The grumpy thread

[jakebullet]

Mad Jean's discovering Christian* groups on facebook can kick her arse to the curb if they want to.

CAN SOMEBODY PLEASE TELL ME WHY I CAN,T BE FRIENDS TO ALL PLEASE, I WILL HAVE TO LEAVE ALL GROUPS IF GROUPS DO NOT INVITE OTHERS IN, THAT IS WHAT I ONLY CAN DO. I STICK WITH GOD, HE ACCEPTS ME ,HE JUST WANTS US TO JOIN HIM AS MANY AS WILL DO. JESUS WON,T TELL ME I AM NOT FRIENDS WITH HIM ,I NOT IN THIS GROUP, HE HAS NO LOCKS OR BARS ON HIS SITE AND PRAISE THE LORD FOR THIS.

[Split_Pin]

On 16/12/2024 at 22:32, CGSB said:

They're in there now ....laughing at you .... mocking you ..... chuck it back over their fence. Then fill their wheely bin up with your hosepipe and prop it up against their front door so it floods the cunts when they open it.

Nominated for 2024 quote of the year 😂😂😂

[High Jetter]

The 7" Android unit in my ZTT decided it didn't want to play tracks from the connected USB stick anymore today. Radio & everything else works fine. Put the USB in my PC and it won't read it. This is the 2nd stick it's killed, anyone any idea why?

[adw1977]

Marvellous.

[maxxo]

christmas shopping day tomorrow

hate it

well, technically today

i want to get it over and done with, then park the car up and not touch it till christmas day when i've got to drive down and see family

i am sick of how busy everything is, how bad people are driving and i just want some peace

[barefoot]

Buy everyone a copy of the same Moby CD

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/dec/19/the-christmas-that-went-wrong-i-was-hungover-so-i-bought-everyone-in-my-family-a-moby-cd

[purplebargeken]

No reply from the local manager, so escalated to Royal Mail complaints, just had their legal company on the phone, further details given, will need to send photos. They will investigate and get back to me within 12 days. 
I spoke to the local postie today, he said he had heard it being discussed earlier today and thinks the local manager will be in touch.

[Pieman]

5 hours ago, barefoot said:

Buy everyone a copy of the same Moby CD

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/dec/19/the-christmas-that-went-wrong-i-was-hungover-so-i-bought-everyone-in-my-family-a-moby-cd

I seem to remember one of the music retailers turning that story into a radio advert!

[reb]

Fucking DPD are a bunch of shitehawks.

Parcel due today. Between 6 and 7 it says, fine.

10 past 6 I get an email saying "sorry we missed you"

I've been sitting about 5 feet away from the front door the whole time.

Asked my neighbour to check her camera that you can see my garden path on. The fucker just sat in his van long enough to count as being at my address on the system then fucked off.

[richardmorris]

On 18/12/2024 at 10:23, High Jetter said:

Microsoft produced a program to do this years ago, MS Money. I still use it daily, to mirror my 5 bank accounts (business & personal) and our investment a/c's.

At work we have a multi page spreadsheet on libre office for income, expenses, credit card etc as I find it easier to see an instant snapshot of where we are than quickbooks.

. I have a simpler one for home with fixed outgoings, credit card spending etc. against income, savings, etc.  as ever I’m a mr macawber figure From dickens. Income v expenses.

[richardmorris]

2 hours ago, reb said:

Fucking DPD are a bunch of shitehawks.

Parcel due today. Between 6 and 7 it says, fine.

10 past 6 I get an email saying "sorry we missed you"

I've been sitting about 5 feet away from the front door the whole time.

Asked my neighbour to check her camera that you can see my garden path on. The fucker just sat in his van long enough to count as being at my address on the system then fucked off.

Yodel took ten days to deliver half a case of wine from naked wines this week. It was supposed to be 14 bottles for Christmas but the multiple wraps of Yodel tape, hole in box and missing bottles together with glass shards and red wine stained labels painted a story.

[richardmorris]

On 19/12/2024 at 21:32, richardmorris said:

Yodel took ten days to deliver half a case of wine from naked wines this week. It was supposed to be 14 bottles for Christmas but the multiple wraps of Yodel tape, hole in box and missing bottles together with glass shards and red wine stained labels painted a story.

I was in the middle of a zoom meeting at the time. But the guy I spoke to at naked later was good. Said that it’s the first destroyed case being delivered he’s had as yodel are not supposed to deliver them, but return them. Offered to send a replacement but I chose a refund for the missing bottles - I took photos on receipt as I was suspicious of the tape snd the very light weight. 
 

evri on the other hand have been great this week.  Is yodel still Barclay brothers?

[loserone]

Evri are usually brilliant here, but a temp guy left a box of blue rolls in the recycling bin with the lid off then put in that it was "left in porch".  All ruined.

Contacted the seller who said "these were delivered on time, see photo, nothing else we can do" and sent a photo of them in the recycling bin.

Returned through Amazon which is royal mail 48 signed for and had em collect it.  Had to wrap the lot in industrial cling film to keep the box / water together but with that attitude they can bite the costs..

[richardmorris]

7 minutes ago, loserone said:

Evri are usually brilliant here, but a temp guy left a box of blue rolls in the recycling bin with the lid off then put in that it was "left in porch".  All ruined.

Contacted the seller who said "these were delivered on time, see photo, nothing else we can do" and sent a photo of them in the recycling bin.

Returned through Amazon which is royal mail 48 signed for and had em collect it.  Had to wrap the lot in industrial cling film to keep the box / water together but with that attitude they can bite the costs..

It’s very dependent on the local driver . Some are excellent, but I had a couple from eBay delivered * recently via Amazon that never got here. Nor was there any delivery info / photo despite saying delivered. Sellers were fine snd sent replacements. It was nothing expensive either worth stealing.

[Split_Pin]

Our local Evri driver started during Covid using a Passat. I think he was made redundant or something. He has stuck at it ever since and upgraded to a Transit Connect and now a 20 plate Combo. I hope he sticks around as he's really trustworthy and everyone knows him by name now.

[horriblemercedes]

15 hours ago, reb said:

Fucking DPD are a bunch of shitehawks.

Parcel due today. Between 6 and 7 it says, fine.

10 past 6 I get an email saying "sorry we missed you"

I've been sitting about 5 feet away from the front door the whole time.

Asked my neighbour to check her camera that you can see my garden path on. The fucker just sat in his van long enough to count as being at my address on the system then fucked off.

Yodel fucked me over a few weeks ago. I had a parcel that I needed and I put my office as the delivery address.

I was given a delivery window of 5-7pm so I stayed in the office to receive it. At 7pm it hadn't arrived, but the email said that deliveries continue until 9pm so I waited.

At 9:30pm I got a notification "our driver missed you at 15:21 today"

 

So I finally went home

[comfortablynumb]

We've got one evri guy who's brilliant, and always makes the effort.

The others all seem to be totally disinterested, parcels dumped all over the place. I even watched one guy jump out of his van, sprint to the hedge and throw the parcel behind it, before sprinting back to the van.

However I guess that six gsd's going mad behind the gate might have had some bearing on it! 😁

' listen mate, they're behind an 8 foot gate for a reason, if they were going to get you, they'd have done it before you got as far as the hedge...'

 

Edit - note to self, when investigating the knock on the front of the Rrc, don't just assume that it's the steering or suspension. Fatigue cracked bulkhead mounts make erratic knocking noises too.

Just wish I hadn't spent the week stripping all the front end for absolutely nothing 🤦

Edited Friday at 14:33 by comfortablynumb
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[ruffgeezer]

Partner hdi is still stuttering under mid load. Egr blank helped a little, but made it default to limp mode eventually.  

I might follow @dollywobbler down the path of firing some special jizz up the turbo - perhaps the vanes are sticky down the low end?

[willswitchengage]

62 grand!!! (Plus VAT) What even is this?

[Minimad5]

Grumpy.... nope majorly p*ssed off and feeling dumbfounded.

Had a meeting with manager (annual 1 to 1) gave feedback about communication and how the department isn't 'kept in the loop', and when we are informed it's patchy and generally piss poor, never face to face etc.

The previous day got news that a colleague had ..... well decided to 'call it a day' with his life, this wasn't common knowledge and literally two of us found out due to the other guy knowing said blokes family, so we pondered how the news would be broken once the company were made aware.

A fucking WhatsApp.

They sent a half arsed forwarded message via WhatsApp.

Disgraceful.

🤷‍♂️ Sorry about the rant.

[High Jetter]

13 minutes ago, Minimad5 said:

A fucking WhatsApp.

Did you bring that up at your 1 to 1?

[reb]

16 minutes ago, Minimad5 said:

Grumpy.... nope majorly p*ssed off and feeling dumbfounded.

Had a meeting with manager (annual 1 to 1) gave feedback about communication and how the department isn't 'kept in the loop', and when we are informed it's patchy and generally piss poor, never face to face etc.

The previous day got news that a colleague had ..... well decided to 'call it a day' with his life, this wasn't common knowledge and literally two of us found out due to the other guy knowing said blokes family, so we pondered how the news would be broken once the company were made aware.

A fucking WhatsApp.

They sent a half arsed forwarded message via WhatsApp.

Disgraceful.

🤷‍♂️ Sorry about the rant.

That's exactly the sort of thing that shows you shouldn't let a job take over and ruin your life. They just don't care.

I hope that you and your colleagues are able to support eachother through this, even when it's not someone you know closely this sort of thing can affect you in unexpected ways.

[Remspoor]

Not the end of the world. I will be car hunting after Christmas. So I am looking on line now. Where have all the colours gone? Black, white, silver/grey are the common colours. I am not looking at new cars, maybe around 2015 - 19

 

[Sigmund Fraud]

On 20/12/2024 at 16:45, ruffgeezer said:

Partner hdi is still stuttering under mid load. Egr blank helped a little, but made it default to limp mode eventually.  

I might follow @dollywobbler down the path of firing some special jizz up the turbo - perhaps the vanes are sticky down the low end?

Sticky vanes would normally give you overboost or underboost codes. Stuttering under load sounds more like MAF.

An easy way to tell is to unplug the MAF and see if it runs better using default values.

[Minimad5]

2 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Did you bring that up at your 1 to 1?

They did this AFTER, hence my further frustration. Not even 24hrs after giving pretty honest feedback, they didn't take an ounce onboard. No respect for the individual at all.

Obviously just a number

[loserone]

1 hour ago, Remspoor said:

Not the end of the world. I will be car hunting after Christmas. So I am looking on line now. Where have all the colours gone? Black, white, silver/grey are the common colours. I am not looking at new cars, maybe around 2015 - 19

 

Soz hew, got em all ere

[matt79]

Went Xmas shopping today......(that's not the grump)

The grump is - on returning from said shopping expedition I noticed a slipped hip tile on the roof. I'm not one for heights (and although the missus doesn't mind heights, she is unwilling to get up the ladder and re-cement the tile). 

So I resorted to posting on the local FB page asking for recommendations for a roofer....I now have to make a lucky dip choice of the various pikey / scammer / cowboy builder types who have responded to the post.

Will they turn up? Will I be dry bummed for more roofing work needing to be done? Will they try and talk me into having a new roof? 

Place bets now........

[High Jetter]

37 minutes ago, Minimad5 said:

They did this AFTER, hence my further frustration. Not even 24hrs after giving pretty honest feedback, they didn't take an ounce onboard. No respect for the individual at all.

Obviously just a number

Sorry, didn't appreciate the time line. Piss poor management.

[Pieman]

1 hour ago, Minimad5 said:

They did this AFTER, hence my further frustration. Not even 24hrs after giving pretty honest feedback, they didn't take an ounce onboard. No respect for the individual at all.

Obviously just a number

If I'd been part of that and they chose to do that about someone I knew, someone would be getting a kick in the bollocks for that.  Absolutely disgraceful.

[adw1977]

3 hours ago, matt79 said:

posting on the local FB page asking for recommendations

Well that's your first mistake!