The grumpy thread

[Cavcraft]

It gets better than that, Mr Ramjet: the spare wheel is loose in the back and I was a tyre fitter for 8 years. Can I change it myself? H&S say no

[eddyramrod]

Seriously? FFS.....!

[ashmicro]

Sounds about right, Billy. Public Service stuff is even worse. I was contacted by Northern Ireland Civil Service I.T Group to do a setup on a replacement Cisco router. I won't bore you with the details, but when I arrived on site, the Civil Service jobsworth who met me (some local nobhead, not from IT Group) wouldn't let me near the system because it wasn't "in the Green Book (regs) for outside contractors to touch NICS equipment and I hadn't done the H&S induction"

 

Quoth I "Do you think I'm here for the fucking fun of it? ITG asked me to come you utter pissflap. Here is my pass for all NICS buildings in NI. As you can see on the back there is a green tick, meaning I have done the H&S induction"

 

4 hours wasted while Nobhead sorted his shit out and I got started. That's 4 hours @ £58 per hour for zero output.

[Cheggers]

Grump 1 - I'm in Paris all week

Grump 2 - My Blackberry/ camera's borked

Grump 3 - I saw a gorgeous chocolate-brown Ami last night (see Grump 2)

 

Merde!!

[John F]

... works van has flat tyre. We have to ring national company who now have the contract. Cue half arsed 'we'll be there tomorrow or Monday' comment. Thats no bloody use at all sorry. 'Ok, we'll be there by 5.30pm'. That's no sodding use either. 'Err, ok how does mid-day at the latest sound?' Yeah, that's fine. Ten minutes later the 'phone rings; 'hi, we're the depot coming to fix the puncture, there's no chance we'll be there this morning, it'll be about 5.30pm'. Flipping brilliant

 

Did you try hammering a slightly flatter tyre over it, Billy?

[Cavcraft]

guess what? Useless fuckers can't get a tyre until Monday. Obviously the fact it's a popular sized commercial tyre and they're a huge national outfit makes no odds. Bollocks to 'em, chiselling bunch of shitehawk bastards. Unfortunately it's not the valve core leaking as I'd have replaced it then called them and told them to whistle Rule Britannia out of their collective fat arses.

[autofive]

non-ferrous prices are down this morning

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Came home to find something had fallen of a shelf and landed on the Macbook pro. Cost to replace screen by Apple £500 ... insurance job it is then ...

 

I blame Poltergoose

 

 

£500, ouch!

 

What size screen is it? I had the 13.3in screen in my (white) Macbook replaced by Apple a couple of months ago. It was under warranty, but the receipt says £141 for the LCD panel and £24 for labour.

[HillmanImp]

Did you try hammering a slightly flatter tyre over it, Billy?

 

LOLZ

[chaseracer]

If you haven't had babies yet, Billy, I would bear them for you...

Norm, that is the single most repellent concept I have been exposed to today. And I've been in Walsall...

[Cavcraft]

It's also the single best offer I've had in yonks.

 

You paying for the flights, Norm?

[The Moog]

Been getting SQL errors on the forum!

 

Putting the Macbook through the house insurance. Excess is only £50 so should be worth it. i was all up for attacking it with screwdrivers but GF wasnt happy (and it is hers) as she has seen me working on cars!

 

Thanks for offers though ..

[scooters]

The daylight saving question is back again....

 

putting the clocks forward for 12 months a year is not a good idea - when they tried it in 1971 the accident rate in the north went up.

 

Looks like Scotland will get the veto - I see that Prick Tim Yeo is already stirring the shit with his 'scottish tail wagging the British dog' comment - what a pillock...I sent him an email - Tim, you like handing 20,000 votes to the SNP - clearly you do as your comment is making me consider voting for them you fucking pillock,

 

cunt

 

any kid run over in the north after such a change comes in - their blood will be on the hands of Hoitchins and Yeo and all the other braying cunts.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Nothing stopping Scotland having its own time zone for half the year if they're really keen on dicking about with the time.

[loserone]

It will never happen, but..

when they tried it in 1971 the accident rate in the north went up.

Is this actually true? Didn't someone report that the accident rate went up and xxx children died, and say this in parliament without fact checking? Later investigation revealed no such thing.. I might be all wrong on that.

 

However,

cunts.

Granted.

[Pete-M]

 

Seriously Pete, get your head out of the Daily Mail - or your arse, whichever.

 

Only just spotted this. I don't read the Daily Mail, and my head is firmly out of my arse.

 

I just don't see why the fuck the tax payer should A: Pay for tens of thousands of unnecessary council workers, and B: Give them over the odds pensions just because they're screwing the tax payer silly already.

 

I deal with councils most days of the week in most parts of the country, and the majority of the droids I meet who work for them are workshy bastards who will only work to rule - unlike the private sector people I meet who will actually skip two minutes of their lunch if it means keeping their customers happy.

 

For example. 22 days ago I rang the council to tell them that there are six streetlights out in my road. Droid on the phone wasn't even slightly interested but noted it down and informed me that they would be fixed "within eight days". Eight days later they weren't fixed, so I rang, quoted their reference number and told them the lights still aren't working. Another droid said "There's nothing on the system" and eventually managed to input all the data again and once again promised "They'll be fixed within eight days". I then went on the local council website that deals with streetlighting and entered the details about the streetlights that aren't working. Automated email back listed all the lights that don't work and said "They'll be fixed within eight days".... they've got two days left. No-one has been near, lights still don't work.

 

Now, this may seem like a little thing, but the local council decided to spend sixty million quid knocking down the recently expensively refurbished Grade II listed school near my house and rebuild it with some pre-fab bollocks, there's more dust here than in the Sahara and they're complaining about having no money because of cuts. They're doubled the council Chief Executive's wages to nigh on £200k a year and they've stopped cleaning the streets "because of lack of funding", yet they spent the best part of £25k on a party in Shanghai and in under a year splurged close to a million quid on taxi fares when the last council paid less than a fifth of that.

 

Something needs to be done, and I'm pissed off about it. Sack 'em all.

[RedSparrow]

I tend to agree.

I have worked for 2 borough councils. I started all enthusiastic but you gradually get worn down by a bone idle old guard who when shown a more efficient way of doing something the answer is always 'but we've always done it like this'. I was front line, but the stories of lazy overpaid people in higher management made my blood boil.

Sadly, it's true.

[scooters]

Nothing stopping Scotland having its own time zone for half the year if they're really keen on dicking about with the time.

 

nothing wrong with you sassenachs ferkin orf to join the French if you are so worried about the 'hours trading time with Europe'!

[chaseracer]

Whatever.

 

My colleagues and I generally work through what is amusingly referred to as a 'lunch break' and take work home to make sure services are provided - as do many of the people we represent, like teaching assistants, social workers, school secretaries, NHS staff - but far be it from me to let facts get in the way of ill-informed prejudice.

 

Of course, it's all so much more fair and reasonable when those awful "public sector muppets" aren't screwing the system... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15487866

 

 

 

[M'coli]

Scoots, you're quite right: I don't think they've thought it through. Even in the Central Lowlands, if this happens it will be dark - headlights dark - until after 9am. On the shortest day of the year in 1986 I remember telling my registration teacher I had a punny exercise to hand in to another teacher so that I could go outside to the playing fields and watch the sun come up over the hills (at about 9:07am).

 

The point here? Currently most people and children who are going to work/school at between 8 and 9 in the morning do so in dayligh of increasing strength; children leave school at about 3.45-4pm and thus in daylight - but the adults who started at 9am go home after 5.30pm, in the dark. Once the clocks go forward, it will be dark for both sets of road users on the way to their destinations - and the risks to children and school crossing attendants will be greatly increased from muppets who won't be looking for them in the gloom because they're not yet aware enough.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

[andrew e]

Shoudn't the DVLA have that?

 

Anyway, in 1971 would 90% of the cars in Scotland have 6 volt lighting, crossplies and single circuit brakes?

[M'coli]

Shoudn't the DVLA have that?

 

Anyway, in 1971 would 90% of the cars in Scotland have 6 volt lighting, crossplies and single circuit brakes?

Other than the 6v, wouldn't most cars in the UK have had crossplies and single circuit brakes?

[autofive]

not many kids walk to school these days

 

but if scotland goes ahead, thousands of school children and commuters could be blinded by newish cars with retina burning headlights

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

WARNING: THE FOLLOWING POST CONTAINS A LOW-MODERATE AMOUNT OF POLITICAL STUFF.

 

My colleagues and I generally work through what is amusingly referred to as a 'lunch break' and take work home to make sure services are provided - as do many of the people we represent, like teaching assistants, social workers, school secretaries, NHS staff - but far be it from me to let facts get in the way of ill-informed prejudice.

 

I can't see why you lot disagree. Different parts of the public sector work in different ways. Some of them are brilliant, most are average and some are shit. Heck, I asked Leicester City Council for two sets of similar documents (copies of old council tax bills and electoral register entries). One department replied to my e-mail within 3 days and charged me fifteen quid for sending me the data condensed into a single sheet of paper, whereas the other took a whole month to respond and said they'd send me copies of all of the originals for free. Both outcomes, while not ideal, are acceptable to me (it wasn't anything mega-urgent), however it goes to show that even neighbouring offices work to wildly different standards/budgets/timescales. Whether we can afford to pay these people a living wage and a half-decent pension is a different discussion altogether, and I am not getting drawn back into that.

 

ART

 

I'm sure we could find a NGO that would pay a few grand for that in a 'supporting grassroots art' type project.

[eddyramrod]

not many kids walk to school these days

 

but if scotland goes ahead, thousands of school children and commuters could be blinded by newish cars with retina burning headlights

 

As opposed to the present situation, with normal people being blinded by the throngs of Yummy Mummies with their X5s' foglamps all set to "planespotting"?

[Cavcraft]

This fucking Mondeo is doing my head in, I know it's chavved up but it would appear it's unsellable. I swear to God if it doesn't go soon I'm going to take a few bits off it, smash the rest up with an axe and weigh the bastard in.

[George-Roper]

. I swear to God if it doesn't go soon I'm going to take a few bits off it, smash the rest up with an axe and weigh the bastard in.

 

[Albert Ross]

This fucking Mondeo is doing my head in, I know it's chavved up but it would appear it's unsellable. I swear to God if it doesn't go soon I'm going to take a few bits off it, smash the rest up with an axe and weigh the bastard in.

 

Is this thang a diseasel? Is it the one with leather? Is it cheap? Has it ever been written off etc.....MOT/tax? My Son is due home from the 'Stan in 10 days, and by the end of November, will have cash to spend. What's the price, and what's the spec? I'm trying to find him something to trundle up the M5/42/1/18 to and from home.... Just dipping feet.

[eddyramrod]

My connection keeps dropping off, usually in the middle of composing a post here... bummer! It's been bloody slow all night, so when I do get a message ready, I have to submit it several times because people with faster connections have posted while CYTA was faffing about...