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  watanabe said:
  Negative Creep said:
Since my employers still haven't sorted my tax code, I have been paid a grand total of £168 this week

 

That's pish. I R also having trouble with HMRC also at the moment. I am enjoying the challenges this new life presents me. Long story short, I was on the wrong tax code for ages in my last [FT] job. Tax man sends me a demand, they get bolshy and say I have to pay it because I owe them, 'ol persecution complex here says 'you can have a pound a week 'cos I'm skint' and they say they're going away to 'look into it in more detail'.

 

Indeed. Hope you get it sorted.

 

 

Apparently the lady will come down tomorrow and speak to me. In the mean time I'll pay me rent and enjoy living on a total of £88 this week.

 

In other news the company who contacted me asking when I was free for an interview never bothered replying. Since I'm earning no more money the main reason I'm at my current job is pretty much to stop me sitting around the house by myself all day. As it stand now I honestly can't see myself ever earning more than bare minimum wage. I wonder why I even bothered at school, took A levels or got a degree. I might as well have dropped out at 16 and worked in KFC, I'd be in a better financial position now.

 

Oh and I have been reminded by HM Revnue that the money I had on JSA will count as taxable income. They've sent the exact same letter 4 times as well.

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Ok, soz Wat, you have lots of folks vouching for your non-psyco-ness so I apologise!

Posted
  Negative Creep said:
In other news the company who contacted me asking when I was free for an interview never bothered replying. Since I'm earning no more money the main reason I'm at my current job is pretty much to stop me sitting around the house by myself all day. As it stand now I honestly can't see myself ever earning more than bare minimum wage. I wonder why I even bothered at school, took A levels or got a degree. I might as well have dropped out at 16 and worked in KFC, I'd be in a better financial position now.

 

Employers can be that way nowadays for some reason. I sent a request about them wasting my time over 'we've got some work coming your way' and then nothing, and they replied with this:

 

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Hi David I think you'll find the operative sentence in my previous email dated the 7th June was "may have some freelance work starting over the next day or so when I have more details I'll let you know". So did I let you know..NO..why?..maybe because the freelance work didn't come in..possibly..normal protocol for someone asking for work..hi steve did that work come in etc..but no, not David, he prefers to send insulting emails questioning how professional people are over a month later..and just the day after the freelance work did come in ...doh....bummer the next stage was probably a test piece to see I was up to the standard I said I was..not now though...

 

I wouldn't want to work with idiots like this. I was supposed to believe he had work coming in after months of claiming they had? LOL

Posted
  Hirst said:
I have met Watt and he's absolutely crackers, probably not as much as me.

 

Yeah, no one is that crazy lol. I've met WAT on several occasions too and he's sound as a dollar pound. I've experienced first hand the clicky, petty behaviour of so-called adults that populate call centres so I know what (some) of his rants are about. :wink:

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  Station said:

Employers can be that way nowadays for some reason. I sent a request about them wasting my time over 'we've got some work coming your way' and then nothing, and they replied with this:

 

  Quote
Hi David I think you'll find the operative sentence in my previous email dated the 7th June was "may have some freelance work starting over the next day or so when I have more details I'll let you know". So did I let you know..NO..why?..maybe because the freelance work didn't come in..possibly..normal protocol for someone asking for work..hi steve did that work come in etc..but no, not David, he prefers to send insulting emails questioning how professional people are over a month later..and just the day after the freelance work did come in ...doh....bummer the next stage was probably a test piece to see I was up to the standard I said I was..not now though...

 

I wouldn't want to work with idiots like this. I was supposed to believe he had work coming in after months of claiming they had? LOL

 

What a mong! Lucky escape perhaps (though very annoying)

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  RedSparrow said:
Ok, soz Wat, you have lots of folks vouching for your non-psyco-ness so I apologise!

 

Don't worry about it. I've read back the posts relating to my unfortunate experiences at University and to be honest, they read like the musings of a madman. All I can say in my defense is that this particular lecturer winds me up something chronic. If it wasn't for this little text outpost allowing me to vent, I'd have probably been removed from the course for unpleasant utterances in her general direction.

 

Some of us acquire an Internet persona, intentionally or otherwise. That's definitely the case with myself.

 

It doesn't help that I'll be filming our critical interview today alone, because my group partner has decided he'd rather record another interview for his audio module. I can't seem to get it through to him that our man (who has led us up the shitter twice previously) will probably only do this thing once and won't reschedule. I am paranoid about getting it right, as I don't want to give our idiot lecturer any more ammunition then she already has.

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Went to have the car checked at an Auto Electrician place - you know that feeling when you're going somewhere and expect a decent service and the fella to return a pleasant experience for you paying 30 quid for 10 minutes of his time?

On arrival, he lit up a fag, mumbled something under his breath that I could hear but told him the problems I've been having. Told me to park the car in the enclosure, he sat in the car while puffing away on his fag, and basically did fuck all apart from being a typical miserable garage worker. Told him the exhaust manifold is blowing because I've just changed the lambda sensor and for some reason I didn't tighten it up properly. He then explained 'Well, the manifold is sucking air in across the sensor and it's mixing it up' - that doesn't explain the fact it's been shite for two weeks and it's been that way for one day, and the fact the exhaust manifold 'BLOWS' and doesn't suck, and it wouldn't make a difference anyway. Paid the money and left the garage, these types ruin my day. Thanks for your great service you cunt.

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Went to tax the Rover this morning at the Post Office. As you all know, the details are handwritten on the disk in this case. What did she write? "ROVRE". I refused it: "Listen, if I get stopped by some stroppy copper, this might ruin my day. Can you do it properly, please, and give me another?"

 

 

Jesus wept. Can you imagine if I'd been taxing a Mitsubishi, Daihatsu or Zaporozhets?

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  ashmicro said:
Went to tax the Rover this morning at the Post Office. As you all know, the details are handwritten on the disk in this case. What did she write? "ROVRE". I refused it: "Listen, if I get stopped by some stroppy copper, this might ruin my day. Can you do it properly, please, and give me another?"

 

 

Jesus wept. Can you imagine if I'd been taxing a Mitsubishi, Daihatsu or Zaporozhets ?

Taxing a Zaporozhet would surely count as a grin thread entry?

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:lol:

 

I wonder how many Cits there are out there with CITREON written on the tax disc....

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I have a disk somewhere with "Frod" written in the make box....

Posted
  seth said:
I think Wat is Dr Jekyll to Hirst's Mr Hyde.

 

Or perhaps that should be the other way round :?

 

I have photographic proof that they're not the same person...

 

DSCF0136.jpg

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  scaryoldcortina said:
I have a disk somewhere with "Frod" written in the make box....

 

Jesus, and I thought all my old discs with "VOLKSWAGON" were bad.

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tax a scimitar at my local post ofice, and it takes two staff just to get it right

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I think those two blokes have been 'shopped into that scene from different photos. I'm not talking about the flourescent pair either.

Posted
  mnde said:
:lol:

 

I wonder how many Cits there are out there with CITREON written on the tax disc....

 

My brother in law's C5 has a CITREON badge on the back.

Posted
  trigger said:
I like the way Wat and Hirst are seen stuffing doughnuts in their gobs!

 

WOOP WOOP

 

WE IS DA TWAT POLICE

 

*exhaustive work - requires pastry.

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Dominos Pizza. They've just opened around here, and they seemed to have hired every fuckwit in the area. Aside from the stupid, sail-like signs on the roof, all of their delivery drivers seemed to drive cars that are bashed up so badly, an Istanbul minicabber wouldn't want it. And about 20 or so minutes ago, one of them has rear-ended what looks like a fairly new Mercedes S Class.

Posted
  mnde said:
:lol:

 

I wonder how many Cits there are out there with CITREON written on the tax disc....

 

>Remembers disc is a printed job from DVLA>

 

:idea:

 

:shock:

 

 

:mrgreen:

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Reminds me of the episode of 'Porridge' when Fletcher was talking about his daughter's boyfriend selling cars with dodgy logbooks... Godber asks how he knows they're dodgy and he replies that he spells Citroen with an 'S' :D

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  ashmicro said:
Dominos Pizza. They've just opened around here, and they seemed to have hired every fuckwit in the area. Aside from the stupid, sail-like signs on the roof, all of their delivery drivers seemed to drive cars that are bashed up so badly, an Istanbul minicabber wouldn't want it. And about 20 or so minutes ago, one of them has rear-ended what looks like a fairly new Mercedes S Class.

 

Been there, done that! To be fair, the work seems to be unbelievably hard on cars. When you've changed the front struts for the second time that year, and cannot get rid of the smell of pizza from the upholstery; it gets hard to care much any more. Staring into the engine bay of someone's smoking supermini, and saying "Nah, that's well fucked", becomes something of a habit. At least it breaks up the monotony of playing cards for matchsticks on a wet Tuesday.

And no-one looks good in a Domino's uniform. No-one.

Posted
  CreepingJesus said:
  ashmicro said:
Dominos Pizza. They've just opened around here, and they seemed to have hired every fuckwit in the area. Aside from the stupid, sail-like signs on the roof, all of their delivery drivers seemed to drive cars that are bashed up so badly, an Istanbul minicabber wouldn't want it. And about 20 or so minutes ago, one of them has rear-ended what looks like a fairly new Mercedes S Class.

 

Been there, done that! To be fair, the work seems to be unbelievably hard on cars. When you've changed the front struts for the second time that year, and cannot get rid of the smell of pizza from the upholstery; it gets hard to care much any more. Staring into the engine bay of someone's smoking supermini, and saying "Nah, that's well fucked", becomes something of a habit. At least it breaks up the monotony of playing cards for matchsticks on a wet Tuesday.

And no-one looks good in a Domino's uniform. No-one.

 

Having done it for Pizza Hut is does knacker cars like nothing else, but much LOLZ were had getting reactions when using the 120Y. Was actually quite a fun job and better paid than you'd expect once you count the tips, extra fuel money and not having to go out and buy dinner that evening

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The problem with my stint at Domino's (apart from dressing like a cretin), was having to do Tuesday + Wednesday nights to get the trade-off of a guaranteed weekend night. 2L Mondeo in get-the-deadline mode, will eat the fuel allowance (might as well have spiked the tank, and spent the night washing the ovens out), and nobody's pissed enough to hand over twice the cost of the order and wave away their change.

Had some laughs (a couple of hen parties, and kicking some pissed up runt of a ned down some concrete stairs for starters), but overall, it was a very grump-worthy non-job.

Posted
  CreepingJesus said:
Been there, done that! To be fair, the work seems to be unbelievably hard on cars. When you've changed the front struts for the second time that year, and cannot get rid of the smell of pizza from the upholstery; it gets hard to care much any more. Staring into the engine bay of someone's smoking supermini, and saying "Nah, that's well fucked", becomes something of a habit. At least it breaks up the monotony of playing cards for matchsticks on a wet Tuesday.

And no-one looks good in a Domino's uniform. No-one.

 

I did it for 6 months in my Suzuki Whizzkid, it was the perfect car really, I made 60p per delivery (on top of wages and tips) and each journey cost 20p max. Apart from one week where the starter and new battery gave up (due to winter) - I had my 50 year old boss and his elderly uncle push it to start it every time I was out on delivery, but it was -the- perfect car for the job, although it probably didn't deserve the hammering it got. I did 40,000 miles in less than a year.

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In my increasingly desperate attempts to get any sort of aciton, thought I'd sign up to eharmony. So after spending an hour doing their compatibility test:

 

  the survey said:
We're very sorry, but our matching system cannot predict good matches for you.

 

eHarmony's patented matching system was developed after extensive research into marital satisfaction. We use each person's responses to our Relationship Questionnaire to predict the pairings of individuals that are highly likely to result in satisfying long-term relationships, based on what we learned through our research.

 

Unfortunately, based on responses to our questionnaire, we occasionally find situations where our matching system cannot identify high quality compatible matches, and this has happened in your case. Please understand that it is a result of our matching process and in no way reflects on you as a person or your ability to be in a happy relationship.

 

We apologise and regret our inability to find good matches for you. The time you spent completing our questionnaire, however, has enabled us to provide you with a free Personality Profile.. This Personality Profile lets you learn more about yourself and should provide you with valuable insights.

 

We wish you all the best in your search for that special someone.

 

I must admit a rejection from a computer is a new one to me!

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Joan Rivers:fuck off will you and shut the fuck up, you're about as funny as a cunt.

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I thought Joan Rivers was dead. If she's not, she looks it.

Posted
  Negative Creep said:
We apologise and regret our inability to find good matches for you. The time you spent completing our questionnaire, however, has enabled us to provide you with a free Personality Profile.. This Personality Profile lets you learn more about yourself and should provide you with valuable insights.

Would like to know what these valuable insights might be. Let's see!

Posted
  Negative Creep said:
I must admit a rejection from a computer is a new one to me!

Maybe it saw your avatar and got scared?

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