The grumpy thread

[Sheefag]

The biggest issue with parking in Kensington & Chelsea is that their meters are still fucking cash only.

[Negative Creep]

Just opened a bag of Aldi ready salted crisps and there was about half the amount there should have been inside. I don't know why, but that's just incredibly depressing.

[Parky]

I get that when shopping, buy some bread. Ok, what type. Make, seeded/non-seeded, brown/white, sliced/unsliced? Everything unsure gets a call home, then I say it's out of stock Works about 98% of the time. Don't care if it's on the website, it ain't in the shop :)

I use to try this but was frequently challenged to prove it. So now I take photos of the empty shelf and BINGO!

[Chas4545]

Overrun, the picture shows you parked partly over a dropped kerb with tactile paving for  blind pedestrians.

Now if it was a BMW modern, you could have parked anywhere.

[michael1703]

Landrovers, didn't get home until 8:40 due to welding up a snotter

 

[overrun]

Overrun, the picture shows you parked partly over a dropped kerb with tactile paving for  blind pedestrians.

Now if it was a BMW modern, you could have parked anywhere.

 

I looked at it as i was encroaching on it but still leaving enough room. I forgot about the blind.

Annoyingly I could have reversed another couple of feet, but I didn't want to block another car in.

[jakebullet]

How was that spring hanging on? Land rovers, cheese chassis since 1948

[twosmoke300]

Land rovers badly maintained since 1948 . Badly made in the last 20 years

[michael1703]

It had worn the bolt at a jaunty angle of about 30 degrees and ovaled the bush so it was pretty much resting under its own weight

 

It got so bad that...

 

 

Got to this point at 8pm

 

 

Saved getting Paint on face for tomorrow AM

[doobietoo]

Just opened a bag of Aldi ready salted crisps and there was about half the amount there should have been inside. I don't know why, but that's just incredibly depressing.

 

Blame Brexit...

[DVee8]

I opened a corner yogurt at work the relised i didn't have a spoon.

 

used a gold buscuit instead.

[lexi]

Fuckitty fuck!  Hill Snow today. 

   It is not alone.........oh no, It is being accompanied by rain hail, thunder.and lightning. Very cosy little theatrical group crossing the country then. Thanks for nothing but shite  forecasters! 

[vulgalour]

NHS bureaucracy.

 

Normally I say wonderful things about the NHS because it performs admirably despite successive governments wanting it to crash and burn and be privatised.  Not today.  I have a low income exemption on prescriptions but what I didn't know was that it is something you have to renew annually and that you do not receive a reminder through the post when your certificate expires.  That means I got caught out with an £8.40 prescription recently for medication to cure a problem that took the health service six months to resolve because of the unique way in which appointments are booked and referrals made.

 

Fine, I'll just pay it, how hard can that be?  Oh.  Oh there's a £40 FINE for claimed erroneously and I'm not allowed to appeal that even though I can prove my income qualifies for the exemption?  Right, okay then.  And you won't backdate the exemption to fill in the gap caused by the fact there is no reminder and no clear indication when I claimed that it was an annual thing.  Right.  Fine.  I knew there was a fine for claiming when you shouldn't BUT, I also thought I was claiming fairly within the rules, apparently that's not a good enough reason.

 

I don't like going to the doctors anyway, it potentially costing me £50 a visit in the future means I'll just suck it up and self medicate from now on.

[scaryoldcortina]

My wife got several penalty letters for prescription charges despite having a valid exemption cert, the issue turned out to be a spelling mistake - her name on the NHS computer is spelt differently (ie wrong!) to the HMRC computer and everyone else, so it was assumed that a totally different person with the same address and DOB whose name was one letter different was falsely claiming.

 

I got them cancelled, and our GP's receptionist altered the incorrect name which worked for a month but somehow the system has changed it back and the name on her script is wrong again.

 

Maybe it would be easier to deed poll her name and get everything else changed to match the NHS.

[scaryoldcortina]

FURTHER GRUMP

 

A single piece of folded A4 paper just fluttered through the letterbox, it's from the council.

 

They are going to resurface the street, starting in a fortnights time requiring a full closure and all cars removed. No buses, no access for 3 days. They aren't redoing the side cuts or the loop of back lane but that isn't any help because they don't go anywhere, the only route out of the village is the street. 570yds of straight with houses up both side, 300 houses with an average of two cars per house trying to park at the bottom of the street?

 

It will be inconvenient, messy and noisy (a resurfacing crew working in between two long terraces.. the bin lorry makes enough racket to raise the dead!) and they haven't given me enough notice to make sure we are all away for the weekend.

 

Better still, the letter goes on to say they will be back the following sunday to reinstate the road humps everyone hates and wants removed (it's not possible to speed here, there is always someone coming the other way and cars parked both sides).

 

FFS. OK, I know it has to be done because it's almost all patch and pothole but why now, and why all at once? Whose idea was that?

 

I'm going to park the car at the garage and walk the mine path if I need it.

[beko1987]

Ooooh my eyes

 

[captain_70s]

Ooooh my eyes

 

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Handbrake? Never head of it, mate.

 

On a semi-related note: I was walking back to my car after buying some milk and porridge oats from the local shop (because Scotchland) and observed a pensioner roll their car backwards downhill for a good 10ft or so before hearing the distinct sound of bumper on bumper contact as my Civic became the world's least appropriate chock which said pensioner then used to facilitate their hill start before fucking off.

 

A chap in a van over the road got their numberplate but I wasn't too fussed because I couldn't see any damage and it's the Civic, my least favourite of all my shit cars.

[Supernaut]

Handbrake? Never head of it, mate.

 

On a semi-related note: I was walking back to my car after buying some milk and porridge oats from the local shop (because Scotchland) and observed a pensioner roll their car backwards downhill for a good 10ft or so before hearing the distinct sound of bumper on bumper contact as my Civic became the world's least appropriate chock which said pensioner then used to facilitate their hill start before fucking off.

 

A chap in a van over the road got their numberplate but I wasn't too fussed because I couldn't see any damage and it's the Civic, my least favourite of all my shit cars.

Report it anyway. That stupid old cunt needs a kick up the arse for pulling that kind of stunt.

[DodgeRover]

^^^ what he said what if your kid had been stood there in front of your car waiting to cross the road? Or a load of nuns each carrying a kitten....,

[DodgeRover]

NHS bureaucracy.

 

Normally I say wonderful things about the NHS because it performs admirably despite successive governments wanting it to crash and burn and be privatised. Not today. I have a low income exemption on prescriptions but what I didn't know was that it is something you have to renew annually and that you do not receive a reminder through the post when your certificate expires. That means I got caught out with an £8.40 prescription recently for medication to cure a problem that took the health service six months to resolve because of the unique way in which appointments are booked and referrals made.

 

Fine, I'll just pay it, how hard can that be? Oh. Oh there's a £40 FINE for claimed erroneously and I'm not allowed to appeal that even though I can prove my income qualifies for the exemption? Right, okay then. And you won't backdate the exemption to fill in the gap caused by the fact there is no reminder and no clear indication when I claimed that it was an annual thing. Right. Fine. I knew there was a fine for claiming when you shouldn't BUT, I also thought I was claiming fairly within the rules, apparently that's not a good enough reason.

 

I don't like going to the doctors anyway, it potentially costing me £50 a visit in the future means I'll just suck it up and self medicate from now on.

I got hit with one if those, my tax credit exemption card ran out and I didn't get another so I rang up and they said if no change in circumstances then it was fine to carry on claiming and sooner or later a card would come through.

Next thing was the fine letter, had a right moan as I go through 3 scripts a month anyway I asked for the recording of the call when they told me to carry on and it's all gone very quiet since.

[155V6]

Trying to get hold of a rear beam axle for my MG after my recent crash.All the ones being broken have already had the axle sold,all the axles for sale are either the other end of the country or want a fortune to send it.Still kicking myself for missing a complete Rover 25 for sale at the weekend for £50.00 

[Supernaut]

I need off the sinking ship that is my place of work.

 

So basically, I work in a small team (of 4) supporting the data network and telephones at a university. Our team lead is French and studied his degree here, then has worked for the university since. He's now in his mid to late 30s and has been team lead for something like 10 years.

 

He announced on Monday that he's taking 2 months of unpaid leave from December to February to go back to France to spend time with his family and his ladyfriend, and potentially look for a new job. He admitted he was trying for 6 months at first, but didn't get it. The look on his face and in his eyes when telling us this suggested he was saying goodbye anyway.

 

Another member of the team is in his 50s and is in a position to retire at any minute. He's even been spending holidays this year looking at houses to buy in the Canary Isles. He knows the campus like nobody else, all the building layouts, the ducts, etc. but all this knowledge is in his head and nowhere else. He's threatening to just pull the trigger if the team lead leaves.

 

We had a member of the team leave in March for greener pastures, and his post hasn't even been approved to be advertised by HR, while other teams have since had people leave and almost instantly replaced. It seems networking is the forgotten team in IT.

 

I've known these guys a good couple of years now, and seeing them like this is fucking depressing. I used to be so proud of working there, now... not so much.

 

Even worse, the manager above our team lead has taken to coming into the office at 5pm when I'm the last one in and making me (frankly shitty) offers to stay, to try and change my mind, as he knows I've had interviews elsewhere.

 

 

 

Apologies for the wall of text, I just wanted it off my chest. I do like what I do at my job, but I think I want to just do it somewhere else now.

[cort1977]

Doesn't this open up a position for you to be the new team lead?   Find out what he's on and say you want 10% more.   That may sound mercenary but ask yourself if the management really give a monkeys about you?  

 

If you like what you do and are the de facto best qualified candidate then get in there and play hard ball.

[captain_70s]

Report it anyway. That stupid old cunt needs a kick up the arse for pulling that kind of stunt.

^^^ what he said what if your kid had been stood there in front of your car waiting to cross the road? Or a load of nuns each carrying a kitten....,

Can't, don't remember the plate at all, can't even recall what sort of car it was except it was red!

[Bren]

I opened a corner yogurt at work the relised i didn't have a spoon.

 

used a gold buscuit instead.

I once watched a work colleague attempt to butter bread using a dorito. It was a good job he had a large bag.

[Craig the Princess]

Mrs the Princess got caught out by the prescription charge fine bullshit after the midwife forgot to put through the maternity exemption and the pharmacist just asked if she was pregnant rather then to see the card. It is an unfair pile of shit legislation.

[Richard]

In my younger days I used to just tick the box and I never heard any more about it. I'm more honest nowadays but our prescriptions are free now anyway.

[greengartside]

Just been to the Christmas lights switch on in Norwich, it was my daughter's first time she'd seen anything like this so I wanted it to be ultra special.

 

And it was, just a shame that three individuals spoiled it for us.

 

1. Woman in John Lewis - my daugher was with SWMBO and apparenty according to this person my daughter was in her way despite her being nowhere near, so she saw fit to shout at her to get out of the way.

 

2. A homeless man who asked for change and when we didn't give him any, started to verbally abuse me and SWMBO.

 

3. Some cunt in a 53-plate Mitsubishi pickup who thought it was a good idea to follow me really close, swerve in and out of the road, then when I braked to get him to back off, preceeded to overtake me then come to a stop and get out to start having a go. I reversed and pegged it down the road. SWMBO was in her car further up and had stopped but when she saw I'd cleared him, we both pegged it back home. What gives someone the right to do this?

 

Now we are both shaken up and it's ruined what was meant to be a lovely evening for my family. I HATE PEOPLE.

[wuvvum]

2. A homeless man who asked for change and when we didn't give him any, started to verbally abuse me and SWMBO.

He wasn't a youngish bloke with light brown hair and a beard was he?

[greengartside]

Yep, thats the guy. Did he hassle you too?