The grumpy thread

[ashmicro]

  maxpower said:

  M said:

 

can just imagine that guy at ashmicro's school wearing a t-shirt with that printed on it

 

 

Believe me, he got a biblical amount of stick - Shake and Vac comments, someone stuck a NILFISK sticker on his locker and "pink oboe" comments were made in music lessons. In fact, casting my mind back, he was a complete dick himself.

[Guest]

  Team Blitz said:

And regarding the last 6 or so posts.... I repeat:

 

Sounds quite desperate. Is it really that bad over there?

 

Sometimes.

 

Especially when you work for someone who'd probably charge you for flushing the toilet if he could.

[Station]

  M said:

Are you not tempted to put it to good use while you can't feel what it's doing?

 

I couldn't move it, and it'd feel like doing it with a corpse's hand.

 

Reminds me of:

 

[Guest]

Not sure if I can stick this part time job. There's already too much annoying me, and it's only going to get worse. We've already had the manager who won't give you the steam off his piss, and now we have his interesting approach to breaks (or lack thereof). I asked for one after 5 hours graft and he looked at me like I'd shit on the floor and rubbed it up the walls. 'Well, you're going home in two hours and straight for your tea, so you don't need a break'.

 

Right. What part of that's legal then? Not that I'm trying to skive or anything, but smokers are allowed 15 minutes every 4 hours. Sorry, but that's a load of steaming horseshit.

 

It'll do for the moment I suppose.

[Lankytim]

Don't you get 30 mins after 6 hours by law?

[Guest]

  Lankytim said:

Don't you get 30 mins after 6 hours by law?

 

You get 15 by 4, by law. I wasn't even wanting that - all I wanted was a drink and to get off the shop floor. It's very minor, but it's shit like this that eventually drives you mad.

[mk1_4dr]

  HillmanImp said:

  DCLane said:

The O2 Academy in Leeds on Tuesday: http://www.leedsgigtickets.co.uk/tickets/5646/

 

I work next door (The Rose Bowl) so we get to hear for free

 

Yeah, thats it. Dont want to make the same mistake I made a few years back with Arthur Lee and wait for him to come again when I have more cash.........he might be dead.

 

 

Fucksake.

 

I clocked that he was playing when I was poking round in Jumbo Records last Autumn but never booked time off and now Im stuck working tomorrow eve.

 

Same story for Toots and the Maytals last year, I just couldn't get time off

[TimothyClaypole]

8 days at work without a day off and I've 3 1/2 weeks holiday to take before October... great

[Cavcraft]

  mk1_4dr said:

  HillmanImp said:

  DCLane said:

The O2 Academy in Leeds on Tuesday: http://www.leedsgigtickets.co.uk/tickets/5646/

 

I work next door (The Rose Bowl) so we get to hear for free

 

Yeah, thats it. Dont want to make the same mistake I made a few years back with Arthur Lee and wait for him to come again when I have more cash.........he might be dead.

 

 

Fucksake.

 

I clocked that he was playing when I was poking round in Jumbo Records last Autumn but never booked time off and now Im stuck working tomorrow eve.

 

Same story for Toots and the Maytals last year, I just couldn't get time off

 

Much respect, they're brilliant.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhjBiZSfM08

[chaseracer]

  Negative Creep said:

Latest email from my work is that the two 15 minute breaks "are not necessarily free time and may be used for personal assessments or one to one meetings"

Not according to my reading of employment law...

[M'coli]

^^Shows how good our resident Degree and Post-Grad qualified HR-numpty is that he's not piped up on this one.

[eddyramrod]

  watanabe said:

smokers are allowed 15 minutes every 4 hours.

 

So people who have the sense not to fill their lungs with poisonous chemicals aren't allowed a break? Double standard in operation, methinks. If they can have it, you can. Has the law changed in recent years? I understood the pattern was, a minimun 30 minute break every four-and-a-half hours. Of course I never worked anywhere that actually abided by that, or even tried, but still, the law's the law, isn't it?

[barrett]

  eddyramrod said:

  watanabe said:

smokers are allowed 15 minutes every 4 hours.

 

So people who have the sense not to fill their lungs with poisonous chemicals aren't allowed a break? Double standard in operation, methinks. If they can have it, you can. Has the law changed in recent years? I understood the pattern was, a minimun 30 minute break every four-and-a-half hours. Of course I never worked anywhere that actually abided by that, or even tried, but still, the law's the law, isn't it?

 

Pretty sure it's 15 mins every 3 and a half hours, but I may be wrong. Look it up, it'll take you two seconds. then take those breaks. If your new employer objects, mention that you'll can easily report the fucker for even the slightest infraction of employment laws. He may not like you much after this, but if you've already decided you 'can't hack it' you may as well rub his nose in his own mistakes for a while. He can't fire you without a proper, genuine reason after giving you warnings, lest you do him for unfair dismissal. Fuck it, your boss earns 250x more than you, make the bastard work for your respect. You're better than him, period.

 

 

*I'm unemployed

[Pete-M]

Alternatively, just stick it out for now (it's part time anyway, right?) and look for something better.

 

Walking from a job because you don't get a break is mad. Take a break anyway. If they kick off just point out that you're not a machine and that they take breaks, why can't you?

[sporty-shite]

  Pete-M said:

Alternatively, just stick it out for now (it's part time anyway, right?) and look for something better.

 

Walking from a job because you don't get a break is mad. Take a break anyway. If they kick off just point out that you're not a machine and that they take breaks, why can't you?

 

Sensible words.

[DCLane]

OK - the law's below:

 

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Employment/Employees/WorkingHoursAndTimeOff/DG_10029451

 

 

Basically you get a 20 minute break if you're expected to work more than 6 hours straight.

[Negative Creep]

The schools are back. So now my drive to work takes double the length of time, crawling along in traffic and never being let out of junctions by miserable cows taking Chole and Ollie half a mile down the road in case OMG TEH PEEDOS get them

[Guest]

  Pete-M said:

Alternatively, just stick it out for now (it's part time anyway, right?) and look for something better.

 

Walking from a job because you don't get a break is mad. Take a break anyway. If they kick off just point out that you're not a machine and that they take breaks, why can't you?

 

Mate, it's fine - I'm not going anywhere. I was feeling RANCID last night and more or less had a problem with everything. If my stomach could have been on the rag, then that's what happened.

 

Bleugh.

[ashmicro]

Went to look at an advertised 1985 Yamaha RD250 LC. Not far away either. So I rocked up with slightly less than the asking price in readies and my mate Scotty to ride the thing home. It was a RD125. Either that, or one of the cylinders had fallen off! Dumbass seller.

[retrogeezer]

how much was it?? Love those RD125LC's

[Lankytim]

  barrett said:

.....then take those breaks. If your new employer objects, mention that you'll can easily report the fucker for even the slightest infraction of employment laws. He may not like you much after this, but if you've already decided you 'can't hack it' you may as well rub his nose in his own mistakes for a while. He can't fire you without a proper, genuine reason after giving you warnings, lest you do him for unfair dismissal.

 

AFAIK you have to work somewhere for more than a year to be subjected to the statutory dismissal rules, i.e verbal warning, written warning, give boss handjob e.t.c. If you have worked somewhere for less than a year they can get shot of you with no reason whatsoever.

[ashmicro]

He was after £1250, I had 1200 on me and was going in at 1100 for openers. It was a nice enough wee machine, but I'm downsizing from a 750 and didn't want to downsize that much. TBH, I'd rather maybe go for a 400, but I had a 250LC years ago, and the rose tinted specs were on. An RD 400 would be nice, but they tend to be big £££, and trying to find and RD500 that isn't a King's ransom or a race bike is nigh on impossible.

 

I promised myself I'd never have another Kawasaki, as all the ones I've had have been shit, and inevitably there's a load of Kwakkers available locally.

 

Now hunting a VF500 FII

[barrett]

  Team Blitz said:

^^As it should be for the entire period of employment. I should be able to fire someone who works for me if they fail to comb their hair, wear polka dots when I prefer stripes, or if I'm simply moody one day. Ohio is an employment at will state. You don't need a "valid" reason to fire someone. Hey, it's not a marriage. It's a job. You'll leave whenever you want. Why shouldn't the employer enjoy the same freedom as you?

 

Yeah, that's fucking stupid, and is pretty much the only reason I won't live in the States. California is the same way. One of the most horrendous laws I've heard of, I had no idea it was like that before I went over there this year.

[Cavcraft]

  ashmicro said:

He was after £1250, I had 1200 on me and was going in at 1100 for openers. It was a nice enough wee machine, but I'm downsizing from a 750 and didn't want to downsize that much. TBH, I'd rather maybe go for a 400, but I had a 250LC years ago, and the rose tinted specs were on. An RD 400 would be nice, but they tend to be big £££, and trying to find and RD500 that isn't a King's ransom or a race bike is nigh on impossible.

 

I promised myself I'd never have another Kawasaki, as all the ones I've had have been shit, and inevitably there's a load of Kwakkers available locally.

 

Now hunting a VF500 FII

 

Having today seen the prices a decent RG500 can fetch I'm not surprised 'lesser' RDs are making good coin. How about a KH250 (I know you don't like Kwaks, but they're fantastic fun) or an X7 or RGV250?

Been giving serious consideration to an RGV or Aprilia RS125 or 250 and you just know they're sleeping giants in the money stakes.

[ashmicro]

I had a KH250 (after having a KH125 and a KZ400). KH250 didn't like keeping ignition timing. ISTR briefly owning something called a Scorpion which had what looked like a timing belt instead of a chain. I bought a brand new GPX 250 in 1990, and the engine seized @ about 1000 miles, and the cheeky cunt at the dealer said "You'll not have much oil round the top end when it's on the back wheel".

 

BTW, is an RG not a Suzuki, Billy?

 

A nice "grey" 400 'Blade would do, too

 

[Cavcraft]

It is indeed mucker, so is the X7 I just forgot to add that

Had a couple of Kawasaki Z400 twins, never got on with them though. Ditto Yamaha RDs (1x250, 2 or 3x200s and a couple of 125 twins) as always found them too unreliable, though the 250E with LC pipes was bloody fast.

[shite_meister]

  ashmicro said:

Now hunting a VF500 FII

 

Theres a really tidy one of those over here mmmmmmmm.

 

Not that you need any recommendations but what about a miniature RC30 the NC30 VFR400? get one before they go stupid as only the obsessed/loaded/lucky few buy up all the RC30s

 

edited to add just realised you might struggle at £1100.

[John F]

  Cavette said:

It is indeed mucker, so is the X7 I just forgot to add that

Had a couple of Kawasaki Z400 twins, never got on with them though. Ditto Yamaha RDs (1x250, 2 or 3x200s and a couple of 125 twins) as always found them too unreliable, though the 250E with LC pipes was bloody fast.

 

Lat time I rode an X7 it tried to kill me... Jap frame geometry wasn't at its best in the 1970s/80s. Lovely stroker engines though, with a nice prehistoric power step unlike more modern variable port efforts.

[wuvvum]

  ashmicro said:

ISTR briefly owning something called a Scorpion which had what looked like a timing belt instead of a chain.

I had one of those years ago - a Z250 Scorpion. Lovely little bike - handled and went so much better than the 250 Wet Dream I had before it. Belt drive was a good idea too I thought - less maintenance than a chain and without the snatchiness of a shaft, although it did make a thoroughly irritating squeaking noise when pushing the bike with the engine off.

[Cavcraft]

Didn't they bore the 250 out a bit and make a (GPZ?)305 with a belt drive?

The 250N Superdream was a blinding town/short-medium hauler as they had enough poke to get you about and were good on fuel plus reasonably pleasant to ride. Still haven't found a (four stroke) 125 as good as the CG either, bloody brilliant little things and nothing short of amazing (better than a C90) on fuel.