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  autofive said:
Frank Carson

 

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What a shame, he was a bloody great comedian. Didn't know he was 85 either, always had him down as being about late sixties.

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Another interview that went reasonably well, another rejection. I'm utterly convinced they didn't hire the girl they were seeing before me who, from overhearing her conversation with the receptionist, seemed to have a few friends in common with the hiring manager. :evil:

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  Luxobarges_Are_Us said:
Another interview that went reasonably well, another rejection. I'm utterly convinced they didn't hire the girl they were seeing before me who, from overhearing her conversation with the receptionist, seemed to have a few friends in common with the hiring manager. :evil:

 

Maybe a career change is in order? I've never come across anyone with such bad luck at interviews as you!

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Well, as I said, I am seriously looking into doing a PhD and becoming a professor or something...With that said, in addition to the bad luck, I MUST be doing something wrong, too...Perhaps I do well on the 'factual' bits and for some reason come across as an idiot or a complete misfit (which I guess I might be, in a sense!).

 

Haha, I've recently applied for a job with Royal Mail- it's a temporary job, and somewhat related to HR (mostly to do with managing the recruitment of temp posties) via an agency and I am told that I have fairly decent chances, but it was only forwarded to RM on Monday, so I guess I won't be hearing from them for another week or so. The GR9 thing about that job is that it's literally 3 minutes' walk from where I live.

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  Luxobarges_Are_Us said:
I'm utterly convinced they didn't hire the girl they were seeing before me who, from overhearing her conversation with the receptionist, seemed to have a few friends in common with the hiring manager. :evil:

 

I wouldn't read too much into that, it's an old trick designed to put other people off.

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  Cavette said:
  Luxobarges_Are_Us said:
I'm utterly convinced they didn't hire the girl they were seeing before me who, from overhearing her conversation with the receptionist, seemed to have a few friends in common with the hiring manager. :evil:

 

I wouldn't read too much into that, it's an old trick designed to put other people off.

 

Interesting point, but, before me, it was the receptionist who had picked up the girl's conversation with the hiring manager who had walked her back to reception (I was just shown the way).

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Is the agency Angard? Royal Mail recruits you for the company rather than the specific job so if you do well but are not given the position they will accept you for alternatives within RM.

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No, it's just a generic temp agency that deals with everything from cleaners to finance managers. Apparently RM work with a lot of different agencies and the vacancy essentially is about keeping track of all of them! :mrgreen:

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Thanks. :)

I will keep applying to pretty much everything I can find, I've rehashed my CV once again and I'll just hope that my luck will improve a bit...

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I bought an additional handset and charging base for our home phones from a refurbishment centre on ebay, quite cheap at a tenner delivered, however what they've done is send either the wrong power lead, or the wrong base unit, simples? Just email them and they'll send the replacement right?

 

No, 6 Days, 6 fucking days for you to admit that you a stupid, rabbit brained, crotchety faced old cunt who has fucked up the order.

 

I sent an email telling them the mistake, they told me I was wrong, I sent them the part numbers, they told me I had sent them the wrong numbers, in the end after nearly a week they told me to return them, but a little read of their ebay feedback suggested that I'd be lumbered with the postage charges... Well they can smack that up their pissholes with a table leg if they think that is going to fly.

 

I sent them pictures of what I received...

 

  dimwitted keyboard attendant said:
Is this the base unit we sent you?

 

No, I just found it in the road and thought you'd like a picture of it, you fetid piece of dickcheese.

 

Only now have they told me they will be sending a replacement.

 

Bloody hells bells on a bicycle.

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According to the telly today Lenny Henry is a comedian and 'White Van Man' is a comedy show. I beg to differ.

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This morning my t25 decided to cut out while I was waiting in traffic at a busy roundabout, and wouldn't start again, just turned over and over. Left it 10 minutes and had another go - one slight cough, then nothing. Caused MEGA TAILBACKS but I don't think Sally Traffic was informed.

 

Not so much a grump, shit happens and my mate was only round the corner and towed me to his house. My grump is that a few hours later, the bastard started up like nothing had happened and drove me 4 or 5 miles home perfectly well. So I've got no clues what it was, nothing to "fix", and the bloody thing is definitely going to leave me stranded again soon.

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GR3 luck continues! This afternoon I discovered a MASSIVE dent in the NSR door of the Scorpio. That'll be two hundred sovs for pulling out, sanding/preparing, respraying and possibly a bit of blending in with the surrounding area. Couldn't find any evidence of a bump, it looked like somebody opened their door onto it applying as much force as they could, must've happened yesterday when I went to a Pakistani supermarket in Bradford to get myself some spices that are impossible to find here...not noticed at the time as it was on the nearside and I had reversed into the space having the supermarket on my right-hand side.

 

I do recall thinking 'these spaces seem pretty narrow'...also known as "killed instict"

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I honestly know of nobody with worse automotive luck than you seem to have! That said it's mostly been brought on by choosing to live in Sheffield center (Nice place to live if you ride a bike. and you keep the bike in your kitchen), but kudos to you for sticking at it.

 

I'd have given up after the second time the car got bummed, and just got a mondeo, not formed any emotional attachment to it and let people bash it into the inevitable bollocks it's bound to become.

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  cobblers said:
choosing to live in Sheffield center

 

I'd have given up after the second time the car got bummed, and just got a Series 3 Landy, not formed any emotional attachment to it and let people bash it (if they dare!)

 

EFA

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Well, I think it's just a matter of general luck, not just automotive. Apart from my health which is pretty good, my entire life is fucked up and it's mostly due to things over which I have little or no control. See job stuff, right here! During the call that informed me I had been rejected after yesterday's interview, I asked for feedback. "Can we please call you tomorrow to give you more details?" "Yes, no problem". Of course they didn't call, which only helps to make me even more suspicious of the whole process having been a mere rubber-stamping exercise.

 

Partly due to my efforts with the residents' action group and constant pestering of the police and council, vandalism seems to have quitened down a bit...

 

As for the emotional attachment, I do have a little bit of it, but my attitude to fixing all these bits and pieces is less of a desire to keep things perfect and more of an investment to minimise the risk of vandalism. An obviously uncared-for car is going to be further vandalised- that is precisely why I had to scrap the Accord which had been a perfectly good car. Furthermore, if it ends up seriously vandalised or otherwise smashed, I'd need to find another LPG car (only way to get a parking permit), which would be hard to find and relatively expensive to buy...Eddy, you don't want to try finding a cheap Series Landy with LPG!

 

I like Sheffield but this is too much. The moment I find a job, I will move away from here. Even if the job is based around the corner from my current place.

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I went to work in my Astra Estate today. :cry:

 

I've been using my Transit for weeks, the Astra feels like a coffin now. :oops:

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  Luxobarges_Are_Us said:

 

As for the emotional attachment, I do have a little bit of it, but my attitude to fixing all these bits and pieces is less of a desire to keep things perfect and more of an investment to minimise the risk of vandalism. An obviously uncared-for car is going to be further vandalised- that is precisely why I had to scrap the Accord which had been a perfectly good car.

 

Not sure this is quite right, the type of cuntbag that does this sort of thing wouldn't touch the dented Mk6 Escort with rotten arches but would go for the looked after nice car next to it.

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But it's not professional cunts/misanthropists doing the vandalism here. It's students on their way out of the nightclub, so they pick the 'easiest' target in order to avoid alarms going off or in the hope of being able to joyride home as if there hadn't been immobilisers fitted to everything that's been produced in the last 20 years. Or that's what the Police have told me- they even recommended that I have my car washed frequently! Of course, there is no logic to this mindless stuff, so you probably can't win, no matter what tactics you employ. Worse still, the LPG issue with parking means I can't really have a 'throwaway' car either.

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Find out what night is cheap ale/student night, wait up until 4.00am hiding behind curtains with baseball bat in hand, go outside and meter justice.

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I might be talking utter rubbish, but I dont associate students with mindless vandalism of parked cars. They might spend most fo their time pissed, but surely students in the main have recognised that they have to invest a bit of time in getting a qualification that will pay them back in the future. Purely on the basis of them having made that decision, I think most students are sufficiently intelligent to not bother vandalising cars. I reckon that sort of stuff is done by unemployed knobhead kids who do it for a short (sub-2 sec) burst of excitement/bravado cos they are simply unable to think of anything better to do.

 

Obviously Sheffield police are better informed about crime in the Sheffield area than I am, i just cant help thinking that logic would suggest theyre talking bollocks.

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Nobody really knows, but you may well be right. Whoever does it must only do it after they've consumed a massive amount of alcohol, though, as Saturday nights are a lot quieter than the Monday 'student night' (which is open to non-students, too) when drinks are 80p.

 

Having said all that, I'm pretty sure the latest incident has nothing to do with it all. It must've happened in the supermarket. I don't like to stereotype, but I can just imagine it being somebody really TOUGH trying to get out of a barried-up Civic with the boomy stereo playing Punjabi chart hits.

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Unfortunately one area of Chester is blighted by student 'high jinx' including vandalising cars, been a problem for a long while now. That said it's not like every crime in the city is carried out by students and therer's far worse goings on, the majority of which are almost certainly acrried out by the sort of people Mr_B describes.

 

To be honest even having a shit car wrecked is annoying, it doesn't matter if it looks rough/fit for scrap, it's the owner's car not a tool for some mindless yobbo or vandal to destroy at will. I've been equally as pissed off at people booting mirrors off, scratching the paint etc on £100 crap heaps as I have on post-£1,000 cars.

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Two bob gobsite who bid on one of my eBay items has left my missus and daughter waitin in and then sent a text saying his kid bid on it and doesn't want it. Sent him a text saying he was a timewasting idiot who should be kicked off eBay and he went all 'telephone Conan' on me.

 

He's just had it back with both barrels and I'm fucking bouncing now.

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Bastard Durham scrotes who went down the road on Thursday night pulling wipers off the back of cars (including mine), kicking my door mirror in (no lasting damage) and letting one of my tyres down sufficiently that it wouldn't stay up again since. Fucking scutters.

 

Ironically I never* have this hassle in (formerly) OMG WORST PLACE IN UK FOR CAR CRIMEZ SHEFFIELD.

 

*Since I moved further away from the centre

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Mrs Claim occasionally suffers from restless legs, normally that doesn't give me too many problems but last night it caused her to knee me in the bollocks with such massive force whilst she was asleep that they're still hurting now. :cry:

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Got my Bini's headlights working beautifully. Chucked in some better bulbs and the difference is amazing.

 

Got home to find a sidelight out so off to the petrol station for some sidelights. Then discovered they're some stupid push fit ones so back to Halfords tomorrow. Arse.....

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