The grumpy thread

[Bobthebeard]

I really wouldn't bother with it any more Mr. B.   Keep all the information in a file just in case but ignore her and try to move on.   Did you get a reference no. or correspondence from Trading Standards? Keep all that stuff but no further action on your part.   It's very frustrating but you'll never win, involving solicitors will just cost you money for no real gain.

Sound advice. Yes, I have a reference number from Trading Standards plus the verbal assurance of the chap I spoke to that they are going no further with this. Frustrating indeed, but I guess I will just have to take the accusations on the chin. As you say.

[scaryoldcortina]

Yeah, file under "ignore" but if you get a court summons turn up and argue the toss. She probably won the previous cases because the other side didn't show.

 

 

FWIW I just got an angry text from focus woman saying that the lack of a car is causing her SERIOUS INCONVENIENCE and she's thinking of suing me for compensation. I'm thinking of taking a shit under the back seat before I hand the car over.

[mercrocker]

Bit of hake up by the heater matrix used to do the trick at the BL garage (there was a fishmonger across the road....)   Don't suppose you can get to them these days (heater matrices or hake)

[Bobthebeard]

Having had a further conversation with Trading Standards this woman is firmly on the "ignore " list. They have cleared me completely of any wrongdoing thankfully.

[Cavcraft]

I wouldn’t bother with any legal red tape, nor a 1,080 word limit.

Just get toosavvy to dictate a reply to Hairnet over a phone on the ‘3’ network in the middle of the Irish Sea during a force 93 gale.

[Supernaut]

I wouldn’t bother with any legal red tape, nor a 1,080 word limit.

Just get toosavvy to dictate a reply to Hairnet over a phone on the ‘3’ network in the middle of the Irish Sea during a force 93 gale.

I think there's a clause in the Geneva convention about that kind of torture.

[loserone]

Yeah, file under "ignore" but if you get a court summons turn up and argue the toss. She probably won the previous cases because the other side didn't show.

 

 

FWIW I just got an angry text from focus woman saying that the lack of a car is causing her SERIOUS INCONVENIENCE and she's thinking of suing me for compensation. I'm thinking of taking a shit under the back seat before I hand the car over.

Pint of milk in the rear carpet less obvious and just as effective in a week's time

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Keep us posted on this Focus saga Scary, its most enjoyable for us outsiders who are not having to deal with these ludicrous people.

[loserone]

You should hear about his other ludicrous customers. There's one who's dumped two fucked cars on him and has been rallying round in his favourite car for four months. And then he has the cheek to dump fucked bits of 1950s tricycles on him as well.

[Bren]

Yeah, file under "ignore" but if you get a court summons turn up and argue the toss. She probably won the previous cases because the other side didn't show.

 

 

FWIW I just got an angry text from focus woman saying that the lack of a car is causing her SERIOUS INCONVENIENCE and she's thinking of suing me for compensation. I'm thinking of taking a shit under the back seat before I hand the car over.

You're very optimistic - there's probably no metal under the back seat....

[DodgeRover]

I think it's silly season ATM had a neighbour of a customer complain about me the other day to the boss of the company I was working for. Allegedly blocking the shared driveway for hours at a time, being confrontational, leaving concrete on the driveway etc.

 

<caution possibly rant ahead>

 

What I did was asked nicely if someone has given them permission to fill our skip with their shit as at £300 a time we need to get the most out of every one and they can take their stuff to the tip 1 mile away for free. Obviously nobody had so I took it back out and said if there was space at the end of the job it could go on otherwise they needed to get rid.

 

Luckily my dashcam runs all day so I could give exact times I was in the driveway and we had gone to absolute pains to cover the sodding driveway with plastic sheeting and ply - which the client had seen.

 

Having been the last one to leave as I had spent an extra half hour cleaning and tidying I told my boss exactly what I thought and what he could tell them.

Anyway the clients are absolutely lovely and know they've unfortunately bought at house next to the neighbourhood fruit loop.

[DodgeRover]

Yeah, file under "ignore" but if you get a court summons turn up and argue the toss. She probably won the previous cases because the other side didn't show.

 

 

FWIW I just got an angry text from focus woman saying that the lack of a car is causing her SERIOUS INCONVENIENCE and she's thinking of suing me for compensation. I'm thinking of taking a shit under the back seat before I hand the car over.

Text back saying storage is £30 a day backdated?

[Timewaster]

One of our colleagues has parked his van in the same place for 23 years without a problem, all of a sudden we had 4 complaints to head office in a fortnight, tweeted pictures of him allegedly throwing rubbish out the van window (no evidence in the picture).

No idea why. He is such a quiet bloke who wouldn't say boo to a goose.

 

Some people are shit.

[Kiltox]

Yeah, file under "ignore" but if you get a court summons turn up and argue the toss. She probably won the previous cases because the other side didn't show.

 

 

FWIW I just got an angry text from focus woman saying that the lack of a car is causing her SERIOUS INCONVENIENCE and she's thinking of suing me for compensation. I'm thinking of taking a shit under the back seat before I hand the car over.

What an absolute fucking weapons grade stroker.

[The Moog]

Bit of hake up by the heater matrix used to do the trick at the BL garage (there was a fishmonger across the road....) Don't suppose you can get to them these days (heater matrices or hake)

Listening to a podcast this week about what Gazza used to get up.

 

Apparently he was injured and wasn't playing so ended up nicking the keys to one of the other players cars.

 

He went and bought a couple of fish. When questioned as to why he got two..."well when he finds the first he thinks he has solved it.... Silly fucker"

[richardmorris]

Never done it before so have no experience of such things... Apart from the obvious, what exactly is a solicitor's letter?

Also I assume it would cost me more than the daft old bat is claiming that I owe her.....

It may be an expense you don't want. But we at work have recently joined the FSB. I think it's about £60 a year, if you're a one man band, and has benefits including free legal expenses and helpline etc. plus lots of online legal advice and template letters and contracts. Health cover and hmrc inspection insurance plus jury duty money.

[OwdChina]

 But we at work have recently joined the FSB.

???????

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Ha!!!!! That will certainly stop any awkward court interventions

[DodgeRover]

FSB? Russian secret police department? do they do private work.

[richardmorris]

???????

Federation of small businesses. FSB.org.uk

[richardmorris]

Ha!!!!! That will certainly stop any awkward court interventions

 

I think you're imagining the East German SSD.

[richardmorris]

To be fair, this woman seems to be in the early stages of dementia. I'm only a chemist but it doesn't seem normal to request work, pay for it once completed and then threaten to sue you because you haven't turned up.

 

We joined the Stasi ( FSB) as we had a new customer refuse to pay two years ago -ignored all contact by letter but were ok on the phone. Six months went by and we used STA debt recovery, who were basically useless. Eventually went to lawyers to start court action, but despite being over £15,000 we couldn't afford to proceed. Chances of loosing ( no signed contracts) and two to three weeks off work for count dates was more costly that giving up. Now we've joined the federation then we have access to legal advice free of charge, and not at the £400 an hour that I paid last year!

[cobblers]

Today at work we had a dashboard off a Volvo truck come back in "under warranty" a week after we fixed it with a note clearly written by an old boy:

"You repaired this dashboard last week and it was only on the truck for one day and all the needles have fallen off"

 

All the needles fallen off? Pull the other one mate, not even if the truck had square wheels!

I know exactly what he's done - balked at paying us £250 to fix the thing (new ones are £1400!) and just couldn't resist being nosey and taking it to bits to have a look to see what we'd done, then realised you can't get the needles back on in the right place without the test jig that we've spent a great deal of time making. You could see the marks on the facia where he'd used a fork to pry them off and everything! Then he put it all back together as best he could and claimed they "fell off". All the screws were rounded off too cos clearly a t10 torx is not something he'd own.

[cobblers]

Whereabouts are you looking? we've seen a couple down in Surrey/ Sussex with a decent sized plot but they've sold really quickly.

 

About a 30 mile radius of Chesterfield, which is what holds us back really. We could probably get what we want in North Yorkshire (which is somewhere we'd much rather live), but I'm stuck working where I do as it's a pretty specialised industry and I can't really just get another job somewhere else.

 

The only real alternative is to set up on my own doing something, but it's a big undertaking and I've not got the savings or cohones for that really.

[beko1987]

Today at work we had a dashboard off a Volvo truck come back in "under warranty" a week after we fixed it with a note clearly written by an old boy:

"You repaired this dashboard last week and it was only on the truck for one day and all the needles have fallen off"

 

All the needles fallen off? Pull the other one mate, not even if the truck had square wheels!

I know exactly what he's done - balked at paying us £250 to fix the thing (new ones are £1400!) and just couldn't resist being nosey and taking it to bits to have a look to see what we'd done, then realised you can't get the needles back on in the right place without the test jig that we've spent a great deal of time making. You could see the marks on the facia where he'd used a fork to pry them off and everything! Then he put it all back together as best he could and claimed they "fell off". All the screws were rounded off too cos clearly a t10 torx is not something he'd own.

Hope there's another £250 invoice heading his way?

[captain_70s]

 

A comparison between the yearly cost of insuring the Civic and the Doloshite, no changes between policies bar the car itself. Presumably they think that I'm going to be using the Civic in a fucking demolition derby. Not pictured is the fact that the Triumph also has a £50 compulsory excess rather than the £300+ of the Honda quotes.

 

No wonder so many people don't bother to insure their fucking cars...

[Bianconeri]

Maybe making sense of the application form is part of the whole process?

(insert smiley faces)

About 15 years ago I was head hunted as a Director of a medium-sized technology company. All agreed and in writing, except that I kept getting calls from the ‘HR Manager’ to the effect that I had to apply throught the (rudimentary) online system as that was ‘the process’. I let this run and run until I joined, next time she called I invited her to meet me to discuss HR’s role as an ADVISORY function that is supposed to support the effective running of the company.

 

One of about 100 things that needed to be sorted in a process-obsessed buck-passing organisation full of people putting 90% of their time and effort into defining what they WEREN’T going to do.

[cobblers]

Hope there's another £250 invoice heading his way?

Nah, it took about 10 minutes to put right so there's no sense mithering really. It went back with a load of very obvious tamper evident stickers all over it though

[DodgeRover]

Ah, you'd be in competition with my sister then there's a house with 5 acres in Renishaw on the market for a vastly inflated price but I remember asking the owners years ago if we could rent the fields for grazing and they said they daren't have any stock in the fields because of the kids in the area

Nothing about in the Hope area with permission to turn it into a house?

 

About a 30 mile radius of Chesterfield, which is what holds us back really. We could probably get what we want in North Yorkshire (which is somewhere we'd much rather live), but I'm stuck working where I do as it's a pretty specialised industry and I can't really just get another job somewhere else.

 

The only real alternative is to set up on my own doing something, but it's a big undertaking and I've not got the savings or cohones for that really.

[cobblers]

There's nowt on rightmove etc, but as someone said earlier in the thread, by the time something goes on rightmove/zoopla etc, it's probably too late. I'm trying to get a foot in with some estate agents, even for somewhere to rent for a few years.

 

There's fields here and there which are perfect and we could afford to buy them, but it's all greenfield stuff so even chucking a static caravan on them would be on borrowed time. I could deal with no water/gas/electric, but it's only a matter of time until you get kicked off. Thees fairy tale hidden plots aren't going to stay hidden when two of you have to come and go every day for work.