The grumpy thread

[The Moog]

 

 

  On 07/06/2016 at 14:55, cort1977 said:

On the other hand there are far too many of them who do sod all during the year, don't turn up and then try every trick in the book to get a pass and try to justify it by moaning about fees.

In summary, stick with it The Moog.

It is indeed this. Strangely those who have done the work outside of lectures and are likely to get a good grade rent moaning. It's those who coasted last year, put no effort in this year and will be lucky to just get a pass.

 

Luckily I have got track of all emails class notes etc and boss supports me.

 

It's just annoying that these people won't say anything to my face instead sneak about and complain.

[Cavcraft]

  On 07/06/2016 at 09:35, The Moog said:

Fucking students.

 

A group of them havent got the grades they want so have put in a massive complaint about the way they have been treated. Apparently holding only one 3 hour revision class wasnt enough for them (because only half turned up to it), also revision weeks where they could book 30 minute one to one sessions is considered cancelling classes!

 

Ontop of the fact that they are complaining that some have failed my modules this year, which isnt right because they passed last year and so must be my fault. Not the fact that they havent turned up for most classes, the final year degree is much harder than the previous year and they didnt do any work in between classes.

 

Now they have customer rights and want action taking.

Further strengthens my belief that the world is fucked as nobody wants to take responsibility for their own actions/inactions. Every fucker is a victim, nothing is their fault.

[Brodders]

  On 07/06/2016 at 19:53, beko1987 said:

If it helps you feel even worse, I've only ever seen a Marina on the telly.

When I first saw a Marina I was shocked by the fact it didn't look as bad as everyone said they were. It looked rather inoffensive and sort of like a Hillman Avenger if looked at rather quickly (before I did a double take when I realised what it was)

 

I was very disappointed to say the least. I expected it to look like utter shit after having heard people moan about them whenever they were mentioned.

[Cavcraft]

Try owning one, then you'll know.

[cort16]

  On 07/06/2016 at 14:55, cort1977 said:

Agree with this but think that The Moog is talking about  different thing with his students.   Poor teaching, cancelling lectures and so on are not uncommon and of course students paying 9000 a year or whatever it is these days should complain.   On the other hand there are far too many of them who do sod all during the year, don't turn up and then try every trick in the book to get a pass and try to justify it by moaning about fees.

 

When I did my group project in my final year (in 2000 which makes me feel a right old git) there was a guy who was on the assigned team and never turned up.   I actually thought he had left until two days before submission the lecturer called us in and said he had complained we had excluded him and were being racist to him as he was Greek.   Luckily we had email trails and two other members of the team were Greek as well so it didn't go anywhere but it shows the mindset of these people.

 

In summary, stick with it The Moog.

 

 

That wasn't a pop at The Moog, I'm sure there are plenty feckless students out there I just think you'll find students (rightly or wrongly) questioning their education when there's now so much debt attached to it. 

[reb]

Today while I was at work a cow masquerading as a bird took a massive shit on my windscreen. In itself this is fine, wait until I get home and blast it off with the hose.

It rained on the way home. The bad kind of shite now covered a large amount of the passenger side of the windscreen and wiper.

I took this as an excuse to wash it, I even did it properly with car shampoo! In addition to the paint issues this highlighted (namely, it's shit), the process of removing the airborne cow-pat caked onto the wiper resulted in the near total disintegration of said wiper. So this is how it thanks me.

An emergency trip to the big tesco in Dundee yields a pair of wipers, albeit modern "flat" ones (which are actually alright) along with a big can of Simoniz dash treatment that was on offer (this is also really quite good, it's made the non-fabric parts of the rather tired interior look almost new).

Thinking the gifts of wipers and shiny plastic will have placated the car gods, i set off. Before I'm even out of the car park I am proven wrong. I rolled over a plastic bag, and was rather concerned when this produced a "woomph" noise and it didn't emerge from behind me. A quick inspection reveals that the little Polo has swallowed a tesco bag for fucking life. I can only assume that it was wrapped around a driveshaft given the amount of time spent crawling under it in the car park it took to extract it. If this car keeps mugging me off like this I'm going to bridge it's smiley little face.

 

On the plus side, between fitting new speakers, washing it and polishing the dash now all that's left to get it ready for its first trip to Shetland is to repaint the arches again. I did such a wonderful job last time I'm surprised it took this long for the rust to surface again.

[bub2006]

  On 07/06/2016 at 21:05, Nyphur said:

I can see their point though to be honest., as they are a breakdown service.

 

Supply and fit new pads at the roadside in 10 minutes and break even on having to send a driver out, him be on your call for 30 mins by the time he's sorted paperwork etc..

Or spend an hour pissing about getting their towing dolly out, hooking your car up, trundling x miles to your house, unloading, then doing all the paperwork etc because the customer wants to spend their own time shopping around and fit the pads themselves...

 

Annoying as it is, £55 for the correct pads supplied and fitted at the side of the road, and you back on your way in next to no time isn't that bad a deal.

To be honest yes I see your point too but he said it would have taken half hour to 45 minutes to fetch pads and come back then fit,my supplier was ten mins away and it would have taken less time to hook up and tow me home then it would have to fetch pads.

[adw1977]

£55 for brake pads fitted sounds good, except that you have already paid for your breakdown subscription which covers the labour. The AA shouldn't be trying to make a massive markup on parts as well.

[Captain Furious]

I didn't even realise that the AA did that sort of work, £55 sounds like a good deal to supply and fit, surprised they're making enough out of that to make it more worth their while than just towing you home

[Negative Creep]

  On 07/06/2016 at 20:57, Cavcraft said:

Further strengthens my belief that the world is fucked as nobody wants to take responsibility for their own actions/inactions. Every fucker is a victim, nothing is their fault.

Just check out the loonies who now run the NUS. Recently in the news for wanting all prisons closed, telling gay men they aren't oppressed enough to want equal rights and banning clapping because it made people scared

[ruffgeezer]

  On 05/06/2016 at 18:59, r.welfare said:

+1 on those spacers, however check you can get a ring spanner over the electrical connector of the lambda sensor as I have always found those special lambda sensor sockets (with a notch cut out of the side) utter rubbish personally.

I have a jubilee clip around my lambda socket. It stops it spreading when you are trying to crack the sensor off.

[Lord Sterling]

Bloody PDI places. If you want me to take a car, get it prepared BEFORE I arrive. Still waiting since 10am for my pick up car to be sorted

[Guest Hooli]

  On 07/06/2016 at 21:05, Nyphur said:

I can see their point though to be honest., as they are a breakdown service.

 

Supply and fit new pads at the roadside in 10 minutes and break even on having to send a driver out, him be on your call for 30 mins by the time he's sorted paperwork etc..

Or spend an hour pissing about getting their towing dolly out, hooking your car up, trundling x miles to your house, unloading, then doing all the paperwork etc because the customer wants to spend their own time shopping around and fit the pads themselves...

 

Annoying as it is, £55 for the correct pads supplied and fitted at the side of the road, and you back on your way in next to no time isn't that bad a deal.

 

I rather suspect they only fit genuine parts too, saves most of the issues of bits not fitting or being sub-standard etc.

[xtriple]

I have fallen into a nettle bush. I am stung to fuck all over my right hand and leg and even now a couple of hours later it is still hurting like a bastard. Anyone know a good cure?

 

 

 

 

 

Note: was looking for the dogs bloody ball which she couldn't be arsed to fetch because it was in ....  nettles!

[Pillock]

  On 08/06/2016 at 11:48, Lord Sterling said:

Bloody PDI places. If you want me to take a car, get it prepared BEFORE I arrive. Still waiting since 10am for my pick up car to be sorted

 

That's a crap PDI place then.

 

I was working at the Hilton in Edinburgh, which is over the road from the massive hire car prep depot which seems to be join-run by all the hire firms there.

Chap in high vis jacket takes a nearly new car through a jetwash, seemingly just slowing to walking pace whilst two guys jet, brush and rinse it. Then he screams round to the canopy where it gets lathered. Someone chucks the fuel nozzle in and locks it on whilst they pop the boot open and check spare tyre etc. Someone else opens all the doors and gets busy with the vac whilst a third person is cleaning windows. The bonnet is opened for about 30 seconds, presumably for an oil and "is anything on fire" check. You then see a chap with a clipboard look around it, squatting down to see the panels in the light etc, and it moves on. Total time seems to be less than 15 minutes from filthy returned car to ready to hire.

[MarvinsMom]

i've been in trouble again at work resulting in an arse kicking.

 

they do one of them performance revue things, one of the questions been "where do you want to be in 5 years time?"

 

my answer of driving a fork lift round ASDA's warehouse has not been well received, neither was my assertion that the current job "is only a job" means that i don't have enough commitment/attitude etc. and what not rubbish. either way it looks like some sort of discipline thing (written warning i guess, i'm not really bothered) assuming of course that i don't just tell them to stuff their job. which i nearly did this morning!!

 

even though that is in fact my grand scheme to get out of engineering and go and do something different/better/just as shit/not what i'm doing now. cos a trained monkey could do what i do....

 

i've been there 5 years and am fed up of been away from home all week, getting home Friday night, rushing about Saturday trying to get things done at home to be able to get in the car at 5.30am Monday morning to come back down here.

 

the thought of been dole scum again actually appeals, at least then i'd get the decorating done at home

[Ghosty]

Haven't been allowed to put the oven on all week because OMG 20+ DEGREES so I've been forced to eat nothing but salad.

I feel bloody awful and keep falling asleep in the mid-evening. I don't mind the weather, I just need some actual bloody food.

[chaseracer]

  On 07/06/2016 at 22:03, adw1977 said:

The AA shouldn't be trying to make a massive markup on parts as well.

 

The modern AA is a financial products broker with a breakdown 'service' loosely aligned.

[Pillock]

First rule of employment is if anyone ever asks you "Where do you see yourself in five years" you give a sarky answer and get out of there. Normally "I was going to ask you the same thing, cos I'm having your job" works well.

No sensible employer will ever ask that, pushing people hard is the best way to break them. They should be looking at your talents and offering you progression - or, horror of horrors, accepting that some people just like doing their job and don't want to move up.

[chaseracer]

  On 08/06/2016 at 15:27, xtriple said:

I have fallen into a nettle bush. I am stung to fuck all over my right hand and leg and even now a couple of hours later it is still hurting like a bastard. Anyone know a good cure?

 

Note: was looking for the dogs bloody ball which she couldn't be arsed to fetch because it was in ....  nettles!

 

Near the nettles you will find some dock plants.  Rub the leaves over the nettle stings.

 

Seriously.

[anonymous user]

  On 07/06/2016 at 21:04, Cavcraft said:

Try owning one, then you'll know.

I have owned one, I wasn't expecting much and I didn't get it.

[anonymous user]

  On 08/06/2016 at 15:27, xtriple said:

I have fallen into a nettle bush. I am stung to fuck all over my right hand and leg and even now a couple of hours later it is still hurting like a bastard. Anyone know a good cure?

 

Get someone to piss on you, or is that for jellyfish? Never mind, just get someone to piss on you, some people pay good money for it, apparently

[chaseracer]

  On 08/06/2016 at 17:02, Pillock said:

First rule of employment is if anyone ever asks you "Where do you see yourself in five years" you give a sarky answer and get out of there. Normally "I was going to ask you the same thing, cos I'm having your job" works well.

No sensible employer will ever ask that, pushing people hard is the best way to break them. They should be looking at your talents and offering you progression - or, horror of horrors, accepting that some people just like doing their job and don't want to move up.

 

This.

 

And any manager who threatens disciplinary action in the circumstances described is a pisspoor excuse for a leader who cannot distinguish an arse from an elbow.

[MarvinsMom]

  On 08/06/2016 at 17:02, Pillock said:

First rule of employment is if anyone ever asks you "Where do you see yourself in five years" you give a sarky answer and get out of there. Normally "I was going to ask you the same thing, cos I'm having your job" works well.

No sensible employer will ever ask that, pushing people hard is the best way to break them. They should be looking at your talents and offering you progression - or, horror of horrors, accepting that some people just like doing their job and don't want to move up.

oh i told them at the interview that i am not a "high commander" type but  a "little indian" type instead as i have not got the slightest intention of attempting to clime the corporate ladder. and apparently my ad version to responsibility too is a problem.

 

in my late 20's (i'm 42 now) i ended up in a lead engineer type position which nearly broke me. and led up to my first melt down.

 

so the thought of been in the position where i am in charge again, and therefore been sick and bad with worry and all the stress and anxiety that i know will come with that fills me with dread. 

 

i don't like what i do much, but it is better than the alternative of been made physically and mentally ill cos i don't want to move up the greasy pole makes me all the more determined to just quit the friggin' thing and go and do something more interesting in stead.

[chaseracer]

You are, of course, a member of an appropriate trade union and/or professional association, whose help, advice and (if necessary) representation you can call on when required.  You also understand that, by so doing, the collective is strengthened and the likelihood of employees being treated in the way you describe is minimised.

 

Or am I just pissing in the wind again?

 

[bub2006]

Escort van came up for sale on Facebook local to me. I'm sure I'm being taunted.

[MarvinsMom]

^BUY IT BUY IT BUY IT

[bub2006]

Oh I wish I could but need to get a job sorted

[MarvinsMom]

you can have mine if you want....

[purplebargeken]

Job that is, not Escort. Just clarifying.