The grumpy thread

[Supernaut]

Being told "I've got tenants in far worse situations than yours" when chasing up the letting agent as to why it's taken more than three weeks and counting to fix the shower riser that fell off the wall due to being previously bodged has got my back up somewhat.

That would make me worried too.

 

Instead of calming me down, that would just make me think they were a really shit letting agent. Then I'd start worrying about what else they have in store for me in future if they really are that bad... Sorry, I'm not helping.

[Kiltox]

Yeah if the boiler or cooker pack up what's going to happen?

 

I think I'll send a letter to the landlord, not demanding they do anything just expressing my concerns about these useless fuckwits

 

Either that or go to their office and burst the guy I was talking to.

[Lacquer Peel]

Eesh. There was a spate of XUDTs putting rods through the block, but I thought that was cars built around 1998.

 

The XUD9TE in my Berlingo is from a 1998 Xsara. Dead soon.

[richardmorris]

You didn't hit it off with the bean-counter, or with Jezza? 

 

Oh, the accountant. Never met the leader, never heard of him until he popped up in the limelight. Have just done something that will annoy the bean counter a lot and paid ourselves bonus as salary...Now where's that SM for sale?

[richardmorris]

What bookkeeping/accounting software do you use if any?

The package I use automatically generates dividend vouchers and meeting minute templates to satisfy the paperwork requirement

None at all. We are paper based, cashless, and use excel to keep a tally. We do all the day to day stuff and payroll etc, but the accountants do the end of year filing and tax return.

 

I am sure a business headed person would have a fit!

[richardmorris]

Had a major falling out with an accountant last year over taxes. He was seriously against them. At all. Considered them something to be avoided at all costs. What a narrow-minded pillock.

Ours seems to be that way inclined. Started off a couple of years ago with the - you should only be getting minimum wage and paying a huge dividend. I said I'd be looking for a new accountants in that case. He relented somewhat.

[richardmorris]

Yes she is - and is happy to go along with it.

I liked what Jeremy Hardy said on last week's News Quiz on R4. She's extremely ambitious, scheming and vindictive and so very bad at it.

[Bren]

Spar.

Utter.Robbing.Bastards.

I know you pay more for convenience but fuck me it's a local shop - not a 500 mile round trip to Alice Springs.

95p for a single bag - yes one fucking bag- of crisps.

You can get 6 for 99p.

 

Uber. Ryanair. Fucking spar.

You do not deserve to exist.

[Kiltox]

Only thing near my old house that was open after four on a Sunday (why, England?) was a cunting Spar

[MrDuke]

Odd how an African country having rigged elections makes the world news, while no-one thinks it remotely irregular that 2 of the last 3 UK leaders have been unelected.

[clayts450]

Being told "I've got tenants in far worse situations than yours" when chasing up the letting agent as to why it's taken more than three weeks and counting to fix the shower riser that fell off the wall due to being previously bodged has got my back up somewhat.

 

I'd get fired if I used that line - I work in complaints at a housing association (amazingly have done this particular job for five years), so you can imagine the scrapes our tenants get into with our quality* repairs service.

 

Feel your pain bud, going through it myself.

 

Landlord: We need to do your inspection and your gas safety check

Me: No problem, I've got this day off work see you then

(no show, wasted day off)

Me: fuck em then

 

Many months later

 

Me: Got a hole in the roof pissing in water into the loft space, bulging bedroom ceiling, about to get me drill out to drain off cos asbestos and don't want the whole lot falling in, send someone pronto. Have some time off later this week, can we also do gas safety check as well please. Please email me as I work weird hours and can't answer my phone at work

Landlord: ....... silence

Me: Er, I said (repeat as above)

Landlord: Ah Mr Clayts450, our gas engineer has been trying to reach you about your gas safety check but hasn't been able to reach you on the phone so he's returned the job. Can you call us to rearrange

Me; I'm off next week. No phone, email only. And the roof ?

Landlord: ...... silence

 

Fucking fuckwits

[Kiltox]

People that feel the need to make THREE HOUR phone calls on a coach can get almost as much to fuck as my letting agent

[Guest Hooli]

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[MrDuke]

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Harder to do that without being noticed if they are using the phone though.

 

 

Mind you as Peter Sutcliffe used to say 'one tap on the back of the head & they are putty in your hands'.

[rainagain]

Only thing near my old house that was open after four on a Sunday (why, England?) was a cunting Spar

Sunday trading laws in England, just why? seems really backwards.

[taxi paul]

The strain put on people doing emergency services work by this government is fucking terrible. We are facing our usual lots of people will die cos winter. Yet the NHS has had "record funding and more staff". Yet the people running it say it hasn't. You have to be at really life taking crisis point to get any help from mental health services . Gone are the days off the support to stop you getting to that stage in the first place.A police officer in my house the other week was asking about fostering and how you apply and what's it like etc. I convinced her that being a police officer had to be better than being lied to by social services,having to deal with people with no respect for you or others, trying to get help for people who are clearly suffering trauma and behaving in such a way that is a danger to themselves or even you. She laughed and said it's just like her job. I am 53 and when I was younger if you had the intelligence to be a policeman or nurse or fireman and lots of other good jobs then you really had a job for life with good support and pension etc. When I was 22 I applied and got into the prison service has an officer . They told me I would be going to Brixton ,has a shortage in London. I applied for the reasons I said before ,good job pension after 30 yrs service etc. My wife wouldn't move so I never actually joined. If I had I would be retired now with a pension. Instead I am still fostering because it allows me to look after my two kids. So financially I am OK.I do need to sell my celica and corolla ,no rush just long term plan. This is because social services are being an arse and because I won't take pot smoking knife carrying teenagers who have mental health problems into my home then I shall probably wait a long time for another one. This doesn't bother me cos I can live without it for a while it just means no extra cash for a while. This comes from my social worker who is young with no kids. who's workday finishes at 5 pm and gets all weekend off. Not to be forgot is the usual 1 off on sick leave for a couple of months so no one else to deal with you and your problem..On a positive impact got some shopping in asda last night and donated it to the food Bank who were there collecting. I done it and explained to my kids that we are fortunate that they have a dad who is healthy and we has a family can pay our bills and eat. But while we are OK you should make sure you look around you to see if everyone else is a and if not then help if you can.

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

....... and explained to my kids that we are fortunate that they have a dad who is healthy and we has a family can pay our bills and eat. But while we are OK you should make sure you look around you to see if everyone else is a and if not then help if you can.

 

Most excellent and fair play to you fella - a similar thing last week with the munchkin, for one of the local guys we know is struggling/homeless - he now is the owner of our old 4man tent and is happy as larry in the woods nearby. He's walked all over Europe over the last decade and is a proper laugh.... pity his issues have caused him so many difficulties but he's OK as is now.

 

I keep hoping we're not in the minority with trying to pay it forward (I know we're not on this site) - but am always slightly disappointed when I see the sorry examples we have for human beings who have no real excuse for their life choices.........

[Lankytim]

Spied a cheap A frame on eBay listed as BIN and fired off a cheeky low ball offer. I didn't get a response and as the auction was close to running out I threw caution to the wind and hit BIN.

 

I couldn't complete the sale without paying via PayPal (everyone prefers cash, right?)

 

Anyway, the seller has sent me a message after th auction finished.. "YES I WILL ACCEPT THE OFFER" even though I've already completed the sale. Doh!

 

I've asked twice for a collection address and haven't heard anything back. I plan to pick it up tomorrow AM and then use it to collect a Polo in the afternoon.

 

Why do I devise such intricate plans that are bound to go wrong?

[Kiltox]

Sunday trading laws in England, just why? seems really backwards.

Definitely. There was a review not that long ago in parliament and it was voted for them to stay. Too much opposition from the fucking Church!

[Guest Hooli]

I like the sunday trading laws, for entirely non-religious reasons.

[Kiltox]

I like the sunday trading laws, for entirely non-religious reasons.

What do you like about not being able to buy whatever you've forgotten for dinner at 4.02pm?

[Guest Hooli]

What do you like about not being able to buy whatever you've forgotten for dinner at 4.02pm?

 

As an ex shop worker and bus driver I like having one day a week I probably won't be working. Shop workers is obvious, but because the shops etc aren't open not as many buses etc are needed to run.

 

Plus, if you can't plan slightly better about shopping then it's something to worry about.

[John F]

So have your day off on another day of the week, then.

 

Don't get me started on the illogical, unreasonable and eye-swivellingly weird idea of having one special* day of the week where some things are STILL not supposed to happen because of bronze-age mythology. Except that day's actually supposed to be 'Friday sunset until Saturday sunset', according to the official blurb.

[Cavcraft]

Plus, if you can't plan slightly better about shopping then it's something to worry about.

Spot on. Let's be honest though, if there was 24 hour shopping every single day of the year someone would still moan if the girl on the till had to go to the loo at 3.00am.

Personally, I'd be happy to have no shops open on Sundays.

[alf892]

Sunday trading laws should never have been relaxed.........the start of a slippery slope.

 

At first the employers said it would be staffed on a voluntary basis.....lasted about 5 minutes. Next thing lots of people have to work Sunday.....and ever more unsocial hours as shops and businesses open longer.

 

And it also played a big part in the growth of retail parks.....leading to most of the general public having no idea how to actually spend leisure time apart from shopping and further stuffing their already over stuffed faces.

 

Also connected with the growth of easy credit as the masses head off to the shops and see things they think they want.......and want NOW.

 

Other bad tempered generalisations are available. Rant over,

[Bobthebeard]

Spot on. Let's be honest though, if there was 24 hour shopping every single day of the year someone would still moan if the girl on the till had to go to the loo at 3.00am.

Personally, I'd be happy to have no shops open on Sundays.

I wouldn't. We spend our year split between Scotland and England. Often driving between both. Arriving in Scotland at 8pm nay bother. Arriving in England after 4pm is bother. On Sundays obviously. Plus the only shops open near us often refuse to take Scottish money. All a bit daft in the modern age. Also I assume that longer opening hours would mean work for some people that actually want or need to work at weekends.

[chodweaver]

Spied a cheap A frame on eBay listed as BIN and fired off a cheeky low ball offer. I didn't get a response and as the auction was close to running out I threw caution to the wind and hit BIN.

 

I couldn't complete the sale without paying via PayPal (everyone prefers cash, right?)

 

Anyway, the seller has sent me a message after th auction finished.. "YES I WILL ACCEPT THE OFFER" even though I've already completed the sale. Doh!

 

I've asked twice for a collection address and haven't heard anything back. I plan to pick it up tomorrow AM and then use it to collect a Polo in the afternoon.

 

Why do I devise such intricate plans that are bound to go wrong?

Because life would not be half so interesting if we all played it safe all the time. Me? I'm currently trying to hold my nerve with respect to turning down work from a former colleague: a man who is convinced that I need him more than he needs me, when the last decade at our former employers was a constant round of stress due to his over-promising and under-delivering on every single deal he did, coupled with his stunted communication skills both verbal and written and an apparent congenital laziness. Liability is the word I feel describes him best... 'Playing it safe' for me would be to continue putting up and shutting up and lining his pockets for ever more. No. Just no.

 

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[bramz7]

Sunday's are actually pretty trash to work in a big store as the shorter opening hours make it busier for a lot longer, if not the whole day. Coupled with people always calling in sick with hangovers etc, and the public being weirdly moody on Sunday's too

 

TLDR working in a busy shopping centre made me a horrid cynic.