The grumpy thread

[seth]

I wasn't being serious chaps Besides the obvious answer is to drape a bag of carrots over the headlight alignment thingies.

[pogweasel]

what is it with people today and impatiencePhone call at 9.02 this mornigI ordered something yesterday and it's still not showing as shipped...Checked his order, it was ordered at 11.37PM thats PM last night, you know those hours, there the ones where I'm normally on my XBOX or fast asleep.told him it'd ship today and be there tomorrow and got the response of 'well thats just terrible service'?????WTF????Grow a bit of common sense you retard, 11.37PM last night, of course no ones going to be here to process your oh so important order as people need cocking sleep, combine the fact that couriers don't normally collect at that hour of the night and the fact that you are not that fucking important and go and fuck yourself, once you've done that please re-enter the REAL WORLD and begin again.RANT OVER

LOL, what a TOTAL FLANGE. Reminds me of the bloke who bought a really manky, worthless old phone off me on eBay on Dec. 23rd then complained because it wasn't there in time for christmas. Cock bucket. I might start ranting about the french again, remember that french SAUSAGE CHOMPER who was pissing me about, well cleverly he decided that he never recieved the stuff, despite emailing me to say he got it but the postage was 'trop cher'. I guess that's another £20 I am gonna be out of pocket as there is fuck all chance of paypal finding in my favour. So I suggest you all add "Buggyfamily2" to your favourite sellers, and next time he flogs something we can all have a bun-fight over who can give the thieving garlic twunt the most robust negging possible. Am I allowed to make a general rant about life, work and the economy? Cos three months ago I was getting like 1 day a week of paid employment if I was lucky. Now I ain't even got time to sleep. ARGH.

[pompei]

Hope you're getting paid handsomely for it

[Guest]

Am I allowed to make a general rant about life, work and the economy?

I would like to make a rant about work but I can't go into much detail about it on a public forum - here's some key statements which you can draw your own conclusions from - high-level restructure, effective demotion, stuck in a corner, possible opportunity, gravy train, sham, denied.As a result I'm still looking to get out of here and do something less dreary (or at least different), but there's no chance. Seeing as I'm not really a specialist in anything other than specific software used by my employer, I'm knacked. Can't get internal jobs as they're denied to me as I'm in the "wrong" department, can't get external jobs as I've no relevant experience. Few people want a jack-of-all-trades office worker and the sort of places advertising them will probably get dozens of slick graduates applying who seem like a better prospect (but probably won't be). Heard of over 200 applicants for a boring clerk job at my place so that gives you an idea of what I'd be up against.Basically I've pissed away 4 years of my life only to meet a brick wall at the end. Might has well have been on the dole, least then I could have watched "Treasure Hunt". Or its awkward but hilarious spinoff, "The Interceptor".

[Guest]

Yeah I'm in local government! Your story seems to stack up pretty similar, the problem is that as I've been gradually forced to give up my work and train other people (who get paid more to do my old jobs), I've essentially become more disposable and I have very little clout left now. Another problem is that they seem very clued-up on how to do things "properly", in that everything has been satisfied on paper.I think I've left it all too late to be honest. Would taking proper action burn my bridges to the point where it makes my job difficult I wonder? Might have to see about that. I'd prefer not to have the grief though, all I want is a half-decent job! It does my head in.

[RedSparrow]

I too seem to have either fuck all or too much work.I recommend reading 'The Ragged Trousered philanthropists' by Robert Tressel. Not a lot has changed in the last 100 years.On another note, will the builders who will be spending a THIRD day replacing a small window in my bedroom tomorrow please not wake me up at 7am on my only lie in day for 14 days. Again.

[wuvvum]

Slightly off-topic for a rant thread, but things are actually starting to look up a bit for me at work (if that isn't tempting fate). After months of doing endless unpaid overtime just to keep on top of my workload and generally wasting lots of time sorting out the consequences of the incompetence of people on four times my salary, my manager actually called me into the boardroom last week and told me that any overtime I do over and above 10 hours per month I'm going to start getting paid for. Result! Also, they recruited an assistant a couple of months ago to take some of the pressure off me, but he turned out to be an utter waste of space (although he was a nice enough chap) and when he disappeared after three weeks I was actually quite relieved, although I then had to spend most of the following week going through everything he'd done and sorting out all the cock-ups. Plus now I'm back on my own the work is starting to pile up again. But I got the news today that they've offered someone else the assistant job. She's 31, slim, apparently quite fit and she's single. She's got two kids, which is a bit of a bummer, but they're 11 and 9 and kids at that age are generally fairly tolerable - old enough to be able to hold a conversation but not yet turned into stroppy know-it-all teenagers. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that she takes the job...

[Guest]

She's 31, slim, apparently quite fit and she's single.

And if she drives anything pre 85 worth chatting up

[dollywobbler]

"Hey baby, have you seen my Magentis? It's lush!"

[dollywobbler]

Oh and you have my sympathies Hirst about work things. I spent pretty much most of my adult life trying to find what I wanted to do. Tried a career in IT - that pays exceedingly well but was moraly destroying. Seeing companies pour money down the drain and managers just enjoying the ride and free food/drink for jollies was sickening.Office politics can be hugely stressful too. Now working for a fairly small company and it's a vast relief after the huge corporations.

[pogweasel]

Hey Hirst, there's times when I think I'd be pretty contented in a job like yours. Pitch up, do a bit of work, shuffle some papers, go home. Lovely. You don't have to get up & go out at stupid o'clock, you don't have to work your ass off & you get home in time for tea, guaranteed. My job stinks alot of the time, sunburned, rained on, frozen solid, every day the weather thinks up new & exciting ways to make work miserable, blisters & sores from having to wear poxy safety footwear, early starts, late home, nightwork, generally never knowing what's occurring from one day to the next, constantly pissed about, the money and/or level of work available is very hit and miss, and quite often you are surrounded by moronic folk who appear to exist purely to go to work.I don't have to wear a tie though.

[r.welfare]

If you can score a NPB strike before he leaves feedback, then he can no longer leave feedback - if you get one after you can get it removed - long process, but it can be done.

 

Oh remember my ebay muppet who threatened that she was a policewoman? Well in the end I thought fook it and sent all the relevant corespondance and a covering letter to the police. They went round to give her a bollocking and arrested her on a "separate matter" so fook knows what she was up to. Gave me a lovely warm feeling inside though.

Started a non-payment resolution - individual goes ballistic and says "I'm not paying until you give me a number". So I give her my work mobile number. And still no call. Then I get a message saying "I will come and collect". Eh? It'll cost you £20 in fuel on a round trip from Bedford and I'm charging you £6 1st Class Recorded P&P, WTF? So I say "call me and we will work out a convenient time, at my place of work".

 

Still no call, but via e-mail this morning she then comes back and says "oh no, my cousins will be coming to deal with you as it's a dispute and they will be coming to your house". So I've given her the NPB strike and told her that I don't take kindly to threats, especially with a 10-month-old in the house. A 3-iron is going in the hall as a precaution...

 

All this hassle for a pair of foglights that went for £26. Unbelieveable.

[Pillock]

Log the threat with the police. They'll likely do nothing at this stage but that sounds like a clear threat to me.All that will happen is that if someone does show up making a scene at your house, you just phone through to the cops on 999 and quote a previous incident number, which gets them there faster as they know it's an ongoing issue and they don't initially try to fob you off.Also a decent copper will call the buyer and just politely let them know it's been raised to them, which should avert any further action anyway.

[Pillock]

Hey Hirst, there's times when I think I'd be pretty contented in a job like yours.

Hirst, do you want a job fixing computers?Cos I'd love a job like Pog's - admittedly not the loads-of-work, no-work, loads-of-work cycle but being outside doing something different every day sounds like the win. Short days, long days, yeah.So Hirst can have my job, Pog can have his, and I'll have Pogs.I used to make and errect headstones. That was an ace job for the same reasons above - some days I worked 2 hours if it was raining and nobody had died recently. Other days it was 6-6 or later if it was a nice spell in the middle of winter, we just went out and banged as many down as possible. And if there was no nice spell for ages, we went out anyway and got wet. Once out of the factory we were our own bosses too, he was too stingy to buy us a mobile so we just did what we wanted and couldn't be told otherwise.

[Guest]

Hey Hirst, there's times when I think I'd be pretty contented in a job like yours. Pitch up, do a bit of work, shuffle some papers, go home. Lovely. You don't have to get up & go out at stupid o'clock, you don't have to work your ass off & you get home in time for tea, guaranteed.

That's true, but there's some fair disadvantages - I earn £15K/year and can see little prospect of me ever earning any more. It's enough for me to live at home and buy crap cars and bottles of rum, but I can't go on like this forever. Mortgages wouldn't be much fun on that wage unless my new home was a public toilet cubicle in the Ferry Fryston area.So to rectify this, over the years I've been working hard (in my opinion), getting involved in as many things as possible, improving processes where I can, regularly doing things which are well above my wages without complaint. My rather naive thoughts were that it would lead to better jobs and wages, unfortunately all it has helped to do is make management from other areas eye up my jobs and "restructure" them away. It's corrupt - other departments look after their own and people get neatly slotted into lucrative positions tailored towards them, with hooky interviews which only exist to make it appear legit to the outside world. Strong management can negotiate much better deals/work for their staff - not to keep them happy, but to make their department more important and thus increase their own standing in the organisation.If you're on the gravy train it's fantastic - you can be an absolute cretin and earn a healthy wage for little more than being there, I've watched some morons sit back and earn a fortune just by having the right gaffer and being in the right place at the right time. There are times where I'm glad just to have a job, but some days I'll find out that yet another useless tosser has landed themselves a cushy little number on the back of people like me and it enrages me to the point that I have to kick the shit out of the photocopier, drive home in a mood and spend the rest of the day drinking heavily and cussing. It's not worth it! And Pog, ties are ace man! I love driving around wearing a full suit and tie, makes me feel like I'm important (until I get to work and realise I'm not).Anyhow, cheers for advice/sympathy.

[retrogeezer]

If you can score a NPB strike before he leaves feedback, then he can no longer leave feedback - if you get one after you can get it removed - long process, but it can be done.

 

Oh remember my ebay muppet who threatened that she was a policewoman? Well in the end I thought fook it and sent all the relevant corespondance and a covering letter to the police. They went round to give her a bollocking and arrested her on a "separate matter" so fook knows what she was up to. Gave me a lovely warm feeling inside though.

Started a non-payment resolution - individual goes ballistic and says "I'm not paying until you give me a number". So I give her my work mobile number. And still no call. Then I get a message saying "I will come and collect". Eh? It'll cost you £20 in fuel on a round trip from Bedford and I'm charging you £6 1st Class Recorded P&P, WTF? So I say "call me and we will work out a convenient time, at my place of work".

 

Still no call, but via e-mail this morning she then comes back and says "oh no, my cousins will be coming to deal with you as it's a dispute and they will be coming to your house". So I've given her the NPB strike and told her that I don't take kindly to threats, especially with a 10-month-old in the house. A 3-iron is going in the hall as a precaution...

 

All this hassle for a pair of foglights that went for £26. Unbelieveable.

Oh, isn't ebay a joy these days - and all because they took away the ability for a seller to leave a buyer a negative.

[r.welfare]

Yup, and last night I received a profanity-laden e-mail warning me not to bother listing anything on eBay again, so I've reported that, too...but I don't hold my breath, because eBay only seem to act on it if a threat of physical violence is involved :roll:Hirst - can see where you are coming from as my brother is in the same boat, and he's taking much the same approach as you, although he enjoys his job (and keeps winding me up about having a defined-benefit pension).Interestingly down here there must be a surplus of "keyworker" (part-rent, part-buy) homes, as he was able to get on the housing ladder that way.Must admit I'm quite lucky - I went from a suit-wearing job with 60-hour weeks as the norm 18 months ago to one that doesn't need a suit and is a real 9-5 - GR8 WITH A BABY IN DA HOUSE. And it pays 50% more than the last one. There are downsides, but I will live with them for now...

[Father Ted]

Hmm, my job is repetative, full of very smelly people and almost daily threats of violence. Oh and I dont think my face fits because im not gay or female.Still, its indoor work with no heavy lifting and no bed pans, so I cant grumble.

[MrDuke]

My job is mind-numbingly boring, comes with a f**k-ton of stress every day, it's taken me 5 years to get a 'promotion', my manager's a schizo, and I spend most of my time banging my head against a brick wall where improvements are concerned.

But it's probably one of the safest jobs around at the moment, especially as I was one of the last to get a permanent contract (no such thing anymore) and it comes with one of the best pensions around to boot. Plus I only want to kill half the people in my office. Bonus.

[pompei]

Quick thread hi-jack - dropped my phone in Tesco yesterday and didn't even realise. Woman handed it in and they rang me. She didn't leave her details so couldn't get her some chocs or something.Some people are pretty good Normal service will now be resumed ....

[andrew e]

About a month ago, I unusually drove my daughter to school (because she was on a school holiday with a suitcase - sod lugging that the mile to school!) Come back to the car and find some kind soul has polished my door with a silver 4x4, stopped to rub there hand over the damage leaving a clean mark (not that it was dirty) and buggered off. Cheers! Whilst mopping the offending gouge out; which is still there; Mrs rings me so I extract my james bond Sony phone from my pocket with highly wet/cutting compound hands and watch it immpersonate a £100 bar of soap as it it rockets through my fingers 20ft across the drive. Destroy the screen and have a blazing row with Mrs E, who called to see if I cut the graze out

[trigger]

Last year I got myself a nice Nokia N95 8gb mobile phone on a new contract with Vodafone.It lasted 3 weeks, I was painting my dining room with my work fleece on, you know the type, one of them £5 primark specials, When i manged to cover myself in paint, In a panic i throw my £5 fleece into the washing machine to clean it.An hour later i go to ring someone, only to find i had left my new phone in the front pocket of the fleece. It was uninsured and i think i might of even cried at the time, The wife had great delight rubbing in the fact that i had buggered up my phone over a £5 fleece.On the plus side i took out a extra cover on my contents insurance for the phone, Left it two months and managed to claim for a new phone, Which i had to pay £422 to get from Nokia and claim the money back.Lession learned.

[retrogeezer]

Sometimes, if you take the phone apart, all covers off - battery out etc and leave them in the airing cupboard for a few days they will come back to life.

[Pillock]

Meh, I do that with laptops. Leave them in a warm place, fire them up, sometimes fit a new keyboard and job's a gudgeon.£422 for an N95 is a bit steep though, they're about £225 on PAYG now (which is barely, if at all, subsidised by the network). I guess if the insurance paid out there's nothing to worry about though.I'm tempted with a N95 myself, due to my whorebag ex-wife screwing my phone contracts up I've gone 24 months without a new phone and I'm up in September. I was initially warned off the N95, it was brand new when I initially took my contract out and they'd had every single one they'd sold back as "rubbish". Seems they've improved the software now though so it actually works.

[Father Ted]

Bloody mobile phone contracts - the wife has one, but its in my name.Anyway, contract with O2 came to an end, got a new one with 3 - much cheaper, much much cheaper. Phoned O2, got PAC code said they would invoice me final bill and refund any over paid line rental.Saturday I get a letter from some shitty debt collection company in Stockport threatening balifs and shit for an outstanding debt of £2.30 - which as they have now become involved has been increased to £22.30 and if its not paid within the next 7 days will result in court procedings and all that malarky.Fcking O2 rather than take the final payment by direct debit (as the nice indian lady on the phone said they would) have just passed it on to a debt collection firm, no contact from O2 - nothing.CNUTS

[wuvvum]

Saturday I get a letter from some shitty debt collection company in Stockport

It's not Moorcroft by any chance is it? They are a right old shower that lot. Trying to get me to pay £70 for an "outstanding electric bill" at my old flat which had a prepay meter. I've given up phoning them now - they always say they'll make a note on my file but then invariably they send another threatening letter two days later. I've decided to just ignore them and see if they eventually carry out their threats to take me to court.

[Father Ted]

Saturday I get a letter from some shitty debt collection company in Stockport

It's not Moorcroft by any chance is it? They are a right old shower that lot.

The very same. I paid it by phone on Saturday, but have fired off letters of complaint to O2, OFFCOM and for what its worth Moorcroft. Have a feeling I should have told them to get bent, but TBH at the moment I dont want any hassle at all in my life.

[Guest]

TV/Radio producers-we get the message Jacko has died. Can we get back to normal programmes/news now?.

[dollywobbler]

TV/Radio producers-we get the message Jacko has died. Can we get back to normal programmes/news now?.

Gawd, they keep going on about him at Glasto too. Sod off. He wasn't going to play there so there's no point talking about him!

[pogweasel]

CHA'MONE!