The grumpy thread

[High Jetter]

5 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

Luckily there's still a launderette nearby... 

FTFY

[beko1987]

Nope, no laundrette here! Mummy has offered her services though. 

But the above image shows my model number, but plugging it and the serial of the machine into the Hotpoint website shows all as being fine

There's another site being bandied about by the media from indiset, but it's dead atm as their development team must be a pile of wank. I've flicked it off at the wall for now, will still use it tbh, although maybe when I'm home. Although the prospect of free washing is appealing... 

[Split_Pin]

Calculated and agreed with my line manager at my previous employer, using the Bank's prescribed calculator that they owed me 2.5 days holiday as at my leaving date which I took.

However she left before I did and the horrible cunt that ran the department I used to work for and whom subsequently got a new role as head of my then current department (avoiding a deserved redundancy) wanted to recalculate all this but wouldn't tell me the outcome.

Got my P45 and final pay.

£38.

He's ripped my cunt for £570. FIVE HUNDERED AND SEVENTY QUID.

They were not content with making me redundant.

It's beyond fucking words.

[richardmorris]

36 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

Calculated and agreed with my line manager at my previous employer, using the Bank's prescribed calculator that they owed me 2.5 days holiday as at my leaving date which I took.

However she left before I did and the horrible cunt that ran the department I used to work for and whom subsequently got a new role as head of my then current department (avoiding a deserved redundancy) wanted to recalculate all this but wouldn't tell me the outcome.

Got my P45 and final pay.

£38.

He's ripped my cunt for £570. FIVE HUNDERED AND SEVENTY QUID.

They were not content with making me redundant.

It's beyond fucking words.

@chaseracer to the beige worker’s  phone please. 

Ps. That’s awful! My company would pay people to the end of the month regardless as it saves the bloody hassle.

[auntiemaryscanary]

1 hour ago, beko1987 said:

Nope, no laundrette here! Mummy has offered her services though. 

But the above image shows my model number, but plugging it and the serial of the machine into the Hotpoint website shows all as being fine

There's another site being bandied about by the media from indiset, but it's dead atm as their development team must be a pile of wank. I've flicked it off at the wall for now, will still use it tbh, although maybe when I'm home. Although the prospect of free washing is appealing... 

My machine is on that dreaded list too plus can't get on their site. Supposedly not meant to use machine at all! The wife says "that ain't going to happen!". It only took them a year to get to us to *modify the tumble dryer.

Won't be buying anything whirlpool/indesit/hoover ever again!

[richardmorris]

3 minutes ago, auntiemaryscanary said:

My machine is on that dreaded list too plus can't get on their site. Supposedly not meant to use machine at all! The wife says "that ain't going to happen!". It only took them a year to get to us to *modify the tumble dryer.

Won't be buying anything whirlpool/indesit/hoover ever again!

My hotpoint washing machine was new in Feb 2003.  I think If it was going to catch fire it would have done so by now. My landlords bought it new for me when I moved in in 2003, and I paid them £50 for it in 2010. 

[auntiemaryscanary]

4 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

My hotpoint washing machine was new in Feb 2003.  I think If it was going to catch fire it would have done so by now. My landlords bought it new for me when I moved in in 2003, and I paid them £50 for it in 2010. 

Luckily our machine is only 2.5 years old. WCPGW...

[beko1987]

Yea im still going to use it! I only do a load a week! Ill stop setting the timer so it washes and stops half an hour before I get home though... 

If I can get onto the list I'll register it. I'll also fire off an email to the letting agent as as a bit of a bonus it's not mine! I won't go shouting though, I'll ask if they've heard of it, and did they want to deal with it, or me, and also what the time line is for repair/replacement as it's part of my tenancy blah blah. 

I know it's been fine as I kicked the door in anger during a row with Amy and punched the lock into the machine. I lied to the agent and the bloke came round and opened the machine up and screwed it back in and it's been fine. Was apart 4 months back to replace the pump too. 

But if I take my washing round to mummy's I'll save leccy and water, and she hasn't stopped fucking going on about it, she'd be happier if I booted it into the garden now I think! 

[beko1987]

Also I should say that the screenshot from the Hotpoint site I posted is bollocks. Its from an earlier recall (lol) and is still active. 

Got to wait for the indishit site to worm

[beko1987]

Which has proper FTP'd

[richardmorris]

3 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

Which has proper FTP'd

Perhaps it’s caught fire?

[MarvinsMom]

why is it, that the interview for the job what i really wanted was a friggin' car crash, and the interview for the ob that i do not want, went really well.

well enough for them to offer me the bloody thing?

shit.

and why don't i want it? 

well its in Dudley, which is a fuckin' shit hole (even compared with Stockton or Hartlepool) and that its more than 4 hours drive from home.

i think i'll pass, thanks.....

[GrumpiusMaximus]

30 minutes ago, MarvinsMom said:

why is it, that the interview for the job what i really wanted was a friggin' car crash, and the interview for the ob that i do not want, went really well.

well enough for them to offer me the bloody thing?

shit.

and why don't i want it? 

well its in Dudley, which is a fuckin' shit hole (even compared with Stockton or Hartlepool) and that its more than 4 hours drive from home.

i think i'll pass, thanks.....

You've always got the Black Country Living Museum though, that's worth a visit for the trolleybus alone...

[MarvinsMom]

3 minutes ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

You've always got the Black Country Living Museum though, that's worth a visit for the trolleybus alone...

the road signs also mentioned Dudley Zoo - i didn't realise it was a safari park type thing you drive your car through......

the chance of riding a trolleybus, i'm not sure that will compensate for been away from home, the other half and our kitty cat.!

plus the FiL is ailling, and SWMBO is having some medical issues of her own. another good reason why i don't want to be so far from home

 

[chaseracer]

1 hour ago, richardmorris said:

@chaseracer to the beige worker’s  phone please. 

@Split_Pin

Did you get that agreement with your previous line manager in writing?

[Rovorsche]

13 minutes ago, chaseracer said:

@Split_Pin

Did you get that agreement with your previous line manager in writing?

Or was it quoted in an Email ?
Emails can be requested if you go to Acas or similar

[GrumpiusMaximus]

23 minutes ago, MarvinsMom said:

the road signs also mentioned Dudley Zoo - i didn't realise it was a safari park type thing you drive your car through......

the chance of riding a trolleybus, i'm not sure that will compensate for been away from home, the other half and our kitty cat.!

plus the FiL is ailling, and SWMBO is having some medical issues of her own. another good reason why i don't want to be so far from home

 

When my folks were first married, they lived in Dudley over the road from the Living Museum (just after it had opened) and had good things to say about it.  Dudley Zoo circa 1981, however...

[paulplom]

18 hours ago, Inspector Morose said:

Saab goes in for Mot today. Not usually much of a problem there but it chooses THAT MOMENT to shit its steering rack an piss all of its fluid out into the testers pit. 

YOU FUCKING ARSEHOLE!

It gets better. My tame tester is ff for Christmas after tomorrow  so won't be able to do anything until the new year (he doesn't really do anything like this normally - he's more of a general service and MoT man and avoids more involved jobs. Okay, I'll try and get it over to my tame Saab wrangler then. Checks MoT to make sure the fail hasn't flagged up on the system.

IT FUCKING RAN OUT ON THE 7TH. I swear it was the end of the month. So now I have an immobile car that can't be repaired soon and will cost to get sorted. At Christmas. When I need the car. When I need the money.

FUCK FUCK FUCKITY FUCK FUCK.

 

Needless to say, I'm a bit miffed (and reasonably stressed out about it).

If you're local and gan canny you can lend my volvo.

Or (just noticed) @Floatylight's saab.

[Lankytim]

Looks like the oval track, go-kart facility and general motorsports venue Birmingham Wheels is set to be sold off to developers very soon. This is on top of several oval tracks and Shakespeare raceway drag strip that have fallen under the developers axe recently.

from what I’ve read the demise of Birmingham wheels has been especially underhand, the site is owned by Birmingham city council and leased to a charity set up by Birmingham city council called The Birmingham wheels company, over the past few years the Council has increased rent to an unsustainable level and is now attempting to evict BWC.... so the Council is evicting itself pretty much. There’s also a 98 year lease on the site which is seeming meaningless. 
 

The council have been trying to develop the site for around 20 years, using various creative methods to evict the tenants, this time they look like they might’ve got their wish. Many brown envelopes are possibly changing hands. 
 

Two independent studies have suggested they need to relocate the current activities to another council supplied site but obviously the council have told them to FRO regarding this.

Depressing. 

[Floatylight]

Just seen about this on FB, you can buy fake currency on eBay that is clearly intended to be passed off as real, so be careful accepting cash folks!!

 

Sent from my Moto G (5) using Tapatalk

 

 

 

 

[loserone]

This is why I only take PayPal m8

[Lankytim]

There’s a few scams like this on FB, fake money, driving licences etc. I don’t think you get anything in return, what can you do, phone trading standards? 

[drewd]

I decided that the cracked windscreen in the Bora needed replacing, especially as the police are performing roadside stops and breathalysing people.

The fitter cracked the new screen, and can't replace it until Christmas Eve. The crack is just as bad as the previous one, and in the centre of the dash so really obvious. That was £75 well spent.

[Mally]

27 minutes ago, loserone said:

This is why I only take PayPal m8

And groats.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, drewd said:

I decided that the cracked windscreen in the Bora needed replacing, especially as the police are performing roadside stops and breathalysing people.

The fitter cracked the new screen, and can't replace it until Christmas Eve. The crack is just as bad as the previous one, and in the centre of the dash so really obvious. That was £75 well spent.

Hopefully your second replacement will be free.

[drewd]

1 hour ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Hopefully your second replacement will be free.

It will be. It was £75 through the insurance and I got confirmation that I won't be charged extra as they broke it. 

[beko1987]

I had a screen replaced in my old Laguna. Guy fitting it chipped it as he fitted and by the end of the day it had split in half. 

National put another one in for free

The replacement zx screen has a big bunch of scratches on it. Guy only noticed when he was doing the walkaround after finishing. I signed the tablet saying I was fine with the damage and got a 12 month warranty (as in call them rather than insurance). Its over on the passenger side so I don't really care, if it was a show car I'd have had it swapped back out but it was already 700% less scratched all over than the old screen. 

[sierraman]

Why do ‘yoofs’ seem to like talking in this bizarre accent so they sound as if they live in South London despite living in a former mining town in the North? Just had to endure half an hour of some rapping on the bus. I must be getting old because I can’t seem to get my head round why you’d want to pretend you live on a South London sink estate dealing crack, wearing shit clothes and ultimately getting disembowelled in a stairwell of some grim flats. 

[Lankytim]

Neighbour a couple of doors down keeps driving over her grass and over the edge of the shared drive, slowly breaking the driveway up. I appreciate the drive might not have been built properly in the first place but still. I used to dutifully move all the bricks back into place after shed wheel spun her people carrier over them but as we’re moving house soon I’ve left them for a while. I recon after 6 months the whole drive is going to need redoing. 

[Aston Martin]

Mr Cacti goes back in morning. 

I got home from work at 630pm and had to remove the vinyl c-pillars... Including glue remover. The guy rang and was off his tits to confirm 8-9am, luckily I'm not going to be in.

 

Goodbye you lumpy French bastard.