The grumpy thread

[AlabamaShrimp]

Last day of college today 8 months but feels like I started yesterday. Learned a lot but as sad to leave. It's the people I'll miss the most it's not the same working on your own.

 

Saying about jobs though. I went for a trial at a new garage 2 weeks ago. Owner seemed happy but said he'd someone else to see. Been back in touch today to find out what's happening, says yes he'd like to talk to me when am I available? (er now) he's decided that he'll ring on June 1st when I back from holiday. So is there a job or not? I don't want to be too gobby and scare him off but chuff me just give a quick straight answer

[Matt]

 just give a quick straight answer

 

Yeah welcome to the job market chap, get used to it if you don't get that job.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Yeah welcome to the job market chap, get used to it if you don't get that job.

I wish it was just him. I sent off about 20 job applications a couple of weeks ago and got exactly 0 replies.....

[tooSavvy]

Idiot sister got a parking ticket in the post from Coventry. Shame she was on the piss in Blackpool (other classy* resorts are available).

 

So either their monkey cannot type, or someone is sad enough to clone a kia shitbox. Interestingly there isn't a box on the appeal form for it wasn't me.

 

....Interestingly there isn't a box on the appeal form for 'it wasn't me'.

 

lols to that.

 

How about all the chat on here recently.... getting to the voting booth and marking a cross in the box 'None of the above'*

 

*I was wise to this and voted UKIP - essentially the same (and getting me a reasonable, but under represented, 12% of the National vote)

 

 

TS

[TimothyClaypole]

I wish it was just him. I sent off about 20 job applications a couple of weeks ago and got exactly 0 replies.....

 

That was the Job Centre "presentation" I attended a while ago - Telling the people there that this percentage of jobs are never advertised - kick us while we are down why don't you.

 

My last two jobs I had no proper interview for as one someone in the company let the manager know they knew me etc. and the second was somewhere I'd worked before.

 

Word of mouth is the best way these days.

[fred]

Every job Ive had has been through a mate, never had interviews, no CV's

its the blackmarket job centre you need to find!

[dugong]

Dropped my phone by accident on to the kitchen worktop and shattered the screen. It still works but I can't see what's going on. EE wanted me to ring its insurance team on it. Inspired. 

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Dropped my phone by accident on to the kitchen worktop and shattered the screen. It still works but I can't see what's going on. EE wanted me to ring its insurance team on it. Inspired. 

 

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[The Moog]

Sometimes I wish google hadn't been invented!

 

Missus Moog has banned kippers, waffle stomping* and any other retaliation.

 

Fingers crossed will be last time I see him today. Shame I have left a manky sofa in the garden, left about 8 alloy wheels on the front lawn, Hoovers every where and the floors filthy.**

 

 

*wasn't explicitly stated that waffle stomping was out. I applied man logic

 

**I am not a gypsy. It will all be cleaned today, but after his viewings.

[Cavcraft]

When the 'hotel' we stayed at in Blackpool for my stag weekend literally robbed us, we twatted a couple of tins of dog food down behind the radiators.

[xtriple]

Last night my internet went down. Nothing unusual in that apart from the fact it was working perfectly but neither my computer nor my phone could 'see' it! No idea why, today it's fine again.

 

For a while this morning I had the red cross of death where internet should be on this laptop but.... it WAS working! According to the lappy and phone I had 'limited connectivity' and wouldn't be able to access anything but....

 

Oh I don't understand.

[alf892]

Last night my internet went down. Nothing unusual in that apart from the fact it was working perfectly but neither my computer nor my phone could 'see' it! No idea why, today it's fine again.

 

For a while this morning I had the red cross of death where internet should be on this laptop but.... it WAS working! According to the lappy and phone I had 'limited connectivity' and wouldn't be able to access anything but....

 

Oh I don't understand.

I get this all the time and it makes me swear lots so eagerly watching for diagnosis!

[purplebargeken]

Bit tedious at work so I thought I would email a local manager who has always said that she would love for me to work in her team. I called  in the favour a couple of days ago. 

 

I said how would you like me to me the full time duty worker, doing face to face assessments, phonecalls, etc. Cool she said. I explained about the spinal arthritis, the knee arthritis, etc and I waited for her to get back to me after chatting with the quadrant manager.

 

Email yesterday. Really sorry but due to your physical health problems we couldn't let you have any face to face contact with patients more or less due to health & safety reasons if someone decided to 'kick off' they reckon I wouldn't be able to get out of harm's way. Really?

 

Most of you haven't seen me. Most folks wouldn't entertain 'kicking off' unless you were very, very sure of yourself, or had a large gun, baseball bat/chainsaw/machete.  

 

WTF? So then, that is nearly 30 years of mental health nurse career down the tube.

 

I have only ever been hit once and that was by an 85 year old chap with Alzheimer's bless him. I've worked in forensics, A&E, emergency psychiatry and in the community in the weirdest parts of London and have never, ever, ever had any hassle from anyone, even the most unwell, intoxicated person you can think of. Fuck me, it's Hertfordshire not fucking Syria (I was going to say Beirut - but that would show my age). There's me thinking we were trained to deal with that kind of shit.

 

So, I am stuck in this job or could go for a kiss ass management job (no way thank you).

 

Well that's my mood fucked for the rest of the week. Fabulous.  Excellent.

[dave21478]

Last night my internet went down. Nothing unusual in that apart from the fact it was working perfectly but neither my computer nor my phone could 'see' it! No idea why, today it's fine again.

 

For a while this morning I had the red cross of death where internet should be on this laptop but.... it WAS working! According to the lappy and phone I had 'limited connectivity' and wouldn't be able to access anything but....

 

Oh I don't understand.

 

 

I get this all the time and it makes me swear lots so eagerly watching for diagnosis!

 

 

Mine does this every day or two. "limited connectivity" displayed on the computer and no web pages will load, not even the routers access page.

 

Press the re-set button and it works again.

I have to do this so often I have a specially bent paperclip wedged in the hole on the router to avoid fumbling about.

 

It used to throw up other problems but whenever I called my ISP they could never find a fault -allegedly- so refused to replace it. So I got an old USB lead and wired the router up to a car battery which killed it properly and I finally got it replaced. Some faults were solved but it still does this "limited connectivity" thing.

[dave21478]

Purplebargeken - I clicked "like" not because I like it but for sympathy - thats a shitty situation.

[fordperv]

Pbk health and safety is a load of bollocks and it riles me right up when it's used in the wrong place, as you said you are trained to deal with the fall out and I presume up to date trained in physical intervention techniques if the worst was to happen. If you are, in my opinion doing the physical intervention training you are showing your ability to undertake the physical side of the job, What more do they want

[purplebargeken]

Sadly, that seems to be the fly in the ointment, I can't do the SKIP training (used to be called C & R) due to the limitations of my physical health. However, I have never had to use it anyway which makes it all the more frustrating. 

[fordperv]

Ahhh they have you by the dangles then unfortunately, that takes me back used to use c&r, I use maybo at one place and m.v.a at another (uses a lot of c&r)

[Bren]

H&S - another relic of the new labour era.

 

The tories will get rid of it so that the urchins can go up the chimneys.

[Noel Tidybeard]

Bit tedious at work so I thought I would email a local manager who has always said that she would love for me to work in her team. I called  in the favour a couple of days ago. 

 

I said how would you like me to me the full time duty worker, doing face to face assessments, phonecalls, etc. Cool she said. I explained about the spinal arthritis, the knee arthritis, etc and I waited for her to get back to me after chatting with the quadrant manager.

 

Email yesterday. Really sorry but due to your physical health problems we couldn't let you have any face to face contact with patients more or less due to health & safety reasons if someone decided to 'kick off' they reckon I wouldn't be able to get out of harm's way. Really?

 

Most of you haven't seen me. Most folks wouldn't entertain 'kicking off' unless you were very, very sure of yourself, or had a large gun, baseball bat/chainsaw/machete.  

 

WTF? So then, that is nearly 30 years of mental health nurse career down the tube.

 

I have only ever been hit once and that was by an 85 year old chap with Alzheimer's bless him. I've worked in forensics, A&E, emergency psychiatry and in the community in the weirdest parts of London and have never, ever, ever had any hassle from anyone, even the most unwell, intoxicated person you can think of. Fuck me, it's Hertfordshire not fucking Syria (I was going to say Beirut - but that would show my age). There's me thinking we were trained to deal with that kind of shit.

 

So, I am stuck in this job or could go for a kiss ass management job (no way thank you).

 

Well that's my mood fucked for the rest of the week. Fabulous.  Excellent.

shirley thats descrimination?

[wuvvum]

Last night I decided to take the MG for a spin, as I hadn't been out in it in ages.  Turned out I'd not been out in it for so long that the battery had gone flat.  No problem, nicked the battery off the Innocenti and jumped it off that, it fired straight up.  I left it on choke to charge the battery quicker while I went and put the jump leads away.  Except I left it on choke too long and it flooded itself up and died, and wouldn't start again.

 

This evening and now with a fully charged battery, after several minutes of cranking it finally splutters into life.  Take it for a run round the block (about a mile and a half all in), glance down at the gauges on getting home and the temp gauge is almost in the red.  My first thought is that it's pissed out all its water while it's been sat, but flicking the fan on reveals that the heater is blowing hot so it can't be that low.  Left it for a while to cool down and took the rad cap off - turns out it was low on coolant (it drank about two litres before it was full again), but the rad is also full of a nasty-looking brown sludge, which I'm pretty sure wasn't there before.  So now I'm worrying that I have early-onset OMGHGF, although there's no sign of water in the oil.  I'm going to take it for a spin tomorrow night and see if topping up the coolant has sorted it, but I'm not holding my breath.  It's due for its MOT in a couple of weeks too.

 

The Chinese moped is continuing to slowly disintegrate - today it was one of the bolts that holds the sprocket onto the back wheel that sheared.  It did at least have the consideration to wait until I was about half a mile from home, so I was able to limp it back, but it leaves me wondering what's going to break next.  The footpegs also nearly fell off today.  It's getting to the point where I don't feel safe getting on it to ride to work.

 

I'd been looking forward to the warmer weather coming and being able to get outside and do some fettling on the fleet, but I find it's just pissing me off - it's like painting the Forth road bridge, as soon as everything is fixed something else goes wrong.  Plus now "my" car park has been resurfaced in shiny new brickweave I can't get away with doing some of the repairs I used to, and I also can't get away with dumping my old heaps on there long term, which means I'm having to keep them on the road which is costing me an obscene amount of money in tax.

 

I think I need to sack off the fleet and buy myself a nice new Dacia Sandero, and spend my summer weekends sitting on my arse with a beer.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Sounds alright that Wuvz, I know what you mean.

[UmBongo]

A dirty, stinking fying-rat shitehawk bastard has shat it's load right down my tailgate gap. It's covered a bolt mechanism in it's filth.

 

I wish I could shoot these horrible, scavenging flying lumps of arse-puke.

 

Raging!

[chaseracer]

H&S - another relic of the new labour era.

 

The tories will get rid of it so that the urchins can go up the chimneys.

 

1) Wrong.

 

2) Unfortunately, not impossible...

[saucedoctor]

Some great fat wanker in a Transit ran into my Jag this morning. Doesn't look to be any damage, but I'm getting it looked at regardless, as the van's bumper is pushed in quite a bit.

 

Mr Fat Man got out of the van with a fucking SAUSAGE in his hand. "Sorry mate didn't see you!"

 

"You weren't looking fat boy, too interested in yer breakfast by the look of it" I replied. If I hadn't had the car in P he'd have shoved me on to the main Newtownabbey-Belfast Road.

 

Dickwad.

 

 

[cort16]

Your bumper bar will probably be bent. The plazzer bumpers always bounce but but if it's bent his grill you can bet it's bent your bumper bar.

[saucedoctor]

Good to know, thanks. I've to take it to a local body shop on Monday for them to take a quick look.

[EssDeeWon]

Sorry to hear that SauceDoctor, I am sure there would be some movement of your bumper so best get it checked out, just be careful on claiming through insurance, not sure what sort / age of Jag you have but nice old stuff like this just gets written off nowadays for really minor things.

 

Seen two cases recently on the 75 forum, both lovely well specced cars with very minor marks, in both cases the insurance companys wanted to write them off.

[saucedoctor]

Good point. The car is 10 years old. I do like it, but I'm not bothered if it gets written off, as long as I get the right money. If I'd been in the Rover instead, I reckon it'd be curtains, and then I would be jolly pissed off.

[nigel bickle]

Bit pissed off.

 

I shipped a nice set of Ibiza sxi alloys across from France, using Mondial Relay, as there wasn't really space in the car.

 

They landed in the UK at the beginning of May, to coincide with my return , but no one could tell me where they are. Repeated requests established they were in the Depot, but where/ which one, no one had a clue.

 

This morning, after repeated barracking, Mondial have announced that they are in their way back (to me) in Normandy.!

No explanation, just a " sorry for the inconvenience". Sadly, there's no one there to receive them back, so God alone knows what they will do with them then.

 

Aaaah, the French. Impossible everywhere.