The grumpy thread

[hairnet]

talking of insurance twats

 

bike insuarnce is due on saturday and mce who i wiff (innit) sent out a renewal WITH NO RENEWAL PRICE ON IT!!!111111111111cnuts"""221111111!!!!!

 

having come across this before - no wai i ring them to ask

 

been busy getting other quotes - went onto their site as new customer and quote of 110

 

id had 4 quotes of below 70 and one was with same insurer im with now (not broker)

 

theyve rang twice a day since monday even tho i spoke to them on monday and told them that thei non renewal quote and the subsequent quote i got from them was twice as much as i was prepared to pay

 

carole nash tried the same thing but fcked them off also

 

dont these people like being told no

[vulgalour]

Just learned a friend of mine has had his car run into AGAIN.  First time was at a roundabout when the guy behind him thought he'd set off and he hadn't, this time he had to emergency stop (I know not why, probably avoiding nuns carrying baskets full of kittens or something) and the guy behind hit him hard enough to mangle his bumper and explode his rear screen-tailgate.  He's expecting his car to be written off, but until he finds out he's driving around with a bag in place of the rear window-tailgate.  If it were an old car with tiny lights you couldn't see I could understand it, but it's a new-ish Peugeot Tinybox with very visible high up lights.

 

In other grumpy news, banks and insurance.  Got a message from my insurer to say they weren't able to take payment for July, they'd try again in a couple of days but could I get in touch please?  I do, and they tell me no attempt at payment has been made, must be with the credit company who are going to try again in a couple of days.  Get in touch with the bank who tell me no attempt to withdraw money from my account has been made... that was yesterday.  Today I get a letter telling me that an attempt to withdraw funds from my bank was made and it put me over my limit so they're charging me £15 for the privilege.  What the actual fuck?  Happily, since the Princess is on taxi duty again what with Dad's Ohmygod needing the air con fixing again, I can drop into the bank and ask what's going on.  I bet someone has put a wrong number in somewhere because there's no way on this stupid spinning rock that I didn't have the funds in my bank, I made sure of it.

 

My final grump - I swear, the hot evening temperatures are making me stupidly irritable - is my brother having a job he enjoys and that pays well.  Okay, he's been struggling to find an employer that doesn't dick him around, or string him along with wages, or mess up his tax, but he's making five or six times what I do in a week and I'm just sort of muddling along directionless and have no idea what I want to do with my life beyond 'get better' and 'move house' and 'drive old cars'.  Been feeling like a right failure lately... but let's not get into that, I'm trying to stay positive.

[The Moog]

Leaving Cambodia on Tuesday after a year here. Whilst I dont love the country, I cant really bear the thought of the UK at the moment. So many negative people, whinging about stuff that isnt important.  Also the thought of getting a proper job is scary! No more Cambodian 2 hour lunch breaks, no year round sun, no more smiley people or little kids that always want to chat to you. 

 

The last year has been spent working with 16 different organisations on things from community development programmes, well and latrines planning, corporate governance and accounting systems. Which inevitably mean that none of this is relevant to any jobs in the UK!

[Wilko220]

Been feeling like a right failure lately... but let's not get into that, I'm trying to stay positive.

Just keep reminding yourself that YOU have a beige Austin Princess and the rest of us don't. If that doesn't work I'm not sure what else to recommend.

[M'coli]

I think he's having a break, both on here and elsewhere.  This makes me sad, Pete's a top bloke.

[M'coli]

Hey Mr Coal Eye, is the 205 legit at the moment? If so and you can drive it here you can use our engine hoist if you want.

Unfortunately it's immobile, as the head and block are seperated enough to remove the head gasket from between the two, but not free of everything else it needed to be.  Many thanks for the kind offer.  Update in the news24 thread.

[vulgalour]

I am having one of those days!  Because of the recent fee-piling shenanigans caused by a shortfall of 14p that wasn't in my bank account and having now got that sorted I thought that'd be it.  Nope, turns out the fuel gauge on the Princess isn't entirely reliable and when the odometer clicked over to 100 miles my 3/4 tank of fuel decided it was 2/3rds so my excellent mpg is not what I though.  Then, to add insult to injury, the damaged driver's door I can't get repaired because the money for it has been eaten by fees decided it should rip straight through my favourite trousers when I opened the door.  Because of this door-trouser altercation, I now own a pair of shorts that look like they're part of a very posh school uniform.

[cort16]

I'm living in 2001 my broadbands running at -1kps because of a fault on our line and my phone only seems to want to operate in 2g.

[MrDuke]

After carefully setting my tripmeter nearly 700 miles in advance, so that I'd get "1234567890" displayed in full across the mile and odo, and checking the state of progress on every single journey I've made for the past 2 weeks, I went out for a 10-mile round trip and forgot to look at it. Of course, that was the very same journey that pushed it over.

 

Is it weird that upon realising, I spent at least 5 seconds considering the possibility of buying another heap with around 120k on the clock, just to relieve my frustration?

[cobblers]

£51?

[cort16]

Wat it is ee. I got a text from bt saying they hope to have it fixed by 5th August ! Don't they know Internet is more vital than water these days. If it keeps going lIke this ill have to start raking through bushes looking for someone's stash from 1993.

[Ghosty]

EE are shit in general - old man's been in Abu Dhabi for work, and now he's in Sri Lanka for auditing purposes. EE have blocked his business contracted iPhone because of non-payment issues (happened before, American office's fault), and 'suspected illegal activity'. The boss wants to kill the contracts and get them all Samsung Galaxies on a different network as the iPhones 'aren't really good enough' for the company's needs.

 

Meanwhile, I'm 80% sure my own manager won't be in at Oxfam tomorrow, it'll be my 4th Saturday (5th if you count going in to sign forms), and so far she's only been in every other Sat. If she isn't, I'll have sod all to do unless there's some unsorted vinyls in (unlikely, they seem to get done in the week), which is annoying.

[SambaS]

I'm angry.

 

Work keep cashing my till up and telling me it is down, each week.

 

I know this to be false, so they are either bad at counting or scamming me.

 

My cash handling procedures are bang on as per my 4.5 years at McDs. it's really starting to fuck me off their lapsidazical approach to everything, and there are even staff members trying to tell me how I should and shouldn't be cashing up as opposed to the "supervisor" or owner.

 

Ready to tell them to fucking ram it.

 

They either cash up with me to witness in the future or they can fuck off, I see trouble brewing. As the superviser keeps making all my orders late and I'm getting the flack from the customers. he aint got a fucking clue, had a different supervisor other day, first time and EVERY order got there early. Coincidence? No other guy is a fucking tool.

 

I think the solution is to rescind my birth certificate. Walk away from my flat and belongings forever and live in the woods somewhere in a tent without money and fucking people.

[vulgalour]

If it's any consolation, which it probably isn't, my brother was getting the same bullshit about cashing up when he was doing pizza delivery in his own car.  Apparently they'd do it to all the new staff to see who stuck it out.  My brother just told them where to stuff it, the money really totally wasn't worth it.

[SambaS]

I wish I could switch off and go into "yes sir" "whatever sir" "sure here's ten pounds of my own money to cover your incapability to count" etc mode... but I get angry and as much as i try to push the anger down and down I cant!

 

Why do I still believe that I shoudn't have to put up with fucking cretins.

[Junkman]

Is it your company?

[SambaS]

Are you suggesting I become self employed?

[Richard]

Do you log every delivery in a notebook as you go along? It's quite important to do that, especially if the bosses are at it.

[SambaS]

I keep the pink slip from the receipt until the end of the night , at the end of the night I total cards, total cash and count my cash and take whatever is tips.

[myglaren]

As noted earlier, bought leather electric seats for the C5 (driver's seat cabbaged)

Also bought headlights for sensible price - great eBay seller!  

 

Fitted seats  No motors working

Discovered it was a hidden Maxi-fuse, bought and fitted, seats working fine but the auto-changer under the driver's seat won't eject the casette - probably my own fault as I removed it while cleaning the (very mucky) seats prior to fitting and may have reinserted it incorrectly - any advice on this very welcome.

 

Discovered the headlights were Xenon HD ones

As they need wash/wipe thingies that are not present on my C5 S then they won't be being fitted - may have a buyer for them 

 

Bought and fitted a replacement nearside headlamp as dipped beam on the one in packed up and I have been unable to remedy that

Refitting the bumper, cleverly clattered the washer sensor and split the washer bottle, which is now empty.  Also managed to push the seal inside while trying to bodge it

 

Bought an offside headlamp as the one in is clouded over and also a new washer bottle but have to defer delivery as I am always at work when the delivery guys come calling, no one else in the house and no family able to accept as they all are working too.

 

Had a minor bollocking at work when the managing director had to sign for the last delivery to work so will try and have them delivered to the guy who will get the heap through its MOT very soon.

[Junkman]

Are you suggesting I become self employed?

 

No, but you sound as wound up as if it was your company.

[SambaS]

Ahh good point I suppose Junkman, I should just chill the fuck out.

 

But if a customer complains to the owner about an order being late it will INSTANTLY be my fault regardless of the fact the superviser holds all the orders back 30-40 minutes incase more come in

[warren t claim]

Fucking Yo Ho Ho Bay is running like a bag of spanners.

[Junkman]

Ahh good point I suppose Junkman, I should just chill the fuck out.

 

But if a customer complains to the owner about an order being late it will INSTANTLY be my fault regardless of the fact the superviser holds all the orders back 30-40 minutes incase more come in

 

If you remain calm, you have more energy available for plotting the nuclear strike on your supervisor.

[SambaS]

Well he's in the clique as he's Eqyptian as are the owners.. I probably had best just bite my lip and do my job and cause as little fuss as possible and keep looking for another driving job, which will probably be just as bad as this one but for other reasons, hey at least I dont have a camera in my face the whole time!

[SambaS]

I might rebel by doing the speed limit EVERYWHERE today!

[vulgalour]

Passive aggression is the most satisfying form of aggression.

[RedSparrow]

That's true. I adopted a tactic used by a mate of mine; when someone says something stupid or shitty, just be silent as if they never said a word. Really effective and it pisses them right off!

[autofive]

That's true. I adopted a tactic used by a mate of mine; when someone says something stupid or shitty, just be silent as if they never said a word. Really effective and it pisses them right off!

 

does it work with banger racers spouting shite ?

[maxpower]

I might rebel by doing the speed limit EVERYWHERE today!

 

Yeah just take your time, perhaps even go as far as to do this...........