The grumpy thread

[TimothyClaypole]

Contacted a shipping company to get something shipped, all can do etc.  Now it's ready they've disappeared and have heard nothing for over a week....

 

Tried a different company, emailed me back within an hour, replied and emailed again despite it being 7.15pm, fingers crossed it'll be booked/sorted tomorrow when "Lucy Lee" is back in the office.  

[dugong]

 In short:  wankers.

 

Agreed. I cringed a bit when you classed me a 'creative type' mind. It must be just me. I pay tax on my coffee and I have one Apple product - and it's broken.

[Doctormop]

we had that happen regularly in merthyr. I cancelled doorstep deliveries in the end, and started leaving bottles of milk garnished with urine on the doorstep instead.  It took a week or so but it got taken in the end...and then thrown into the road when they discovered it wasn't to their taste. hahaha stitch that you cnt

Similar thing many years ago I had a quiet word with the milkman to ask what time he delivered (5.30am) asked him to leave my usual pinta, got up at 5.31 and switched said bottle with one filled with dulux white emulsion, it disappeared as usual that morning but never did again.

[vulgalour]

Sorry to have induced cringing, couldn't think of a better catch all phrase.

[inconsistant]

Marmite analogies.

 

If there's a more brain dead way to describe varied opinions about something/someone I'd like to hear it.

It's a great example of how people lap up marketing bollocks as if if was fact.

 

(Other opinions are available)

[Richard]

See also Hob Nobs. They have been virally marketed as a treat, in reality they are the kind of biscuits your mum would make you eat.

[Rocket88]

WH fucking SMITH! Specifically, the handful of vouchers they thrust into your hand whenever you visit their hallowed premises. I tried to redeem one of these last week against a purchase....No chance

" I'm sorry, Sir, this voucher only applies in certain moon cylces dictated by the Mayan calander, and depends on whether you wearing a cravate or not, and also if I can be fucking bothered, so kindly pay the full price or fuck off......................Sir" [slight paraphrasing]

 

I dumped a large selection of items on his counter, and did as I was told.

[cms206]

Pearson Flicks has started commenting his drivel on my photostream on flickr.

 

Grump? Only two comments so far. Trigger had more

 

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[Parky]

I've somehow cricked my neck so badly it took an hour to get out of bed and the pain is excruciating. Couldn't go to work and have shitloads to get done.

 

Also entering final two weeks of personal improvement plan and despite working my arse off and making improvements as required, it seems as if I'm going to get fired. I have fortnightly reviews and faults or errors are meticulously well documented, good stuff forgotten. I should be really annoyed and I am, but ultimately I hate the job and dont have a great rapport with the boss so it's probably not a bad thing. Shame I'll have a sacking on my record but after the year I have had I would hope most future employers would realise I have been fucked over by a serious amount of unusual events and can be forgiven for losing a bit of focus.

 

Been in finance for 20 years with superb record, not going to let a stupid bints incorrect opinion get to me but still grates from time to time

[Cavcraft]

The simplest answer to that is to hang it out and make sure you pinch a few sheets of company headed notepaper. Then when you do go 'accidentally' leave yourself a nice reference.

[SambaS]

^^cricked neck?

 

Something very strange happened the other night I looked right and yawned then got a huge cramp in my tongue, down my jaw from my chin and even the back of my neck hurt. Fuck knows what that was all about but went away as quick as it came.

 

That'll teach me not to look right and yawn 

[Minimad5]

Stupid bastards at work
Stupid bastards 'stepping on my toes'
Just stupid bastards.
Also never managing to get fawk all done on either of my cars, even though i pay £££ /month for a decent garage.

[Lankytim]

I thought the correct procedure when sacking was imminent was to make a spurious allegation of bulling against the firm, milk it and then get paid out in exchange for not taking it to tribunal.

[SambaS]

.....but it's 5500EUR

[KruJoe]

He's found himself a Samba S ^^

[overrun]

The building of a 'bus build-out' opposite the house.

Right where I and my dad park two of the cars.

 

Money-wasting wankers.

[Rocket88]

I've somehow cricked my neck so badly it took an hour to get out of bed and the pain is excruciating. Couldn't go to work and have shitloads to get done.

 

Also entering final two weeks of personal improvement plan and despite working my arse off and making improvements as required, it seems as if I'm going to get fired. I have fortnightly reviews and faults or errors are meticulously well documented, good stuff forgotten. I should be really annoyed and I am, but ultimately I hate the job and dont have a great rapport with the boss so it's probably not a bad thing. Shame I'll have a sacking on my record but after the year I have had I would hope most future employers would realise I have been fucked over by a serious amount of unusual events and can be forgiven for losing a bit of focus.

 

Been in finance for 20 years with superb record, not going to let a stupid bints incorrect opinion get to me but still grates from time to time

 

 

 

 

Swathe yourself in bandages, get some artisitic "injury" makeup applied, and stagger to work. Make the bastards feel guilty. I've actually done this in the past at a job I was pretty sure I was going to get the bullet from. I got another 6 months out of the bastards.

[beko1987]

 

Went out for a fag and thought someone had caved the window in and that was a temp repair. Sadly not...

[dugong]

 

Went out for a fag and thought someone had caved the window in and that was a temp repair. Sadly not...

 

Those original, free thinking Dubbers. What will they think of next?

 

.Also entering final two weeks of personal improvement plan and despite working my arse off and making improvements as required, it seems as if I'm going to get fired. I have fortnightly reviews and faults or errors are meticulously well documented, good stuff forgotten. I should be really annoyed and I am, but ultimately I hate the job and dont have a great rapport with the boss so it's probably not a bad thing.

 

You have my sympathies - this mirrors my situation at work, too.

[daveb47]

My fuckin left hip seems to have gone completely,Hurts to walk,can hardly press clutch on honda,

Quack says its only going to get worse so looks like i may have to sell honda on and try to get automatic.

Bugger

 

Anbody got an auto for swapz.

[bub2006]

I've got the merc. Currently in discussion with gadgetgricey at the moment though

[Parky]

Those original, free thinking Dubbers. What will they think of next?

 

 

 

You have my sympathies - this mirrors my situation at work, too.

Cheers Jon, appreciated. Never experienced stuff like this before, it's definitely a personal thing with my boss. I had a bad feeling about her at the first interview but didn't listen to my gut, big mistake. However I DO know that my industry is very cyclical and in a couple of years she'll be being interviewed for her dream job by me. Will I be fair? Will I fuck.........

[ruffgeezer]

Also entering final two weeks of personal improvement plan and despite working my arse off and making improvements as required, it seems as if I'm going to get fired. I have fortnightly reviews and faults or errors are meticulously well documented, good stuff forgotten. 

 

Work I find is a lot like Tetris, your errors stack up and your achievements quickly disappear. 

 

I hope it works out positively for you, don't let the bastards grind you down.

[Tetleysmooth]

Hello, it's me again, grumping about driving related incidents.

At work, I drive artics, 38/44 tonners, but one evening last week, my first job was in a 7.5 tonner, puddle jumpers we call them. Mansell Street in Whitechapel and London Blackfriars. It was great whizzing round the streets of London in a '62 plate DAF.

Anyhow, over the past few weeks in London, there have been five cyclist killed during collision with cars, lorries and buses.

While I was parked at Blackfriars, unloading from the tail-lift, I was watching the many cyclists passing by, The chances they take are unbelieveable, but the thing that struck me most was that most of them had to have 'the look'. They were dressed up like Team GB, in whatever it is they wear, Spandex or Lycra in the most gaudy colours.

But, the thing that struck me as a bit stupid, was that an awful lot of them were wearing those wrap around DARK glasses. At night, Really?

I can understand the need to keep the wind out of their eyes, but maybe clear glasses at night would be so much safer.

[Caffiend]

Food poisoning. 'Lost' everything from 8 pm Saturday night until I went to bed last night, utterly starving and still retching - except on empty, which is painful

 

Dry oat biscuits and a cuppa coffee this morning (I know, probs not ideal, caffiene-withdrawal headaches not helping though) seem to be staying put so far ... hopefully over the worst of it now.

 

Just what I wanted* over NEC weekend.  Bastard Hungry Horse and shitty food storage hygiene.

[Tetleysmooth]

Might not be the Hungry Horse.

One of the lads I was working with on Saturday night puked his guts up a couple of times.

Could be the 'winter vomiting' thing.

A couple of hard boiled eggs will bind you up nicely.

[dugong]

People taking pictures on iPads. Why?

[MrDuke]

Because Apple

[cort16]

When I was in the lake district earlier in the year all the gazillions of Japanese tourists seemed to have on mass switched their compact SLR's for ipads. I suppose you can film, take pictures then get them straight up on facebook or whatever once you're back on the wifi. I bet there's loads of them at the bottom of lake windemere as I saw lots of folk hanging right off the boats film with no strap or anything anything connect the ipad to dry land.

[jonny69]

^^ We did something similar when roadtripping - the iPad took pretty good pictures but actually took better videos than the camcorder and also stored the maps and info we'd downloaded the previous night using the motel wifi. Saved us a fortune in roaming charges.