The grumpy thread

[TimothyClaypole]

Won a table saw on Ebay, no problem I think, I'll pop to Sheffield after work Friday to pick it up.... emailed me the address.. Bolsover... ffs.

 

That's 16 miles through restricted roadworks ALL the way then.

 

Serves them right for putting collection only that no one else bid on it. 

[Pillock]

If 'twere me, I'd be going to the Union with that. Smells decidedly rank.

 

I'm considering getting ACAS involved - again, not too much detail here because I'm not too hard to find on the interwebs however there's been a bit of "rushing through" of things and either deliberately or because of the short notice, there's some things that are decidedly unfair:

 

45 day consultation period, but the jobs we have to apply for close in just 7 days. Consultation should be allowing time for decisions, surely?

If I apply for two jobs and are successful in both interviews, the company (not me!) decide which one I get.

Because jobs close in 7 days, chances of deciding not to apply and leaving the business to another guaranteed job are somewhere between "slim" and "no chance"

Some folk have been "mapped" into a job without question because of location (i.e. the one guy we have in Scotland, has been given the Scotland job) but nobody else was asked if they wanted to relocate. 

140 jobs at risk, they've put a "job hunters workshop" on - with 12 places available.

[xtriple]

Few months ago I had a paniced call from my (new) Doctor. Do not take the drug you've been taking for the last eight years.... at all! Come and see me first thing in the morning!

Turns out this drug causes Parkinsons type symptoms (which I had) and must not be used for more than five days. Lovely...

Get prescribed a different drug and after a few weeks parkinsons symptoms start to go, much better, and there was me thinking I was just getting old.

 

Yesterday, I get a paniced phone call from the Doctors (yes, seriously) do not take the new drug you've been on for eight months at all. Do a bit of Google-foo and it appears 60 people in the UK have died in recent months as a direct consequence of this drug.... cause heart problems and MASSIVE heart attacks!

[Sloth in a bowl]

Well, the day's gone from shit to worse. Now sitting on the side of the M42 with a suspected lunched engine. Awaiting yet another tow.

I think that Jonah may still be availble as a forum name.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

So much for watching 'Breaking Bad', I have spent the whole flipping day asleep. Brilliant.

[vulgalour]

Won a table saw on Ebay, no problem I think, I'll pop to Sheffield after work Friday to pick it up.... emailed me the address.. Bolsover... ffs.

 

Worse yet, you have to go to fucking Bolsover.

[willswitchengage]

"Lo salt" is a lot less effective at killing slugs than the real deal.

[chaseracer]

Pillock, your company is taking the piss.  They are imposing arbitrary, unfair and potentially unlawful timescales.

 

Involve your union, if you are a member, or ACAS as you suggest.  Protect your interests via the grievance procedure, requesting that the redundancy process is stopped ('status quo ante') until it can be done properly and fairly.

[beko1987]

Woke up late and needed petrol, so fucked about getting to our nearest one and chucked £30 in to get me through the weekend. Very busy as its 20 to 8.

 

Sorry shir, card declined...

 

WTF? Try again...

 

Sorry, declined. Do you have an alternate form of payment on you?

 

No...

 

Oh well then youll have to fill this form out blah blah

 

Let me make a call

 

Oh sir you cannot leave the shop as you havent paid...

 

Look, I can either stay here for 2 weeks waiting to get pid or I can make a call and see whats happening

 

Oh well leave your keys then sir please, company policy

 

No (already on the phone to SWMBO, the cashir gave up as there was a massive queue now and let me go outside to speak

 

 "Love, check the joint account, its declining"

 

"You always spend too much fucking money on your fucking hoovers, fuck sake rah rah rah...Oh there's xxhundred quid in there"

 

Fucking knew it...aha, cash point!

 

Queued back up to the lady with £40 as I'd put £30.45 in, and said so why did my card decline if I have money?

 

"Oh the ICC issuer always reboots the system at 0745

 

FFS..

 

Then was late for work as I caught ALL the traffic...

[MrDuke]

Obviously that's the perfect time to reboot such a system - I mean, it'd be downright stupid to do it at, say, 4:00AM when no-one needs to use it.


Although looking on the bright side, you did get served by Sean Connery:
 

Sorry shir, card declined...

[Pillock]

Can't leave the shop as haven't paid? Bollocks. Can't drive off, sure. 

[trigger]

That happened to me last year, put £30 in the car and went to pay and my card got rejected, I knew there was plenty of money in the account so tried another 2 times and it still kept spitting it out.

 

In the end I had to use the in shop cash machine and get bummed £1.75 for the honour, there was nothing wrong with my card or account, it was their poxy card machine playing up.

[rml2345]

Someone has attacked cars in our street with spray paint. Specifically my dad's and a neighbours van.

It comes off easily enough but that's hardly the point... Who the fuck feels the need to go about vandalising other folks property?

[Cavcraft]

Taxed the Polo (2004 1.4 petrol) today. Ninety fucking nine bastarding quid for 6 months. I thought it'd be about £78. Shitty, wankspot VW toss.

[mrbenn]

Bastard.

 

[AlabamaShrimp]

Fiesta st went in for new breaks the other day £400!!! Then a drop link breaks another £35. I didn't even know what a drop link was! So sorry you the kind of car I've 'fixed' and owned....

[Sigmund Fraud]

Bastard.

 

That should be repairable, costs around £15 at your friendly* local tyre place.

[hairnet]

Woke up late and needed petrol, so fucked about getting to our nearest one and chucked £30 in to get me through the weekend. Very busy as its 20 to 8.

 

Sorry shir, card declined...

 

WTF? Try again...

 

Sorry, declined. Do you have an alternate form of payment on you?

 

No...

 

Oh well then youll have to fill this form out blah blah

 

Let me make a call

 

Oh sir you cannot leave the shop as you havent paid...

 

Look, I can either stay here for 2 weeks waiting to get pid or I can make a call and see whats happening

 

Oh well leave your keys then sir please, company policy

 

No (already on the phone to SWMBO, the cashir gave up as there was a massive queue now and let me go outside to speak

 

 "Love, check the joint account, its declining"

 

"You always spend too much fucking money on your fucking hoovers, fuck sake rah rah rah...Oh there's xxhundred quid in there"

 

Fucking knew it...aha, cash point!

 

Queued back up to the lady with £40 as I'd put £30.45 in, and said so why did my card decline if I have money?

 

"Oh the ICC issuer always reboots the system at 0745

 

FFS..

 

Then was late for work as I caught ALL the traffic...

 quite a lot of the time the machines they use for the rading dont pick up the chip right

 

local asda and one tesco round here has ickle sign on pump saying it might not work etc

 

ps leaving keys is bollox after you got juice youve entered shop under their own t&cs youve made effort to pay they then cannot call feds etc and give you reasonable time to pay

 

had that at 3am in sarf london doing a favour for a friend (i was taking pilsner to plzen )

 

their card was playing silly buggas

[Lankytim]

Remember the incident with the inlaws rover and a fictitious claim against them? Well an engineer has been round to inspect the car for damage and recons its been in a front end bump. No it fucking hasn't you fucking buffoon! it looks like her insurers will end up paying out for a bump which never happened!! Anybody know what to do about this? Its costing a fortune in phone calls too.

[dave21478]

It sticks in the craw to say it, but the best course of action is to stop digging. Get them to state their final position to their insurers and leave it. If the insurers want to pay out, then let them get on with it.

Yeah, they will have a claim against them, but life is too short to get dragged into arguing with insurers and  the lying cunt stains making the claim. These things can potentially drag on for several months, and there is no guarantee at all of getting any justice. The insurers main interest is to have an easy life and that sadly often means just paying out on frivolous claims rather than spending the time fighting them.

[HillmanImp]

Remember the incident with the inlaws rover and a fictitious claim against them? Well an engineer has been round to inspect the car for damage and recons its been in a front end bump. No it fucking hasn't you fucking buffoon! it looks like her insurers will end up paying out for a bump which never happened!! Anybody know what to do about this? Its costing a fortune in phone calls too.

 

TBH Tim sounds like you are borked by the system, I personally would simply head round their house in the middle of the night, pour brake fluid on their cars paintwork saying 'PAEDO', spray petrol in the word 'NONCE' on their lawn then set fire to it and then throw a brick the window with some ages 12-14 knickers wrapped round it and then repeat the process at a later date. 

[Lankytim]

Apparently there really was as accident, but the guy only got the drivers name, nothing else, no address, no reg,, nothing. the insurers have done a search of the dvla records and have found a person with the same name, i.e my mother in law. They don't have the other drivers details to speak to then direct, although i'm sure they are entitled to them by law, seeing as there's been an "accident"

[retrogeezer]

Taxed the Polo (2004 1.4 petrol) today. Ninety fucking nine bastarding quid for 6 months. I thought it'd be about £78. Shitty, wankspot VW toss.

 

at least it's not £126.50 on a 30 year old Escort you will only do 500 miles in tops over the next few months.

[mrbenn]

That should be repairable, costs around £15 at your friendly* local tyre place.

Cheers, thats what I'm hoping! Only done 3k miles on the whole set.

[makum101]

Domestic Customer who bought a PC 3 months ago called me back out:
 

"This PC isnt fit for purpose. All the icons are smaller than on my old PC, My Family Tree program (10 year old) wont install and the Internet freezes. I want a full refund!"

Me: "The PC is fine, if I brought another it would still freeze on the internet if you have broadband problems. Let me see why its freezing on the internet, make your icons bigger & see if I can get your old program to run in compatibility mode for you".

"No I dont want another PC I dont even want THIS PC now that Ive bought an iPad. I just want my money back, Oh and can you set up my email on my ipad before you go".

Yeah right. Slow broadband + Windows 7 icons rather than XP + ive got an ipad now thanks  = not fit for purpose... Byeeeeeeeeeeee you silly old bat!

[Bren]

Viewed a couple of focus on eBay around the £1 k mark.

 

First one advertised as having 46k with FSH and tax and MOT.

 

It sold then reappeared the next day minus the FSH - lost by the previous owner. The "tax" was only until end of April - it had three days left.

 

I enquired as to if the mileage was genuine ( focus instrument clusters are wank) and how it could be verified - no reply. I 'll give that one a miss then.

 

Second one had "clutch and cambelt replaced by previous owner". Once again, I asked for proof. Once again, no reply.

 

Receipts or it did'nt happen, you time wasting idiots.

[Cavcraft]

Ah, the old 'previous owner said' routine. Another one of my favourites is how many vehicles have 'low mileage' replacement engines fitted, especially vans. Obviously no scrappy ever has high mileage engines, they're all cossetted, low mileage fully serviced beauties.

 

 

After a 60 mile bike ride yesterday, about the only thing that doesn't ache or hurt is my left hand. I've just stabbed myself with a screwdriver. Guess which hand?

[purplebargeken]

Popped into Tesco a little while ago, braved the thousands of fuckwits wandering around like zombies with their stupid screaming snot-nosed brats. Had to buy horseradish sauce. No problem, Mrs PBK wanted Simply Horseradish or as a second choice, Tesco Finest. I bought Tesco Finest. Major arse ache when I got home. You'd have thought I had slaughtered a whole road full of kittens. I cannot win.

 

So I went and bought a tidy leather interior for the 45 on eBay. Fuck yeah!

[Bobthebeard]

Some sales type woman at our local Honda main dealer has taken to ringing up several times a week and leaving messages about our 2003 Accord. I actually answered the phone recently to get.....

 

Unbelievably pushy woman trying to get MOT and servicing business. I explained that it is eleven years old and almost 200k mileage. No way was I taking it to a main dealer for anything!

She wouldn't give up, saying they would do the MOT for £30 and match any repair quotes from any local independent garage as long as genuine Honda parts were used blah blah. (Yeah right)

Told her that I wasn't going to argue the point, but no chance etc. Bye bye.

Two more missed calls yesterday. Two more voicemails.

Things must be desperate.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Some sales type woman at our local Honda main dealer has taken to ringing up several times a week and leaving messages about our 2003 Accord. I actually answered the phone recently to get.....

Unbelievably pushy woman trying to get MOT and servicing business. I explained that it is eleven years old and almost 200k mileage. No way was I taking it to a main dealer for anything!

She wouldn't give up, saying they would do the MOT for £30 and match any repair quotes from any local independent garage as long as genuine Honda parts were used blah blah. (Yeah right)

Told her that I wasn't going to argue the point, but no chance etc. Bye bye.

Two more missed calls yesterday. Two more voicemails.

Things must be desperate.

 

 

Not as desperate as the Infiniti salesman from Reading (60 miles away from me) who not only phones and emails every couple of weeks,but once actually knocked on my door,to give me a totally unrequested test drive,because 'I just happened to be passing'.

All because I made a casual enquiry on their website about an amazing finance deal two years ago.