The grumpy thread

[reb]

3 minutes ago, comfortablynumb said:

My grandad used to say, when you start thinking

" fuck it, I've got to go there again' , then it's time you didn't.

Not necessarily that easy to make the jump tho, I understand that 

What does it mean when you think "oh god, this again" every time you wake up?

[juular]

5 minutes ago, reb said:

What does it mean when you think "oh god, this again" every time you wake up?

Let me know when you find an answer..

[iainrcz]

10 minutes ago, comfortablynumb said:

My grandad used to say, when you start thinking

" fuck it, I've got to go there again' , then it's time you didn't.

Not necessarily that easy to make the jump tho, I understand that 

I've hated it for a long time now, but just stuck with it.

I'm not dealing with the stress of it as well as I was.

My brain just shuts down.

[comfortablynumb]

My situation has changed now that I had to stop working to be a full time carer for family, but I always went with the opinion that if I was happier stacking shelves in a supermarket, then so be it.

I've had some pretty fancy job titles in my time, doesn't mean shit.

Happiest I've ever been? Kitchen boy in a chip shop, or barman where the landlord was the laziest bugger you can imagine, and I basically ended up running the bar, ordering beers etc.

Lot of work, but I did what I wanted, what I thought would make the punters happy, and it seemed to work.

Must have been doing something right, when I finally left, the pub had to close 🤣

[Zelandeth]

40 minutes ago, comfortablynumb said:

My situation has changed now that I had to stop working to be a full time carer for family, but I always went with the opinion that if I was happier stacking shelves in a supermarket, then so be it.

I've had some pretty fancy job titles in my time, doesn't mean shit.

Happiest I've ever been? Kitchen boy in a chip shop, or barman where the landlord was the laziest bugger you can imagine, and I basically ended up running the bar, ordering beers etc.

Lot of work, but I did what I wanted, what I thought would make the punters happy, and it seemed to work.

Must have been doing something right, when I finally left, the pub had to close 🤣

There's a lot to be said for a job you enjoy, irrespective of how much "prestige" it has attached.

I honestly miss mine at Aberdeen City Council.  Worked with an absolute diamond of a team of people, really enjoyed a lot of what I did as it was a job where I actually got to see a real world positive impact of what I was doing, and two days were never the same.  The inevitable politics drove me round the twist sometimes, and having a public facing phone number could occasionally make you want to lose the will to live - but by and large I really enjoyed it.

Aside from having to defend idiotic decisions made way higher up the tree, no matter how daft and short sighted they were.  That bit can get in the sea.

Having seen the stresses and problems the rest of the family have had with their work has made me really realise how bloody lucky I was though.  Great team, great manager, and interesting, varied role.

Does it sound glamorous to say I worked there?  Not in the slightest.  Did I care?  Nope.

[iainrcz]

I've rang in.

Now I'm sat staring into space.

[jakebullet]

Idiot sister got a £70 fine for taking horseshit van thing into Sheffield's clean air zone without paying.

Er it's a 2005 Renault, why did you think it would be ok?

NOBODY told me there was a clean air zone.

So you didn't notice the big signs at both sides of the road, or it written on the road, or the repeater signs, or ever watch news about it being introduced? 

NO! Google maps told me to go that way so it's their fault!

Yeah cos they're the ones driving and not looking out the windscreen.....

[Wibble]

2 hours ago, iainrcz said:

I've rang in.

Now I'm sat staring into space.

It’s not worth it mate, get out, quickly.

[chodweaver]

It’s not worth it mate, get out, quickly.

+1

[Pieman]

1 hour ago, jakebullet said:

Idiot sister got a £70 fine for taking horseshit van thing into Sheffield's clean air zone without paying.

Er it's a 2005 Renault, why did you think it would be ok?

NOBODY told me there was a clean air zone.

So you didn't notice the big signs at both sides of the road, or it written on the road, or the repeater signs, or ever watch news about it being introduced? 

NO! Google maps told me to go that way so it's their fault!

Yeah cos they're the ones driving and not looking out the windscreen.....

How have you not been sectioned yet?

[iainrcz]

37 minutes ago, Wibble said:

It’s not worth it mate, get out, quickly.

I wouldn't have a clue what to do to be honest. I've worked there since I was 24. I'm 44 this year.

[Wibble]

6 minutes ago, iainrcz said:

I wouldn't have a clue what to do to be honest. I've worked there since I was 24. I'm 44 this year.

I’m being made redundant from where I’ve been for 22 years, something will turn up and, if you don’t like it, quit and move on. Life’s too short to be dreading going to work each day. I was there 22 years ago, left and have loved the last 22 years and am gutted at what’s happening but not afraid.

[somewhatfoolish]

What he said. You've got another 20-odd years working to do, fuck doing something that makes you dread getting up in the morning. No point in getting fundamentalist about it and demanding everyone do a job they enjoy but it definitely shouldn't make you ill.

[jakebullet]

Hmmm. After mad Jean banned the Mrs. She sent dad a physical letter to put him in the picture and find out how he's doing. Got a snail mail back today.

Mad Jean can talk or not talk to who she likes. She wants to talk privately to the Mrs. and doesn't like me reading her messages. 

Well fuck off then. Perhaps if you sent Mrs messages instead of sending your nasty poison to me I wouldn't read it.

No doubt there will be further nonsense that nobody cares and they're dying of starvation. Given she's attacked everyone on her friends list this should come as no surprise. She posted she has no friends and got 1 reply. Reap what you sow love.

[barefoot]

I am grumpy because when I went to check the 4 minibuses that I look after for a charity, 2 of the fuckers had EML on. No mention from the drivers. One also displayed DPF regeneration,  so I took it for a ride around the ring road... At the bottom of the hill it went into fucking limp mode as well. Managed to nurse it back up to the depot. Tomorrow it's off to the garage - Peugeot Boxer, 2.2, 14 plate, pre ad blue. Anyone any ideas?

[artdjones]

19 hours ago, barefoot said:

I am grumpy because when I went to check the 4 minibuses that I look after for a charity, 2 of the fuckers had EML on. No mention from the drivers. One also displayed DPF regeneration,  so I took it for a ride around the ring road... At the bottom of the hill it went into fucking limp mode as well. Managed to nurse it back up to the depot. Tomorrow it's off to the garage - Peugeot Boxer, 2.2, 14 plate, pre ad blue. Anyone any ideas?

Best read the codes rather than guess. Do they do lots of round town stop start work! 

[barefoot]

1 hour ago, artdjones said:

Best read the codes rather than guess. Do they do lots of round town stop start work! 

That's all they do, 10 years old with 55,000 miles, and used 5 days a week! Garage is replacing glow-plugs & doing a DPF regen. 

[MikeR]

On 19/08/2024 at 18:38, barefoot said:

I am grumpy because when I went to check the 4 minibuses that I look after for a charity, 2 of the fuckers had EML on. No mention from the drivers. One also displayed DPF regeneration,  so I took it for a ride around the ring road... At the bottom of the hill it went into fucking limp mode as well. Managed to nurse it back up to the depot. Tomorrow it's off to the garage - Peugeot Boxer, 2.2, 14 plate, pre ad blue. Anyone any ideas?

used to have fun with our minibus at work , it would get coked up during the day use , I would come along with a full load in the evening and clog it up and over the flyover with the resultant battleship like smoke screen out the offside exhaust pipe , which  with careful clogging  caught out the odd following BMW /Audi ..

[Andyrew]

For the past few years a local industrial estate i have customers on has had a lovely w123 always floating about, never seen the owner.  Always looked mint, It was always around. Now half the estate has been cleared and gated off. The w123 was parked in there, i assume the land owner owns it. 

Well its now windowless and had the roof caved in and smashed up by fuckwits. Such a shame.

 

[horriblemercedes]

This is a grump but does have a grin in there.

 

My Bose wireless earphones (a gift several years ago) have broken again, in the same way as the previous ones. I think this is either the fifth or sixth pair that Bose will have replaced under warranty.

The first two pairs were one generation, the subsequent ones have been the following generation product, and the next ones will be the generation that has superceded that. We will see if they have fixed the problem

 

At this rate, I'll never have to buy another set as it seems the warranty refreshes with every new pair. That's the grin. Grump is that according to their email, it could take up to eight weeks to replace them due to refurb work at their service centre....

[Zelandeth]

Milton Keynes bloody council.  Please make at least SOME sort of effort at co-ordination of which bloody roads you put road works, temporary traffic lights and closures on.  It just took me a couple of minutes short of an hour to travel less than five miles.

There are few things more frustrating than a diversion sign pointing at a road closed sign.  Or indeed ten minutes later, a diversion ends sign pointing at yet another road closed sign...

At least they finally removed the diversion sign that was right next to a sign saying "Not suitable for diversion route."

[Steviemillar]

16 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

Milton Keynes bloody council.  Please make at least SOME sort of effort at co-ordination of which bloody roads you put road works, temporary traffic lights and closures on.  It just took me a couple of minutes short of an hour to travel less than five miles.

There are few things more frustrating than a diversion sign pointing at a road closed sign.  Or indeed ten minutes later, a diversion ends sign pointing at yet another road closed sign...

At least they finally removed the diversion sign that was right next to a sign saying "Not suitable for diversion route."

Aberdeen and Milton Keynes councils must have the same transport planners

[Zelandeth]

5 minutes ago, Steviemillar said:

Aberdeen and Milton Keynes councils must have the same transport planners

I can't speak about who's involved with that up there now, but I can confidently say that if the head of Street Occupations that was in post when I worked for ACC 10+ years ago had seen the mess around here lately that they probably would have spontaneously detonated on the spot. 

I don't think there's any planners involved here from what I see - they just make it up as they go.  Which seems to go for everything that MK Council do.  Including interpretation of their own planning rules.  Which I'm only *slightly* bitter about because it's resulted in me essentially flushing five grand down the toilet.

[Pieman]

28 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

Milton Keynes bloody council.  Please make at least SOME sort of effort at co-ordination of which bloody roads you put road works, temporary traffic lights and closures on.  It just took me a couple of minutes short of an hour to travel less than five miles.

There are few things more frustrating than a diversion sign pointing at a road closed sign.  Or indeed ten minutes later, a diversion ends sign pointing at yet another road closed sign...

At least they finally removed the diversion sign that was right next to a sign saying "Not suitable for diversion route."

Lichfield did the same last week.  Came off the A38 to go into the city and didn't move for an hour and a half because of four-way temporary lights on a roundabout near Trent Valley station which was backing traffic right up ONTO the A38, right through the middle of the fucking pointless HS2 construction works which were making things twice as bad anyway.  And you couldn't even turn round and go back up the A38 because the northbound entry slip has been removed due to said bullshit rail works!

[EyesWeldedShut]

2012 Ford Fiesta 1.25 Petrol engine with cheese thermostat cover. It wet itself this morning with a fine misting of pink antifreeze on its way back here for a new starter motor. Apparently it's been losing smol amounts of coolant for months 🤷‍♂️

We spent two hours trying to get the four bolts that hold the thermostat in out - be a piss of piss if there wasn't a bloody aircon compressor in the way.
Maybe I missed some blindingly obvious shortcut or access point but, fuck me, what a total joke - and then, it rained.

[timolloyd]

Oh god this one has a name too.

[Low ontime]

2 hours ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

2012 Ford Fiesta 1.25 Petrol engine with cheese thermostat cover. It wet itself this morning with a fine misting of pink antifreeze on its way back here for a new starter motor. Apparently it's been losing smol amounts of coolant for months 🤷‍♂️

We spent two hours trying to get the four bolts that hold the thermostat in out - be a piss of piss if there wasn't a bloody aircon compressor in the way.
Maybe I missed some blindingly obvious shortcut or access point but, fuck me, what a total joke - and then, it rained.

Everything seems to be unbolt engine mounts and support and shove over…

lads 2006 fiesta water pump & PAS pump needed changing.. could barely get my hand on it ….  So he ignored the racket and cooked it a few weeks later.. 

[EyesWeldedShut]

6 hours ago, Low ontime said:

Everything seems to be unbolt engine mounts and support and shove over…

lads 2006 fiesta water pump & PAS pump needed changing.. could barely get my hand on it ….  So he ignored the racket and cooked it a few weeks later.. 

We looked at the water pump in case it was the source of the leak and were delighted to find that it wasn't - very awkward place that's in to be sure.
We just couldn't get onto one bolt for the thermostat as the clips holding the coolant pipes on were underneath - between the compressor and the thermostat - and we couldn't release them until we got the fitting off but we couldn't get to the bolt because the clips blocked the access.
Bloody faff.

[Dyslexic Viking]

My back failed on Monday and I'm still not good, hardly got out of bed today. And nothing seems to make it better.

[Mally]

19 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

My back failed on Monday and I'm still not good, hardly got out of bed today. And nothing seems to make it better.

I stick those heat patches on my clothes, eases after a couple of days if I rest.

Likely you don't have a £1 shop  any where near where you live though.