The grumpy thread

[paulplom]

15 hours ago, Pieman said:

You have an anti-tailgater weapon?  Awesome! 

I wish that was the case and it was operated by a switch. The worrying thing is that it happened in a built up area doing 30mph. I thought they only regenerated the dpf at high speeds or on the motorway.

[dozeydustman]

Oh FFS.....

 

[paulplom]

Those wheel nuts look like they'll just spin off.

[5speedracer]

As the man says IR35 and confusion by agencies and thier clients as to what the forthcoming changes mean.  If you were already on PAYE with the agency, there was no need for agency or client to do anything. 
It's only people operating through there own LTD companies like Killtox and me and some others I assume, who risk being taxed as PAYE which won't  be financially kind. 
I stand to loose £200 a week in extra taxation if the review in February and my subsequent appeal goes the wrong way. 

TBF it's about time this loophole was plugged, we all know it's a tax ruse. If you're working at the same place day in, day out you are to all intents an employee.
If you work for 5 different firms doing specialist work for them then you're a contractor!

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[dozeydustman]

36 minutes ago, paulplom said:

Those wheel nuts look like they'll just spin off.

They’re locking nuts, the tyre fitter normally has a hard job getting them off

[chaseracer]

11 hours ago, Parky said:

Arranged a work event in Cambridge today.  15 advisers coming along for it so got my boss involved.  He’s a busy chap and doesn’t like being dragged out unecessarily but 15 advisers was worthwhile.

Seven of the fuckers didn’t turn up.  Three emailed me with lame excuses but four others who told me yesterday they were 100% definitely coming didn’t even call or notify me making me look like a complete chump.  Not fucking happy, and nor is the boss who wants a word tomorrow about wasting his time.  Whoopee fucking do.

You didn't waste his 'precious' time.  The wankers who committed then reneged did that.

You did your job.

[New POD]

1 hour ago, 5speedracer said:

TBF it's about time this loophole was plugged, we all know it's a tax ruse. If you're working at the same place day in, day out you are to all intents an employee.
If you work for 5 different firms doing specialist work for them then you're a contractor!

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I've worked at 9 places in 10.5 years.  All of them between 70 and 220 miles from home.  I have been lucky enough to have had only 3 occassions without work, and the longest was 10 weeks waiting for defence nuclear security clearance. It averages 2 weeks a year.

I have had 2 contracts cut short due to lack of funding with 1 weeks notice.

I've only ever worked at one place at a time, and there's always been more work than I can do. If there were 4 of me, I could have serviced 4 clients at once, but there isn't. 

It has been abused by many agencies and clients, but most contractors are trying to be self employed and do not work the same way as permies. 

[xtriple]

Just seen the Lincoln in the eBay thread, I really like them and would possibly (maybe) have bought it. Never had an American car, not once, it is a failing I would like to rectify. It doesn't help that I am addicted to 'Hoovies garage' on youtube and he buys a proper variety f chod and some really nice stuff as well. He bought one of those lLincolns for $500 and I really, REALLY liked it, so ugly, so cool.

[pilninggas]

15 hours ago, snagglepuss said:

Horrible head cold, meaning that felt like I had been eating sandpaper this morning, ear infection and also a sprained ankle.

Feel like I am falling apart. Start of the year has been pretty shit really. Can only get better.

I've got a stinker of a cold. I went to work yesterday, but wasnt in work, as i went to do MiDAS [driving a minibus for an hour doesnt even count as work imho). Phoned in sick this morning, it's parent's evening, which means ill have to call all the parents who made appointments and do the follow-up. Colds are a fucking ball-ache.

[Wack]

Sounds like shite but if I can't sleep I start counting back from 50 , seems to work for me , I rarely get past 20 before zone 

[eddyramrod]

Just now, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Hopefully not the Coronavirus thing.

That's a proper AS virus if they've had to name it after a 70s Toyota!

Just now, xtriple said:

Just seen the Lincoln in the eBay thread, I really like them and would possibly (maybe) have bought it. Never had an American car, not once, it is a failing I would like to rectify. It doesn't help that I am addicted to 'Hoovies garage' on youtube and he buys a proper variety f chod and some really nice stuff as well. He bought one of those lLincolns for $500 and I really, REALLY liked it, so ugly, so cool.

Ahem, Huggy still available...

[Pieman]

Parking ticket from North Lincolnshire Council, had parked in a rather crowded street to attend a funeral wake and didn't notice I was half on double yellows.

[New POD]

For those people who are Ill  and have to take time off work.  Take your time and don't go back until you are 100%

#ME #postviralchronicfatigue #yuppieflu

[Jamie]

ive got what can only be described as herpes in my mouth. ulcers/lacerations all over the inside. Its painful to eat anything other than soup

[Lord Sterling]

On 1/23/2020 at 12:51 PM, Lord Sterling said:

Finding a job is a fucking bastard these days.

My current job is due to end tomorrow. Despite applying for a similar non-customer service position with similar pay I didn't get it because they didn't feel I was "the right person for job". I am once again looking at oblivion, as per fucking usual.

Boss at my last job is being an arsehole refusing to provide me with a reference for an possible new job starting on Monday despite being asked 5 times by my current agency. I fancy just turning up and smacking him one, but of course, as everyone says, 'it won't solve anything' maybe not, but it'll bloody make me feel great and him like the arsehole he is. The evil Lord Sterling is starting to be real.

Not sure how long I can weather this arsehole of not having a permanent job/struggling/financial issues etc.... Someone is gonna hurt real soon.

On 1/25/2020 at 2:10 PM, Lord Sterling said:

So as correctly predicted, on Monday, I am facing the dole queue again.

Also, I noticed someone robbed the aerial off the Vectra. New one is on order and the threads will get some loctite before it goes back on.

 

So. To add to this...

1. Registered at another agency looking for immidiate start work. Because I speak French I was told that there was a job for me, except on the day, I was beaten to the job by someone who fitted thier description more. Not heard back since so I guess I've been dropped. I do have a job interview on Monday though for something else.

2. I may be losing my storage again.  Just been contacted by the new owner who asked if I had been contacted about the change in onwership of the yard. Contacted former owner and apparently the yard has been sold out from under him due to a long-standing family dispute.  I am trying to broker a deal with new owner, if not, I have until the 21st of February to find somewhere else.

I ended up here because of a similar situation some years ago when I lost my under cover storage in a different place.

Also, new aerial for Vectra arrived, doesn't fit, thread is too small. I mean seriously man. Fuck. Off.

Excelsior. Fucking excelsior.

[High Jetter]

Happy New Year? God that's shit, my Lord - hope new owner is a reasonabe chap and work situation improves. After Friday, there may be less French speakers in the UK

[Marsh]

14 hours ago, dozeydustman said:

They’re locking nuts, the tyre fitter normally has a hard job getting them off

Late finish then?

[dozeydustman]

1 minute ago, Marsh said:

Late finish then?

Yes. 4pm.

and tomorrow I’m working with the depot’s equivalent of Enoch Powell and Nigel Farage. That’ll be fun

[Marsh]

49 minutes ago, dozeydustman said:

Yes. 4pm.

and tomorrow I’m working with the depot’s equivalent of Enoch Powell and Nigel Farage. That’ll be fun

Sounds like heaven. I drove a bin lorry years ago some of the crews were interesting. And the bloody truck got stuck on Cannock landfill constantly. 

Fair play bud

[Tadhg Tiogar]

3 hours ago, New POD said:

For those people who are Ill  and have to take time off work.  Take your time and don't go back until you are 100%

#ME #postviralchronicfatigue #yuppieflu

 

2 hours ago, jamiechod said:

ive got what can only be described as herpes in my mouth. ulcers/lacerations all over the inside. Its painful to eat anything other than soup

If it is a form of the Chinese coronavirus, then setting your affairs in order and calling an undertaker to set up a funeral plan might be a prudent step. Just in case, like....

[Mrcento]

Absolute howler of a day.

Guy i used to see regularly and have a chat with, absolutely lovely guy, used to busk locally, hadn't seen for a long time because i just hadn't been near his patch. Today i went off to look at a car and it took me past it, whilst walking there i was wondering if he was still doing it, probably would have had a quick blether with him like we used to.... got to his patch, flowers everywhere, he passed away yesterday. Gutted.

The car i was away to look at was a 10 minute walk away...got there, it was worse than the pics suggested, plenty rot deep set, decided against. Leaving the car to walk back towards town, was crossing an exit to a car wash.... White Skoda waiting to pull out from it onto the main road, traffic is really bad, no way he has room to pull out so i go to cross, he decides "fuck it, i'm not waiting", floors it despite the oncoming traffic and hits me. Car hit me pretty hard on the back of the leg, hand and wrist but at least i was lucky that i'd pretty much cleared the car when he floored it so it was a lot more of a glancing blow that a straight on hit and at the point of contact i was on my left foot rather than my right so it sort of pushed me up over the corner of the bonnet rather than it hitting where my weight was planted, which would probably have broken my leg or hip, A bit of a jolt and a twist from landing, but otherwise unharmed.

Not that the driver would know. He knew he hit me, cars slammed on the brakes when he pulled out regardless and he slowed to seemingly look in his mirror and just floored it down the road when he saw i was still upright. Didn't even stop to see if i was ok. Cunt.

[Pieman]

Hope you spotted his reg number - good to hear you're not too badly bashed about.  What a Grade A cunt.

Puts my parking ticket annoyance into perspective.

[Mrcento]

14 minutes ago, Pieman said:

Hope you spotted his reg number - good to hear you're not too badly bashed about.  What a Grade A cunt.

Puts my parking ticket annoyance into perspective.

Sadly never caught the plate, a mix of being caught in the moment of "wtf" and when i turned to look and cars slamming on their brakes trying to avoid going up the arse of him too and managing it by a few inches meant the plate got kinda obscured. ?

[Roobarb]

Did the car wash place have a camera up?

You know it was a white skoda and the time. Perhaps they have something on CCTV - if only his reg plate???

Hope your not too bashed up. I can sympathize with you as I’ve been hobbling about for three weeks now. 

[yes oui si]

9 hours ago, dozeydustman said:

Yes. 4pm.

and tomorrow I’m working with the depot’s equivalent of Enoch Powell and Nigel Farage. That’ll be fun

A nonce and a chinless gobshite? My sympathies... 

[rainagain]

14 hours ago, New POD said:

For those people who are Ill  and have to take time off work.  Take your time and don't go back until you are 100%

#ME #postviralchronicfatigue #yuppieflu

where I work they have a very harsh sickness policy, if you're ill six days in a year you get a warning and then the following year you only get half pay for when your ill. So people come in who really shouldn't and just spread whatever they've got to everyone else.

[Cavcraft]

Chester Services on the M56 this morning. It's a Shell garage and probably about a mile from the refinery. Guess which dickhead picked the most expensive diesel?

 

 

The lady at the till said it cleaned your engine out. For £1.61.9 per litre I'd have thought it'd include Kim & Aggie in lacy undercrackers sweeping the back of the van out and valeting the fucking seats.

[myglaren]

That's pricey - only £1.30 near me for the cheap one - although I have used the wrong hose a time or two myself.

The only place around here that charges that much, that I have seen anyway, is a Jet place on a feeder road to the A1 and their cheap diesel has been £1.51 for the last eight months, never varies.

As I whinged about previously, had the late wife removed from our joint account, then had a letter from the bank for her informing of a deposit from Sweden.

Today, two new chequebooks in my name only.

Still have a chequebook with only two used, one three years ago and one two years ago.  The book must be at least five years old.

[New POD]

38 minutes ago, Cavcraft said:

Chester Services on the M56 this morning. It's a Shell garage and probably about a mile from the refinery. Guess which dickhead picked the most expensive diesel?

 

 

The lady at the till said it cleaned your engine out. For £1.61.9 per litre I'd have thought it'd include Kim & Aggie in lacy undercrackers sweeping the back of the van out and valeting the fucking seats.

Asda isn't far from it. 

 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, rainagain said:

where I work they have a very harsh sickness policy, if you're ill six days in a year you get a warning and then the following year you only get half pay for when your ill. So people come in who really shouldn't and just spread whatever they've got to everyone else.

Sounds like they only really allow time off if the employee dies.