The grumpy thread

[captain_70s]

So I finished work at midnight today and drove home, mulling over the fact that at the end of the month I'll be back to being a temp on a 0-hour contract. Apparently I interviewed very well for the full time position and there are no complaints about my work ethic etc but I bombed the arithmetic test... The weather is forecast to be nice tomorrow, this means that work will be like a sauna. 

 

On the way home half of the M8's off-ramps were inexplicably closed for roadworks and the resultant diversion added 10mins to my commute home. Despite the roadworks the average Glaswegian street still looks like it's been shipped in from North Korea.

 

As I pulled onto my street I drove past all three of my unusable cars, parked at various intervals in differing levels of disassembly and legality. The SORN'd Dolomite waiting for it's MOT exemption, the Acclaim with it's rusty holes, the Civic sitting on axle stands with it's rear brakes partially removed. At least the parts to fix it have been shipped, not that I've managed to free the calipers from the car as the handbrake cable brackets might as well be welded on.

 

Having parked my only functioning car, the borrowed Rover that isn't even mine, I unlock the mortice and open the door to my flat, having destroyed the Yale lock on Sunday after locking myself out and having to break back in. I observe the piles of tools and car parts, and car part boxes lining the hallway, I enter the living room and switch on the light only for the bulb to instantly blow.

 

I sit here at my PC, with it's graphics card that crashes whenever I try to play games, in the dark and type this post. Can't be arsed, yo.

[Datsuncog]

^^^ I know from bitter experience that such life/car situations aren't so much fun when they're happening in real life, but damn that sounds like a cracking opening to a novel.

 

So, not a like for what's happening... but a like for the vibe expressed. And a hope that things start looking up imminently.

[cros]

^^^ I know from bitter experience that such life/car situations aren't so much fun when they're happening in real life, but damn that sounds like a cracking opening to a novel

It do.

 

Edit: B&W film possibilities too.

[Guest Hooli]

Breakfast show DJs, why are they all such annoying moronic fuckwitted cunts?

[BorniteIdentity]

Breakfast show DJs, why are they all such annoying moronic fuckwitted cunts?

 

You called?

[Dick Cheeseburger]

^ Amusing. You're a radio presenter? Do you use the terminology 'it's around about' using a poptastic voice when describing the time?

Not 'alf?

[BorniteIdentity]

^ Amusing. You're a radio presenter? Do you use the terminology 'it's around about' using a poptastic voice when describing the time?

Not 'alf?

 

There are plenty of clichés still in regular use - all of which boil my piss.

 

"Bit of Robbie Williams coming up!!!1!"  (No - you're not going to play a bit, you're going to play it all.)

"25 degrees outside right now"  (I didn't think you'd be giving the temperature inside my airing cupboard, but thanks nonetheless)

"Anyone out there want to call up?"  (Out where? Out there in radio land??  Plus, you talk to just 1 person - not an "audience")

[AlabamaShrimp]

It's the constant fake cheery voice that sounds like they are always smiling yet they're actually sat on there own in a sound proof box talking to themselves that proper gets on my tits. Oh and the never ending repeats of the same shitty songs as if they are the best thing ever.

 

Radio, mainly bollocks

[Louise2cv]

"Bit of Robbie Williams coming up!!!1!" (No - you're not going to play a bit, you're going to play it all.)

 

Not if you're Steve Wright. If it's "wrighty" we are talking about then it almost certainly will be a bit. After all he has to leave room for bigging himself up and playing 3min jingles every 5mins. *Love the show*

[SierraMikeHotel]

...when confronted rather than apologise decide to become abusive and arrogant...

It's surprisingly common for people to get really angry when you point out that they've done wrong. I've seen people totally lose their shit when I've pointed out that they've pushed in front of me in a queue, or driven along a pedestrianised road. Very ordinary-looking, well-dressed people too, not horrible scrotes.

 

As you say, I was taught to have some respect for other people. I'd be mortified if I damaged someone else's car - I've done it twice, 'fessed up and paid for the repair both times. Life is much easier if everyone behaves in a civilised way.

[Rocket88]

Not if you're Steve Wright. If it's "wrighty" we are talking about then it almost certainly will be a bit. After all he has to leave room for bigging himself up and playing 3min jingles every 5mins. *Love the show*

 

Knob................him, not you.........

[beko1987]

 

I sit here at my PC, with it's graphics card that crashes whenever I try to play games, in the dark and type this post. Can't be arsed, yo.

Have you taken the heatsink off the graphics card and re thermal pasted it? What's the temperatures like?

 

Or take the fan off and stick it in the oven at 200 degrees for 3 minutes... Bit do or die though

[cpjitservices]

Yeah but the tone of the post implied he had plucked a figure out of thin air and decided to start charging

Nope it snot just 'plucked' out of thin air, it makes up for the 20% we have already taken off the final invoice for them. 

 

And a further 10% - just to help them out. They have well and truly taken the piss. 

 

Invoice is 4 months overdue.

[Slartibartfast]

So I finished work at midnight today and drove home, mulling over the fact that at the end of the month I'll be back to being a temp on a 0-hour contract. Apparently I interviewed very well for the full time position and there are no complaints about my work ethic etc but I bombed the arithmetic test... The weather is forecast to be nice tomorrow, this means that work will be like a sauna. 

 

On the way home half of the M8's off-ramps were inexplicably closed for roadworks and the resultant diversion added 10mins to my commute home. Despite the roadworks the average Glaswegian street still looks like it's been shipped in from North Korea.

 

As I pulled onto my street I drove past all three of my unusable cars, parked at various intervals in differing levels of disassembly and legality. The SORN'd Dolomite waiting for it's MOT exemption, the Acclaim with it's rusty holes, the Civic sitting on axle stands with it's rear brakes partially removed. At least the parts to fix it have been shipped, not that I've managed to free the calipers from the car as the handbrake cable brackets might as well be welded on.

 

Having parked my only functioning car, the borrowed Rover that isn't even mine, I unlock the mortice and open the door to my flat, having destroyed the Yale lock on Sunday after locking myself out and having to break back in. I observe the piles of tools and car parts, and car part boxes lining the hallway, I enter the living room and switch on the light only for the bulb to instantly blow.

 

I sit here at my PC, with it's graphics card that crashes whenever I try to play games, in the dark and type this post. Can't be arsed, yo.

I'm sorry mate. I think we've all had moments like that. This too shall pass.

[Parky]

There are plenty of clichés still in regular use - all of which boil my piss.

 

"Bit of Robbie Williams coming up!!!1!"  (No - you're not going to play a bit, you're going to play it all.)

"25 degrees outside right now"  (I didn't think you'd be giving the temperature inside my airing cupboard, but thanks nonetheless)

"Anyone out there want to call up?"  (Out where? Out there in radio land??  Plus, you talk to just 1 person - not an "audience")

When I was renovating my house in the mid nineties I was recommended to listen to Heart FM as “they play loads of stuff you really like”

 

It would seem that people assumed that “Unbreak my Heart” by Toni fucking Braxton four times an hour followed by a jingle for Kirkplan Kitchens were my favourite things. Even today I can sing that bloody jingle perfectly. The only way I can get rid of it is to remove that ear worm with another. Usually the Do it all advert, Insignia After Shave, or Gino Ginelli.

 

Amazing isnt it? I can’t remember what I had for breakfast an hour ago but decades old jingles are there for instant accurate recall. Thanks Radio, thanks a bunch!

[BorniteIdentity]

It's surprisingly common for people to get really angry when you point out that they've done wrong. 

 

Hyperarousal innit. Fight or flight stuff.  If you corner an animal, it's likely to behave in a very different way than if it was just going about its normal business.

[Kiltox]

Nope it snot just 'plucked' out of thin air, it makes up for the 20% we have already taken off the final invoice for them.

 

And a further 10% - just to help them out. They have well and truly taken the piss.

 

Invoice is 4 months overdue.

.... is it written in the contract that you’ll charge £25 a day late payment fees?

 

No?

 

Then it’s not legal or enforceable.

[panhard65]

Not if you're Steve Wright. If it's "wrighty" we are talking about then it almost certainly will be a bit. After all he has to leave room for bigging himself up and playing 3min jingles every 5mins. *Love the show*

I really fucking hate Steve Wright. When I heard a bit on radio 2 about Simon Mayo and whatever her name is doing the afternoon I really hoped it meant the end of the idiot. No such luck mind, why can't yewtree find something on the fucker for gods sake.

[panhard65]

.... is it written in the contract that you’ll charge £25 a day late payment fees?

 

No?

 

Then it’s not legal or enforceable.

That is true but you are allowed to charge interest. I took a company to the small claims court and once the action starts you can charge a certain amount over base rate. I done well out of the muppets who owed me as I had 3 of their cars here that were beyond saving so charged storage on them and made an extra 1500 quid. You can use moneyclaim online upto a few grand I think it was.

[Zelandeth]

Bloody roads department...

 

They've been closing a main(ish) road around here for a while now, and I've just driven down it for the first time since.

 

What were they doing? Sticking down red textureflex surfacing, repainting a few lines and sticking solar powered lit "keep left" signs on the central reserve.

 

Have they bothered to actually fix any of the defects while the road was closed? Nope!

 

Really bugs me how it's relatively easy (trust me, I've been the one trying!) to get cash for projects that realistically are going to make no odds...but trying to get hold of revenue to actually fix stuff is near impossible.

[BorniteIdentity]

I really fucking hate Steve Wright. When I heard a bit on radio 2 about Simon Mayo and whatever her name is doing the afternoon I really hoped it meant the end of the idiot. No such luck mind, why can't yewtree find something on the fucker for gods sake.

 

It makes me really sad to read stuff like this.  He's just a bloke, doing a job to the best of his (very high) ability.  Steve is a very nice guy, knows his onions, is painfully shy and incredibly successful.  Yet, bizarrely, because he's in the public eye - people feel that they can say unkind stuff.

 

I suppose it's a testament to his success that people have an opinion, but it never has (and never will) sit well with me when people get stuck into someone they don't know.  Just don't listen - it's really not hard.

[cpjitservices]

.... is it written in the contract that you’ll charge £25 a day late payment fees?

 

No?

 

Then it’s not legal or enforceable.

Yes it is, we resubmitted all paperwork to them as they requested, customer also requested that we 're-do' our invoice so we could lower the price for them, they know they have very strict payment terms as they have been told this contractually, its on the invoice, and also have been told verbally.

One of the agreements is they where to pay us £200 and they did, but then to clear another payment of £300 in 14 days.... which I doubt they will honour.

They know what the agreement is. They are playing funny because, the original company director that got us in promised us this that and the other, the other company director (the one that looks after the finances) doesn't want us in there, as he wants his mate to do everything for them instead. 

We built there IT/Security systems form the ground up, which was requested by lets call him George, so we did the work and submitted the invoice to which the other director lets call him Mike, said to us 'oh - I thought you guys where doing all of this as a favour to George'. Mike doesn't want us in there and sorting out the systems as Mikes mate can do it cheaper (though he is rarely available). We worked till god knows what time in the early hours of the morning, including on the day they where going live and the newspaper would be round on the opening day so we slogged it until early hours of the morning, to then not be paid, and told to do one as Mike has a mate who can do it all.

 

There has been absolutely 0 communications from them too, which leaves us chasing our tails and owed money, we got there invoice down from £1,500 to £958. still, they do not want to pay, still they are asking for more time. I have a business to run, and they have the money, I know they have the money as I have seen their bookings. They are busy!!! 

 

I also know, its not just us they are doing this too so that makes me feel not so bad.

 

Taking the Piss.

[5speedracer]

It's the constant fake cheery voice that sounds like they are always smiling yet they're actually sat on there own in a sound proof box talking to themselves that proper gets on my tits. Oh and the never ending repeats of the same shitty songs as if they are the best thing ever.

 

Radio, manily bollocks

Try Shaun Keaveney on 6 music, always sounds depressed and can't be arsed.

 

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[Kiltox]

Yes it is, we resubmitted all paperwork to them as they requested, customer also requested that we 're-do' our invoice so we could lower the price for them, they know they have very strict payment terms as they have been told this contractually, its on the invoice, and also have been told verbally.

One of the agreements is they where to pay us £200 and they did, but then to clear another payment of £300 in 14 days.... which I doubt they will honour.

They know what the agreement is. They are playing funny because, the original company director that got us in promised us this that and the other, the other company director (the one that looks after the finances) doesn't want us in there, as he wants his mate to do everything for them instead.

We built there IT/Security systems form the ground up, which was requested by lets call him George, so we did the work and submitted the invoice to which the other director lets call him Mike, said to us 'oh - I thought you guys where doing all of this as a favour to George'. Mike doesn't want us in there and sorting out the systems as Mikes mate can do it cheaper (though he is rarely available). We worked till god knows what time in the early hours of the morning, including on the day they where going live and the newspaper would be round on the opening day so we slogged it until early hours of the morning, to then not be paid, and told to do one as Mike has a mate who can do it all.

 

There has been absolutely 0 communications from them too, which leaves us chasing our tails and owed money, we got there invoice down from £1,500 to £958. still, they do not want to pay, still they are asking for more time. I have a business to run, and they have the money, I know they have the money as I have seen their bookings. They are busy!!!

 

I also know, its not just us they are doing this too so that makes me feel not so bad.

 

Taking the Piss.

If it’s all in black and white fuck em - get a claim in to the county court.

 

When you win, get it to the high court as soon as you can and get them on “Can’t Pay We’ll Take It Away”

[Louise2cv]

If it’s all in black and white fuck em - get a claim in to the county court.

 

When you win, get it to the high court as soon as you can and get them on “Can’t Pay We’ll Take It Away”

* this method takes FOR AGES *

 

 

(Triggered; builders drama drags on).

[captain_70s]

Have you taken the heatsink off the graphics card and re thermal pasted it? What's the temperatures like?

 

Or take the fan off and stick it in the oven at 200 degrees for 3 minutes... Bit do or die though

Temperatures are pretty low and stable. It seems to be some sort of issue with the card itself, it can be combated by underclocking and raising the voltage although that is becoming less helpful over time. I can't really complain a mate gave it to me for free when he upgraded and said it had some issues with crashing. It could have picked a better time to become largely unusable though!

 

I'm sorry mate. I think we've all had moments like that. This too shall pass.

Aye, it could be much worse I guess. I just dislike the lack of stability.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

That is true but you are allowed to charge interest. I took a company to the small claims court and once the action starts you can charge a certain amount over base rate. I done well out of the muppets who owed me as I had 3 of their cars here that were beyond saving so charged storage on them and made an extra 1500 quid. You can use moneyclaim online upto a few grand I think it was.

 

8% + Bank of England base rate.

 

Not sure if that's an annual calculation or how it adds up.  Check with somebody that will know more.

[cpjitservices]

If it’s all in black and white fuck em - get a claim in to the county court.

 

When you win, get it to the high court as soon as you can and get them on “Can’t Pay We’ll Take It Away”

To be honest mate, we don't want to do that, we do not want to send in debt collectors... Its not the way we like to do things. But they have already have 90 days + extra time so what are we to do? We cant keep chasing them. 

 

There is a payment due Friday, I guess we will see if they pay. I doubt it. 

 

If there where issues about the payment terms we have given them they would of called/emailed/called lawyers etc... but nothing... not a bean. We handed over the paperwork personally and via email (paper trail). I think thats about all we can do, barring waiting for some sort of payment! 

 

We have forms to fill out for Debt Collectors, they have a copy of all of our paperwork submitted to 'the client'.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

It makes me really sad to read stuff like this.  He's just a bloke, doing a job to the best of his (very high) ability.  Steve is a very nice guy, knows his onions, is painfully shy and incredibly successful.  Yet, bizarrely, because he's in the public eye - people feel that they can say unkind stuff.

 

I suppose it's a testament to his success that people have an opinion, but it never has (and never will) sit well with me when people get stuck into someone they don't know.  Just don't listen - it's really not hard.

 

He's by no means somebody that I enjoy listening to but otherwise, I entirely agree.

 

Steve Wright is very good at being Steve Wright and his show is popular and acclaimed.  It doesn't matter if you like him or not, he does his job well.  Don't wish ill upon somebody that you've never met because you don't like their presenting style...

[dozeydustman]

Further to my previous moan about rude ebay buyer sending me the same message 3 times demanding I get to a post office that evening, when they paid at 17:55 last Thursday, they now conveniently claim to have not checked the item on arrival, taken it on holiday, and bits are missing. Which is total bullshit.

 

Has requested a full refund stating "I am now outside the UK I cannot return it"

 

Reeks of scam.

 

FUCKING USELESS FUCKING CUNTING FUCKING EBAY

 

They've approved a refund automatically. Bastards