The grumpy thread

[reb]

My local Evri guy is quite good, but the company as a whole is fucking dreadful.

[chaseracer]

Because - whatever they choose to call it this week - it's still Herpes...

[SH1TE]

31 minutes ago, chaseracer said:

Because - whatever they choose to call it this week - it's still Herpes...

Hermes yodel and all the other shite are no better.

£700 transceiver left on doorstep with manufacturers name plastered all over it by FedEx 

[Low Horatio gearbox]

The M5 and its inability to function as a road.

[reb]

Did my weekly shop using the online ordering at my local shop, it took twice as long as normal to be delivered which I wasn't too bothered about, but I unpacked it and instead of the 16 cans of cat food I ordered there was 15 cans of cat food and one can of pedigree dog food. That level of incompetence is truly astounding in my opinion, if every other can has a stoned looking ginger cat on it and this one has some brown dog on it maybe it's the wrong can? Or do I expect too much from someone who definitely doesn't care? Either way I called the shop and explained the situation, to be met with the most apathetic excuse for customer service I've ever experienced. It's not that he didn't want to be helpful, it was that he was obviously so done with working in an understaffed shop that he wasn't willing to put in the effort to think of solutions to the problem presented. Immediately he did something that every single piece of customer service training I've done says to only do as a last resort and offered me a refund, I could write an essay on why refunds are very rarely the solution to the customer's problem but I digress, in my case a refund of 95p will compensate for the missing can monetarily but not functionally. This resolution leaves me having to take time out of my day to buy a single can of cat food at some point over the next week, which is exactly the scenario getting groceries delivered is supposed to avoid. I asked for the missing can to be delivered at some point, emphasising that I understood that they were unusually busy so I didn't expect it to be tonight, he said he couldn't do it because they were too busy. At this point I asked for contact details for the app that they trade through. He said I wouldn't be able to get hold of anyone til Monday, and did not provide the requested details. I bluffed a bit and said I'd found the email address, and asked for his name. He gave me his name then said he would make sure one of the drivers delivers the missing can as soon as they open tomorrow. I thanked him and ended the call happy. I will absolutely be calling the app on Monday, whether it’s to complain or to give them positive feedback on the store rests entirely on if they deliver the replacement can tomorrow or not.

[ProgRocker]

5 minutes ago, reb said:

if every other can has a stoned looking ginger cat on it and this one has some brown dog on it maybe it's the wrong can? 

This sentence made me laugh for some reason. 

On one Tesco Click & Collect or Delivery the picker decided to put a girly pink toothbrush in with my order. TBF it's one of those things where I probably had to accept what I was given. I wondered if the picker was poking fun at me or if that person just selected the one at the front of the display. 

[Wibble]

10 minutes ago, Low Horatio gearbox said:

The M5 and its inability to function as a road.

Add the M6 to this! I left Linwood this morning and have only just got back to Basingstoke. I don’t blame the roads so much, just the absolute fucking zombie throbbers using them😡! If we have 3 lanes of motorway they all sit in lane fucking two, leaving lane one empty and effectively reducing it to a dual carriageway. If we have 4 lanes, the gobshites sit in lane 3, with the same result🤬! What the fuck is with these twats?!! And as for “Smart motorways”, they can get in the fucking sea! Dangerous and fucking useless. Lane one closed due to stranded vehicle, fair enough. All other lanes then limited to 40mph when all the while the “stranded” vehicle was in a refuge area with the fucking traffic Wombles! And no, it hadn’t been towed there, wombles were behind the new Aldi! Sorry for the rant, my brain is fried after a really shit day!

[Yoss]

3 hours ago, Nyphur said:

Spoke to the seller who did the tracking from his side on Wednesday - he sent me a screenshot saying it had been delivered to my house about an hour before I called.... which it hadn't. So now I have a parcel which the seller thinks got delivered to my house (so probably thinks I'm trying it on with him), and which my tracking says got delivered to the parcel shop on Sunday, then again Monday. Went in to see my mate in the shop to see if it had been delivered there instead but no luck.

Got back in touch with the seller who didn't really know what to suggest, and nor did I. Then got another email Thursday morning saying it had just been delivered to the shop again. Surprise surprise when I get down there..... fuck all.

Sat watching TV last night and the bell goes at about 10:20 - its the Evri guy. He'd tried to deliver it to the shop again and my mate told him to bring it to me instead because of the hassle and shitty tracking - which was good of him. Fuck knows where it had been on its travels between Sunday and last night.

I then got another email from Evri this afternoon telling me it had just been delivered to the shop again. Fucking useless.  

 

Sorry I laughed at this. It's not at your misfortune and frustrations,  but it is funny if it's not happening to you. 

This is why we are going on strike. Because Royal Mail management basically want to turn us in to Hermes/Yodel etc with their terms and conditions. Including paying new starters less than us. Permanently. So eventually as the older people leave everyone will be on nearly minimum wage. 

[Wack]

57 minutes ago, Wibble said:

Add the M6 to this! I left Linwood this morning and have only just got back to Basingstoke. I don’t blame the roads so much, just the absolute fucking zombie throbbers using them😡! If we have 3 lanes of motorway they all sit in lane fucking two, leaving lane one empty and effectively reducing it to a dual carriageway. If we have 4 lanes, the gobshites sit in lane 3, with the same result🤬! What the fuck is with these twats?!! And as for “Smart motorways”, they can get in the fucking sea! Dangerous and fucking useless. Lane one closed due to stranded vehicle, fair enough. All other lanes then limited to 40mph when all the while the “stranded” vehicle was in a refuge area with the fucking traffic Wombles! And no, it hadn’t been towed there, wombles were behind the new Aldi! Sorry for the rant, my brain is fried after a really shit day!

One of the reasons I stopped driving for a living , I've no idea why but in the last 10 years drivers have got really shit, but.... 

Having had a car fitted with radar cruise I'm wondering if the reason  they all sit in 2 of 3 or 3 of 4 is because the cruise slows down from quite a long way away when it's catching a truck up 

[TrabbieRonnie]

1 hour ago, reb said:

Did my weekly shop using the online ordering at my local shop, it took twice as long as normal to be delivered which I wasn't too bothered about, but I unpacked it and instead of the 16 cans of cat food I ordered there was 15 cans of cat food and one can of pedigree dog food. That level of incompetence is truly astounding in my opinion, if every other can has a stoned looking ginger cat on it and this one has some brown dog on it maybe it's the wrong can? Or do I expect too much from someone who definitely doesn't care? Either way I called the shop and explained the situation, to be met with the most apathetic excuse for customer service I've ever experienced. It's not that he didn't want to be helpful, it was that he was obviously so done with working in an understaffed shop that he wasn't willing to put in the effort to think of solutions to the problem presented. Immediately he did something that every single piece of customer service training I've done says to only do as a last resort and offered me a refund, I could write an essay on why refunds are very rarely the solution to the customer's problem but I digress, in my case a refund of 95p will compensate for the missing can monetarily but not functionally. This resolution leaves me having to take time out of my day to buy a single can of cat food at some point over the next week, which is exactly the scenario getting groceries delivered is supposed to avoid. I asked for the missing can to be delivered at some point, emphasising that I understood that they were unusually busy so I didn't expect it to be tonight, he said he couldn't do it because they were too busy. At this point I asked for contact details for the app that they trade through. He said I wouldn't be able to get hold of anyone til Monday, and did not provide the requested details. I bluffed a bit and said I'd found the email address, and asked for his name. He gave me his name then said he would make sure one of the drivers delivers the missing can as soon as they open tomorrow. I thanked him and ended the call happy. I will absolutely be calling the app on Monday, whether it’s to complain or to give them positive feedback on the store rests entirely on if they deliver the replacement can tomorrow or not.

Will the cat not eat the dog food, just for one night?!  🙀😅

[SH1TE]

4 minutes ago, TrabbieRonnie said:

Will the cat not eat the dog food, just for one night?!  🙀😅

Will it know if you don't  tell it🤔

[Wack]

It does work then ,what cunts they are 

 

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/742718693679886/

[junkyarddog]

2 minutes ago, TrabbieRonnie said:

Will the cat not eat the dog food, just for one night?!  🙀😅

Cat don't give a shit if it's dog or cat food,same with the Dog,Food is food.

[Wibble]

4 minutes ago, Wack said:

One of the reasons I stopped driving for a living , I've no idea why but in the last 10 years drivers have got really shit, but.... 

Having had a car fitted with radar cruise I'm wondering if the reason  they all sit in 2 of 3 or 3 of 4 is because the cruise slows down from quite a long way away when it's catching a truck up 

Nope, sorry, these muppets were not piloting fancy steeds and inside lane were just empty. Just cretins I’m afraid.

[artdjones]

13 minutes ago, junkyarddog said:

Cat don't give a shit if it's dog or cat food,same with the Dog,Food is food.

That's true for one can, so probably a solution to the problem but not long term. Cat food often has too much protein for dogs. 

[High Jetter]

26 minutes ago, TrabbieRonnie said:

Will the cat not eat the dog food, just for one night?!  🙀😅

Yes, if hungry enough. Owners pander, though.

[RoverFolkUs]

6 hours ago, sierraman said:

https://metro.co.uk/2022/08/17/hosepipe-ban-should-i-report-a-breach-and-what-is-the-fine-17196895/amp/

This is typical of society today, grass your neighbour up for any minor infraction. Perhaps in the life of the people that devise such schemes it is the ‘right’ thing to do but in real life it’s not what you’d do. 

What a bunch of shit

"Keep in mind that people can use hosepipes if they are connected to a water butt (rather than mains water supply) – while buckets and watering cans can be filled at the tap."

Ok - fill water butt under the cover of darkness with hosepipe -> Water garden with contents of said water butt -> Ignore the gallons of water leaking because action is more expensive than ignorance... Problem solved!

Or -> buy some flowers. Now you can use the hosepipe for the next 14 days..!

[High Jetter]

10 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said:

Or -> buy some flowers. Now you can use the hosepipe for the next 14 days..!

Thanks for reminding me, wife's birthday tomorrow!

[RoverFolkUs]

2 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Thanks for reminding me, wife's birthday tomorrow!

Solve two problems in one go !

Kill two birds with one stone etc

[junkyarddog]

1 hour ago, artdjones said:

Cat food often has too much protein for dogs. 

I've tried to explain that to my Dog,she still eats it though🤣

[Barry Cade]

Somebody looking to make £1200+ profit for doing feck all.. Am I stupid for selling things for what I think they are worth, or am I stupid for being Edd China and doing everything for nowt. The car is a goodun, but all 4 arches are aerosoled, as is the bonnet. Everybody thinks they are Mike Brewer these days.  I think I've made a profit once from selling a car, and that was a Citroen XM!

My SLK

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1383718412122763/?ref=browse_tab&referral_code=marketplace_top_picks&referral_story_type=top_picks

[SH1TE]

21 minutes ago, Barry Cade said:

Somebody looking to make £1200+ profit for doing feck all.. Am I stupid for selling things for what I think they are worth, or am I stupid for being Edd China and doing everything for nowt. The car is a goodun, but all 4 arches are aerosoled, as is the bonnet. Everybody thinks they are Mike Brewer these days.  I think I've made a profit once from selling a car, and that was a Citroen XM!

My SLK

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1383718412122763/?ref=browse_tab&referral_code=marketplace_top_picks&referral_story_type=top_picks

Buy on Facebook and sell on gumtree👍

Sold a fully serviced honda mower on Gumtree for £140!

A wanker on Facebook told me it was only worth £85-took great delight in telling him it had sold within a few hours at full asking price😉 

[somewhatfoolish]

10 hours ago, sierraman said:

https://metro.co.uk/2022/08/17/hosepipe-ban-should-i-report-a-breach-and-what-is-the-fine-17196895/amp/

This is typical of society today, grass your neighbour up for any minor infraction. Perhaps in the life of the people that devise such schemes it is the ‘right’ thing to do but in real life it’s not what you’d do. 

I'd view it as typical of this govt, no actual solutions to problems, just shitty illiberal crap that pleases the editors of tabloid newspapers like this; the water cos are the crooks issuing dividends while their pipes leak millions of gallons daily.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

12 hours ago, reb said:

My local Evri guy is quite good, but the company as a whole is fucking dreadful.

They've gone from MyHerpes to EvriParcelLost...

[RoverFolkUs]

10 hours ago, Barry Cade said:

Somebody looking to make £1200+ profit for doing feck all.. Am I stupid for selling things for what I think they are worth, or am I stupid for being Edd China and doing everything for nowt. The car is a goodun, but all 4 arches are aerosoled, as is the bonnet. Everybody thinks they are Mike Brewer these days.  I think I've made a profit once from selling a car, and that was a Citroen XM!

My SLK

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1383718412122763/?ref=browse_tab&referral_code=marketplace_top_picks&referral_story_type=top_picks

How was the V5 filled out? Sold to trade, sold to an individual or did they try and convince you to give them the whole V5?

[Mally]

13 hours ago, reb said:

Did my weekly shop using the online ordering at my local shop, it took twice as long as normal to be delivered which I wasn't too bothered about, but I unpacked it and instead of the 16 cans of cat food I ordered there was 15 cans of cat food and one can of pedigree dog food. That level of incompetence is truly astounding in my opinion, if every other can has a stoned looking ginger cat on it and this one has some brown dog on it maybe it's the wrong can? Or do I expect too much from someone who definitely doesn't care? 

In mitigation it must be said, that I order Iams  dry Cat food from ebay.  Ginger cat as you say. 

A couple of times over the years I have mistakenly ordered Iams for Dogs.

I did check and reasoning is small amounts do no harm, so I mixed it in with my other bags.

My Cat never barked.

I'd have fed the dog food to the Cat.

 

 

[RoverFolkUs]

Interestingly I've had pretty much zero bad experiences with Hermes/Evri. I've sent/received many hundreds of items with them. Only things that spring to mind are a couple of items that I've received the outer packaging being mangled.

Almost always arrives on time and my courier knows to leave anything on my doorstep if I'm out, he'll just take a picture and I trust him not to make off with it afterwards.

Although most times it's very low value items. And my local courier is a gent. Absolutely lovely bloke 

Not sure I'd send anything valuable or breakable with them, or anything that is urgent. In which case I'd use royal mail special delivery. 

Yodel is a separate matter, on the few unfortunate times I've received something with them, the item has been mangled and destroyed, or opened, bits missing etc

[omegod]

ABSOLUTE TWAT BASTARD 

Spent some evening this week putting coving on the landing ceiling, obviously a few wibbles in the walls and the joints needed tidying up so used some interior filler in a tube from Aldi, despite it being branded as easily sandable it has the consistency of Fucking Titanium once set, literally harder than Isopon car filler 

I can't hammer or scrape the stuff off as it will destroy the coving material, I'm likely gonna have to rip the fucking lot down and start again  

I've tried softening it with water but it's taking the surface off the coving too but any tips welcome 

[SH1TE]

5 minutes ago, omegod said:

ABSOLUTE TWAT BASTARD 

Spent some evening this week putting coving on the landing ceiling, obviously a few wibbles in the walls and the joints needed tidying up so used some interior filler in a tube from Aldi, despite it being branded as easily sandable it has the consistency of Fucking Titanium once set, literally harder than Isopon car filler 

I can't hammer or scrape the stuff off as it will destroy the coving material, I'm likely gonna have to rip the fucking lot down and start again  

I've tried softening it with water but it's taking the surface off the coving too but any tips welcome 

Coving adhesive filler (shrinks back) and ultra light filler (which doesn't)  primer and paint

Cut damaged section out

If you make a huge hole in it everbuild gun grade foam or sodal-(not consumer crap)  can fill holes and be shaped,  filled and sanded

[Spurious]

Dremel grinder?