The grumpy thread

[bunglebus]

1 hour ago, BorniteIdentity said:

I do say to folks who live near London that it's worth setting up autopay for your car, even if you don't intend to go in the zone.  That way, if you do stray past a camera, it's £12.50 not £180

Done, thanks

[Metal Guru]

40 minutes ago, DavieW said:

Got 4 new tyres fitted to the company car yesterday Kwik Fit (lease company says we have to use them).  I was going go to remove the valve caps in case they forgot to replace them, but decided not to. 

Got car back but didn't check till I got home, guess what - no caps. Managed to blag 4 from the Mercedes garage I was in this morning though. 

You can a pack of 20 for 99p on eBay.

 

[Floatylight]

3 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Remember this leaky twat printer from the other week? It had one more trick up its sleeve. I bagged it up at the time and put in the outhouse while I decided whether to have a moan at Tesco about the cartridge. It was in the way so I put it in the recycling bin outside. Today I thought I'd do a nice simple job of picking up all the leaves Bert had deposited everywhere. Moved the bins to get the leaves out and thought WTF is all this black everywhere? Yep, ink, diluted just enough by the rain to fill the bin and leak out all over the path. 

The fucker's in the main bin now, and the neighbours are twitching the curtains while I wash the tin cans on the lawn

Reminds me of the day many years ago when i was an IT hardware engineer and first call of the day was to a HP Deskjet, something like a 690 with registration issues, i took it off the desk in the middle of someones office and tipped it backwards resting it between the front lip of the desk and my knees whilst i was sat on the office chair, i'd been working on it for about 10 mins when i put it back on the desk and noticed a huge puddle of ink on the light coloured carpet, i then noticed my black trousers were wet.

Had to get bin bags on the car seat and go home for a bath, was scrubbing ink off my legs for weeks!

[chaseracer]

2 minutes ago, Floatylight said:

Reminds me of the day many years ago when i was an IT hardware engineer and first call of the day was to a HP Deskjet, something like a 690 with registration issues, i took it off the desk in the middle of someones office and tipped it backwards resting it between the front lip of the desk and my knees whilst i was sat on the office chair, i'd been working on it for about 10 mins when i put it back on the desk and noticed a huge puddle of ink on the light coloured carpet, i then noticed my black trousers were wet.

Had to get bin bags on the car seat and go home for a bath, was scrubbing ink off my legs for weeks!

O HAPPY* DAYS!

I recall Mr Sims collecting a big HP printer from a school near Rugeley in one of the pool Scudos, then failing to strap it down hard enough to deal with the emergency stop he had to do on the A51...

[Floatylight]

10 minutes ago, chaseracer said:

O HAPPY* DAYS!

I recall Mr Sims collecting a big HP printer from a school near Rugeley in one of the pool Scudos, then failing to strap it down hard enough to deal with the emergency stop he had to do on the A51...

I remember that..

Do you remember one of our team reversing the Bedford Midi down a flights of steps (by mistake) it was only a few days later it became evident he'd crushed the fuel tank.

[vulgalour]

Job Centre.

Suffice to say they cannot grasp the concept of a person who lives in a house share and pays for rent and bills inclusive and therefore has no utility bills in their name.  All this because my rent went up £25.  I should be able to use my driving license to prove ID but there's no way of uploading that properly (you need a check code too from a government site, for some reason) on the online system, so you have to do it a janky way where you upload the image file and then make a note separately in your Journal because apparently they can't read the check note you wrote down in the same image as the driving license.

It's just stressing me the fuck out.  I reported this change in October and all that keeps happening is they keep declining the documents I provide and then asking for the exact same documents, which they then decline.

 

[artdjones]

21 minutes ago, Floatylight said:

Reminds me of the day many years ago when i was an IT hardware engineer and first call of the day was to a HP Deskjet, something like a 690 with registration issues, i took it off the desk in the middle of someones office and tipped it backwards resting it between the front lip of the desk and my knees whilst i was sat on the office chair, i'd been working on it for about 10 mins when i put it back on the desk and noticed a huge puddle of ink on the light coloured carpet, i then noticed my black trousers were wet.

Had to get bin bags on the car seat and go home for a bath, was scrubbing ink off my legs for weeks!

About 20 years ago I bought one of those cartridge refill kits that used a syringe. It went very, very wrong. So I had to go to a wedding two days later with indelibly black fingers. I wasn't popular with my wife.

[bunglebus]

4 minutes ago, vulgalour said:

Job Centre

It's pretty clear their job is to find ways not to pay you if at all possible

[comfortablynumb]

Yeah, just had to get a letter for swombo for UC, £56 from the doctor, and now they tell me that they can't look at it on the system because they're not medically trained.....🤦

[Remspoor]

7 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Remember this leaky twat printer from the other week? It had one more trick up its sleeve. I bagged it up at the time and put in the outhouse while I decided whether to have a moan at Tesco about the cartridge. It was in the way so I put it in the recycling bin outside. Today I thought I'd do a nice simple job of picking up all the leaves Bert had deposited everywhere. Moved the bins to get the leaves out and thought WTF is all this black everywhere? Yep, ink, diluted just enough by the rain to fill the bin and leak out all over the path. 

The fucker's in the main bin now, and the neighbours are twitching the curtains while I wash the tin cans on the lawn

[jakebullet]

Mad Jean tiem:

I get so down and depressed because., i am so lonely and a lot of people are so unfriendly towards me. I have not been out of my home for months anf i sit and cry because, i love people and i love been with them,my own family even never even ring me up, i and my husband are just sat in our small living room. The sad thing is i was in a church chorus were i live and some members were very unfriendly towards me and i felt unwanted and rejected. I HAD BEEN IN THIS CHORUS FOR ABOUT 20 YEARS. AND BECAUSE I FELT MADE UPSET AND UNWELCOMED FEELING I FELT THAT I BETTER GET OUT AND IT HAS BROKEN ME BECAUSE, I LOVE TO SING VERY MUCH SO, I CAME OUT NOW ABOUT 3 OR 4 MONTHS AGO AND NOT ONE SINGLE MEMBER HAS NOT EVEN CONTACTED ME AND IT,S EVEN PUT ME OFF BOTHERING TO ANY OF THE CHURCHES WHERE I LIVE, I WOULD AT LEAST THOUGHT ONE MEMBER WOULD HAVE RANG ME UP TO ASK HOW I WAS FEELING SO THAT HAS MADE ME FEEL EVEN MORE DEPRESSED. LUCKLY I AM A CHRISTIAN AND I HAVE JESUS HAS  MY BEST FRIEND SO IHAVE HIM TO TALK TO IN PRAYER. SINGIG HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE THING THAT I HAVE ALWAYS LOVE AND TO BE INVOLVED IN AD STILL WOULD VERY MUCH LIKE TO GO AND SING. THE TROUBLE IS THIS CHORUS IS RUN BY NONE TRAINED CONDUCTOR AND THE OTHER THING IS HE HAS CLIQUES AND OFCOURSE I A NOT ONE OF THEM. ANYWAY I AM RICHER THAN THEM WITH HAVING JESUS AS MY BEST,FATHFUL FRIEND AND SAVIOUR AND JESUS WILL NEVER TURN ME AWAY OR REJECT ME ,HE UNDERSTANDS BECAUSE,HE HIMSELF WAS DISPISED AND REJECTED AND WAS CRUCIFIED AND DIED HUNG , NAILED TO A CROSS AND JUST BEFORE HE DIED HE SAID IT IS FINISHED AND FORGIVE THEM FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO , THESE WORDS KEEP GOING ROUND INSIDE MY HEAD. I PRAISE AND THANK HIM FOR DOINGTHIS FOR ME   ,FOR GIVING HIS OWN LIFE THAT I MIGHT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE, I CAN,T PRAISE AND THANK JESUS ENOUGH FOR SUFFERING SO MUCH AND DYING AND GIVING HIS OWN LIFE FOR ME THAT I MIGHT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE. I PRAISE HIM AND LOVE HIM AND THANK EHIM EVERYDAY AND I INTEND TO DO THIS UNTIL HE TAKES ME BY HIS HANDS AND THROUGH HIS GOLDEN GATEES TO THE PLACE HE HAS PREPARED FOR ME, A PLACE OF MANY MANSIONS. IT WILL BE A GLORIOUS DAY WHEN I GET TO HEAVEN, JESUS WILL BE THERE READY AND WAITING TO WELCOME ME, I WILL NOT BE TURNED OUT, I WILL BE ACCEPTED WITH OPENED ARMS, THE LOVING ARMS OF  JESUS. THANK YOU JESUS.

Poor Jean. Perhaps if you stopped attacking everyone they would interact with you?

Also, the internet says 170K die each day, and 31.2% of the world are Christians. So if Jesus never sleeps and stands on the gate constantly, that's 1.63 seconds each. Perhaps he's like santa, and has a large team of stand in Jesus lookalikes to handle the day to day work stuff. I guess if you want an afternoon with Jesus you have to book and wait a few thousand years?

[artdjones]

35 minutes ago, jakebullet said:

Mad Jean tiem:

I get so down and depressed because., i am so lonely and a lot of people are so unfriendly towards me. I have not been out of my home for months anf i sit and cry because, i love people and i love been with them,my own family even never even ring me up, i and my husband are just sat in our small living room. The sad thing is i was in a church chorus were i live and some members were very unfriendly towards me and i felt unwanted and rejected. I HAD BEEN IN THIS CHORUS FOR ABOUT 20 YEARS. AND BECAUSE I FELT MADE UPSET AND UNWELCOMED FEELING I FELT THAT I BETTER GET OUT AND IT HAS BROKEN ME BECAUSE, I LOVE TO SING VERY MUCH SO, I CAME OUT NOW ABOUT 3 OR 4 MONTHS AGO AND NOT ONE SINGLE MEMBER HAS NOT EVEN CONTACTED ME AND IT,S EVEN PUT ME OFF BOTHERING TO ANY OF THE CHURCHES WHERE I LIVE, I WOULD AT LEAST THOUGHT ONE MEMBER WOULD HAVE RANG ME UP TO ASK HOW I WAS FEELING SO THAT HAS MADE ME FEEL EVEN MORE DEPRESSED. LUCKLY I AM A CHRISTIAN AND I HAVE JESUS HAS  MY BEST FRIEND SO IHAVE HIM TO TALK TO IN PRAYER. SINGIG HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE THING THAT I HAVE ALWAYS LOVE AND TO BE INVOLVED IN AD STILL WOULD VERY MUCH LIKE TO GO AND SING. THE TROUBLE IS THIS CHORUS IS RUN BY NONE TRAINED CONDUCTOR AND THE OTHER THING IS HE HAS CLIQUES AND OFCOURSE I A NOT ONE OF THEM. ANYWAY I AM RICHER THAN THEM WITH HAVING JESUS AS MY BEST,FATHFUL FRIEND AND SAVIOUR AND JESUS WILL NEVER TURN ME AWAY OR REJECT ME ,HE UNDERSTANDS BECAUSE,HE HIMSELF WAS DISPISED AND REJECTED AND WAS CRUCIFIED AND DIED HUNG , NAILED TO A CROSS AND JUST BEFORE HE DIED HE SAID IT IS FINISHED AND FORGIVE THEM FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO , THESE WORDS KEEP GOING ROUND INSIDE MY HEAD. I PRAISE AND THANK HIM FOR DOINGTHIS FOR ME   ,FOR GIVING HIS OWN LIFE THAT I MIGHT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE, I CAN,T PRAISE AND THANK JESUS ENOUGH FOR SUFFERING SO MUCH AND DYING AND GIVING HIS OWN LIFE FOR ME THAT I MIGHT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE. I PRAISE HIM AND LOVE HIM AND THANK EHIM EVERYDAY AND I INTEND TO DO THIS UNTIL HE TAKES ME BY HIS HANDS AND THROUGH HIS GOLDEN GATEES TO THE PLACE HE HAS PREPARED FOR ME, A PLACE OF MANY MANSIONS. IT WILL BE A GLORIOUS DAY WHEN I GET TO HEAVEN, JESUS WILL BE THERE READY AND WAITING TO WELCOME ME, I WILL NOT BE TURNED OUT, I WILL BE ACCEPTED WITH OPENED ARMS, THE LOVING ARMS OF  JESUS. THANK YOU JESUS.

Poor Jean. Perhaps if you stopped attacking everyone they would interact with you?

Also, the internet says 170K die each day, and 31.2% of the world are Christians. So if Jesus never sleeps and stands on the gate constantly, that's 1.63 seconds each. Perhaps he's like santa, and has a large team of stand in Jesus lookalikes to handle the day to day work stuff. I guess if you want an afternoon with Jesus you have to book and wait a few thousand years?

Shouldn't we have a dedicated thread for slagging off people with mental health problems?

Just a modest proposal.

[alcyonecorporation]

VAG cooling systems: absolute cunts. 

[Lord Sterling]

4 minutes ago, alcyonecorporation said:

VAG: absolute cunts. 

EFA.

[New POD]

1 hour ago, artdjones said:

Shouldn't we have a dedicated thread for slagging off people with mental health problems?

Just a modest proposal.

I'm to be trained by work (via MIND) to become one of 40 mental health first aiders on site.  I guess i was an ironic selection by the managers. Most of whom think Mental Health and stress is just a sign of weakness and people should pull themselves together and get on with it. 

[alcyonecorporation]

36 minutes ago, New POD said:

I'm to be trained by work (via MIND) to become one of 40 mental health first aiders on site.  I guess i was an ironic selection by the managers. Most of whom think Mental Health and stress is just a sign of weakness and people should pull themselves together and get on with it. 

The best/worst thing that ever happened to me at my last FT job was getting a bollocking from HR for not filling out an anonymous survey on mental health. 

I declined as I felt that they had no understanding of the subject. 

[New POD]

1 minute ago, alcyonecorporation said:

The best/worst thing that ever happened to me at my last FT job was getting a bollocking from HR for not filling out an anonymous survey on mental health. 

I declined as I felt that they had no understanding of the subject. 

You should have said "Just thinking about filling it in gave me anxiety, and I started having a panic attack" 

[alcyonecorporation]

I don't work for that firm any more. 

One of the managers proudly proclaimed, with zero irony: 'We don't reduce people to tears in review meetings any more, and we're really proud of that.' 

And you just thought the writing was hopeless...

[Mally]

54 minutes ago, alcyonecorporation said:

The best/worst thing that ever happened to me at my last FT job was getting a bollocking from HR for not filling out an anonymous survey on mental health. 

I declined as I felt that they had no understanding of the subject. 

If it was anonymous.

How did they know?

[Mally]

1 hour ago, New POD said:

I'm to be trained by work (via MIND) to become one of 40 mental health first aiders on site.  I guess i was an ironic selection by the managers. Most of whom think Mental Health and stress is just a sign of weakness and people should pull themselves together and get on with it. 

Best give yourself a good talking to as soon as you qualify.

[MikeR]

Just about sums up things .....

[alcyonecorporation]

8 minutes ago, Mally said:

If it was anonymous.

How did they know?

Because it wasn't anonymous, they just said it was anonymous. Same as the workplace quality surveys. 

Reason: they were cunts. Micromanaging cunts. 

[alcyonecorporation]

And for any manager types on here mouthing 'they couldn't have done that,' they fucking did and I was there. Go and enjoy your free shit slice of pizza with HR if you think I'm lying about it. 

[warch]

3 hours ago, alcyonecorporation said:

The best/worst thing that ever happened to me at my last FT job was getting a bollocking from HR for not filling out an anonymous survey on mental health. 

I declined as I felt that they had no understanding of the subject. 

I was once handed a staff appraisal form where I was (and I'm not making this up) asked to make comment on my colleagues personal appearance.

I treated this with the contempt it deserved by docking both of my fellow archaeologists a point because one of them doesn't have enough hair and one of them has too much hair. 

[BorniteIdentity]

2 hours ago, alcyonecorporation said:

Because it wasn't anonymous, they just said it was anonymous. Same as the workplace quality surveys. 

Reason: they were cunts. Micromanaging cunts. 

This completely reinforces what I said a few months ago about being extremely cautious enjoying your employers generous* and confidential** wellbeing services. 

I was jumped all over and lampooned by the regulars on here.  Standard. 

Yet, experience shows time and time again that confidential things should never be discussed at work. They’re slippery little snakes and - guess what - they don’t have your best interests at heart. They have their own. 

Glad you’re out of there @alcyonecorporation

[alcyonecorporation]

In my humble opinion, the people who work in HR are sociopaths. I wouldn't piss on them if they caught fire. 
 

[chadders]

12 minutes ago, alcyonecorporation said:

In my humble opinion, the people who work in HR are sociopaths. I wouldn't piss on them if they caught fire. 
 

Having had to deal with them over the years I agree.

They've got even worse as they've become more 'important'.

[dean36014]

When I worked at DHL years ago, we each issued a individually numbered feedback form that was compulsory to fill in. We never did find out the results as they buried it. Nearly everyone rated them as crap though. 

[EyesWeldedShut]

42 minutes ago, BorniteIdentity said:

This completely reinforces what I said a few months ago about being extremely cautious enjoying your employers generous* and confidential** wellbeing services. 

I was jumped all over and lampooned by the regulars on here.  Standard. 

Yet, experience shows time and time again that confidential things should never be discussed at work. They’re slippery little snakes and - guess what - they don’t have your best interests at heart. They have their own. 

Glad you’re out of there @alcyonecorporation

Sprog #2 has just resurfaced after a shit relationship and ^^^^ loads of this ^^^^ on top of it from her employers.
Work things ended up with an NDA, gardening leave and promises of no bad references just confirmation of work dates.
They've not confirmed jack shit for her since and she's now on her second job after leaving them.
She's much more wary now of the promises* from future employers.

[artdjones]