The grumpy thread

[Eddie Honda]

It's gone dark, I'm on me jack and trying to work out how to get a bastard heavy Miele washing machine from the back of the house to the trailer.

 

Might have to fortify myself with a doner pizza...

[vulgalour]

Moog:  I've never used Instagram or Reddit, if they're on the up I probably should.  I suspect Twitter is in decline because they keep making stupid decisions about what their userbase actually wants.  How do you figure out what platforms to use?  I seem to latch on to stuff just as it's going out of fashion, I'm not very good at being on trend with social media.

[DodgeRover]

I disagree with some of that. I was sacked from an engineering office type job 6 months ago so decided (well no choice really) to go back to site work after 15 years. 6 months and I haven't quite got all the papers to be a unskilled labourer yet, ie CSCS card etc. The obstacles of "paperwork" and upfront costs have put a stop to most people starting any " building" sort of employment.

 

Have quick read of this to see some of the hoops and costs.

http://autoshite.com/topic/27733-for-nyphur-and-others-how-i-changed-my-career/

What on earth are you doing - a basic CSCS card for labouring costs about £30 and you need to learn colours of fire extinguishers and what angle ladders should be at, test takes about 20 mins.

No bugger ever asks to see it either unless you are on really big sites.

We set on labourers based on ability to turn up regularly on time and do the donkey work and or ability to ask advice if there is a problem, just need a CIS number and NI number and probably a set of wellies and some steel cap safety boots.

[DodgeRover]

It's gone dark, I'm on me jack and trying to work out how to get a bastard heavy Miele washing machine from the back of the house to the trailer.

 

Might have to fortify myself with a doner pizza...

Wriggle it onto a plank then it will wriggle easier, then walk it up 2 planks into the trailer.

[BorniteIdentity]

Unnecessary use of ‘fonts’.

 

To be filed alongside meaningless logos on t-shirts (generally a random US state followed by any year of your choice from the 20th Century) - I just don’t understand why, 25 years after we all first discovered ‘word art’ and comic sans, grown ups feel the need to use them on - err - anything. I just want to read what you have to say: nothing more and nothing less.

 

EBay adverts, shop posters and now car forums! Grrr. It’s a little known fact that road signs are not in capital letters because it’s easier to read lower case quickly. Anyone who thinks writing something in a bold, stout serif font is helping anyone is sorely mistaken.

[vulgalour]

Can we file that alongside people who don't read instructions and then complain there are no instructions?  I get "What's that in USD" fairly regularly on commissions, even when I state what it is in USD and even when I give directions on how to convert GBP to USD.  I also get "is that like Euros" which... where to even begin?

[The Moog]

Moog:  I've never used Instagram or Reddit, if they're on the up I probably should.  I suspect Twitter is in decline because they keep making stupid decisions about what their userbase actually wants.  How do you figure out what platforms to use?  I seem to latch on to stuff just as it's going out of fashion, I'm not very good at being on trend with social media.

 

Instagram is a definite - Would really fit into your methods. Its like a trendy flickr. 

Current SM usage 

 

 

But would need to look at your buyers profiles etc. One of the things I do is train future marketers including digital media methodologies. 

 

 

Not really relevant for grumpy thread so PM me and I will see if I can help. 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Word Art can go and fuck itself with a splintery spoon.

[Kiltox]

My hotmail account has been hacked yet again. More fucking holes than a colander Microsoft.

TWO. FACTOR. AUTHENTICATION.

 

Enable it right now.

 

Disgusts me that it isn’t standard - i know you’ll probably have to google it to work out what the fuck I’m on about but Microsoft/Google/etc know better.

[dozeydustman]

Mine has never been hacked in 20+ years.

 

You are changing your memorable questions as well as your password aren't you? that's how most attacks get in.

 

 

Yep, change the password once a month, I still think I have a tracker or trojan on my computer that hasn't gone away. think save anything important and do a clean install of MacOS.

[iainrcz]

The cost of a TV license has gone up by £3.50. Or the way I'm looking at it, an extra £3.50 to ogle Victoria Coren Mitchell once a week.

[beko1987]

I use Instagram purely for photos of vacuums and with 0 work have over 300 subscribers... So it works quite well!

[bramz7]

Today has been the worst day of travel I've had for a while.

 

Thankfully the SWR train ran fine so I don't have to slag off my employer.

All the Norwich trains out of Liverpool Street cancelled or disrupted, so NRE advises to go to Kings Cross and go to Ely, and get a connection from there. Okay fine.

Get an Ely bound Great Northern train. Has about 7 additional stops on it which weren't advertised meaning I miss the connecting train.

Wait at Ely for 50 mins.

Get an EMT service to Norwich. Running 25 late now due to a speed restriction to inspect the line.

I dunno what transport related sin I've committed but someone hates me. Not a good omen as I've got a few more long trips coming up too. Sigh.

[robinmasters]

Meanwhile, in vauxhall Zafira owners land...

 

Screenshot_20181031-200959.jpg

 

Do feel a little bit sorry for the bloke but bloody hell why would you ever do that! Massive face-palm as I read it.

 

I'm talking him through how to get his android location history, because he needs all the help he can get!

Sorry to dredge this up from pages ago, but a) it's worthy of more derision, and other people may have missed it too.

 

What sort of twinkle thinks a two-day trial of a Zafira-fucking-B is a reasonable thing for a buyer to ask, and then allows it to happen without a deposit, checking the 'buyer's address and identity?

 

I don't think any of this is hindsight, if someone was taking my car away for a couple of days I'd want to be certain about where I could get it back from if they decided not to return it. Also, driving any car cover is usually third party only, so if they dinged it they could just post the keys through your letterbox and disappear.

[iainrcz]

If someone asked me for a "trial" in a car worth £50 I'd tell them to buy it or fuck off.

[castros_bro]

What on earth are you doing - a basic CSCS card for labouring costs about £30 and you need to learn colours of fire extinguishers and what angle ladders should be at, test takes about 20 mins.

No bugger ever asks to see it either unless you are on really big sites.

We set on labourers based on ability to turn up regularly on time and do the donkey work and or ability to ask advice if there is a problem, just need a CIS number and NI number and probably a set of wellies and some steel cap safety boots.

 

 

The point I was making was that there is enough hurdles of paperwork/courses/fees so the yoof of today cannot be arsed to waste their time collecting them before they can get to the point of trying to find a job and get paid. Hence you'll (as I do for the building I manage) struggle to get a plumber/electrician/masseur/cleaner/roofer.

 

CITB/CSCS Test is £21 + travel and  card is £36. Test is 45 minutes to answer 50 multiple choice questions. Pass mark is 47 out of 50 (94%).  Agencies and sites round here will only take CSCS people,  small "one man bands" will do whatever they feel is needed.

 

Here's a question i couldn't answer so had to look it up after passing.

 

 

 

 

 

THE END

[angle]

I know that wanky management speak is a regular visitor to this thread, but Jesus the amount of it on a project I'm working on is getting to me. At first I thought people were taking the piss, only to get death stares when I started laughing - all of the following are regularly used in earnest by people on six figure salaries:

 

Rummage - a meeting. 'There's a parking rummage arranged for Tuesday'

 

Deep Dive - also a meeting. No, of course I don't know the fucking difference. 'The parking rummage was really useful, but we think we need a deep dive on charging for electric vehicles'

 

Best Athlete - someone who knows what they're doing. 'We're running out of time on the parking, we need to get our best athletes on it'

 

Beautiful Child - the thing we're building. 'The change to the parking is going to have an effect on the beatiful child, we need to get the architects involved'

 

(except obviously no one says 'architects' because then people might know what you're wittering on about, they'll say 'work package 23' or whatever)

 

Integrated Delivery Team - consultants. 'Someone in the Integrated Delivery Team kept sniggering whenever I used the word rummage'

 

That's all in addition to the normal holistic offline synergy clouds you get on things like this, obvs. If anyone sees an angry man waving a scale ruler around in Bristol over the next few days, it's probably me.

[Eddie Honda]

Wriggle it onto a plank then it will wriggle easier, then walk it up 2 planks into the trailer.

Thanks, but I deployed my secret weapon...

 

 

[dozeydustman]

TWO. FACTOR. AUTHENTICATION.

 

Enable it right now.

 

Disgusts me that it isn’t standard - i know you’ll probably have to google it to work out what the fuck I’m on about but Microsoft/Google/etc know better.

 

 

Enabled.

 

Doesn't stop hackers as I've had 2 texts over the last 3 days saying my password has been changed. I'll just close the account.

[DodgeRover]

The point I was making was that there is enough hurdles of paperwork/courses/fees so the yoof of today cannot be arsed to waste their time collecting them before they can get to the point of trying to find a job and get paid. Hence you'll (as I do for the building I manage) struggle to get a plumber/electrician/masseur/cleaner/roofer.

 

CITB/CSCS Test is £21 + travel and card is £36. Test is 45 minutes to answer 50 multiple choice questions. Pass mark is 47 out of 50 (94%). Agencies and sites round here will only take CSCS people, small "one man bands" will do whatever they feel is needed.

 

Here's a question i couldn't answer so had to look it up after passing.

 

IMG_20181101_204311.jpg

 

 

 

 

THE END

Yoof of today needs to get their arses round the sites and physically speak to people rather than rely on email and agencies. I'm subbing for the biggest loft conversion firm round here and I've never been asked for my card, in fact the only time it was mentioned was when another firm I was with was doing some work on the underground.

 

Surely that test wasn't the basic CSCS one? There was absolutely nothing like that on mine.

[puddlethumper]

I'm just about to phone plumber No.3 in an attempt to get things moving on my place. In fairness many tradesman I meet are old, worn out bastards who can barely get up in the loft.

There is plenty of work to do and it pays alright but the Yoofs are too good for that.

It's only going to get worse as far as getting hold of a tradesman.

I'm old, 65, but not worn out, yet, and I'm booked up till at least the end of January and turning down work

more now than ever. Unfortunately a lot of people are more into the ' I want it now' mindset which doesn't help. 

Plumbers have you by the curlies because you tend to need them quick.

Yoofs aren't going into building work because who would want to work on a building site 

in winter freezing your bits off when you can work a computer in an office ?

I'm on 40 odd big ones a year and I'm giving myself a raise on Jan 1st to not far off 50.

Good times, moneywise, in the foreseeable future.

[Snipes]

The point I was making was that there is enough hurdles of paperwork/courses/fees so the yoof of today cannot be arsed to waste their time collecting them before they can get to the point of trying to find a job and get paid. Hence you'll (as I do for the building I manage) struggle to get a plumber/electrician/masseur/cleaner/roofer.

 

CITB/CSCS Test is £21 + travel and card is £36. Test is 45 minutes to answer 50 multiple choice questions. Pass mark is 47 out of 50 (94%). Agencies and sites round here will only take CSCS people, small "one man bands" will do whatever they feel is needed.

 

Here's a question i couldn't answer so had to look it up after passing.

 

IMG_20181101_204311.jpg

 

 

 

 

THE END

"C"? Did I get it right?

Also I see loads of yoofs on site - nearly always JTL apprentices.

[Ghosty]

Flickr are limiting free accounts to 1000 photos.

 

If you have more than that:

 

"*Free members with more than 1,000 photos or videos uploaded to Flickr have until Tuesday, January 8, 2019, to upgrade to Pro or download content over the limit. After January 8, 2019, members over the limit will no longer be able to upload new photos to Flickr. After February 5, 2019, free accounts that contain over 1,000 photos or videos will have content actively deleted -- starting from oldest to newest date uploaded -- to meet the new limit.    "

 

 

 

FUCK RIGHT OFF, they've gone full Photobucket.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

I've switched to Google Photos for any albums that I share.  Flickr was a crushing disappointment on holiday and I couldn't get a damn fucking thing to upload.  Had my camera sync'd to my iPhone to upload...

[Ghosty]

I've always found it a pleasure to use, and a paragon of reliability. 

Google Photos has always been a mess for me, and Imgur is a hateful thing to use, for the longest time their mobile app was just plain broken too.

[adw1977]

Flickr are limiting free accounts to 1000 photos.

 

If you have more than that:

 

"*Free members with more than 1,000 photos or videos uploaded to Flickr have until Tuesday, January 8, 2019, to upgrade to Pro or download content over the limit. After January 8, 2019, members over the limit will no longer be able to upload new photos to Flickr. After February 5, 2019, free accounts that contain over 1,000 photos or videos will have content actively deleted -- starting from oldest to newest date uploaded -- to meet the new limit. "

 

 

 

FUCK RIGHT OFF, they've gone full Photobucket.

Yeah, looks like I'll be coughing up about £40 for the next year soon. I can't be uploading thousands of pages of brochure scans somewhere else.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

It just wouldn't bulk upload the way I wanted it to.  It was fine for one or two photos but over about 20 and it would only upload the first 5 or so.  Useless when on some days I was taking over 100.  Admittedly, I was just trying to dump photos up there before going through but Google Photos was much better for that and worked every single time...

[beko1987]

I've yet to find as nicer way to host pictures to embed as picasa used to be... I use ultraimg for now but it's a bit clunky.

 

Anyone know of a place? Needs to have the img tags available

[ChinaTom]

Techfuckingnology.

 

Wifey has 2 mobiles. Galaxy and a Chinese doobryfurkin.

 

Off to Vegas tomorrow, orders a GoPro copy and a gimbal. And some accessories. 2 days ago on Amazon coz fast deliveries. Stress like buggery as packages somehow manage to get over the Cuban wall (yeah you ordered today delivery, yeah. We deliver tomorrow. Maybe next day. Yeah ok, bye).

 

Nothing will connect to anything by blueteeth, or whatever it is.

 

I reluctantly hand over my iPhone and the whole lot comes together like magnets.

 

Why is the iPhone so efficient?

 

So I lose my iPhone for the weekend.

 

So much stress.

 

I used to buy 3 rolls of 36 film from Timothy Whites and make sure my Olympus was packed.

 

Used to be simple...

 

Now iPhone rules.

 

And I am a Blackberry stalwart.

 

Gah.

 

 

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[Split_Pin]

Bastards, I currently have 3919 photos and 46 videos. I received no comms from them about this.