The grumpy thread

[Dyslexic Viking]

20 minutes ago, Yoss said:

Could you tell me more about the car in the background? 😉

This one?

 

[95 quid Peugeot]

On 18/07/2024 at 09:32, Bren said:

I have used ebay for over 20 years.

Yesterday - for the first time - I left negative feeback.

I have had issues with the seller before but gave them another chance - like last time it was engine oil. Last time it turned up after I opened a dispute - this time it failed to arrive after 14 days. They claimed it was lost in transit but it never appeared to have been dispatched.

No more chances.

Was that carousel car parts ?   ive just left my first 2 Negs in 23 years  for oil not turning up, never sent, but still in stock at double the price  

[Split_Pin]

Post.

2010.

MGs.

Are.

Not.

The.

Same.

Just in response to posts on MG and Rover FB pages of these awful things.

That is all.

[Bren]

4 hours ago, 95 quid Peugeot said:

Was that carousel car parts ?   ive just left my first 2 Negs in 23 years  for oil not turning up, never sent, but still in stock at double the price  

It was.

[95 quid Peugeot]

Just now, Bren said:

It was.

Snap

[Zelandeth]

If you operate a business and have a website which lists things like opening hours, please keep it up to date.  It is exceptionally annoying for your prospective customers to drive an hour to get to you to find that you closed for lunch ten minutes before they arrived, when your website does not make any mention of closing in the middle of the day.  Especially when said customer specifically made a point of *checking* the aforementioned website before setting out to make sure you wouldn't be closed for lunch when he got there.

Pissed off Zel is pissed off.

[Jazoli]

29 minutes ago, 95 quid Peugeot said:

Snap

And me

[High Jetter]

17 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

If you operate a business and have a website which lists things like opening hours, please keep it up to date.  It is exceptionally annoying for your prospective customers to drive an hour to get to you to find that you closed for lunch ten minutes before they arrived, when your website does not make any mention of closing in the middle of the day.  Especially when said customer specifically made a point of *checking* the aforementioned website before setting out to make sure you wouldn't be closed for lunch when he got there.

Pissed off Zel is pissed off.

It will be interesting to hear what they say when they return, eagerly* awaiting your custom.

[barefoot]

You could make a start repainting their front door whilst you wait for them to return. 

[Pieman]

Every time I have a weekend I am not working, I invite friends to come and maybe spend time with me.  Every time, they come up with an excuse a couple of days before and cancel on me.

I don't have any friends who live close to me and my girlfriend died last year.  Is it too much to ask to have something to look forward to in life other than working and sitting in my house?

[wuvvum]

1 hour ago, Bren said:

It was.

 

1 hour ago, 95 quid Peugeot said:

Snap

 

1 hour ago, Jazoli said:

And me

I assume that means I'm not going to receive my 10 litres of 20W50 and two cans of engine flush for £14.87 then?  Sigh.

[95 quid Peugeot]

39 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

 

 

I assume that means I'm not going to receive my 10 litres of 20W50 and two cans of engine flush for £14.87 then?  Sigh.

That was my exact order, so I'd say sadly no

[meggersdog]

I employ a part time mot assistant, a single mother who works during school hours.She has three children in full time education. Previously the social were paying towards her rent and that was it, no free school meals no help with anything else. She has now been forced onto universal credit but because of her hours she has to have an interview and sign on. First couple of times she has had to take time off work.I am not paying her to sign on so her wages are down. They have now agreed to a telephone interview and this is my grump.

We don't have avery good mobile signal here so my assistant gave them the works number. So today I answer the phone to an 0800 number. As usual I answer with the name of the company. "err, what" I repeat the name of the company "oh, I was told to ring this number by a person"  Okay well I am a person so who did want to speak to. ( for the purpose of this let's call my assistant Jane) . " I want to speak to Jane"  sure who's calling " I AM NOT GIVING YOU MY NAME" erm, sorry "it's got nothing to do with you." she shouted . Oh says I " look it's a business matter with Jane and nothing to do with you"  with the phone in hand I went into the workshop and found Jane. Holding the phone near my face I loudly inform Jane there is some arsey woman on the phone for her.

WTF a not very civil, civil servant. If I am paying someone by the hour then taking them away from their work to answer a phonecall   has a lot to do with me.  

[Datsuncog]

6 minutes ago, meggersdog said:

WTF a not very civil, civil servant.

If it's to do with Universal Credit applications, that'll be someone from an outsourced Capita call centre.

[meggersdog]

gotcha, a really horrible person

[loserone]

9 minutes ago, meggersdog said:

gotcha, a person in a really horrible job with a shit employer 

Might also just be this 

[meggersdog]

Probaby not. The horribe woman shouting down the phone came across as a Mrs Raven type.

[Blunderguts]

If it's anything to do with benefits you'll be dealing with people who wouldn't survive five minutes in the real world.

You could also be dealing with these moronic health assessments where the people don't listen to what is said thus causing your benefits to get stopped.

Bunch of lying fuckwits the lot of them.

Oh oh! Not forgetting the so-called disability advisor at my local jobcentre. He called me the least desirable on the books when I caught him lying about an appointment he claimed to have made for me. He tried to force me to sign a jobseekers agreement that involved cleaning toilets. This to someone with an engineering qualification.

I'm not signing that you spineless little cunt.

This same wanker called a guy who suffered with depression, undesirable because of his condition.

Bigoted cunt.

All I'll say is the tribunal took a really dim view of this cunt's behaviour towards me.

The DWP employ a whole lot of shit people though there are some good ones.

Oh, by the way. The people assessing applications for disability benefits aren't qualified to do so. Found that out during a different tribunal against these shits.

[sheffcortinacentre]

Mainly because they weren't intelligent enough to get a better job for themselves.

[sheffcortinacentre]

5 hours ago, Pieman said:

Every time I have a weekend I am not working, I invite friends to come and maybe spend time with me.  Every time, they come up with an excuse a couple of days before and cancel on me.

I don't have any friends who live close to me and my girlfriend died last year.  Is it too much to ask to have something to look forward to in life other than working and sitting in my house?

Yes it is  , welcome to my life.

[Pieman]

In that case, I give up.

[jakebullet]

Mechanic pissing me about again. Phoned him last Friday, right kid you're in the book for Thursday this week. Knowing I'm going to prolly get pissed around I check yesterday. Ah... well I've got a complicated one come in for Thursday so maybe won't be doing yours.

Is it too much to think that if you're in the book he should be telling other people who come along later unlucky, not me?

Then today I book the cinema. 10 minutes later he phones up, somebody cancelled, can you come now? Er, no. Maybe Friday then kid.

[cobblers]

Went in to a modern "food court" thing today. Not far off the middle of town, but zero phone signal inside it on EE or O2.

They insist that you scan a QR code to log your car onto the parking app.

They insist that you scan a QR code to look at the menu and order food.

"Use the wifi" they said:

This was the wifi:

Which provided no working internet connection, so we gave up and went somewhere else.

Half an hour later, my wife got an email saying "we saw you parked in our car park but didn't pay, we'd ordinarily fine you but we'll let you off this first time because you were only there ten minutes". Fuck knows how they got her email address!!!!! Presumably from one of the other parking apps she uses.

After this, we went to look at a big fridge for our new house. 80% of them had WIFI, I had to actively avoid WIFI enabled fridges!!!!

One of them had a fucking camera inside it and a 24" LCD on the outside, in order to view the food that is inside the fridge using a camera. Give me fucking strength man!"!!!!!!!

[Pieman]

What happens if I throw my smartphone away and refuse to replace it?  Am I not allowed to live?

[cobblers]

Just now, Pieman said:

What happens if I throw my smartphone away and refuse to replace it?  Am I not allowed to live?

I'm very much considering this, and getting some basic phone that I can't make myself miserable scrolling bad news for 5 hours a day

[myglaren]

Mine is capable of it but I only use it to text (never speak to) people, use as a shopping list, a Kindle reader and a camera.

Sometimes as a satnav and mp3 player in the car.

[IronStar]

8 hours ago, Pieman said:

Every time I have a weekend I am not working, I invite friends to come and maybe spend time with me.  Every time, they come up with an excuse a couple of days before and cancel on me.

I don't have any friends who live close to me and my girlfriend died last year.  Is it too much to ask to have something to look forward to in life other than working and sitting in my house?

Try talking to them about how you were looking forward to it, it’s important to you, and that  you can’t make plans of they cancel on short notice. People usually don’t have a bad intentions, but often forget that this may severely impact or inconvenience others. 

[Sigmund Fraud]

1 hour ago, Pieman said:

What happens if I throw my smartphone away and refuse to replace it?  Am I not allowed to live?

I've never owned a smartphone, and I'm very much still alive.

There are at least 2-3 occasions every week when someone instructs me to "scan this QR code" or "download this app". I respond by showing them my battered old Nokia and asking if there's an alternative way. So far, there has always been an alternative way to get things done.

[sheffcortinacentre]

3 hours ago, Pieman said:

What happens if I throw my smartphone away and refuse to replace it?  Am I not allowed to live?

The looks I get when I say I haven't got one & don't want one , you'd think I'd just asked if I could shag their wife 

[EyesWeldedShut]

8 hours ago, myglaren said:

Sometimes as a satnav and mp3 player in the car.

My old phone lives in the glovebox and is our mp3 player - bluetooths though a Chinesium dongle to the radio - couple of thousand tracks set to random but there's a few playlists if needed. It will satnav using Google or Apple maps but my tourettes and blood pressure prefer using an atlas and/or memory mostly. (Satnav retained for final stages of unknown destinations where previous recce with Google StreetSpy has not been 100%)

My 'real phone' often stays at home as I'm usually accompanied by a doom scrolling family member should we need to (God forbid) make a phonecall or some other life changing functionality like saving thirty seconds by pre-ordering a McDonalds. (In true life-balancing karma that saved thirty seconds is negated by the artery hardening saturated fats then consumed?)

7 hours ago, Sigmund Fraud said:

So far, there has always been an alternative way to get things done.

Ditto on this - I guess there's a degree of FOMO involved for some people though? Trouble is that they are then fecked if the forget/lose/discharge their smartphone - self reliance is now digitally based?  
There's also now an expectation that we have, at the very least, internet access and that seems to be morphing into the SmartPhone - e.g. RyanAir have a £55 fee for airport check in if you do not do so online prior to travel - I can see the online bit shifting to 'app based'.

Back to my gifferdom, thank you for reading.