The grumpy thread

[Cheggers]

Dragging my self home after another day slaving to find a cheery leaflet telling me the fat bloke across the road (too fat to work I think), plus the assorted pensioners can get themselves some stamps at last year's prices for Christmas.

 

That'll be a big fat fxxx all for me the tax payer then.

 

 

I cheered myself opening a letter from the council asking me for £375.00 in the next 4 days.

 

Pay the buggers in stamps, bought by fatty the neighbour with his discount

[dollywobbler]

Bloody cold. It's not a bad one, it just won't go away.

[vulgalour]

"Apply for JSA online, it's really easy" the woman in the job centre said.

 

Loading page...CRASH! Retrying. Loading page... CRASH! Retrying. (rinse and repeat)

 

I started this claim about half an hour ago, I've spent the last 10 minutes trying to get any further than this perpetually failing page. It's bad enough that I've reached a point where I feel I have to sign on again for any sort of financial stability. Not only that, when I spent my hour and a half trawling around Chesterfield throwing CVs at people after finding out the agency had cocked up, the vast majority all said they'd already hired their Christmas temp staff and had no vacancies. It's not even the end of October, how can they have already hired all their seasonal staff?

 

Not having a touch tone phone is also a ballache, as I have been finding out when trying to deal with the insurer, the government services and sometimes random companies who seem to have abolished people in favour of an automated service. I know I'm not exactly up to date, but it takes the piss when there's not even an option to hold the line to go through to an operator any more and instead you get stuck in a perpetual "Please press X" cycle or cut off without so much as a vapid automated apology.

 

...and breathe.

[Negative Creep]

Surely anything is better than having to set foot in a Job Centre?

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Loading page...CRASH! Retrying. Loading page... CRASH! Retrying. (rinse and repeat)

Something similar used to happen on the tax self assessment site, it would fail every other page and I would be forced to shake my fist at the computer and curse myself for leaving it until the end of January.

 

Today meanwhile I set the computer downloading a 1GB file at something stupid like 30kb/s (ETA 6h:30m). About half way through the cat shut my laptop and it insisted on starting from the beginning

[M'coli]

Surely anything is better than having to set foot in a Job Centre?

The job points at the job centre are way better to use than the Directgov online version, which is infuriating to say the least. Having said that, I insisted on going to Harrogate JC rather than the one in Seacroft that Jobcentreplus said was meant to be my local one, despite Harrogate's one being closer. It was only on my pointing out that there is a cyclepath most of the way to Harrogate and none on the way to Seacroft that they relented...

[Akron]

VA Christmas work is now on offer at Royal Mail, I know Derby and Nottingham mail centres are recruiting.

[M'coli]

Remember this on the eBay thread about a month ago?

Seems to have cropped up on UKPassats, along with mentions of lowering, coilovers, shorter springs and "low and slow"...

"mite just roll it around how it is for a bit but will keep looking coz dont see many of these on the road and i wont it to stand out from the croud."

 

Just rust-proof it, stick some petrol in it and drive it around, it's so unusual that it'll have no problem standing out from the crowd, and if you keep it standard height, you'll be able to find it in a VW one-make-show car park NO problem.

 

 

(Can you tell I'm still annoyed at eBay messing up my snipes!?)

[Negative Creep]

Surely anything is better than having to set foot in a Job Centre?

The job points at the job centre are way better to use than the Directgov online version, which is infuriating to say the least. Having said that, I insisted on going to Harrogate JC rather than the one in Seacroft that Jobcentreplus said was meant to be my local one, despite Harrogate's one being closer. It was only on my pointing out that there is a cyclepath most of the way to Harrogate and none on the way to Seacroft that they relented...

 

 

I feel sorry for the people who work there - if you are approached by a security guard the moment you enter that must tell you something.

 

 

That said, I'm pretty much at the stage where I don't care if I get my P45 tomorrow. There's people fighting and dying for our country, or living without fresh water, and I'm reading letters from some miserable cow that she's traumatised after being delayed for 30 minutes and the tea was served in the wrong way. Got nothing done tonight since I was waiting over 30 minutes for the boss to get off the phone where she was chatting to her daughter about the best way to make a cake. If we even have our phone on us it's an instant disciplinary - but hey, I'm sure I'll get the flak for not doing the work.

 

To top it off, I've just realised I've left my wallet in my locker (at least I hope it's in my locker) so will have to go in tomorrow on my day off.

[Negative Creep]

Surely anything is better than having to set foot in a Job Centre?

The job points at the job centre are way better to use than the Directgov online version, which is infuriating to say the least. Having said that, I insisted on going to Harrogate JC rather than the one in Seacroft that Jobcentreplus said was meant to be my local one, despite Harrogate's one being closer. It was only on my pointing out that there is a cyclepath most of the way to Harrogate and none on the way to Seacroft that they relented...

 

 

I feel sorry for the people who work there - if you are approached by a security guard the moment you enter that must tell you something.

 

 

That said, I'm pretty much at the stage where I don't care if I get my P45 tomorrow. There's people fighting and dying for our country, or living without fresh water, and I'm reading letters from some miserable cow that she's traumatised after being delayed for 30 minutes and the tea was served in the wrong way. Got nothing done tonight since I was waiting over 30 minutes for the boss to get off the phone where she was chatting to her daughter about the best way to make a cake. If we even have our phone on us it's an instant disciplinary - but hey, I'm sure I'll get the flak for not doing the work.

 

To top it off, I've just realised I've left my wallet in my locker (at least I hope it's in my locker) so will have to go in tomorrow on my day off.

[Guest]

I need to reinsure the 460 in the next couple of days and every fucking broker are being tits with me.

 

Sale is apparently a high risk ghetto according to Peter James and won't give me a quote unless it's garaged. Yeah, a sub £600 car that's universally reviled is really gonna get fucking nicked from an M33 postcode when you can buy a code reader for a brand new BMW off the internet for next to nothing.

 

On the subject of garaging........ha ha ha ha ha ha! Like I could garage anything I fucking own! It's not as if I'm paying out a fortune to do that and there's still a fucking Saab in the way............

[Guest]

I need to reinsure the 460 in the next couple of days and every fucking broker are being tits with me.

 

Sale is apparently a high risk ghetto according to Peter James and won't give me a quote unless it's garaged. Yeah, a sub £600 car that's universally reviled is really gonna get fucking nicked from an M33 postcode when you can buy a code reader for a brand new BMW off the internet for next to nothing.

 

On the subject of garaging........ha ha ha ha ha ha! Like I could garage anything I fucking own! It's not as if I'm paying out a fortune to do that and there's still a fucking Saab in the way............

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Just tell em its garaged then, and if it gets nicked off the driveway/road side, don’t claim for it.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Just tell em its garaged then, and if it gets nicked off the driveway/road side, don’t claim for it.

[autofive]

maybe its housed in a carport

[autofive]

maybe its housed in a carport

[Cheggers]

Interestingly, when I was insuring the 944 I was told it would be cheaper if I said it was kept on a private driveway (which it is) rather than in a garage...apparently garages are higher risk as the crooks have more time to do the deed unseen

[Cheggers]

Interestingly, when I was insuring the 944 I was told it would be cheaper if I said it was kept on a private driveway (which it is) rather than in a garage...apparently garages are higher risk as the crooks have more time to do the deed unseen

[Angrydicky]

I have heard that garages are becoming a higher risk due to the amount of people that scrape their cars manoeuvring in/out and claim on the insurance. Not sure how true this is though, as my insurance company (Lancaster) would only quote me if the cars were garaged. Good area too.

[Angrydicky]

I have heard that garages are becoming a higher risk due to the amount of people that scrape their cars manoeuvring in/out and claim on the insurance. Not sure how true this is though, as my insurance company (Lancaster) would only quote me if the cars were garaged. Good area too.

[Negative Creep]

apparently garages are higher risk as the crooks have more time to do the deed unseen

 

That's what I've heard, and I can see the logic in that. Perhaps a car that is garaged could be conceived as a more tempting target by the tea leaves?

[Negative Creep]

apparently garages are higher risk as the crooks have more time to do the deed unseen

 

That's what I've heard, and I can see the logic in that. Perhaps a car that is garaged could be conceived as a more tempting target by the tea leaves?

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

My Herald was insured as road parked with Lancaster, and changing it to garaged didn't make a penny difference. That was third party though so no claiming for scraped bumpers. The Sprite's with Footman James who insist on garaged.

 

I'm going to move at some point and I'm upset that I'll not be able to afford somewhere with a garage so I'll have to lose the car. But what's particularly upsetting is that a friend of my mum's bought a flat with a surplus garage which she let to someone else because I was a bit slow committing to it.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

My Herald was insured as road parked with Lancaster, and changing it to garaged didn't make a penny difference. That was third party though so no claiming for scraped bumpers. The Sprite's with Footman James who insist on garaged.

 

I'm going to move at some point and I'm upset that I'll not be able to afford somewhere with a garage so I'll have to lose the car. But what's particularly upsetting is that a friend of my mum's bought a flat with a surplus garage which she let to someone else because I was a bit slow committing to it.

[RedSparrow]

More of an awkward feeling than a grumpy one.

About to go on a Blind date with a Russian bird my friends have set me up with. I hope she's nice (she won't be)(and if she is she won't be interested in me).

 

I hate blind dates basically. I hope she likes beer and cigarettes.

[RedSparrow]

More of an awkward feeling than a grumpy one.

About to go on a Blind date with a Russian bird my friends have set me up with. I hope she's nice (she won't be)(and if she is she won't be interested in me).

 

I hate blind dates basically. I hope she likes beer and cigarettes.

[warren t claim]

More of an awkward feeling than a grumpy one.

About to go on a Blind date with a Russian bird my friends have set me up with. I hope she's nice (she won't be)(and if she is she won't be interested in me).

 

I hate blind dates basically. I hope she likes beer and cigarettes.

 

Get in there comrade!

[warren t claim]

More of an awkward feeling than a grumpy one.

About to go on a Blind date with a Russian bird my friends have set me up with. I hope she's nice (she won't be)(and if she is she won't be interested in me).

 

I hate blind dates basically. I hope she likes beer and cigarettes.

 

Get in there comrade!

[RedSparrow]

I will just be imagining this type of situation.

 

[RedSparrow]

I will just be imagining this type of situation.