The grumpy thread

[saucedoctor]

Karaoke, I imagine.

[Slartibartfast]

It's more like miming along to a song.

[Craig the Princess]

You have my sympathy. I have no idea what lip sync battle is, but at a guess it must be worse than the dancing thing if your doing that.

I guess the battle is keeping the will to live through it.

[Pillock]

It's enforced, and stupid is what it is.

 

The fantastic thing is that it feels a lot like bullying, everyone is strongly urged to get involved and perform on stage. Strongly urged.

 

Did I mention this is an HR department?

 

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[beko1987]

I don't get all the gate for Xmas do's.

 

We have a department one, and it helps that I like my colleagues I know, but we chose our own place, got £30 each from the company, plus alot of drinks will be expensed. I'm looking forward to ours.

 

It is a good excuse to call people cunts though after a few, but tbh we are the sort of place where we call each other that on a normal working day.

[DodgeRover]

I'm looking forwards to our works do, I did suggest it would be cheaper and less distructive if we all got taken somewhere sunny to go surfing but the boss has booked a table and drinks in a restaurant in a very posh town....I'm thinking a week surfing would have been cheaper.

[chaseracer]

It's enforced, and stupid is what it is.

 

The fantastic thing is that it feels a lot like bullying, everyone is strongly urged to get involved and perform on stage. Strongly urged.

 

Did I mention this is an HR department?

 

My strongest urge would be to invite them to FRO, stat.

[crapcarcollector]

Prick.

Request on another forum for a hard to find part. Yours truly has this part. I offer part but it's still on the car.

Other member is desperate, so Mr nice guy here drives 15 miles to where car is stored, removes said part in the dark by phone torch and drives home again. Post on other form picture of part complete with part number.

 

Silence.

 

Wait a day then ask if he still wants it/where to post.

 

Nothing. Radio silence.

 

If you don't fucking want it, fine, no bother. Just say FFS, but don't pester, send me on a wild goose chase then ignore me.

 

Prick.

 

 

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[mercrocker]

Won't go anywhere with anybody I work with, forced, work related or not.   I go to work at my desk which is where I am paid to be.   I get there when I am supposed to and often leave after I am supposed to.   That, as far as I am concerned is more than enough to be getting on with.   Any other suggestion falls into the FRO basket.    Got offered a free "corporate" night out last Saturday - hotel, 3 course dinner, comedian* and it was hinted possibly a stripper.   All in a village 5 miles away.   I chose to drive 65 miles in the other direction to be in a pub with 12 mates and a five piece band.   All fully clothed.  Fuck work "bonding" bollocks.

[gordonbennet]

Nor me, it's bad enough the short time i'm in the yard seeing and hearing the bleeders kiss each others arses and arrange everything to suit their agendas and back pockets, i'm buggered if i'm going to spend a bloody minute of my time seeing them cosying up to each other in their little cliques.

[Pillock]

I've really enjoyed Christmas parties when I was in a large team, had mates there, and everyone was normal.

 

Now I work with people who are so faux-upper class, all out to prove their worth to each other, that it's unbearable. It's all posh wine and small talk.

 

I've spent the last half hour making a playlist to stick on for the journey home.

[richardmorris]

I spent last night at an "informal" drinks do up at the big hoooose with Prince Edward and family. Not my idea of relaxing! Nibbles were very nice, but I stuck to mineral water over the punch. His Royal highness was polite and friendly ( he'd lost my card, ha, ha) and his daughter very polite and dutifully going round each group saying hello etc. I did enjoy standing on a very nice white rug in front of the open fire until I realised it was a polar bear skin. Complete with head even!

 

Also got stopped by the police on the way up the drive as I always walk ( drivers get stopped at the main entrance but I use the gardener's gate ) . Excuse me sir, what's your name etc, then "have you been to the estate before ?" . Yes I've lived here for seven years!!

[richardmorris]

My 17 year old jvc TV just died. Turned on just now and all it has to show is some horizontal lines at the top of the screen before turning itself off again. Why now and not last Friday for the special deals!!

I have tried banging on the top- - lesson learned from the early 80s of my parents dodgy tv, but all it did was make more lines!

New one is a bit bigger than I was expecting. Anyone need a freeview box free with just postage costs?

[Snipes]

I;m dodging the work do this year, too. Last year it was a curry, really very nice curry at a restaurant my girlfriend and I now frequent, but watching a bunch of drunk 20-odd year olds act like teenagers isn't very appealing at all. I don't mind a drink but I'd much rather be drinking a nice little something while having a snazzy meal or out in a forest smashing down trails with mountain bike buddies.

 

They seem to think I'm being anti-social. Maybe, and I do feel like I'm possibly being misanthropic, but fuck it I've spent enough of my life pandering to the demands of "friends" I never even liked.

[richardmorris]

My 17 year old jvc TV just died. Turned on just now and all it has to show is some horizontal lines at the top of the screen before turning itself off again. Why now and not last Friday for the special deals!!

I have tried banging on the top- - lesson learned from the early 80s of my parents dodgy tv, but all it did was make more lines!

New one is a bit bigger than I was expecting.

 

No idea why there are two posts, anyway. Pics.

 

Digibix has remote, instructions and possibly box if I can find it.

[Cavcraft]

I can't choose who I work with, but I can choose who I drink with.

[Tamworthbay]

Ah shit, turns out the MiL isn't busy at Christmas after all.............

[Supernaut]

I just want to move to the Highlands, get a simple job, and live on my own while telling the rest of the world to FRO after reading the last page and a bit.

[DeeJay]

I'm looking forward to my works night out.

I wasn't when I thought it was going to be held in Kirkby (local to work) but it's in the City centre so plenty of other places to go if I fancy a change. 

[Sheefag]

It gets better. There's a lip sync battle for the hi jinks.

 

I'm currently having a quick half hour chill in my car, I've offered to "support" the dancing thing, dinner is at 8 and as people will start to get shitfaced then, I'm off home as nobody will even notice.

 

I'll also make sure I start planning in conference calls from about 9am tomorrow.

 

Conference calls? Fucking count me in.

 

 

 

 

[ruffgeezer]

A dealer group I used to work I for would hire out a fancy hall for a Christmas do, people from all of the garages in the group were invited for around £25 a head, the invite said "dress code; period wear"

 

One of the mechanics went dressed as a tampon.

[wuvvum]

Got a fugging puncture on the Rover of Doom today.  Offside front tyre - at least it had the courtesy to wait until I got into Norwich to let go.  Parked up and heard a hissing sound, the tyre was completely flat within about 2 minutes.  Haven't investigated what caused it yet.  Fortunately the spare tyre had air in it and I had a scissor jack and my socket set in the car, but could really have done without changing the wheel by the side of a soggy main road at 8pm after a 10-hour day in the office.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Well what a fun morning. Mrs Shrimp coming out the drive in the St, looked both ways goes out slow and gets hit by an old git in a Jazz.

 

 

 

To say I'm fucked off is a bit understated. Hit the drivers side and pushed it in to the Frontera. It's pissed out green fluid (assume power steering fluid) and the bonnet takes a bit to shut now but it does drive.

Of course the insurance say it's Mrs shrimps fault and God only knows if it'll get fixed or not. I've had it since new and its easily fixable but we all know what insurance is like.....

[dollywobbler]

To be honest, I'd keep the insurers out of it if you reckon its an easy fix. You have my sympathies. Crunched motors are never nice.

 

Myself, I've managed to split my head open while doing my pre-drive checks on a Peugeot Boxer minibus. I'd even cleaned the sodding thing but have now had to cancel myself as driver on that route, which means I miss out on my Christmas dinner with the old ladies. What an idiot.

[stephen01]

Radio stopped working in Clio

[AlabamaShrimp]

To be honest, I'd keep the insurers out of it if you reckon its an easy fix. You have my sympathies. Crunched motors are never nice.

 

Myself, I've managed to split my head open while doing my pre-drive checks on a Peugeot Boxer minibus. I'd even cleaned the sodding thing but have now had to cancel myself as driver on that route, which means I miss out on my Christmas dinner with the old ladies. What an idiot.

It has to go through insurance as the other cars a mess and I can't afford to fix mine. The colour of my car is unique as well and painting is a fortune.

[tonedepear]

Followed a new Volvo in to work this morning and it had no lights on. That would have been an impossibility 20 years ago. Who's idea was it when they introduced DRLs in this country not to bother with rear lights?

So with new-ish always lighty-up dashboards and front lights always on basically JQPublic has no visual clues he's not got his lights on apart from the position of the switch and probably a little green picture in the middle of his ipad dashboard thingmy, and who's fault will it be when I smash into the back of him in the dark? 

 

Bah, all nu carz are rubbish m8 etc. OK carry on.

[pompei]

I'm home based and all the other guys in the company are too, and spread out across the company. So no Xmas do.

 

A few years ago, I worked for a national company and they put on a do in Leeds.  We got a memo a few weeks beforehand asking for numbers attending  -  fair enough, the caterers need to have an idea  -  then a week before we got a memo from the Big Boss himself asking for names of those not attending ....   Prior to that I was not going, as I had to be in court in Hull the next morning (civil action, not brawling or anything).  This guy had a reputation for making peoples lives hard, so I relented and went.  

 

When we got there (late due to traffic problems) it was a buffet and all the food had gone...  fucking mingebag "part" organised by meglomaniac.

 

PS I won my case

[Guest Hooli]

i worked somewhere with an enforced xmas do once, I didn't go & told them to take me to HR. Nowt happened.

[strangeangel]

I just want to move to the Highlands, get a simple job, and live on my own while telling the rest of the world to FRO after reading the last page and a bit.

 

I actually like the people I work with, and we do enjoy an evening out every once in a while, including this festive time of year. After reading the last page and a bit I'm thinking I must be in a tiny minority!