The grumpy thread

[Richard]

I'm sure a man of your calibre can work out what's blown and fix it.

[doobietoo]

Bloody rain.... every time I go out to start to polish the PPE it starts again so far I have got the roof and bonnet done... oh well could be worse

[Eddie Honda]

Minor grump: I appear to have knackered my battery charger by trying to charge a battery that didn't want to be charged. Bumhats.

Have you tried turning it on and off again? 

 

 

It's very hard work to bust a battery charger. Didlididi must have some "Ultimate Speed" ones in the pipeline soon on a special.

[chaseracer]

Looks like Frank's back.  Pissing down and blowing like Linda Lovelace here...

[M'coli]

I'll ha

 

Have you tried turning it on and off again? 

 

 

It's very hard work to bust a battery charger. Didlididi must have some "Ultimate Speed" ones in the pipeline soon on a special.

I'll have a look later, but there was that particular smell of cooked electrics.

[The Moog]

Overtime payment hasn't gone in. Which means I can't get a new boiler fitted.

 

So no hot water for another month. Will be shouting at people on Monday as was due to be paid in November.

[xtriple]

Had a truly shit day today/yesterday.

I cannot sleep - averaging 2 hours per day, for a period of about two weeks so far, a combination of depression/insanity.pain, and this amount of kip is making me unwell... Hurt myself in the shower this morning so that was a great start as well, then took the mutts out and got fucking soaked which didn't help with the pain (my body does not like rain/damp/cold) and it was sooooooo bad by the time I got back, I thought I was going to pass out! Vision started 'greying out' round the edges and just couldn't catch a breathe without... you know....

 

So, got that under control and fired up the laptop. Except it wouldn't;  Login not recognised. Great, had this before and a restore to earlier version sorted it (must buy a new laptop....) but this time, I couldn't even get to that stage. So while I was slowly winding myself up to the point where the fucker got launched at something, that bloody woman (the NAGF) turned up (yet again) with her fucking rancid dog that demolishes the place, knocks over the flowers, eats all the dogs food and the wanders round pinching all their chews/toys/balls and growls at them.

 

She then offered helpful suggestions towards fixing the laptop.

 

Honestly, I do not know how I did not lose my rag with her. She just comes round and expects me to drop everything and make her coffee and chat/pander to her merest whim etc, and I was not in the mood. But, it's Christmas/New Year so didn't blow up at her, just got on with trying to sort out this laptop while her dog annoyed Phoebe and Chester to the extent that they both came and cuddled up alongside me/under my armpit (I lie on the the floor - it's the comfiest position!) with whatever toys they could gather back.

 

Finally got in to the laptop, and then it wouldn't connect to the internet - xpcom had failed. Never had that one before and while I tried to filter out the incessant yapping from the NAGF I finally got an old version of internet explorer to work, found out what it was and sorted it.

 

All this while she was suggesting 'useful'  suggestions and telling me what I need to buy, what spec I need and how much to pay.

 

I was getting a  tad grumpy... So I suggested getting out of here which she agreed to and about an hour later (really!) she was ready to go out the door! By which time, the sunshine had gone and it was grey and drizzly, but so what? I needed to get out.

 

By the time we had got to the park (two separate cars - her driving appals me and I won't let her dog in my car as he will have a go at Phoebe and Chester) the rain was horizontal with drops about two inches round and the wind was back to gale force 9! I didn't even attempt to get out of the car, just turned round and drove off. I did take them elsewhere more sheltered (without her - yippee - she'd gone home) and while the rain was only mild, the ground was like a quagmire, seriously muddy dogs, back of car covered in mud (yep, the Bentley) which needed sorting out when I got home and the dashboard displaying alarm faults, alarm sensors bypassed and all sorts of alarm related misery messages!

 

So, not to bad really, fixed the computer (and checked my bank account which is what I wanted to do in the first place - dire is the word!) got rid of her and that bloody dog, dried us all off, cleaned the back of the car and the only outstanding item is the alarm is playing up again.

 

Now, you should all know by now that I ADORE dogs in all their sizes and shapes. Her Airedale is one of the very few I can't stand! Apart from the fact that it is a disaster in my little flat - it destroys everything - annoys my dogs and bites Chester I just cannot stand the bloody thing and I don't know why. This alone worries me...

 

So, the TL:DR version:

 

Computer fucked, woman is a pain in the arse (shock!) car playing up again.

 

Sorry for the rant.....

[the judge]

Think the pas pump packed up on Picasso. Oh joy

Just drive in a straight line then.

 

 

Oh hang on,dont!!!!!!

 

 

Only kidding Bub,promise!!

[ruffgeezer]

Just drive in a straight line then.

 

 

Oh hang on,dont!!!!!!

 

 

Only kidding Bub,promise!!

 

On the plus side it's the easiest ancillary to replace, especially on the 1.6pez version.

[meggersdog]

Last winter I bought a cheap Clarke circular saw from Machinemart.It's only for ripping through firewood but the blade's blunt.I finished work early today so took the blade with me into Machinemart for a replacement,(why so much traffic,it was bumper to bumper).

You can just about make out 185mm for the size but Clarke don't one that size, eh? The nearest is 184mm, oh ffs that's near enough. So I bought the 184mm saw blade and went home.Had to cut into the plastic packaging and it's 20mm bore.Hmmm, the original saw blade is 185mm with 16mm bore and the catalogue does state 185mm saw blade for the saw.The nearest 16mm bore blade is 200mm and for the same money I can get three the right size from Toolstation.So Machinemart will sell you a circular saw but if you want a replacement blade you will have to go to Toolstation.

[chaseracer]

Overtime payment hasn't gone in... was due to be paid in November.

 

Then they should be making a BACS payment directly to your account, not pissing you about waiting for the next payroll run.

[Craig the Princess]

The payroll company won't want to do a BACS as it usually costs them around £30 to process one, some companies can use faster payments now which don't have this charge. Usually enough pressure and sobbing (not hot water, christmas ruined, can't get to work because I can;t shower) will get the payment made.

[EssDeeWon]

Then they should be making a BACS payment directly to your account, not pissing you about waiting for the next payroll run.

 

Yes this.

 

If some joe public idiot like me can make electronic transfers for same day clearance then so can any payroll department, don't let them tell you otherwise. Most of the time they just cant be arsed.

 

If not then charge them the Bank of England base rate plus 8% from the date it should have been paid.

[scaryoldcortina]

It's just because it isn't a career as a bailiff. If it was, you'd have your own TV show by now.

[Craig the Princess]

Just turn up and repeatedly say "Not my problem, where's my money?" like I did. The Hirst brand of ROUGH JUSTICE never failed, except for probably all my career prospects forever. Got my money though.

 

Because if you had tried it with my former payroll employers they would simply have called the police reporting the theft.

[meshking]

The payroll company won't want to do a BACS as it usually costs them around £30 to process one, some companies can use faster payments now which don't have this charge. Usually enough pressure and sobbing (not hot water, christmas ruined, can't get to work because I can;t shower) will get the payment made.

The charge is not your problem. You presumably have a contract that states when you get paid (1 month in arrears?), that charge is simply a cost for them doing business and can easily be offset by them.

 

Edit: sorry, I just realised that it wasn't you that posted the question!

[Craig the Princess]

The charge is not your problem. You presumably have a contract that states when you get paid (1 month in arrears?), that charge is simply a cost for them doing business and can easily be offset by them.

 

Depends if your paperwork has been completed in time, if the overtime was due in November then that shouldn't be a problem but if it is down to you to get paperwork somewhere and fail to in time then they won't accept the charge.

[cort16]

It's just because it isn't a career as a bailiff. If it was, you'd have your own TV show by now.

 

8pm Channel 5m  just after The worlds greatest hippos's we present "Hirsts Hurts". Hirst travels the uk in a series of 90's cars dispensing his unique brand of justice. 

[Pillock]

I'm sure there's some employment act that says your money owed must be paid and available to draw on by the day your contract says you get paid. This, I'm told, is why I got paid last night and not tonight, because NYD bank holiday and it might not have cleared.

 

Potentially urban myth: a chap I used to work with once claimed that an old employer didn't pay him so he went to the payroll office and the law was on his side when he asked for every penny in cash.

[MrDuke]

I reckon Hirst and WTC should form a team and produce a 'consumer rights' program. They could briefly skim over the legal shizzle, then just get down to some creative justice, preferably while unshaven and clad in crumpled charity-shop suits. Each week would see them screeching to a halt outside various arseholes' places of business in a different '90s executive saloon, complete with rust scabs, dents and smoke-belching exhaust. At least two of the encounters in each installment would end with the 'perp' leaking some form of bodily fluid (ideally tears or urine, but whatever). At the end of the episode, they'd discuss the success of their activities from the corner of a working mens club, while demolishing a bottle of cheap rum and making hilarious* but slighly blue wisecracks about the barmaid.

 

EDIT: The pilot episode should either begin or end with them beating Dominic Littlewood into a sticky pulp, simultaneously removing their competition in the ratings and endearing themselves to everyone who isn't a massive knob.

[Bren]

An ex work colleague didn't get paid - he was going abroad a couple of days later.

 

He sorted it by going to the office and calling the lady on payroll a tosser.

[Richard]

 

 

EDIT: The pilot episode should either begin or end with them beating Dominic Littlewood into a sticky pulp, simultaneously removing their competition in the ratings and endearing themselves to everyone who isn't a massive knob.

 Every episode of every TV programme should begin and end like that.

[chaseracer]

The payroll company won't want to do a BACS as it usually costs them around £30 to process one

 

As Hirst rightly says, not Moog's problem.  Their fuckup, their responsibility to sort it without undue delay - otherwise it's unlawful deduction of wages.

[The Moog]

Yep will hassle them till I get paid. They screwed it up before and put it through. Just frustrating.

 

It's a bit different as is lecturing hours. So course is spread over the year but currently at 150% utilisation (my choice) so they will pay up some in a lump.

 

Tempted by either

 

A) dressing like wurzel gummidge and going in after not showering for 3 days

hire Hirst to deal with it all

[bub2006]

On the plus side it's the easiest ancillary to replace, especially on the 1.6pez version.

Its working ok now. Because French. Mine is a 1.8 too

[Angrydicky]

F***ing, c***ing, bollocking heater pipes on the f***ing Maestro. Just got a sleeve full of icy cold water as I grovelled around upside down in the passenger footwell removing them for the fifteenth time, with my left elbow sat in the soaking wet and freezing cold carpet. Try as I might I can't get the sodding thing watertight, it just starts pissing out after 20 seconds of the engine running and continues leaking even after the engine is switched off.

[dave21478]

^^^Im probably teaching granny how to lick melons or whatever the phrase is, but are you using decent hose clamps? The 5 for 99p multipack things are shite, you really want good quality stainless ones.

 

Also, not too tight - the hose seals to the inlet itself and the clamp is only really there to stop it slipping off under pressure. Winding them on too tight can distort the hose allowing it to leak.

[alf892]

F***ing, c***ing, bollocking heater pipes on the f***ing Maestro. Just got a sleeve full of icy cold water as I grovelled around upside down in the passenger footwell removing them for the fifteenth time, with my left elbow sat in the soaking wet and freezing cold carpet. Try as I might I can't get the sodding thing watertight, it just starts pissing out after 20 seconds of the engine running and continues leaking even after the engine is switched off.

As I remember there are short copper sections that go through bulkhead and then push into matrix? If the rubber seals at the matrix are not in good order it will never seal........I've done a few matrices in these and at least it isn't a dash out job...

[Angrydicky]

First two years of production used a gasket (mine had disintegrated) from then on they used O rings. The pipes were originally mild steel which is why they corrode so readily. The pipes are replica items made of copper, unfortunately the quality is piss poor and I've had to modify them in various ways just so they line up. One of the problems was the flange where it bolts to the heater matrix wasn't even straight so I had to faff about with it in a vice to get it level. The new pipes did come with O rings but I put them to one side then lost them, when purchased back in February. Tried two combinations of generic O rings that looked roughly right today with no luck. I now have a homemade rubber gasket and copious amounts of alraldite around all the crappy soldered joints and will have another crack at it tomorrow.

[warren t claim]

I reckon Hirst and WTC should form a team and produce a 'consumer rights' program. They could briefly skim over the legal shizzle, then just get down to some creative justice, preferably while unshaven and clad in crumpled charity-shop suits. Each week would see them screeching to a halt outside various arseholes' places of business in a different '90s executive saloon, complete with rust scabs, dents and smoke-belching exhaust. At least two of the encounters in each installment would end with the 'perp' leaking some form of bodily fluid (ideally tears or urine, but whatever). At the end of the episode, they'd discuss the success of their activities from the corner of a working mens club, while demolishing a bottle of cheap rum and making hilarious* but slighly blue wisecracks about the barmaid.

 

EDIT: The pilot episode should either begin or end with them beating Dominic Littlewood into a sticky pulp, simultaneously removing their competition in the ratings and endearing themselves to everyone who isn't a massive knob.

I'm up for this. Do I need an Equity card?