The grumpy thread

[richardmorris]

Similar ride in for me-6.30 am and lit up like santa clause on his sleigh and still some cockwomble in a clio overtakes as I'm signalling to turn right at a junction.

 

Ride home was ok I think, and even had a thank you hazard light flash from an audi when I pulled over to let him pass on a single track road.

[Noel Tidybeard]

Dice is how Jake makes his living I believe Hooli.

 

Makes accessories out of them and sells them on eBay.

 and does a very nice job of it in my opinion having used his services

[Cavcraft]

Similar ride in for me-6.30 am and lit up like santa clause on his sleigh and still some cockwomble in a clio overtakes as I'm signalling to turn right at a junction.

 

Ride home was ok I think, and even had a thank you hazard light flash from an audi when I pulled over to let him pass on a single track road.

 

That's it, for the (very) rare problem I have with drivers there are plenty more great ones who give you plenty of room and treat you with respect. If it's a truck, van or bus (i.e with company name on it) I usually try and email the company when I get back and ask them to thank the driver for me. It's not much I know, but the less agro between road users the better as far as I'm concerned and it's easy to complain and not congratulate.

Plus I very very very rarely don't enjoy a bike ride, so don't want anything spoiling it.

[Noel Tidybeard]

That's it, for the (very) rare problem I have with drivers there are plenty more great ones who give you plenty of room and treat you with respect. If it's a truck, van or bus (i.e with company name on it) I usually try and email the company when I get back and ask them to thank the driver for me. It's not much I know, but the less agro between road users the better as far as I'm concerned and it's easy to complain and not congratulate.

Plus I very very very rarely don't enjoy a bike ride, so don't want anything spoiling it.

there's probably someone in an office that gets a nice warm feeling just for a few minutes and as such their day is just that bit better than yesterday or tomorrow- and if they remember to thank the driver he can feel moist for a moment too!

[Cheggers]

That's it, for the (very) rare problem I have with drivers there are plenty more great ones who give you plenty of room and treat you with respect. If it's a truck, van or bus (i.e with company name on it) I usually try and email the company when I get back and ask them to thank the driver for me. It's not much I know, but the less agro between road users the better as far as I'm concerned and it's easy to complain and not congratulate.

Plus I very very very rarely don't enjoy a bike ride, so don't want anything spoiling it.

Chapeau Billy.

 

 

Faith in humanity/ Autoshite restored (for now)

 

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[Angrydicky]

All this work related bullshit reminds me a lot of working for a large supermarket chain that shall remain nameless due to them threatening disciplinary action against anyone who bad mouths them online. It's the one owned by the twatty Yank firm though.

 

Treated like shit, expected to do overtime yet there is absolutely NO incentive to do so, and swindled out of money each month by this 15 minute rounding up or down on the clocking in machine, depending if you're clocking in or out. You can guess which way round it works.

 

Money is just over minimum wage, work is exhausting and really understaffed due to them refusing to pay proper money, drivers leave and whenever you complain about understaffing they complain that a) no one wants to pick up the overtime and they are recruiting, but no one wants the job. Surprise surprise. They also refuse to spend any money on the operation (OMG WE'VE OVERSPENT OUR BUDGET!!), so we're stuck with shit Ivecos which keep breaking down and two separate computer systems, one old one new, which won't talk to each other. This causes loads of problems.

 

When I started working two days a week at The Automobile, I arranged my shifts at the supermarket so I had two consecutive weekdays off to stay overnight in Sussex. It was absolutely no skin of the manager's nose, he had a vacancy anyway on the day I needed to swap to. Anyway, on my way back from dropping the Sierra off to Bornite Identity, I had a text from him asking if I could take a run out this evening. Bear in mind this was a Sunday, and I'd worked the last six days in two different jobs. I thought about it for about three seconds then told him to FRO. When I saw him the next day, he got all dickish with me, saying I owed him a favour for changing my shifts around. Worse, he threatened to return me to my previous hours as he hadn't signed my new contract yet! I reiterated I'd worked the last six days on the trot and wasn't working Sunday as well. His response was "Well you had Thursday off" "No, I was working at my other job" I said, to that he replied "Yeah but you weren't working here". FRO, man. He should think himself lucky that I haven't left them in the lurch by fucking off just before Christmas.

 

TL:DR - twat managers, tight multinationals and the joys for working for a non-unionised company. Shit work and shit pay.

[chaseracer]

TL:DR - twat managers, tight multinationals and the joys for working for a non-unionised company. Shit work and shit pay.

 

Just because the "twattish American-owned company" refuses to recognise (yet...) the appropriate trade union(s) does not affect the employees' absolute right under law to be a member of one.

 

In fact, I'd argue that - given those circumstances - there are even more reasons for people to protect their interests by doing so...

 

https://www.usdaw.org.uk

http://www.gmb.org.uk

[bub2006]

I having issues with my previous employer. Still no outstanding holiday pay. I was on zero hours but worked full time plus weekends and over my hours an through dinner breaks. Left nearly three weeks ago and still haven't seen my accrued holiday pay or p45

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Just because the "twattish American-owned company" refuses to recognise (yet...) the appropriate trade union(s) does not affect the employees' absolute right under law to be a member of one.

 

In fact, I'd argue that - given those circumstances - there are even more reasons for people to protect their interests by doing so...

 

https://www.usdaw.org.uk

http://www.gmb.org.uk

I clicked to have a look even though it's been 25 years since I've had a proper job.

Anyway I was very interested in the Sexual Harassment in the workplace section - Advice and Support, it said....

Turns out it's not a How To guide.

 

I've never been in a Union, but Mrs N pays her dues to Unison every month and when her previous employer decided , after she left, that they'd overpaid her to the tune of £4K ( over 3 years), she did not accept this , the union were brilliant. Even though , apparently the company could legally claim the money back and started court proceedings to recover the money , the Unison rep chipped away and it was dropped a week before the court case.

[AMC Rebel]

there's probably someone in an office that gets a nice warm feeling just for a few minutes and as such their day is just that bit better than yesterday or tomorrow- and if they remember to thank the driver he can feel moist for a moment too!

When I was getting off a flight to LA on 747 I demanded to see the boss of cabin service - she looked suitably worried - till I said I just wanted to say thanks.  The staff on that flight were exceptionally good and I was only flying scum class - it was a Lufthansa plane with a female first officer.  They all spoke better English (and way better German) than me too.

 

I can be a grumpy bastard when things aren't going well, but I do go out of my way to thank folk when they have done a good job too.

[dollywobbler]

I confuse bus drivers in London by saying 'thanks' to them. I make myself look a right grockle, but I don't care.

[Craig the Princess]

Pay day, and that lasted about 15 minutes before it was all gone.

[beko1987]

I had that yesterday. I have £100 left to pay my speeding fine, then need a tenner from Amy to pay my phone bill.

 

Plus side though, bills and rent are paid

[Craig the Princess]

Plus side though, bills and rent are paid

That is the up side, I know many aren't that lucky. Still painful to see it all following out.

[Jazoli]

Wife 'I've ordered a new mattress and I need you to pay half'

Me 'ok dear how much? £200?'

Wife 'it was £1100'

Me

Wife 'well it was £2300 but I got a good discount as I did him a deal for his advertising' (she runs a newspaper)

Me

 

Ffs! we had discussed getting a half decent one for around 4-500, I knew I should have gone to the shop with her, it had better be fucking good, bang goes the winter trackbike project fund.

[Eddie Honda]

I confuse bus drivers in London by saying 'thanks' to them. I make myself look a right grockle, but I don't care.

It doesn't confuse then, it makes their day. Well that was what London bus driver bloke said on the telly the other night*

 

*other night means recording on satbox HDD, that was an episode of The Route Masters from aeons ago that I've only just got round to watching in a lame attempt to make space for more recordings which will sit unwatched until 2019.

[Rocket88]

trying to swap my Subaru with various on line activists.................it's amazing how many internet conversations terminate abruptly when you mention that you work for the A.A. ................NOT the alcohol dependancy bods, obv.

[DeeJay]

A good mattress is worth its weight in gold.

[Tamworthbay]

Feeling proper shit today, went to work but cam home at lunchtime. I think my heavy cold is turning into a full on lung infection/ pleuracy again, took two months to get over the last one so hope I am wrong.

[gordonbennet]

Feeling proper shit today, went to work but cam home at lunchtime. I think my heavy cold is turning into a full on lung infection/ pleuracy again, took two months to get over the last one so hope I am wrong.

 

I have every sympathy.

 

wifey contacted pleuracy a few years ago, since then every bloody cold goes straight to her lungs.

About three years ago we got the mother of all flu over one Christmas, though it lasted about 2 months, at night in bed we'd nearly drown on the fluid in our lungs, we were both surprised that we both survived it, seriously, she having weakened lungs due to the previous ended up sitting up in bed all bloody night for weeks on end, to this day i'm convinced it was swine flu cos i've never been as ill in all my life, coughing like a bastard and choking all at once with no lung volume worth mentioning,  don't want that bugger again.

 

Hope you shift it soon.

[mercrocker]

ASDA SUCKS

[chaseracer]

I having issues with my previous employer. Still no outstanding holiday pay. I was on zero hours but worked full time plus weekends and over my hours an through dinner breaks. Left nearly three weeks ago and still haven't seen my accrued holiday pay or p45

 

http://www.acas.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=4125

 

https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/Documents/Advice%20factsheets/Employment/e-employer-withholds-your-pay.pdf

[Tamworthbay]

I have every sympathy.

 

wifey contacted pleuracy a few years ago, since then every bloody cold goes straight to her lungs.

About three years ago we got the mother of all flu over one Christmas, though it lasted about 2 months, at night in bed we'd nearly drown on the fluid in our lungs, we were both surprised that we both survived it, seriously, she having weakened lungs due to the previous ended up sitting up in bed all bloody night for weeks on end, to this day i'm convinced it was swine flu cos i've never been as ill in all my life, coughing like a bastard and choking all at once with no lung volume worth mentioning,  don't want that bugger again.

 

Hope you shift it soon.

Cheers mate, it's a shit thing and impossible to rest. If you had a bad leg you just rest it up but you cant stop breathing. At least this time the doc may well get me sorted a bit quicker, last time they waited three weeks before doing anything despite me telling them it wasn't like anything I had ever had. One x ray/ blood test later and they said I had plueracy. I can't even lie down at the moment as I feel like I am drowning but spent a few minutes dangling off the sofa headfirst and that seems to have helped.

[FakeConcern]

I found a plastic bag containing dog shit in my front garden this morning. Someone must have picked itheir dog's shit up off the pavement outside then lobbed it over my hedge. Nice of them.

[timolloyd]

New-ish Audis in 'hire purchase' white, can do one.

[omegod]

I found a plastic bag containing dog shit in my front garden this morning. Someone must have picked itheir dog's shit up off the pavement outside then lobbed it over my hedge. Nice of them.

 

We sadly have a stack of them accumulating at the side of our house. I really don't fucking get it , the stinky horrible nasty bit has been done so why not just carry the package a bit further and put it in your own wheely bin?

[Pillock]

Lots of work related grumps on here recently.... I can echo chaseracers comments about joining a union, Mrs_Pillock is currently undergoing a monumental amount of fucktardery from her (very soon to be ex-) employer including bribing people to take voluntary redundancy, interviewing for jobs that don't exist in a restructure, and getting feedback that states she's both too qualified, and not qualified enough.

 

The union rep is being very patient, and providing the motivation to push for what's right rather than just rolling over. It's something that I don't think would be possible without the knowledge and reassurance. It's hardly 1970's British Leyland, but it is my wife vesus the big bad company right now which is pretty scary.

[M'coli]

Cheers mate, it's a shit thing and impossible to rest. If you had a bad leg you just rest it up but you cant stop breathing. At least this time the doc may well get me sorted a bit quicker, last time they waited three weeks before doing anything despite me telling them it wasn't like anything I had ever had. One x ray/ blood test later and they said I had plueracy. I can't even lie down at the moment as I feel like I am drowning but spent a few minutes dangling off the sofa headfirst and that seems to have helped.

I understand - I'm asthmatic and just about every cold I get these days ends up going to my chest, it never used to be like this.  At my previous job with Royal Mail, I had to make an appointment with my doctor to find out if there was something I could do to prevent this occuring...

 

I was off 2 weeks ago with one - the peak-flow-meter showed I had between 70-75% of my normal breathing flow despite doubling my inhaler drugs.  I'm still only on about 91%, so cycling to and from work is still a bit of a bugger...

[taxi paul]

My brothers astra finally gave up the ghost so he is having my crv on easy payment terms , ie non. If you can't help your little brother etc. So I am using the Japanese mega bus. It's basically a land cruiser with headroom and curtains. It's lovely but the fuel gauge goes down like the countdown clock.

[beko1987]

I know of a blue crv pez in high wycombe for about £150, no mot though. It's someone at works brothers and their trying half arsedly to flog it. Got pics somewhere