The grumpy thread

[Cavcraft]

E-bully him.

[purplebargeken]

Burn him. It's fine.

[andy18s]

Fecking insurance companies who just don't have a clue !

Swapped over from the 106 to the Mighty T5 on Thurs,no problem,all done online

Friday i get an email from them advising me that " The reg number cannot be found in connection with the Volvo"

1st niggle,they sent the email 2 mins before they closed for the night so i couldn't ring and get it sorted.........

Hmmmmmm....

Rang Sat at 9am and got put through to the On hold queue.

Would sir like to be put onto our auto-ringback service? As soon as your spot in the queue is next in line,we call you.

Sounds good,i'll do it

2 hrs later, i get a missed call from them..........2nd niggle..........

Managed to get hold of an operator and find out whats going on,after i asked about the 2 hr "queue"

Turns out according to Their system,Volvo never sold an 850 T5 GLT Auto.....Only a T5 GLT Manual....or a T5r

Next 30 mins were spent either arguing about the v5c showing GLT Auto and their screen showing different

 

Then i got told that the insurers would cover me but the documents would have to show that the car was a manual,even though they accepted it is an auto

Hang on says i,what happens if i make a claim for any reason,and You turn around and say "it's an auto,not a manual as on the policy"

Goes quiet on the other end of the phone.....

Then she says, it's Only an extra £140 to complete the change,shall i put you through to sales???

I literally Lol'd at her,told her i'd ring back and hung up.....

Un-Feckin-believable......

[Parky]

One of my colleagues is well known for leaving the works vans on fumes when he doesn't have it the next day, and as he's just fucked off for the 4th time since April, I got the van today with the orange light of doom on, and we only use BP for diesel, and as I was delivering nowhere near them today, I ended up having no fucking choice to use some of my half hour lunch break to drive to the other side of fucking town to fuel the bastard van up. This is the 4th fucking time this cunt has done it to my van, and he's done it twice to my other colleague as well. Both of us today had a right go at the gaffer to boot this twat firmly up the arse over it, because we aint fucking happy using our time to sort shit he causes. It doesn't help that these bastard vans love a drink, being straight 6 dizzlers, with badermaticness and freezer/chiller box bodies

Eat his lunch but leave half an apple on the basis that should provide enough sustenance whilst he pops down to Greggs.....

[HH-R]

The DVLA are yet again causing me sleepless nights and grief. Sick to death of them. At least I'm not getting 3/4 letters a month that don't have my name on any more, that only took a phonecall, three letters and two official complaints to get sorted. This time I have a fine for apparently driving my SORN'd Metro in Swansea last week. Lovely menacing letter, they say they have photographic evidence which I'd love to see as there's no flippin way that Metro was in Swansea at the time they say. Looking on the net doesn't fill me with confidence of it getting cancelled, they are a horrible, bullying, incompetent organisation.

 

I don't know how the members on here cope with changing cars a lot. It feels like I have spent the whole of the last two years arguing with them about something.

[panhard65]

I am about to have my first dealings with Swansea registering an import. All my others were made through the local offices and were straightforward enough. This one might be trouble as the carte gris only has a year of first registration rather than a full date. It also has it down as a break when it has been converted to a van. Everything should be clear cut but with Swansea who knows especially as the DVLA dater from the club has not been very helpful. I did ring Swansea to ask if the date on the carte gris would cause a problem and they wouldn't tell me. She said it depends on when they get the application if they will need more info. Which is bloody annoying as it takes weeks if not months to get a dating certificate from the manufacturer. I send all my V5's either recorded or I have now found the post office will give a proof of posting free if you hand it over the counter. Since doing this not one V5 has gone missing.

[oman5]

+1 on sending ANYTHING to the DVLA with proof of posting. I got fined for not telling them I'd sold my 240...despite sending the V5 off the day I sold it. could have gone to court but it would have cost me more than paying the fine. 

Verdict: TWUNTS

[dollywobbler]

+1 on sending ANYTHING to the DVLA with proof of posting. I got fined for not telling them I'd sold my 240...despite sending the V5 off the day I sold it. could have gone to court but it would have cost me more than paying the fine. 

Verdict: TWUNTS

 

Eh? If the court finds in your favour, you can rightfully claim expenses back from the other side. Ask Mr Bickle about this sort of thing. I've had nasty threats from DVLA a few times now, even once from their debt collectors. Total fines paid = £0.

[RobT]

Why do women take so long to get ready for a day out? Don't rush me she says. It's nearly lunchtime FFS. Aaargh, does my head in!

[Pillock]

DVLA are no better than a loan shark in terms of menacing actions to get their way. They take the view that they're right and you need to prove your innocence rather than that silly old idea of having to prove you guilty. They know it's a farce hence fines rather than court, they know if 75% of people roll over and pay the (incorrect) fine they're quids in and they get to keep doing what they do. If they went to court, 75% would fail a and they'd be restructured to death.

 

I've got no particular gripe against them at the moment but that's because with no cars, I have no reason to use them. They do seem massively faffy though, I sold the Focus mid-June and have just had the confirmation back - which I've saved AND scanned in so no chance of being held responsible for it. Five weeks to put a tick in a box on a database.

[xtriple]

I've discovered I am definitely getting wierder and I really didn't think that was possible! Not only have I gone from wanting a Turbo R to buying a Honda (what, hardly ANY difference!) having to park right outside my front door, I've now discovered I HAVE to have multiples of everything 'in stock'! I've just bought another freeview box, just in case.... I have six big bottles of Nescafe, and three of everything else (milk, fags always a days supply spare, bread, butter, dog food... everything!)

 

I think I 'need' help.....

[fairkens]

Tw@s who reverse without looking behind them, relying on a combination of the drivers side mirror, parking sensors (I assume) and the force. I'd be embarrassed to leave my car the way most are abandoned, supermarket car parks the worst

[oman5]

Eh? If the court finds in your favour, you can rightfully claim expenses back from the other side. Ask Mr Bickle about this sort of thing. I've had nasty threats from DVLA a few times now, even once from their debt collectors. Total fines paid = £0.

Thats a big IF. I can't prove that I had posted it.

[Pillock]

They can't prove you didn't! Oh wait, they're above the law.....

 

Did I read somewhere that you need proof of posting, but if the DVLA send you something they don't? They can assume you've received it simply by stating that it was printed their end.

[eddyramrod]

 

Not sure what's more annoying - that or getting in a cab to find crumbs all over the steering wheel, floor and seat, and the door pocket full of rubbish, like I did yesterday. Dirty bastards.

I used to take over vans at no notice to cover a round (usually somewhere I'd never been before) for someone who'd called in sick, or walked off, or been sacked.  Believe me, it happened a lot.  Without exception, every time, I would have to spend the first half-hour cleaning all the ash and other assorted shit out of the cab before I could even bring myself to sit there.  This continued even after the smoking ban was introduced; it made no difference whatsoever.  You're in the cab for 10-12 hours every day, you're going to eat and nap in it, is it too much to expect that you keep it even approximately clean?  Apparently it is.  What's worse is, we were delivering fresh produce to school kitchens.

 

Incidentally, how sick are you, that you can phone work and tell them, at 5am?

[bub2006]

I have had run ins with the dvla at court. I was told that regardless of proof of postage it is up to them to prove they didn't receive v5 and not you to prove you did.

[purplebargeken]

Thank you to each and every one of the twats who descended upon  the area in front of the garage. Couldn't even get in the yard, never mind figure out which car belonged to which flat. Another wasted day. Superb. 

[DS20]

People who stand in doorways, chatting. It are irritating.

[gordonbennet]

I used to take over vans at no notice to cover a round (usually somewhere I'd never been before) for someone who'd called in sick, or walked off, or been sacked.  Believe me, it happened a lot.  Without exception, every time, I would have to spend the first half-hour cleaning all the ash and other assorted shit out of the cab before I could even bring myself to sit there.  This continued even after the smoking ban was introduced; it made no difference whatsoever.  You're in the cab for 10-12 hours every day, you're going to eat and nap in it, is it too much to expect that you keep it even approximately clean?  Apparently it is.  What's worse is, we were delivering fresh produce to school kitchens.

 

Incidentally, how sick are you, that you can phone work and tell them, at 5am?

 

One of our twats did this yesterday early morning, meant the night supervisor had to re-arrange us lot to cover all the jobs, my shift rota incl Saturday this week.

 

I wonder if the fact we get full sick pay could be any contributing factor, people who take the piss out a companies excellent terms and conditions piss me off, i work for one of the oldest companies in the area, the company treats its staff well, everyone is treated with respect and the bastards still take the piss, fuckin tossers.

[chaseracer]

And sadly this will always be the case, but it's not a reason to take away the employment rights of the great majority who don't take the piss.

[r.welfare]

I'm amazed at the number of drivers of what are obviously company vans (including Royal Mail) that I still see smoking behind the wheel.

[beko1987]

My mate drives one of his dads old vans that he didn't want anymore.it was fully sign written and his dad got a few calls to say one of his engineers was smoking in a company van...

 

His dad made him pull it all off and the calls stopped!

[jakebullet]

Ebay twats. Again.

 

Sold a pair of dice valve caps for the princely sum of £1.50 delivered. Twat put note to seller "make sure they're metal / aluminium".

 

Wonder if that works for him with other things? Make sure this 99p child's plastic ring is made of 24 c gold with a fuck off sized diamond.

[warren t claim]

My mate drives one of his dads old vans that he didn't want anymore.it was fully sign written and his dad got a few calls to say one of his engineers was smoking in a company van...

 

His dad made him pull it all off and the calls stopped!

Some people have too much time on their hands.

[Richard]

In Scotland the smoking ban came in about the same time as the phone ban. The original penalty for using a phone was £30 with no points so the punishment for smoking in your own parked van was nearly double the penalty for using a phone on the move.

[cort16]

I was supposed to be MOTing the Cortina this week. I've bought shite loads of stuff like new springs, wheel bearings, discs, pads bushes etc.

I'm not going to do the work but the guy doing it doesn't do welding. I thought I'd better have a look at the squishy bit I'd previous found in the floor as if it failed on welding it'd have to come back to me anyway. I found quite a lot of squishyness.

 

The bit at the bottom is the original bit I though was soft but the front but was just shielded by about an inch of underseal on the outside. A couple of gentle taps inside and it caved in.

 

IMG_1380 by cort16, on Flickr

 

Before Zapping metal back is went to scape off all the underseal to minimise the chances of it going on fire to find quite a lot of the front out floor was just rust flakes mixed with underseal. Ho Hum.

 

I've done it all other than the bit I found while scraping off the underseal as the patch I need to make is a bit more complex. I rsn out of time on Saturday so need to nip down for a couple of hours one night. The passenger side looks okay (fingers crossed).

 

IMG_1382 by cort16, on Flickr

[AlabamaShrimp]

So it's the 6 week holidays, turned on the telly for a nice selection of cartoons, maybe the red hand gang all ended with laughing at the great* ideas on why don't you.

 

but..... Nothing had changed it was normal* crappy daytime TV, am I getting confused again??

[UmBongo]

People who stand in doorways, smoking and chatting. It are irritating.

FTFY

[UmBongo]

So it's the 6 week holidays, turned on the telly for a nice selection of cartoons, maybe the red hand gang all ended with laughing at the great* ideas on why don't you.

 

but..... Nothing had changed it was normal* crappy daytime TV, am I getting confused again??

 

The Red Hand Gang?

 

With James Bond The Third as Doc, lolzer.

 

You need to go to CITV or CBBC to see kids programmes, these days.

[dave21478]

Weather forecasters...

 

A while back the forecast said it would be Scorchio for the next two weeks, so I literally took the entire roof off someones house...tiles, boards, insulation etc so we could change some rotten beams and rebuild with new tiles. A day and a half into the job and a massive thunderstorm hit, and it has been pissing down with Biblical style rain ever since. The area is on "orange Alert" for hail and rain storms ever other day which is one step down from End Of The World style weather problems. The showers are so heavy that most of the farms round about have lost entire crops and fields mud-sliding onto the roads happens most nights. My own house roof leaks too - while its fine during normal rain, these massive downpours seem to overcome the flashing around the chimney base and it pours through the attic and drips through the lounge ceiling right into my Epson printer, which is now even less willing to work than normal.

 

Then the sun comes out and the temperatures rocket up to the high thirties and everything starts to dry out and you think "maybe head back to the job site and get some more done" and I get there, remove some tarps and it immediately pisses down again.

 

Fuck this, its mid July in the South of France - its supposed to be hot as hell.