The grumpy thread

[Steve79]

2 hours ago, Supernaut said:

Yep. I've seen it listed in some job adverts.

Naturally, I've never got an interview for said advertised jobs in order to test the theory out.

Job centre used to do this if the interview wasn't within a certain radius of the where the centre was based. I live in Bristol and went for an interview in the companies Epsom head office.

At another interview (Hoover) the company paid my travelling expenses to and from Merthyr Tydfil.

[artdjones]

9 minutes ago, Steve79 said:

Job centre used to do this if the interview wasn't within a certain radius of the where the centre was based. I live in Bristol and went for an interview in the companies Epsom head office.

At another interview (Hoover) the company paid my travelling expenses to and from Merthyr Tydfil.

I can understand someone needing to be paid to go to Merthyr Tydfil,but surely no-one needs to be paid to leave the place.(Shudders Slightly)

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Just after being robbed in broad daylight.....

 

 

 

....by the taxman ?

[tapir]

6 hours ago, TataBobu said:

 

Fuck! Is this a thing????

I wish I knew this in 2017, when I took a plane and hired a car for two days just to be rejected by JLR.

Pretty much any University job (not just academic) will cover all expenses to attend- does happen! I put one in a couple of weeks ago 45p a mile

[Jerzy Woking]

All the posts about punctures reminded me of this. Tyre was just under 100 miles old and had to be scrapped. Replacement was about £150 because they had me over a barrel. Still makes me grumpy even after however many years ago it happened.

[Jerzy Woking]

23 hours ago, Aston Martin said:

I'm a delightful guy... And I don't want people to lose their job but...

 

 

Company and Lincs police tagged on Twitter. We'll see what happens.

 

Terrible driving, extremely dangerous and deserves prosecution. It's bad enough to be viewed as dangerous driving.

However, not so long ago I received a letter in the post saying I had committed the offence of careless driving on a certain date between J8 and J7 of the M11. I could either admit to it, pay a fine and take 3 points, attend an education course for a fee the same as the fine, or go to court.

It is now the case that unless I went to court, I would not get any details. No photos, nothing. I can only assume it was a video someone took and sent to the police. I was on my daily commute on a bike, riding the same as always. I could only assume someone took exception to my passing them on the inside lane, which is invariably empty. That's all I could think of was, as i always stick to 65mph to save on fuel and excessive wear and tear.

I took the course. I wasn't prepared to go to court not knowing what i had done, and nothing would be sent to me any earlier than three weeks before the court hearing.

Seems to be a way to keep the courts clear, but  taking the course infers I was guilty.

[anonymous user]

6 hours ago, Mally said:

Oh yes it is!

Sometimes.

It's certainly not as prevalent as it once was, although most employers who do offer interview expenses often set a limit as to what they are prepared to pay.

I did have a "telling off" by my new employer back in the 80s, they had neglected to put a limit on the B&B cost for my overnight stay in Cheltenham, but  accepted my explanation that staying in the four star hotel saved on separate car parking costs. 

A former colleague used to regularly apply for jobs that he didn't want so that he had the occasional all expenses paid trip (again this was in the 80s). He would often deliberately give a bad interview so that he definitely wouldn't be offered the job. Eventually he came unstuck where he was offered the job, he didn't really want it, but they wanted him. They must really have wanted him, as every reason he could think of to turn it down was countered by an even more impressive relocation package. I saw him a few years later, he'd put on a lot of weight, I think the expense account lunches were taking their toll.

[clayts450]

I hate this time of year with a passion. Fuck Halloween. Fuck fireworks. But most of all, fuck Halloween and fireworks at the same fucking time.

It's like the bleedin' Zombie Acopalypse round here,  mixed with a demolition site.

[omegod]

 My 16 yr old daughter was at the Manchester concert a few years ago and has coped well with what she experienced, all things considered, she broke down last night and told me she's been having worsening nightmares about it, panic attack's etc. Only natural it'd effect her at some point and I've half expected it but I'm so fucking angry and upset after seeing her like that . Luckily I have some contacts so I can get her a bit of light PTSD counselling rather than wait the 18 weeks the local CAMHS team need to get through their backlog. 

I did look to see if the money raised after the attack had left any provision for specialist support but it seem's  the £20,000,000 was dished out to victims straight away and the charity closed a year later. I wouldn't deny the bereaved a penny but think maybe some provision for the longer term issues survivors may experience would have been a good idea, there were many kids caught in the aftermath that, whilst not physically injured, will have issues for many years to come ?  

Fuck terrorist cunts

[Kiltox]

  that is awful. 

[Rovorsche]

2 hours ago, clayts450 said:

I hate this time of year with a passion. Fuck Halloween. Fuck fireworks. But most of all, fuck Halloween and fireworks at the same fucking time.

It's like the bleedin' Zombie Acopalypse round here,  mixed with a demolition site.

Halloween is a thing, the egg attacks seem to have died out and now its just crowds of kids with watchful parents in tow door knocking to grab hand fulls of sweets.

I may have gone a bit OTT this year and staved off the grumpiness with a careful Amazon order.

With almost all the lights off and some sound activated ghosty things dangling behind me I opened the and growled "Trick or Treat" quite a bit tonight..... Just for effect the jaws open and close when you speak

Quite a few didn't want sweets anymore and just hid behind a parent.

[Crackers]

I work for the green-coloured middle class supermarket that begins with W.

At work in the household cleaning aisle and some little kid decides it would be fun to make a fort out toilet roll bags. Inside the shelving fixture. Don't worry mate, I've definitely got time to go and tidy that display up once you've finished twatting about moving every single item on the shelf out of place. 

What about mum? Oh yeah, she's on the phone, watching him. She's a proper [supermarket beginning with W] mummy with all her most expensive 'athleisure' gear on to go grocery shopping, almost certainly drives a Range Rover Evoque on finance.

Little kid grins at me, doesn't anticipate the death stare from miserable beardy teenager he gets in return. Ha. 1-0 to Crackers.

Then mummy pipes up "Stop it Romeo, the [W-initialed supermarket] man will tell you off"... then proceeds to take pictures of the little sod in his bog roll mansion. 

"Romeo". Christ on a Shakespearean bicycle. Could have been sick down my apron. ??

[Zelandeth]

Body...could we just not do this right now?

Finally got to the point where I was actually feeling restful and might actually get to sleep at a sensible hour for the first time in a month... can't have that can we?  No... getting absolutely horrible sodding cramps in my right shoulder every time I try to lay down, that sounds like much more fun.

Well pissed off with life in general right now to be honest...though running on 1-3 hours sleep average for the last 90 days will do that. 

Had a phonecall last week from the local mental health team... apparently the councillor I was booked in to see (estimate: June 2020, as of about three months ago) has left.  They'll be back in touch "they hope" towards the end of March to "see about scheduling an alternative."

Yeah...odds of me having not imploded by the time I actually get to see someone?  Slim to fscking none I reckon.

Bet they'll see me *after* I have a bloody nervous breakdown and the damage is done...but heaven forbid I actually try to do something to deal with the downward spiral I've been aware of.  I've more chance of winning the damned lottery than getting anything useful from our NHS mental health team in this area it seems.

Our private health care will only intervene in cases of mental health after an open referral has been written by the councillor/doctor handling the case...so I actually need to see someone before I can go private.  Said insurance is through my husband's work...and that contract will be long finished by the time that happens by the looks of things, so who knows what cover we'll have then.  Took us a year to get any sense out of his current employer as to what the situation was regarding my cover...their HR team are beyond useless.

[dozeydustman]

Manchester Airport is a wanker.

 Stupid fee for dropping someone off.

 Stupid fee for picking someone up.

 Little signage telling you where to go and what signs there are conflict with What the website tells you (which is also shit).

 What should have been a simple exercise in picking my wife up yesterday after returning from an unplanned flight back home turned into half an hour of farce.

 It’s the only bit of Manchester I’ve not liked.

[chaseracer]

If you think Manc's rank, try Luton airport.  #OO-EE-OO

Never again.

Ever.

[barefoot]

Or East Midlands, the first 35 seconds of parking is free, then it's £1 a minute - you should see the queues of folk trying to get out of short term parking. They fine folk £100 for dropping off or collecting from the petrol station, even if you buy petrol. 

[Pieman]

12 minutes ago, barefoot said:

Or East Midlands, the first 35 seconds of parking is free, then it's £1 a minute - you should see the queues of folk trying to get out of short term parking. They fine folk £100 for dropping off or collecting from the petrol station, even if you buy petrol. 

Had that last week when coming back from Spain and was collected by family.  FOUR QUID to drive in and out of the pick-up area, and then they don't tell you where to pay so cars get abandoned all over the exit lanes.

[Kiltox]

I have no idea how airports are getting away with this bull shit - it’s a complete racket. 

[dozeydustman]

1 hour ago, chaseracer said:

If you think Manc's rank, try Luton airport.  #OO-EE-OO

Never again.

Ever.

Been there as well. Just as much of a hell hole

[xtriple]

Having spent all weekend with a sick Chester, I have spent the last two days with a sick Phoebe. when I say 'sick' I mean from the end that poos! The difference twixt Phoebe and Chester is: Chester will get to the door and start dancing, Phoebe farts and shits herself! Poor little lass. She is not and never has been, a 'dirty' dog and doing this upsets her greatly. It doesn't exactly cheer me up either   But still, can't tell her off as it's not her fault. I do enjoy spending quality time with a bucket of bleachy water and a sponge scrubbing carpets at 3, 5, 7 and 9:00a.m.

Also, the car has a leak. Not really surprising as the rain here has been torrential for the last couple of weeks solidly. It is a small leak as leaks go: just by the corner of the front widows, the odd drip but as there are speakers in that bit, I'd prefer it to remain dry, thank you! I have this wonder stuff called 'Gummi Pflegge' which is alleged to restore as new softness to door and window rubber seals. Great stuff apaprt from it has to be clean and DRY before you use it. This morning, I walked Chester and while everything was wet, the sky wasn't actually dropping anything and cars (apart from mine!) were drying rapidly. I thought it worth a try...

I did get all the door seals done and also the bootlid and while the doors were open for the stuff to dry, it started to rain. Ho-hum.

I also had a bust up in the vets, yet again. Once again we have a change of Phoebes drugs as there is a 'supply shortage'. The new stuff is considerably dearer than the old, but I predicted that to the assistant when she told me. Also found out they charge a £6 dispensing fee every time they renew her drugs. I found out because they charged me twice: once for the Carpreve and again for the new drug even though it was the same prescription. It was at that point I requested the boss vet come and  chat. They don't seem to give a shit about animals, it's all about getting as much money out of the owners as is humanly possible.

I do get a refund of the dispensing fee!

I also wish to fit my new boot spoiler, it needs to be dry and WARM so I reckon it will get fitted about June 2020.

 

[davehedgehog31]

Dogs and their owners. Just had some soaking wet slavering cunt jump up on me, which its owner thought was right funny. 

"Aw, he's just friendly" 

Aye, well I'm not, get it to fuck away from me. 

[mitsisigma01]

19 hours ago, Wack said:

Thankfully that's it 

I'd like to thank the manufacturers of 400mg ibuprofen , the inventors of paste the wall wallpaper and a special mention to Steven Wilson for providing a soundtrack to stave off insanity during this job.

 

Is that the before picture, hideous, headache inducing wallpaper!!!! 

Now show us the after pictures ?

 

[barefoot]

1 hour ago, Kiltox said:

I have no idea how airports are getting away with this bull shit - it’s a complete racket. 

It's because of Ryanair & the like charging ten bob for a flight around the world. The money has to come from somewhere.

When flight prices were realistic, the airport took their cut, everyone took a cut, there was free* food, cheap parking, complimentary blow jobs... Ah the golden age of aviation.

[Split_Pin]

36 minutes ago, davehedgehog31 said:

Dogs and their owners. Just had some soaking wet slavering cunt jump up on me, which its owner thought was right funny. 

"Aw, he's just friendly" 

Aye, well I'm not, get it to fuck away from me. 

There's a cunt in my street like this. Howfing great golden retriever, lovely dog no doubt but the owner has no concept of the fact that not everyone likes them. He never has it on a lead and it runs all over the place.

One morning when my then 4 year old son and  I were in the drive washing the car it bounded up to him and pinned him against the fence. My son was screaming and so was my wife and the owner had the cheek to come into OUR property and tell us to calm down.

The poor dog was all confused as it just wanted to play but I nevertheless told the owner to fuck off and die.

[LostnotFound]

28 minutes ago, davehedgehog31 said:

Dogs and their owners. Just had some soaking wet slavering cunt jump up on me, which its owner thought was right funny. 

"Aw, he's just friendly" 

Aye, well I'm not, get it to fuck away from me. 

 

This all day long, I really wish we could just shoot the bastards. Might as well do the dogs too while we're at it.

 

It's proper dog central round the back of ours, so you get to dodge dog shit over the path and boxers wandering around on their own jumping at you when you disturb them having a shit with the owner nowhere in sight. It's not great when you're an adult but why should my toddler not be allowed to walk safely along a footpath?  Over seven and a half thousand people hospitalised by dogs a year between 2015 and 2018, yet five thousand knife wounds a year and the country shits itself.

Being Stevenage you'd imagine it was Chavs but these are all middle aged cunts. Fuck you and your 'friendly' dogs.

[davehedgehog31]

24 minutes ago, barefoot said:

It's because of Ryanair & the like charging ten bob for a flight around the world. The money has to come from somewhere.

When flight prices were realistic, the airport took their cut, everyone took a cut, there was free* food, cheap parking, complimentary blow jobs... Ah the golden age of aviation.

Funny, just watched this earlier on:

Already knew the basic premise, but pretty interesting nonetheless. 

 

[Zelandeth]

Why one of the very first things we made a huge point of teaching ours was that when out on a walk, they ignore anyone else they meet walking towards them etc.

Lead length is also kept appropriate so there's no chance of them doing something stupid.

Still doesn't stop people doing stupid nonsense though.  One of our dogs is a rescue who we adopted a couple of months ago and she's really nervous around people.  Has huge bloody great stickers all over her harness stating this...yet when people (not just kids) ask if they can pet my dog, me saying "Sorry, she's scared of people and needs her space" this seems to be interpreted as "sure, go ahead and bear hug her."

They then have a go at me if they get growled at and start going on about how I shouldn't be allowed out with such an aggressive dog.  What do you fscking expect her to do, she's scared to death.

Also other dog owners who don't speak dog piss me off.  Why is it that any dog with pointy ears who shows the slightest hint of exuberance is immediately labelled as "horrifically aggressive and wants to kill me and my dog!"

No you idiot...your dog is making all the signals to mine that they want to play...mine is responding in the same way.  Just being 50% husky he's loud about it, and there is zip that I or anyone can do about that.  Again, absolutely fine if we're just passing on the street, but if you let your dog on the end of its 100' lead get up in his face because you're a dozy git too busy catching up on Facebook to pay attention to what your dog's doing, what so you bloody expect?

Don't even get me started on folks who don't clean up after them, or let their dogs (especially when they have zero training for such situations) off lead in busy public places etc... it's such a shame that the idiots get us all tarred with the same brush.  Hard not to though when there are just so, so, so many of them...

[Alex66]

11 hours ago, Crackers said:

I work for the green-coloured middle class supermarket that begins with W.

At work in the household cleaning aisle and some little kid decides it would be fun to make a fort out toilet roll bags. Inside the shelving fixture. Don't worry mate, I've definitely got time to go and tidy that display up once you've finished twatting about moving every single item on the shelf out of place. 

What about mum? Oh yeah, she's on the phone, watching him. She's a proper [supermarket beginning with W] mummy with all her most expensive 'athleisure' gear on to go grocery shopping, almost certainly drives a Range Rover Evoque on finance.

Little kid grins at me, doesn't anticipate the death stare from miserable beardy teenager he gets in return. Ha. 1-0 to Crackers.

Then mummy pipes up "Stop it Romeo, the [W-initialed supermarket] man will tell you off"... then proceeds to take pictures of the little sod in his bog roll mansion. 

"Romeo". Christ on a Shakespearean bicycle. Could have been sick down my apron. ??

Working in retail can be the ultimate shit, from rude cunstomers to idiots who think you should sell them stuff for less than it costs to buy. I used to run a petrol station attached to a large supermarket the number of times we had people yelling at us that we should re open after closing time as they need fuel, there was a 24hr station 200m up the fucking roads. The classic though was some miserable git went and complained in the main store as I was too happy in my job. 

[iainrcz]

Decided having a trim of the old beard was a good idea. Tidy it up for a funeral on Monday.

That, due to a couple of cock ups,  turned in to a complete removal. So I've gone from a luxurious, thick manly beard of numerous years of age, to looking 12 and having no chin.

 

Arse.

[loserone]

I did nearly that this time last year after a smoll incident with a fire which burnt like lighting the fluff on new socks - a wave of flame from my chin up my face, eyelashes, eyebrows, hair.  

 

I haven't trimmed or cut my beard since to make up for it.