The grumpy thread

[brammy777]

Brammy... Shaggy Calf? Broadmark Road? I used to live in Rochford Gardens me.

Blimey, close! I lived in Mirador Crescent, parents were managers of the Balfour News which used to be there from 98-02.

[Albert Ross]

Cor... I used to fancy Julie from the High Street Balfour News. She was about my age, a REALLY tidy piece. Lovely smile, nice jugs, and pleasant with it. Wonder what happened to her... This was about 1983/4.......

[Claypole]

Went to work this morning, my first day on the job as it were (part time professional dusting and sweeping).

 

Place isn't even open yet, was full of workmen bodging up kitchens and stuff.

 

Cheers for bothering to let me know "boss"... had to ring HR and leave a message but not had any call yet ffs.

[Polystratus]

Making me humpy at the moment is this:

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... K:MEWAX:IT

 

Which ended up selling for £1696 after i could have bought it a month ago for £500 (i thought that was all it's money then).

 

 

I remember that one, looks like it got sold to one of Pog's VW scene numpty who had a go at crapping it up, can see why you're a bit humpy.

[Pete-M]

XJRs in heavy rain. It's a pig in the wet. Tyres are fine (P Zeros, 5mm minimum, right pressures), bushes are fine (I check 'em quite regularly), wheel alignments are absolutely spot on (That wasn't cheap), they must just be like this.

 

Close to two tons on wide tyres and pretty stiff (for a Jag) suspension, combined with a track wide enough to be just running inbetween the ruts left by the back tyres of trucks and buses, quickish steering and it's almost the perfect wrong car for city driving on greasy diesel smeared roads.

 

That's it, I'm gonna put the SD1 back on the road. Try and get the welding sorted tomorrow and in for MOT.

[maxpower]

XJRs in heavy rain. It's a pig in the wet. Tyres are fine (P Zeros, 5mm minimum, right pressures), bushes are fine (I check 'em quite regularly), wheel alignments are absolutely spot on (That wasn't cheap), they must just be like this.

 

Close to two tons on wide tyres and pretty stiff (for a Jag) suspension, combined with a track wide enough to be just running inbetween the ruts left by the back tyres of trucks and buses, quickish steering and it's almost the perfect wrong car for city driving on greasy diesel smeared roads.

 

That's it, I'm gonna put the SD1 back on the road. Try and get the welding sorted tomorrow and in for MOT.

 

shhhh!!! i'm trying to flog an xjr

[Pete-M]

shhhh!!! i'm trying to flog an xjr

 

Ah, it is normal then?

 

By the way, folks, they're fuckin' awesome for crossing continents. (In the dry)

[Guest]

Messing around with the clocks, though I can put a bit of a different spin on it - for some reason this one hour completely screws up my sleeping patterns and means I have to drink absolutely loads of coffee if I'm hoping to stay awake to a reasonable time.

 

Case in point, I think I've been asleep since about 8.30pm - woke up about 5.30am. Still tired, so I'm probably just going to doss around for an hour and go back to bed until it's time to go to work. Hate this time of year, feels like all I do is drive to/from work, actually be at work or be completely asleep.

[Guest]

New job \ Job agencies.

 

Argh. This is beginning to test my patience a bit. Not worked for just over a month now. Managed to find and accept another job. Some of the travel arrangements are a bit wack but it's only 10 miles from Uni and the shifts aren't crap.

 

The problem concerns my start date. I gave November 6 as my start date knowing full well that the preceding week at Uni was a bit odd, hence my request to start at the weekend.

 

Nice lady from the agency rings up and says that the start date is now the 3rd because the trainer 'won't come in at the weekend'. Well, that's lovely but I can't do the 3rd because of University arrangements. I didn't just pluck the 6th out of my head randomly you know....

 

I really don't want to start squabbling over this, but I'm now a sub editor for one of the University school's media outlets. It's very much in its infancy but I don't want to cock it up by not being there during its nascent weeks and months. The radio station has proved to be something of a closed shop and their website is pish, so that's one potential avenue closed off for the time being.

 

Basically, Uni comes first, and they know that. Yet another mess I have to sort out. Why do people not listen when I tell them things?

 

Next up, another job agency phones. To say their rep is difficult and a bit weird on the phone is an understatement. She won't tell me what agency she's from, who the job is for, and wants to know my notice period for the job I've just accepted. Like I would know that - I haven't even started yet. She wants me to rewrite my CV, because her client 'won't understand it'. She then asks me a rapid fire series of questions that I've already answered, and point blank refuses to tell me who the job is for. She also didn't seem to know the difference between inbound and back office work. All she would tell me is that the job was £2.90 more an hour and that it was closer to home in Stretford. Wow, that's LOADS of information to go on isn't it? Being exceptionally vague on the phone, incredibly abrupt and withholding vital information like who the employer is really helpful. I'm not sure if she even read my CV properly.

 

You know what? Can I just sort ONE thing out at a time before moving on to another? Please?

I'm not sure I can be arsed rewriting my CV, because I want to give this new job a chance. We haven't even mentioned the unbelievable amount of stick I've got off family for accepting it yet.....

 

'It's too far'

'It's not right for you'

'You're working too many hours'

 

etc.

 

Tell you what folks, find me a job more local that actually tangible and well described, and I'll look at it. OK? 2 replies out of 156 is not exactly brilliant, and one's a non-event anyway (because I have no idea what it entails).

 

Soon be Christmas.

[cms206]

Headed out to do my school run yesterday in the pissing rain. Was told I had the boss's Van Hool B10M rather than my usual ratty looking Jonckheere B10M, which caused me my first major grump - our Van Hools are freezing, the Jonckheeres are both absolutely roasting. The other driver on my school got my Jonckheere.

 

Went out to the school, dealt with the moaning kids ("Andy, this bus is freeeeeeeeeeeeezing!"), headed back to the garage. Phone goes...

 

Boss - Are you still in the garage?

Me - Yeah... why... ?

Boss - X's broken down with TSV 677 (the Jonckheere). Says it's cut out and won't start, doesn't know whats wrong with it. Any chance you can run down with the mechanic to see if you can get it going?

Me - Aye, fine...

 

Arrives at the scene in the Skoda runabout, and there is the Jonckheere... sitting about 20ft from a puddle which is a good six inches deep.

 

Driver - I just followed the other cars through at the same speed they were going...

 

Not good. I already knew what had happened, but mechanic thought it was fixable at the roadside...

 

Ran back to the garage to get the jumpleads and a Merc 709D. Ran back down. Engine won't even turn over, just a very violent *THUNK*.

 

 

My initial diagnosis was right - a very expensive, recently rebuilt, completely hydrolocked Volvo THD100 engine.

 

So, I had a cold bus for my school, another driver has now put my roasty toasty bus off the road for several weeks pending yet another engine rebuild, I then topped all of that off by reversing the 709D into the Skoda runabout which had been left abandoned by someone else in the middle of the fecking yard...

[ChinaTom]

BMW failed MOT on a very long list of things. Bugger. Never mind, I have a Transit to scream around in for the next couple of days.

[Guest]

And it continues.

 

New employer insists I have to start tomorrow. Says it will cause 'loads of problems' and that I'm being 'unfair'. Er, sorry?

 

I'm being unfair? Listen, arseholes, I TOLD YOU THAT I COULD NOT START UNTIL NOVEMBER 6 BECAUSE OF UNI COMMITMENTS. BECAUSE YOUR STUPID TRAINER CHOSE TO IGNORE THIS DATE HAS GOT SWEET FANNY ADAMS TO DO WITH ME. Apparently the fact I said this eight or nine times to the interviewer in the interview wasn't enough, because my interviewer 'isn't arranging your training'. And? I'm supposed to know that am I? What the fuck? It's now my fault two people can't communicate? Hi wall, fuck me you're a straight talker ain't you?

 

Why did I say the 6th then? Well, we have group tutorials coming up, and we were due to meet today. I purposely left a large space because I knew full well two of my group members were scatty and useless, probably wouldn't turn up, and that I'd have to reschedule. Anyone want to guess what happened this morning?

 

'We'll have to reschedule for tomorrow' useless fucktard #1 says. 'I can't possibly come down today - I'm too tired.' Yeah, right love, you just got shitfaced over the weekend and can't be arsed getting out of bed. Thanks a lot. Thanks loads. One problem - I now can't have today's meeting tomorrow because I'd already arranged to have another meeting for my job in the media outlet. I've already missed one meeting because my new bloody employer bitched and moaned about doing the interview on the date I'd already planned to have the first sub editor meet up.

 

After a lot of grovelling to the course convenor, we're now having the presentation meeting 'some time' on Thursday. If pissed bitch #1 doesn't show up this time then we're making decisions without her and she can go and eat her own shit for all I care. I'm now meeting up with the web sub editor on Thursday evening to discuss what was said in the meeting because the other two lads can't reschedule on such short notice. No doubt the convenor and my sub editor colleagues now think I'm a time wasting parasite.

 

Rang the agency back up and got a completely unfair bollocking because of all this, but I explained it was back on. I'll take this one on the chin but I am not happy at all, and ultimately I don't want to upset an employer before I've got my foot in the door, as my savings can't last forever.They never, ever, ever admit they've fucked up though, do they? It's not particularly fair, especially when I've done fuck all wrong and turned up and each and every time I've been asked to at both Uni and the agency.

 

What started out as an already difficult day was made near impossible. This was only compounded when I slipped on a greasy paving stone on Cleminson Street and went head first deckside, to the delight of two chavs walking across the road. They nearly stabbed me when I told them to fuck off and stop laughing, but to be honest had they gone at me, I'd have ripped their fucking arms off and kicked them senseless.

 

I'm now back home and would like to chill out a bit before someone \ something gets an entire day of frustration vented on them \ it.

 

All I can say is that this job better be worth it, otherwise I can't see myself staying there for very long. I have had to put myself out massively and I'm not sure if I've made the right choice.

 

Bollocks.

[Station]

They never, ever, ever admit they've fucked up though, do they?

 

No. There's an agency staff member in Proactive Personnel in Chester who has a history of fucking up and then blaming the client, I think she's the office manager as well. I phoned up to ask why I'd been told I wouldn't be needed at a place of work years ago, and she told me she'd left a message. She hadn't left a message, she just forgot to tell me and dickhead here turned up. She also slagged my missus off on the phone when she didn't want to do a temp crappy envelope filling job anymore. They're all the same!

[Guest]

They never, ever, ever admit they've fucked up though, do they?

 

No. There's an agency staff member in Proactive Personnel in Chester who has a history of fucking up and then blaming the client, I think she's the office manager as well. I phoned up to ask why I'd been told I wouldn't be needed at a place of work years ago, and she told me she'd left a message. She hadn't left a message, she just forgot to tell me and dickhead here turned up. She also slagged my missus off on the phone when she didn't want to do a temp crappy envelope filling job anymore. They're all the same!

 

To be fair, the agency [Adecco] have been great - the problem in this case has stemmed from the fact that my interviewer [the line manager] didn't communicate my requested start date to her boss. Either that or she chose to ignore it, I really don't know.

[Pillock]

What's made me grumpy this week?

 

Moving into a houseshare two weeks ago, having paid a months rent (£300) and a deposit (£300). Waking up on Saturday morning to find my housemate gone. Vanished. Finally got a text out of him to say that he's had to jack his job in and he's up in Scotland. Thing is, the house is in the hands of his employer, an estate agents and he was living there by arrangement with them, and the builder, as it was unsold. Suddenly he fucks off and I'm in a house that nobody knows I'm living in. So basically I've had to move out, through fear of the builder taking it back over, and I'm two weeks rent and the deposit out of pocket. His mobile was a work one so it's been handed back.

 

£450 down thanks to some cunt of a wanker who doesn't think about other people, and just lives the fucking high life seemingly ripping folk off without a thought.

 

I've got a receipt from the estate agent for the deposit, but it's likely nothing to do with them. He just used their email address to send it to me.

 

Wanker. Utter wanker.

[Mr Lobster]

Fuggin hell Pillock, thats pretty shit. Hope things sort themselves somehow.

 

And also that your former housemate has an accident involving the front of a bus.

[Guest]

Fuggin hell Pillock, thats pretty shit. Hope things sort themselves somehow.

 

And also that your former housemate has an accident involving the front of a bus.

 

I concur on the shitbag housemate.

 

Post a picture of him up here, so when he catches fire we can all save our piss.

[autofive]

sounds like a scam

 

contact the estate agent and builder to tell them he owes you money, and you think a fraud has been committed - see if any of them will provide his references to you - then track him through the references, leaving a trail of doubt about his honesty as you go

 

i had someone try to do this to me when i was at uni - he had a lumpy face for quite a while

[Gompo]

Disappointing to read Pillock, hope things work out for the better.

 

I am somewhat grateful that I can live with my Mum and not find it too bad. Still want to buy somewhere but it's becoming inceasingly difficult.

[Pillock]

Well, I've got a few things "in progress" on him.... I'll give him two weeks, which is the point my rent would have expired and when he says I get my deposit back.

If I then don't, well I've already unearthed quite a bit of stuff on him. Needless to say, if you're going to do a disappearing act then don't - I repeat don't - leave lots of letters in the bin, with all sorts of previous addresses, personal information etc on them. I know more about him than I do some of my closest friends!

 

It's now a waiting game.

 

He's still a tosspot though.

[trigger]

Good luck Pillock, I'd be spitting feathers as well if i was you.

[autofive]

 

oh dear - this used to be white

[Station]

Big charities like NSPCC, etc.

 

If you cancel, they will continue to harrass you over the phone asking why you cancelled and shame you into starting your direct debit again.

 

If you feel like giving to charities, give to local independent ones who can't afford multi-million advertisements.

[Mr Lobster]

On the subject of charities, I am heartily sick of getting those charity bags you are supposed to fill with clothes and whatnot shoved through the door. I am getting at least four of them every week. Just stop it, you're filling my damn wheely bin up with the things.

 

If it carries on I'm going to have to become a proper grumpy old man and make a sign for the letterbox...

[Station]

I get these, I have also suggested putting a sign up. I don't think it'll stop them putting them through the door. They're for private businesses, they only give certain amounts of money to charities for each ton of clothing they get.

[M'coli]

On the subject of charities, I am heartily sick of getting those charity bags you are supposed to fill with clothes and whatnot shoved through the door. I am getting at least four of them every week. Just stop it, you're filling my damn wheely bin up with the things.

 

If it carries on I'm going to have to become a proper grumpy old man and make a sign for the letterbox...

The bastards make these bags safe for kiddies too by putting breathing holes in them, which means that they're shag-all use as bin liners.

[Station]

An ex has had a bear that she's had for years given to her by her gran, she sleeps with it and everything. I put it in one of these bags as a laugh - I didn't put it outside for collection though!

[warren t claim]

I've discovered that I can consume an entire bottle of 37.5% spirit in one sitting. And still stand up and hold a conversation. By rights I really should be dead. I'm now wondering how much I need to get totally pissed in a falling over type of way. Just as well I'm off work this week.

[boobydoo]

Making me humpy at the moment is this:

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... K:MEWAX:IT

 

Which ended up selling for £1696 after i could have bought it a month ago for £500 (i thought that was all it's money then).

 

 

I remember that one, looks like it got sold to one of Pog's VW scene numpty who had a go at crapping it up, can see why you're a bit humpy.

 

I thought five hundred notes was originally strong money for essentially a 'dog'.

The seller states that as soon as he saw the car he 'had to have it'. What? to do f**k all apart from put a set of wank alloys on and flog it on for three times the amount he paid a month later? Insincere twat.

[Lankytim]

Why is that old nail worth a fortune by my "retro Audi" is worth 75p. NOT FAIR.