The grumpy thread

[sporty-shite]

I am a cock.

 

Renewed Mrs S's insurance, and took her off my classic policy so she wouldn't lose her NCB. Got last renewal notice off previous broker to find that her last renewal was December 2008. Fucksticks. Swiftcover, who I'd insured with, wanted NCB within 2 years. Phoned them, and they wanted an extra, that's EXTRA £640.

 

However, in better news, Flux have a company who will recognise the NCB at over 2 years, and have covered it for £660. Still a decent sized hit, but considering the next best renewal with the NCB was £598, it's not too bad. But still, I am a cock who seems to have lost a year of his life.

[trigger]

Trig, have you got any pics of the work done on the escort??

 

I haven't been to collect the car yet, I'm picking it up Saturday, I still have to do the filling and spray, my tamed mechanic just cut out the old metal and weided the new stuff on for me.

 

And your right about the front wings on the Kadett, they are full of plod.

[wuvvum]

My garage does have a damp problem. I pulled the Renault 6 out a couple of times over the winter to give it a good look over, and each time there were bits that looked like they could start getting nasty very quickly. I wire brushed and Kurusted any dodgy-looking bits and it seems to have done the trick, touch wood. The crude-but-effective repair I had done to the rear trailing arm mounts (nearside had snapped off, offside was still holding together but looking rather tender) has held up fine though.

[RobT]

Working conditions. The aircon units in our office have been knackered for over a week now, and only today have the Facilities Mis-management pricks told us what the problem is - a control module or whatever that has only just been put on order, should be sorted by Monday apparently.

 

In the meantime we have to sit in a 30+ degrees airless fug, bollocks and arse crack sweating profusely, and woe betide anyone who should open a window as that is a disciplinary offence (you need a special tool to open them anyway). Worse thing is it's like this every frickin' summer And naturally not much work is getting done as everyone is having a good old moan about it every 20 seconds and/or too delirious to think straight!

 

I've made the executive decision to turn up at 10am tomorrow and leave at 3pm, and stuff the so-called management if they have a problem with it.

[Station]

There's nothing worse than seeing that!

[Guest]

Working conditions. The aircon units in our office have been knackered for over a week now, and only today have the Facilities Mis-management pricks told us what the problem is - a control module or whatever that has only just been put on order, should be sorted by Monday apparently.

 

I've been on the receiving end of hot working conditions too.

 

When I worked at the Co Op several years ago, the air con packed up. It was the middle of July and somewhat toasty outside. The shop was a [badly] converted church hall with very little natural light and \ or ventilation. The ambient temperature went up to the point that the chocolate went white and melted, and the fridges gave up. We had customers complaining because the shop stank of stale milk, and facilities being twats and refusing point blank to send an engineer out. After doing 15 minute stints at the till with the warehouse door wide open [GR8 4 ARMED BLAGS] and every available fan on full pelt for 4 hours, we gave up and shut two hours early because it was impossible to do anything. My supervisor got a bollocking from head office because [as we found out] there's no maximum temperature specified in government guidelines at which it becomes difficult \ impossible to work. There's a minimum temperature an employer has to meet, and if they can't they have to provide suitable clothing \ warm drinks \ extra breaks depending on the work and temperature involved.

 

Unfortunately, they can insist you keep on working, but barring people from opening the windows is nigh on barbaric. At least Vertex had windows you could open, and when the AC packed up, management went and got a crate of cold Coke to keep people going. That was one of the few humane decisions they made. Other than one colleague with the worst BO of anyone I've ever met. She came into work once straight after a night out with sick in her hair. Combine that with an aversion to deodorant and you have one hellish work environment.

 

We have two rooms at University that can be regarded as editing suites. One is windowless, stuffy and has no A\C. The other has frosted glass on one side, a working fan blaster the size of a 2CV...............

 

..........and is never visited by our two bit cock of a lecturer. As a result, our film is almost finished. HURRAH FOR APPROPRIATE WORKING CONDITIONZ.

[Pillock]

I used to work in a workshop that had been fitted with office aircon units - totally unsuitable for cooling such a vast space, with 300-400 laptops all pumping out heat. As such, every summer it would pack up and we'd be sweltering - we later found out the control units were the wrong type, allowing us to set it to 18deg when the units themselves would only go down to 21deg, which is why they kept breaking.

 

Eventually the company hired half a dozen "air coolers" which are the big things that trickle cold water in front of a big fan. Not too bad, they helped but only for a day or two before the water became smelly. We started bringing in our own fans - they were "banned" as they weren't electrically tested.

I made my own fan out of 10 PC case fans at one point and strapped it to the top of my bench. It was daft.

 

Eventually the aircon was fixed after we ceremoniously took scissors to our work trousers to make shorts and made a point of going to sit outside whenever it got too hot. One of the office girls came to work with a miniskirt and bikini top on though, so there were benefits!

[Albert Ross]

Not grumpy.... I once worked in a breaker's yard one summer. Feckin sweltering it was one day. The boss went out "for dinner" and came back with a barrel of Kronenbourg, which we laid over a clean (new) bath, and scooped tin mugs into it, and an Ice Cream van following him! Top bloke. He paid for the Ice-Creams. We drank the beer. As did our guard dog. We got broken into that night, and the thieves stole an interior out of an SD1. Nobody gave a shit the next day. Still don't.

[tonedepear]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13022347

 

Just seen this. Brilliant. So now all the audi-wankers who drive like cunts will be inspired to drive roughly some% more cuntily than they were thanks to having skim-read this on their cunty i-phones whilst barrelling down the M1.

 

Why do the police have to publish this kind of thing?

[Guest Leonard Hatred]

I'm glad I work outside.

[Cavcraft]

Neighbours/chavs/smackheads. Thanks a fucking lot for three hours kip last night you selfish cunts. My missus is on earlies today and absolutely knackered and I'm going out for a day on the piss. Oddly enough watching your Jeremy Kyle styled family argue it out in the wee small hours actually wasn't that impressive and for the record telling your girlfriend to hold you back as you were going 'kick his fucking head in' was even less impressive. There's two kinds of people in life, sayers and doers. Don't fucking hide behind people and mouth off, either go and chin the other person or go home to bed you sad bastard.

Oh, and to the pondlife who rang my bell a few times about 2.00am I hope you have a nice button sized imprimpt on your forehead now and heeded the warning you got afterwards not to do it again.

[chaseracer]

Technical ability FAIL.

 

Need to convert a Word2007 .docx file to PDF, sharpish - can anyone help? Ta muchly...

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

I use a programme called "CutePDF writer". Admittedly, it does sound a bit gay, but it does the job...

[chaseracer]

Cheers for that!

[pogweasel]

+1 for cutePDF.

 

PDF995 is pretty good too, I find it has slightly better resolution (I use it to convert A0 & A1 surveys drawings from .dwg to .pdf)

[RobT]

My supervisor got a bollocking from head office because [as we found out] there's no maximum temperature specified in government guidelines at which it becomes difficult \ impossible to work.

 

Yeah, I phoned our HSE people and they said all we can do is use desk fans, keep hydrated and take regular breaks outside in such cases. I also told the union rep about it and he spoke to Facilities - they said "we have posted a message on the intranet stating the problem, and it is being dealt with. Sorry for any inconvenience caused". That last statement is always fuel to my ire in these sort of circumstances, you're not sorry you cocks you couldn't give a monkeys!!

 

I ended up leaving at 2pm in the end, told my guv'nor who is sound and he had no problem with it. It's the top management who are the bell ends. One of my workmates didn't bother coming in at all citing the conditions as his reason, fair play to him. But he'd also had a skinful Thursday night so it's unlikely he would have been in even if the aircon was working

[RobT]

Oh, and to the pondlife who rang my bell a few times about 2.00am I hope you have a nice button sized imprimpt on your forehead now and heeded the warning you got afterwards not to do it again.

 

Ditto. Happened to me too last night, 2.30am and it was next door's boyfriend. I'm shattered today 'cos of it and I had to be up early. So I rang her/his door bell for a chat at 9am today, no reply funnily enough. I'll wait for an apology instead but can't imagine I'll get one. They are a constant source of irritation but thankfully we're moving out the end of this month. At the moment I feel like being totally juvenile and posting a turd through their letter box on our last day here!

 

Think I need to head over to the antidote thread now to cheer myself up...

[warren t claim]

Another Grand National. Another two horses killed unnecessarily. A fucking barbaric ritual.

[Negative Creep]

Look on the bright side, free glue

[M'coli]

^^^Cats/dogs/the French have to eat meat sometime.

[messerschmitt owner]

Mamma Mia - that is all!

[messerschmitt owner]

Technical ability FAIL.

 

Need to convert a Word2007 .docx file to PDF, sharpish - can anyone help? Ta muchly...

select print

then pdf

then save as pdf

choose location and ...

 

Oh, you have a PC - sorry to hear that! On a mac it is as simple as that to generate a pdf on any file

[Guest]

Yeah, but you have to wear Rupert the Bear trousers whilst using one.

[MrDuke]

Another Grand National. Another two horses killed unnecessarily. A fucking barbaric ritual.

 

 

Oh, but remember, "the horses wouldn't race if they didn't WANT to... you can't MAKE them, and anyway they ENJOY it!"

 

 

Strange how a sport which necessitates the death of an animal as part of the competition (i.e. dogfighting, bullfighting etc) can be vilified by everyone, but a sport which guarantees the death of an animal as a byproduct of the competition can be enjoyed on a national level. Apparently, if 'no-one wants it to happen', suffering and death is totally OK.

[Mr Lobster]

Just been watching a clip on BBC website about 'Ladies Day' at Aintree.

 

'Ladies' must be a very vague term given the standard of women pictured...

[messerschmitt owner]

Just been watching a clip on BBC website about 'Ladies Day' at Aintree.

 

'Ladies' must be a very vague term given the standard of women pictured...

it is Liverpool, they nick their dresses from C&A!

[TimothyClaypole]

Having to create a new account as I can't use my old email address and my pc decided it would be a good laugh to clear all my forum logs in's...

 

Like I can remember half the damn passwords.

 

And obviously my use name is in use, dur.

 

 

H@M's advert - the reason I wanted to post and found out i wasn't logged in - using a slightly unsuitable song to advertise kids clothes. Good job at that ad agency.

[wuvvum]

Just managed to boil up the Renault 6. The fanbelt snapped while I was driving along, and due to a lack of a battery warning light (it has a very poorly lit voltmeter in the bottom of the speedo instead) and, it would appear, a lack of a functioning temperature warning light, I didn't realise anything was amiss until I got home and switched off and it sounded like several kettles were boiling away under the bonnet. I just hope I haven't blown the head gasket - those old Renault engines can be a bit fragile in that department.

 

On the plus side, the engine is still running fine, the glass expansion bottle doesn't seem to have suffered, and if I have blown the head gasket a new one is £3.99 BIN on the Bay. I'm going to try and pick up a replacement fanbelt tomorrow, then I'll refill it with water and see what happens...

[pogweasel]

Not good. Thats one if the best bits if SHITE on here.

[tonedepear]

What is it with all these cunts who put cars on autotrader and price it at £199, saying "REAL PRICE £499,999 NO TIMEWASTERZ"?

 

How about you just put the right fucking price and stop clogging up the first 5 pages of all my fucking searches?

 

Cunts.

 

I'm half-tempted to buy a pay as you go sim card and call them all at 2am every night for a week and tell them all what they've done wrong.