The grumpy thread

[cpjitservices]

Just now, maxxo said:

Yes nothing like that here just a mother an her autistic son who’s a bit noisy next door and an older couple the other side who sometimes come home at 11ish a bit tipsy

but that’s it

i really sympathise with you though I had all that shite at the flat

It’s council housing so one day they will move on hopefully!!! whereas even though we are council we’re going to be buying ours. 
 

We’ve had a council inspection where I mentioned what might be going on next door, to which the lovely council lass said they may arrange a surprise inspection next door - so we will see!! 
Thing is I need to get a sparky in for some work, they will need to be in the loft. If they smell what I smell, they may report it anyway. 

[cpjitservices]

Just now, adw1977 said:

Cunt Next Door 

Ahhhhh I see!

[sheffcortinacentre]

2 hours ago, cpjitservices said:

It’s council housing so one day they will move on hopefully!!! whereas even though we are council we’re going to be buying ours. 
 

We’ve had a council inspection where I mentioned what might be going on next door, to which the lovely council lass said they may arrange a surprise inspection next door - so we will see!! 
Thing is I need to get a sparky in for some work, they will need to be in the loft. If they smell what I smell, they may report it anyway. 

That's council speak for we don't give a shit as long as they pay the rent.

[cpjitservices]

5 hours ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

That's council speak for we don't give a shit as long as they pay the rent.

Quite possibly!

[New POD]

5 hours ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

That's council speak for we don't give a shit as long as they pay the rent.

The "problem" is that if there's drugs and kids, the council will also need to involve social workers, emergency Foster carers, as well as the police. 

Make a family homeless and you still have to help them. 

Or they could just turn a blind eye. 

[cpjitservices]

17 minutes ago, New POD said:

The "problem" is that if there's drugs and kids, the council will also need to involve social workers, emergency Foster carers, as well as the police. 

Make a family homeless and you still have to help them. 

Or they could just turn a blind eye. 

I said young up there, she's probs about 16/17... younger than me lol Theres her sister as well she's a little bit older I think. Theres an older chap who lives there with a woman as well, must be in their 60s... It's the old feller who's the dealer. Possibly grandparents of the younger ones.

[sierraman]

12 hours ago, cpjitservices said:

CND?

The nuclear disarmament guys next door. Noisy bastards clinging to his fence. 

[sierraman]

9 hours ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

That's council speak for we don't give a shit as long as they pay the rent.

Assuming they are paying the rent… if it was you or I they’d be down on us like a ton of bricks if you were even slightly late paying. 

[camryv6]

On 10/12/2024 at 06:20, New POD said:

Apparently we at work have a big order for Royal Mail, but they are too busy to take delivery.  

Offer to send it with a different delivery firm

[New POD]

Just now, camryv6 said:

Offer to send it with a different delivery firm

As its XB trucks, we really need them to collect them. 

[camryv6]

Just now, New POD said:

As its XB trucks, we really need them to collect them. 

It was the irony of using another delivery firm

[iainrcz]

Eyesight's gotten wanker. Decided to go for varifocals.

A : more money.

B : more giffer.

[LightBulbFun]

On 09/12/2024 at 23:55, LightBulbFun said:

On 03/12/2024 at 18:15, Yoss said:

On 03/12/2024 at 14:36, LightBulbFun said:

currently somewhat grumpy at Royal mail, I bought some lightbulbs off eBay, tracked, lovely, tracking shows on the 27th November, Accepted at post office, alright, then there is sweet fuck all, until the 2nd of December "Delivery attempted no one in" not even a prior "accepted at delivery sorting office" or anything of the sort

so excuse me, but I thought this was supposed to be a *tracked* parcel, maybe if the tracking was just a little bit more verbose i'd of stayed home to accept it (because of course they tried to deliver it in the 2 hours I was about in REV) 

I'm afraid even being a postman doesn't save you from random annoyances. I ordered some model railway scenery a couple of months ago, quite a big packet too. The tracking showed it arrive at Southampton Mail Centre and then allegedly it went no further. After a week of this Royal Mail admitted it was lost and the sender sent another packet out. That arrived the next day. I still try the original tracking number occasionally and it still claims it is at Southampton Mail Centre but somehow I doubt that. 

Also, they have changed the way we scan the Tracked packets in to our office (we are a delivery office, the next stage after Southampton Mail Centre and the place from which final delivery takes place). We used to have a few people in early who would scan all Tracked (with a capital T) packets as they arrive so that when you check the website it would show your item as having arrived at our delivery office. 

But they've got rid of those now and each postie has to scan them on to their individual deliveries as they sort them. But occasionally* deliveries don't go out due to staff shortages in which case the website will still say it is at the Mail Centre when it is in fact at our Delivery Office but nobody has scanned it in. 

Also we now have to try to deliver all packets twice if people aren't in the first time which is a pain in the arse for us and can confuse customers because they come in with their card and someone in the callers office has to point out the small tick on the card that says we will try again tomorrow. So while they are stood in the callers office their postie has taken it for another walk. 

Also at the moment we are in to Christmas pressure so we have lots of staff who don't know what they are doing or do know what they are doing but don't have the equipment to do it. 

There is a block of flats near the end of my delivery where I usually have a bit of a sit down. I was sat there today when another of our posties turned up doing big packets so I let her in. She was doing big packets with a trolley because they had run out of vans. You can't get that many big packets in a trolley, certainly not enough to fill her duty time, so she had to keep going back for more. 

Even better than that, they had run out of PDAs (the little scanner things)! So she couldn't scan anything and was writing all the numbers out on a piece of paper. Apparently someone was going to manually log them all in to a PDA later, assuming they don't lose the bits of paper in the meantime. So whilst the people who received the packets might know they have received them the sender won't because the website will say it is still at the Mail Centre. 

 

further grump regarding this, they never re-delivered on the next working day, ok fair enough, you know Christmas period so after waiting a few more days I eventually go to manually reschedule  the delivery, for the 9th which was the earliest date they had, alright no problem, lets do that

aaaand nothing has shown up today, again ok fair enough again its Christmas period, but what gets on my goat is the tracking has not budged one bit, it still just says "accepted at post office 27th November, attempted delivery 2nd of December" no other details, so I have no clue whats actually happening with the parcel, did they properly receive the request to redeliver or did that also go into a black hole?

at this point I am wondering if I can just go and pick it up from the distribution office I am *assuming* its currently stuck at, in REV, but I am bit worried now since that I did ask for a re-delivery if its stuck in Limbo or such (and knowing sods law, the day I set out to go pick em up manually, is the day they will actually try and re-deliver em and miss me again LOL)

Grump Part 3: do I need to say anymore?

amazingly "only" 1 tube out of these 6 got broken, but blimy what a piss poor packaging job from the seller, and then this is the response I get from the seller on the matter!

im sorry but thats bullshit! I have personally sent well over 100 tube across Europe and even to the USA without much in the way incident so it is entirely possible to post lightbulbs more securily than this! which involves lots of bubble wrap and ideally another box to place it in also

*grumble*

[barefoot]

Tell him. And send pictures. You might get fifty quid off him as well.

[LightBulbFun]

2 minutes ago, barefoot said:

Tell him. And send pictures. You might get fifty quid off him as well.

I did! but he just responded with "but I received them packaged like this just fine" never mind the fact he likely received them in bulk (this is 1 lot of many he had sold/had listed) and also never mind the survivorship bias there, just because "you" survived falling out of airplane does not mean everyone else will LOL

 

[Christine]

Well at least it's not gone mouldy

[myglaren]

I had a car battery delivered yesterday that was packaged far better than that.

[Dyslexic Viking]

Someone broke into a museum here last night and tore the doors off several irreplaceable old buildings and set the doors on fire.

One can really wonder what is wrong with people.

[Yoss]

4 hours ago, LightBulbFun said:

Grump Part 3: do I need to say anymore?

amazingly "only" 1 tube out of these 6 got broken, but blimy what a piss poor packaging job from the seller, and then this is the response I get from the seller on the matter!

im sorry but thats bullshit! I have personally sent well over 100 tube across Europe and even to the USA without much in the way incident so it is entirely possible to post lightbulbs more securily than this! which involves lots of bubble wrap and ideally another box to place it in also

*grumble*

I like the way he thinks bubble wrap would be overkill. Isn't that exactly what bubble wrap is for? 

We don't deliberately jump up and down on packets but at the same time they all have to go in the big containers with all the other packets and that is absolutely not adequate packaging. Does he think we pick it up from him and carry it on its own all the way to you? 

I get a lot of model railway stuff through the post and most of it is packaged way better than that, and a lot of it comes in bubble wrap even though that is complete overkill apparently. Some doesn't and I have had some things arrive with damage. Unfortunately some people don't understand how the postal system works. 

[comfortablynumb]

20 hours ago, maxxo said:

Just had a chat with my next door neighbour

she kept apologising about her son being noisy

apparently whoever lived here previously used to complain all the time about him

in all honesty I barely hear anything

anyway even if I did does it matter?

hes an autistic seven year old, it doesn’t matter if he’s noisy or anything

i told her to not worry about it and let him do whatever makes him happy I don’t mind normal family noises

im grumpy that someone would complain about that

MK2 daughter, sil and 3 kids, 2 severely autistic, have just moved into an old cottage, semi-detached.

Sil went to meet the attached neighbours, an older couple, and to apologise in advance for the noise ( 3 yo screams a lot)

Response? ' Noise? What noise? And even if we hear it, it's not an issue, they're kids with needs!'

I think they've just found their forever hone

Edited December 11, 2024 by comfortablynumb
Spelllllling

[Zelandeth]

12 minutes ago, Yoss said:

I like the way he thinks bubble wrap would be overkill. Isn't that exactly what bubble wrap is for? 

We don't deliberately jump up and down on packets but at the same time they all have to go in the big containers with all the other packets and that is absolutely not adequate packaging. Does he think we pick it up from him and carry it on its own all the way to you? 

I get a lot of model railway stuff through the post and most of it is packaged way better than that, and a lot of it comes in bubble wrap even though that is complete overkill apparently. Some doesn't and I have had some things arrive with damage. Unfortunately some people don't understand how the postal system works. 

I still think my record was successfully receiving a Toshiba T3200 - 10+Kg of late 80s portable computer, with a fragile glass display panel from some idiot on eBay.  It was sent wrapped in a single layer of brown packing paper.  Nothing else whatsoever.

How the hell it arrived intact and undamaged I have no idea!

[Remspoor]

5 hours ago, LightBulbFun said:

Grump Part 3: do I need to say anymore?

amazingly "only" 1 tube out of these 6 got broken, but blimy what a piss poor packaging job from the seller, and then this is the response I get from the seller on the matter!

im sorry but thats bullshit! I have personally sent well over 100 tube across Europe and even to the USA without much in the way incident so it is entirely possible to post lightbulbs more securily than this! which involves lots of bubble wrap and ideally another box to place it in also

*grumble*

You would make me a wee bit pissed off by writing Hello I hope all is well.

I bet you do not give a figs about how well I am😠

 

[High Jetter]

20 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

You would make me a wee bit pissed off by writing Hello I hope all is well.

It's modern speak fo 'Oi, shitface!'

[High Jetter]

Had an appointment for my kidney removal (has a small cancerous bit inside it, no trace of spread - just thanking fuck that radiographer spotted it on scan for something else) booked for Dec 19th. Perfect, my staff finish for hols on the 20th, and I have 2 quiet weeks over crimbo / new year in my recovery time so I won't be climbing walls. Then they rang wanting to change it to Jan 2nd - I explained how awkward that would be in comparison, they then came back wth Dec 17th a couple of weeks ago. Fine, I'll work round it, not so easy.

They rang again today, I'm back to Jan 2nd as someone has a more urgent situation. Can't argue with that, but a lot of re-arranging will have to be done.

[Rust Collector]

17 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Had an appointment for my kidney removal (has a small cancerous bit inside it, no trace of spread - just thanking fuck that radiographer spotted it on scan for something else) booked for Dec 19th. Perfect, my staff finish for hols on the 20th, and I have 2 quiet weeks over crimbo / new year in my recovery time so I won't be climbing walls. Then they rang wanting to change it to Jan 2nd - I explained how awkward that would be in comparison, they then came back wth Dec 17th a couple of weeks ago. Fine, I'll work round it, not so easy.

They rang again today, I'm back to Jan 2nd as someone has a more urgent situation. Can't argue with that, but a lot of re-arranging will have to be done.

If there’s anything I can do to assist whilst you’re recovering then don’t hesitate to give me a nudge, I’m only over the other side of the hill!

[High Jetter]

Just now, Rust Collector said:

If there’s anything I can do to assist whilst you’re recovering then don’t hesitate to give me a nudge, I’m only over the other side of the hill!

Ah man, that's really kind of you, thanks.

[maxxo]

8 hours ago, comfortablynumb said:

MK2 daughter, sil and 3 kids, 2 severely autistic, have just moved into an old cottage, semi-detached.

Sil went to meet the attached neighbours, an older couple, and to apologise in advance for the noise ( 3 yo screams a lot)

Response? ' Noise? What noise? And even if we hear it, it's not an issue, they're kids with needs!'

I think they've just found their forever hone

aye that was exactly my reaction

it's very rare i actually hear anything, and if i do it sounds like just normal family noises

even so, who cares, i really don't care it's not an issue for me at all

i've told her not to worry at all about it

i get where she is coming from, apparently the last resident in my house wasn't very nice and complained about even the slightest noise

 

[Metal Guru]

12 hours ago, myglaren said:

I had a car battery delivered yesterday that was packaged far better than that.

I actually bought a roll of bubble wrap and it was packaged better than that. No joking, it was wrapped in another layer of it and packed in a large box.

[wuvvum]

I had two very bad nights on Monday and Tuesday.  Usually when I'm short on sleep I do stupid stuff, so I was quite pleased with myself when I managed to get to bedtime yesterday without any major mishaps or things I'd forgotten to do.

So imagine my amusement* when I left the house this morning to find that I'd left the driver's door of the Merc open all night.  It was drizzling most of the night here so the interior is now slightly* moist.

Excellent.

[reb]

Apparently the christmas cards I bought are slightly too big to go in any of the pockets of my army jacket.

If they did it would mean I could walk with them to the postbox in the village without having to carry a bag just to carry a bunch of paper and card.