The grumpy thread

[horriblemercedes]

I went to Currys to look at washing machines a while ago. Someone came over to offer assistance and when I said I was just browsing, he left me to it. That was it. 

I'm going there after work to pick up a sound bar for a TV that I've ordered. Hopefully no issues there. To be honest, I've never had bad service from Currys/Dixons

[Rocket88]

  On 27/11/2023 at 11:09, Dave_Q said:

One I quite like for misery is the local area Facebook groups, a couple from this week:

• Post about a Santa float and where it will be going when. 70% of the comments are people moaning how disgusting it is the thing is not going to their house/street AGAIN this year, the evil bastards
  • As a bonus, one of the organizers patiently replies to the thread saying they could go to more streets with more volunteers to help - 0 moaners volunteer.
• Post about this years xmas tree which TBF is a bit smaller than previously

100-odd comments of moaning about how shit it is. I quite liked this one:

Well Ken, I can assure you that the most important English tradition of being a miserable old bastard and moaning about absolutely everything, is alive and well!

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And it’s an imported “ tradition “ anyway…..

[Metal Guru]

  On 27/11/2023 at 11:25, Rocket88 said:

And it’s an imported “ tradition “ anyway…..

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Maybe not a tree decorated like we know it, but pagans ( including those in what would become this country) used to take various greenery into their homes for Yule,  millennia ago. The Christians later took over Yule as Christmas.

The Christmas things we know were introduced from Germany during Victorian times , so getting on for 200 years now. How long do you have to do something for it to become traditional?

[horriblemercedes]

  On 27/11/2023 at 11:38, Metal Guru said:

Maybe not a tree decorated like we know it, but pagans ( including those in what would become this country) used to take various greenery into their homes for Yule,  millennia ago. The Christians later took over Yule as Christmas.

The Christmas things we know were introduced from Germany during Victorian times , so getting on for 200 years now. How long do you have to do something for it to become traditional?

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The problem for me is describing it as an 'English' tradition. There's nothing English about it apart from having observed it being done in England.....

It is undoubtedly a tradition, but not an 'English' one

[Dave_Q]

No, but as per @cobblers the sentiment that there is some sort of malevolent force attempting to suppress or delete "Britishness" underpins a lot of these posts, TBF maybe it's someone from the Politics section's IRL name.

[MikeR]

Again I trapped another mouse a few weeks back , checked the usual garage spot today and behold a nest , left some more night time snacks for the occupant ... 

[omegod]

Curry's are very good with price matching though, you show it on your phone and they match it ! 

[bunglebus]

Fucking Yodel. A retarded chimp must have more intelligence than the entire bunch of fucktards combined.

Never bought anything through Vinted before, seems they prefer delivery to a local collection point rather than to your home address. Fine by me, plenty of parcel lockers, Co-Ops and Tesco Expresses locally.  Except what they've actually done is take it to a different town, and let me know they've done this "to ensure I get my delivery as soon as possible". 

Yes, I'm sure it's much quicker to venture up the A12 to an unfamiliar town and find wherever you've dumped it than walk 5 mins to the Co-Op down the road.

Absolute imbeciles. Now I've got days of trying to sort this shit out which I really do not have the time or inclination to do, I'd rather just cancel my order

[High Jetter]

  On 27/11/2023 at 18:28, bunglebus said:

Fucking Yodel. A retarded chimp must have more intelligence than the entire bunch of fucktards combined.

Never bought anything through Vinted before, seems they prefer delivery to a local collection point rather than to your home address. Fine by me, plenty of parcel lockers, Co-Ops and Tesco Expresses locally.  Except what they've actually done is take it to a different town, and let me know they've done this "to ensure I get my delivery as soon as possible". 

Yes, I'm sure it's much quicker to venture up the A12 to an unfamiliar town and find wherever you've dumped it than walk 5 mins to the Co-Op down the road.

Absolute imbeciles. Now I've got days of trying to sort this shit out which I really do not have the time or inclination to do, I'd rather just cancel my order

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Did you not get the opportunity to select exactly which locker, as you can on Amazon?

[bunglebus]

  On 27/11/2023 at 19:07, High Jetter said:

Did you not get the opportunity to select exactly which locker, as you can on Amazon?

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Yes - was to go to my local Co-Op. They've decided to deliver it somewhere else, but I can collect it whenever I want!

[bunglebus]

The bare faced cheek of them saying they've taken it to my next closest drop off. Here are all the ones around me

 

And here's where they've left it

 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

  On 27/11/2023 at 11:49, Dave_Q said:

No, but as per @cobblers the sentiment that there is some sort of malevolent force attempting to suppress or delete "Britishness" underpins a lot of these posts, TBF maybe it's someone from the Politics section's IRL name.

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Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people.

[Floatylight]

  On 27/11/2023 at 18:28, bunglebus said:

Fucking Yodel. A retarded chimp must have more intelligence than the entire bunch of fucktards combined.

Never bought anything through Vinted before, seems they prefer delivery to a local collection point rather than to your home address. Fine by me, plenty of parcel lockers, Co-Ops and Tesco Expresses locally.  Except what they've actually done is take it to a different town, and let me know they've done this "to ensure I get my delivery as soon as possible". 

Yes, I'm sure it's much quicker to venture up the A12 to an unfamiliar town and find wherever you've dumped it than walk 5 mins to the Co-Op down the road.

Absolute imbeciles. Now I've got days of trying to sort this shit out which I really do not have the time or inclination to do, I'd rather just cancel my order

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On a similar note son had an amazon delivery yesterday, they sent him a pic of where they'd dumped it, a brown paper bag perched on tip of the half full, open waste cardboard bag. Who could of possibly predicted that MrsFL would add a load of cardboard to the bag, thankfully emptying all the cardboard back out revealed the unopened package at the bottom.....

[Pieman]

  On 27/11/2023 at 11:09, Dave_Q said:

Post about a Santa float and where it will be going when. 70% of the comments are people moaning how disgusting it is the thing is not going to their house/street AGAIN this year, the evil bastards

• As a bonus, one of the organizers patiently replies to the thread saying they could go to more streets with more volunteers to help - 0 moaners volunteer.

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When our local one of those came round last year, I think I annoyed them a bit cos I went outside to donate a bit of cash, and promptly ignored Santa and got talking to a couple of the organisers about the vehicle he was on - a Renault Master ambulance conversion.

Saw a post from the Rotary Club the other day saying when it'd be round again and I asked if the old Renault was still going - they will probably now avoid my street so they don't have to talk to the sad old nerd who likes old commercial vehicles! 

[Wack]

Tiktok guidelines 

the video I commented on showed an edited version of a woman who was being asked to sit down  because the fasten seat belts sign was on so she decided to take a shit in the aisle 

[loserone]

  On 27/11/2023 at 18:28, bunglebus said:

Never bought anything through Vinted

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I have started this in the last few weeks.  The default option is a collect in store affair but delivery to the house is often cheaper and always available.

[loserone]

  On 27/11/2023 at 18:28, bunglebus said:

Never bought anything through Vinted

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I have started this in the last few weeks.  The default option is a collect in store affair but delivery to the house is often cheaper and always available.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Had one at work yesterday and into today.  In essence, a company has had issues with their multi-factor authentication all day after (presumably) Microsoft do some manner of change to the policy without telling anybody.  The director (let's called him Humphrey) does the following:

i) Humphrey emails one of our 3rd line engineers.  Who lives in New Zealand.  Rather than emailing support.  So he doesn't get a reply because the 3rd line is asleep.
ii) Support then get a very cut email a few hours later that basically tells us to turn MFA off for the whole organisation from Humphrey.  But reporting that a specific user was having issues.  That user hasn't called us about the problem.
iii)  Issue is passed to me from a 1st Line engineer.  I think about it and am slighly flabbergasted and mentally file it as a 'tomorrow' problem as we got the email at 1430 and our response SLA is 4 working hours.  Bear in mind at this point, I'm on a train returning from a customer site in London.
iv) I get frustrated and later in the evening email Humphrey, saying that turning MFA off is a terrible idea, that it leaves his business wide open to attack and jeopardises the safety of third parties in the (much more likely) event of an account compromise occurring due to the phishing stream that will be sent out from a compromised account.
v) We get an email back at around 2100 from Humphrey basically telling me that I don't get to decide, it's up to him and if it's not turned off first thing in the morning, they're going to find another IT provider.
vi) My director (fortunately) intervenes and explains to Humphrey that actually I'm actually doing the right thing and that turning it off is a bad idea and I've said what I've said because I want to protect his business, our business and their customers.
vii) I get a email this morning from the manager of the original user experiencing problems with MFA without any contact details.
viii) We reply, get the contact details and then phone the user.  It's fixed within 5 minutes.

So.  Let's look at the stupid things that went wrong here:

i) User doesn't contact the support team and instead talks to her manager.
ii)  Her manager takes it up with the company director (Humphrey) rather than telling her to contact support.
iii) Humphrey emails a 3rd-line project engineer, not support.  Who happens to live in New Zealand and is in the Land of Nod.
iv) Humphrey doesn't understand what he's asking for.  But tries to sound like he does and gets up in arms when a security-conscious, fairly senior IT technician (me) politely refuses his request, with a well-worded explanation and also mentions that the user should have contacted support first.
v) User still hasn't contacted the support team.

What should have happened:

i) User notices an issue with their MFA application not working.  They call support.  Support fix it.  Total fix time?  5 minutes.

I have sympathy for you guys working in motor repairs.  I think I would have an aneurysm by now in your profession with the absolute roasters you have to deal with.

 

[dozeydustman]

Been here 3 hours. And the low loader can’t cope.

I’m cold

 

[Amelia]

*$!&!! *(!?$¢!@

(Insert whatever unladylike swearwords you see fit)

Work are putting my whole team on consultation, so by new year I'm likely to be out of a job and by February without a car (car stays for notice period). 

Ouch. Nice Xmas pressie. 

Car is shit anyway. 😅

 

[Amelia]

  On 27/11/2023 at 22:24, Wack said:

Tiktok guidelines 

the video I commented on showed an edited version of a woman who was being asked to sit down  because the fasten seat belts sign was on so she decided to take a shit in the aisle 

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Tiktok guidelines and moderation are toilet. 

Someone once asked me my sexual preference on my live stream (I'm lesbian) and because I said ' I don't like men' I got banned for a week! 🤦‍♀️ 

[Bren]

Visited my gym.

After battling through Widnes traffic ( it seems to have got worse in the last few months) I stopped for fuel on the way home at Bold Heath.

Petrol station was rammed - I parked with the filler away from the pump because I and many on here realise you can pull the pipe out!

A white juke was parked next to me - so far from the pump I opened my door and realised I would have to do the lambada to get out - I honestly thought osmosis was the only way I would get out of the car.

The Juke was replaced by a mini whose driver got the car much nearer to his pump.

[angle]

  On 26/09/2023 at 20:25, angle said:

Enterprise. 

I have a big work meeting tomorrow. Its basically the end of two years worth of work, so I'm under strict instructions to wear a suit and tie, and get to Luton for 8am. I'm also in meetings until 10pm tonight to prepare for it. 

Now, my company has a policy where if we need to drive for work and its more than 100 miles or so, we rent a car through them. Current provider is Enterprise, and I get booked a 'Focus or similar'. In theory this is great - they're happy to drop off and pick up cars at the office or to your house at a specific time. The problem is, last time I asked for it to be dropped off at home at 6:30pm and eventually, at quarter to ten, someone dropped off a 1.0 base spec Fabia (59bhp!), with the service light on. 

So, this time I've got a 2 hour gap in meetings so I'll go and pick it up on the way to get the kids from school. I turn up, and the car park is pretty empty. I go in, give them my name and driving licence. 

'That's great, thanks very much. Um - would you mind waiting a second until my manager gets off the phone?'

Oh balls. 

Manager comes over. 'Hi angle! I was just wondering, where are you going?'

Luton.

'Oh, OK. Where's that?'

North of London.

'So...about 150 miles away?'

Yeah, that's about right. 

'Riiiiight. Its just that, we've only got one car left and its electric (she points to an e-Corsa outside). Its only half charged, so its only got about 70 miles of range. There's a rapid charger at the Shell on York Road (a couple of miles away), if you left it on charge for a couple of hours that should be enough to fill it up?'

OK, but if its half full with a range of 70 miles, then a full charge still won't get me to Luton? And I don't have time to charge it tonight and I'm already leaving at half five. 

'Yeah. Yeah, OK. Um - what about a van?' She gestures to a LWB high-top Movano outside. 

*uncomfortable silence*

'No, no, OK. Um, let me make some calls.'

Which is how I found myself waiting outside a backstreet garage in Hartcliffe for a Nissan Juke to be MOTed, with the Corsa lurking around the corner with the Enterprise manager inside, like one of those Clarkson-era Top Gear episodes where they get followed round Bolivia by a Marina or an AMC Gremlin or, um, a Nissan Juke or something in case their Porsche breaks down. 

tldr; I've got to drive to Luton in a Nissan Juke. With the service light on. Fuck my life. 

 

 

 

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I went back. 

'Oh, hi angle! I recognise you from last time, sorry again about that. The good news is we've got two cars left this time,  if you're OK with an auto again there's a Subaru Forester or if you prefer a manual you can have a Vaux...'

Reader, I didn't let her finish the sentence. 

[dozeydustman]

Just got in after starting at 5am. 

These electric trucks have caused us no end of hassle since they arrived here

[High Jetter]

  On 28/11/2023 at 17:35, dozeydustman said:

Just got in after starting at 5am. 

These electric trucks have caused us no end of hassle since they arrived here

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Failed or ran out of juice?

[dozeydustman]

  On 28/11/2023 at 17:38, High Jetter said:

Failed or ran out of juice?

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Failed. We’ve only ran out of juice once. They have a 24 volt supply to power the ECU and whatever is left of the original chassis electrics. That conked out so no lights, hazards operate on one side only, and worst of all no brake compressor. They’re at the depot and struggling to get it off the low loader with hardly any air left in the system.
 

On both electric trucks the fails have been the non-motive systems. This is the second major failure for this one. The other electrical vehicle has had about 15.

[Wack]

  On 28/11/2023 at 17:43, dozeydustman said:

Failed. We’ve only ran out of juice once. They have a 24 volt supply to power the ECU and whatever is left of the original chassis electrics. That conked out so no lights, hazards operate on one side only, and worst of all no brake compressor. They’re at the depot and struggling to get it off the low loader with hardly any air left in the system.
 

On both electric trucks the fails have been the non-motive systems. This is the second major failure for this one. The other electrical vehicle has had about 15.

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It's bad enough when it's a council vehicle but business needs reliability , if the big fleets  buy a couple and they're this unreliable they won't be buying any more 

[wuvvum]

  On 28/11/2023 at 17:43, dozeydustman said:

Failed. We’ve only ran out of juice once. They have a 24 volt supply to power the ECU and whatever is left of the original chassis electrics. That conked out so no lights, hazards operate on one side only, and worst of all no brake compressor. They’re at the depot and struggling to get it off the low loader with hardly any air left in the system.  And then it caught fire.

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FTFY

[Wack]

Facebook marketplace is fucked as a selling platform 

There are the first cars I saw for sale 

 

[Jazoli]

  On 28/11/2023 at 19:32, Wack said:

Facebook marketplace is fucked as a selling platform 

There are the first cars I saw for sale 

 

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It is completely fucked and a complete waste of time now, you can filter a lot of it out but the number of scamming cunts far outweighs the genuine sellers now.