The grumpy thread

[Pillock]

Employment agencies rely on people believing that they're going to get paid. The last thing they need is someone mouthing off about how they don't pay wages. Any prospective workers are going to turn around and go elsewhere so just go in and make it clear you're not leaving until the rozzers turn up, or they pay in full.

 

I'm told fairly reliably that employment law states that money must be available immediately on your date of pay - hence why most large firms pay a day or two early to allow it to be processed. As such, if they're late you have the right to ask for it in cash to avoid waiting days for it to clear.

[vulgalour]

So cool.

 

 

Yeah, I kindof f*cked up.

 

I think we should start copying this - with an autoshite twist....imagine how hard we'd look standing in front of a beige princess with a knackered front nearside sphere and a bit of bale twine holding the bumper in place! Especially if we were wearing a tween homburg and 'giffer' style grey faux leather loafers

 

BRING IT ONNNNAHHH!

 

I'm on it! Give me a few days and a bending of my Dad's ear, we'll provide you with giffer + beige Princess 'hard man' lols.

[Pillock]

Todays grump..... idiots.

 

Pulled up at the pez station and there's a guy filling a 307SW with diesel, he's just wandering off to pay as I start filling. Notice under his car there's a MASSIVE pool of diesel and it's still dripping out of somewhere and a fairly decent rate so I shout over to him. He shrugs and gives some sort of mumbled eastern-european response which I take to be the equivalent of "I don't give a crap". And drives off, still pouring diesel all over the forecourt. Got the distinct impression that he knew it was knackered - given his nonchalance and the state of his 04 plate car with no undented panels and a massive crack across the screen.

 

Poor old woman had to come out and chuck sand everywhere, and I bet some lucky biker gets to slide around on it on every roundabout along the A46.

[Guest]

 

Yeah that’ll help, WTC will hopefully get his £150 in 6-9 months time after spending most of it going backwards and forwards to court hearings that get postponed each time the agency fails to send anybody along.

 

Just go to the office and make a nuisance of yourself till they pay you, they know their customer not paying up is not your problem.

 

That's what I did when in the same situation. They don't expect you to turn up in person. After about an hour of being fucked about I got paid. In cash.

 

Not strictly agency related, but I was owed nearly £800 in overtime by the shit tin pot outsourcing outfit I used to work for. That was about two-thirds of a monthly wage - ergo, a shitload of overtime.

 

Had several terse conversations with payroll - each time they promised me it would get sorted - nowt. After this dragging on for three months, I dredged up their details (they were only in Warrington), went and sat in front of the tit who'd fobbed me off on the phone, and refused to leave.

 

My manager got a call, it went something like this:

 

Payroll: Eerm, we've got one of yours here, he says we owe him £800 overtime and he won't leave.

 

Manager: What, he's there now? Ha ha, quality. You must have really pissed him off.

 

Payroll: Yeah, we can't get him to leave.

 

Manager: Yeah, you owe him x amount of hours and it hasn't been paid. I've asked you twice and so has Pete. Have you paid him?

 

Payroll: No, it wasn't me who said they'd sorted it.

 

Manager: Yes it was.

 

Payroll: No it wasn't. Why won't he leave?

 

Manager: Because you haven't paid him.

 

Payroll: Can you talk to him and get him to leave? He's upsetting me.

 

Manager: Well, pay him and he'll go away. Seriously, he'll go if you action it.

 

[Manager has a quick conversation with me]

 

Mysteriously the missing overtime appeared in my account the next month. I never did overtime again after that - even to the point of arguing with a senior manager who 'expected' us to do overtime several months later. I think I ended the conversation with something along the lines of 'Unless you get your wallet out, you can ram it, sorry, it'll be next year before I see it.'

[Guest]

For all the criticism of that 1300 - and the owner is a complete blert - I've seen worse. Painting a car 'because I'm a punk with tattoos' is the most pathetic reason for matt blacking a car I've heard in a long time. Not sure the original punks had cars to be honest - let me ask Dick Hebdige.

 

When it had the black bonnet, it reminded me of a Corgi Whizzwheels model for some reason. And the bloke with the Sceptre is at least going the whole hog mechanically with the gasserfication of it - high riding, solid front axle, V8. Half done, it looked crap, and yes, he could have picked a rougher one. At the end of the day though, it's his car, he had the money and it was available. Where were all the preservationists to 'save' it then?

 

To be honest, we all know the binary opposition between AS and the blue forum. Their folk don't show interest unless a car has been modified - normally in the same way - lowering and SPUFF YO OBSCURE JDM wheels.

 

Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. You'd get more kudos on here for keeping a car standard. Bone stock does very little for me, unless the car in question is the last of its kind.

[retrogeezer]

Todays grump..... idiots.

 

Pulled up at the pez station and there's a guy filling a 307SW with diesel, he's just wandering off to pay as I start filling. Notice under his car there's a MASSIVE pool of diesel and it's still dripping out of somewhere and a fairly decent rate so I shout over to him. He shrugs and gives some sort of mumbled eastern-european response which I take to be the equivalent of "I don't give a crap". And drives off, still pouring diesel all over the forecourt. Got the distinct impression that he knew it was knackered - given his nonchalance and the state of his 04 plate car with no undented panels and a massive crack across the screen.

 

Poor old woman had to come out and chuck sand everywhere, and I bet some lucky biker gets to slide around on it on every roundabout along the A46.

 

 

I would have rung the police and given them his reg number....and yet again this is something else 'speed cameras' won't pick up. Mind you, if the driver was eastern european the rozzers would probably do fook all anyway.

[Guest]

What was the Polish for 'driving license' again?

[Cavcraft]

'I no no what you say about, what is licence drivering points?'

 

That's the Roadwars translation.

[Guest]

'I no no what you say about, what is licence drivering points?'

 

That's the Roadwars translation.

 

I have Kalashnikov, you wish me to spell?

[scooters]

Employment agencies rely on people believing that they're going to get paid. The last thing they need is someone mouthing off about how they don't pay wages. Any prospective workers are going to turn around and go elsewhere so just go in and make it clear you're not leaving until the rozzers turn up, or they pay in full.

 

I'm told fairly reliably that employment law states that money must be available immediately on your date of pay - hence why most large firms pay a day or two early to allow it to be processed. As such, if they're late you have the right to ask for it in cash to avoid waiting days for it to clear.

 

Fellah,we now run a recruitment business - they are breaking the law vis temporary workers - unless you signed a contract stipulating they wont pay you until they are paid they are liable - unless you are a ltd company...

 

tell them it isn't your problem, your contract is with them and if they don't pay you you will report the incident to the Department of Trade and Industry as it is a violation of The Conduct of Employment Agencies and Businesses Regulations(2003) which clearly state if they are acting as an employment agency they are obliged to pay you EVEN IF THEY HAVEN'T BEEN PAID BY THEIR CLIENT(see: http://www.personneltoday.com/articles/ ... tions.html) failing to follow the regulations is a CRIMINAL OFFENCE and can result in a 5000 quid fine and or imprisonment and they will be forbidden from running a recruitment agency again. The last thing they will want is a DTI audit because they WON'T be compliant

 

it should do the trick, even if you have engaged as a ltd company

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Alternatively, tell em to pay up or you will have a dump on their carpet

[vulgalour]

...and by 'dump' he means you'll be getting the silage tanker over and putting the out-hose through their letterbox one Sunday so it can fester nicely overnight to greet them fresh first thing Monday morning. Or at least I hope that's what Boll means.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Sort of, though I expected WTC to arrive at the agency with his own ‘silage tanker out-pipe’ readied in case it was needed there and then.

[Ross_K]

Your contract IS with the agency. Small claims court. Simples.

 

Yeah that’ll help, WTC will hopefully get his £150 in 6-9 months time after spending most of it going backwards and forwards to court hearings that get postponed each time the agency fails to send anybody along.

 

Just go to the office and make a nuisance of yourself till they pay you, they know their customer not paying up is not your problem.

 

Been there, done that, got the breach of the peace t-shirt.

[Cavcraft]

Sort of, though I expected WTC to arrive at the agency with his own ‘silage tanker out-pipe’ readied in case it was needed there and then.

 

Several pints, dodgy curry and a funnel?

[MrDuke]

Matt black bonnets come from rally cars, it was done to get rid of reflections in very sunny places.

 

Nah, that was just an excuse offered up by the fucking nob fashion-victims who drove them. Possibly.

[scaryoldcortina]

Matt black bonnets come from rally cars, it was done to get rid of reflections in very sunny places.

 

This is true, I was explaining how it got really popular on non sporting cars

[fiatdaft]

Just because somebody is being different doesn't make them a knob fashion victim.

[MrDuke]

Just because somebody is being different doesn't make them a knob fashion victim.

 

No, but you would've thought so sometimes.

[Albert Ross]

Just because somebody is being different doesn't make them a knob fashion victim.

 

Well there are so many people "being different", that body coloured is the new "black".....................

 

I always thought that black panels on one's vehicle suggested that you had somewhat tapped/shunted it, never claimed, and whacked a few Saltofix panels on and said bollocks to the paint. At least that's what I did..............

[RedSparrow]

Just because somebody is being different doesn't make them a knob fashion victim.

 

Yes, but he's not being different, that's the point. It reminds me of kids at school who would call themselves 'alternative' and all dress the same.

 

That Victor wagon on the other hand is a tasteful and unique piece of work done by a professional.

[fiatdaft]

Ok,its 1972 and you walk into a ford dealer and see all the regular capri's in the showroom,so you order a gt with the xlr package,fashion victim?

[warren t claim]

I'm owed £112.75 by an agency I went out of my way to help at short notice. The agency are refusing to pay me because the client I was working for fell out with said agency and hasn't paid their bill for my time (About £150+VAT). The days money I'm owed is from four weeks ago last Friday and is now three weeks overdue.

 

I always thought that my contract was with the agency and not the client.

 

FUCK YOU! PAY ME!!!!

 

Nasty Warren is now going to have to take a trip to Liverpool city centre to chase a debt.

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mercedes-W124-Bonnet-and-grille-/310398838481?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&fits=Car+Make%3AMercedes-Benz%7CPlat_Gen%3AW124&hash=item48453666d1#ht_500wt_1202

 

You know me too well!

[HillmanImp]

I don't like matt black cars but I have to say I think the Triumph actually quite suits it. But I have just stuck a load of ketamine up my arse so my judgement might be somewhat impaired.

[Negative Creep]

I will admit to having 2 matt black cars in the past, but in my defence it was several years ago. Now it's just been done to death

[myglaren]

Been having terrible problems getting the windscreen on the replacement C5 anything like clear. As soon as there is any rain it is a horrible smeary mess.

Cleaned it with meths, carwash, glass cleaner from work, meths again, Cif, more car wash, screenwash, glass cleaner again, all without improvement.

Bought new wiper blades from eBay, highly recommended. No improvement. Washed the screen again with all sorts of things.

Rained on the way to work yesterday and the wipers were hopeless. automatic wipe would sweep the screen three times then go mental.

 

Cleaned the screen with oven cleaner last night and noticed one of the wiper 'rubbers' coming away from the blade.

 

 

Then realised that the rubbers had a protective nylon cover on them

 

Today the screen is as clean as a clean thing and the autowipers behaved impeccably.

Should be a numpty warning on the box (no, I didn't read the instructions, it was difficult enough fitting the damned things as it was.

[HillmanImp]

[MrDuke]

Sorry for being excessively grumpy - I've now had lots of gin and feel much better. I just get tired of being made to feel as though there's a choice to be made between modified cars and stock; you have to stick with one and hate/slag off the other.

Triumph Man is a twat because of his arrogant attitude towards guidance, abusive response to criticism, clueless approach to maintenance and repair, and his photo poses. Not because he rattle-canned his car. I'm no paint expert, but I'm fairly sure matt/satin paint doesn't destroy metal, especially when the original paint's still underneath. FWIW, I too think it looks utterly gash, and that's why I don't sit looking at pics of it until my spleen ruptures.

I love my car, among other reasons, for the brown-and-sick coloured interior, the tacky plastic 'chrome' trim, the metallic beige paintwork, and the lack of any colour-matched plastic. I wouldn't dream of changing any of these details. I also love the fact that it has chopped springs, and I'll shortly be taking out at least another half a coil all round. If I found some wheels that I liked, but which were a bit too big, I'd happily roll the arches to make them fit. If that makes me a Kunt, well, I don't apologise. If anyone here wants to save the poor helpless thing from my destructive and irresponsible attentions, then you can come round and swap it for a grand in cash, anytime.

 

Peace, love and fluffy kittens

[wuvvum]

automatic wipe would sweep the screen three times then go mental.

Isn't that pretty much par for the course with PSA auto wipers though?

[messerschmitt owner]

Sorry for being excessively grumpy - I've now had lots of gin and feel much better. I just get tired of being made to feel as though there's a choice to be made between modified cars and stock; you have to stick with one and hate/slag off the other.

Triumph Man is a twat because of his arrogant attitude towards guidance, abusive response to criticism, clueless approach to maintenance and repair, and his photo poses. Not because he rattle-canned his car. I'm no paint expert, but I'm fairly sure matt/satin paint doesn't destroy metal, especially when the original paint's still underneath. FWIW, I too think it looks utterly gash, and that's why I don't sit looking at pics of it until my spleen ruptures.

I love my car, among other reasons, for the brown-and-sick coloured interior, the tacky plastic 'chrome' trim, the metallic beige paintwork, and the lack of any colour-matched plastic. I wouldn't dream of changing any of these details. I also love the fact that it has chopped springs, and I'll shortly be taking out at least another half a coil all round. If I found some wheels that I liked, but which were a bit too big, I'd happily roll the arches to make them fit. If that makes me a Kunt, well, I don't apologise. If anyone here wants to save the poor helpless thing from my destructive and irresponsible attentions, then you can come round and swap it for a grand in cash, anytime.

 

Peace, love and fluffy kittens

Every car is modified in one way shape or form - the addition of mats, an aftermarket sunroof, remapping, lowered suspension, paint jobs, removal of badges to make people think your car is lower spec than it is, etc.

 

 

The thing is, it can be done tastefully and that Triumph is an abortion! Having said that, the matt black, split oval rear window VW Beetle I have just seen looked quite cool in a matt finish - was late 40s if it was a day! But it had the look of a well cared for, but definitely used car, unlike the Triumph, which has obviously just been painted badly with a roller.

 

I like modded cars, I own a lowered, remapped, tuned sports car, but I hate things done cack-handidly, with no quality control - just like that Triumph! He's done it cheaply and nastily, and it shows! Done properly, it would no doubt look quite cool, but as it is ...