The grumpy thread

[Parky]

Well tonight we had arguments, negotiations (one sided), complaints (ignored), and determination to have the last word (denied).

 

Upshot is he got stuck into his stuff, breezed through it fairly easily, and generally showed me that his maths acumen is well ahead of mine (and mine is pretty good). Just need to find the right balance of carrot and stick and I think we might have the makings of a half useful member of society.

 

And he is making me and Mrs P a cuppa as we speak. Am waiting for the catch...

[DodgeRover]

i find now that without a degree, 35years of experience in IT amounts to nothing if I am applying for the same job as some spotty herbert with a nice honours degree in computer science. drives me up the wall. am am planning to get out of the whole industry pretty soon I think. Not sure Mrs thestag can even contemplate me doing something that I really want to do. lol

Just make up a BSc from an obscure poly that not longer exists, with 35 years experience nobody will call you on it unless you are exceptionally unlucky or go on the apprentice.

[Jerzy Woking]

I left school at 16 back in the mid 70's with some excellent GCSE and CSE results without studying for them. There was no need to as five months before my GCSE's I had passed an open entrance exam with a company that gave me a contract to start with them in September. When I did start everyone I worked with was at least 4 years older, and all had degrees. Since then, I've always worked with people who have degrees of some sort, mostly unrelated to the work I do.

 

I hated studying (still do) and am lucky to have had a great career, but I still think what I could have achieved had I applied myself.

[Parky]

Most finance jobs require degrees. I often get overlooked for roles where I have years of relevant experience in favour of those with a 2:2 in Art from Hatfield Polytechnic. It is very frustrating.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

... he is making me and Mrs P a cuppa as we speak. Am waiting for the catch...

The catch is probably mixed in the cuppa.

[myglaren]

One day I'm going to invent that sarcastic font...

 

Too late

 

https://thenextweb.com/dd/2011/12/12/finally-sarcasm-has-a-voice-in-print-with-its-own-font/

[dollywobbler]

This thread is making me feel a lot better about my Oppo mobile phone. There are quite a few things it does badly (including making calls where signal is poor, when other phones just man up and manage it), but at least it isn't an i-Phone.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Too late

 

https://thenextweb.com/dd/2011/12/12/finally-sarcasm-has-a-voice-in-print-with-its-own-font/

Good effort but looks shit. Think I'll stick with being misread.

[STUNO]

My phone is having a problem with one key sticking. It's only about 20 years old and I hate the thought of buying a new one. The battery is still as good as new. For those who know these things it is a Motorola C118. Hoping it will fix itself.

[Pillock]

Kids. Nobheads, the lot of them. But then again we were all nobheads when we were that age, it's the circle of life.

Sometimes I distinctly remember doing exactly the same stuff I kick off about to my kids. If they ever talk to my mum, I'm screwed.

 

Phones. They're all shit, really. Don't ever fix a phone for anyone, it becomes your responsibility every time it bleeps funny for the next five years.

[nebuchenezer]

Cunt cyclismo in Bloomsbury - when there is a red light stopping your advance and a green man allowing a large tired and annoyed person (somebody on the train was snoring louder than me) to cross the road, shouting abuse at said man crossing for slowing your progress will only result in one outcome. I won

[nebuchenezer]

Oh, is it now allowed to make up your own number plates in London? - the amount of cars driving around with plates that are not on "the database" seems to be increasing daily

[Kiltox]

 

FFS

[meggersdog]

We've all seen vehicles driving about with a headlight out infact on my drive home (about five miles) I usually see atleast 4.Yesterday had a scabby transit connect in.Headlight out, sidelight the other side out,completely missing numberplate light and a stop and tail in upside down.Guy comes to collect his van "did you fit a new headlight bulb?". oh, so you brought it in for an MOT knowing you had a bulb out. "yeah, it's been out for months"

[nebuchenezer]

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FFS

Ye gods - is that actual Pterodactyl shite?

[Supernaut]

Ye gods - is that actual Pterodactyl shite?[/size]

Looks like the Aberdonian seagulls have migrated south for the winter...

[Kiltox]

There’s either some very relieved or very broken birds kicking about

[angle]

I'm having to read a report prepared by some 'retail consultants'. On a train to Slough. This is the line that broke me:

 

'Tesco's current dominance of driving interaction at the shopping centre is highlighted by half of Shopper Missions being driven by grocery. 40% Convenient Grocery Missions links to the frequent low value trips seen in the KPIs'.

 

Convenient Grocery Missions FFS, what has my life become?

[Kiltox]

“We need access to the network to enable our information radiators” is the corporate bollocks of the week for me.

 

An information radiator is aparrently a dashboard on a screen on the wall.

[richardthestag]

I went through a phase of challenging this ^^ kind of nonsense i.e. hand up. "ERR what does that actually mean?" 

 

Caused chaos because on the whole nobody seemed able to quantify it.

 

Meeting Bingo too

 

Luckily there is no room for such bollocks in a German owned company

[Jazoli]

I went through a phase of challenging this ^^ kind of nonsense i.e. hand up. "ERR what does that actually mean?" 

 

Caused chaos because on the whole nobody seemed able to quantify it.

 

Meeting Bingo too

 

Luckily there is no room for such bollocks in a German owned company

 

Me too, then I realised that you must be able to talk this bollocks to progress your career, so I moved on to somewhere where we speak plain English and a cunt is a cunt.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

'information radiator', that's a flippin cracker!!!! Lolz

[chaseracer]

I went through a phase of challenging this ^^ kind of nonsense i.e. hand up. "ERR what does that actually mean?" 

 

Caused chaos because on the whole nobody seemed able to quantify it.

 

Not just me, then?

[oldcars]

I was once having a chat with my old boss. "We need to look at this on a makro level". My reply of "I'm a costco member if that helps" went down well. I moved on a few months after. I cannot work with that kind of pish.

[Noel Tidybeard]

This is quite good too

 

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i'm not surprised- if some one has the brass neck enough to drive round with their rear number plate so blatently obscured they need avoiding with much wideness

[Parky]

Oh, is it now allowed to make up your own number plates in London? - the amount of cars driving around with plates that are not on "the database" seems to be increasing daily

Agreed. Guy who crashed into Mrs P had an untraceable plate. Despite cctv and witnesses, I still had to wear that as the insurance had nobody to claim against. Bastards.

 

Also seeing an increasing number of English guys in RHD cars with Romanian plates on locally....

[eddyramrod]

I asked for Sheridan Smith's debut CD for Christmas.  Everyone here knows I'm a fan, right?

I got it.  Lovely.

I put it in my bag that I take to work, containing a supply of CDs to play when Chris Evans is on.

 

Today I played it, for the first time.

 

Let's just say, be careful what you wish for.  I think I'm over my crush on her.

[Des]

'Information radiator' has got to be where some thick twat has confused a flatscreen on the wall with an actual radiator. I've always suspected corporate talk a mask for the stupid. Wait until they start getting 'attuned to pre-prepare a smaller socket hammering scenario' because that'll action going forward to initialising full beams at the dogging site of displeasure.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

 

Oh, is it now allowed to make up your own number plates in London? - the amount of cars driving around with plates that are not on "the database" seems to be increasing daily

 

Agreed. Guy who crashed into Mrs P had an untraceable plate. Despite cctv and witnesses, I still had to wear that as the insurance had nobody to claim against. Bastards.

 

Also seeing an increasing number of English guys in RHD cars with Romanian plates on locally....

 

 

Down here, the Met just don't have the resources to concentrate on traffic or pulling in dodgy plates. That's why people can get away with running foreign plates and evading VED / MoT / insurance on what are actually UK RHD cars. There's one in my street. I'm even seeing the odd Albanian-registered RHD car (usually a high-end vehicle) appearing in London. The only RHD countries in the EU are, let's remind ourselves, Ireland, Britain, Malta, Cyprus. Everyone else is LHD, and Albania is not (yet) an EU Member State.

 

The haulage people do it too, by registering as hauliers in Romania or Bulgaria, plating their lorries as such, and then operating here in the UK.

 

Dishonesty is now acceptable in our society today because "everyone does it".

[eddyramrod]

 Dishonesty is now acceptable in our society today because "everyone does it".

No, it absolutely isn't, and for that exact reason.