The grumpy thread

[cort16]

Or get the PROPER tool ?

 

 

NEVER

[primeradoner]

Jake If they went bust you dont owe them anything. You owe money to the liquidators appointed to wind up their affairs so I would tell them to FRO as it looks to me that they are trying to defraud the creditors of the company. 

[Kiltox]

I am quite certain that if you lost a track rod end while moving, the 'loose' wheel will immediately go to full lock and you'll have a serious problem.

This is very true - had this on my old Kangoo van thankfully whilst only pulling out of a parking space.

[richardmorris]

Train drivers etc get that because they have strong unions. Many aren't so lucky.

 

I like working for my company. Start early if I like and so finish early if possible. But like many, I'm salaried and not waged, so no overtime.

Helps that I own half of it though

[cort16]

They're much better than rusty wanky fiddly jubilee clips if you have the right tool, plus they keep a steady pressure on through heat/cool cycles so the hoses are less likely to work their way off.

 

As soon as you need a special tool to change something as simple as a hose clip it's doing it wrong. It's not like I'm changing the timing belt and need some special locking tool it;s a flippin hose, which with a normal hose clip could be dealt with with a screw driver or a butter knife out the drawer.

[Kiltox]

Grrr, unexpected 1K bill for dice. Got an email saying you're overdue for the last 4 invoices, pay up now plz.

 

Er, but you've never given me credit and always charge my card when I order?

We went bust and haven't got a credit card machine now. Pay up plz.

 

Would have helped a bit* if they'd told me what was going on, or put account details on their invoices as a bit of a clue. Thought I was doing well this month.

If they're bust, fuck them

[Cavcraft]

The problem now it is the norm, is that now an employee is made to feel like there being unreasonable if they try to assert their rights, or ask for overtime etc. So there are train, tube and perhaps petrol tanker drivers that are earning £50k+, but as your average person is either on minimum wage or on a decent wage but expected to be logged on 24hrs/day, when employers try to squeeze these industries, the vast majority just think I dont get that much so neither should they. I just think good luck to them.

 

Absolutely, and it's sad when peoples envy over others wages takes over their lives. Crack on with trying to improve your own situation first.

[mat_the_cat]

Factory I worked in had 3mins grace for clocking in late, but 15mins for working over.

 

No grace period here, but the team leader can amend times on the system (officially if you forget to clock in or out) IF they choose to. I really dislike the lack of a few minutes flexibility - it's a good hour's drive and it doesn't take much to set you back a couple of minutes. I can understand it if I was direct production as you'd want to keep that running, but I have a desk job where a few minutes here and there really don't matter.

 

I used to work in a company that operated like that. It wasn't even the company really, it was the team leader they had given the job of collecting the clocking data. She seemed to think it was her own money.

 

I think in this case it is more down to the inflexibility of one individual. My wife works at the same company but in a different department - I'd actually dropped her off at lunchtime in this instance, and just popped out to collect her in the afternoon. So she'd been out of work for around 2 hours and her boss said she doesn't have to make up any time!

 

Ah well, it's a good job I don't get annoyed easily... 

[Cheggers]

I routinely do 10-12 hour days (plus admin on a Sunday morning) and always take my laptop on holiday, but thank my lucky stars I don't have the pettiness of having to clock in & out every day.

[Stroller133]

I routinely do 10-12 hour days (plus admin on a Sunday morning) and always take my laptop on holiday, but thank my lucky stars I don't have the pettiness of having to clock in & out every day.

Yes but it might be worth it for £200k! But in reality it shouldn't matter, in my opinion if your contract says 37 hours that all you should be obliged to work regardless of salary.

[Cheggers]

Fair enough, we all need to decide our own balance of work/ life/ reward.

 

PS: Just because I threw out the figure of £200k as an example...

 

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[Doctormop]

I always remember a story of my Father's mate who was a decent panel beater in his time, mid 1980's He'd been fired from a job AT £200 per week for being Bolshie; apparently not the first time it had happened but he knew his trade and got on with the job if he wasn't "supervised" too much, He starts at a local bodyshop, owned by a real character who apparently was as tight as a submarine's door getting paid Â£85 a week, Monday morning Father's mate walks in at 08.59, goes straight into the brew room and starts reading his paper, deathly silence, big boss man notices and politely asks "Are you going to do any f***ing work or what?" Whilst turning a page said employee replies "I'll do you 80 quids worth by Friday"

(The relationship was not a happy one)

[Guest Hooli]

Grrr, unexpected 1K bill for dice. Got an email saying you're overdue for the last 4 invoices, pay up now plz.

 

Er, but you've never given me credit and always charge my card when I order?

We went bust and haven't got a credit card machine now. Pay up plz.

 

Would have helped a bit* if they'd told me what was going on, or put account details on their invoices as a bit of a clue. Thought I was doing well this month.

 

WTF is DICE?

 

1k is the deposit on renting somewhere btw, sounds like a better use of cash to me.

[Cheggers]

WTF is DICE?

 

1k is the deposit on renting somewhere btw, sounds like a better use of cash to me.

While Jake's more than capable of answering for himself, I believe he makes & sells valve caps made from dice for a living (along with pool ball gear knobs). £1000 on raw materials for a business is a more than decent investment.

[Louise2cv]

Dice is how Jake makes his living I believe Hooli.

 

Makes accessories out of them and sells them on eBay.

[oldcars]

Winter, not my season. Ice and frost can go. Roll on summer*

[beko1987]

I got cut up by a xantia this morning!

 

Initially I was happy to see another one (S reg), and thought of giving it a little wave or something, then I remembered the prick had cut me up so didn't do anything.

 

Poor thing looked tatty as fuck, soft tyres all round, filthier than mine, brake light out. I patted mine on the steering wheel and told it that no matter how poorly it feels, it'll never be as bad as that one, and that love is on the way, whereas that one is probably mere miles away from the scrapyard

 

Then I got a grip

[burraston2006]

The bastard Range Rover P38 voodoo demon visited me this morning. Got into start it and nothing. It turned over half a turn and then fuck all. Not sure if it's a duff battery or the alternator. Bollocks is what I say! I suppose I've been lucky as I've had no expenditure on it so far (ignoring £300 of Essos finest!). Do I get a new one or go to the scrappie and gamble?!

[steveo3002]

scrap battery and then a cheapo multimeter to see if alternator is working

[Guest Hooli]

While Jake's more than capable of answering for himself, I believe he makes & sells valve caps made from dice for a living (along with pool ball gear knobs). £1000 on raw materials for a business is a more than decent investment.

 

Ah makes sense.

 

For some reason I thought it was online gaming.

[Cheggers]

Ah makes sense.

 

For some reason I thought it was online gaming.

If you read some of his posts on here, it might as well be...

 

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[mrbenn]

The bastard Range Rover P38 voodoo demon visited me this morning. Got into start it and nothing. It turned over half a turn and then fuck all. Not sure if it's a duff battery or the alternator. Bollocks is what I say! I suppose I've been lucky as I've had no expenditure on it so far (ignoring £300 of Essos finest!). Do I get a new one or go to the scrappie and gamble?!

 

Jump start then a meter across the battery, Shirley? No point buying a new battery if its just flat.

[andy18s]

And don't forget Landrovers slightly different battery spacings........

[jakebullet]

While Jake's more than capable of answering for himself, I believe he makes & sells valve caps made from dice for a living (along with pool ball gear knobs). £1000 on raw materials for a business is a more than decent investment.

 

Yes it's dice for valve caps. And to sell to the people who like to pretend to be wizards.

[Kiltox]

How many dice does a grand buy? Got to be a fair few I bet!

[jakebullet]

Depends which dice you buy. Plain ordinary 16mm ones a grand will get you about 20,000.

[Cavcraft]

An eventful cycle to work/back today: Nearly got wiped out by some tit in a truck who decided red lights didn't apply to him, came within a whisker of being knocked off by some stupid old bat at work who couldn't be arsed stopping at a crossing, then on the way home some **** in a cement mixer lorry very nearly knocked me off.

 

To be fair, that aside it was ace weather: frosty going in and effectively cloudless going home.

[Tamworthbay]

Struggling to get my next lot of injections for my arthritis. Turns out the wankers at the company who have ripped off the NHS to get the contract are now being even bigger tossers and want to stop the NHS saving money by being complete and utter nobs and effectly blocking the medication deliveries for a fortnight.

 

But of course the Tory cunts (and their red Tory cunt friends) tell us that the NHS isn't being privatised and any private bits are 'more efficient'. More efficient for the shareholders maybe.

[chaseracer]

2016: the year that just keeps on giving taking away.

 

Having lost three family members and a close family friend in the space of three weeks in March, another friend (younger than me) has recently keeled over in his garden from a massive heart attack in front of his wife & children, while yet another (a bit older than me) has just learned he has terminal lung cancer and is unlikely to see Christmas.

 

As a wise old Welsh sheep farmer once said to a friend of my dad's: "they're being taken from our fold now..."

 

And this evening I learned that my good friend Eric - dedicated paramedic, committed trade unionist, president of UNISON and my mentor when I was on the NEC some years back - died suddenly earlier today.

 

FRO, 2016... I'm out.

[Tamworthbay]

And this evening I learned that my good friend Eric - dedicated paramedic, committed trade unionist, president of UNISON and my mentor when I was on the NEC some years back - died suddenly earlier today.

 

FRO, 2016... I'm out.

Eric as in Eric Roberts? Shit I hope not (no disrespect to any other Eric's obviously). I met him once at a TUC meeting, I was clueless and he very kindly pointed me in the right direction and then after the meeting came over and spoke to me again. He was a top bloke.