The grumpy thread

30,933 · December 7, 2017

Drinking a large coffee too soon before home time at work. At least I am now in a Class 156 so the Cummins N14 will (hopefully) speed me onwards to the station where the restroom had better be unoccupied!

12,443 · December 7, 2017

Central Heating failed today, been resetting it for a fortnight, but its kaput now.

Luckily have a gas fire to sit round until the man from Corgi turns up.

Hope he is better than the last one.

26,129 · December 7, 2017

I'm doing some overtime this evening, it seems.

Lunchtime: "Hi, can we arrange a time to get access to one of your sites, we have a fault with some equipment. We can arrange a time once we have a contact."

4PM: "The engineer is on his way there, he will be there for 6pm"

Thanks Janet. However, it is a fairly major bit of network infrastructure, so yeeeaaaah... ok. It's also my stupid fault for volunteering, but I'm the only person on the team who both lives nearby and has a car.

EDIT: They just phoned me to say they haven't even left yet and are 3 hours away. 6pm my arse. I asked them to re-schedule for office hours tomorrow instead. I'm sure I've mentioned it before... but I'm not paid enough for this shit (literally. Service desk are on a higher pay grade than I am right now).

2,060 · December 7, 2017

I'm doing some overtime this evening, it seems.

Lunchtime: "Hi, can we arrange a time to get access to one of your sites, we have a fault with some equipment. We can arrange a time once we have a contact."

4PM: "The engineer is on his way there, he will be there for 6pm"

Thanks Janet. However, it is a fairly major bit of network infrastructure, so yeeeaaaah... ok. It's also my stupid fault for volunteering, but I'm the only person on the team who both lives nearby and has a car.

EDIT: They just phoned me to say they haven't even left yet and are 3 hours away. 6pm my arse. I asked them to re-schedule for office hours tomorrow instead. I'm sure I've mentioned it before... but I'm not paid enough for this shit (literally. Service desk are on a higher pay grade than I am right now).

No luck with a job change yet then?

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22,666 · December 7, 2017

Work Christmas party next week. The company I work for do it in style, and we're all being whisked first class off to Cardiff for two days. Conference in the National Museum and huge glam party afterwards. Free accommodation, food, booze, the lot.

Only - I have SO much work to do, that I can't see how I can fit it all in. Everything fits perfectly, so 48 hours causes mahoosive instrusion to not just me but the other companies I work for.

So I'm going to have to drive to Cardiff and back in a day. In a 4 speed, 25 year old Merc that's revving it's titties off. It's just shy of 400 miles.

I appreciate it's not cancer, but it's a bit of a pisser to have to miss out.

Anyway - as you were.

I thought there were cost limits set out by HMRC for staff parties?

27,997 · December 7, 2017

My BMW went into the garage for a service, as I said in some thread or another. They couldn't find an oil filter so have had it for 36 hours so far.

Today they phoned to tell me there's a gearbox oil leak and it needs further investigation.

So why have they only just noticed this, and why isn't there any oil on the road outside my house where I park it every night?

So I'm stuck with the non-indicating Sandero. Think I might ask the lease company for a proper hire car instead if it's going to be there a while.

December 7, 2017

I'm doing some overtime this evening, it seems.

Lunchtime: "Hi, can we arrange a time to get access to one of your sites, we have a fault with some equipment. We can arrange a time once we have a contact."

4PM: "The engineer is on his way there, he will be there for 6pm"

Thanks Janet. However, it is a fairly major bit of network infrastructure, so yeeeaaaah... ok. It's also my stupid fault for volunteering, but I'm the only person on the team who both lives nearby and has a car.

EDIT: They just phoned me to say they haven't even left yet and are 3 hours away. 6pm my arse. I asked them to re-schedule for office hours tomorrow instead. I'm sure I've mentioned it before... but I'm not paid enough for this shit (literally. Service desk are on a higher pay grade than I am right now).

Sounds like my week.

Got invited to a meeting about a new car parking system today, that uses our network to get around the site & out to the internet. First either me or the other network guy had heard of it. The meeting went 'This is going live saturday after being fitted friday afternoon, won't be a problem will it?' I'm not sure they liked the response of 'Good luck with that!'.

So yeah tomorrow we're creating a new VLAN, stretching around the site, racking their server & guessing what firewall rules they need. Saturday should be good as I'm in Brum getting pisssed & the other network guy is busy too. Still at least the 3rd line bloke on call has no networking experience....

I love well planned projects.

38,345 · December 7, 2017

My BMW went into the garage for a service, as I said in some thread or another. They couldn't find an oil filter so have had it for 36 hours so far.

Today they phoned to tell me there's a gearbox oil leak and it needs further investigation.

So why have they only just noticed this, and why isn't there any oil on the road outside my house where I park it every night?

So I'm stuck with the non-indicating Sandero. Think I might ask the lease company for a proper hire car instead if it's going to be there a while.

That’s garage code for ‘made a massive cock up but don’t let slip’

My mate used to work at Eric Stead’s Rover, they used to do this all the time when they’d made a massive cock up. He once fitted a belt of a 420, don’t know what happened exactly but the timing went out, it got started and it bent a valve. They just told the owner it would take an extra day as they’d got no belts in. Sent him home in a courtesy car while my mate was on overtime lapping valves into another head. Owner none the wiser.

25,489 · December 7, 2017

Sounds like my day!

"yea we want to add a field onto the contract document, can it be done asap?"

My superior was smirking as he wrote back explaining in huge detail how it would probably take 2 months, a fairly involved change in the system, database and a full re-write of the contract document to fit it all in (which needs doing anyway), plus a week's worth of regression testing by me as it touches so many parts of the system... They just replied with "ok, I'll have a think about it..."

They won't, but I can ignore it for now

18,091 · December 7, 2017

what a friggin' day.....

jumped into the car to set off for work, and was greeted with a terrible rubbing noise from the front of the car.

so, i stop, get out and have a look.

nothing amiss, so try again. nope, wasn't dreaming, it IS making some terrible rubbing sound.

in a moment of inspired* common sense, i ran my hand over the front wheel. ah shit....

one broken spring with a bloody great big bit rubbibng on the inside of the tyre.

call work, i won't be coming in and need holiday to get the car taken home.

get home and the heating boiler has decided that it doesn't want to work, and is giving me the flashing red light of death, god knows why (well we all know why, it bloody cold, and running up to xmas, so what better time of year could you get for the heating to quit on you?)

and finally the new frock for work has a zip up the back, which i can, just about, really just about manage to fasten on my own.

just. so great for getting into and out of on my own, when i'm away from home during the week. when at work, which is what i bought it for!!

if my shoulders were double jointed then it would be fine.

bloody marvelous...... what man thought that was a good idea???

FFS, i should have stayed in bed this morning.

44,477 · December 7, 2017

Surely zip ties are your friend? Just pretend it's the latest fashion.

I do not speak from experience...

24,042 · December 7, 2017

Latest grump - adverts for cars as spares or repair but with a long mot but don’t tell you what’s fucking wrong with it !

17,560 · December 7, 2017

It's probably preferable to the alternative option...........

Not necessarily.

8,910 · December 7, 2017

^^^^ Getting up in the evening is shit. I 'ate night shift.

11,502 · December 7, 2017

what a friggin' day.....

jumped into the car to set off for work, and was greeted with a terrible rubbing noise from the front of the car.

so, i stop, get out and have a look.

nothing amiss, so try again. nope, wasn't dreaming, it IS making some terrible rubbing sound.

in a moment of inspired* common sense, i ran my hand over the front wheel. ah shit....

one broken spring with a bloody great big bit rubbibng on the inside of the tyre.

call work, i won't be coming in and need holiday to get the car taken home.

get home and the heating boiler has decided that it doesn't want to work, and is giving me the flashing red light of death, god knows why (well we all know why, it bloody cold, and running up to xmas, so what better time of year could you get for the heating to quit on you?)

and finally the new frock for work has a zip up the back, which i can, just about, really just about manage to fasten on my own.

just. so great for getting into and out of on my own, when i'm away from home during the week. when at work, which is what i bought it for!!

if my shoulders were double jointed then it would be fine.

bloody marvelous...... what man thought that was a good idea???

FFS, i should have stayed in bed this morning.

If the heating is a pressurised system check the water pressure and increase to around 1 bar if needed.

Edit the zip fasten a zip tie to the puller or for a more professional look a piece of ribbon. I need them for wetsuits so I can sympathise.

25,376 · December 7, 2017

...the new frock for work has a zip up the back, which i can, just about, really just about manage to fasten on my own.

just. so great for getting into and out of on my own, when i'm away from home during the week. when at work, which is what i bought it for!!

if my shoulders were double jointed then it would be fine.

bloody marvelous...... what man thought that was a good idea???

Tell me again: why is it a bloke's fault that you chose the wrong dress...?

, hides...>

6,198 · December 7, 2017

I thought there were cost limits set out by HMRC for staff parties?

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.

24,042 · December 7, 2017

Someone has his brave pants on tonight mr racer. Pity they are gonna be wedged up your crack if she ever gets hold of you

19,449 · December 7, 2017

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

10,510 · December 7, 2017

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.

27,045 · December 7, 2017

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.

34,746 · December 7, 2017

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!

36,984 · December 7, 2017

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).

19,449 · December 7, 2017

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.

7,403 · December 7, 2017

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.

36,984 · December 7, 2017

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

32,573 · December 8, 2017

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.

1,329 · December 8, 2017

Nice stuff though that Mount Gay.

9,418 · December 8, 2017

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.

7,403 · December 8, 2017

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

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