The grumpy thread

[laser wheels]

Good stuff, you've identified where you are strong-admin skills opens up a wide range of options

 

A good starting point may be looking at council administration work

http://www.jobsgopublic.com/ and http://www.lgjobs.com/ spring to mind. Bear in mind almost every council depth has an administration function need.

 

get tore in and good luck include examples of things you have worked on in your cv and try to show any cost savings/monitoring you did in each role the public sector loves a bit of that:)

 

The thing that pissed me off when looking for work was that despite having years of administration experience even getting a job licking stamps was impossible as I didn't have my GNVQ Level 1 Stamp Licking. It seems bizarre that someone who may never have even had job before could walk straight into a job that I could do in my sleep based purely on having said magic piece of paper but no actual practical experience. I was faced with having to go back to college to get a piece of paper to prove I could do what I had been doing for best part of a decade anyway! What the hell happened to just having a good old fashioned CV? And what the hell was the point of those four years at university anyway?

 

In other employment news I have at least dodged redundancy and gained a permanent position after 2.5 years of fixed term contracts. The catch? I have had to accept what is as good as part time hours. I still can't decide if I'm happy about this or not.

[Lord Sterling]

The thing that pissed me off when looking for work was that despite having years of administration experience even getting a job licking stamps was impossible as I didn't have my GNVQ Level 1 Stamp Licking. It seems bizarre that someone who may never have even had job before could walk straight into a job that I could do in my sleep based purely on having said magic piece of paper but no actual practical experience.

 

A bit odd that one, I've seen people face a similar situation the other way around. They have the magical piece of paper yet won't be considered for employment because they have no practical experience.

 

I'm not dissing universities/education, it is important and vital. But there are those who are educated to a high standard, yet when they get into the field they have studied for, the actual practical side of it seems very difficult to get on with.

 

I don't have a very high standard of education but do have experience and whilst I have never managed to get a contract for any kind of work here in Britain I have managed to eventually get into roles I have wanted to explore. 

[Cavcraft]

If Cavcraft ever expand their empire* I'd defo take you in some sort of executive* role, Mo.

[daveb47]

Many years ago i went for a job at Osbournes coaches at Tollesbury.

Went in to waiting room and there was about a dozen other applicants all clutching their qualifications paperwork.

After a while Old Joe Osbourne wandered in,looked around and said "ok,who has city & guilds etc?"

Everyone but me put their hands up.

Says Joe" Right,you can all fuck off,i want someone who can do the job,not someone who has read about it"

I got the job.

[chaseracer]

Only if you set up CAVCRAFT EXECUTIVE, Billy... ('Rovers a speciality')

 

[Cavcraft]

All he'll need is a Vauxhall tattoo and his own shiny suit. I'll supply the Portacabin, filing cabinet and pictures of Calibras for the walls.

[Lord Sterling]

I'll supply my own "Arthur Daley" Camel overcoat too if needs be. I am seen wearing one in one of the Midlands autoshite meets.

[dave21478]

Its three-for-one on grumps today chez Dave.

 

 

1. This afternoon was spent in a scrappy removing the interior from a car (modern toss, nothing exciting). However the car had been in a rollover accident and the windscreen was shattered. The entire interior of the car was covered in bajillions of teeny tiny wee shards of razor-sharp windscreen fragments from the inner layer of the screen. I was aware that I nicked my hands a few times while I was working but it wasnt until I got home and had a shower that I realised just how badly shredded my fingers are. This evening has been spent with tweezers and a magnifying glass, picking bits of Citroen windscreen out of my flesh.

 

2. Smart phones. Fuck them.  I was late to the fancy telephone revolution and only bought it a few months back, but in that time I have used its "smart" features a total of maybe 4 times. As a telephone its hopeless, big and fragile. Worst of all, it seems incapable of going more than 8 hours without needing charged up. So today I relegated it to the Drawer of Broken Electronics and revived my old "dumb" phone which is literally half the size of the smart one an the battery lasts 7 or 8 days with a single charge.

 

3. Unfortunately, the camera on the dumb phone is pish, giving results like some kind of Fischer Price toy camera. The scrapyard this afternoon was down near Beziers and is one of the biggest I know of in the area and it was rammed full of interesting tat, but none of the photos I took are worth a damn. Sorry.

[Lankytim]

Yesterday I replaced the front drop links,  discs and pads on the XM, pretty easy once I got everything apart. It was only when I got the wheels back on that I realised i'd put both the "outer" pads on the drivers side. Probably not a problem, but I thought I'd swap them round. 

 

Roll on to today and I got the XM up in the air and swapped the pads round, took all of 15 mins.... Except when I went for a test drive I found I'd managed to push the hand brake cables off the balancer thing under the car. Cue me rolling round under the XM, covered in shite and the front wheels back off AGAIN.

 

FINALLY got everything back together except full left lock was found to result in the sound of crushing metal and jammed steering. FECK.... front end back up and after I'd found and refitted the impossibly inaccessible steering rack heath shield that I'd managed to dislodge I lowered the XM and did a bit of "Citrobics" (or whatever it's called) to settle the suspension. 

 

That's when I noticed a steady drip drip of LHM coming from the rear axle.... A pipe had rusted out where it passes behind a securing clip. FUCKING FUCK FUCK FUCKETTY BASTARDING THING!!!!!!!@@@!@!@!

 

I don't have the tools to make up a new pipe, it looks like a right pain to do anyway. I'm hoping google will magic it better.

 

[Cheggers]

Skin cancer is a bastard. I'm now left with scarring on my forehead and both cheeks - "rugged", or so I'm told. Too many years of sailing in the sunshine with a delicate English rose complexion. Make sure you always have fresh Factor 50 in the glovebox for those long summer days on the hard shoulder

 

 

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[pompei]

A mate of mine died in May from skin cancer  -  started from a lesion on his toe 12 months prior.  Left wife and two infants. Terrible business.

[beko1987]

The latest saga in OMGorl merivazrshit is the idle has changed to 1.2k rather than 750, resulting in omnomnom fuel useage. The clonking from the front end is getting worse too.

 

It's not looking like we can afford to replace it soon, so I might actually have to investigate why its suddenly gone uneconomical, and change the track rods (and whatever is needed in the gearbox end, whilst up on axle stands in the rain or some shit)

 

CAvcraft - got a nice* disastra, focus or megane senic coming you way soon?

[eddyramrod]

^Those are two awful stories there (the skin cancer posts).

My grump this weekend is much less significant.  Not only that, but I think I've aired it before.  The price of model cars.  I'm looking at them on ebay, and anything I even slightly might want shoots up way beyond my ability to pay for it.

Also, that 29k Escort mentioned elsewhere.  Come on, seriously?  You could get all kinds of nice proper cars for that.  29k buys a top Cadillac, just for starters, and I'm sure we could come up with other suggestions.  Why spunk it all on an Escort?

 

I'll never understand humans, however long I'm forced to live among them...

[Cavcraft]

The latest saga in OMGorl merivazrshit is the idle has changed to 1.2k rather than 750, resulting in omnomnom fuel useage. The clonking from the front end is getting worse too.

 

It's not looking like we can afford to replace it soon, so I might actually have to investigate why its suddenly gone uneconomical, and change the track rods (and whatever is needed in the gearbox end, whilst up on axle stands in the rain or some shit)

 

CAvcraft - got a nice* disastra, focus or megane senic coming you way soon?

 

There is no such thing as a nice Focus or Megane, but something is bound to come along soon.

[ruffgeezer]

Some Saab owning twat has been occupying badly) my parking space all day, and remains there now.

 

The temptation to peal back it's stupid flappy hood and smear the inside with the cat shit that seems to congregate outside my garage is getting almost to much to bear.

[eddyramrod]

Humans.

Also, eczema.  My hands are so itchy it's agony.

Also, insomnia.  Look, I'm here, after midnight.  My alarm will be going off at 5 so I can go to work.

Incidentally, getting up at that sort of time to go to work.  What a freaking privilege.

 

I can't sleep, can you tell?

[dave21478]

The latest saga in OMGorl merivazrshit is the idle has changed to 1.2k rather than 750, resulting in omnomnom fuel useage. The clonking from the front end is getting worse too.

 

It's not looking like we can afford to replace it soon, so I might actually have to investigate why its suddenly gone uneconomical, and change the track rods (and whatever is needed in the gearbox end, whilst up on axle stands in the rain or some shit)

 

CAvcraft - got a nice* disastra, focus or megane senic coming you way soon?

 

 

If its a petrol engine, I would have a prod at the temperature sensor.

If there is a problem there the brains will think the engine is cold so run the mixture rich and raise the idle speed as if it were a winter morning.

 

My old Astra sport had the X16XEL engine iirc and I had this exact problem, which turned out to just be a dirty corroded connector on on the temp sender unit. I gave it a squirt with WD40 and plugged and unplugged it several times and it was fine after that. Note there are two temp senders, one for the dash gauge and the other for the ECU which is the one you want to look at.

[chaseracer]

ORLMODURNCARSIZSHIT.

[fordperv]

The great British weather, I have only got to dig out for 4 more slabs for my shed base but I can't because it's pissing down

[overrun]

Bad luck,FP.

Blazing sun and 19 degrees, here.

[Lankytim]

Im in my lorry waiting for a pin number so I can get my container lifted off. Been here 2 hours. PULL YOUR FINGER OUT, MAERSK!

 

I need to get home and fix my XM!

[vulgalour]

Tell them you have to get home to look after your incontinent old dog, it's at least partially true and they may be sympathetic to your plight then.

[RobT]

The latest saga in OMGorl merivazrshit is the idle has changed to 1.2k rather than 750, resulting in omnomnom fuel useage. The clonking from the front end is getting worse too.

 

It's not looking like we can afford to replace it soon, so I might actually have to investigate why its suddenly gone uneconomical, and change the track rods (and whatever is needed in the gearbox end, whilst up on axle stands in the rain or some shit)

 

CAvcraft - got a nice* disastra, focus or megane senic coming you way soon?

 

How about a nice* Cavalier for scrap money?

 

http://autoshite.com/topic/17773-cavalier-mk3-20-cdi-for-sale-£120/

[fordperv]

Bad luck,FP.

Blazing sun and 19 degrees, here.

 

wheres that dislike button, you lucky barstard 

[xtriple]

I'm known as a bit of a dog lover (not in any pervy way before anyone suggests such a thing     ) and think I look after my two pretty well. However, just had an RSPCA inspector round as he's had a report of a dog so seriously overweight that it can't walk properly! Obviously, the report was 'anonymous' (but it's the twat next door that rushes out and washes the road when Phoebe wees!) and it had to be investigated.

 

Chester (who is a fat little bugger) runs up to meet this stranger carrying a huge chewy bone he'd just pinched out of the cupboard, wagging his whole body furiously so he gets stroked. Inspector bloke goes, 'you're fat, but nothing to worry about, and obviously fit as a flea....' he said that as Chester is bounding onto the bed!

 

Anyway, no problem and the inspector guy is very happy that the dogs are loved and well treated/regular vet treatment/wormed and flea'd etc. So he apologised but said he had to investigate. Nice guy.

 

Not so happy about the guy next door! He is very strange and goes beserk if anyone parks in 'his' space, washes the road if the dog wees or poos behind his car (I always pick-up but there is often the slightest residue left behind) and goes mad for any noise or anything.

 

Think I'm going to ignore it, but, it's getting on my tits!

[dugong]

Should I go and poo in his parking space?

[Station]

I've been here before, 9 years ago when the last job went tits up. So being unable to do normal jobs is probably the trigger.

I've had a bad year with anxiety, haven't had it for ages, but last year thought I was losing it. My mates mum died and I was there when he heard the news, it really bothered me.

Decided to try Kalms, haven't felt anxious since, they worked amazingly well. Also cut out caffeine and get proper sleep and learn to relax.

[Angrydicky]

What is this craze with people tipping buckets of water over their head and filming it? It looks daft. Nothing wrong with donating cash to a worthy cause, but there seems little point in making yourself look like a twat in the process. Apologies to anyone from here who has done it, it does seem to be quite popular at the moment.

 

Obviously, I hate CHAR-I-DEE.

[Richard]

An 18 year old lad drowned in a quarry on Sunday in what is thought to have been his take on the ice bucket challenge. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-28925759

[Lankytim]

What is this craze with people tipping buckets of water over their head and filming it? It looks daft. Nothing wrong with donating cash to a worthy cause, but there seems little point in making yourself look like a twat in the process. Apologies to anyone from here who has done it, it does seem to be quite popular at the moment.

 

Obviously, I hate CHAR-I-DEE.

 

 

I did it tonight, and yes, I did look like a twat doing it.