The grumpy thread

[mercrocker]

I always leave my old stuff in gear rather than risk the handbrake freezing/seizing/locking up.    Mind you I did forget last winter when I tried to spin it over on the solenoid button - whilst stood under the bonnet.....

[Lacquer Peel]

Royal Mail take longer to get a package from Kent to South Yorkshire than the same thing took to get from Japan to Kent ffs. I need that throttle cable as my bike is off the road, at this rate it'll be snowing before it arrives.

The Royal Mail has declined somewhat since it was privatised, it used to be a service you could rely on.

[Vince70]

I worked for the Royal Mail back in 1986 and then it was a job with a contract working around a 40 odd hour week Monday to Saturday (starts were early as I remember signing in at 5.23 in the morning)

I recently did the same job but now it seems you only get taken on as casual staff on zero hour contracts or agency since its been privatised and was offered around 8 hours a week on a Saturday (obviously to cover the Saturday morning hangover)

 

I really don't know how they expect to get or keep staff and imagine as the older staff with contracts retire the job will just be taken over by agency workers it really is a race to the bottom.

 

It was also good back in the day as the company would have canteens in the larger offices so before your second delivery you could get a breakfast before sorting your round and you could have a lovely fry up for a couple of quid now it's no breaks and if your lucky you might have A vending machine in the place with a couple of out of date mars bars.

 

And even worse you get a horrible modern lease van rather than a smokey Sherpa with sliding doors or a Mk3 Escort but I found my Triumph 2000 was just as good for doing the rounds in.

[Guest Hooli]

Royal Mail take longer to get a package from Kent to South Yorkshire than the same thing took to get from Japan to Kent ffs. I need that throttle cable as my bike is off the road, at this rate it'll be snowing before it arrives.

 

Turns out it's not Royal Mail's fault.

 

The company I placed the order with have merged my new account and my old account & sent it to my old address...

[CreepingJesus]

Royal Mail take longer to get a package from Kent to South Yorkshire than the same thing took to get from Japan to Kent ffs. I need that throttle cable as my bike is off the road, at this rate it'll be snowing before it arrives.

Their record for me stood at 25 days from Raleigh NC, to Fife. The (much maligned) USPS got the package from N Carolina to Washington (iirc), onto a plane, and on to Heathrow in 18h. I could've walked from here to W London and back in the remaining 22.5 days...cheers RM.

[andy18s]

There is a cracking internal delivery service called Econt here in sunny BG

They only deliver between their own branches but every decent sized village has a shop

I've just had this plasma cutter and pillar drill delivered from the other side of the country,overnight,for £7

You get a text message to say when your stuff has left,another to tell you it's arrived for you to pick up

And it's cash on delivery.You get the chance to inspect the item before paying, and if it's not as described you send it back

Completely reliable so far too

[Louise2cv]

This bathroom sh*t is still dragging on. We made the mistake of asking the Federation of Master Builders for help. Useless. 

 

We would have gone to court sooner but we can't get anyone to actually send a written quote for putting it right and now even the surveyor is late delivering his report. 

 

Stressed out with it now, its almost a year of water pouring out the side of the bath every time we shower. Mouldy walls and broken fittings. FMB say they can't do owt because that is all "a matter of opinion" and their member say everything is fine. How can photos and videos of water pissing out everywhere and mould patches be a matter of opinion?

 

 

[dollywobbler]

This bathroom sh*t is still dragging on. We made the mistake of asking the Federation of Master Builders for help. Useless. 

 

We would have gone to court sooner but we can't get anyone to actually send a written quote for putting it right and now even the surveyor is late delivering his report. 

 

Stressed out with it now, its almost a year of water pouring out the side of the bath every time we shower. Mouldy walls and broken fittings. FMB say they can't do owt because that is all "a matter of opinion" and their member say everything is fine. How can photos and videos of water pissing out everywhere and mould patches be a matter of opinion?

 

 

 

Downsides of Wales for sure. We've been trying to get a leaky chimney sorted out here for, ooh, about four years now. Got a quote to fix it back in May. Chap finally turned up today. At least he seems good. The mess he's taken down (badly folded and cut leadwork!) is shameful. They've actually been welding lead together to form a proper skirt at the base of the chimney. Glad I got to see it before they fitted it. It was lovely. But finding decent tradesmen is a nightmare, which is probably why our house is so hanging.

[Mr A Lawrence]

Other peoples bodges

 

Changing the flexi pipe on the missus Mgf and there's a strap that goes round the back box that supports the cat/flexi joint, they cost around a tenner or cheaper on fleabay and they rot for fun so being nice and cheap and easy to replace.

 

Some tightwad has took the time to make a patch and neatly weld it onto the broken strap then welded it to the box thus trapping the flexi pipe to the cat!!

 

What should've taken about an hour tops took 2 hours and still isn't finished!!

 

Wankers.

[richardthestag]

Yet to venture on the motorways since getting my license, think I shall wait a bit longer

 

I took #1 son Matt Thestag out on the M4 - M25 and coached him all the way. Not in a backseat driving sort of way but more ..

 

"see that cnut in lane3? they are probably about to sweep across 3 lanes"

"that trucker with funny looking number plates that you are about to overtake? he is LHD and cannot see you"

 

etc etc

[xtriple]

I was once given an old Volvo 340 because the parking pawl had let go and it had ended up doing quite a bit of damage to some other cars/fences/houses. I went and fetched it but only because it was still MOT'd and taxed and it had the number plate DHM 6 (or something like that) which was worth rather a lot. Sold the plate and actually fixed the Ovlov as it was not that badly damaged especially considering how much damage it had done and the parking pawl on that was more like a 50 pence piece than anything else. I think I fixed it with the aid of thick rubber bands...

 

What can I tell you, I was skint and needs must

[somewhatfoolish]

Useless or bent estate agents;

 

1. phone agent about property 1, arrange viewing, go to see it, be underwhelmed but still interested if the price is right, phone agent next day to explain this and that if there's a price reduction ~10% I'd be all over it like a cheap suit. No further contact and because I don't check asking prices on a daily basis I didn't notice the price drop; the fucking thing sold a month later for 20% less.

 

2. phone agent about gopping 'project' flat in sufficiently bad state it's not mortgageable, so straight away there's a limited pool of buyers and I make it clear I can buy without finance. They don't have any keys, which is odd as they've been advertising it for a month. I say I'll look round the outside in the mean time and can they tell me when they get keys in order to arrange a viewing. A week later it pops up on their website that it has sold.

[Alfamale]

We had that with our gaff. Mysteriously our offer at asking price wasn't passed to the seller but the one from the branch managers son £20k under was. Only found out as I went back round day after to agree a deal in person.

 

Agents refunded their fees after an almighty complaint and sellers gave us half of the saving. Everyone was happy in the end, until I found out the boiler was borked.

[Doctormop]

Dirk Diggler, on 03 Oct 2017 - 5:51 PM, said:

Pedant, sorry

No, seriously I'm glad you pointed it out, just about every Ford I've ever had used the 100k reset function but I was convinced that one read 217.000, Starting to wonder what else I've convinced myself of that can't be true, But that's a grump for another time

[castros_bro]

Useless or bent estate agents;

 

1. phone agent about property 1, arrange viewing, go to see it, be underwhelmed but still interested if the price is right, phone agent next day to explain this and that if there's a price reduction ~10% I'd be all over it like a cheap suit. No further contact and because I don't check asking prices on a daily basis I didn't notice the price drop; the fucking thing sold a month later for 20% less.

 

2. phone agent about gopping 'project' flat in sufficiently bad state it's not mortgageable, so straight away there's a limited pool of buyers and I make it clear I can buy without finance. They don't have any keys, which is odd as they've been advertising it for a month. I say I'll look round the outside in the mean time and can they tell me when they get keys in order to arrange a viewing. A week later it pops up on their website that it has sold.

 

If you have 10 minutes spare then flit over to their Farsebook page and using your real* name post the truth on public view without any identifying bits like house address.   We were dicked about by an estate agent and posted so on Farsebook to then discover others started posting about being dicked and their page turned into a winge from dissatisfied for everyone to see.

[Pillock]

The Ka that had the knackered tyres which was dumped outside my house has gone.

CCTV shows a mobile tyre fitter turned up and fitted two new front tyres - which I assume equalled the value of a 57 plate Ka on 130k with a rusty fuel filler.

[Cavcraft]

Have worked in the same department as some completely useless fat balloon of a bloke for about 11 years now. I still haven't figured out what the custard bollocked two bob knob weasel actually does, and I strongly suspect I never will.

[Cheggers]

"Custard bollocked two Bob knob weasel"

 

*nods appreciatively

 

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[richardmorris]

I took #1 son Matt Thestag out on the M4 - M25 and coached him all the way. Not in a backseat driving sort of way but more ..

 

"see that cnut in lane3? they are probably about to sweep across 3 lanes"

"that trucker with funny looking number plates that you are about to overtake? he is LHD and cannot see you"

 

etc etc

Yep- assume everyone else is a homicidal lunatic out to get you. Whenever I've gone out my mum always said "lookout for the idiots" - and she doesn't even drive.

[chaseracer]

Chase_Giffer gave similar advice to me: "Assume they're all out to get you, and you won't be far wrong!"

[Cheggers]

I got both my daughters to drive on the M4 on they days they passed their tests, both are now very comfortable at motorway speeds (and then some in the case of my younger one...)

 

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[Guest Hooli]

When I started my last job my new supervisor took me to the canteen to go through the induction process. A portly, ruddy-cheeked gentleman came in to use the vending machine. When he left again I asked the supervisor who he was.

 

"That's Jim, he's...er...he's...he has a position within the company."

 

I never did find out what his job was.

 

We have an office imbecile, who's only function appears to be to make the rest of the staff look good. He's also rather annoying, but that does mean I'll never have to work in the same office as him because I told the boss next time he annoyed me I'd just knock the cunt out.

[Guest Hooli]

I got both my daughters to drive on the M4 on they days they passed their tests, both are now very comfortable at motorway speeds (and then some in the case of my younger one...)

 

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I've never understood why people claim motorways are so different to normal roads. It's easier than a dual cabbageway due to no tractors/pushbikes etc

[MrDuke]

Yep- assume everyone else is a homicidal lunatic out to get you. Whenever I've gone out my mum always said "lookout for the idiots" - and she doesn't even drive.

 

She probably wasn't referring solely to driving - sounds like pretty good general life advice.

 

 

In other grumps, Ph****ucket ex-links. Moderately annoying when browsing through threads for amusement, seriously irritating when reading a specific thread which contains important pictorial information. Right-click to view the original image, and they politely demand that I turn off my adblocker. Looking at the icon, I see that the block counter is currently at 23. Er, yeah....

[Cheggers]

Yup, safest roads you'll ever drive on...nobody coming the other way (hopefully)

 

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[anonymous user]

When I started my last job my new supervisor took me to the canteen to go through the induction process. A portly, ruddy-cheeked gentleman came in to use the vending machine. When he left again I asked the supervisor who he was.

 

"That's Jim, he's...er...he's...he has a position within the company."

 

I never did find out what his job was.

In a former place of employment we had the corridor warrior, a chap who was always seen walking briskly whilst carrying a clipboard or piece of paper. Never actually saw him land anywhere.

[Guest Hooli]

In a former place of employment we had the corridor warrior, a chap who was always seen walking briskly whilst carrying a clipboard or piece of paper. Never actually saw him land anywhere.

 

Which reminds me of another idiot at work who is only ever missing from his desk & no-one knows where he goes. He's known as the littlest hobo & seems to dislike the theme being played when he does occasionally come back to his own office.

[richardmorris]

The first place I worked at in Llandudno there was a guy who bragged that he'd worked in every department - yes because he kept being pushed on to the next gullible manager once it was realised what he was like.

There's one in every big company- knows exactly how little to do, and what benefits and rights to claim.

[mercrocker]

In a former place of employment we had the corridor warrior, a chap who was always seen walking briskly whilst carrying a clipboard or piece of paper. Never actually saw him land anywhere.

 

At my last place that was known as "Frazer-ing" after a bloke who was past master at it.   He actually told me once that as long as you were carrying a document folder, clip-board or A4 notepad and looked like you were on a mission nobody would ever question it.    

 

He used to just fuck off for an afternoon - but when he did so he always made sure he bought a packet of biscuits which he would offer selected members of staff who could then be relied upon to say "Oh yeah, Frazer was definitely here today - he bought the biscuits...."    

 

Last heard of running a branch office in some African back-water if I recall....

[Guest Hooli]

There's one in every big company- knows exactly how little to do, and what benefits and rights to claim.

 

Always a union member too in my experience, it's the only way they keep their job.