The grumpy thread

[garethj]

Yeah, that also lacks the metal gubbins which are causing me the grief.

Is the metal thing just a contact that connects the positive from one battery to the negative of the other?

 

If so, you can use any nickel plated metal part like the clips from an office folder, old chewing gum wrapper, pulled apart fuse... Make sure you've got loads of pressure applied, so the door might need a double layer of tape to hold it on.

[Negative Creep]

Nothing to do at work again so im relegated to printing off letters. Its a three click process but because the computers are so useless and outdated you have to wait 15 seconds after each click.

 

 

Still, thank god i got that degree and A levels, otherwise id be in a shit dead end, low paid job right now.

[RoadworkUK]

Still, thank god i got that degree and A levels, otherwise id be in a shit dead end, low paid job right now.

 

I feel for you. Since I changed my role from full-time salesmonkey to "Sales Co-Ordinator" I've earned piss all. Most recently of all, I've become hardly anything more than a driver. Factor out any commision (I haven't earned any this year at all) and I'm earning less than I was when I did Home Delivery driving for Iceland during Uni.

 

Getting involved in car sales was the worst decision I ever made, but as a peniless graduate the company car and ludicrous "on target" earning capability appealed to me. There are some very wealthy salesmen indeed, but they're willing to spend all their lives chasing targets and jumping through corporate hoops. And, with practice, anyone can do it; there are no educational requirements whatsoever. I might as well have not bothered with A-Levels, let alone going to University to chase my dreams.

 

And it doesn't help that an awful lot of salesmen you meet are total arseholes. I need out. I need to be doing something a little more creative, a little more cerebral, but I can't afford to jump ship and begin to seek a better life on a full-time basis.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

My response to this crap is deciding to become an academic- sure, the pay won't be that good, but at least you get to do something that requires a little bit of thinking and doesn't often require you to stay till 9pm or get entangled in pointless meetings. I just finished my MSc and will try getting some extra experience before making the switch, but I won't be too bothered if I don't manage to get it and end up having to dive straight into a Ph.D.

 

Of course, acedemia is not for everyone, but then again call centres are for no-one!

[pompei]

What is your subject, LAU ?

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Human Resource Management. I actually quite enjoy the work itself in HR, but it's a well-known PHACT that 80% of HR people are either clueless about the work ("hmm, she's been on the sick for 3 months and we can't let her lift boxes anymore, but firing her would probably get us sued...I know what I'll do- STICK HER IN PERSONNEL!") or complete tossers - I 've only ever had one job where my HR colleagues were professionals with more than two functioning braincells, and that was just a temp gig for about 3 weeks.

 

Becoming a professor would hopefully rid me of that bollocks and, if I'm a bit lucky later on, I may get some consultancy work on the side to help make up for the 'lost earnings' compared to a traditional career.

[pompei]

Your biggest asset is your workforce ... I cringed every time I heard that mantra spouted!

[scaryoldcortina]

^ it's true, as long as you work for yourself.....

 

I realized long ago that my education wasn't going to get me a "good" job I was happy with

[pompei]

Today's grump is the Fiat Coupe - took it for MoT today which it failed spectacularly on (lack of) brakes. Can't get it fixed until next wek which is a shame as I was hoping to go to the Auto Italia day on Sunday in it .

[pompei]

Good point well made, SOC

[Guest]

Today's grump is the Fiat Coupe - took it for MoT today which it failed spectacularly on (lack of) brakes. Can't get it fixed until next wek which is a shame as I was hoping to go to the Auto Italia day on Sunday in it .

 

Well, you could go, but you couldn't stop............

 

ARF!

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Your biggest asset is your workforce ... I cringed every time I heard that mantra spouted!

 

It is actually true, irrespective of the size of the company. People are the biggest variable in any value-adding process...and, unlike with machinery, there is no universal British/EU standard for minimum IQ/common sense ability!

 

In the real world, however, a mere look at the CVs of those who work in the Personnel dept will usually convince you about the veracity of that claim when it is made by a company. Highlights in my brief career include an Employee Relations manager at a now-Indian luxury car manufacturer who used to be an assembly line worker and the HR Director of a well-known company supplying Yorkshire with Water whose previous job had to do with buying water pipes (incidentally, both of them were thoroughly nice chaps...but, unsurprisingly, they knew less about HR than I know about welding)...Funny how they needed to spend thousands upon thousands of pounds on external consultants to do most of the actual work!

[RoadworkUK]

Like when you find yourself listening to local radio, where a mouth-breathing mong with zero general knowledge is proclaimed as their "Entertainment Expert". Poor lass the other day was talking about Gérard Depardieu. She didn't know who he was nor how to pronounce his name. But then again, he "was old" so probably isn't worth us worrying about.

[warren t claim]

[warren t claim]

Will someone please stop the ride? I want to get off. My anger and emotion has destroyed so much in the last few short days.

 

I'm really sorry for making these stupid posts but I'm really at a loss as to which way to turn. Help! This isn't the real me!

 

Words can't describe the total remorse I'm feeling right now.

 

I've really fucked my life up this time.

 

And other peoples lives.

 

I went around looking for an argument and ended up hurting so much I hold dear to me. I honestly never meant this to happen.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

we're non-judgmental here. I'd say it may not be too late to make a bit of an appropriate edit to your penultimate post. All of us do stupid things, the important bit is to limit the damage.

[warren t claim]

Deleted upon wise advice received via p.m.

[warren t claim]

Pretty much as above really!

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

2 slow to be furious!

[warren t claim]

Nothing to see here.

[warren t claim]

In fact lets all go further and say it totally destroys me to think that soon she'll be in someone else's bed and the biggest fucking loser is me. Fucking hell! Why am I thinking this way? I'm on an old car forum centring on Talbot Horizons! Someone please shoot me!!!

[mk1_4dr]

In fact lets all go further and say it totally destroys me to think that soon she'll be in someone else's bed and the biggest fucking loser is me. Fucking hell! Why am I thinking this way? I'm on an old car forum centring on Talbot Horizons! Someone please shoot me!!!

 

Seriously, WTC, it sounds like your heading for a....

 

[Cavcraft]

BTCC weekend at Oulton Park starts tomorrow. Completely forgot about it and now have myriad other plans

[Guest]

Sorry to hear of your situation Warren.

[Lankytim]

The inlaws had a stack of spare paving slabs which they had given me to create a hard stading for the trailer in the garden but today some pikey piece of shit has stolen them :(

 

I'll have to pay to have them replaced now!!

[tonedepear]

Fucking ignorant old cunts at work. Just came in to start a night shift, and my mate Dave was on shift. He's getting married next week, in Boston, and the herald I'm hopefully nabbing is also currently in Boston. So I asked if he was popping over or needed to for anything at the start of next week, with a view to car-sharing and a bit of a road trip to see what sort of the state Canley's finest is in and whether it'd be doable to book it in for a test somewhere and drive it home, rather than paying someone to shitly it back.

 

Conversation continues thusly:

 

...

Dave: What for?

Me: want to look at a car.

Ignorant bloke on dave's shift 1: yeah Tone, cos it must be at least 15 minutes since you last bought a new car.

Dave: What is it?

Me: 1961 Triumph Herald.

Ignorant bloke on dave's shift 1: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Ignorant bloke on dave's shift 2: A Triumph herald? Ha ha ha ha ha ha. They're shit.

Me: Well, it's one I helped restore in 1999ish

Ignorant bloke on dave's shift 2: That's 13 years ago! [sic] It'll be completely shit. I had a Triumph herald once. My first car.

Me: It's been road legal in the last year or so, so hopefully it won't be a complete basket case.

Ignorant bloke on dave's shift 2: Ha ha ha ha ha. It'll have been all over the road probably... in pieces!

Dave:

Ignorant bloke on dave's shift 1: Yeah, it'll be shit.

Ignorant bloke on dave's shift 2: I got my first points on my license in my herald. Not for speeding, I was driving it before I passed my test.

Ignorant bloke on dave's shift 1: Well, it wouldn't be for speeding in a Triumph herald! Ha ha ha ha ha ha.

Ignorant bloke on dave's shift 2: Ha ha ha ha ha.

Ignorant bloke on dave's shift 1: It probably wouldn't break the speed limit if you pushed it off Beachy head. Ha ha ha ha.

Ignorant bloke on dave's shift 2: Ha ha ha ha ha.

Dave: Bye. See you in a few weeks.

Me: See you next Saturday mate.

*5 mins of ignorant blokes on dave's shift telling him he's a mug for getting married, etc etc.

 

Just fucks me off. Wankers.

 

For ref:

Ignorant bloke on dave's shift 1: Lives in Stevenage and commutes to sheffield. His last car was a mk6 Toyota Celica. (T200) Obviously doing so many miles, he traded it in a week after spending about a grand having new calipers and stuff on it at the main stealer and plumped for something a bit more economical. A mk7 Celica.

 

Ignorant bloke on dave's shift 2: is currently rolling a '10' reg Renault Clio estate, having traded in his 08 Clio for it last year. He still refuses to believe there is any commanilty between his car and a Nissan Micra, or than any car over 5 years old can possibly be used for anything.

 

/grump

[chaseracer]

The inlaws had a stack of spare paving slabs which they had given me to create a hard stading for the trailer in the garden but today some pikey piece of shit has stolen them :(

 

I'll have to pay to have them replaced now!!

Three here in Cannock you're very welcome to have gratis, Tim.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

etc etc

 

Yo Tone, soz but that doesnt sound remotely worth getting wound up over! just take no notice! Did you manage to cadge a lift or what.

[tonedepear]

etc etc

 

Yo Tone, soz but that doesnt sound remotely worth getting wound up over! just take no notice! Did you manage to cadge a lift or what.

 

Nah, he's going over, but he ain't coming back until honeymoon time!

 

You're right. It's nothing. I just dislike them both on a personal level anyway, which is probly what put my back up.

 

 

There, that's better.

[ashmicro]

More of the "All old cars are shit" brigade. We had one of those when I was working in Castleford, who drove some sort of hot-ish Clio. Word soon got round that he got his arse handed to him by what he thought was "an old American car". It was an Aston Martin V8, like this:

 

 

These types can be made paranoid, as they typically know fuck all about cars. "Oh so you have the . Hmm, yours should have had the recall for the , but I'd just go easy if I were you"

 

Also, folks like this are very suggestible. Tell them to be wary of the smell of petrol, as their is known to have fuel system problems. In no time at all, they'll swear blind they can smell petrol.