The grumpy thread

[AlabamaShrimp]

The age old one of roundabouts. Why is it that if you're taking any exit after 2 and that you are using your indicators that a large majority of other drivers have no fucking idea what you're doing and still sty to drive into the side of you?

 

OK so they might not know it's give way to the right but if a giant Frontera is about 3 foot in front of you, don't pull out and then get annoyed when you get called a cunt and the horn blasted at you.

[bub2006]

We used to have iPhone 5s at work (an old model that you'd find dirt cheap on eBay now). They've been sitting in a cupboard since we were issued with the new phones.

 

A manager from another department has raided our cupboard for the old iPhones because she has a deaf staff member who relies on a piece of hardware that works with the iPhone but not our shiny new Samsungs.

 

I didn't pay much attention at the time but if it would be useful to you I'll find out what this gadget is.

That's certainly interesting and yes I'd like to know more please.

[Cavcraft]

All this moaning about charities and insinuations about them being on the take is like those people who vaguely heard of one beggar who turns up in a Rolls Royce every day and has a 17 bedroomed house, etc. Most of it is just pure bollocks, and even when some of it isn't, it doesn't make all charities bad. The trouble is, the more bad press a handful get, the more everyone thinks they're all the same, and they're not. 

[alcyonecorporation]

All this moaning about charities and insinuations about them being on the take is like those people who vaguely heard of one beggar who turns up in a Rolls Royce every day and has a 17 bedroomed house, etc. Most of it is just pure bollocks, and even when some of it isn't, it doesn't make all charities bad. The trouble is, the more bad press a handful get, the more everyone thinks they're all the same, and they're not.

Vulgalour posted up a really interesting piece of investigative journalism on this subject ages ago.

 

Wonder if he still has the link?

[artdjones]

Still can’t get a death certificate for my grandfather- doctor on last Friday isn’t in today. Means nothing can be booked or a start made on informing the bank and council ( council house). Crematorium is provisionally booked for the 26th ( first available date) but they won’t confirm until they get the death certificate.

 

Also Caldecotts ( funeral directors) need authority from the hospital to remove his ICD device- or there will be a big boom at the crematorium!

 

And my sister is going to Belize working on Friday for a month so will miss the funeral.

 

Oh and it turns out he had a daughter I’ve never met, despite him being married to my grandmother for nearly forty years! Families are strange!

What has happened in the UK over the past 25 years?A funeral used to take 4-6 days to happen.Now it's 2-3 weeks.In Ireland it's 3-4 days.

[MarvinsMom]

What has happened in the UK over the past 25 years?A funeral used to take 4-6 days to happen.Now it's 2-3 weeks.In Ireland it's 3-4 days.

harold shipman?

[Cavcraft]

And inspirational quotes can FRO, too. If you need to have ‘Life is a journey, not a destination’ on your wallpaper, you’re probably a right knob rocket.

It’s about as deep and meaningful as a post Christmas dinner poo.

[omegod]

Without being controversial how do/or do they actually? some faiths manage to do it inside 24 hrs ?

[Alfamale]

Next day in Italy. Not unknown for you to be fag ash less than 18 hours after drawing your last breath.

[Cheggers]

If you're paying people - and substantial sums - to work for a charity, then it's not really a charity anymore, but a business.

But there's your challenge, you want charities to be well run, effective and compliant with all current regulations, but not pay for the best management for the job.

 

I'd rather have a well run charity run by a professional Chief Exec on a professional Chief Exec's salary than a poorly run, ineffective one being run into the ground by a well-meaning amateur.

 

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[richardmorris]

Shipman is the reason we can’t get the certificate yet. Has to be countersigned by someone unconnected with direct care. After reviewing all the medical data- that could take a while....

 

But this time of year, there’s a queue at the crematorium, pentrebychan in Wrexham covers a huge area- the church can fit him in tomorrow.

 

Anyway, onto important things;, caldecotts in Wrexham have the best cars - Mercedes.

[madrat]

But there's your challenge, you want charities to be well run, effective and compliant with all current regulations, but not pay for the best management for the job.

 

I'd rather have a well run charity run by a professional Chief Exec on a professional Chief Exec's salary than a poorly run, ineffective one being run into the ground by a well-meaning amateur.

 

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The thing is if you are passionate about the cause you are in you are willing to work for less than the clinical career driven arse hole.

[madrat]

Shipman is the reason we can’t get the certificate yet. Has to be countersigned by someone unconnected with direct care. After reviewing all the medical data- that could take a while....

 

But this time of year, there’s a queue at the crematorium, pentrebychan in Wrexham covers a huge area- the church can fit him in tomorrow.

 

Anyway, onto important things;, caldecotts in Wrexham have the best cars - Mercedes.

I have donated my body to the local medical teaching university, no one has to pay a penny when I kick the bucket.

[Cheggers]

The thing is if you are passionate about the cause you are in you are willing to work for less than the clinical career driven arse hole.

Speaking as a cynical (I assume that's what you meant) career driven arsehole, I'd rather have someone with the right skills and experience at the helm and pay them accordingly than someone with a ton of passion but lesser ability.

 

The charity sector is littered with the corpses of well meaning but badly-run operations.

 

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[madrat]

Yes cynical. I have seen them pay £35K to managers that cant manage shit while the workers are on minimum wage, they still fail and the director still gets a bonus, they are out to make money but not for the charity.

[The Moog]

The thing is if you are passionate about the cause you are in you are willing to work for less than the clinical career driven arse hole.

Passion is one thing, but it can also blind you to making sensible decisions.

 

As a chairman for a fairly large charity for a while (voluntary) the worse thing was passionate people without a clue.

 

Sensible business focused people making timely decisions and ensuring compliance with law plus cc work was rare.

 

People on a mission to save the world whilst saying that the law didn't apply to them was common.

 

I spent my time going round clearing up after them - rather than focused on dealing with long term strategy.

 

Same when I worked on EU food security projects in Cambodia, NGO compliance for local and international organisations.

[madrat]

Passion is one thing, but it can also blind you to making sensible decisions.

 

As a chairman for a fairly large charity for a while (voluntary) the worse thing was passionate people without a clue.

 

Sensible business focused people making timely decisions and ensuring compliance with law plus cc work was rare.

 

People on a mission to save the world whilst saying that the law didn't apply to them was common.

 

I spent my time going round clearing up after them - rather than focused on dealing with long term strategy.

 

Same when I worked on EU food security projects in Cambodia, NGO compliance for local and international organisations.

Totally agree with that but I have seen the ego swelling causing so many problems, the pay rises approved by the board while the service offered is cut etc,etc a balanced approch is needed but there are plenty of fantastic people out there that will do a better job for less cash.

[Captain Furious]

I use to know a girl who worked in one of the charity shops, I can’t remember precisely which one but it was one of the main ones. She used to delight in telling anyone who cared to listen how all the decent stuff that was brought in got distributed between the staff and all the left over shit nobody wanted got put out for sale

 

Yeah i’m sure they’re not all bad, let’s not pretend they’re all paragons of virtue either

[The Moog]

Same as every organisation at the moment .

 

My college is run by a principal on £178k a year. I don't think he is worth that, but obviously the board of governors do.

 

It does have a turnover of £44m a year so there is an argument that paying that sort of cash is ok. But on the same hand taken the college from outstanding at oftsed to failing. Plus losing org money. And sacking whole board of governors etc.

[HH-R]

I never got paid for hanky panky when I volunteered in an Oxfam shop, must have been doing it wrong

[HH-R]

I use to know a girl who worked in one of the charity shops, I can’t remember precisely which one but it was one of the main ones. She used to delight in telling anyone who cared to listen how all the decent stuff that was brought in got distributed between the staff and all the left over shit nobody wanted got put out for sale

 

Yeah i’m sure they’re not all bad, let’s not pretend they’re all paragons of virtue either

I worked with some useless fuckers over the years in the charity shop, (mostly forced there or they'd lose their dole money, we'd waste time training them then they'd never come back) but I never saw anything like that happen.

 

We'd sometimes buy the stock, but it was at the going rate and after it went out on the shelves.

[dollywobbler]

Of course, while we're busy frothing at the mouth about charities, benefit cheats, fake beggars and spurious disability claims, were just let the super-wealthy elite get on with raking money in from us and avoiding tax. While running the media. That tells us we need to get angry about charities, benefit cheats, fake beggars and spurious disability claims. Oh, and immigrants. Definitely them.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

The thing is if you are passionate about the cause you are in you are willing to work for less than the clinical career driven arse hole.

What actually is the definition of charity?

[artdjones]

The voluntary giving of help.

[Guest Hooli]

What actually is the definition of charity?

 

A business that doesn't pay tax.

 

 

As far as I'm concerned, if they can afford TV adverts etc then they've got money to waste & don't need any donations. The only charities I support are small local ones where the money goes to the right place rather than to run a business.

[Guest Hooli]

 road repairs

 

Can you remind me what these are? I seem to recall them from history lessons but can't recall seeing them. These days we have miles of cones, no workmen & traffic for no reason.

[Captain Furious]

I decide what to get angry about all on my own as a matter of fact, and frankly your characterisation that anyone who doesn’t agree with your particular political point of view must be some brainwashed media drone is tiring

[Guest Hooli]

And repairs which last as long as a pensioners erection.

 

[angle]

Pretty sure I've just watched someone's moped get stolen. By the time I'd opened the window to shout at them, they'd gone. Police called and got here in five minutes, but no sign of them. Cunts.

[Guest Hooli]

Cunts indeed, they should be burned alive daily for weeks with their fingers broken every few hours.