The grumpy thread

[wuvvum]

Found out earlier today that a lass I used to work with 7 years ago, who did exactly the same job as me and is only a year or so older than me, has just been promoted to Chief Operating Officer of our Dubai operation.  Complete with relocation to Dubai and commensurate salary increase.  Meanwhile I'm still just a lowly drone in the Norwich office,  Makes me wonder where the f*ck I've gone wrong - not that I'd actually want to move to Dubai, it holds no appeal for me whatsoever, but it's the principle...

[Ghosty]

Leave mates house.

Drop other mate off 500yd down the road.

End of road, turn right, look, clear.

Some fucker on a moped blitzes out of nowhere and I have to slam on the brakes. Guy stops, gestures 'what'. I do too and drive off.

 

He's following me.

 

OH FUCK RUN.

 

tl;dr the Civic can hustle, and apparently I can do handbrake turns. Thank fuck I knew the streets cause I just bombed around, when it was clear I wouldn't shake him I just elected to stay in the car. Stopped eventually for a red light and the fucker tried to pull me out of the car. Drop thr hammer, speed like fuck back to mates house, lean on horn. Opens door, I mouth 'help' and he comes out with a baseball bat, eventually the guy leaves.

 

What fun.

[Eddie Honda]

Go home? I think moped boy might have calmed down a bit now.

[Ghosty]

I parked the Civic at the far end of the street and spoke to my mate for a bit. While I was in his living room I heard a moped pull up outside the window and immediately leave again.

Waited a while and fucked off.

[bub2006]

The proton has just turned up on a low loader. Bet the neighbours love me. Is it a common occurrence to go and buy a spares car to find out it may become the main car instead?!

[New POD]

Found out earlier today that a lass I used to work with 7 years ago, who did exactly the same job as me and is only a year or so older than me, has just been promoted to Chief Operating Officer of our Dubai operation. Complete with relocation to Dubai and commensurate salary increase. Meanwhile I'm still just a lowly drone in the Norwich office, Makes me wonder where the f*ck I've gone wrong - not that I'd actually want to move to Dubai, it holds no appeal for me whatsoever, but it's the principle...

She was not only Better than you she also had the ear of her bosses who she manipulated so that they believed you were no more than mediocre.

She did extra study, she knew more, had better ideas, was better at delegating the shit jobs to people who didn't work for her, and giving them faint praise so they'd want to help her again.

She made sure she was fast tracked to the top.

Ask me how I know this?

The place that I worked at 25 years ago, had a few future high flyers. When I look at my linked in contacts there are a few Directors of major global corporations in there.

I doubt it is because she is female and has pictures of every boss in uncompromising positions. Or because she fucked them all senseless.

 

I like to think my mediocre career is because I don't care enough and because I'm a bit lazy and have just failed to reach my potential. Rather than that those people at the top are generally nasty manipulating cheating bastards who have freiends and family in the right place and have back stabbed and slept their way to the top.

[New POD]

I parked the Civic at the far end of the street and spoke to my mate for a bit. While I was in his living room I heard a moped pull up outside the window and immediately leave again.

Waited a while and fucked off.

Did you not phone the police.

 

Attempted activated theft with a knife (There was a knife right) is worth a couple of days in an open prison.

[somewhatfoolish]

Leave mates house.

Drop other mate off 500yd down the road.

End of road, turn right, look, clear.

Some fucker on a moped blitzes out of nowhere and I have to slam on the brakes. Guy stops, gestures 'what'. I do too and drive off.

 

He's following me.

 

OH FUCK RUN.

 

tl;dr the Civic can hustle, and apparently I can do handbrake turns. Thank fuck I knew the streets cause I just bombed around, when it was clear I wouldn't shake him I just elected to stay in the car. Stopped eventually for a red light and the fucker tried to pull me out of the car. Drop thr hammer, speed like fuck back to mates house, lean on horn. Opens door, I mouth 'help' and he comes out with a baseball bat, eventually the guy leaves.

 

What fun.

Driving like a div isn't advisable; better to get to a NSL road and wave him goodbye in the rear view mirror.

[mercrocker]

Found out earlier today that a lass I used to work with 7 years ago, who did exactly the same job as me and is only a year or so older than me, has just been promoted to Chief Operating Officer of our Dubai operation.  Complete with relocation to Dubai and commensurate salary increase.  Meanwhile I'm still just a lowly drone in the Norwich office,  Makes me wonder where the f*ck I've gone wrong - not that I'd actually want to move to Dubai, it holds no appeal for me whatsoever, but it's the principle...

 

One of you is stuck in a dreadful dull shit hole just east of Greenwich Meridian.

 

The other is on here with probably too many cars.  

 

I know who I think the winner is.

[xtriple]

For the first time in living memory, I bought food for that big holiday that's coming up, early so the fridge and freezer are full.

 

Yesterday, said F/F decided to start 'gurgling' incoherently and the inside of FF was no longer the chilly place it should be. Phoned up a few repair places, apparently, 'gurgling' is BAD news! So I have just had to buy a new fridge freezer at vastly inflated effin price 'cos seller could/would deliver it today and no other bugger can get one here before next week by which time everything will be ruined. Some stuff may already be fooked so the dogs are praying for a merry pre-Christmas nosh up!

 

I, on the other hand, am fookin skint like big time skint and the last thing I needed at this time was a new fridge freezer.

[Ghosty]

Did you not phone the police.

 

Attempted activated theft with a knife (There was a knife right) is worth a couple of days in an open prison.

Didn't have enough to go off.

[mrbenn]

Bloody hell, Ghosty. Between what happened to you and the video you posted up recently of your mate being robbed I think I'm going to stay inside and keep the doors locked.

 

Glad you're here to recount the tale and the Civic is still in your possession.

[purplebargeken]

Bub, that was only down the road, you should have given me a call mate.

[Saabnut]

It is raining.

 

For the 10th consecutive bloody day.

 

That is all.

[purplebargeken]

sat at home, wearing a fleece, wrapped in a furry blanket, central heating is on and I am still fucking freezing. 

 

I do however, have 3 warm cats nearby and some gaffer tape. Hmm. Here kitty, kitty.....

[John F]

purplebargeken, on 27 Nov 2018 - 11:15 AM, said:

sat at home, wearing a fleece, wrapped in a furry blanket, central heating is on and I am still fucking freezing. 

 

I do however, have 3 warm cats nearby and some gaffer tape. Hmm. Here kitty, kitty.....

 

I hope you're not going to do what I think you're going to do...!

[Guest Hooli]

For the first time in living memory, I bought food for that big holiday that's coming up, early so the fridge and freezer are full.

 

Yesterday, said F/F decided to start 'gurgling' incoherently and the inside of FF was no longer the chilly place it should be. Phoned up a few repair places, apparently, 'gurgling' is BAD news! So I have just had to buy a new fridge freezer at vastly inflated effin price 'cos seller could/would deliver it today and no other bugger can get one here before next week by which time everything will be ruined. Some stuff may already be fooked so the dogs are praying for a merry pre-Christmas nosh up!

 

I, on the other hand, am fookin skint like big time skint and the last thing I needed at this time was a new fridge freezer.

 

AO.com, cheap(ish) and next day delivery.

[Guest Hooli]

Leave mates house.

Drop other mate off 500yd down the road.

End of road, turn right, look, clear.

Some fucker on a moped blitzes out of nowhere and I have to slam on the brakes. Guy stops, gestures 'what'. I do too and drive off.

 

He's following me.

 

OH FUCK RUN.

 

tl;dr the Civic can hustle, and apparently I can do handbrake turns. Thank fuck I knew the streets cause I just bombed around, when it was clear I wouldn't shake him I just elected to stay in the car. Stopped eventually for a red light and the fucker tried to pull me out of the car. Drop thr hammer, speed like fuck back to mates house, lean on horn. Opens door, I mouth 'help' and he comes out with a baseball bat, eventually the guy leaves.

 

What fun.

 

You have all the fun!

[Wack]

One of you is stuck in a dreadful dull shit hole just east of Greenwich Meridian.

 

The other is on here with probably too many cars.  

 

I know who I think the winner is.

Agreed , I have no idea why anybody would go there on holiday , unless watching rich people drive expensive cars is your thing

[drum]

The following grump may be considered offensive to Hyundais.

My daily is a 56 plate Santa Fe. This summer I spent money on it - new discs on the back, two new wheel bearings on the front, four new tyres, full service etc. I bought a new wheel bearing for the rear but couldn't fit it as I didn't have the correct spline bit and couldn't be arsed as I had the wife's golf and daughter's polo to fix.

Its mot is up so I booked it in to a local garage, telling them to replace the bearing and fix a couple of brake pipes that were badly corroded. The two inches before entering the flexi that, for some reason, doesn't have the protective coating the rest of the pipe has.

I was dropping it off in the morning, but on the way there the battery light came on. Marvellous.

I asked the garage to investigate while it was there.

Sure enough, the alternator was goosed. While fitting a new one, they noticed coolant leaking from the water pump. Super.

Mechanic recommends new water pump and timing belt. 5 hour job apparently.

It also needs new front discs and pads, a ball joint, a TRE and a drop link for the mot. Fabulous.

If I hadn't already spent money and now had the alternator replaced, I may have bodged it through an mot and auctioned it off at Morris Leslie's. As it it, I've told the garage to fix it.

Being miserable, I'll now need to keep it for a couple of years to try and get my money's worth out of it. Bum.

The bill was huge.

I've had a count up and I've spent £2k on this thing this year. At 11 years old and 126k miles, it needs to be trouble free for the rest of it's life, or I fail my bangernomics exam catastrophically.

 

Today on the way to work it shat its turbo.

[320touring]

Offft. Bastard

[D Spares & Tyres]

To be fair it was trouble free for the rest of its life.

 

It's just that the the rest of its life wasn't very long

[drum]

2nd hand turbos on eBay for £200. Would that be a straight forward swap job?

 

And will it ingest itself one the way home in a runaway diesel engine fashion?

[chadders]

Found out earlier today that a lass I used to work with 7 years ago, who did exactly the same job as me and is only a year or so older than me, has just been promoted to Chief Operating Officer of our Dubai operation.  Complete with relocation to Dubai and commensurate salary increase.  Meanwhile I'm still just a lowly drone in the Norwich office,  Makes me wonder where the f*ck I've gone wrong - not that I'd actually want to move to Dubai, it holds no appeal for me whatsoever, but it's the principle...

 

There's nothing wrong in being a 'lowly drone', especially in a nice part of the world.

 

Sometimes promotions are not promotions - they're a way of getting rid of people without sacking them. Or it could be no one wanted to work in Dubai so she was the least worse choice of those willing to live a red hot sandpit.

[Jazoli]

Bought a replacement alloy off eBay for one on the avensis that has pothole damage

Received this piece of shit, did they honestly think I'd fit that to my car? fucking muppets, return postage is going to be expensive for them as I used the label provided by eBay and it must weigh 10 kilos

 

[panhard65]

I just had something similar an supposed motor trader sold me a brand new Toyosports cat and front pipe for my lads Bini. Did he really think I wouldn't notice that there were no internals in the cat. Ebay didn't supply a returns label though so thats a tenner out of pocket.

[purplebargeken]

^^ Wankers

[The Moog]

Redundancies at work again. The third time in 4 years, org needs to save £3m due to lack of recruiting students.

 

So 3 months of uncertainty, followed by less people in the organisation to do the same amount of work. Need to do the sums to see if I want to stay or not. 

[chaseracer]

I like to think my mediocre career is because I don't care enough and because I'm a bit lazy and have just failed to reach my potential. Rather than that those people at the top are generally nasty manipulating cheating bastards who have freiends and family in the right place and have back stabbed and slept their way to the top.

 

This, and... 

 

I looked further up the greasy pole and decided it was not a place I wanted to be.  There are more important things in life.

[ruffgeezer]

My electric power saw has just gone bang big time. Cutting a piece of 4x2 and it jammed, jumped about an inch in the air and spat its guts out. The gear that connects the motor to the blade has disintegrated and punched itself out the housing. I was cutting across a knot but that shouldn’t have killed it, can only think there is a hidden nail or something in there. I was going to sell it after this job as well but will end up buying a new one now to finish it.

I was cutting some wood to take to the tip, I mist have hit a knot or a nail as when I turned the saw off, I'd broken one of the windows on the garage door.