The grumpy thread

[Pete-M]

If your job goes tits up and you can't afford to live, you've been spending more than you can afford. Simple.

[Guest]

I'm getting the feeling I've been left high and dry to sort this project feature out. Not apart from the problems I've already mentioned, no one else from the team has offered to help me put the thing together. The footage was dumped on me and that was it.

 

Cheers other group members, really appreciate all of your help.

[Lankytim]

The only growing ecomony which is keeping scrap metal prices so high is the far east, China and India.

 

I don't think a ban on cash payments in scrap yards will stop metal thefts, as the scrap will simply be sold on via a dodgy third party, someone who can easily lose a few smashed drain covered in a load of cast iron or has a furnace for melting down priceless works of art e.t.c

[Timewaster]

I'm pretty sure there are some big organisations behind metal thefts.

This stuff is into containers and shipped east without going anywhere near the pikey scrap yards, they just couldn't handle the volumes.

[pompei]

I'm really sorry to hear about your predicament, Eddy. It sounds as if you really are in it up to your neck. I am certainly not going to make trite suggestions about how you could possibly improve things but I will say what I am sure plenty people on here are thinking, it's good to have a "virtual" outlet on this place. Most of us on here have had money problems and you have had Mrs R's health worries to contend with too. Try and keep your head up, you are amongst friends

[eddyramrod]

you are amongst friends

 

Thanks, I appreciate that. It is helpful to have a place where I can just rant. I'm inclined to bottle things up, which I know isn't healthy. Not a big fan of washing my smalls in public....

[messerschmitt owner]

you are amongst friends

 

Thanks, I appreciate that. It is helpful to have a place where I can just rant. I'm inclined to bottle things up, which I know isn't healthy. Not a big fan of washing my smalls in public....

we're not 'public', this is autoshite, home of saddos, losers, social inadequates and Tagora lovers!

[eddyramrod]

That'll be why I feel so at-home here then!

[AnthonyG]

I'm pretty sure there are some big organisations behind metal thefts.

This stuff is into containers and shipped east without going anywhere near the pikey scrap yards, they just couldn't handle the volumes.

 

I agree - war memorials etc are probably being nicked by organised East European gangs.

 

But it will cut down on your basic bottom feeder pikey, who wouldn't know what a shipping container is actually meant for - even if one fell on his head - to that sort its a big rusty shed with no windows useful for storing nicked quadbikes in.

[AnthonyG]

FFS, would you care to hammer a smaller - yet equally sweepingly ignorant - generalisation over that?! And there's a lot of job mobility OUT of public services right now - all those nurses, teaching assistants, coppers & lollipop ladies who caused the collapse of the economy are finally getting what they deserve...

 

Trouble is, it is the low level workers getting shafted rather than the real wasters, like that useless blonde tart who was running Suffolk Council on 250k per annum because 'that's what they pay in the private sector' . The fact that none of these council chief executives could get a job in the bloody private sector doesn't seem to count as a factor.

 

I'm not keen on all of what the coalition are doing, but its bloody good having Labour as far away from the levers of power as possible - and with Wallace's gormless cousin supposedly 'leading' them, that state of affairs will continue for a good long time.

 

Do you think the union movement are starting to regret shafting actual party members and MPs with the block votes to railroad that twat in over his bro?

[eddyramrod]

Trouble is, it is the low level workers getting shafted rather than the real wasters,

 

That's been the way of the world for centuries, I'm afraid. Especially galling as I know I'll always be "low-level."

 

its bloody good having Labour as far away from the levers of power as possible

 

+1! Mind, there isn't much to choose between them these days, whatever colour they profess to wear. None of them is interested in anything but lining his own pockets at our expense.

[Felly Magic]

Bang on there Eddy. I popped in to my old work today, and found out one of my former colleagues passed away over Christmas. Poor old Dick. He'd not long retired. Used to work down Felixstowe docks too.

[ashmicro]

2 years of martial law, that's my advice.

[Pete-M]

Got to go on a quick trip to Czech this weekend.

 

 

When there's a hurricane due.

[trigger]

Poor old Dick. He'd not long retired. Used to work down Felixstowe docks too.

 

Dick who?

[Felly Magic]

I can never remember his surname. We nicknamed him pruneface. He was a shortish chap, gravelly voiced and apparently an ex crane driver down the docks. Will get his surname for ya triggsy.

[trigger]

It doesn't ring any bells, I wondered if it was Dicky Bird but he was a tug driver.

[autofive]

Got to go on a quick trip to Czech this weekend.

 

 

When there's a hurricane due.

 

scorchio

[Felly Magic]

I think it was a few years ago he left the docks Triggs. He retired from the buses in October after a couple of health scares.

[M'coli]

Why is that statement "sweepingly ignorant"? The mobility out of the public sector is going to be largely unaffected by the new law, because those people have been there for longer. Employee turnover is much lower in the public sector, both because of the type of jobs and because of the types of people working there. There's nothing inherently wrong with that. However, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to realise that the change in the legislation is going to affect private sector workers a lot more than public sector ones.

 

This has just provided me with enough rant material to turn it into a blog post - cheers!

[tonedepear]

This has just provided me with enough rant material to turn it into a blog post - cheers!

 

[M'coli]

This has just provided me with enough rant material to turn it into a blog post - cheers!

 

http://itcouldbeloopus.blogspot.com/201 ... r-fss.html

 

Don't laugh.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

I am in total agreement with that post. A lot of people, including those in positions of power, seem to have a real problem distinguishing with what absolutely must be done by the public sector (e.g. courts, prisons), what should ideally be done by the public sector (e.g. healthcare), what can go either way (schools and uni for me, although I understand that many disagree) and what should never be touched by it (can you believe it that there are 4-wheel lawnmower drivers on 25k a year- why should the public sector even be involved in that kind of business, let alone pay them almost double what it pays admin staff?).

 

Being opposed to civil servants doing grounds maintainance is not the same as hating the public sector, but of course there are stupid people at both ends of the spectrum...

[ashmicro]

Being opposed to civil servants doing grounds maintainance is not the same as hating the public sector.

 

+1. A lot of Civil Servants agree too.

[retrogeezer]

Got to go on a quick trip to Czech this weekend.

 

 

When there's a hurricane due.

 

 

U.K covered in cloud as usual....

[Felly Magic]

Re my former colleague who passed on. His name was Richard (Dick) Sawyer. I think it is a few years since he worked down the docks, but some of Trigg's workmates may have known him.

[quicksilver]

I may not be old but I can grump with the best of them so forgive me while I have a rant about HP and their fucking useless piece of shit printers, after trying to print one small doc took half an hour of faffing that shouldn't have been necessary. I acquired a HP all-in-one printer a while ago, plugged it into the USB orifice, found new hardware wizard popped up and all was well until I unplugged it. Trouble is, every single time I plug the bastard printer in now Windows can't understand that it's already installed, sees it as 'new hardware' and reinstalls it, often on a different virtual port, which takes an eternity and causes major grief. Weirdly plugging in the printer also kills the laptop's wireless connection stone dead so it can't even find any networks in range, which is frankly incomprehensible. HP couldn't care less and there is no known solution - GR0 customer service guys!

[autofive]

does the printer have wireless facility? if so, that could be the reason why youe wifi goes off - my mothers HP wireless printer caused no end of problems, until i threw it in the bin - problem solved

[quicksilver]

does the printer have wireless facility? if so, that could be the reason why youe wifi goes off - my mothers HP wireless printer caused no end of problems, until i threw it in the bin - problem solved

Nope, no wireless, no other interfaces other than the cursed USB. I suspect its some sort of low level interrupt problem as I can't see any obvious reason why it should affect an apparently unconnected function. What's odd is that sometimes after unplugging the printer it will automatically reconnect itself to my network, but other times it flatly refuses to see any networks at all and only a reboot will make it connect. That's the lesser of the two issues, the constant reinstalling is a total PITA. One thing is for sure, my next printer will not be a HP.

[myglaren]

does the printer have wireless facility? if so, that could be the reason why youe wifi goes off - my mothers HP wireless printer caused no end of problems, until i threw it in the bin - problem solved

Nope, no wireless, no other interfaces other than the cursed USB. I suspect its some sort of low level interrupt problem as I can't see any obvious reason why it should affect an apparently unconnected function. What's odd is that sometimes after unplugging the printer it will automatically reconnect itself to my network, but other times it flatly refuses to see any networks at all and only a reboot will make it connect. That's the lesser of the two issues, the constant reinstalling is a total PITA. One thing is for sure, my next printer will not be a HP.

 

Are you plugging it into the same USB socket?

Using different ones causes Windows to reinstall the drivers for that particular one.

 

After having HP printers for years I bought a Brother, which was OK but took an hour to install to Windows but never really worked well with Linux.

A few weeks ago I gave it away and plugged an HP all-in-one printer that had been sitting in a cupboard for a couple of years.

 

Linux seemed not to have spotted it so I went in to the printers folder and there it was, installed and waiting for print jobs. Twenty seconds from being plugged in.

Works a treat and the scanner part just works, no settings or intervention required other than to tell it whether to scan in mono or colour, depending on the original.

 

My first HP was a right bugger to install too, software first or it wouldn't work (Windows)

 

An HP arrived today for the wife and it has a seal over the USB port with instructions to install the software before plugging it in.

A she is using Linux on her laptop we won't be bothering with that.