The grumpy thread

[Captain Furious]

It’s actually a fairly common thing to consider travel arrangements of prospective employees. From an employers perspective they’re considering whether you’re likely to stick at it or get annoyed by the commute and fuck off

 

It’s annoying especially when you’re totally fine with it, but...life

[xtriple]

I have done me some damage again. Don't even know how. Was fine (as fine as I ever am) when out with the dog (Phoebe is also on the sick list so got left at home, she's NOT HAPPY!) and within an hour, I thought I was going to pass out (not joking and not prone to hyperbole)  and the pains shooting up and down my left leg were unreal. This was most unpleasant and unexpected as my left leg is usually as numb as lettuce leaf! I lay on the sofa and wondered if a kip would help but obviously sleep was not going to happen.

 

Woke up three hours later! Feel a bit better but still 'odd'.

[Guest Hooli]

It’s actually a fairly common thing to consider travel arrangements of prospective employees. From an employers perspective they’re considering whether you’re likely to stick at it or get annoyed by the commute and fuck off

 

It’s annoying especially when you’re totally fine with it, but...life

 

I believe they have to consider travel distances as part of their 'duty of care'. Employing someone who needs to drive four hours each way to work as a silly example leaves them wide open for criminal charges if you fell asleep driving home.

[Captain Furious]

Sounds about right

[fairkens]

Really?

 

https://www.insurancefraudbureau.org/media/1154/crash-for-cash-2017-hotspots-map-issue-10.pdf

 

It was a question

[AMC Rebel]

but I find it bizarre that there isn't any anywhere with their own car parks in this day and age...

 

Dunno where this is, but around here local authorities "planning" departments deliberately limit the amount of parking at office buildings to much less than required - same as they do with residential, only more so; because obviously that's how to get people to cut down on car use.

[AMC Rebel]

I believe they have to consider travel distances as part of their 'duty of care'. Employing someone who needs to drive four hours each way to work as a silly example leaves them wide open for criminal charges if you fell asleep driving home.

 

This is only a consideration created by cretinous compliance wonks - no such charges have ever been brought.  In fact it's pretty much impossible to get corporate manslaughter charges brought in a legit case.

 

Doesn't stop Ms Busybody in compliance demanding to see your driving licence, insurance and even MOT etc in some places - nice niche they have carved for themselves.

 

I told my boss (and he surprisingly accepted) that he could demand all that stuff if he wanted to pay all the bills - otherwise he could fuck off.

 

I notice MyHermes, Amazon etc don't seem to worry about how long their drivers need to be on the road.

[DodgeRover]

I have done me some damage again. Don't even know how. Was fine (as fine as I ever am) when out with the dog (Phoebe is also on the sick list so got left at home, she's NOT HAPPY!) and within an hour, I thought I was going to pass out (not joking and not prone to hyperbole) and the pains shooting up and down my left leg were unreal. This was most unpleasant and unexpected as my left leg is usually as numb as lettuce leaf! I lay on the sofa and wondered if a kip would help but obviously sleep was not going to happen.

 

Woke up three hours later! Feel a bit better but still 'odd'.

Could pain be the first sign that the numbness isn't permenant?

[Wack]

Got stuck on the M6 today at Birmingham, on the other carriageway while I was crawling along I noticed all the drain covers in the gully next to the outside lane are completely blocked, pleased to know that £1 A litre we pay in fuel duty isn't being spent on keeping the roads safe

 

One heavy downpour and you better have good tyres

[Steve79]

We've got loads of ram raiding action round here recently. Mostly for cash machines, they just hoik them out with a stolen telehandler, lob them in the back of a pickup and away.

 

Apart from Currys, that was a good old fashioned ramraid for electricals. Mainly because the bollards were more than a car width apart....

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-45561404

Ram raiders just wanna have fun!

[Cavcraft]

Why does conveyancing cost so much money when it'd appear you end up doing 99% of the fucking work for them? Endless e-forms to fill in, even asking if toilet roll holders are included with the property. 

[Parky]

See also recruiters.

 

“So where are we with that chap I spoke to last week”

 

“Dunno. Why don’t you call him and ask?”

 

“Oh ok, any chance you can deal with my London Sales calls please because if I am doing your job for you, be kinda fun if you do mine”

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Why does conveyancing cost so much money when it'd appear you end up doing 99% of the fucking work for them? Endless e-forms to fill in, even asking if toilet roll holders are included with the property. 

 

….and then there are the estate agents....

[yellowperil]

I have been using the wifes car the last couple of days and she has been using my car to take little 'un to school in.

 

This is because the school is about four miles away, not because of laziness.

 

I got home from work today, walked up the drive and there is a scrape on the corner of my front bumper, I know I haven't done it and my wife denies all knowledge, so that leaves a third party.

 

All the years when I owned old bangers and never so much as a mark on them.

 

People are C**ts.

[Tamworthbay]

Utter cunt in a van using an ambulance behind him to overtake people. The ambulance was coming up from behind so as people move to get out the way this bellend decides he can drive down the middle blocking the ambulance just so he can get to the lights first. I just hope the poor sod in need of the ambulance was ok. What is it with some people?

[Pillock]

Why does conveyancing cost so much money when it'd appear you end up doing 99% of the fucking work for them? Endless e-forms to fill in, even asking if toilet roll holders are included with the property.

Tell me about it, I'm filling that exact form out right now. Also, are there any disturbances at the property or nearby? How close is "nearby"? I don't even live there. Trying to dig out reciepts for Windows fitted 15 years ago.... Trying to remember if there's a curtain pole fitted on every window. Is a shelf a fixed item? I don't even know where the sewer runs or if there's surface water drainage.

 

I do know there's a shit tonne of damp but they didn't ask about that.

[Cavcraft]

….and then there are the estate agents....

 

Learning fairly quickly here that if (God forbid) we're in this situation again, some mistakes won't be repeated.

[cobblers]

Some wanker has squirted brake fluid or something oily like that all up the side of the Talbot while it was parked on the road near work today.

 

Used a whole bottle of tar remover and it's shifted some of it, but there's still bad marks. Hopefully it'll buff out when I eventually paint the bottom half.

 

At least it wasn't my T5, but FFS!!! I'm more pissed off with the owners of my company for forcing us to park up and down busy residential streets than the person who did it. I'd be pissed off if someone parked outside my house all day too, but there's no alternative.

[captain_70s]

Been demoted at work. Well, as much as one can be demoted on a 0-hour contract.

 

Phoned in sick last Wednesday as I caught some plane based lurgy on my flight back from hols and by mid week I was dealing with crippling headaches and a complete lack of sleep.

 

Came in on Thursday and the production line lead declared that I was too unreliable and booted me off his line.

 

I reckon he's been wanting me gone for a while and this is just a good excuse. Man, I need a new job...

[Guest Hooli]

Cunting bastard cops having nothing useful to do.

 

If you can't guess I got a NIP through the post today that claims I was doing 60 in a 40, bollocks was I. They always have speed traps there, it's one of the places I don't speed. No way to prove their lying of course & it's over the 3pt limit so I'm gonna get fucked.

 

Fucked off with not being able to safely use a road without punishment by dishonest officials. There are plenty of places I do exceed speed limits and would accept I'd done it, but not there I'm used to seeing a cunt with a hairdryer poncing about by the hedge.

[Kiltox]

If it’s over the 3pts you’re going to court anyway aren’t you? So they’ll need to present evidence?

 

Get onto pepipoo and find out what you need to be saying / asking for.

[Guest Hooli]

Correct & that is my plan for later tonight.

I think the evidence is one lying sod in uniform pretending that's the number he saw on the gun. I'll find out once I ask on pepipoo.

[beko1987]

I'm used to seeing a cunt with a hairdryer poncing about by the hedge

 

Maybe don't use this as your evidence thouggh... Got a feeling it possibly won't have the desired effect

[Guest Hooli]

I'm used to seeing a cunt with a hairdryer poncing about by the hedge

 

Maybe don't use this as your evidence thouggh... Got a feeling it possibly won't have the desired effect

 

I will phrase it slightly* differently.

[Guest Hooli]

I've posted on Pepipoo & they suggest I'll get an offer of a fixed penalty even though it's slightly over the guidelines I've seen elsewhere. I'd accept that as I often go up to 50ish but I don't go higher in that area.

[Guest Slongchod]

Some wanker has squirted brake fluid or something oily like that all up the side of the Talbot while it was parked on the road near work today.

 

Used a whole bottle of tar remover and it's shifted some of it, but there's still bad marks. Hopefully it'll buff out when I eventually paint the bottom half.

 

 

 

Brake fluid will wash off with water.

[cobblers]

Whatever it was wouldn't shift with neat snowfoam fluid, TFR or washing up liquid. It seemed oily but it's sank into the fairly pogweaseled white paint.

[Pillock]

I'd have thought if they were trying to do you for 60 in a 40 they'd need evidence, and if "I saw it your honour" from a policeman is "evidence" then we're all fucked.

 

Surely they'd need to use a camera van if they're doing you after the event. A gun is only used when they pull you straight away isn't it? What's to stop you saying it wasn't you and your car must have been cloned?

[New POD]

….and then there are the estate agents....

I FELT bad today. Phoned up and said "You know that offer we put in that the vendor rejected, well we've had a good think, but we aren't wanting to up the offer, because the garden is very small, so we think it's not worth any more"

 

You could hear sadness is his reply.

[Guest Hooli]

I'd have thought if they were trying to do you for 60 in a 40 they'd need evidence, and if "I saw it your honour" from a policeman is "evidence" then we're all fucked.

 

Surely they'd need to use a camera van if they're doing you after the event. A gun is only used when they pull you straight away isn't it? What's to stop you saying it wasn't you and your car must have been cloned?

 

I'm pretty sure that in England & Wales the two forms of evidence required by law is them believing you were speeding & that being corroborated by the speed shown on the gun (or calibrated speedo if they are in/on car/bike). So yeah we're fucked as they can just lie & say what they want to charge you with speeding.

 

I don't know how it works about recording the info to send NIPs later.

 

In Scotland it requires two plod plus a gun unless stuff has changed since I last read about it up there.