The grumpy thread

[wuvvum]

^ I did that, for the questions which required some thought / prose and weren't just ticking boxes or name & address etc.  Good job too - I'd have been right pissed off if I'd lost my painstakingly created answer to the "why should we employ you" question, I'd been agonising about that one all week (my answer was still probably shite mind).

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

Job application forms, again.  Finally managed to cobble together some sort of answer to the smeg-awful questions they ask.  Then wanted to go back to the first page of the form to check one of the fields - which was fine, except it then subsequently "forgot" everything I'd filled in on the following pages.  Clicked out of it then logged back in, but that didn't bring my previous answers back, so started filling everything back in again, clicking through the pages, and it turned out the application form was now completely different to when I first started filling it in.

 

Eventually got to the end, clicked "submit", and got the page I'd seen before saying "Your application has been saved, click here to return to it".  So I thought "FFS, has it submitted or not?".  Clicked on the "return to application" button and it took me to a blank page in the form, which the numbering informed me was page 9 of 8.  Clicked "next" and landed on page 10 of 9. 

 

Also there was a superfluous apostrophe in the job title.

 

It's a large, well-known and reputable company, so I'm putting the application glitches down to "Because HR".  And hoping the form has submitted OK...

 

 

EDIT:  FFS again - just been to my profile page on the company's website and it says I have one partially completed application, which is 160% complete.

 

You could always screen grab the fuck ups and email them - HR or an actual bod if you can get a name - and offer to do QA on their recruitment process/doc's as they seem to use an inadequate system...... another job opportunity of your own making!!!

 

EDIT - FOR - Good luck with the app too of course.......

[Lord Sterling]

GAH! Standing at the bus stop next to the train station in Kidderminster, what do in spot coming down the road before I could whip out my camera? An early mk2 Rover 800, couldn't even get a snap. Kidderminster is a fucking shit place for me to snap a picture of Rover 800s, they're always too far away or my camera is too slow

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

Work loo's ........ OK - this may seem weird........

 

Why is it 'colleagues' who seem perfectly suitable and presentable excuses for human beings can leave the ablutions in the same state as if they've been transplanted directly from Aleppo' in all their war torn glory....?

I find it impossible to even contemplate that they can leave their own place in such a state - so where/what is the mental switch that exists to have your fellow workers have to deal with the disgusting crap* they leave behind?

 

Worse than that (for me) is the ignorant prick who decides the roll next to him is not good enough and leaves his damn nose detritus all over the back of the fucking door!!!!  Jesus wept!

 

I truelly feel sorry for the poor sods who have to go around cleaning up after these absolute trolls....... I do wish i could avoid using the damn loo at all here - but I've found that in every single  office place I've worked in.

 

Strange one I'm sure - sorry........... but the nose crap all over the back of the door really pissed me off earlier.

[wuvvum]

Kidderminster is a fucking shit place for me to snap a picture of Rover 800s, they're always too far away or my camera is too slow

Sentences you will only read on Autoshite # 12743

[LostnotFound]

Nowt wrong with a bog moan, work toilets are often grim.

 

Of course when you're office is a train then you can play the one upmanship game. No matter how little respect colleagues have for facilities the general public will always top it. How these people are allowed to roam free in society I'll never know.

[Anthony]

Of course when you're office is a train then you can play the one upmanship game. No matter how little respect colleagues have for facilities the general public will always top it. How these people are allowed to roam free in society I'll never know.

A friend of mine used to work in maintenance for one of the major rail companies - some of the stories he told (and occasionally, pictures showed) really did make me question what sort of "people" (and I use that term loosely) there are out there and what sort of upbringing they had. On numerous occasions they'd had reports and had to deal with the result of people that had just dropped their drawers and taken a s**t in the middle of the carriage, let alone the scenes of utter deprivation that had been found in the toilets...

[tooSavvy]

How these people are allowed to roam free in society I'll never know.

 

"There's no such thing as Society toilet paper"

 

Margaret Thatcher

 

 

TS

[Cavcraft]

That sounds like borderline psychological abuse to me

I bought both my kids a Corsa.

[chaseracer]

Billeh, you evil BASTAAAD!!

 

[eddyramrod]

Work loo's ........  (etc, all totally valid)

You want to try being the go-to relief driver on a fleet of multi-drop vans and wagons.  If I was told someone hadn't turned in (which happened often, for a variety of reasons) and I would be covering his round, the first thing I did was fetch the cleaning kit from my car, because I knew beyond all doubt what the next half-hour would entail.  How these people lived in these cabs for 12 hours a day I can't even imagine, and I write fiction!

[Louise2cv]

Bloody OH has won us a parking ticket. 

 

He put the wrong reg letters in and upon realising, asked an attendent who said, just keep your ticket and appeal. Great stuff.

 

Except the appeal has failed. The company say its up to him to put the right number in and we didn't ring them for advice so get f*****.

 

ANNOYING! 

[Pillock]

Nowt wrong with a bog moan, work toilets are often grim.

 

Of course when you're office is a train then you can play the one upmanship game. No matter how little respect colleagues have for facilities the general public will always top it. How these people are allowed to roam free in society I'll never know.

I used to have to lock up an office/workshop building and check the bogs etc before leaving.

The lasses loos were after far grimmer than the blokes. Not sure how. Less bogies etc but they seemed far happier to leave massive turds behind.

[vulgalour]

I learned in my far-more-goth days in the later 90s early 00s that the only thing better in women's loos at a club was that the mirrors were usually intact.  It was baffling the state the place was in just an hour or so after opening for the evening.

 

What was I doing in the women's loos?  I needed a mirror to fix my makeup.  Because goth.  And all the other guys were doing the same.  And the women were okay with it.  The gents and ladies signs seem to indicate where to find a mirror much more than which gender was in which room.

[Louise2cv]

Ladies bogs are the worst. It makes me ashamed to be female and question why anyone would call us the fairer sex. 

 

I do not know what drives people to behave the way they do and why on earth you would want to hang around in these grim poo stained places for anything more than a desperate wee,  surely it takes time to break the seats and door locks off?

 

 

Gross gross gross.

[gordonbennet]

Ladies R vandals too?

Never thought that would be the case, seriously.

 

I ended up in the ladies at East Midland airport by mistake, when it was a smaller airport, just unloaded 10 rental cars and with me smock pockets bulging with keys shot off into the  terminal to find the rental desk, desperate for a number two, as i go into the terminal utter joy theres the bog straight in front, dive in straight in a trap and utter relief..

 

Thought how nice the loo was and it smelled quite pleasant, then i spotted the dustbin beside the pan..uh oh, penny dropped, arrrgh.

Sneaked out with me clip board and pen making notes about bugger all checking lights and fittings as i made me escape..nearly got away with it but a lovely lady was sitting on a bench outside and smiled knowingly at me but kept schtum, she was probably warming her hands on the heat from me face.

Luckily no rozzers about, singed up at the rental desk imagining all sorts of scenarios, and made me escape sharpish.

[OwdChina]

Same in the USA. I do use a lot of bars (surprise surprise) and the constant grumble with bar staff here is if they are the ones to lock up at night then part of the job is to tidy up and mop the bogs out etc. before leaving...... 95% of bar staff is women and the next day the rants and hissing and spitting about the state of the womens bogs is quite astounding...........(afternoon drinker me) 

[Timewaster]

Strangely our local boozer has the most exquisite ladies loos.

I think it was the only bit the landlords wife was allowed a opinion on when they refurbed.

Big lit mirrors, posh light fittings and outlandish wallpaper.

 

How do I know?

 

Facebook is always full of pissed girls selfies on a Friday night.

 

WHY TAKE PICTURES IN THE BOG?!

 

Try that in the "gents" and expect to get pummeled!

[cort16]

They recon that once a company reaches around 70 staff you can expect one dirty protest every few years. Someone losing the plot and smearing shit all over the bog walls or taking a dump in the communal kitchen cutlery drawer.

[andy18s]

Nowt wrong with a bog moan, work toilets are often grim.

 

Of course when you're office is a train then you can play the one upmanship game. No matter how little respect colleagues have for facilities the general public will always top it. How these people are allowed to roam free in society I'll never know.

As a welder I worked in a place where a new guy turned down his new job once he saw the facilities the shop floor used

Nothing drastically bad but he took exception to the floater a kind soul had left behind....

[clayts450]

We had a phantom nose flicker in our office who'd leave his nose poos all over the walls. Funnily enough the bloke who used to send out emails advising us chaps not to do it left our employment and it stopped thereafter.

[Cavcraft]

I honestly cannot even begin to think how much of an absolute wanker you'd have to be smear your excrement round toilet walls, etc. One of the girls at work had to clean a portacabin once after someone did that. I think if I caught someone doing it, I'd get some gloves then clean it up using their head as a mop.

[purplebargeken]

Shop bogs are the horror you can imagine. 

 

Flush the fucking toilets you cunts.

[Captain Furious]

Bogs at work have no urinals, always thought it was a bit odd but recently discovered it’s so they are ‘gender neutral’

 

Way ahead of the curve us, bet identifying as a woman won’t wash when I get caught having a shit in the ladies. Again.

[omegod]

Bog stories: 

 

I used to work in a detox unit and we had a rather posh female in who decided to discharge herself, upon cleaning her room out she had also discharged the most exquisite coiled brown cobra in the waste paper basket, charming !  

 

My workplace had someone who thought the wall surrounding the urinal was a bogie dartboard, turned out when a person of a certain faith, who loudly proclaimed to be living the cleanest, sin free life possible left, the darts stopped.

 

My wife's work has always had a phantom shitter who leaves yule logs of unbelievable proportions, actually every work she has been in has the same, I wonder if it's actually her ?

 

After 4 days on the lash in Cologne me and a mate both had all the signs of impending belly doom when entering the airport, racing to the bog we found two outer cubicles of 3 to be empty and swiftly unleashed an explosive,foul torrent of rankness that only 4 days of beer and kebabs can produce, the poor guy in the middle cubicle was heard to whimper " Mein Gott" and then started retching     . Still makes me laugh years later 

[M'coli]

At my secondary school the main stairs in one building of 4 floors looked out over the hall and the school offices, including the headteacher's office. Being a 1960s building they all had flat roofs, withthose strange pyramidal skylights.

One Monday morning we disgorged from registration and took to the stairs, looked down on the other buildings and the playground to see that someone had climbed up onto the office roof and emptied their back on the Head's skylight.

[tooSavvy]

Troo storiez

 

Yesterday, coming home from Carlisle, we stopped at Tesco Hexham for lunch....

 

Anklebiter shoots off to the ladies, returns 5 mins later.

SWMBO now shoots off to the ladies, returns a few minutes later (giggling!!)

 

.. SWMBO had arrived in bog just as a little girl [accompanied by her Mam] declared, gasping, "I'm not going in that one - its STINKING!"

 

Yupp... Seat was still warm - oh how we all laughed (err.. Looked embarrassed).

 

 

TS

[Lord Sterling]

Work situation *may* have taken a turn for the worse. Mind, I keep being told that I should change.

[xtriple]

Rust.

 

A spot of the dreaded stuff has appeared on the Bentley, bottom of the passenger side wing. Quite a BIG spot to be honest. I am gutted, which is sad and pathetic as I am a grown man and it is, in the grand scheme of things, a very minor thing, but I am indeed. distraught.

 

Do I get it fixed now or wait and see if it gets any worse? It obviously ain't going to get any better! I'm not sure that keeping cars in the damp garage is good for them, but I did get the Mazda fixed, so 1 up, 1 down!

 

Oh, the fucking dog was a twat today: buggered off and wouldn't come back, Phoebe was dragging around as well as her legs were playing up and so I left the twat to get on with it! I'm sure I would have gone and got him eventually. Pretty sure.... Oh yes, and pain. It is getting to the point where the slightest activity is killing me. So tired and in pain after the slightest exertion I lose all sense of humour and perspective. Kids were out and about and were driving me insane with the fucking noise and I ended up driving like an utter twat as EVERYTHING was annoying me, full use of 7 litre turbocharged engine results in darkies all over the place (trac off) and rapid assent of hills and lots of bullying (by me).

 

Tired and sick, what a fucking life!

[sheffcortinacentre]

When I worked for the local bus co you'd be amazed at what people ( I use the term loosely) would do on them Inc curl one out.