The grumpy thread

[purplebargeken]

Bit mean that no-one speaks to you (apart from Jo).

[eddyramrod]

I'm very good at my job, and I enjoy doing it, but I still suffer savage bouts of "when are they going to find out?"  It doesn't help that my boss is an arse who believes in living to work, and I'm trying (unsuccessfully) to keep my hours below a benefit threshold.  It's a job that isn't recognised as skilled in any way, yet anyone doing it (properly) will tell you that not just "anyone" can do it.  It's all I've ever really wanted to do.  The pay is lousy (minimum wage) and I'm treated like shit by all and sundry, but I still love it and always will.

I was 38 when I met and married MrsR.  She's my first wife.  I was beginning to think I was destined to live alone, but apparently not.  I'm selfish, childish and untidy, you want to talk about self-esteem?  Please do, I have none.  But, I know I'm a nice bloke really, which is the result of positive effort on my part, I try to treat everyone as I'd like them to treat me.  Occasionally it works.

[Timewaster]

Rhod Gilbert did a stand up routine about suffering "Imposter Syndrome" , the feeling that you shouldn't be where you are and will get found out anytime.

Being at work and getting a tap on the shoulder and told "What are you doing here, you're no bloody good, sling your hook!"

 

I think it's more common than we expect.

[Craig the Princess]

If my old office based employers every realised how little I did they would get a massive shock. That said I was still in the to 20% productivity wise but that didn't stop that fear of being found out.

 

Captain 70s, you have loads of talent. Those cartoon style car pictures are amazing. I can barely draw curtains.

[Tamworthbay]

I seem to have come across more that are examples of the Peter principle. One in particular springs to mind, since she has left everything has been so much better, people are happier, everything g is more efficient and £70k isn't being peed up the wall on a salary for making things worse,

[eddyramrod]

Rhod Gilbert did a stand up routine about suffering "Imposter Syndrome" , the feeling that you shouldn't be where you are and will get found out anytime.

Being at work and getting a tap on the shoulder and told "What are you doing here, you're no bloody good, sling your hook!"

 

I think it's more common than we expect.

It's actually got a name???  Excellent!  I've had it most of my adult life.

[jakebullet]

I'm finding the 'will get found out' thing also extends to the relationship thing. I think a lot kinky girl could do so much better, and maybe one day soon she'll realise I'm a no hope gimp. She must also be thinking something, as she tells me I'll be wanting a younger model.

[ruffgeezer]

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGH

[Captain Furious]

Got to be honest the whole 'get found out' thing is totally new on me, I've never worried that work are suddenly going to 'out me' as a serial Internet forum browser and fire me

 

Although the only thing currently on my agenda tomorrow is to read the 32 page thread on trucks. So maybe tomorrow is the day

[wuvvum]

I don't seem to suffer much with depression or low self esteem, which is strange given that I am 36, terminally single and still pretty much living paycheque to paycheque (although that's partly self-inflicted as any time I do have a bit of spare cash put by I'll go out and spend it on chod, which I then invariably make a massive loss on).  I think this might be down to the fact that I don't think about the future.  At all.  Apart from a visit to a client in Sussex next week, Shitefest in June and a visit to my parents in July, I have absolutely nothing planned beyond this week.  In fact it's quite frequent for me to have no firm plans at all beyond the end of the day.  I have fleeting thoughts about how it'd be nice to be able to buy a house, and occasionally I have fleeting worries about what will happen if I have to move, but generally I just live in the moment.  I've noticed it when I'm on collection missions as well - I won't be worrying about the drive home, I won't be thinking further ahead than the next change of train.  I don't know if this is healthy or not, but it seems to have kept any signs of the "black dog" at bay so far.

[purplebargeken]

Hayfever, you can fuck off too with your sneezing, itchy eyes and shit. Just FRO!

[chaseracer]

I seem to have come across more that are examples of the Peter principle...

 

Unsurprisingly, I see this a lot in my line of work...

[chaseracer]

Don't worry about the whole impostor syndrome thing, you don't have to be smarter than everyone, just the management.

 

Which is not, generally speaking, too difficult.

 

Being more cunning, vindictive, venal and just plain stupid than a significant minority of them is a matter of personal choice - or temporary requirement.

 

[daveb47]

Had bad angina for 2 days now,my appointment with heart specialist is not till 28 june.

[Doctormop]

I heard a quote once along the lines that "I am crippled with low self esteem and thus impossible to insult as nobody can have a lower opinion of me than I have of myself" if this is true then I have been impossible to insult since infant school.

 I have been in the same job for 8 years and pretty much hated the last 7 but somehow having been here longer than many no one seems to notice that I don't really know what I'm supposed to be doing most of the time, last Friday I handed in my notice, can't cope with the 90 mile per day commute anymore not to mention the people I have to deal with on a daily basis, I have got a job paying much less but only 10 minutes walk from home, its just over minimum wage but full time and permanent so I consider myself very fortunate to have been offered it, I really intend to make the best of this and not get bored, pissed off and lazy after a fortnight like I have done with every other job I have had, in my twenties I was known as cannonball because I was always getting fired!

 Other grumps include seeing a sign outside a house yesterday saying "Ears and tongues pierced, babies welcome" I am not a parent myself so please correct me if I'm wrong but would anyone want their baby to go through that?

[UltraWomble]

THIS really pisses me off:

 

Plus 60 pounds documentation fee, Bill Smith Motors Celebrating over 50 years in Business!, £2,195 p/x welcome

On a second hand bike.

£60? for what? An envelope and a stamp?

FRO.

[adw1977]

Car Giant have being doing a £200 admin fee for years.

[Guest Hooli]

 Other grumps include seeing a sign outside a house yesterday saying "Ears and tongues pierced, babies welcome" I am not a parent myself so please correct me if I'm wrong but would anyone want their baby to go through that?

 

Child abuse in my eyes.

[Spottedlaurel]

Apart from a visit to a client in Sussex next week, Shitefest in June and a visit to my parents in July, I have absolutely nothing planned beyond this week.

 

And Marham at the end of May!

[Captain Furious]

Admin charges are like the new bank charges, companies demanding money for doing next to fuck all

 

Change a minor detail on the computer, sure that will be £30 please, gets right on my gruff

[nacho man]

Yeah that pisses me off I have added three drivers to my policy of the year and it's 25 quid a pop.

 

Cheers nob cheese.

 

 

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[Station]

Admin charges on renting a house are daft. You're paying 300 quid plus for them to hand the keys over and put a signature on a piece of paper (probably).

[dave21478]

Pressure washers. Oh my fucking good God......

 

I used to have a wee handbag sized no brand washer bought for under 50 quid from a supermarket over 15 years ago. It worked fine....no complaints. It finally died a while back and I looked into replacement.

 

Me being me, I got a bit anal about it and spent an unhealthy amount of time going back and forth between a few shops and online places comparing pressures, flow rates, duty cycles and the like. I eventually bought one from a local DIY shop with specs a fair bit higher than anything else in the same price range. In use its less powerful than the old cheapy. Turns out that at the bottom of a page near the back of the manual is the disclaimer saying that the stated pressure is obtained "under laboratory test conditions for a short time." and the actual pressure it gives is significantly lower. The internet suggests that this translates as "we threw 500 volts into the pump and it gave this really high pressure for half a second then burnt out, so thats the number we put on the box" 

Its a massively heavy cumbersome thing which wouldnt bother me if it was super high power, but its weaker than the old thing which was literally the size and weight of a womans handbag.

Fucking Farce.

I got a massive rage on with it and threw it in the fucking bin and I bought a different one, which is lighter, gives better power and seemed great. Until I tried to wind the hose around the built in reel.....literally impossible. There is no slip ring or anything to carry the water through to the reel, the hose exits the body of the machine near the base. So how do I wrap it round the reel? its just not possible. even if you disconnect the hose, the reel diameter is too small so it kinks the hose. Fuck it - I never bothered and just put up with the usual big knot of pipework whenever I used it.

This thing lasted exactly until the end of the guarantee and then started leaking from every joint. Its only o-rings, how hard can it be? Well, pretty fucking hard actually. They seem to be neither metric nor imperial sizes. I went to a decent hose fittings and hydraulics place and they were stumped. "These will be off some piece of Chinese shit, yeah?". Apparently this is not uncommon. They gave me the closest they had, both slightly under and over sized. Undersized leaks everywhere and oversized are too big to allow the joins to fit together.

Surely with the awesome power and collected knowledge of the entire internet at my fingertips I could resolve this? So I typed the model into ebay and it came up with an o-ring kit for 7.99. brilliant.

Except they dont fit. I appear to have bought four standard metric o-rings for 8 fucking quid, (plus postage) and they are not the right size for the washer.

 

*grinds teeth* Jesus fucking.....Just.... oh forget it. 

 

 

Can someone please recommend me a GOOD pressure washer for a max of 200quid. And if anyone says Lavor or Ermbauer I will come round to your house and shit in your cornflakes.

[eddyramrod]

She must also be thinking something, as she tells me I'll be wanting a younger model.

I get that one too, a lot.  I thought it was just about her having been married before, and being three years older than me, but perhaps it's more common than I imagined.  You just have to keep reassuring her that you love her.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That's what i do and it doesn't seem to work very well as she keeps saying it....................

[vulgalour]

Sewing machine has decided it doesn't want to sew, it would rather make knots.  What makes this extra annoying is that it's gone from sewing perfectly fine, and without changing fabric type or thickness and without fiddling with any settings it now won't sew more than 5 stitches without jamming up.  I had an old Agfa machine do this a few years ago and I couldn't get it to come right again, gave it to a neighbour who then had absolutely no issues with it for years.

 

I suppose it's just a foible of a 50+ year old machine.  I only have one and a half lines of stitching to go before this headlining is ready to fit so I'm pretty annoyed about it.  Just got to wait for the sewing machine to decide it would like to sew again, there's no point fiddling with any of it.

[dollywobbler]

Pressure washers. Oh my fucking good God......

 

 

 

I've got a cheapy Nilfisk thing, which is very noisy, but works very well. 

[vulgalour]

Huh, that whinge worked, the machine behaved itself when I retried and I'm now pressing the headlining ready to take it to the car for a trial fit.

[beko1987]

I buy £60 Nilfisk pressure washers. I had one die after 3 years after being kept on the floor of a freezing garage every winter and not draining it out afterwards. I then went onto ebay and bought just a new machine for £30 and kept all the tools, still working fine now, although noisy as DW says they get. One of the lance tips also doesn't work, but the pressure's not that great enough to be a problem with the patio blaster lance so I just use that.

 

When this one dies I might look at a whole different one, but what I will probably do is buy another £60 nilfisk, but get the full kit, so a new lance and hose as mine are pretty fucked

[Kiltox]

£35 Argos pressure washer is working well for me at the moment with their £10 extended warranty in case it goes the same way as my Karcher did (dropped it and fucked it real bad)

[beko1987]

Thinking about it, I need to either get a new nilfisk or a new foam lance when the time comes, both of which cost about the same...