The grumpy thread

[New POD]

So today I had said interview. I am grumpy because I am waiting to find out, and I want to know.

[myglaren]

With great difficulty managed to report a boiler fault last Thursday - water pouring out of it.

It had only been repaired ten days previously and left pretty much in bits.

 

My son tried to report it but they wouldn't accept it from him.

I spent ages on the phone in their stupid queueing system and never managed to speak to anyone - made more difficult as we are prohibited from using phones at work.

Managed to speak to a proper person who agreed to pass on the repair request. She left a voicemail to say they would be there later that day or the following morning.

Son on night shift stayed up waiting but no-one showed.  Boiler mostly stopped leaking by that evening but leaks intermittently now.

They came yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon while son was asleep - no indication that they were coming.

Damned thing can leak until after Christmas now.

[eddyramrod]

Yeah, I understand that, Mr POD.  I've been the same all day over Memphis while she's been at the vet for some dental work.  Kept having visions of them calling and saying "oh, errrrrr..... Mr Rafter..... about your dog..."  Fortunately I've got her back in one piece, more or less, if minus a few teeth, and she is now snuggled up on my leg.

[BorniteIdentity]

Hence the 'conference' presumably. Use an hour our two of unnecessary training to justify the travel food and accommodation, the actual party is only the evening do.

 

Excuse my ignorance, but why would there be? If you’re not claiming it as a business expense, and you’re a private limited company, it matters not. Right? Or am I blissfully naive?!

 

I imagine they are claiming some of it, and I’m certain a lot of the drink is generously paid for by the CEO himself.

 

I’d never thought of all this!

[SiC]

Excuse my ignorance, but why would there be? If you’re not claiming it as a business expense, and you’re a private limited company, it matters not. Right? Or am I blissfully naive?!

 

I imagine they are claiming some of it, and I’m certain a lot of the drink is generously paid for by the CEO himself.

 

I’d never thought of all this!

There is tax benefits by keeping it under £150.

 

https://www.gov.uk/expenses-benefits-social-functions-parties

 

Going over it becomes more of a staff perk and tax is eligible on it.

 

Basically (being tax, there is more to it too).

[New POD]

Hence the 'conference' presumably. Use an hour our two of unnecessary training to justify the travel food and accommodation, the actual party is only the evening do.

 

The American's do international conferences at Disney in the summer, and staff take their families, who get in free as part of the conference price.   

My boss went to one, to present jointly with a UK university professor about some research I had managed to get some PHD engineering students to complete. (I was their industrial contact and provided guidance which involved saying, "For fucksake, your professor is going to kill you if you don't stop pissing around" )  Eventually they achieved something and the bosses got the jolly.

My boss was amazed at the whole set up.  He was the sort that kept away from anything that looked like fun, although the Professor was not and  "missed" his connecting flight at JFK and "had" to spend the weekend in New York all on his own on expenses.

[omegod]

A virus is working it's way mercilessly through my system, throat like razors , sinuses smell like lamb stew , moderately dillusional and everything hurts like I am being mugged slowly. I have decided to try and kill said virus with a full bottle of Mount Gay Rum and have booked a days leave tommorrow.  I apologise for nothing that may be posted over the next few hours, at best I may have been brutally honest with one or two, at worst i may own a fucked 5 grand Rolls Royce, so it will be and I wish myself godspeed with flagrant disregard for anyone else. 

[SiC]

at worst i may own a fucked 5 grand Rolls Royce, so it will be and I wish myself godspeed with flagrant disregard for anyone else.

I'll just leave this link here then:

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F382272878571

[Kiltox]

A virus is working it's way mercilessly through my system, throat like razors , sinuses smell like lamb stew , moderately dillusional and everything hurts like I am being mugged slowly. I have decided to try and kill said virus with a full bottle of Mount Gay Rum and have booked a days leave tommorrow. I apologise for nothing that may be posted over the next few hours, at best I may have been brutally honest with one or two, at worst i may own a fucked 5 grand Rolls Royce, so it will be and I wish myself godspeed with flagrant disregard for anyone else.

Can report that this fixes said condition for 8-12 hours but it comes back harder when you sober up. Stay drunk.

[r.welfare]

Nice stuff though that Mount Gay.

[panhard65]

Did someone say they wanted to buy a fucked Rolls Royce for 5 grand ? I think I can help and you might even get change.

[omegod]

Can report that this fixes said condition for 8-12 hours but it comes back harder when you sober up. Stay drunk.

 

OK which of you shoved barbed wire down my throat whilst I was comatose, I didn't buy a roller but have promised to buy an Omega off a church organist in Yorkshire 

[BavarianRetro]

Seamaster? Aqua Terre?

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Against my better judgment I got dragged to a Christmas thing at The Albert Hall last night, the best bit of which was Jona Louie being too pissed to do his only hit properly.

That's not the grump though, neither is having to eat at some ghastly chain Italian place , because it was all we could find open at 5pm.

Having to pay £9.00 for 1 1/2 hours on a meter in Kensington isn't the grump either.

 

No, the grump is the cunt in a white Porsche Cayenne that managed to hit the corner of the Volvo and then , of course, just fucked off!

 

To make me even angrier , we were sitting in the window of said chain Italian gaff and I saw the Cayenne leave the space, Mrs N thinks it's better I didn't see him do it as I'd have spent the night in a cell rather than the concert- I'm not that sure it would have been worse.

 

I'll photographically document before and after T-Cut and tears.

[omegod]

Seamaster? Aqua Terre?

 

 

Even better...Vauxhall 

[DodgeRover]

Caution sweary rant

 

Fucking school

Fucking part time teachers

Fucking TAs teaching the classes thinking they are god.

Fucking making shit up to cover their backs when witnesses say different

Fucking not following through on what they've said.

Fucking up my child's time at school and basically writing him off and washing their hands.

Christ we need to move out of the area.

 

Rant ends sorry

[sierraman]

OK which of you shoved barbed wire down my throat whilst I was comatose, I didn't buy a roller but have promised to buy an Omega off a church organist in Yorkshire

You’ve got my sympathies, I’m in agony with it as well.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Before

After

 

It's worse than I thought, not just a bit of paint, the bumper is distorted and cracked.

Probably repairable, but the fact it costs at least £200 whenever a spray gun is fired up it might be as cheap to get a bumper- no shortage of silver V70s around!

[chaseracer]

Caution sweary rant

 

Fucking school

Fucking part time teachers

Fucking TAs teaching the classes thinking they are god.

Fucking making shit up to cover their backs when witnesses say different

Fucking not following through on what they've said.

Fucking up my child's time at school and basically writing him off and washing their hands.

Christ we need to move out of the area.

 

Rant ends sorry

 

Where are you?  How old's SPROG_ROVER?  What's the issue?

 

PM me - I've been through this.

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

ME a week ago - hey, internal bods, the laptop is fucked......... look - a video of random mouse/other actions......

Day later - BODS - I'm fucked - I can't do anything and have just committed code that is in no way OK - it went mental on me.............

 

Week later (this morning) - Fuck this - hey Director, I'm stuck - you won't get the service patch in time as I've been stymied with a fucked laptop and no co-operation

 

NOW - thanks for the laptop guys - where's all the software required?

Install yourself

Me - can you give me admin rights then so I can get it done and crack on

Log a ticket and we'll see what we can do

Me - Fuck you, I'm scanning Autoshite and then fucking off for the weekend........... you explain it to the MD!

 

Jesus wept..........

[puddlethumper]

Yesterday, M40, chucking it down Caroline style. I'm down to, what I consider, a safe 55. Overtaking a truck, totally blind for what seems like ages.

Loads still doing 80 in lane 3.

A light grey Bmw Tourer with a 50 ish white shirt bloke came passed with no bloody lights on. Absolute dick on a stick. 

Others with those DRL's and eff all else, or on sidelights. FFS. A meatball has more brains.

[Cavcraft]

We've had this before, it's because the dash lights are on so people think or assume their headlights are.

[Noel Tidybeard]

We've had this before, it's because the dash lights are on so people think or assume their headlights are.

 

this is one thing VW got right on the '11 olop- there is a light sensor on the speedo which puts the dash lights out at night so you cant see owt until you put lights on

[alcyonecorporation]

Worst fucking week I've had in a while. 

I'm off to clear my head. 

If you need to get hold of me, ask chaseracer to ping me and I'll log back in. 
Have a nice weekend. 

[DeeJay]

I didn't buy a roller but have promised to buy an Omega off a church organist in Yorkshire 

 

I don't know why but that sounds like a euphemism for something that's going to make you walk like John Wayne. 

[clayts450]

Bollox, just got distracted on bidding for a Badermatic 216 Sli and missed it by a few quid...some lucky shit just got it for £176

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/112670695918?_trksid=p2471758.m4703

[omegod]

I don't know why but that sounds like a euphemism for something that's going to make you walk like John Wayne. 

 

I'll walk like John Wayne when the wife finds out she's driving me to Harrogate around new years eve to pick up an MOT'less barge of an Omega

[cobblers]

"All I want for Christmas is you to get out of my fucking way and let me get on with my day to day life without having the shops and roads snarled up by crowds of morons."

[beko1987]

I'm out in Marlow. Started my drinking career here. Now it's bollocks. Spent so long waiting in the pub everyone is in I've gone somewhere else for a pint...

[clayts450]

Bloody office party season innit - stay well away from town centres me, stick to locals.

 

Bah humbug