The grumpy thread

[Pillock]

I think the point is that we survived, but many didn't.

 

Weirdly the ones who didn't aren't here to share their experiences.

[Eddie Honda]

I think the point is the brainwashing - must be new > expensive must be better > must be safe. There are plenty of cheaper options that are perfectly good, but you're attempted to be made to feel guilty even considering them.

 

I haven't gone through a load of seats as shown above, I don't need a people carrier / minibus because I'm not trying to strap in something the size of a sofa. I'm skint mostly, but I'm not up to my eyes in debt (or even up to my ankles for that matter). I'm of course most grateful for all the donations we've had of cars seats, baby equipment and clothes. I think only the second pram (double) was bought new and the odd pair of shoes.

 

And whilst the law is very prescriptive for modernz, it's quite simple for ancient cars without rear belts: No if under three. Yes if over.

 

Now excuse me while I ponder fixing this GS for summer, as I wish to teach the children about the joys of hot vinyl...

[Cheggers]

Without wishing to start a whole new discussion, when my two were little 'uns, there was a clear correlation between spend on car seats and attendance at NCT ante-natal classes.

 

Those of us who didn't do the NCT thing were happy with a tough but basic Britax job, as the NHS teaching was 'good enough is good enough', while the NCT folks weren't happy unless Tarquin and Jemima were in a seat more expensive than Lewis Hamiltons.

 

Don't know if the car seat example still applies, but when discussing babies with folks at work I can still pick out the NCT trained ones with 90% accuracy

 

 

 

 

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[AlabamaShrimp]

If I was that concerned about the particular variety of child seat I'd be reconsidering the idea of strapping a kid into a 40 year old car in the first place. With the best will in the world any significant collision is going to convert the occupants into jam regardless of seatbelts or child seats.

 

I always drove the Doloshite safe in the knowledge that any crash was going to damage me considerably more than whatever I hit, especially as the driver's seatbelt in the 1300 doesn't even seem to lock properly, the aftermarket ones in the back are halfheartedly bolted through the rear parcel shelf with big washers and I imagine they'll probably just fly off in the event of an accident...

That's not necessarily true.

 

I got hit I'm my mk1 Fiesta on the front drivers corner my a then new Clio mk3. The rust and filler exploded but it didn't smash the light and with the bumper tied up I drive home.

 

His car was a bit worse. Front panel stoved right in taking the radiator out. The bonnet was bent and wouldn't shut.

[danthecapriman]

Nothing quite like a good old work problem to piss you right off is there!?

 

I had an end of year performance review today which my annual pay rise is graded on.

Overall this year has been a nightmare, with very low staff levels and a variety of other problems but inspite of all this I managed to complete all my work two months early, train two apprentices at the same time and have no incidents or other problems all year...

 

So to come out of that review basically being told I've got a shit attitude and I'm not a team player comes as quite a shock!

Believe me when I say if anyone in our team is a team player it's me!!

All this means I've just spent Friday afternoon getting more and more angry, having a big argument with my boss and then telling them in very plain English how I feel about it all before walking out.

I feel like a piece of shit anyway at the moment and this has just completely finished me off tbh. I'm absolutely fucking livid now and this is bound to ruin my weekend too.

 

No idea what I'm going to do now? I don't think I can face going back there after all that.

[scaryoldcortina]

When my kids were little I couldn't afford to run a car, so the child seat situation never came up. You don't know how lucky you are until you have to get a week's shopping home with a 6 year old on foot and a baby in a buggy.

[OwdChina]

Nothing quite like a good old work problem to piss you right off is there!?

 

I had an end of year performance review today which my annual pay rise is graded on.

Overall this year has been a nightmare, with very low staff levels and a variety of other problems but inspite of all this I managed to complete all my work two months early, train two apprentices at the same time and have no incidents or other problems all year...

 

So to come out of that review basically being told I've got a shit attitude and I'm not a team player comes as quite a shock!

Believe me when I say if anyone in our team is a team player it's me!!

All this means I've just spent Friday afternoon getting more and more angry, having a big argument with my boss and then telling them in very plain English how I feel about it all before walking out.

I feel like a piece of shit anyway at the moment and this has just completely finished me off tbh. I'm absolutely fucking livid now and this is bound to ruin my weekend too.

 

No idea what I'm going to do now? I don't think I can face going back there after all that.

My sympathies ................been there, done that............I ended up working in China for three & half years.! 

[Craig the Princess]

 

 

No idea what I'm going to do now? I don't think I can face going back there after all that.

Been there, done that. I raced into the first vaugly sutible job elsewhere about two months later. Fuck em.

[danthecapriman]

Been there, done that. I raced into the first vaugly sutible job elsewhere about two months later. Fuck em.

I think that might be my only option tbh.

It's a shame because I've been there doing the job a long time now and without being big headed, I'm pretty good at it now. There's also a lot of good things about the job that I really like and would have to also walk away from.

I just don't feel I'm ever going to be listened to or have the underlying problem I have with the job sorted (someone else I work with being lazy, selfish and an outright piss taker which leaves me picking up after them. The guy seems untouchable!)

After this came to a head today and being called what they called me I just don't think I can go back let alone be around/work for people like that.

 

Still, I suppose I've got a couple of days to think it over before making a decision.

[Tamworthbay]

I love this site layout and it works brilliantly 99% of the time but the search is crap, trying to find the anything not automotive for sale thread and can't find it for the life of me, even when I only select the for sale tab it isn't coming up. All this while recovering from a migraine, brill. Computers and me have a mutual hate hate relationship.

[Bren]

Fuck the job off and let your useless colleague take over.

[Station]

If I had a child, and he came home and told me a teacher or other staff member at his school had told him Nelson Mandela was a terrorist I'd go flippin utterly batshit mental. I'd expect a school to take a basic duty of care when discussing such stuff so that kids could have an idea about the context and the rights and wrongs of what Mandela, or any other 'terrorist' had done. Just calling him a 'terrorist' is appalling. If that TA had any professionalism about her at all I'm not surprised she was upset.

A teacher told us that as well when we were doing a project o n'good people' or whatever.

[Tamworthbay]

I think that might be my only option tbh.

It's a shame because I've been there doing the job a long time now and without being big headed, I'm pretty good at it now. There's also a lot of good things about the job that I really like and would have to also walk away from.

I just don't feel I'm ever going to be listened to or have the underlying problem I have with the job sorted (someone else I work with being lazy, selfish and an outright piss taker which leaves me picking up after them. The guy seems untouchable!)

After this came to a head today and being called what they called me I just don't think I can go back let alone be around/work for people like that.

Still, I suppose I've got a couple of days to think it over before making a decision.

This seems to be a 'modern management' technique to justify not giving a pay rise and to keep you in your place, sadly the arseholes who devise these wonderful ideas don't seem to realise that a well motivated work force who feel valued actually work harder.

[Lacquer Peel]

The management at A Major Power Supplier really are arseholes. You have my sympathies Dan.

[danthecapriman]

This seems to be a 'modern management' technique to justify not giving a pay rise and to keep you in your place, sadly the arseholes who devise these wonderful ideas don't seem to realise that a well motivated work force who feel valued actually work harder.

That is exactly what I told them at the end.

I said, now you've just shit on me like this what do you expect of me come April when the new work list comes out? That I'll pick it up and rush out there and gladly plough through it again! Absolutely no chance!

 

They can't see this though. They are not managers any more, all they are there for is to constantly whip arse to achieve figures.

[danthecapriman]

The management at A Major Power Supplier really are arseholes. You have my sympathies Dan.

Thanks. I know you have the same experiences. They are useless nasty shits.

[tooSavvy]

Nothing quite like a good old work problem to piss you right off is there!?

 

I had an end of year performance review today which my annual pay rise is graded on.

Overall this year has been a nightmare, with very low staff levels and a variety of other problems but inspite of all this I managed to complete all my work two months early, train two apprentices at the same time and have no incidents or other problems all year...

 

So to come out of that review basically being told I've got a shit attitude and I'm not a team player comes as quite a shock!

Believe me when I say if anyone in our team is a team player it's me!!

All this means I've just spent Friday afternoon getting more and more angry, having a big argument with my boss and then telling them in very plain English how I feel about it all before walking out.

I feel like a piece of shit anyway at the moment and this has just completely finished me off tbh. I'm absolutely fucking livid now and this is bound to ruin my weekend too.

 

No idea what I'm going to do now? I don't think I can face going back there after all that.

 

.... take the Savvy option, M8

 

TS

[supercollider]

That's not necessarily true.

 

I got hit I'm my mk1 Fiesta on the front drivers corner my a then new Clio mk3. The rust and filler exploded but it didn't smash the light and with the bumper tied up I drive home.

 

His car was a bit worse. Front panel stoved right in taking the radiator out. The bonnet was bent and wouldn't shut.

 

My mate Tim got rear ended by a Peugeot 205 on a sliproad off the M25, years ago - while he was driving a Hillman Imp. The Imp suffered one broken rear light lense, the standard issue Lucas ones they also used on the Aston DB5. The 205 was mashed to shit from the A post forward. Tim drove away with a sore neck from the collision, the other bloke had to wait for a flatbed to take away the scrap metal. 

[AMC Rebel]

I love this site layout and it works brilliantly 99% of the time but the search is crap, trying to find the anything not automotive for sale thread and can't find it for the life of me, even when I only select the for sale tab it isn't coming up. All this while recovering from a migraine, brill. Computers and me have a mutual hate hate relationship.

 

I always thought the wank search was some sort of in joke.

 

I use google now - if you put what you're searching for, then leave a space and type "site:autoshite.com" (without the quotation marks), it searches this site - it's pretty good.

[Richard]

I don't even bother about that, I add the word "autoshite" to the search term.

[Tamworthbay]

I always thought the wank search was some sort of in joke.

 

I use google now - if you put what you're searching for, then leave a space and type "site:autoshite.com" (without the quotation marks), it searches this site - it's pretty good.

It's something to do with the site host system or whatever it's callled, I use another forum with the same underlying system and the search is equally shit on there.

[twosmoke300]

Ahh I always thought it was me using it wrong !

[loserone]

RE: Child seats and costs for kids.

 

You probably spend what you feel is necessary based on what you know, and how you feel about spending money generally.  I gambled a little and took three months off work unpaid (shared parental leave) when L1_jnr was born, as I think I've mentioned before.  As a result we need to spend reasonably wisely despite my income being good albeit not on the scale of Mr Cheggers (same industry but early career, permie, and public sector)

 

We bought a £40 car seat from Mothercare.  It was reduced from £90, and should allegedly be sufficient for about four years.  I'll grant that it's a bit fiddly.

 

It was a PITA in the Toledo which had shit legroom in the back, but was alright in the middle seat, fits fine in the passenger seat of the Micra (no passenger airbag) and in the back of the LS400 (what wouldn't.).  We didn't need to buy a seven seat MPV because I won a Lexus for £11.20 and swapped the Toledo for a SMOLL CAR for my commute to work.

 

We did the NCT ante natal classes, but we were probably pretty unusual in the group and reckon our house would fit in the living room of most of the other people who were there.  We were also significantly better informed already than anyone else there, but we have some friends who are midwives.  A lot of the 'education' was not taught, but simply the effect of putting well off people in a room for a couple of days and their own comparisons.  When the 'blokes' were put in a room together, there was clear pride that they had been able to save money by using '10% off when you spend £3k' offers at M&P.  I may* have had a different perspective.

 

Last month I knocked together a baby gym from some scraps of oak I had lying about, a bit of an old wardrobe we bought from a charity shop ten years ago, some toys with bells in, and some old leather shoe laces.  Nappies are second hand reusables, and changing is done on bits of fleece bought from the market.  I did notice that one large-living-roomed family had one electric baby entertainment centre in their nursery, and another in one of their living rooms.  They also had two cots, each kitted out with motion sensors, cameras etc..  We're yet to assemble the cot we were given.

 

I don't think L1_jnr is missing out, but that's just my perspective, and I'm probably biased. 

[Honey Badger]

Don't worry about it.  Ours will look after you.

 

Thats kind of em, considering we helped pay for their healthcare and education.

[daveb47]

Ipb3 search is very crap,,Looking into upgrading to sphinx search.

May have a play over the weekend

[purplebargeken]

All insurance companies are cunts. Very potential purchase of a former vehicle now fucked due to stupid £ premium. Insured in Dec 2015 for well under £100. Lovely. Now? Cheapest was £664, most expensive was in the thousands.

 

Not recognised under classic cover anymore by PBIS. Other companies...... it's too old but not classic. Just FUCK RIGHT OFF.

[beko1987]

Yey my clutch cable parted company with the pedal clip on the way home... It doesn't look broken, but not knowing what to look for it possibly is... I can get my fingers on the cable, I can even make it mate to the clip but have no way to push it back in on the side of the road

 

Waiting for the aa now at amys sisters. Luckily I broke down near breadvans, and my phone died so thank you Gerard for the use of the phone. Currently at amys sisters waiting for the aa to call, then she will run me back up.

 

Another job for the weekend...

[AlabamaShrimp]

All insurance companies are cunts. Very potential purchase of a former vehicle now fucked due to stupid £ premium. Insured in Dec 2015 for well under £100. Lovely. Now? Cheapest was £664, most expensive was in the thousands.

 

Not recognised under classic cover anymore by PBIS. Other companies...... it's too old but not classic. Just FUCK RIGHT OFF.

How can it be too old but not a classic? What is it? I've got a Frontera on classic insurance, its a Frontera???

[Craig the Princess]

For searching I find it easier to use Google to find the right page on here.

[Negative Creep]

For searching I find it easier to use Google to find the right page on here.

 

 

 

That seems to be the case with all forums. Never understood why no one can seem to create a decent one.