The grumpy thread

[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]

[chadders]

36 minutes ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

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.

Sometimes you can agree, as their manager, references etc. for staff who are leaving and are then get over ruled by HR. All future employers reference requests went straight to HR where I've worked so a couple of times they were told to send them to me as their line manager. In both cases their previous managers had been absolute cunts and given them written warnings because they wouldn't kowtow to their bullying.

[EyesWeldedShut]

Just now, chadders said:

Sometimes you can agree, as their manager, references etc. for staff who are leaving and are then get over ruled by HR. All future employers reference requests went straight to HR where I've worked so a couple of times they were told to send them to me as their line manager. In both cases their previous managers had been absolute cunts and given them written warnings because they wouldn't kowtow to their bullying.

This lot it's the partners that are were the problem - promising the earth to a lot of the younger staff and then binning them off with an NDA once the scales had started falling from their eyes.
Everything (from their end) is stitched up tighter than my wallet so the youngsters just accept it and move on. My feeling is that it's very common in certain 'trades' as a way of screwing 120% out of junior staff then giving them the flick.

[chadders]

2 minutes ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

This lot it's the partners that are were the problem - promising the earth to a lot of the younger staff and then binning them off with an NDA once the scales had started falling from their eyes.
Everything (from their end) is stitched up tighter than my wallet so the youngsters just accept it and move on. My feeling is that it's very common in certain 'trades' as a way of screwing 120% out of junior staff then giving them the flick.

Consultancy is like that in my experience, especially the US ones.

[GeorgeB]

8 hours ago, alcyonecorporation said:

VAG: absolute cunts. 

FTFY

[New POD]

9 hours ago, Mally said:

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

Yes, that's the Lancashire way.  None of those namby pamby southern soft wokisms here you know.  Said with irony and sarcasm. 

 

[Metal Guru]

14 hours ago, artdjones said:

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

Just a modest proposal.

I’m not even sure who has the mental health problem here.

[reb]

Yesterday I left my phone on silent in the other room all day because I was busy being busy.

Picked it up at 5 to a million missed calls, seemingly it's already been a month since the last injection to stop me going proper insane. Now need to go into town today to get that, which is a pain in the arse because I have quite a bit of work to be doing, could do with not having to piss around on buses today.

Plus I got hungry at 2am and ate what was supposed to be tonights dinner.

[Split_Pin]

As some may be aware I lost my dad in March this year. My mum has had some kind of unshiftable issue with her ear for months and was quite quickly referred to the hospital. I phoned her last night and she said when she went there yesterday, she was met by a consultant surgeon. That's not good news. He took a look and said there didn't appear to be anything sinister but she's now booked in for a scan. 

I hope it's nothing serious. 

[Stinkwheel]

The Maestro is dead.

Bunged in for MOT to see what it might fail on rust wise before doing anymore work. Answer is welding, lots and lots of welding. Mostly in awkward areas and tricky to do without stripping out front end completely, and the misses needs transport, so its dead.

Welsh small roads, salt, various types of animal shit (not shite) and the humid and damp environment here have polished it off. 

Oh well, never mind, next.

[BorniteIdentity]

30 minutes ago, Stinkwheel said:

The Maestro is dead.

Bunged in for MOT to see what it might fail on rust wise before doing anymore work. Answer is welding, lots and lots of welding. Mostly in awkward areas and tricky to do without stripping out front end completely, and the misses needs transport, so its dead.

Welsh small roads, salt, various types of animal shit (not shite) and the humid and damp environment here have polished it off. 

Oh well, never mind, next.

Get it up on here. All you need is a maestro sympathiser who can weld (ahem @Angrydicky) and it may well live to fight another day.

[Stinkwheel]

2 minutes ago, BorniteIdentity said:

Get it up on here. All you need is a maestro sympathiser who can weld (ahem @Angrydicky) and it may well live to fight another day.

Mate, i would, but im a Maestro sympathiser who can weld. And even I dont want to do it 🤣 Its failed 'badly'  on rust. I looked at the bits mentioned, cornflakes city

Seriously though, it will get advertised as being 'Free to any taker' on here for the brave/masochistic on here. Annoying that i took care of the rear suspension now, but thats old cars for you

[Split_Pin]

29 minutes ago, Stinkwheel said:

rear suspension

@JMotor, could this be a better solution to your Corsa D dampers perhaps? Or other suspensio-parts-finding related headaches that might arise in the future?

[JMotor]

On 28/11/2024 at 11:48, Split_Pin said:

@JMotor, could this be a better solution to your Corsa D dampers perhaps? Or other suspensio-parts-finding related headaches that might arise in the future?

It was Corsa D bump stops I got cheap with some part number searching. Managed to get Maestro rear dampers, the bump stops had gone all dust on mine.

Would sooo be interested in parts off that thing. Or too tempting to get the whole car if getting it transported wasn't going to be mental money.

[Zelandeth]

Just had to fix a water leak under the bath in the main bathroom.

Another old pipe run that had been capped off rather than removed.  With a plastic push fit cap on a copper pipe.  Which hadn't apparently been fitted properly.

Removed, pipe deburred properly and a proper metal compression fitting blanking cap fitted.  Now I've got to fix the utility room ceiling.  Again.  That's the...fourth, I think...leak I've had under that sodding bath.  I keep thinking I've found and checked everything that could leak, but keep finding more!  Hadn't even seen that pipe existed as it was buried right at the back hidden by building debris (because why would you both removing and disposing of rubble when you can just leave it behind?).

I guess on the plus side this was just a drip.  The last one was a push fit fitting that came off downstream of the pump for the shower, which successfully emptied the entire cold water header tank in the time it took me to get to the isolator - which was probably a couple of minutes at most.

[JMotor]

Sad to hear about the Maestro @Stinkwheel.

But I know where you are coming from too. Had this dilemma with a Vectra B estate I had. Just kept finding more and more rust. Just gave up in the end. 

[High Jetter]

Just back from a train ride to the next town to try and get hands-on with some music keyboards. Neither shop had anything I wanted out on display, never mind plugged in and available to demo - despite their websites saying they had some in stock. Got back to the car and found someone had dented the OSF wing of the MG.