The grumpy thread

[Craig the Princess]

Glad it is resolved Tim, shit about a day's pay though.

[Cavcraft]

Make up for it by driving roundf everywhere 3 gears below what you're supposed to so it costs them more in fuel.

[Lankytim]

Glad it is resolved Tim, shit about a day's pay though.

Don't worry, I'll get that back and then some.

[dave21478]

There is only one logical solution.

[chaseracer]

^

[Lankytim]

I was told the story of a sacked driver at another place. He came back one night and removed the filler plugs on the back axles of all the tractor units. Over a course of days the axles would fling out oil and allow grit and water in. I think 4 or 5 had seized/exploded before the dumb fucks realised what had happened. By that time the remaining trucks all needed new diffs anyway.

 

Very classy I thought.

[cort1977]

Not the Kingswood!

 

That made my day!

[AMC Rebel]

That made my day!

Thats part of the fallout from the years I spent working with Australians.

[alcyonecorporation]

Dear shitting christ the past two weeks have been poor.

[jakebullet]

Idiot sister's dog has died after 6 weeks of cancer. Technically it was hers but was dumped on us most of the time so not nice watching her deteriorate fast. RIP dumpy dog.

[richardmorris]

As a customer not an employee DHL seem to have the friendliest drivers, followed by fed ex. We very often have three deliveries a day from dhl though, often from th same driver. Overseas, early pre 9am and standard deliveries.

 

Our friendliest guy we called " mr Kelly van hire". For obv. Reasons. He was contracting for dhl I think but was giving it up to go back to being a chippy as he said the costs were outweighing the income.

UPS don't even speak English so have no idea if they're happy or not, but they don't smile and don't seem interested in what they're actually doing. TNT is happy, but he seems to cover a huge area in a large truck, I often wave to him on my commute in to work. U.K. Mail are overworked from what we see of them.

[gordonbennet]

Let me guess its a DHL contract? I worked for them for 6 years and witnessed similar things happen to other drivers. Eventually it became my turn when I was handed a company phone which i promptly handed back as it was non bluetooth and I and them had managed fine for 6 years with just using mine. I was suspended on the spot for refusing a reasonable request. After a month of being suspended, as I'd been forgotten about, i handed my notice in. 

I could also mention the DHL zero tolerance to defect rule which was nothing but laughable. 

 

Unfortunately this disease is seemingly spreading to other companies as those who used to work for the yellow death get admin/management type jobs at other (often previously decent) places and immediately go about fucking their operations into demoralised mayhem.

 

Shirley it can't be by design, is dumbing down the plot, not some fiendish scheme from frau merkels box of stasi tricks against the englanders.

[dollywobbler]

Yup, you know things are getting bad when the Tories want to clamp down on this self-employment lark. Though it's the loss of tax revenue that's the driver for them, not workers' rights of course...

 

Mind you, being self-employed will lose yet another layer of gloss when the tossers start forcing us to do quarterly tax returns. That can piss right off.

[DodgeRover]

Yep they've kept that quiet haven't they, they were saying it would be a saving for the average person having an accountant doing 4 returns a year instead of one!!!!

[Noel Tidybeard]

Just had a call back, case dropped, return to work as normal tomorrow.

 

This has somehow made me more annoyed

time to start making your own paper trails- keeping copies of vehicle check sheets, ask for the phone back and use it to take pics of damage all time and date stamped even if you dont use it for calls

[richardthestag]

fucking BMW E46 non starting thing!

 

went yesterday with the idea that i would get it taxed/moted then bump start it and get it back to chez thestag so I could spend a little more time getting it fixed.

 

drove up from Devon (where Fatha thastag lives) in the the morning with Fatha Thastag, took my twin lads to Experience limits Supercar driving thingy at North Weald for a belated Christmas Pressie. Nearly got wiped out by two cunting truckers (one there and one on the way home) who both decided that they wanted my lane at the point I was passing - and no I was not Elephant racing, one has the cheek to give me the bird as I am hard on the brakes and taking avoiding action on a busy m25. Mrs Thestag screeching that it was my fault. "shut up you stupid woman" /Rene

 

Eventually got home 5:30 yesterday afternoon and after a coffiffee and piss break set off to Leatherhead at 6pm. normal M25 traffic until just after Cobham where it all just ground to a halt due to extreme fuckwittery of asshats who simply are unable to drive on the motorway network.

 

With the traffic stop start crawling at 2 mph I managed to get across 2 lanes and onto the A3 exit despite protestations of cunting truckers and got to Chez Adrian on the back roads. Only he had to go out because his Mrs had just pumped £40 of Pez into her Dizzle.

 

Anyway winge over, he left the bimmer keys and I towed it up and down the road with fatha at the controls trying to bump start it and fuck all. Fast running out of humour and with a desperate thirst for Gin I dumped it back in the yard and fucked off home again.

 

p.s. not all truckers fall into "cunting trucker" category just the four that I fell foul of yesterday

[Alexg]

This mental hot-headed reaction to the something-of-nothing Gibraltar thing has made me embarrassed to be British. You'd think we'd have retained a level of sanity by now, but The fucking Sun, also printed and distributed in Spain remember, seem determined to rubberstamp our status as a complete bunch of thick c**ts.

 

 

Holidays to Spain for £15 in the corner too. FFS.

 

 

[dollywobbler]

On top of that, there's the sodding furore about the National Trust and its Cadbury Egg Hunt. "OMG THEY DIDDUNT SAY EASTER SHARIA LAW IN EFFECT!" Even the bloody PM has waded into that one. John Sentamu had a pop at it too, which backfired quite spectacularly. He said it was like spitting on John Cadbury's grave. Ignoring the fact that Cadbury was a quaker, and they don't make much fuss about Easter...

 

This constant OUTRAGE is giving me something to be OUTRAGED about too right.

[Guest Hooli]

Well I'm outraged than I'm not outraged about anything.

 

Spain can fuck off though.

[Alexg]

The worst bit about that Cadbury Easter Egg thing is that not only is 'easter' in the flipping web address (https://easter.cadbury.co.uk/) but it's also used liberally on the actual page. The issue seems to be it's not used before the words 'egg hunt'. I swear we are losing our fucking minds in this country.

[alcyonecorporation]

Dear shitting christ the past two weeks have been poor.

Today is even worse. If you see a massive black cloud over the East Midlands, it's because my patience ran out.

Soz.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I collected an entire carrier bag of litter in the walk between car and house. All of 60 meters. Cigarette packets and bottles being the main ingredient, although there was also a till receipt - for cigarettes and a drink. 

 

Why are people such shits with this sort of thing? Who cares so little for their environment?

[cort1977]

The worst bit about that Cadbury Easter Egg thing is that not only is 'easter' in the flipping web address (https://easter.cadbury.co.uk/) but it's also used liberally on the actual page. The issue seems to be it's not used before the words 'egg hunt'. I swear we are losing our fucking minds in this country.

 

It's all just embarrassing isn't it?   I remember taking the piss out of American colleagues about that whole 'freedom fries' thing when the French declined to get involved in the Iraq invasion.   Now it seems like we are exceeding them in the race to the bottom.

[nigel bickle]

Ive just been told that someone has biffed the rear quarter on one of our Esperos -then done a runner.  Told its nowt serious, but thats not the point (to me, anyway).

 

Feeling childishly angry right now.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

I collected an entire carrier bag of litter in the walk between car and house. All of 60 meters. Cigarette packets and bottles being the main ingredient, although there was also a till receipt - for cigarettes and a drink. 

 

Why are people such shits with this sort of thing? Who cares so little for their environment?

 

 

Need to start imprisoning wankers for littering. 30 days solitary in a converted warship moored up somewhere. 

[cobblers]

The worst bit about that Cadbury Easter Egg thing is that not only is 'easter' in the flipping web address (https://easter.cadbury.co.uk/) but it's also used liberally on the actual page. The issue seems to be it's not used before the words 'egg hunt'. I swear we are losing our fucking minds in this country.

To quote someone who's name I forget

 

"All the idiots got together and had a meeting where they decided they aren't idiots"

 

And here we are.

[Timewaster]

Also...

 

Democracy : Where two idiots outrank a genius.

[Craig the Princess]

I've got a small Cadbury's Creme Egg Easter egg for next week.

 

It says Easter three times on the box.

 

FF fucking S

[Bren]

If people ignored the media the world would be a better place.

[dave21478]

When I first moved here full time, the roads were full of chod - everyone rolled in R4s, C15s, BXs, 309s 405s, CXs and less commonly Escorts and Novas and the like.....all very interesting stuff, with older stuff like Simcas and LNAs and the like still fairly common.

 

Then 2006 happened and the western world went to fuck, which I have various theories about, and over the years the masses moved to driving a leased Audi or a Peugeot something-oh-something....bland modern shit that you cant tell apart unless you read the boot badge. There are still small numbers of older cars to be seen, but numbers fall every year and I am usually sitting in the oldest car in view on the roads.

 

Sadly, these remaining older cars are going to take a big hit and probably disappear in greater numbers pretty soon. I was speaking to my usual CT tester today and apparently the CT inspection is changing at the end of the year to become quite severe against corrosion. Up till now corrosion of any kind up to and including gaping rot holes in the structure have merited nothing more than an advisory note, but new rules will mean that all holes will now fail the test. Note that I didnt say "all structural holes will fail the test". Its ALL holes, cracks or soft spots apart from rust on doors, boot and bonnet - anywhere else on the shell is a fail.

 

Since garages are absolutely not used to doing what we know as standard MOT patch repairs, it will firstly be difficult to find anyone willing to weld cars and the price will be hellish.

I see three results - increased sales of super-thick underseal to die-hard bodgers, a sudden influx of cars going to the scrapyard and an increase in sales chez Dacia/renault/pug etc etc.

Adverts on the telly are currently offering 4K above book price on trade-ins by a lot of dealers.

 

The future is amorphous, boring monochrome blobs with swept-back teardrop shaped headlights, LED tail lights and bluetooth, and thats a fucking sad thing.