The grumpy thread

[chodweaver]

One of my collie crosses has a bit of separation anxiety and massive fear of thunder, fireworks, gunshots etc. Drugs don't work on him (Serenum). Giving him something to chew on does however - suitably slathered in peanut butter to get him interested, a rubber 'kong' works every time now. Before we cottoned on to this he'd destroyed a 5l can of antifreeze (and did not die); a 5l tin of emulsion (and did not die); a live four way (yup, ditto); and a live lead for a lampstand (same again).

 

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[chodweaver]

PS it's the action of chewing that is the most effective de-stresser for a dog. No idea why.

 

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[somewhatfoolish]

Could've been worse.

I didn't know my dog had the runs the other day until I trod in a puddle of poo on the kitchen floor, in my bare feet.

Nice start to the day.

Nothing like warm, fresh turd squishing up between your toes to tell you your day's taken a turn for the worse.

[Heidel_Kakao]

She's shut in the kitchen/diner. Not a tiny space though. No chance of her sleeping on the bed as she won't walk on the laminate in the hall .

She's grumpy at the moment as she knows she's been a naughty girl.

Mine also have an issue with laminate flooring, whenever I go round to my mothers house she has to put some old carpet down for them to walk on. It might be worth trying a DAP diffuser to see if that helps with the separation anxiety.

[Timewaster]

One of my collie crosses has a bit of separation anxiety and massive fear of thunder, fireworks, gunshots etc. Drugs don't work on him (Serenum). Giving him something to chew on does however - suitably slathered in peanut butter to get him interested, a rubber 'kong' works every time now. Before we cottoned on to this he'd destroyed a 5l can of antifreeze (and did not die); a 5l tin of emulsion (and did not die); a live four way (yup, ditto); and a live lead for a lampstand (same again).

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Clearly thinks it is a cat with 9 lives.

[Lankytim]

Woken at 1 am by my agency cancelling my 5am start. Apparently their policy states I can be cancelled up to 2 hours before my start time and they don't need to pay me. Bastards.

[chaseracer]

You need a new agency, Tim.  Always presuming the others are any better.

[Kiltox]

Woken at 1 am by my agency cancelling my 5am start. Apparently their policy states I can be cancelled up to 2 hours before my start time and they don't need to pay me. Bastards.

That's fucking ridiculous

[cros]

The government stance on phasing out internal combustion engined cars has cost around 40 jobs at Torotrak in Leyland. I've not seen much mention of it, but its ironic that a UK company developing systems to improve emissions on engines which will still be around for quite a few more years to come are contracting. Only recently it was reported that a major manufacturer was about to adopt their system but have now switched all their focus onto horrible battery cars.

[Lord Sterling]

Woken at 1 am by my agency cancelling my 5am start. Apparently their policy states I can be cancelled up to 2 hours before my start time and they don't need to pay me. Bastards.

Wow Tim, do they expect you to be a smiling ray of sunshine whilst being disturbed at 1am from sleep asleep and told you don't have a job aswell?

 

Well, of course my grin day yesterday has to be levelled with a grump day, and it's only morning so far. Woke up this morning and decided I'd take the later bus to my first job. Big mistake, bus was 20 minutes late which would've made me late for my connecting train. So decided to call for a taxi, didn't make a difference, he still took his time picking me up and dropped me at the station 1 minute before my train went, which it did anyway.

[bub2006]

Woken at 1 am by my agency cancelling my 5am start. Apparently their policy states I can be cancelled up to 2 hours before my start time and they don't need to pay me. Bastards.

In care its over 24 hours notice required or another job for you else they have to pay at every care company ive worked for. Maybe a call to cab or a known good representative?

[Lankytim]

Just spoken to the agency and apparently there isn't an "official" cancellation policy! I.e I can get cancelled driving to the client! If they cancel after I arrive ill get paid 6 hours though ????

 

I've been cancelled after I've shown up before and not been paid though. They usually lie and say they did cancel me but I never got the message or something similar. Contractually they should still pay but in reality they don't. You usually get what you're owned one way or another however.

[bub2006]

Id be pursuing that,tim,in all honesty. Sounds really unfair.

[Craig the Princess]

Are you getting any of the benefits of agency work out of them Tim?

 

If not are any firms looking for regular drivers, three of the medium size firms locally here have signs adverting for qualified HGV drivers. Also one of the petrol tanker firms were adverting at Birchanger Green services.

[oldcars]

Delivery company have lost my Reliant exhaust. Morons.

[andy18s]

Just spoken to the agency and apparently there isn't an "official" cancellation policy! I.e I can get cancelled driving to the client! If they cancel after I arrive ill get paid 6 hours though ????

 

I've been cancelled after I've shown up before and not been paid though. They usually lie and say they did cancel me but I never got the message or something similar. Contractually they should still pay but in reality they don't. You usually get what you're owned one way or another however.

https://www.facebook.com/TempsOnCallLtd/

these guys seem to be asking for drivers

Based in Market Drayton but seem to advertise a fair few runs out of Stoke On Trent

[Lankytim]

Tbh guys all agencies are the same, I.e fucking useless. There's too many of them about and clients play them off against each other so they lower pay and conditions to try and undercut the opposition. It's the old "race to the bottom" cliche.

 

Clients must pat themselves on the back when they book a driver for a couple of quid above minimum wage then wonder why the driver who shows up has never driven in the UK before, ignores all the tacho laws and gets their truck stuck under a bridge. "It's the agencies fault, they sent a crappy driver"

[Cavcraft]

If you have or get an ADR, Tim, I'll put the feelers out for you.

[Lankytim]

If you have or get an ADR, Tim, I'll put the feelers out for you.

 

I haven't, but may do a course as part of my drivers CPC (paid for out of my own pocket of course, because AGENCY)

 

TBH I'm considering just sitting on the sofa, becoming morbidly obese, getting diabetes and living the rest of my life on some sort of benefit. 

[chaseracer]

Pentalver at Cannock are recruiting: class-1-hgv-lgv-drivers-days-and-nights--4

[HH-R]

Some piece of shit has nicked the for sale sign out of my garden, not even lasted a week. TBH I expected it to happen, can't have anything without some scrote fucking around with it.

 

No doubt will make a cameo on some knacker's Instagram page under the title of LoL EPIC BANTZ #thesesh and then be thrown away.

 

I'm gonna teabag and rub feaces over the next one.

[Craig the Princess]

 

TBH I'm considering just sitting on the sofa, becoming morbidly obese, getting diabetes and living the rest of my life on some sort of benefit.

That's no way to talk about train drivers!

[Lord Sterling]

...Well, of course my grin day yesterday has to be levelled with a grump day, and it's only morning so far. Woke up this morning and decided I'd take the later bus to my first job. Big mistake, bus was 20 minutes late which would've made me late for my connecting train. So decided to call for a taxi, didn't make a difference, he still took his time picking me up and dropped me at the station 1 minute before my train went, which it did anyway. ...

Well, it didn't get any better. When I got to my drop off, I'd later saw that I'd left behind a charging cable for my phone and I was too far away from BCA place I'd left it at to go an retrieve it. Fucking brill.

 

Got to my next pick up which was supposed to be a car going down south which would have allowed me to go home accept the bloody car wasn't there, it was at BCA Blackbushe, I was at BCA Nottingham. Excellent, so a call to the office eventually saw me with a car that only needed to go about 20 miles to Grantham for tomorrow morning, fuck it thought I, I'm off home, it's a bloody car and a few extra miles ain't gonna make any difference. On the way back had a minor alterbpcation with some old git and then later on got held up on the A42 because of some broken down car, then I find out that the drivers side wiper had come off! Thankfully it was resting on the window recess behind the bonnet. Now just got back with a blistering headache aswell.

[DodgeRover]

Tbh guys all agencies are the same, I.e fucking useless. There's too many of them about and clients play them off against each other so they lower pay and conditions to try and undercut the opposition. It's the old "race to the bottom" cliche.

 

Clients must pat themselves on the back when they book a driver for a couple of quid above minimum wage then wonder why the driver who shows up has never driven in the UK before, ignores all the tacho laws and gets their truck stuck under a bridge. "It's the agencies fault, they sent a crappy driver"

Where are you, I know someone who was struggling for drivers in Lincolnshire 8 wheelers and artics I think

[DodgeRover]

Some piece of shit has nicked the for sale

 

I'm gonna teabag and rub feaces over the next one.

Cool, might take 2 of you to hold them down though once you catch them in the act.

[puddlethumper]

I haven't, but may do a course as part of my drivers CPC (paid for out of my own pocket of course, because AGENCY)

 

TBH I'm considering just sitting on the sofa, becoming morbidly obese, getting diabetes and living the rest of my life on some sort of benefit. 

I've been working on a warehouse in Droitwich and there are a few places looking for hgv drivers. Owens is one. Don't know if they are any good coz not hgv driver. Berry Hill Industrial Estate, although the locals call it the Benny Hill Estate. Don't know where you are so maybe no good.

[Cavcraft]

I haven't, but may do a course as part of my drivers CPC (paid for out of my own pocket of course, because AGENCY)

 

TBH I'm considering just sitting on the sofa, becoming morbidly obese, getting diabetes and living the rest of my life on some sort of benefit. 

 

Well if you do, give me a shout. 

[Supernaut]

I've just learned of the existence of single-use power banks for your phone. As in; you use it once and throw it out. No way of recharging it.

 

I'm utterly stupefied at how wasteful and environmentally unfriendly that is. It's also a waste of perfectly good lithium ion cells.

[Timewaster]

Well if you do, give me a shout.

Have you got biscuits?

[Kiltox]

I've just learned of the existence of single-use power banks for your phone. As in; you use it once and throw it out. No way of recharging it.

 

I'm utterly stupefied at how wasteful and environmentally unfriendly that is. It's also a waste of perfectly good lithium ion cells.

Holy shit.

 

Surely they're made from recycled industrial waste or something?