The grumpy thread

[artdjones]

46 minutes ago, Floatylight said:

Correct! Well spotted..

So, which engine is it?

[AnnoyingPentium]

Oil pissing out. Reek out the back. Fuck me man.

[JJ0063]

6 minutes ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

Oil pissing out. Reek out the back. Fuck me man.

Shat its turbo?

[loserone]

With only 30k on? That's no good.

[robthedonkey]

Grumpy at Royal mail who claimed "delivery attempted no answer" when in actuality there where 2 of us in the household at that time... I expect this sort of bullshit false-flagging from 3rd party couriers, but not Royal mail themselves...
I really wish there was a button on the tracking service to call bullshit it to it, to let them know "actually fuck off with that, there *was* someone in the house at the time you claimed no one was in" (theres not even a sorry we missed you card through the letter box)
EDIT: had to chuckle at the note however  

But royal mail is a 3rd party now private business and the parcel lads now have the same rush as herpes etc

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[Metal Guru]

3 hours ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

Fully accept that some flexibility would be prudent, especially in the case of a child with special needs or somebody otherwise vulnerable.

As a semi-related side note, when I was a student I did a bit of temp working for a GPs surgery as an administrator.  One afternoon I was asked to gather, process and present the data on 'did not attend' (DNA) for appointments, i.e. ones where the patient didn't show up.  After a couple of hours of going through the last three months of appointments, I got to a figure of 25%.  Apparently this was fairly typical.

I admit that this was over a decade ago but if 25% of appointments just aren't attended by the patient then we should be addressing that issue - but I can't recall anybody in power ever talking about it beyond a bit of token hand waving.

Our dentist charges £10 for a no show or cancellation with less than 24hrs notice. 

[AnnoyingPentium]

36 minutes ago, JJ0063 said:

Shat its turbo?

Well lots of smoke, then no smoke, then no oil (as its on the road), and "engine failure" on the dashboard.

[AnnoyingPentium]

36 minutes ago, loserone said:

With only 30k on? That's no good.

Recovered it to my Mum's work. Hoping it's not too expensive.

[Zelandeth]

Just been catching up on some recycling which had been accumulating in the conservatory.  Main task was to flatten several thousand boxes and wedge as many into the recycling bin as possible.  About 30% of the way through I've managed to nicely slice the tip of my left index finger on an edge.  Fluffing hell that stung.

Now plastered up I'm ignoring that job for at least the next seven days!  Typing while down a finger is really awkward.

[danthecapriman]

Frigging Royal Fail!

I bought a new Ethernet cable off eBay for my PlayStation a few weeks back. Payed extra to get it 24hr post. It didn’t turn up. Reported it to eBay after the last expected delivery day, as usual. Seller then decides to put the tracking details up which show it delivered. So I look at the tracking on Royal Mail website - sure enough, delivered, with a lovely little photo of my parcel and some other cunts front door! Ah well, delivered is delivered right!? Who cares where to.

Then today. I have a parcel due to arrive (different courier) so I’m waiting in for that anyway. So I had two parcels to post that I’d sold on eBay so I used Royal Mail’s online service to book and pay for the postage and have them collect the two parcels… as they offer to do it. 
No sign of the postie all day! Then I get two emails saying ‘we’ve successfully completed your collection’… errr. No. I have the parcels here on the side board next to the front door! 
Try the online tracking just out of interest and the bloody tracking has somehow started progressing despite the parcels still being in my hand! How!? Surely they need to scan the barcodes on the parcels when they get collected for that to happen?

Whats happening with Royal Mail. At my old house they were absolutely brilliant but here it’s absolutely shit.

[comfortablynumb]

Royal mail! Yeah, so in the news it said they're only going to do deliveries every other day, particularly for second class?

I must be missing something. It's been like that round here for the last 3 years.

[maxxo]

Usual Thursday evening at art club down in hartlepool 

got a lift there off one of my mates

he fell over and fucked his shoulder so I had to drive us back in his car

74 plate Hyundai Tucson 

One of these but black

fuck me what a nannying car

manoeuvring out the parking space it did an emergency stop and beeped at me, cos it was a tight spot and I had to get close to the car in front at 1mph to get out

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP

oh yes, I dared to venture to 31mph

beep every time a speed limit changed

beep every road sign it saw

braking for me at random

swerving towards parked cars when I was passing on the centre line

 

i mean, it looks great and drives really nicely

nah I can’t be done with moderns

stupid acceleration too

throttle on or off

 

im glad I don’t have a car like that

oh yes, it cost £48k

[Yoss]

3 hours ago, danthecapriman said:

Frigging Royal Fail!

I bought a new Ethernet cable off eBay for my PlayStation a few weeks back. Payed extra to get it 24hr post. It didn’t turn up. Reported it to eBay after the last expected delivery day, as usual. Seller then decides to put the tracking details up which show it delivered. So I look at the tracking on Royal Mail website - sure enough, delivered, with a lovely little photo of my parcel and some other cunts front door! Ah well, delivered is delivered right!? Who cares where to.

Then today. I have a parcel due to arrive (different courier) so I’m waiting in for that anyway. So I had two parcels to post that I’d sold on eBay so I used Royal Mail’s online service to book and pay for the postage and have them collect the two parcels… as they offer to do it. 
No sign of the postie all day! Then I get two emails saying ‘we’ve successfully completed your collection’… errr. No. I have the parcels here on the side board next to the front door! 
Try the online tracking just out of interest and the bloody tracking has somehow started progressing despite the parcels still being in my hand! How!? Surely they need to scan the barcodes on the parcels when they get collected for that to happen?

Whats happening with Royal Mail. At my old house they were absolutely brilliant but here it’s absolutely shit.

I can't really explain any of that, especially the pick up. As you say, we have to scan the packets when we pick them up. It's beyond me. 

As for the rest of it, it's all part of the race to the bottom I'm afraid. We now have a two tier workforce. Anybody taken on in the last year or two is on less money, longer hours and worse conditions (like no paid breaks). What they are getting paid isn't much more than minimum wage (the minimum wage keeps going up faster than our own pay rises). 

Then the way we do things was changed quite dramatically around the same time. Most deliveries in our office were shared vans. So two people working together from one van. They would take everything for their area from letters to the biggest packets. Now we have DPRs, dedicated parcel routes. They take all the bigger packets but just do packets and nothing else. But that didn't make the shared van duties easier because they made them all longer to make up for doing less packets. 

Anyway most of these new starters are the guys doing the DPRs. And they have no incentive to do the job any better than any of the other couriers because they are on basically the same terms. 

When I started 34 years ago it was seen as a career. There were plenty of old boys there who had never done anything else. Some had started as telegram boys! Nobody comes into it now thinking of it as anything other than a stop gap until something better comes along so they have no reason to care. The staff turnover at the lower end is huge. 

This is the future. I've got around ten years until retirement so I'm just going to stay and watch the company fall apart around me. 

 

[Barry Cade]

No words..

 

[sheffcortinacentre]

Common practice everywhere now.

[danthecapriman]

13 hours ago, Yoss said:

I can't really explain any of that, especially the pick up. As you say, we have to scan the packets when we pick them up. It's beyond me. 

As for the rest of it, it's all part of the race to the bottom I'm afraid. We now have a two tier workforce. Anybody taken on in the last year or two is on less money, longer hours and worse conditions (like no paid breaks). What they are getting paid isn't much more than minimum wage (the minimum wage keeps going up faster than our own pay rises). 

Then the way we do things was changed quite dramatically around the same time. Most deliveries in our office were shared vans. So two people working together from one van. They would take everything for their area from letters to the biggest packets. Now we have DPRs, dedicated parcel routes. They take all the bigger packets but just do packets and nothing else. But that didn't make the shared van duties easier because they made them all longer to make up for doing less packets. 

Anyway most of these new starters are the guys doing the DPRs. And they have no incentive to do the job any better than any of the other couriers because they are on basically the same terms. 

When I started 34 years ago it was seen as a career. There were plenty of old boys there who had never done anything else. Some had started as telegram boys! Nobody comes into it now thinking of it as anything other than a stop gap until something better comes along so they have no reason to care. The staff turnover at the lower end is huge. 

This is the future. I've got around ten years until retirement so I'm just going to stay and watch the company fall apart around me. 

 

Shit! I didn’t know things had got so bad at Royal Mail. Although most big companies are like it now. Squeeze as much as possible out of everyone and everything in exchange for as little as they can get away with.

The pick up thing is bizarre. I used to get on well with our old postie back when I was in Waterlooville and she showed me the little scanner thingy one day and how it all worked, sure enough when she scanned the label on the parcel shortly after an email came through to say it had been collected. Then when the parcel goes through various other parts of its journey and gets scanned again, that’s when the tracking details update through to delivery. 
Im not sure how the system has managed to do what it has here though. How can it begin tracking when it hasn’t been scanned!? Even weirder is it’s doing it on two separate parcels! 
I do have a theory, though obviously it’s nothing more. That maybe the postie had some labels in the van (although I’d specified they didn’t need them as I print my own) and they couldn’t be bothered to collect so scanned the spare labels in the van. 
It does seem very slack here. Back in Waterlooville it was really good, couldn’t really fault it. Here I’ve had the above two problems and a big parcel with loads of Xmas presents inside for family up north disappeared without trace at Coleford depot. They collected it, the tracking started and got to Coleford depot then just stopped and the parcel never arrived. Tracking never updated again and so far over a month later they haven’t found it or updated us on our complaint and compensation claim for it. 
The complaint and claim I made for the Ethernet cable that was delivered to the wrong address has gone unanswered now for going on a week.

Still, hopefully tomorrow I can get the two parcels to the Coleford depot and actually get them into the system on their way. I shan’t bother arguing or saying anything though, it’s not the person at the offices fault and as long as they get posted I don’t care at this point.
 

[grizz]

Many many of these selfish fuckrrs seen regularly. 

[Rustybullethole]

Got a lot of love for the nhs but their pants are shit! I'll spare you all a pic of me in them though will add revealing and itchy!

The socks are cosy in comparison.

[Datsuncog]

If January could just stop kicking us all in the balls, that'd be great.

This'll teach me for going up to the dump, where screws and nails frolic with wild abandon across the tarmac and no-one ever sweeps up.

The spare, which was supposedly repaired a month or two ago after a puncture in identical circumstances, is also not holding air - it's every bit as soft as the one I took off, and of course didn't realise until after I'd swapped them over. Used my daft little Draper compressor to at least get enough pressure in it to drive on.

Booked in for two new tyres (and tracking) on Monday, since apparently fast-fit places don't keep tyres in stock anymore, they just hold them all in a central warehouse. And don't do Saturdays.

Marvellous.

[artdjones]

2 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

Booked in for two new tyres (and tracking) on Monday, since apparently fast-fit places don't keep tyres in stock anymore, they just hold them all in a central warehouse.

You're better off at an independent. The prices are the same, anyway. They'll have stock of most popular sizes. And normally you just turn up and wait in the queue.

[Datsuncog]

10 minutes ago, artdjones said:

You're better off at an independent. The prices are the same, anyway. They'll have stock of most popular sizes. And normally you just turn up and wait in the queue.

It is an independent:

https://www.magowantyres.co.uk/

There aren't any chains locally at all anymore; I'd have to travel about fifteen miles over to the far side of Belfast if I wanted to go to a branch of Kwik Fit (and I don't).

I used to use ATS but they pulled out of Northern Ireland about twenty years ago.

Despite saying they do same day fitting, the only tyres Magowan's could offer me today were a pair of HiFlys which would need brought down from their other branch at Mallusk, and after lots of fun* with a set of cheapie Stomils some years back, I find I don't much care for budget ditchfinders.

Davantis ordered.

[horriblemercedes]

11 hours ago, danthecapriman said:

Shit! I didn’t know things had got so bad at Royal Mail. Although Maoist big companies are like it now. Squeeze as much as possible out of everyone and everything in exchange for as little as they can get away with.
 

I feel ignorant, but that doesn't seem very Maoist (at least in theory) to me. Wasn't it to do with the industrialisation of rural working class people?

[artdjones]

2 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

It is an independent:

https://www.magowantyres.co.uk/

There aren't any chains locally at all anymore; I'd have to travel about fifteen miles over to the far side of Belfast if I wanted to go to Kwik Fit (and I don't).

Despite saying they do same day fitting, the only tyres they could offer me today were a pair of HiFlys which would need brought down from their other branch at Mallusk, and after lots of fun* with a set of cheapie Stomils some years back, I find I don't much care for budget ditchfinders.

 

Pretty poor service. All the ones around here keep good stocks. If I was desperate there's a tyre dealer about 12 miles away who's also a wholesalers. They have a gigantic shed absolutely stuffed with every conceivable size by the roadside miles from any village. It's bad that you can't get a common size in what seems to be a pretty urban environment.

[artdjones]

3 minutes ago, horriblemercedes said:

I feel ignorant, but that doesn't seem very Maoist (at least in theory) to me. Wasn't it to do with the industrialisation of rural working class people?

I think it's predictive text mangling the word most. Although the companies he's describing seem to be run on a similarly productive basis to Maoism during the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution.

[danthecapriman]

29 minutes ago, horriblemercedes said:

I feel ignorant, but that doesn't seem very Maoist (at least in theory) to me. Wasn't it to do with the industrialisation of rural working class people?

I have to admit, I read that and was wondering wtf you were going on about. Then I read my own post and realised that somehow my iPad has somehow changed the word ‘most’ for ‘Maoist’!😆

Ive edited the post now to say ‘most’.

Which leads me on to another grump. 
iPad’s. Why is the predictive text thing so shit!? I’m not sure you can turn it off either?

[comfortablynumb]

Try going into a specialist tyre place and asking about 10 inch tyres.

They look at you like your brain fell down the back of your neck🤦

[vulgalour]

Fucking cars.  Ungrateful bastards.  Why can't they just WORK?

[UltraWomble]

On 30/01/2025 at 07:50, UltraWomble said:

Waste of time it appears

 

Maybe not....

[juular]

Fuck.

Cunting wank fucking bastard prick shit dickhead bawbag wank fuck.

That is all.

[ruffgeezer]

You can get a replacement cheap enough on ebay, if you look in my thread where I changed the aux tensioner on my Pug partner, it gives a good technique for shifting shit like this.