The grumpy thread

[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.

[Alfamale]

There's a field to rent on the back road into Killamarsh. Just after Spinkhill on the road I call the three bumps if this makes any sense. Been advertised for a while and might be worth a drive past to have a nosey. There's a load of houses planned to be built up there so may set a presecident for planning in future.

 

https://goo.gl/maps/J5fRhxtV3y72

[DodgeRover]

Round that way the old railway line up to the tunnel from the Spinkhill side would make a good place for an illegal rave a secretive house building project, if you sorted the drainage that tunnel is mainly dry and you could store no end of cars in there.....

[Alfamale]

Perfect, I'll go halves with you as that line runs about 50 yards from Alfamale Towers and old tunnel entrance isn't much further away. Hoping they refill the canal as that runs along my back garden, can't wait to moor up some boat shite outside my gaffe.

[DodgeRover]

I actually tried to buy the line about 20 years ago......unfortunately it had already been disposed of by that point, i think BR/ Network rail or whoever still have the responsibility for maintaining the tunnel and bridge over it. The portal at the Spinkhill end has been blocked with huge concrete lego blocks to stop easy access unfortunately. It was bone dry other than where it had been dug out to prevent access and in good condition the last time I went through, we could never find the rumoured secret passage upto mount St. Mary's though.

 

A mate put his first car end over end seeing how far he could jump going over that bridge, unfortunately he wasn't 17 yet when he did it and he had to ring either his dad or his dads mate to get it dragged away sharpish.

[Lankytim]

Today’s 3am start was cancelled at midnight. It’s supposed to be “peak period” building up for Christmas but there’s lorry drivers being let down right left and centre round here. First time ive been blown out in a while though.

 

Royal Mail in Coventry are meant to be paying mega money for lorry drivers, plus paying for a travel lodge to stay in during the week AND paying a grand “project completion bonus” if you stay there until Christmas. It means working away during the week but if the £££ is good.....

[DodgeRover]

Today’s 3am start was cancelled at midnight. It’s supposed to be “peak period” building up for Christmas but there’s lorry drivers being let down right left and centre round here. First time ive been blown out in a while though.

 

Royal Mail in Coventry are meant to be paying mega money for lorry drivers, plus paying for a travel lodge to stay in during the week AND paying a grand “project completion bonus” if you stay there until Christmas. It means working away during the week but if the £££ is good.....

Are you anywhere near Lincolnshire?

[xtriple]

Ill again.   So sick of this it's untrue. In fact, I had an appointment with the Doc yesterday but had to cancel... 'cos I was too ill to get there! I am going to go today if it kills me, left arm dead as a dodo, back screaming and fatigue like you would not believe: do anything and I am exhausted, also my temperature is all over the place, when I get tired, I am freezing cold and shiver so much...

 

Think I'm done for.

[tooSavvy]

^^^ there's an apocalyptic film, old one iirc 'on the beach'.

 

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Beach_(1959_film)

 

 

Nuclear winter encroaching OZ, from the North!

 

Aneehoo... A guy just decides 'fuck it!' and goes in the garage.. fires up his E-type and goes to sleep @6000.

 

 

.... just a thought :/

 

 

 

TS

[Cheggers]

The challenge on here would be finding a car which would run for long enough to see you off

 

 

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[chaseracer]

The BGD's been trying for some time, one way or another! 

 

GWS, David.

[DodgeRover]

Ill again. So sick of this it's untrue. In fact, I had an appointment with the Doc yesterday but had to cancel... 'cos I was too ill to get there! I am going to go today if it kills me, left arm dead as a dodo, back screaming and fatigue like you would not believe: do anything and I am exhausted, also my temperature is all over the place, when I get tired, I am freezing cold and shiver so much...

 

Think I'm done for.

Hope the Drs can find a cause and offer some respite