The grumpy thread

[Boycie]

18 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

Sainsburys.

 

It's 

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Still

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Chuffing 

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August.

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Mince pies that are best before 28 October.

Yeesh.

Is there any iced ones .......if so can u get me a couple of boxes

[Low ontime]

4 hours ago, New POD said:

My great aunt, was apparently doing this for the 10 years before she went into a home.  She carried a bucket from the outside tap upstairs to the bathroom, 2 or 3 times a day.  Stupid thing was that when she died, there was money in the bank. Lots of it. 

I don't think she stood on a chair. 

Demands on the nightmare in the pan below v back splash… chair is optional! 

[myglaren]

[Rustybullethole]

6 hours ago, ruffgeezer said:

Doing a bit of gardening and when hoeing managed to catapult something back straight into my eye.

By christ it hurt, worked on for a bit before giving up and having an early night. It seems a lot less painful this morning.

Dirty hoes! 

[nev_jr]

I've been working on parts all fucking summer after being asked to cover it. That slowly but surely snowballed into it now being September and I'm looking at another month of this supposed "cover" at least. Parts was the first role I had in the motor trade and I fucking hated it, I resigned just over a year into it. Now the worst of it is, IT'S THE SAME FUCKING COMPANY that I'm doing it for so they know full well my stance towards it. I feel really let down because of that and because most of the summer I've been trying to and finally managed to get a mortgage so I couldn't leave and balls all that up, so  they have used me as an absolute dogsbody fuckpig, "It's good having you around the office because you're our floater". So I am a shit. Nice. I see through your facade, I cost far less than the amount of people you would need to replace me and you replaced me with me anyway.

 

Sorry for the rant ladies and gents, been on my tits for a while now. What a shit summer, more bad news coming next week probably so stay tuned. 

[ProgRocker]

44 minutes ago, nev_jr said:

 I feel really let down because of that and because most of the summer I've been trying to and finally managed to get a mortgage so I couldn't leave and balls all that up, so  they have used me as an absolute dogsbody fuckpig, "It's good having you around the office because you're our floater". So I am a shit. Nice. I see through your facade, I cost far less than the amount of people you would need to replace me and you replaced me with me anyway.

 

Sorry for the rant ladies and gents, been on my tits for a while now. What a shit summer, more bad news coming next week probably so stay tuned. 

Been in that situation a few times in the past. Treated worst while employed DHL as a courier where I earned the nickname "The Fall Guy" getting sent to deliver and collect items from clients where there was an active complaint.  The Managers kept taking me for granted so I handed in a month's notice and left without another job lined up.

No job on the planet is worth any detriment to one's mental health.

[nev_jr]

Just now, ProgRocker said:

Been in that situation a few times in the past. Treated worst while employed DHL as a courier where I earned the nickname "The Fall Guy" getting sent to deliver and collect items from clients where there was an active complaint.  The Managers kept taking me for granted so I handed in a month's notice and left without another job lined up.

No job on the planet is worth any detriment to one's mental health.

Looks like I'll be following suit soon enough, has majorly taken me out of my rhythm.

[TataBobu]

Yesterday my wife dragged me to Ikea. The one in the North part of București. Surprisingly, IKEA is not the grump. There was an airshow at Băneasa Airport, and everyone and their mother took the four wheeled umbrellas to drive there with picnic tables and lawn chairs, managed to block the parking lot (it's a huge strip mall, search Google maps for "Băneasa mall" if you want to see it from above) and the acces road, which is only the fucking DN1! Equivalent to M1 for getting out of that there London! Anyway, a trip that should have been a 40 minutes car ride was an 70 minutes ride and 20 extra minutes to do the last 200 meters bit and try to find a parking space. And IKEA didn't had the fucking bed we were there searching for! So we had to drive another 40 minutes to the other IKEA, order the bed because they didn't have it either, and another 50 minutes across București to get back home. How was your Saturday afternoon?

[Pieman]

Drove back from Kent to the Midlands tonight, trip went fine apart from the usual Dartford queue, then as always as soon as I reach the Midlands everything goes to shit.  M42 suddenly comes to a halt just after the M6 split with no warning on the signs (they were too busy telling everyone about the southbound M42 being shut, nothing about northbound).  Then I get to the crossroads heading into my home town...just as the cops are closing it off to recover two cars that have smashed into each other.

That's not the grump though.  The grump is the driver of the black Fiesta which drove down the wrong side to overtake everyone else sitting patiently in the queue waiting for the police to reopen the road, drove through the cones and sounded their horn as they drove round/through the scene before driving off at fairly high speed.  Don't worry, the cops got your reg number, and I hope you saw the wanker sign I gave you out of my window as well, you utter fucking moron.

[somewhatfoolish]

Hopefully they'll get their pockets rifled and a few months getting the bus to work while they think about what they did.

[Metal Guru]

1 hour ago, somewhatfoolish said:

Hopefully they'll get their pockets rifled and a few months getting the bus to work while they think about what they did.

Probably stolen if they drive like that and torched by now.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Saturday.  Get off flight from Gothenburg to Stanstead.  Flying in from Landvetter really does show what an utter shithole Stanstead is.

Land at 1625, out of the airport by 1715.  Get in the car to collect the dog from Exmouth.  Get to Exmouth at 1100 after having to detour to Farnham for an hour.  Decide that we're going to drive home from Exmouth to Dover(ish) that same night.  Finally arrive home at 0527, absolutely fucked.  Turns out you can kip at Clacket Lane at 0330 for 20 minutes or so without a care in the World when you've been on the road that long.

That's not the grump.  The grump is that we decided to get click and collect from Sainsburys and then lunch out in Folkestone at 1300.  I did not want to get back into the car as I'd driven all but 3 hours the previous day...

[mercedade]

On 30/08/2024 at 17:44, beko1987 said:

Now I'm happy just taking a friend's cast offs, although we do have flipping loads of bloody phones now, but they all have a purpose/too fucked to be any use otherwise. 

Make some money on the next inherited phone? From me, like. Looking at new phones now.

I'm a Pixel convert, have been looking at the 8. I wouldn't buy the 9 though, I'd give it 6 months of updates for them to iron out the kinks (based on what my 6 ownership was like)

[beko1987]

21 minutes ago, mercedade said:

Make some money on the next inherited phone? From me, like. Looking at new phones now.

I'm a Pixel convert, have been looking at the 8. I wouldn't buy the 9 though, I'd give it 6 months of updates for them to iron out the kinks (based on what my 6 ownership was like)

I could but never have. Tbh until roughly now they've always had 'a purpose'. The kids both have a phone each now, and when/if the next upgrade happens I can relegate my current phone to filming/spare phone only which will be nice. 

This is the same friend who built my pc too and I don't like to profit off him. It all gets passed on one way or another and payment in kind etc. When he gives me an upgrade I give him back the old part and he puts it in the cheap gaming pc's he sells

[richardmorris]

My parents are flying back from Paris today, well they were. Mum somehow left a bag at security and went back for it from the gate, only to leave dad with both boarding passes. So they wouldn’t let her back in and they missed the flight after delaying it for half an hour. Rebooked a flight with easyJet for 17.25 which still hasn’t boarded. I’ve had to contact Manchester airport meet n greet parking ( not easy to get the phone number!) to reschedule the collection. 
their luggage went on without them apparently. Not sure how?

I foresee the next hurdle to be that easyJet lands at t1 Manchester rather than the t2 airfrance did with their luggage and where the car is parked. 
 

 

[richardmorris]

Update. Found the car, but luggage reclaim closed at 8pm. So could collect tomorrow or pay £35 for delivery on Thursday. I don’t think I’ll trust them to go away again! It was a bag containing my dad’s medication and silver dressings etc that mum left behind ( how I don’t know), whether that’s worth £500 for the flights and luggage delivery I doubt.

[Remspoor]

Apparently even something simple like garden twine is made in China. What does the west make these days?

[EyesWeldedShut]

10 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

Apparently even something simple like garden twine is made in China. What does the west make these days?

Social media outrage.

[Metal Guru]

4 hours ago, Remspoor said:

Apparently even something simple like garden twine is made in China. What does the west make these days?

I assume we ( NATO) make all our own military kit ( the secret parts, I’ll bet some parts of the uniforms etc are made in China). 
After that I’m struggling.

[Westbay]

"their luggage went on without them apparently. Not sure how? "

Their cases once checked in will be passed to a 'Ground Handling Company' who look after the storing and movement of the luggage from terminal to aircraft hold either loose on trollies or containerised in ULD's (unit load device) depending on aircraft type.

Unless the airline tells or requests the Ground Handling Company remove the luggage from the flight it will travel even if the 'self loading freight' (passengers) don't travel on the flight ...

[Markeh]

I'm pretty surprised that if they weren't on the flight, they didn't unload the bags - you'd have thought it'd be a security risk having luggage on board without the accompanying passenger.

[adw1977]

Yes, I thought bags could never go without their owner because otherwise it's a way of getting a bomb on the plane without killing yourself.  Unless baggage scanning is considered so reliable that couldn't happen anymore?

[New POD]

1 hour ago, Metal Guru said:

I assume we ( NATO) make all our own military kit ( the secret parts, I’ll bet some parts of the uniforms etc are made in China). 
After that I’m struggling.

There are some tricks to not getting your IP stuck in the DoD red tape.  Say you have a contract with a NATo military organisation, and you need to design some control system, for that. If you design it for that contract, using it later for a none military purpose later could be very painful indeed. The US courts might not be happy with your "espionage" .

But if you design it for a none military application first, and then use it later for a military application you are okay.  

[richardmorris]

1 hour ago, Markeh said:

I'm pretty surprised that if they weren't on the flight, they didn't unload the bags - you'd have thought it'd be a security risk having luggage on board without the accompanying passenger.

Mum caused enough of a security risk in the terminal! These pensioners can be quite cunning and slippery.

[IronStar]

Is it too much to ask for people to pick up their (business!) phone? Or at least call back if you’re busy? 
CC is supposed to be booked at one of, if not the most reputable PSA specialist in Serbia. Called him last week, he picked up, to great shock of everyone who ever met him, told me to call on Monday or Tuesday. Called yesterday. Called today. 5 times. Drove there in the end. He was out testing a car. Ran into his dad(?!) who insisted on calling him for me despite me politely declining. He picked up his call, went, oh, yeah, sorry, come on Thursday morning. 
Friend that owned the blue Saxo before me had the pleasure of being booked then never being confirmed as he didn’t answer the phone. My mechanic friend who’s a very good mate of PSA specialist also keeps complaining about him not picking up the phone for days. What the actual fuck? Please get someone to pick up the phone and manage bookings if you CBA, heaven knows no one would complain if you upped the prices by 10 or even 20% to cover for that.

For the record, this is not the first time I met the guy. I was never pushy. I never asked for a car to be fixed immediately or booked for tomorrow. I never asked for a discount, hell, I paid over what I was quoted. In all our previous contacts we were getting along great, chatting about cars and shit. So I really don’t think it’s about me.

[comfortablynumb]

Seems to be a symptom of modern times @IronStar, people forget how they actually get money, they're doing you a favour actually talking to you, let alone do any work

I know I'm not alone in trying to contact someone, to have them blank me completely. They actively seem to want to go out of business 🤔

[GeorgeB]

1 hour ago, IronStar said:

Is it too much to ask for people to pick up their (business!) phone? Or at least call back if you’re busy? 
CC is supposed to be booked at one of, if not the most reputable PSA specialist in Serbia. Called him last week, he picked up, to great shock of everyone who ever met him, told me to call on Monday or Tuesday. Called yesterday. Called today. 5 times. Drove there in the end. He was out testing a car. Ran into his dad(?!) who insisted on calling him for me despite me politely declining. He picked up his call, went, oh, yeah, sorry, come on Thursday morning. 
Friend that owned the blue Saxo before me had the pleasure of being booked then never being confirmed as he didn’t answer the phone. My mechanic friend who’s a very good mate of PSA specialist also keeps complaining about him not picking up the phone for days. What the actual fuck? Please get someone to pick up the phone and manage bookings if you CBA, heaven knows no one would complain if you upped the prices by 10 or even 20% to cover for that.

For the record, this is not the first time I met the guy. I was never pushy. I never asked for a car to be fixed immediately or booked for tomorrow. I never asked for a discount, hell, I paid over what I was quoted. In all our previous contacts we were getting along great, chatting about cars and shit. So I really don’t think it’s about me.

Sorry, but I have no idea what you are trying to say.

CC? PSA?

[IronStar]

12 minutes ago, GeorgeB said:

Sorry, but I have no idea what you are trying to say.

CC? PSA?

307CC, PSA Peugeot Citroën

[beko1987]

A spider the size of a small cat ran across my feet earlier this morning, I fucking hate spiders 😭

I was on a video call too, being active in it and didn't mute fast enough before swearing, then the thing I went to smash it with didn't work and it ran away.. 

Went and got a vacuum and spent the rest of the call with it in my hands with my colleagues laughing at me but I've still not found the twat, it's under the TV unit/massive pile of fucked hoovers that one side of my front room consists of 

[comfortablynumb]

It's biding it's time until you think it's gone @beko1987

Be afraid. Be VERY afraid 🤣