The grumpy thread

[chadders]

36 minutes ago, 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.

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]

Just now, 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.

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]

2 minutes ago, 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.

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

[GeorgeB]

8 hours ago, alcyonecorporation said:

VAG: absolute cunts. 

FTFY

[New POD]

9 hours ago, Mally said:

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

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

 

[Metal Guru]

14 hours ago, artdjones said:

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

Just a modest proposal.

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.

[BorniteIdentity]

30 minutes ago, Stinkwheel said:

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.

Get it up on here. All you need is a maestro sympathiser who can weld (ahem @Angrydicky) and it may well live to fight another day.

[Stinkwheel]

2 minutes ago, BorniteIdentity said:

Get it up on here. All you need is a maestro sympathiser who can weld (ahem @Angrydicky) and it may well live to fight another day.

Mate, i would, but im a Maestro sympathiser who can weld. And even I dont want to do it 🤣 Its failed 'badly'  on rust. I looked at the bits mentioned, cornflakes city

Seriously though, it will get advertised as being 'Free to any taker' on here for the brave/masochistic on here. Annoying that i took care of the rear suspension now, but thats old cars for you

[Split_Pin]

29 minutes ago, Stinkwheel said:

rear suspension

@JMotor, could this be a better solution to your Corsa D dampers perhaps? Or other suspensio-parts-finding related headaches that might arise in the future?

[JMotor]

On 28/11/2024 at 11:48, Split_Pin said:

@JMotor, could this be a better solution to your Corsa D dampers perhaps? Or other suspensio-parts-finding related headaches that might arise in the future?

It was Corsa D bump stops I got cheap with some part number searching. Managed to get Maestro rear dampers, the bump stops had gone all dust on mine.

Would sooo be interested in parts off that thing. Or too tempting to get the whole car if getting it transported wasn't going to be mental money.

[Zelandeth]

Just had to fix a water leak under the bath in the main bathroom.

Another old pipe run that had been capped off rather than removed.  With a plastic push fit cap on a copper pipe.  Which hadn't apparently been fitted properly.

Removed, pipe deburred properly and a proper metal compression fitting blanking cap fitted.  Now I've got to fix the utility room ceiling.  Again.  That's the...fourth, I think...leak I've had under that sodding bath.  I keep thinking I've found and checked everything that could leak, but keep finding more!  Hadn't even seen that pipe existed as it was buried right at the back hidden by building debris (because why would you both removing and disposing of rubble when you can just leave it behind?).

I guess on the plus side this was just a drip.  The last one was a push fit fitting that came off downstream of the pump for the shower, which successfully emptied the entire cold water header tank in the time it took me to get to the isolator - which was probably a couple of minutes at most.

[JMotor]

Sad to hear about the Maestro @Stinkwheel.

But I know where you are coming from too. Had this dilemma with a Vectra B estate I had. Just kept finding more and more rust. Just gave up in the end. 

[High Jetter]

Just back from a train ride to the next town to try and get hands-on with some music keyboards. Neither shop had anything I wanted out on display, never mind plugged in and available to demo - despite their websites saying they had some in stock. Got back to the car and found someone had dented the OSF wing of the MG.

[richardmorris]

Scammer response to a charity I posted on FB months ago.

Elite, Scientologist? Christians, illuminati?

ps the Carmen’s Kids is a naked wine supported charity that provides hot meals to schoolchildren in South Africa - more then their government does.

[Floatylight]

On 25/11/2024 at 13:38, Floatylight said:

Been and had two new tyres fitted this morning, noticed the inside edge of the nearside rear on the Merc was down to the cords, rest of the tyre fine and front offside worn quite low on the inner edge.

Ordered two new Falkens from Protyre (part of Micheldever) and went down this morning.

Asked them to replace both and have a look at suspension tracking as something is clearly way off.

They've put two new all seasons on, one on the front right, one on the rear left and not looked at the tracking saying i never asked for it.

Would of expected them to ask if i wanted new ones on front or rear and swap them round.l, especially as new are all seasons and old are summer tyres.

Been using them for years but wont be going back!

Am i being overly picky?

Update:- had a call from Protyre's area manager today, full of apologies booked back in to have wheels swapped & 4 wheel tracking done FOC.

Will see how it goes Saturday.

[richardmorris]

3 minutes ago, Floatylight said:

Update:- had a call from Protyre's area manager today, full of apologies booked back in to have wheels swapped & 4 wheel tracking done FOC.

Will see how it goes Saturday.

Had my first “0h” moment with the falkens on my new TIPO this morning. -1 degrees and a patch of a flood from yesterday . Definitely felt slippy. Otherwise I can’t complain about them after 25,000miles. Front are on 4mm now.

[Lord Sterling]

14 hours ago, Stinkwheel said:

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.

I feel ya. MoT fail on LOTS of rust has happened to this;

Happily, there is a likelihood that a shiter will be taking it on as a long-term project. We're just sorting out logistics, I might get one last hurrah of a drive to theirs in the next few weeks.

[Lord Sterling]

Slightly connected to the above, I am ill, again, possibly as a result of being out in the cold for a long while whilst waiting for its MoT results. 

Stourport whilst a delightful little town, (not as nice as I where I live though) in the morning it's pretty poor. It's simply serves a commuter pass through point mostly for those who live in the sticks to commute into the towns and cities like Kidderminster / Stourbridge / Birmingham etc...

The local Tesco didn't have a cafe as I always thought they had. Then in the High Street, out of the 4 greasy spoon cafes, only 1 was open. It cost me £6-odd for hot chocolate and a cheese sandwich. Then the library wasn't due to open its doors until 10.30am (the reception for mobile data in the cafe was none so I couldn't check opening times and they didn't have wifi) so I had to trapse around the local charity shops to stay warm until the library opened. It probably would have been cheaper and probably better on my health going home instead. £2 home, £2 and a bit of a walk back.

Once I did, it was another hour or so until the car was done. Now for the past few days I've been ill, my asthma has gone into overdrive and my lungs are filling up with phlegm every second causing me to cough it up.

I went through this a couple of months ago and financially I'm still playing catch up because I was so bad I had to take a week and half off work earning nowt more than SSP. I feel OK though m, nit as rough as I did weeks ago.

Also on the health front, my teeth need looking at badly, however my local dentist says there is a 6 month waiting list. Sod that.

[somewhatfoolish]

5 hours ago, richardmorris said:

Scammer response to a charity I posted on FB months ago.

Elite, Scientologist? Christians, illuminati?

ps the Carmen’s Kids is a naked wine supported charity that provides hot meals to schoolchildren in South Africa - more then their government does.

This shizz should warrant a life ban from the internet.

[myglaren]

8 hours ago, Lord Sterling said:

Also on the health front, my teeth need looking at badly, however my local dentist says there is a 6 month waiting list. Sod that.

Try your local dental hospital.  I did when I couldn't get to my dentist (went on holiday).

Attended by a student under supervision and she was better than my dentist, who I never went back to.

Went to the dental hospital again a few years later, still didn't have a dentist but was in the main hospital anyway as I cut a couple of fingers off, the dental hospital is attached to the main hospital.

[horriblemercedes]

10 hours ago, Lord Sterling said:

Slightly connected to the above, I am ill, again, possibly as a result of being out in the cold for a long while whilst waiting for its MoT results. 

 

I am sorry to hear that you are ill. I had a very unpleasant cold/flu/covid or something recently and was bad for a couple of weeks.

 

I would like to say that being cold for a couple of hours did not cause your viral infection. That is from being exposed to a virus. It is an old myth that being cold causes it and it is from the poor medical understanding that was the norm in the distant past.

[horriblemercedes]

I wouldn't say I'm grumpy but I am perplexed.

 

I was sent an email last week (work) and while I was reading it, I got a phone call to ask if I had received the email. I replied that I had and we chatted about it and some other things. I also replied to the email.

Today, I've received a letter which is a printout of the original email with a handwritten note that reads, "I wanted to make sure you have a copy"

 

I just don't understand the point of it

[loserone]

10 hours ago, Lord Sterling said:

I feel ya. MoT fail on LOTS of rust has happened to this;

Happily, there is a likelihood that a shiter will be taking it on as a long-term project. We're just sorting out logistics, I might get one last hurrah of a drive to theirs in the next few weeks.

Sorry Mo, I've just taken on something else which is rusty and has no MOT.  Probably for the best given how much I hated the 60k we put on it.  Get a for sale thread up!

[goosey]

1 minute ago, horriblemercedes said:

I wouldn't say I'm grumpy but I am perplexed.

 

I was sent an email last week (work) and while I was reading it, I got a phone call to ask if I had received the email. I replied that I had and we chatted about it and some other things. I also replied to the email.

Today, I've received a letter which is a printout of the original email with a handwritten note that reads, "I wanted to make sure you have a copy"

 

I just don't understand the point of it

I hoped you would say as you replaced the handset the caller appeared next to you in person to ask why you hadn’t returned their call 

[djoptix]

I am ill and grumpy.

Started on Monday. I was meant to be working all week on a double bathroom renovation project, over the bridge in Chepstow. I was feeling a bit rough by the end of Monday. Drove home, started sweating and shivering by about 8pm. Went to bed.

Had Tuesday morning in bed then headed over to work. Felt dreadful. Home for more sweating, shivering and bed.

Since then I have no energy, like NONE. I've honestly never felt so flat. No chance of even getting dressed, never mind going to work. Back pain, joint pain, dizziness, intermittent nausea, but those really aren't too bad compared to the complete lack of ability to do anything.

To be honest I'm hoping that I might be improving a little just because I've managed to write this post 🙄

The night sweats leave me constantly dehydrated and smelling like sour milk. I slept for 12 hours last night, then managed to drag myself through the shower, and immediately went back to sleep again.

I'm massively behind with work and panicking a bit about what happens if I don't get better.

[horriblemercedes]

3 minutes ago, djoptix said:

I am ill and grumpy.

Started on Monday. I was meant to be working all week on a double bathroom renovation project, over the bridge in Chepstow. I was feeling a bit rough by the end of Monday. Drove home, started sweating and shivering by about 8pm. Went to bed.

Had Tuesday morning in bed then headed over to work. Felt dreadful. Home for more sweating, shivering and bed.

Since then I have no energy, like NONE. I've honestly never felt so flat. No chance of even getting dressed, never mind going to work. Back pain, joint pain, dizziness, intermittent nausea, but those really aren't too bad compared to the complete lack of ability to do anything.

To be honest I'm hoping that I might be improving a little just because I've managed to write this post 🙄

The night sweats leave me constantly dehydrated and smelling like sour milk. I slept for 12 hours last night, then managed to drag myself through the shower, and immediately went back to sleep again.

I'm massively behind with work and panicking a bit about what happens if I don't get better.

I hope this improves soon. It's how I felt last week and the week before - one of the worst cold/flu/covid things I've ever had

[beko1987]

On 28/11/2024 at 12:46, Zelandeth said:

Just had to fix a water leak under the bath in the main bathroom.

Another old pipe run that had been capped off rather than removed.  With a plastic push fit cap on a copper pipe.  Which hadn't apparently been fitted properly.

Removed, pipe deburred properly and a proper metal compression fitting blanking cap fitted.  Now I've got to fix the utility room ceiling.  Again.  That's the...fourth, I think...leak I've had under that sodding bath.  I keep thinking I've found and checked everything that could leak, but keep finding more!  Hadn't even seen that pipe existed as it was buried right at the back hidden by building debris (because why would you both removing and disposing of rubble when you can just leave it behind?).

I guess on the plus side this was just a drip.  The last one was a push fit fitting that came off downstream of the pump for the shower, which successfully emptied the entire cold water header tank in the time it took me to get to the isolator - which was probably a couple of minutes at most.

My grandparents have had the same issue. A drip from a perished rubber bung that put the sink waste into the main stack or similar. They realised once the plasterboard was so sodden from the inside it crumbled off the wall 😬 Must have been dripping for years slowly, hidden

All been opened up now and drying ok, they had every joint replaced on it and I took a shitter vac round and cleaned it all out at the bottom so it dried. Their waiting until spring to check it's still dry then they'll get it re boarded