others in the global community did. 

a smear of gloop on the lense rendered the image a bit too soft focus, slowly one by one the webcams got turned off and nobody seemed to complain.

Things tightened up at a corporate level but at a team level all manner of mischief kept us alert

Web conferencing was a nice idea, but needs developing more, glad I don't have to do that crap any more.

[Lankytim]

HALFORDS UPDATE.

 

Went back, couldn't find the items i'd ordered until I pointed them out waiting for me behind the counter. Ratchet spanner is spot on but the case is from an updated set and has some tools deleted and others added, it all sort-of fits, being plastic I heated it with a hot air gun to some bits would go in. Finally pleased. 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

8 hours ago, richardthestag said:

.....The biggest crime was changing your on-hold tone of your work mobile phone to a loud piece of company theme music and going on hold during a web conference. nobody could hear anything else.....

This sounds like great craic, on a level with mobile ringtones to identify certain callers, e.g. Star Wars' "Imperial March" for your senior manager, Saint-Saens' "Danse Macabre" for HR, etc.

[Sir Chocolate Teapot]

The writing implies comfort

Quite literally "does it my arse !"

[colnerov]

 

 How easy is it to get them back out?

[anonymous user]

52 minutes ago, colnerov said:

 

 How easy is it to get them back out?

Fire Brigade job I expect

[MikeR]

On 8/11/2019 at 10:39 AM, EssDeeWon said:

5G IS COMING! Whoopee Doo!

Still waiting to see proof this shiz is safe to be blasted out around us mere mortals and the wildlife.  

For anyone who thinks 5G is just a better quicker version of 4G maybe read up and make your own minds up. 

  even faster for what , its like putting the road speed up on a gridlocked road ...

I can make phone calls , get texts , and use the web already ..

as long as I don't go out in the fields  !

[barefoot]

I have just driven my T2 out into the street, erected the roof and fitted new curtains, and then I drove it back onto my drive.

Anyone spot what I didn't do?

Yup, forgot to put the top down & drove it into the roof of my car port. What a complete twat.

Insurance job here we come.

[Schaefft]

This is the first time I'm posting in this thread, and it won't change anything but: I've been driving from Goodwood all the way back to Newcastle yesterday and experienced the whole misery of what is long distant traveling (during the day) in this country. Why are a majority of people here completely incapable of using the inside lanes? Some sections I've been on were 4-lane motorways, yet it was impossible to go 70 on unobstructed sections of road because nobody would move over to the inside lanes, while at the same time leaving 100m+ gaps in front of them. I realize that there are ******* (self censored) all over the roads that believe going 55mph in their Getz is perfectly acceptable, to the point where trucks have to use the 3rd lane in flowing traffic to overtake others. But if the roads are mostly clear and there is no reason to block the entire motorway, move the hell over. This shit is exactly the reason why I will never support a general speedlimit on the Autobahn. Some people really need the fear of being rearend by someone going 100mph to realize that they are holding up everyone behind them.

[dozeydustman]

15 minutes ago, Schaefft said:

This is the first time I'm posting in this thread, and it won't change anything but: I've been driving from Goodwood all the way back to Newcastle yesterday and experienced the whole misery of what is long distant traveling (during the day) in this country. Why are a majority of people here completely incapable of using the inside lanes? Some sections I've been on were 4-lane motorways, yet it was impossible to go 70 on unobstructed sections of road because nobody would move over to the inside lanes, while at the same time leaving 100m+ gaps in front of them. I realize that there are ******* (self censored) all over the roads that believe going 55mph in their Getz is perfectly acceptable, to the point where trucks have to use the 3rd lane in flowing traffic to overtake others. But if the roads are mostly clear and there is no reason to block the entire motorway, move the hell over. This shit is exactly the reason why I will never support a general speedlimit on the Autobahn. Some people really need the fear of being rearend by someone going 100mph to realize that they are holding up everyone behind them.

The middle lane driver is the bane of anyone driving an HGV or bus. Should be a harsher penalty for lane hogging than speeding. Lanes 1 & 2 of the M25 clockwise around the Clackett lane area were empty last night half 8-9pm save the occasional lorry. Lanes 3 & 4 were running at 60-65 because nobody would move over, so I went past most of them in lanes 1 & 2.

[Schaefft]

2 minutes ago, dozeydustman said:

The middle lane driver is the bane of anyone driving an HGV or bus. Should be a harsher penalty for lane hogging than speeding. Lanes 1 & 2 of the M25 clockwise around the Clackett lane area were empty last night half 8-9pm save the occasional lorry. Lanes 3 & 4 were running at 60-65 because nobody would move over, so I went past most of them in lanes 1 & 2.

Agreed. I did the same on a few occasions, it just pissed me off so much. The problem is, people usually dont even get it when they get overtaken on both sides at the same time and just stay where they are. A majority of drivers have zero awareness and anticipation skills. Whats taught here during driving tests is similar to Germany but having close to the lowest motorway speed limits in the world sure doesn't help educate people on how to focus while driving. Or maybe noone just gives a shit, its not like people know how to indicate either.

[dozeydustman]

Just now, Schaefft said:

Agreed. I did the same on a few occasions, it just pissed me off so much. The problem is, people usually dont even get it when they get overtaken on both sides at the same time and just stay where they are. A majority of drivers have zero awareness and anticipation skills. Whats taught here during driving tests is similar to Germany but having close to the lowest motorway speed limits in the world sure doesn't help educate people on how to focus while driving. Or maybe noone just gives a shit, its not like people know how to indicate either.

Sadly not every learner has access to a dual carriageway or motorway for their lessons. All in favour of making dual carriageway and/or motorway driving part of the driving test. That is providing the instructors practice what they preach when off duty; I've seen plenty of driving school cars where a solo driver (the instructor?) is farting around at 60 in the middle lane.

[Schaefft]

Okay, if driving lessons on motorways arent even mandatory, its absolutely no surprise to me whats going on here. Jesus...

[loserone]

Not just not mandatory, actually not possible to take learners on the motorway until recently.

[dozeydustman]

Through my experience @Schaefft the worst offenders aren't the young or newer drivers, it's:

1. Airport taxis/connections/transfers, normally Addison Lee
2. Old biddies/giffers in their Jazz/Micra/generic smoll car
3. Some complete and utter prat who is unaware of their surroundings, goes straight to lane 2 (or 3) and stays there at 60, then sweeps straight across between the 100 yard marker and off slip when they want to leave.

Meanwhile I'm grumpy as it's been quite a decent day and was really sunny at lunchtime. It's now thundering and raining, and I really do need to do my EGR valve.