The grumpy thread

[Cavcraft]

SPILL THE BEENZ

 

 

 

My cryptic clues are rubbish.

 

 

Ooh, is the Congleton* one?

 

 

*Or that sort of area.

[trigger]

That's the one, i just wish that they'd get back to me!

[Cavcraft]

Have you called or sent him a text mate? I've pm'd you by the way.

[retrogeezer]

if you get it Trigster let me know...train to Crewe and I could pick you up and take you over to Congleton.

[trigger]

Thanks Si, I think the plan will be to drive up Tuesday, It's only a 8 hour round trip...

 

The train is £108 for a single!

[eddyramrod]

Looking forward to the pics, Trig! Train fares are way out of order. When we left the country, I looked at the various options to get us from Inverness, where we were staying, to Manchester airport. Turned out the cheapest option was a one-way car rental, so I booked a basic car, Fiesta or the like, there being only two of us with holiday cases. When I got to Inverness airport to collect it, they gave me an upgrade because they had a car that needed taking down to Manchester... Land Rover Defender 110 Station Wagon! Still cheaper than the train...

[trigger]

I hadn't thought of rental, Well I'm not getting to excited yet, the vendor still hasn't got back to me, I'm emailed them now as well.

[Negative Creep]

You can save a shitload on train fares by booking ahead

[Guest]

Just handed my notice in at work. Boss became unbearable after a prolonged period of enmity so I wrote a resignation letter on a scrap piece of A4 as he was outside kicking the crap out of a shoplifter. He told me I wouldn't have a job in the New Year, so I gave my holiday as notice. Bloke wouldn't look me in the eye or even shake my hand. A truly horrible man.

 

After everything that has gone wrong with my job I'm either doing something very wrong or I am the unluckiest person in the world.

 

See you round 2011. You will not be remembered as a good year. Job resignation and notices given, crap marks at Uni, very close relatives being diagnosed with cancer.

 

May 2012 be far better, to everyone I care about.

[Minimad5]

All the best Jon,

 

Lets hope we both (and everyone else) have a better year in 2012

[eddyramrod]

2011... will not be remembered as a good year.

May 2012 be far better, to everyone I care about.

 

Likewise, Jon. Hope things in general "turn" for us all.

[Negative Creep]

Don't think I'll even bother staying awake until midnight. This year has been, to be frank, shit. Stuck home by myself, same as Christmas and Boxing day and pretty much every day in 2012. Ho hum.

[Lord Sterling]

After everything that has gone wrong with my job I'm either doing something very wrong or I am the unluckiest person in the world.

 

I know its a throw-away thing to say, but just perservere. I had a multiple of crap jobs before finding the half-decent one I'm in at the mo. My current job isnt great, far from it, but I suppose its the people around you who can make your place of work and job more bearable. Thankfully I've managed to find myself in a place were the team is small and the people are pretty good to work with.

 

All the best mate and hope things are much better for you this coming year. I certainly hope things will sort themselves out for myself, I think your aware of my current situ and my goal, it still hasnt happend as I'm still waiting for my certificate from college, need to chase them up (again) soon.

 

I think I shall be staying in this year for New Years, just as I have been doing for the past couple of years.

[Lankytim]

FWIW I think this "OMG, my PERFECT job, I love it, i'd do it for free" thing is a bit of a myth, unless you're a porn star or something. Everyone I know, at best is totally apathetic towards their job, either that or they completely hate it.

 

That probably won't make you feel better though. Sorry.

[trigger]

Good luck Jon! I hope 2012 is YOUR year to mate. Listening to your podcast the other week it sounds like you'll do fine. you certainly have the voice for radio anyway!

[peter9000uk]

Good luck Jon! I hope 2012 is YOUR year to mate. Listening to your podcast the other week it sounds like you'll do fine. you certainly have the FACE for radio anyway!

 

 

EFA

[ProgRocker]

SPILL THE BEENZ

 

 

 

My cryptic clues are rubbish.

 

This one?

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/vauxhall-magnum1800-/180786281851?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item2a17b3bd7b

 

Wouldn't mind that myself.

[eddyramrod]

If it is that one, I'd have a go myself, that's lovely!

[Cavcraft]

Yeah, good luck Jon and all the others who've had a shit year.

Lord Sterling and LankyTim are on the money here imho. Not many people have the perfect job and quite often those that say they do are either full of crap or the sort of people whose whole lives are dedicated to their job and probably put in copious extra hours for nothing. Work to live, don't live to work. Also even though jobs can seem mega on paper the reality is often different. I scored a 'good' job where I don't do much, get some decent freebies (food etc) and the money is not too bad, but it's boring as hell and stopped being a challenge years back

 

One day that decent job will come along and all the shit jobs you've had before will become part of your history and you'll look back and laugh one day, plus, as corny as it sounds, it helps you become the person you are and it's one of life's experiences that will only make you stronger.

 

Here's to 2012, pissing about with cars, having a laugh on here, getting a better job and don't forget it's Chodmunterly Castle in May for the annual talking bollocks and taking pictures!

[wuvvum]

The Ligier has a flat battery. Unfortunately it's located under the driver's seat, and it won't move far enough forward or aft to get it out, so I'm going to have to remove the seat. There isn't even enough clearance under there to get in a decent set of jump leads without shorting the fuck out of everything. The French don't like to make anything easy.

[cobblers]

Jump leads on the starter motor/alternator and engine block instead?

[maxpower]

i was looking at that vauxhall @ 4am this morning hovvering over the button... but sense kicked in when i realise i have nowhere to keep it

 

p.s. as an added grump... ffs sky news we couldn't give a shit about fireworks in london edinburgh japan or austrailia

 

all year we get doom and gloom news about recession and here are those fuckers burning thousands of pounds while people are jobless homeless and hungry

[ashmicro]

Kate and I are very lucky in that we both love what we do for a living. She's a solicitor and is very good at what she does (although I am biased!). In all my years working at the powerplant I've had difficult days, VERY difficult days, scary days when stuff exploded/went on fire, but I can, hand on heart, say I've never had a bad day, and that includes the time I got knocked down by a spotty yoof in an Astra van. Or even the time when my friend Fiona and I got buried under a massive pile of GRP pipes. I've been offered a few jobs which are much better paid, but wouldn't be as much fun. Being happy in your job is very important in my opinion, or at least having a job you don't actively hate. My best mate Glenn once said to me "You have the best job in the world: you love it, and you're extremely good at it. And the only person you ever had an argument with in that place you ended up shagging her. Lucky bastard. Much as I am fond of my workmates, I really don't want to sleep with any of them!" (He's a copper in an all-male TSG team)

[eddyramrod]

Being happy in your job is very important

 

+1 in a big way! I'd go as far as to call it vital. You spend a big chunk of your life at work. Money is not a good enough reason to be doing something you can't enjoy.

[wuvvum]

The Ligier has a flat battery. Unfortunately it's located under the driver's seat, and it won't move far enough forward or aft to get it out, so I'm going to have to remove the seat. There isn't even enough clearance under there to get in a decent set of jump leads without shorting the fuck out of everything. The French don't like to make anything easy.

OK, this just gets better and better. Just been down to try and take the seat out, and it's held in with fugging allen bolts. Which wouldn't be an issue if there was enough room to get an allen key in between the seat frame and the runner, but there isn't. So when I try to undo the 13mm locknut it just turns the entire bolt and there's bugger all I can do to stop it. The only way I'm going to get the seat out is to unbolt the entire assembly, which means getting under the car and pissing about with rusted up bolts. I think I might just have to wrap a shitload of electrical tape round my jump lead clips and jump start the bastard thing, and then leave it running at 1500rpm for half an hour or so to charge the battery. But that's a job for tomorrow.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Being happy in your job is very important

 

+1 in a big way! I'd go as far as to call it vital. You spend a big chunk of your life at work. Money is not a good enough reason to be doing something you can't enjoy.

 

I agree. It IS possible to enjoy one's job. I've met quite a few people that do. Unfortunately, unless you are self-employed, it takes a massive amount of luck to end up in such a position (and then some more luck in order to avoid your job being ruined by events such as a valuable colleague being replaced by a clueless retard, or a dickhead new manager taking over your department), so, going on past form, I would say I am extremely unlikely to ever experience it first-hand!

[Cavcraft]

Missus thinks she has shingles.

[eddyramrod]

a dickhead new manager taking over

 

Been there, and it nearly broke me. This is a story I don't want to tell in public, even though it was 18 years ago. It can still make me angry, even now, and this is after I've learned to let a lot of stuff go.

[Negative Creep]

Thing about my job is that I've never really cared about it. Yet I keep getting high marks, a proper contract has been hinted at and apparently I'm the most eloquent letter writer there.

 

The obvious thought is what I could manage if I was to really try....

[Craig the Princess]

Thing about my job is that I've never really cared about it. Yet I keep getting high marks, a proper contract has been hinted at and apparently I'm the most eloquent letter writer there.

 

The obvious thought is what I could manage if I was to really try....

 

/\ This. Are you me NC?

 

People are dead right about the team, I changed jobs inJuly and my current team is ok, but as a first time manager I never really feel that I fit in. Not helped by my previous jobs having an awesome group of people.