The grumpy thread

[Kiltox]

I’ve never cancelled a DVLA direct debit - they take the payment as normal and then refund it a few days later along with anything else owed, and cancel it.

[wuvvum]

According to my bank, you need 3 clear working days to cancel a DD. But you can claim them back via the DD indemnity (just ask at the bank the day after they have come out)

I cancelled the DD for the 205 on Friday evening.  I got a message that the payment had already been requested, but then the app gave me two options - allow the payment to go through and cancel the DD thereafter, or stop the payment and cancel the DD immediately.  I chose the latter obvs.

[Bobthebeard]

I’ve never cancelled a DVLA direct debit - they take the payment as normal and then refund it a few days later along with anything else owed, and cancel it.

Not in my case..... They just keep on taking it. Currently £££s owed.

[320touring]

I cancelled the DD for the 205 on Friday evening. I got a message that the payment had already been requested, but then the app gave me two options - allow the payment to go through and cancel the DD thereafter, or stop the payment and cancel the DD immediately. I chose the latter obvs.

My app doesn't allow that:(

 

Will resolve on the morrow when I go to pay in my Picarsole scrap cheque!

[Mally]

Wife's Motability car went in for service a while back, noticed on return the Adblue was on 1,000 miles. We have 12 months left on the deal.

Rang them up. "Adblue is not included on your service sir".

Yes it is, I checked before I complained. It says Garage will check and top up Adblue.

"Oh right, drop in when you are passing and we will pop some in".

Took the wife in Hospital today for major op, likely to be in 10 days.

Dropped in the Garage, asked them to top up the Adblue that they had missed on the service, I'm down to 600 miles now and visiting the wife is an 100 mile round trip every day!

"Adblue not included sir".

Oh yes it is, and whipped out my print off. The Garage will check and top up your Adblue".

"Where did you get that from sir"

Says Motability on the top!

"Oh right, have a seat we will sort it for you".

Took them an hour and a half.

 

Edit, just remembered, got a txt half way through. " We are pleased to tell you your car has passed the safety checks.

What fkin safety checks it only wants Adblue.

"We are legally obliged to check everything sir"

If you checked everything in the first place I wouldn't be here!

[alcyonecorporation]

Fuck's sake Peterborough, LEARN HOW TO FUCKING DRIVE YOU USELESS CUNTS!

[Bobthebeard]

Pointless rant..... They can't and it just makes you angry

[Cavcraft]

Yeah, good luck trusting the DVLA to immediately stop any DD payments or refund you once you’ve told them you’ve got shut of your motor.

 

On another note, I think if the bird on the train a few seats back sucked up to the American back packers she was talking to any longer, she’d have swallowed the entire bastarding carriage whole. I doubt there’s anyone left within a fifteen mile radius of that carriage who doesn’t know she’s from near Edinburgh and she’s pregnant.

 

Mind you, even that was eclipsed by some twat with their phone on loudspeaker talking to a doctor about their mum’s health. One step away from ending up in the next ward to her with an X-Ray of a fucking iPhone shoved up their arse.

 

Oh, and there’s only two tea bags (one of which has split) and no biscuits in this hotel bed room.

[alcyonecorporation]

Pointless rant..... They can't and it just makes you angry

Yeah, sorry. Not having a nice day. Having to deal with scores of mooing idiots when nothing is going right is utterly infuriating.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Exactly the same here. I've simply given up on HSBC entirely.

HSBC only seem to be interested if you're laundering serious amounts of cash through them.

[wuvvum]

Found a website purporting to offer the anti roll bar mounting bracket I need for the Rover 45.  Clicked on the link on the site - "In stock, usually dispatched within 24 hours".  GR9.  Ordered, paid and confirmation email received.

 

Got a message today, "soz, mistake on the website, we don't actually have any of those, and we've checked with our suppliers and they're NLA."

 

 

Excelsior.

[Kiltox]

HSBC only seem to be interested if you're laundering serious amounts of cash through them.

Yeah if you’re not laundering enough they’ll shut your account down for suspected money laundering

[MarvinsMom]

work...you can go an shitoff and die.

 

notice letter written out, signed and dated.

 

unless you stop with your two faced bullshit then you can go and kiss my spotty arse it will be delivered with delight,

 

and then i can go on and achive my life goal of becoming a bum.

[richardmorris]

https://www.haltermann-carless.com/what-we-do/performance-fuels/calibration-fluids/gasoline-like-calibration-fluids/

Petrol calibration fluid?

Looks and tastes and feels like petrol, but isn't.

At a company I worked at we had a store of Deisel calibration fluid used for a Project with Lucas Deisel Systems (CAV)

SOME dickheeed stole 5 litres of that.

We never found out who.... shame really. Would have liked to be smug.

 

A customer wanted some metals testing on fuel so we said fine we will need 1ml so send 5ml to be sure. I now have 5litres of unknown quality petrol! I’m going to use it to clean the bike chains. For the next fifty years

[busmansholiday]

We had to have a new one a week ago as the old ones bearings went and the new bearings were 2/3rds of the cost of a replacement washer so it didn't make sense to repair it, I was well chuffed the new one came with a 10 year parts warranty, looks nicer and is less complicated

My fucking new one packed up half way through the first wash. Had to take it back to Argos. Inside of car now like a swimming pool.

[busmansholiday]

A customer wanted some metals testing on fuel so we said fine we will need 1ml so send 5ml to be sure. I now have 5litres of unknown quality petrol! I’m going to use it to clean the bike chains. For the next fifty years

I remember when PCBs were banned. Me and the boss had a wander around various electrical workshops in case there was any still 'lurking'.

 

Sure enough a 45 gallon barrel was found, and a conversation with the foreman of the area followed. 'Don't worry', he said, 'we don't use it in transformers anymore because of the ban'. "So why is it still here" we asked?, " use it to lubricate push bike chains".

[beko1987]

Charlie is poorly and amys knackered so I got entrusted to go shopping tonight. Why the fuck won't they write the shopping list in the same order as the shop is laid out?

 

And why does her Zafira drive better and faster than my car? (it needed fuel so I took it for a ride and it's monthly de-clag)

[Kiltox]

work...you can go an shitoff and die.

Decent resignation letter tbh

[Noel Tidybeard]

Yeah my abarth did that when you threw it at a tight roundabout.

At least it keeps the calipers moving and the disks from going rusty.

 

actually thats a very good point- i havent heard as many grumbles on the forum of stuck capipers as most moderns

[wuvvum]

Cyclist rode into the side of our car this afternoon and now we've had a visit from an officer of the law!  Seems he's reported us for "failing to stop".  He's also put a vid on YouTube.  Fucking marvellous.

Link to the video?  I'm sure the AS massive can come up with something appropriate for the comments section.

[SierraMikeHotel]

I can't figure out if the events of the last two weeks are a grin or a grump but I think they're probably mostly a grump so let's get it all in one post here rather than cross-posting and getting all confused...

 

Grin: Proud and happy to be invited on future-brother-in-law's stag do

Grump: cracked a rib playing zorb football

 

Grin: Really enjoyed seeing Canadian cousin who I haven't seen since we were both 12, and meeting his lovely wife

Grump: Relative-who-is-a-massive-twat was accidentally included in the email list, and it turns out he's even more of a twat than we realised

 

Grin: Went to see my sister.  She's allowed out of hospital on escorted leave now.  We spent the whole time taking the piss out of our mum

Grump: Escorted leave.  She still had to go back.  Still under section.  She wasn't well enough to meet Canadian Cousin.

 

Grin: Loved every minute of the build-up to sister-in-law's wedding.  I love my wife's family

Grump: Did I mention I cracked a rib playing zorb football?  EVERYTHING HURTS

 

Grin: Sister-in-law has arranged with her consultant for treatment to wrap around her life.  She can still have her perfect wedding and honeymoon in Greece

Grump: Insurance costs as much as the holiday if you have cancer

 

Grin: Sister-in-law's wedding was amazing.  Really and truly: a beautiful service in a lovely location, there was a steam train, the weather was amazing, the food was gorgeous, the scenery is second to none, the people are lovely...  Really and truly one of the most beautiful days of my life

Grump: We still haven't found a cure for cancer.  My beautiful, kind, funny, brave sister-in-law Liz is still going to die, and soon.  Her husband Jack is just being incredibly supportive at the moment and I don't know how he will react when the inevitable happens.  I'm really worried about all of them.

[New POD]

Yeah, good luck trusting the DVLA to immediately stop any DD payments or refund you once you’ve told them you’ve got shut of your motor.

 

On another note, I think if the bird on the train a few seats back sucked up to the American back packers she was talking to any longer, she’d have swallowed the entire bastarding carriage whole. I doubt there’s anyone left within a fifteen mile radius of that carriage who doesn’t know she’s from near Edinburgh and she’s pregnant.

 

Mind you, even that was eclipsed by some twat with their phone on loudspeaker talking to a doctor about their mum’s health. One step away from ending up in the next ward to her with an X-Ray of a fucking iPhone shoved up their arse.

 

Oh, and there’s only two tea bags (one of which has split) and no biscuits in this hotel bed room.

The trick is to ask for more as soon as you get to the room. Pretend that there were none.

[andy18s]

Friend of ours found a new hole at the end of her street

Seems the local water company came out,dug a hole then left

She's not impressed to say the least,and will be paying them a visit soon

[Snipes]

From my previous venting;

 

My partner spoke to our energy supplies and got our bill down from their purposed £160/m to £55/m. We're already £350 in credit! Shithawks or what? We will probably be £350 in debit after Winter but screw 'em.

 

Finally, after much public moaning on Facebook, got BT to cancel our broken broadband service. Fixing it was out of the question by now, nearly two weeks after it went down, but fook me even getting that small* concession* was an absolute war. Our only real other option now is Plus Net via John Lewis. Always been very pleased with JL's service do hoping for better things. We are in the odd situation of having about 6 months line rental left which, no doubt, will make signing up more complicated than it ought to be.

[dozeydustman]

From my previous venting;

 

My partner spoke to our energy supplies and got our bill down from their purposed £160/m to £55/m. We're already £350 in credit! Shithawks or what? We will probably be £350 in debit after Winter but screw 'em.

 

Finally, after much public moaning on Facebook, got BT to cancel our broken broadband service. Fixing it was out of the question by now, nearly two weeks after it went down, but fook me even getting that small* concession* was an absolute war. Our only real other option now is Plus Net via John Lewis. Always been very pleased with JL's service do hoping for better things. We are in the odd situation of having about 6 months line rental left which, no doubt, will make signing up more complicated than it ought to be.

 

 

Plusnet, despite being BT owned, are an entirely different kettle of fish, and we've have no problems with them for the 18 months we've been with them. The hub died once, phoned them, new one arrived next day.

 

Friend of mine who has a number of student rental properties in Canterbury uses them for all his student lets. Never had a problem either.

 

Call centres are UK based so you don't get "Hamish from London" in a Mumbai call centre reading from a crib sheet.

[Talbot]

Redundancy.

 

Fuckity fuck fuck.

[alcyonecorporation]

Redundancy.

 

Fuckity fuck fuck.

Utterly shit. Very sorry to hear.

 

Is there at least a decent pay out to keep you going while you search?

[Mally]

Redundancy.

 

Fuckity fuck fuck.

 

Happened to me a couple of times, makes you think "why me?".

Took me ages to find another job one time, as soon as I found one (at crap money) the original place started people back. Unemployed first!

Have bailed myself at times for the cash though.

Good luck.

[Talbot]

Is there at least a decent pay out to keep you going while you search?

Unknown yet. We're starting the "consultancy" process. Which no-one can explain to me properly. And knowing this company is only because they have to rather than because they should.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Friend of ours found a new hole at the end of her street

Seems the local water company came out,dug a hole then left

She's not impressed to say the least,and will be paying them a visit soon

 

Well, that's the can't be arsed attitude of some contractors. Were there no warning signs or cones near this hole?