The grumpy thread

[Remspoor]

  On 26/11/2024 at 13:06, bunglebus said:

Remember this leaky twat printer from the other week? It had one more trick up its sleeve. I bagged it up at the time and put in the outhouse while I decided whether to have a moan at Tesco about the cartridge. It was in the way so I put it in the recycling bin outside. Today I thought I'd do a nice simple job of picking up all the leaves Bert had deposited everywhere. Moved the bins to get the leaves out and thought WTF is all this black everywhere? Yep, ink, diluted just enough by the rain to fill the bin and leak out all over the path. 

The fucker's in the main bin now, and the neighbours are twitching the curtains while I wash the tin cans on the lawn

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[jakebullet]

Mad Jean tiem:

I get so down and depressed because., i am so lonely and a lot of people are so unfriendly towards me. I have not been out of my home for months anf i sit and cry because, i love people and i love been with them,my own family even never even ring me up, i and my husband are just sat in our small living room. The sad thing is i was in a church chorus were i live and some members were very unfriendly towards me and i felt unwanted and rejected. I HAD BEEN IN THIS CHORUS FOR ABOUT 20 YEARS. AND BECAUSE I FELT MADE UPSET AND UNWELCOMED FEELING I FELT THAT I BETTER GET OUT AND IT HAS BROKEN ME BECAUSE, I LOVE TO SING VERY MUCH SO, I CAME OUT NOW ABOUT 3 OR 4 MONTHS AGO AND NOT ONE SINGLE MEMBER HAS NOT EVEN CONTACTED ME AND IT,S EVEN PUT ME OFF BOTHERING TO ANY OF THE CHURCHES WHERE I LIVE, I WOULD AT LEAST THOUGHT ONE MEMBER WOULD HAVE RANG ME UP TO ASK HOW I WAS FEELING SO THAT HAS MADE ME FEEL EVEN MORE DEPRESSED. LUCKLY I AM A CHRISTIAN AND I HAVE JESUS HAS  MY BEST FRIEND SO IHAVE HIM TO TALK TO IN PRAYER. SINGIG HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE THING THAT I HAVE ALWAYS LOVE AND TO BE INVOLVED IN AD STILL WOULD VERY MUCH LIKE TO GO AND SING. THE TROUBLE IS THIS CHORUS IS RUN BY NONE TRAINED CONDUCTOR AND THE OTHER THING IS HE HAS CLIQUES AND OFCOURSE I A NOT ONE OF THEM. ANYWAY I AM RICHER THAN THEM WITH HAVING JESUS AS MY BEST,FATHFUL FRIEND AND SAVIOUR AND JESUS WILL NEVER TURN ME AWAY OR REJECT ME ,HE UNDERSTANDS BECAUSE,HE HIMSELF WAS DISPISED AND REJECTED AND WAS CRUCIFIED AND DIED HUNG , NAILED TO A CROSS AND JUST BEFORE HE DIED HE SAID IT IS FINISHED AND FORGIVE THEM FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO , THESE WORDS KEEP GOING ROUND INSIDE MY HEAD. I PRAISE AND THANK HIM FOR DOINGTHIS FOR ME   ,FOR GIVING HIS OWN LIFE THAT I MIGHT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE, I CAN,T PRAISE AND THANK JESUS ENOUGH FOR SUFFERING SO MUCH AND DYING AND GIVING HIS OWN LIFE FOR ME THAT I MIGHT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE. I PRAISE HIM AND LOVE HIM AND THANK EHIM EVERYDAY AND I INTEND TO DO THIS UNTIL HE TAKES ME BY HIS HANDS AND THROUGH HIS GOLDEN GATEES TO THE PLACE HE HAS PREPARED FOR ME, A PLACE OF MANY MANSIONS. IT WILL BE A GLORIOUS DAY WHEN I GET TO HEAVEN, JESUS WILL BE THERE READY AND WAITING TO WELCOME ME, I WILL NOT BE TURNED OUT, I WILL BE ACCEPTED WITH OPENED ARMS, THE LOVING ARMS OF  JESUS. THANK YOU JESUS.

Poor Jean. Perhaps if you stopped attacking everyone they would interact with you?

Also, the internet says 170K die each day, and 31.2% of the world are Christians. So if Jesus never sleeps and stands on the gate constantly, that's 1.63 seconds each. Perhaps he's like santa, and has a large team of stand in Jesus lookalikes to handle the day to day work stuff. I guess if you want an afternoon with Jesus you have to book and wait a few thousand years?

[artdjones]

  On 27/11/2024 at 09:36, jakebullet said:

Mad Jean tiem:

I get so down and depressed because., i am so lonely and a lot of people are so unfriendly towards me. I have not been out of my home for months anf i sit and cry because, i love people and i love been with them,my own family even never even ring me up, i and my husband are just sat in our small living room. The sad thing is i was in a church chorus were i live and some members were very unfriendly towards me and i felt unwanted and rejected. I HAD BEEN IN THIS CHORUS FOR ABOUT 20 YEARS. AND BECAUSE I FELT MADE UPSET AND UNWELCOMED FEELING I FELT THAT I BETTER GET OUT AND IT HAS BROKEN ME BECAUSE, I LOVE TO SING VERY MUCH SO, I CAME OUT NOW ABOUT 3 OR 4 MONTHS AGO AND NOT ONE SINGLE MEMBER HAS NOT EVEN CONTACTED ME AND IT,S EVEN PUT ME OFF BOTHERING TO ANY OF THE CHURCHES WHERE I LIVE, I WOULD AT LEAST THOUGHT ONE MEMBER WOULD HAVE RANG ME UP TO ASK HOW I WAS FEELING SO THAT HAS MADE ME FEEL EVEN MORE DEPRESSED. LUCKLY I AM A CHRISTIAN AND I HAVE JESUS HAS  MY BEST FRIEND SO IHAVE HIM TO TALK TO IN PRAYER. SINGIG HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE THING THAT I HAVE ALWAYS LOVE AND TO BE INVOLVED IN AD STILL WOULD VERY MUCH LIKE TO GO AND SING. THE TROUBLE IS THIS CHORUS IS RUN BY NONE TRAINED CONDUCTOR AND THE OTHER THING IS HE HAS CLIQUES AND OFCOURSE I A NOT ONE OF THEM. ANYWAY I AM RICHER THAN THEM WITH HAVING JESUS AS MY BEST,FATHFUL FRIEND AND SAVIOUR AND JESUS WILL NEVER TURN ME AWAY OR REJECT ME ,HE UNDERSTANDS BECAUSE,HE HIMSELF WAS DISPISED AND REJECTED AND WAS CRUCIFIED AND DIED HUNG , NAILED TO A CROSS AND JUST BEFORE HE DIED HE SAID IT IS FINISHED AND FORGIVE THEM FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO , THESE WORDS KEEP GOING ROUND INSIDE MY HEAD. I PRAISE AND THANK HIM FOR DOINGTHIS FOR ME   ,FOR GIVING HIS OWN LIFE THAT I MIGHT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE, I CAN,T PRAISE AND THANK JESUS ENOUGH FOR SUFFERING SO MUCH AND DYING AND GIVING HIS OWN LIFE FOR ME THAT I MIGHT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE. I PRAISE HIM AND LOVE HIM AND THANK EHIM EVERYDAY AND I INTEND TO DO THIS UNTIL HE TAKES ME BY HIS HANDS AND THROUGH HIS GOLDEN GATEES TO THE PLACE HE HAS PREPARED FOR ME, A PLACE OF MANY MANSIONS. IT WILL BE A GLORIOUS DAY WHEN I GET TO HEAVEN, JESUS WILL BE THERE READY AND WAITING TO WELCOME ME, I WILL NOT BE TURNED OUT, I WILL BE ACCEPTED WITH OPENED ARMS, THE LOVING ARMS OF  JESUS. THANK YOU JESUS.

Poor Jean. Perhaps if you stopped attacking everyone they would interact with you?

Also, the internet says 170K die each day, and 31.2% of the world are Christians. So if Jesus never sleeps and stands on the gate constantly, that's 1.63 seconds each. Perhaps he's like santa, and has a large team of stand in Jesus lookalikes to handle the day to day work stuff. I guess if you want an afternoon with Jesus you have to book and wait a few thousand years?

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Shouldn't we have a dedicated thread for slagging off people with mental health problems?

Just a modest proposal.

[alcyonecorporation]

VAG cooling systems: absolute cunts. 

[Lord Sterling]

  On 27/11/2024 at 11:03, alcyonecorporation said:

VAG: absolute cunts. 

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EFA.

[New POD]

  On 27/11/2024 at 10:13, artdjones said:

Shouldn't we have a dedicated thread for slagging off people with mental health problems?

Just a modest proposal.

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I'm to be trained by work (via MIND) to become one of 40 mental health first aiders on site.  I guess i was an ironic selection by the managers. Most of whom think Mental Health and stress is just a sign of weakness and people should pull themselves together and get on with it. 

[alcyonecorporation]

  On 27/11/2024 at 11:20, New POD said:

I'm to be trained by work (via MIND) to become one of 40 mental health first aiders on site.  I guess i was an ironic selection by the managers. Most of whom think Mental Health and stress is just a sign of weakness and people should pull themselves together and get on with it. 

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The best/worst thing that ever happened to me at my last FT job was getting a bollocking from HR for not filling out an anonymous survey on mental health. 

I declined as I felt that they had no understanding of the subject. 

[New POD]

  On 27/11/2024 at 11:58, alcyonecorporation said:

The best/worst thing that ever happened to me at my last FT job was getting a bollocking from HR for not filling out an anonymous survey on mental health. 

I declined as I felt that they had no understanding of the subject. 

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You should have said "Just thinking about filling it in gave me anxiety, and I started having a panic attack" 

[alcyonecorporation]

I don't work for that firm any more. 

One of the managers proudly proclaimed, with zero irony: 'We don't reduce people to tears in review meetings any more, and we're really proud of that.' 

And you just thought the writing was hopeless...

[Mally]

  On 27/11/2024 at 11:58, alcyonecorporation said:

The best/worst thing that ever happened to me at my last FT job was getting a bollocking from HR for not filling out an anonymous survey on mental health. 

I declined as I felt that they had no understanding of the subject. 

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If it was anonymous.

How did they know?

[Mally]

  On 27/11/2024 at 11:20, New POD said:

I'm to be trained by work (via MIND) to become one of 40 mental health first aiders on site.  I guess i was an ironic selection by the managers. Most of whom think Mental Health and stress is just a sign of weakness and people should pull themselves together and get on with it. 

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Best give yourself a good talking to as soon as you qualify.

[MikeR]

Just about sums up things .....

[alcyonecorporation]

  On 27/11/2024 at 12:52, Mally said:

If it was anonymous.

How did they know?

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Because it wasn't anonymous, they just said it was anonymous. Same as the workplace quality surveys. 

Reason: they were cunts. Micromanaging cunts. 

[alcyonecorporation]

And for any manager types on here mouthing 'they couldn't have done that,' they fucking did and I was there. Go and enjoy your free shit slice of pizza with HR if you think I'm lying about it. 

[warch]

  On 27/11/2024 at 11:58, alcyonecorporation said:

The best/worst thing that ever happened to me at my last FT job was getting a bollocking from HR for not filling out an anonymous survey on mental health. 

I declined as I felt that they had no understanding of the subject. 

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I was once handed a staff appraisal form where I was (and I'm not making this up) asked to make comment on my colleagues personal appearance.

I treated this with the contempt it deserved by docking both of my fellow archaeologists a point because one of them doesn't have enough hair and one of them has too much hair. 

[BorniteIdentity]

  On 27/11/2024 at 12:59, alcyonecorporation said:

Because it wasn't anonymous, they just said it was anonymous. Same as the workplace quality surveys. 

Reason: they were cunts. Micromanaging cunts. 

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This completely reinforces what I said a few months ago about being extremely cautious enjoying your employers generous* and confidential** wellbeing services. 

I was jumped all over and lampooned by the regulars on here.  Standard. 

Yet, experience shows time and time again that confidential things should never be discussed at work. They’re slippery little snakes and - guess what - they don’t have your best interests at heart. They have their own. 

Glad you’re out of there @alcyonecorporation

[alcyonecorporation]

In my humble opinion, the people who work in HR are sociopaths. I wouldn't piss on them if they caught fire. 
 

[chadders]

  On 27/11/2024 at 16:24, alcyonecorporation said:

In my humble opinion, the people who work in HR are sociopaths. I wouldn't piss on them if they caught fire. 
 

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Having had to deal with them over the years I agree.

They've got even worse as they've become more 'important'.

[dean36014]

When I worked at DHL years ago, we each issued a individually numbered feedback form that was compulsory to fill in. We never did find out the results as they buried it. Nearly everyone rated them as crap though. 

[EyesWeldedShut]

  On 27/11/2024 at 15:58, BorniteIdentity said:

This completely reinforces what I said a few months ago about being extremely cautious enjoying your employers generous* and confidential** wellbeing services. 

I was jumped all over and lampooned by the regulars on here.  Standard. 

Yet, experience shows time and time again that confidential things should never be discussed at work. They’re slippery little snakes and - guess what - they don’t have your best interests at heart. They have their own. 

Glad you’re out of there @alcyonecorporation

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Sprog #2 has just resurfaced after a shit relationship and ^^^^ loads of this ^^^^ on top of it from her employers.
Work things ended up with an NDA, gardening leave and promises of no bad references just confirmation of work dates.
They've not confirmed jack shit for her since and she's now on her second job after leaving them.
She's much more wary now of the promises* from future employers.

[artdjones]

[chadders]

  On 27/11/2024 at 16:47, EyesWeldedShut said:

Sprog #2 has just resurfaced after a shit relationship and ^^^^ loads of this ^^^^ on top of it from her employers.
Work things ended up with an NDA, gardening leave and promises of no bad references just confirmation of work dates.
They've not confirmed jack shit for her since and she's now on her second job after leaving them.
She's much more wary now of the promises* from future employers.

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Sometimes you can agree, as their manager, references etc. for staff who are leaving and are then get over ruled by HR. All future employers reference requests went straight to HR where I've worked so a couple of times they were told to send them to me as their line manager. In both cases their previous managers had been absolute cunts and given them written warnings because they wouldn't kowtow to their bullying.

[EyesWeldedShut]

  On 27/11/2024 at 17:31, chadders said:

Sometimes you can agree, as their manager, references etc. for staff who are leaving and are then get over ruled by HR. All future employers reference requests went straight to HR where I've worked so a couple of times they were told to send them to me as their line manager. In both cases their previous managers had been absolute cunts and given them written warnings because they wouldn't kowtow to their bullying.

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This lot it's the partners that are were the problem - promising the earth to a lot of the younger staff and then binning them off with an NDA once the scales had started falling from their eyes.
Everything (from their end) is stitched up tighter than my wallet so the youngsters just accept it and move on. My feeling is that it's very common in certain 'trades' as a way of screwing 120% out of junior staff then giving them the flick.

[chadders]

  On 27/11/2024 at 17:35, EyesWeldedShut said:

This lot it's the partners that are were the problem - promising the earth to a lot of the younger staff and then binning them off with an NDA once the scales had started falling from their eyes.
Everything (from their end) is stitched up tighter than my wallet so the youngsters just accept it and move on. My feeling is that it's very common in certain 'trades' as a way of screwing 120% out of junior staff then giving them the flick.

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Consultancy is like that in my experience, especially the US ones.

[GeorgeB]

  On 27/11/2024 at 11:03, alcyonecorporation said:

VAG: absolute cunts. 

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FTFY

[New POD]

  On 27/11/2024 at 12:54, Mally said:

Best give yourself a good talking to as soon as you qualify.

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Yes, that's the Lancashire way.  None of those namby pamby southern soft wokisms here you know.  Said with irony and sarcasm. 

 

[Metal Guru]

  On 27/11/2024 at 10:13, artdjones said:

Shouldn't we have a dedicated thread for slagging off people with mental health problems?

Just a modest proposal.

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I’m not even sure who has the mental health problem here.

[reb]

Yesterday I left my phone on silent in the other room all day because I was busy being busy.

Picked it up at 5 to a million missed calls, seemingly it's already been a month since the last injection to stop me going proper insane. Now need to go into town today to get that, which is a pain in the arse because I have quite a bit of work to be doing, could do with not having to piss around on buses today.

Plus I got hungry at 2am and ate what was supposed to be tonights dinner.

[Split_Pin]

As some may be aware I lost my dad in March this year. My mum has had some kind of unshiftable issue with her ear for months and was quite quickly referred to the hospital. I phoned her last night and she said when she went there yesterday, she was met by a consultant surgeon. That's not good news. He took a look and said there didn't appear to be anything sinister but she's now booked in for a scan. 

I hope it's nothing serious. 

[Stinkwheel]

The Maestro is dead.

Bunged in for MOT to see what it might fail on rust wise before doing anymore work. Answer is welding, lots and lots of welding. Mostly in awkward areas and tricky to do without stripping out front end completely, and the misses needs transport, so its dead.

Welsh small roads, salt, various types of animal shit (not shite) and the humid and damp environment here have polished it off. 

Oh well, never mind, next.