The grumpy thread

[dugong]

Who in gods name has kicked off about that then?

Scroll back a couple of pages and have a look. On the thread my erstwhile profile started. The one about Remembrance Sunday. I didn't think to look at the most 'recent' comments because the thread only gets aired once a year.

 

A bit stunned, really.

[wuvvum]

Car-related grumps:

 

The Rover 400 has shown its annoyance at having the tuning bits removed by springing a leak in a coolant hose.  It's one of the ones on the back of the engine - one end is easy enough to get to but the end that attaches to the block does so right underneath the exhaust manifold, so the jubilee clip is almost impossible to get to.  Fun job for next weekend then - doubtless it'll be -15°C to add to the enjoyment.

 

The Innocenti lost its nearside headlight glass today.  Fortunately I spotted it coming off and managed to catch it before it hit the ground.  I took the glass off for the MoT a couple of years ago as the reflector needed re-silvering (which I did with aluminium tape), and I stuck the glass back on with Araldite - looks like the frost has got to it.  I'll have to see if I can find some kind of sealant which is resistant to frost.

 

Also, I appear to have lost my only decent set of screwdrivers.

[hairnet]

northern rail gtf

 

wigan bus station very very GTF!!!!

 

 

sony ericcson kiss my fat mancunian arse wnakers!

[KruJoe]

Scroll back a couple of pages and have a look. On the thread my erstwhile profile started. The one about Remembrance Sunday. I didn't think to look at the most 'recent' comments because the thread only gets aired once a year.

A bit stunned, really.

I just read that whole thread start to finish, you have absolutely nothing to be ashamed of, the post in question was made two years ago, and even then, YOU were not accused of doing owt wrong.

From what I've seen (though I see nothing through your eyes) you have nothing to fret about mate.

[myglaren]

Car-related grumps:

 

The Rover 400 has shown its annoyance at having the tuning bits removed by springing a leak in a coolant hose.  It's one of the ones on the back of the engine - one end is easy enough to get to but the end that attaches to the block does so right underneath the exhaust manifold, so the jubilee clip is almost impossible to get to.  Fun job for next weekend then - doubtless it'll be -15°C to add to the enjoyment.

 

The Innocenti lost its nearside headlight glass today.  Fortunately I spotted it coming off and managed to catch it before it hit the ground.  I took the glass off for the MoT a couple of years ago as the reflector needed re-silvering (which I did with aluminium tape), and I stuck the glass back on with Araldite - looks like the frost has got to it.  I'll have to see if I can find some kind of sealant which is resistant to frost.

 

Also, I appear to have lost my only decent set of screwdrivers.

 

 

 

I did my Volvo lights - all the chrome was shot so lined them with chrome tape then stuck the glass back on with aquatic silicone.  Passed the MOT a couple of days later and was still fine when it was turned into bean tins four years later.

 

[Lord Sterling]

Just missed out on another set of Micra fog lights.

 

Also - Yesterday. This happens to me quite often and I find very intriguing. I think of something I need to buy, yesterday in this case; a bottle of 10w40. So I make my way to the nearest petrol station I know of, but they dont have any, they have all other oils for bikes or diesel cars, so I try the next petrol station, they are sold out of 10w40. It dawns on me that this is yet another running around of trying find something I need yet no one has it at that particular time.

 

Thankfully I managed to find a supermarket that did indeed have some Castrol 10w40. It shouldn't be like this but it always happens, that something in particular is always there when you dont need it, but as soon as you do, its sold out/no longer in production or they just dont stock.

 

See: Volvic normal water.

[Station]

Scroll back a couple of pages and have a look. On the thread my erstwhile profile started. The one about Remembrance Sunday. I didn't think to look at the most 'recent' comments because the thread only gets aired once a year.

 

A bit stunned, really.

 

? ? ?

 

http://autoshite.com/topic/7442-thoughts-on-armistice-day-rememberance-sunday/page-9

[Station]

People who say:

 

"If she doesn't sell, I am tempted to keep it."

 

If she doesn't sell, you're stuck with it, until it sells, surely?

[daveb47]

Right, I had a look and because I think someone (you?) like deactivated it, I can't seem to be able to remove it all. The only possible answer (I'll ask Dave though, as he's the whizz) I can think of is for you top reactivate it and then hopefully ones of us can sack it off. The other way would be to remove it post by post, sod that for a caper!

Is being sorted,but quite a long proccess.

[Cavcraft]

People who say:

 

"If she doesn't sell, I am tempted to keep it."

 

If she doesn't sell, you're stuck with it, until it sells, surely?

Some odd people out there. I had a seller yesterday who refused to tell me where he was unless I sent him a private message.

I refused to do so as it seemed suspicious and couldn't understand why he wouldn't tell me, nor others who asked.

He said he didn't want people knowing where he lived as it was an expensive bike which he didn't want anyone to steal.

Fuck knows what difference it makes private messaging people, maybe it means they can't break into his house, like some sort of invisible security shield or something?

Anyhow he wouldn't even tell me what town he lived in, so my money is staying in my pocket.

His bike, his rules, but Christ alone knows how he's going to sell it.

[CortinaDave]

Corporate bollocks. Anyone else get hit with "brand values" and the "brand wheel "?

[rml2345]

Occasionally I hear the "Brand Values" one. I believe the correct response in all cases is "What a load of pish".

Brand wheel is a new one though. What the hell is that?

[skattrd]

Corporate bollocks. Anyone else get hit with "brand values" and the "brand wheel "?

 

They did all that at IHG,

I saw the posters all over the back offices of the hotels. One of the joys of being a contractor though was that I didn't have to participate in all that tosh.

[Angrydicky]

http://www.atrixnet.com/bs-generator.html

 

"Customer-centric" has to be the most cringeworthy corporate phrase ever.

[John F]

I hate how discussions seem to be "around" an issue nowadays, never "about", e.g. "The management team had a discussion around flexible working hours".

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I hate that too. It just seems to be a way to add an additional layer of vagueness.

[CortinaDave]

"the brand wheel" is a list of words da management think the company should mean to people - so you get the company name in the middle, and around it a load of words like "commitment" "service" "trust" "a friend" yadda yadda yadda

 

We now don't do anything until a plan for whatever project it is has been put beside this stupid brand wheel to see if it "fits our objectives"

 

What a load of absolute tosh.

 

They've actually hired people who just sit and come up with all this crap and send us it on a daily basis

[Cavcraft]

I don't mind this kind of shit in poster form as you can just ignore/laugh at/deface them, but when you have meeting after meeting after meeting, it starts to really get on your tits.

 

The last place I worked at were really good at that kind of bollocks, and often the manager of our branch would call a meeting right in our busiest time every four weeks. This meeting would just be chance to moan about those who were leaving the depot too late in the morning, and the gaffer had the incredible foresight* to have these pow wows at 8.30am.

I told him every single time that 1) I was never late so I didn't need to be present and that 2) by holding the meetings at 8.30 he was putting me two hours behind. Company/corporate bollocks meant they couldn't just tell people individually they were late, they had to get everybody in

 

 

[dollywobbler]

"We've covered a really big savannah" is one of my most hated phrases that I did actually once hear in a meeting. Used to work with a chap who just made them up, my favourite being: "Let's put our fishy slippers on and see if we can walk to France."

[dugong]

American eBay.

[Junkman]

eBay.

 

EFA.

[brickwall]

"We've covered a really big savannah" is one of my most hated phrases that I did actually once hear in a meeting. Used to work with a chap who just made them up, my favourite being: "Let's put our fishy slippers on and see if we can walk to France."

 

 

Myself and a friend used to do that to see how or if they were noticed. Then a girl joined in and she used words that she just invented that morning.

[CortinaDave]

Wow, this thread has covered a really big savannah!

 

My biggest issue with corporate bollocks is how much it stops you actually getting on with your job. As Cavette says - there's so much box-ticking to be done to fit with all this guff that the time you have to actually achieve anything is drastically reduced.

 

It really gets my goat when I see people at the coal face being laid off, whilst at the same time they hire in more goobers to sit and come up with all this malarkey instead.

 

Why do so many companies think this is a good thing? I'd rather have people just getting on with it.

[dollywobbler]

Because companies are stupid. I worked with a bloke who got paid £800 a DAY for basically just agreeing with a manager. "Yep, that's a really good idea."

[saucedoctor]

My ex-bird Lucy was a "Management Consultant" and she got paid big moolah for doing just that ^. She wasn't very bright into the bargain (evidenced by the fact that she was going out with me)

[vulgalour]

Butthats.  I've been waiting on a price for the rear axle on that brown Princess and due to a miscommunication, someone processed the WHOLE CAR rather than cutting the axle and nose off and setting them aside.  It's money saved, I suppose, but I could've really done with the parts.

[oman5]

I work for a company that used to be UK owned but now belongs to probably the biggest US corporation of the lot...can't say who as they check online for anything derogatory..suffice to say they wrote the book on this bullshit. my personal favourite is "maximise the deliverability".

George orwell was almost right, it was just the big companies who invented newspeak rather than the government.

 

The urban dictionary has this to say on the subject of "crutch phrases":

 

An overworked figure of speech, such as, inter alia, "at the end of the day," or "it is what is," or "thinking outside the box," or "leverage our resources." Crutchphrases are a common refuge of speakers who have difficulty articulating ideas or concepts without reflexively using jargon and cliché. Often relied upon by powerpoint-user speakers who simply repeat what is already printed on the Powerpoint slide.

The use of a crutchphrase is often an open admission of an unwillingness or inability to think, let alone use language effectively.

"At the end of the day," the speaker droned, "we have to think out of the box if we are to successfully leverage our resources." Note the split infinitive.

"But," protested a listener, "you're not making any sense at all, you're just babbling a bunch of crutch phrases!"

"It is what it is," replied the speaker, retreating to the safe territory of a crutch phrase.

[dugong]

American eBay.

 

Or, more precisely, the ridiculous postal charge gouging that occurs. HOW CAN IT COST $17 TO SEND A CD TO THE UK?

[Cavcraft]

Oh, that's f*ck all, chief. How about some $19.95 rear lights that they wanted £95 to post?

[Angrydicky]

Oman5 - "Associated Dairies"?

 

I have a part time job with them too, right bastards. And yes they do threaten you about saying anything derogatory online.