The grumpy thread

[Captain Furious]

Mildly annoyed that some cunt has broken into my caravan and nicked the gas bottles, at the same time slightly offended that they were deemed the only thing worthy of stealing.

[fairkens]

Mildly annoyed that some cunt has broken into my caravan and nicked the gas bottles, at the same time slightly offended that they were deemed the only thing worthy of stealing.

Funny that isnt it? I had my car broken into and they took all my CDs apart from an Erasure album, their critique of my musical taste still smarts a bit

[meshking]

Funny that isnt it? I had my car broken into and they took all my CDs apart from an Erasure album, their critique of my musical taste still smarts a bit

I've been there. They left my pink Floyd cd. I'm glad they weren't intelligent enough to get around the immobiliser.

[Captain Furious]

I’d have taken the erasure CD as a matter of priority (you know, if I was a thieving cunt breaking into your car)

 

Under GDPR everyone has the right to erasure

[Saabnut]

Many years ago, a good friend with no taste in music had his house broken into, and the usual stuff taken. Before they stole the stereo, they ejected the Bony M CD and placed it with all his other CDs and left them all behind!

[DodgeRover]

Mildly annoyed that some cunt has broken into my caravan and nicked the gas bottles, at the same time slightly offended that they were deemed the only thing worthy of stealing.

Sadly caravans are really easy to get into, hopefully they didn't cause any damage.

Try your local skip firms for a couple of bottles to avoid having to pay deposits on some more. They get them dumped in skips fairly regularly and they are a PITA to get rid of.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

I still use cassette tapes. There aren't any CDs in my car worth taking.

[Captain Furious]

I haven’t seen it yet (it’s stored at a mates house who has a big field) but apparently they have broken the handle on the front locker and cracked it where they’ve forced it open. Not sure how they got inside the actual van because he says there is no apparent damage - entirely possible I left it unlocked. Tbh it’s about fucked anyway, I was planning on getting another year out of it and then scrapping it/selling for a camper van conversion or something, still annoying tho

 

My mate is in that sort of scrap circle so I bet he’ll be able to procure some empty bottles

 

In the meantime, since there seems to be a massive crimewave sweeping this area currently, I’m gonna leave it all unlocked so if anyone else feels the need for a look around they don’t have to fuck it up anymore

[Sheefag]

The straw that breaks my back is that now she wants me to be the 'Voice of God' over the PA. 

 

 

I can do this over the phone if you fancy. Proper fuckin' biblical, like.

 

 

 

 

 

[New POD]

I have a mild grump today but currently grinning cause they can all fuck off until Monday as I choose to take tomorrow and Friday off.

They seemed surprised when I left early.

My hiring manager knew cause I emailed him last week. Just before he broke up for Christmas.

Anyway. I've got this machine ready for production, which replaces a 16 year old machine with some major improvements on the other side of the factory. I'm only sorting the machine and training the users. I'm not sorting the rest of the assembly area which isn't ready yet. So I haven't written a standard operating procedure yet.

Anyway, panic on Monday. The old machine went down. Can you train operators? Right now. So I trained 5 people on 3 shifts. 2 of them are pragmatic and thoughtful and just get on with it. The others want taking aside and hitting with a shitty stick.

In the first 2 days of running they mmm managed to find a few interesting errors I'd not seen in the 1000 or so trial runs I'd done.

All part of the manufacturing engineering role.

And yet rather than feedback anything positive they tell shift managers lies and half truths.

I almost lost it this morning but left them with a 9 page HBOL style SOP with everything that they've discovered so far covered. My phone is on silent until Monday.

 

On the plus side I invoiced 35 hours in 3 days.

[motorpunk]

Getting bollocked by Pistonheads mods for a joke about supercars. FFS. 

[Datsuncog]

Getting bollocked by Pistonheads mods for a joke about supercars. FFS.

Someone should send Cavcraft over to them for a bit, and see how they like them apples... I sometimes forget how uptight other forums can be, too.

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

That's it... That's the last straw... Herpes leaving a seriously costly object on display from the street outside my front door. Not even tried to obscure it. What if that got nicked?

 

Grrrrr and other angry sounding noises...

[New POD]

That's it... That's the last straw... Herpes leaving a seriously costly object on display from the street outside my front door. Not even tried to obscure it. What if that got nicked?

 

Grrrrr and other angry sounding noises...

According to 2 people who think this is acceptable. (And honesty is everything to me)

They take the package into the house as nd then phone up asking where the package is..

Well it must have been stolen right

3 days later they get another delivery.

Now they have 2 of what ever they Ordered.

Apparently this is fine. Because otherwise how will the courier firm every improve, unless it's costing them

 

It's not fine. It's theft.

[MorrisItalSLX]

I lost a mud flap on the Jaaaaaaag. It's my own bloody fault too for backing into a kerb like a dunce.

 

I hope I can get one second hand so I don't have to fork out loads for a brand new pair.

Hmm, cable ties.

 

You have given me an idea.

 

I feel a bodge coming on.

 

Good as new.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

At Brussels airport on the way back from the Carrib-Ian. Air travel is quite disgusting and passport control at Charleroi is like a scene from Schindler’s list. Why does everyone put up with this? It’s simply appalling. Having to walk through a stinking cesspit of duty free perfume to get to Gates B is not acceptable. Next time I’m going on the Eurostar in the hope that it’s less taxing, tiring, depressing and plain fucking miserable than the travails required to get on a cunting plane to go anywhere.

[Guest Hooli]

I've used airports three times in my life & that is trice too many for a lifetime. Awful cunting places full of cunts.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Ha! How prophetic - the manufacturers of the conveyer of your doom. Passport cuntrol 430 people deep and NOWHERE to have a cigarette. Fuck this. I wish I was still in some backward Carribbean island.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Look at this stinking shithole at Brussels Shiteport. 10 Chinese and some other civilised sorts forced into a gas chamber to enjoy tobaccos. Cunts. In the DR you can smoke ANYWHERE. Because civilised.

[Guest Hooli]

Brussels != civilised

Smoking != civilised

 

Therefore smokers = gas chamber

 

 

Approved.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Decision time.

 

I like my job (mostly - see yesterday's grump) but I earn sweet FA.  I work with two lovely women that are very different to each other but compliment each other perfectly, and I'm the grumpy bloke.  I like it.  There are a lot of reasons not to leave - the pay is the main reason to leave.

 

In a previous job, I was a support worker at a local Mind association - and I was very good at my job.  A lot of what I did amounted to social work and I worked alongside a lot of social work students (and sometimes picked up the pieces from them when they fucked up - which some did spectacularly).  

 

I've been made aware of a scheme for training specialist mental health social workers.  Two years with a guaranteed job, decent pay and a Masters degree at the end of it.  I'm fucking torn and have no idea what to do.  Mental health work can be hard and very bloody stressful.  The sector is really struggling.  Yet I'd probably be good at it.

 

Decisions make me grumpy.

[Cavcraft]

Someone should send Cavcraft over to them for a bit, and see how they like them apples... I sometimes forget how uptight other forums can be, too.

They could swap me for one of their members. Like a sort of cuntural exchange.

[Guest Hooli]

Decision time.

 

I like my job (mostly - see yesterday's grump) but I earn sweet FA.  I work with two lovely women that are very different to each other but compliment each other perfectly, and I'm the grumpy bloke.  I like it.  There are a lot of reasons not to leave - the pay is the main reason to leave.

 

In a previous job, I was a support worker at a local Mind association - and I was very good at my job.  A lot of what I did amounted to social work and I worked alongside a lot of social work students (and sometimes picked up the pieces from them when they fucked up - which some did spectacularly).  

 

I've been made aware of a scheme for training specialist mental health social workers.  Two years with a guaranteed job, decent pay and a Masters degree at the end of it.  I'm fucking torn and have no idea what to do.  Mental health work can be hard and very bloody stressful.  The sector is really struggling.  Yet I'd probably be good at it.

 

Decisions make me grumpy.

 

I'd do it.

 

Not that job obviously as I'd be shit at it, but on general principles. Money to me is freedom as it gives you the ability to enjoy life more by doing what you want.

[loserone]

Certainly worth looking into. Is the guaranteed job like being a maths teacher though, guaranteed because so many people are leaving because it's shit?

[chadders]

At Brussels airport on the way back from the Carrib-Ian. Air travel is quite disgusting and passport control at Charleroi is like a scene from Schindler’s list. Why does everyone put up with this? It’s simply appalling. Having to walk through a stinking cesspit of duty free perfume to get to Gates B is not acceptable. Next time I’m going on the Eurostar in the hope that it’s less taxing, tiring, depressing and plain fucking miserable than the travails required to get on a cunting plane to go anywhere.

 

I used to travel a lot on business and wholeheartedly agree.

 

The small airports can be a lot better though - I fly from Norwich now where the long term car park is about 3 minutes walk from the terminal and the security etc. is done by human beings. The downside is far less destinations than, say, Stansted, but that's a small price to pay to be treated like a person not a lab rat.

[oldcars]

Funny that isnt it? I had my car broken into and they took all my CDs apart from an Erasure album, their critique of my musical taste still smarts a bit

Bastards, they should show you a little respect.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

The same bastards broke into my old Renault once, a blue Savannah.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Certainly worth looking into. Is the guaranteed job like being a maths teacher though, guaranteed because so many people are leaving because it's shit?

 

 

At the moment they're after computer science teachers.  £26,000 to train!

 

It's guaranteed as in guaranteed as a condition of the place on the course.  With that said, it's also probably guaranteed because it's so shit.

 

Hooli, I hear what you're saying and I'm inclined to agree apart from the fact that at the moment I work in education, so get those holidays.  Time to me is very important - ironically given how bad my own mental health can be!

 

As an example, I'm typing this right now because my boss took one look at me just now and said: 'You look knackered, you've got a lot on this week and I need you right tomorrow.  Go and take a break somewhere...'  That's why I like my boss...!

[fordperv]

Someone should send Cavcraft over to them for a bit, and see how they like them apples... I sometimes forget how uptight other forums can be, too.

I think we all should get on over there that would shake the Apple cart a bit

[New POD]

East Midlands Airport.

Our contractors used to park a car at the weekend in a side street in castle donnington when they flew home for the weekend. Apparently cheaper to get a taxi the 2 miles to the airport than pay for parking.