The grumpy thread

[dean36014]

Somebody told me that Yodel pay their delivery drivers something like 75p a delivery, using their own vehicle and fuel?

If that's true, no bloody wonder they 'supplement' their wages by pinching the odd box.

 

It's our fault really. No-one wants to pay for anything nowadays so it's little wonder when the service you get for what is often free delivery is so pants.

I worked for Hermes very briefly 18 months ago using my own vehicle, got 45p a parcel, hence why it was briefly! I'm an experienced HGV driver and was managing 20 drops an hour in a built up area, so thats £9 an hour. Take away fuel, wear and tear, insurance and you can see why i told them to stick it after a week. Think its time the goverment stepped in and outlawed this sort of thing, its effectively slave labour. Its not just delivery the parcels either, its all delivered to you in dumpy bags, you have to then scan in every item, sort the parcels, print a manifest etc etc. This could take at least an hour before you even got around to loading the vehicle. It worked out at roughly £2 an hour max in total when you costed in every thing.

[maxpower]

I worked for Hermes very briefly 18 months ago using my own vehicle, got 45p a parcel, hence why it was briefly! I'm an experienced HGV driver and was managing 20 drops an hour in a built up area, so thats £9 an hour. Take away fuel, wear and tear, insurance and you can see why i told them to stick it after a week. Think its time the goverment stepped in and outlawed this sort of thing, its effectively slave labour. Its not just delivery the parcels either, its all delivered to you in dumpy bags, you have to then scan in every item, sort the parcels, print a manifest etc etc. This could take at least an hour before you even got around to loading the vehicle. It worked out at roughly £2 an hour max in total when you costed in every thing.

I applied  for multi-drop driving job... but the company wanted to put there logo on my van, fine i said as long as it is a magnetic sign, no they wanted to paint the company name and logo on the van. "Do i get paid for advertising your company?"

no

then i don't want the job.  tossers!

 

                                                                    

 

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[Mr Lobster]

Problem is that a lot of marketplaces - Amazon, eBay, Rakuten etc - already offer 'free' shipping and want third party sellers to offer 'free' shipping as well. Obviously nothing is actually free so the seller either increases the prices (which customers don't want) or ships using the cheapest possible method available. Hence shit service.

 

Everyone needs to accept that shipping isn't free and that you ultimately get what you pay for. I'm sure if given the choice most customers would rather pay an extra couple of quid in the knowledge that their item would be shipped via a reputable company who might not damage / lose / steal their item than getting free delivery from Yodel

[Pillock]

My company uses DHL for big things and Yodel for packets. Complaints about Yodel are drastically more common....

 

A while back I delivered parcels for a company I forget the name of. Basically loads of Next stuff. It was 50p per parcel or so but it was complete bollocks and they were constantly changing my area to one I didn't know so took longer.

 

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[Brent_Crude]

I've got this Glastonbury toss on the tely in the absence of anything much else on and it's just making me angrier the more I watch. You've got a pair of patronising, lispy helmets presenting interspersed with overhyped drivel representing the best of the current crop of Radio One approved artists, cheered on by a crowd of arrhythmic hipster bell ends wondering just how exactly one does go about holding a shit in for 5 days.

 

Time to watch that Arena documentary about the Cortina that someone posted.

[John F]

Had a break-in last night... some filthy scum ripped the tiles off the roof of my new garage, ripped out part of the roof structure and tried to nick whatever they could get.

 

Luckily the alarm went off and the bastards must have scarpered, but they've caused a fuckload of damage.

 

Angry doesn't even begin to describe how I feel

[drum]

That's a pisser john F. I'll put my trivial post elsewhere.

 

Someone in Forfar had their entire garage dismantled and stolen in broad daylight two weeks ago

[Cavcraft]

Sorry to hear that, John. I despise thieves, hope they get caught mate..

[John F]

There's sod-all chance of them getting caught, Billy.

 

And even if they were, at most they'd get a few weeks' board & lodging at the taxpayer's expense before they're back out ruining society again. A bullet's too good for these scum.

 

They'd struggle to dismantle mine drum, it's made out of concrete blocks...

[Wilko220]

More unimaginative, cliched toss...

http://www.confused.com/car-insurance/articles/the-worst-cars-ever-made

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

That very specific Passat is an odd choice in an otherwise by the numbers article.

[RedSparrow]

I hate these articles. Really lazy journalism lapped up by morons who take everthing Clarkson says as gospel.

[Hendry]

My company uses DHL for big things and Yodel for packets. Complaints about Yodel are drastically more common.... A while back I delivered parcels for a company I forget the name of. Basically loads of Next stuff. It was 50p per parcel or so but it was complete bollocks and they were constantly changing my area to one I didn't know so took longer.Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk 4 Beta

Hermes or Parcelnet

 

I did some cover work for them and hated it.

[Micrashed]

Aaaaargh

People changing names again

I dont know who I am or where I are.

Its the turn of VolksAngel now.

[Wilko220]

 

Its the turn of VolksAngel now.

 

 

[vulgalour]

Purely on the basis of those attached pictures, I like Wilko more than Micrashed.  I might change it back anyway, I'm getting a VW again.

[Wilko220]

I travel to work by train.

 

Gradually these things, which have served the line for years...

 

 

...are being replaced by these, which are allegedly much more reliable.

 

 

Fine.

My problem is that this upgrade also involves those old-fashioned contraptions known as "opening windows" being replaced by air conditioning.

Air conditioning goes wrong; windows generally don't. This, and my very hot journey today, represents a lot of what is wrong with the age in which we live.

[Spiny Norman]

The name changing is getting a bit confusing/annoying. Perhaps those who do it could put a line in their sig "The artist formerly known as _____"

 

I Googled to see who Motoring journalist Rob Griffin was, none the wiser. He doesn't seem to exist outside Confused.com's crappy marketing bumf.

[Cavcraft]

It was a knobhead spectacular last night in town, even by the usual (appallingly low) standards of shiny suited moronity. Once again NO-ONE GIVES A FLYING SHITE IF YOU'VE BEEN IN THE COUNTY STAND.

 

It's 11.00pm, the races finished a full five hours and fifteen minutes ago. Un-pin your wanker badge, keep out of the pubs and fuck yourself off home pronto.

[Angrydicky]

People who refuse to name a price when selling a car, but instead ask for "sensible offers". Then when you go in with a low offer they act insulted. Grow up, and name a fucking price. You obviously know what you want for the car, and asking for offers does not mean you are going to get someone coming along and offering double what the car is worth. 

[Cavcraft]

I find making increasingly shit offers usually forces their hand.

[Wilko220]

Things wrong with the modern world, part 94: it seems that a 29-year-old man with an earring has been appointed editor of a national newspaper.

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/jun/17/amol-rajan-independent-editor

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

trains

 

I totally agree. I don't like modern trains. The non opening windows mean they're horribly stuffy all the time, and the high backed airline style seating is claustrophobic. I know I've spewed hatred on this subject before so I'll stop there. 

[retrogeezer]

that fella looks a lot older than 29..

[Lankytim]

I won a mint leather interior for my Xantia on the bay for a insultingly low price. I was the only bidder. As of yet no word from the seller. I suspect I won't hear from them as they won't want to sell it to me.. I'll give it a few days and see what happens...

[John F]

I won a mint leather interior for my Xantia on the bay for a insultingly low price. I was the only bidder. As of yet no word from the seller. I suspect I won't hear from them as they won't want to sell it to me.. I'll give it a few days and see what happens...

 

Report the buggers to ebay if they don't.

 

My grump is that I've had to work until 3.45 am this morning catching up on the work I was supposed to be doing over the weekend and couldn't because of the mouth-breathing scum that broke into my garage.

 

Grr. I'm too tired to even be pissed off properly.

[Station]

Don't worry, it got mildly patronised by Chris Evan and Alex 'listen to me, I'm even Welsher today' Jones on R2 this morning.

 

Incidentally Amazon do seem to be incredibly toss these days. My lad ordered something so long ago (he thinks nearly four months) he forgot about it. It arrived yesterday, along with something my daughter ordered (separately and from a different seller) that was packed by a limbless peasant using a damp 10p mix paper bag.

 

I have Amazon Prime, which means I get 'next day delivery'. Which means I get it delivered four days after ordering it.

Also agree on the 'guys' thing - my dad or mum has never called me and my brothers 'guys' thank God, but I've heard it used loads by 'modern parents'. Horrible.

[Pillock]

Hermes or Parcelnet

 

I did some cover work for them and hated it.

Yes. Parcelnet. Twats.

 

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[Station]

Had an IPhone delivered by Yodel - they couldn't be bothered to deliver the first time (left a card even though I was in, they didn't even knock), so I arrange to collect at depot. Arrived at depot (40 miles away). The driver had already taken it out again. This time they didn't even leave a card (they didn't deliver). Third time I waited til 5 o'clock, at which point I phoned the depot and fired a few words at one of their people, even though he was saying it was out for delivery. They knocked on the door when I was on the phone!

[freebird]

Our "newest" vans on the fleet are restricted to 70mph ( to save the whale or something) which is all fair and dandy. Ive just pulled into an Exchange to see two new Transits belonging to a business thats part of BT and on the back they have little green lables stating that they are restricted to 60mph.

How low can you go? Why not sack all of that shit and just employ Lithuanians on £2 per hour to walk infront of the vans carrying a red fucking flag.

In saying all of that, we now have a scenario where our vans are no longer taken out of service every five years like it used to be, its looking more like ten years. Half of them are so utterly ragged now they couldnt hit 60mph unless they were shoved off of a cliff.

Moral? Ex BT fleet vehicles are no longer a sound choice when you are looking to buy one, they are serviced on the cheap and most will be massively fucked by the time they become available to Joe Public.