The grumpy thread

[vulgalour]

Some of the agency work I've done has been laughable. 2 month contract for stuffing envelopes that I finished in 2 weeks and even asking around the office for work generated nothing more for me to do. Full time audio typist job that only had a part time workload, again no work in the office for me to help out with because there wasn't enough. Mind you, the advantage of the audio typist role was that I could brush up on my short story creating which I was into at the time and use their ink and paper to print it off. Related grump there was that all the doctors took the view that if they hadn't had all of their allowed sick pay off that year, they would take it off at the end of the year to bump up their holidays, that really irked me because if I took so much as a day off as an agency work the chances were that I wouldn't be getting any more work for a while.

[Guest]

My job is either mental busy or full of gaps depending on whether I'm working off peak or on peak. Plus I want more hours.

 

I am also an odour panellist.

 

ACTUAL GRUMP:

 

MOT's out on the Volvo and I wanted to take it to the RR Gathering. I didn't realise it had run out and the landlord is on the warpath about getting his fucking tractor through a gate next to our unit so we can't leave stuff there. Doesn't seem to bother biscunt face like, but my trusted MOT place will be booked up out of their arsehole and argh man this is just too hard.

 

The only thing I know it'll fail on is the handbrake. I'll probably have to get that wee crack in the windscreen filled as well.

[dollywobbler]

Cavette - doing a job you love still has its downsides. For a start, we're skint and would never be able to consider this lifestyle if we had opted to have children. Some people (rightly) put kids first. We crossed them off the To Do list some time ago. Even dream jobs are not immune to crap management and office politics either. Which is a shame.

[Louise2cv]

Just to conclude then, we're not to make any sweeping generalisations or assumptions about any type of worker from any sector or industry... except Kwik-fit fitters?

 

Am I close?

[dollywobbler]

Just to conclude then, we're not to make any sweeping generalisations or assumptions about any type of worker from any sector or industry... except Kwik-fit fitters?

 

Am I close?

 

Actually, I'd like to make a generalisation about stay-at-home moms, who pretend to be looking after their kids but actually just spend hours on the internet drooling over old shite.

[Cavcraft]

Cavette - doing a job you love still has its downsides. For a start, we're skint and would never be able to consider this lifestyle if we had opted to have children. Some people (rightly) put kids first. We crossed them off the To Do list some time ago. Even dream jobs are not immune to crap management and office politics either. Which is a shame.

 

Yeah, that's the problem. Looking forward to retirement where I can try various part time jobs then go all 'Meldrew' on bosses and storm out if they get arsey. To be fair there's a fighting chance (at the moment) I could retire in ten years time, money won't be brill but should get me by.

[myglaren]

Had the rear brakes all renewed on the C5, the loose driver's seat welded, full service and they sorted the poor performance.

Passed MOT too (just, could do with a new windscreen)

Changed the gearbox oil then discovered that it was leaking so will need doing again next week.

Injector #2 needs refurbishing @£76.

Bleb on one of the Kumhos so a new one needed:( MOT station doing that or it wouldn't have passed.

Going back for a timing belt/water pump change next week, along with injector and tyre.

Auxiliary belt screaming like a banshee last night

Brakes getting softer and softer

 

Goes like the clappers now

 

M&S have cancelled my insurance as they claim not to have received the NCB verification

They sent a letter dated the 20th asking for it, which I received on the 28th and returned the same day.

Eight days in the post - I hardly think so. I bet it wasn't actually posted until the 27th.

 

Going to have to try and phone them tomorrow at their extortionate phone rates and there is little that I hate more than using phones.

[ruffgeezer]

Going to have to try and phone them tomorrow at their extortionate phone rates and there is little that I hate more than using phones.

 

Try running the number through http://www.saynoto0870.com you might get it done at a local or national rate then

[Cavcraft]

Just to conclude then, we're not to make any sweeping generalisations or assumptions about any type of worker from any sector or industry... except Kwik-fit fitters?

 

Am I close?

 

 

Nowhere near, but don't let that stop you love

[Lankytim]

I'm bored out of my brain at work at the moment, so bad that i'm looking into getting back into trucking. I was bored on Friday so swapped some letters around on a computer keyboard so it spelled out the word SPUNK, an hour or so later an email was going around the company saying how damaging company property was a dismissal offence and up there with arson, and if they ever find out who did it they will be executed e.t.c. e.t.c. Miserable twats. When I hand my notice in I think i'll walk around building with a big megaphone telling everyone how shit I think the job is.

[philibusmo]

I'm bored out of my brain at work at the moment, so bad that i'm looking into getting back into trucking. I was bored on Friday so swapped some letters around on a computer keyboard so it spelled out the word SPUNK, an hour or so later an email was going around the company saying how damaging company property was a dismissal offence and up there with arson, and if they ever find out who did it they will be executed e.t.c. e.t.c. Miserable twats. When I hand my notice in I think i'll walk around building with a big megaphone telling everyone how shit I think the job is.

 

We had that email round our office a couple of weeks back, although to be fair someone had shit on the floor of the ladies toilet so that's kinda fair enough.

[TimothyClaypole]

Shiply - I thought Ebay were robbers but they have charged me a £14.49 "fee" !

 

Robbing faggots.

 

I've a van so could do it myself but the miserable bastard(s) at work wouldn't let me have the time off.

 

 

Back to Ebay to sell some more shite to pay for it I guess. Never ending circle.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

I really don't know how people toss it off all day at work... it is boring as hell. Knowing you've another X hours of nothing to do. Going day after day to the same shit.

 

My mum was in a job like that (Greek public sector). She took up sewing and made enough clothes for herself to fill two wardrobes!

Is that the same Greece that is in serious financial trouble partly caused by public employees cashing pay cheques for doing Jack Shit?

 

That's the one!

[myglaren]

Going to have to try and phone them tomorrow at their extortionate phone rates and there is little that I hate more than using phones.

 

Try running the number through http://www.saynoto0870.com you might get it done at a local or national rate then

 

Thanks for that RG

 

Pisses me off that they charge for the insurance then charge more for customer service and it is down to their stupidity and impatience.

[Guest]

I'm bored out of my brain at work at the moment, so bad that i'm looking into getting back into trucking. I was bored on Friday so swapped some letters around on a computer keyboard so it spelled out the word SPUNK, an hour or so later an email was going around the company saying how damaging company property was a dismissal offence and up there with arson, and if they ever find out who did it they will be executed e.t.c. e.t.c. Miserable twats. When I hand my notice in I think i'll walk around building with a big megaphone telling everyone how shit I think the job is.

 

We had that email round our office a couple of weeks back, although to be fair someone had shit on the floor of the ladies toilet so that's kinda fair enough.

 

We used to get emails like that - but that was in response to a person or persons who blocked up a toilet with shit, and then picked some of it up and smeared it all across the walls, the cubicles, the cubicle doors, the urinals, hand dryers and mirrors like some kind of excremental racing stripe. The staff who worked lates were fucking disgusting. They used to leave half eaten boxes of KFC in the desk drawers instead of getting up off their arses and putting them in the bin which was a 5 second walk away. They'd cover the keyboards and headsets with grease instead of washing their hands - and yet we'd get a bollocking for eating a piece of fruit at our desks during the day.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

M&S have cancelled my insurance as they claim not to have received the NCB verification

They sent a letter dated the 20th asking for it, which I received on the 28th and returned the same day.

Eight days in the post - I hardly think so. I bet it wasn't actually posted until the 27th.

 

Going to have to try and phone them tomorrow at their extortionate phone rates and there is little that I hate more than using phones.

 

DON'T CALL THE TWATS. They will tell you something, then you'll call again and they'll say something else and, when you ask for the recording of the previous conversation, it will have been conveniently lost. GR2 4 when they tell you that it's all been sorted then you find yourself taken to court for driving without insurance!

 

ONLY COMMUNICATE IN WRITING. E-mail's your friend.

[Louise2cv]

M&S sent me a pet insurance renewal letter (they hadn't been able to auto-renew because I'd changed credit card) dated the 13th of July saying if I hadn't been in touch by the 6th of July they cancel it. Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

[Lankytim]

Smearing the place with shit sounds like a good idea. It's not like they's know who did it, they don't have cameras on the bogs. I remember a while ago the MIL, who is a dentist's receptionist said that someone had coiled one off in the bin in the staffroom. LOL. Maybe i'm a bit immature, but anything involving piss or shit makes me laugh my tits off.

[RedSparrow]

Kind of only works if it's the cleaner you want to get revenge on.

[Cavcraft]

Im with Red on that one. Some dirty, disgusting low life animal did it at work a few years back and the poor young cleaner was in tears.

 

That said when it is the cleaner maybe it's ok. My brother and his mates were getting robbed blind by cleaning staff when in the residential bit at uni. He and his mates got their own back by pissing into a bucket, leaning it against the inward opening door and playing 'knock and run'.

[walk]

Smearing the place with shit sounds like a good idea. It's not like they's know who did it, they don't have cameras on the bogs. I remember a while ago the MIL, who is a dentist's receptionist said that someone had coiled one off in the bin in the staffroom. LOL. Maybe i'm a bit immature, but anything involving piss or shit makes me laugh my tits off.

 

Agreed! For some reason I've just laughed so hard that I've pulled a muscle in my neck I always find it amusing that any such filthly yet amusing antics which take place in the bogs at work usually involve the women's rather than the blokes shitters.

 

I'm off for a couple of Ibuprofen..........

[Rocket88]

I've got a knackered old LTI Fairway taxi I use for dump runs and general toting about of shite. Went to use it the other day, couldn't find the keys. Spent a swarf filled hour of fun drilling out the steering lock, and hot wiring the ignition. Found the keys about 16 nano seconds after I'd finished.....................

[Rocket88]

I've got a knackered old LTI Fairway taxi I use for dump runs and general toting about of shite. Went to use it the other day, couldn't find the keys. Spent a swarf filled hour of fun drilling out the steering lock, and hot wiring the ignition. Found the keys about 16 nano seconds after I'd finished.....................

[Cavcraft]

Fucking GR-9000.

Son goes back to work today after a week off, been in one hour and then told he's out of work as of now because they can't afford to keep him him on now he's fully trained. He's worked his bollocks off there, put up with endless shit, learnt stuff incredibly quickly and been on tosspot money since the day he started, not to mention he's hardly had a day off since joining.

It fucking sickens me this sort of shit happens to people who've done nothing to deserve it, so there's another kid looking for work now

[Cavcraft]

Fucking GR-9000.

Son goes back to work today after a week off, been in one hour and then told he's out of work as of now because they can't afford to keep him him on now he's fully trained. He's worked his bollocks off there, put up with endless shit, learnt stuff incredibly quickly and been on tosspot money since the day he started, not to mention he's hardly had a day off since joining.

It fucking sickens me this sort of shit happens to people who've done nothing to deserve it, so there's another kid looking for work now

[Ross_K]

That's a pain in the balls, sorry to hear it. This is your son that qualified as a mechanic only recently?

 

Why the fuck spend the time and money training someone up just to let them go?

[Ross_K]

That's a pain in the balls, sorry to hear it. This is your son that qualified as a mechanic only recently?

 

Why the fuck spend the time and money training someone up just to let them go?

[fiatdaft]

Does the government still pay part of an aprrentice wage? if so thats probably why they couldn't afford him,suxs big time,have a look on uncle arnies recruitment section,they are looking for mechanics in the northwest of england,but not sure how close they are to you.

[fiatdaft]

Does the government still pay part of an aprrentice wage? if so thats probably why they couldn't afford him,suxs big time,have a look on uncle arnies recruitment section,they are looking for mechanics in the northwest of england,but not sure how close they are to you.

[Cavcraft]

Cheers lads. Not sure on him being funded, though I do have an idea why they 'can't afford' to keep him on. Fair play he's upstairs now bashing out a revised CV and then off to the job centre, WH Smiths for stationary, Post Office for stamps and a few hours on the net. Typically in my previous job I had stacks of contacts in garages for miles around but I'm ten years out of that game now.

 

Cheers for the heads up about AC too, FD.