The grumpy thread

[Louise2cv]

*not having a go at the driver and not proper grumpy about it*

 

Waiting for a delivery, get a time slot of 2pm-3pm. Which is fair enough.

 

But there is a tracker online, where is my delivery driver?

 

Well, he passed my village the first time at 9am, then he went past 5 times up and down the Llyn Peninsula before arriving at mine (bang on time fair play) and that's just the times I stopped to check my phone.

 

Who or what plans these journeys?! It was bad enough watching the icon on Google maps but how frustrating must it be for the driver?! Nuts!

[dollywobbler]

On a similar topic, I'm waiting in for a wood delivery. No indication of when it might turn up, but it's been raining steadily all day and I can't get anything done. Can't tinker in the garage, as I might not hear it arrive. Can't take Mrs DW to hospital appointment. Can't really work, because I'm expecting to be interrupted at any moment. Also, we've only got about an hour of daylight left. UGH.

[dollywobbler]

On a similar topic, I'm waiting in for a wood delivery. No indication of when it might turn up, but it's been raining steadily all day and I can't get anything done. Can't tinker in the garage, as I might not hear it arrive. Can't take Mrs DW to hospital appointment. Can't really work, because I'm expecting to be interrupted at any moment. Also, we've only got about an hour of daylight left. UGH.

 

My day could be worse. Mrs DW has driven all the way to Carmarthen to discover that her appointment is in Aberystwyth. The utterly shit receptionist who f*cked this up had better hope she doesn't see me anytime soon. It's the latest in a whole heap of f*ck ups that have been going on for about six months. I cannot abide sheer incompetence. NHS will be getting an invoice for wasted fuel.

[Craig the Princess]

Junior the Princess went to nursery yesterday, there was a notice saying they had a cold who it was confirmed had chicken pox.

 

Today he's been sent home with a temperature.

 

I guess that's the Christmas plans cancelled then, good job we went for the hotel rooms we could cancel.

[Noel Tidybeard]

My day could be worse. Mrs DW has driven all the way to Carmarthen to discover that her appointment is in Aberystwyth. The utterly shit receptionist who f*cked this up had better hope she doesn't see me anytime soon. It's the latest in a whole heap of f*ck ups that have been going on for about six months. I cannot abide sheer incompetence. NHS will be getting an invoice for wasted fuel.

 

and of course Rachel used the Lexus that day as the nipper was in for a service*

 

 

*may be true

[eddyramrod]

*not having a go at the driver and not proper grumpy about it*

 

Waiting for a delivery, get a time slot of 2pm-3pm. Which is fair enough.

 

But there is a tracker online, where is my delivery driver?

 

Well, he passed my village the first time at 9am, then he went past 5 times up and down the Llyn Peninsula before arriving at mine (bang on time fair play) and that's just the times I stopped to check my phone.

 

Who or what plans these journeys?! It was bad enough watching the icon on Google maps but how frustrating must it be for the driver?! Nuts!

Delivery routes are (much too often) laid out by office-based managers, who have little or no idea how things are laid out in the real world.  How do I know this?  Because I've spent most of my working life driving vans and trucks, delivering stuff, often on multi-drop rounds.  Sometimes I've been able to redesign the route on the fly; sometimes I've even been able to design a route from scratch, but that level of realism is very rare.  There's no such thing as a run that's timed realistically either, so the poor driver is already stressed to hell.

Louise, your sympathy for him is even rarer than a properly-laid-out route, so it's very much appreciated, believe you me!

[Sheefag]

On a similar topic, I'm waiting in for a wood delivery. No indication of when it might turn up, but it's been raining steadily all day and I can't get anything done. Can't tinker in the garage, as I might not hear it arrive. Can't take Mrs DW to hospital appointment. Can't really work, because I'm expecting to be interrupted at any moment. Also, we've only got about an hour of daylight left. UGH.

 

So. Has dollywobbler got wood?

 

[Louise2cv]

Delivery routes are (much too often) laid out by office-based managers, who have little or no idea how things are laid out in the real world. How do I know this? Because I've spent most of my working life driving vans and trucks, delivering stuff, often on multi-drop rounds. Sometimes I've been able to redesign the route on the fly; sometimes I've even been able to design a route from scratch, but that level of realism is very rare. There's no such thing as a run that's timed realistically either, so the poor driver is already stressed to hell.

Louise, your sympathy for him is even rarer than a properly-laid-out route, so it's very much appreciated, believe you me!

I worked for British Gas. One morning they sent me my first job: from Caernarfon to Coed Poeth near Wrexham. And the engineer they sent to Rhyl? He lived in Coed Poeth.

 

Also. Aberdovey. "That's near you isn't it?" (This was asked of me while driving from Builth Wells to Birkenhead. On a NYE half day!).

 

I was the NW Wales sparky, obviously*.

[FakeConcern]

On my Bookface..

 

 

Can I select "Fuck off"?

[Anthony]

I feel your pain.

 

In a previous job I used to work as a field engineer back in the late 90's, and I would spent half the day crisscrossing Southern England, often going from A to B and then back to within a few miles of A.  Looking back it was utter madness, and must have been so inefficient in terms of time spent travelling and the fuel costs involved - I did 44k miles in 9 months and I know there were others doing far more than me.

 

Don't even get me started on the pleasure* that was driving a couple of hours to reach a job only to find that the customer wasn't around that day or the parts hadn't been delivered...

[Cavcraft]

My last job was like that. An example was Rhyl, Canaervon(so?), Welshpool, Newtown, Shrewsbury, Telford, Stoke, Wigan and back to Chester. In a 7.5 tonner, collecting drums of waste. I missed Telford and Stoke our and got bollocked for it.

A few weeks later the waste manager came out with me to see why I took so long, and we had less drops but still didn’t get until 9.00pm.

[Louise2cv]

I was on 34% productivity and never made a bonus. When they had a shake up of the bonus system I was sent to the staff consultation as a low earner. In the break a manager came over and got to talking about how the high bonus earners were upset with the changes, they paid their mortgage on their bonus and now felt they were getting robbed by lazy engineers who didn't get their 10 jobs in.

 

I asked him how I could be expected to break the 10 job baseline if I had 2.5-3hr drives between jobs?

 

 

That job ruined my nerves in the end, horrible culture there.

[ruffgeezer]

Mazda buyer turns out to be a scammed. For fuck's sake.

[Bren]

Ex wife cleaning up for you???????

What manner of pact have you made with Satan to achieve this?

Finally among the potless weirdo losers of this site we have a winner in life.

We're married and she does'nt clean.

[Bren]

The cheap nasty lacquer I sprayed the audi's spoiler with has bloomed in the cold - like some kind of automotive Mr Blobby.

Is anything any good these days?

[MarvinsMom]

petrol?

 

especially after been set on fire?

 

with matches?

[Bren]

Christmas markets.

Why does the draught beer look like someone with a water infection has pissed in a glass?

[Guest Hooli]

Bet it's German, they don't export their decent beers.

[DeeJay]

A vision of things to come.

[Pillock]

Delivery routes are often software planned, no human interaction.

Knowhow used to use a system called Paragon, it took all the drops and made routes across the country between about midnight and 2am and then spat a load of tractor feed paper out in 16 different sites.

 

You could not deviate from the route without phoning for a "move on" code. It took longer to phone through for this code than it did to just do the route.

 

I can see it both ways.... It's a pain that the driver was so close, but typically people who pay for timed deliveries have them early so usually the morning is spent doing timed drops, and then the afternoon is backfilled with "any time" jobs so it's quite common to cover the same area twice. Once you start mixing "any time" with timed jobs, all hell breaks loose and the ones that have paid kick up a fuss.

[Louise2cv]

Yeah I figured there would be some kind of method to the madness but I think it would drive me insane to keep driving backwards and forwards up and down the same stretch of road.

[meshking]

My experience of Amazon drivers is that they're too focused on their delivery apps to take any notice of the road or how many times they've been down a particular road.

 

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[AlabamaShrimp]

Do you think in Hamburg, Bonn ect. At this time of year all those festive Germans can't wait for a traditional English Market to set up in the town square?

 

Delightful stalls selling really shitty cheaply made yet overpriced Chinese cloths in weird sizes, fruit and veg sold in proper measurements that are just on the turn and rotten within the week. But don't forgot the book stall with loads of manky old paperbacks and the unlimited numbers of puzzle books.

[fordperv]

Do you think in Hamburg, Bonn ect. At this time of year all those festive Germans can't wait for a traditional English Market to set up in the town square?

 

Delightful stalls selling really shitty cheaply made yet overpriced Chinese cloths in weird sizes, fruit and veg sold in proper measurements that are just on the turn and rotten within the week. But don't forgot the book stall with loads of manky old paperbacks and the unlimited numbers of puzzle books.

And pasty stalls

[cobblers]

[strangeangel]

Bet it's German, they don't export their decent beers.

 

That's because they don't make any.

[MarvinsMom]

its not even real beer, more like a poxy lager.....

[D Spares & Tyres]

The cheap nasty lacquer I sprayed the audi's spoiler with has bloomed in the cold - like some kind of automotive Mr Blobby.

Is anything any good these days?

Its way too cold and damp for painting, even with anti bloom thinners I won't be painting anything til spring

[vulgalour]

Several dozen mince pies and jam tarts destined for gifts... ruined.  I don't know wtf went wrong but the pastry is like trying to pick up sand but when you smoosh it between your fingers it's pastey like it's not cooked.  In all the years I've been doing pastry I've never had this happen and have no idea what would cause it.  Same recipe, same tins, same method as always.  This year, it's a nope.  It's too late now for me to make another batch before I go away so I just have to dump the lot in the bin and that sort of waste really, really upsets me.  At least everything else turned out well.  Just not great when you've put the time in to make nearly 6 dozen pies to have them all ruined by bad pastry.

[chaseracer]

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Frustrating.