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People who call in sick before one of the busiest transfer days in the season!!

And then, after I covered for her yesterday (17 hours of working, mostly driving ), plus driving again today, she called the boss to ask a taxi/favour for a friend.

He must have said the only person near enough would be Noggin. So, yup, she phoned me to ask if I'd be able to drive back to the valley after dropping off the last passengers

Well, since I was nearly back to resort after a trip to Geneva and back, hadn't had breakfast or lunch, had lost my sense of humour/geniality (!!!) I said no!!

AND, no way was I missing another rugby match in one weekend


People suck

Noggin wrote: Sun Feb 12, 2023 6:20 pm People who call in sick before one of the busiest transfer days in the season!!

And then, after I covered for her yesterday (17 hours of working, mostly driving ), plus driving again today, she called the boss to ask a taxi/favour for a friend.

He must have said the only person near enough would be Noggin. So, yup, she phoned me to ask if I'd be able to drive back to the valley after dropping off the last passengers

Well, since I was nearly back to resort after a trip to Geneva and back, hadn't had breakfast or lunch, had lost my sense of humour/geniality (!!!) I said no!!

AND, no way was I missing another rugby match in one weekend


People suck

Good to know the European WorkingTime Directive is rigorously adhered to. Keep it Brexity, nice and Brexity, defend the statues.

cheb wrote: Sun Feb 12, 2023 7:00 pm Good to know the European WorkingTime Directive is rigorously adhered to. Keep it Brexity, nice and Brexity, defend the statues.

IIRC even when the UK was in Europe we could just sign a bit of paper to be allowed to work longer hours.
Dunno about driving jobs as I doubt HGV drivers were allowed to do it but site workers could do it.

cheb wrote: Sun Feb 12, 2023 7:00 pm

Noggin wrote: Sun Feb 12, 2023 6:20 pm People who call in sick before one of the busiest transfer days in the season!!

And then, after I covered for her yesterday (17 hours of working, mostly driving ), plus driving again today, she called the boss to ask a taxi/favour for a friend.

He must have said the only person near enough would be Noggin. So, yup, she phoned me to ask if I'd be able to drive back to the valley after dropping off the last passengers

Well, since I was nearly back to resort after a trip to Geneva and back, hadn't had breakfast or lunch, had lost my sense of humour/geniality (!!!) I said no!!

AND, no way was I missing another rugby match in one weekend


People suck

Good to know the European WorkingTime Directive is rigorously adhered to. Keep it Brexity, nice and Brexity, defend the statues.

Well, when faced with massive delays due to tourist traffic, you can't really say "right, my 9 hours is up and the minibus (well, yesterday was a Passat!) is on the hard shoulder with the paying passengers in it, I'm off"

Does cause issues on these weekends for the tacho'd drivers tho. When the roads are that sort of bad but with added snow, that's when people end up in sports halls etc through the valley because the coach drivers run out of hours!!

demographic wrote: Sun Feb 12, 2023 7:37 pm

cheb wrote: Sun Feb 12, 2023 7:00 pm Good to know the European WorkingTime Directive is rigorously adhered to. Keep it Brexity, nice and Brexity, defend the statues.

IIRC even when the UK was in Europe we could just sign a bit of paper to be allowed to work longer hours.
Dunno about driving jobs as I doubt HGV drivers were allowed to do it but site workers could do it.

Yup, that was pretty much the first bit of paper that I had to sign for every hospitality job I ever had - yes sir, I need the job so if you want me to work more the 35 hours, that's just fine!!


And - to be clear, I wasn't driving anything with a tacho! I was driving a car and that's not easily regulated. You have to be sensible, but equally, it's hard for anyone outside the company to know how long you've been in it, cos, no tacho ! Minibuses aren't tacho'd either

The local authority conservation dept.

We need to replace the roof on the front of our house with the correct size and colour of Welsh slate. We’ve applied to the L A for Listed Building Consent stating the roof will be replaced with Welsh slates of the correct size and colour to match neighbouring properties.

We are fully aware of the legal ramifications of not complying with the Grade 2 listing on the property.

The idiots in their fucking Ivory tower want to see samples, on site, before they will sign them off and won’t accept a slate from the original roof as a suitable sample / example. This means my roofer needs to source 1500 slates, get them on site, get the fucking monkey from the Council out to sign them off and be able to return them should they not please the council fucktard and then attempt to source replacements.

No wonder people flout the regs!

The only analogy I can think of as being comparable is ‘you need to buy a flame red, petrol, 1.6l, 2010 Ford Fiesta Titanium X with Michelin tyres and pink furry dice on a sale and return basis so that we can check you have bought a flame red, petrol, 1.6l, 2010 Ford Fiesta Titanium X with Michelin tyres and pink furry dice before you can keep it’. Fucking idiots!

FYI, ‘northern’ grade, good quality Welsh slates in the correct colour and dimensions are like rocking horse shite or exceedingly expensive when available.

Spent the w/e in Brecon (because we could).
Parked up in a council stop over (in the Moho), when the van next to us fires up and leaves early on sun morning.
I get up, go to take the dog out, and the dirty bastards have dropped their grey waste.
Thing is, they were at the top end of the stopover, so all their water has traveled down past everyone else's van and we have to paddle through it.
It bmp for several reasons, how hard would it be to find a drain and drop it, and everybody who walks past labels us all as pikey wannabes!

Demannu wrote: Mon Feb 13, 2023 2:19 pm I get up, go to take the dog out, and the dirty bastards have dropped their grey waste.

It's grey waste, get over it, it's no worse than the soapy water from washing your car. I've seen plenty of people empty toilet cassettes into grey waste disposal, now that is annoying.

Demannu wrote: Mon Feb 13, 2023 2:19 pm Spent the w/e in Brecon (because we could).
Parked up in a council stop over (in the Moho), when the van next to us fires up and leaves early on sun morning.
I get up, go to take the dog out, and the dirty bastards have dropped their grey waste.
Thing is, they were at the top end of the stopover, so all their water has traveled down past everyone else's van and we have to paddle through it.
It bmp for several reasons, how hard would it be to find a drain and drop it, and everybody who walks past labels us all as pikey wannabes!

Yeah - that always bmp when I see it on the road. It's NOT hard to drop the grey water in the right place.

Pirahna wrote: Mon Feb 13, 2023 3:57 pm

Demannu wrote: Mon Feb 13, 2023 2:19 pm I get up, go to take the dog out, and the dirty bastards have dropped their grey waste.

It's grey waste, get over it, it's no worse than the soapy water from washing your car. I've seen plenty of people empty toilet cassettes into grey waste disposal, now that is annoying.

Remind me to to walk with soggy bottomed shoes through your house next time I'm in Spain.
Or even better drop my grey all over your driveway.
Pretty sure that would grind your gears!

Pirahna wrote: Mon Feb 13, 2023 3:57 pm

Demannu wrote: Mon Feb 13, 2023 2:19 pm I get up, go to take the dog out, and the dirty bastards have dropped their grey waste.

It's grey waste, get over it, it's no worse than the soapy water from washing your car. I've seen plenty of people empty toilet cassettes into grey waste disposal, now that is annoying.

I may have had an accident once when at a camp site. TBF it was not well sign posted and the two drains into the tanks looked the same. We have a couple of wild camping spots in our town and now and then you get the dirty bastards empty the cassette on the beach. The camp site up the road offers disposal, water top and and even a shower if needed for little money.

People driving around in thick fog with no lights on because they're relying on automatic headlights to think for them.

My shoes which squeak loudly on certain floors.

Taipan wrote: Tue Feb 14, 2023 11:15 am My shoes which squeak loudly on certain floors.

At least it's not your knees.

Mr. Dazzle wrote: Tue Feb 14, 2023 12:46 pm

Taipan wrote: Tue Feb 14, 2023 11:15 am My shoes which squeak loudly on certain floors.

At least it's not your knees.

Why would he be walking on his knees ?

O.M.G. UPS - FFS!!!!!

So, a friend in Australia ordered some ski gear in the UK to be sent to me here in France.

Simple, right? We expected to have to sort out some customs charges but still, fairly simple.

Nope.

Parcel arrived two weeks ago but with a customs charge or 110.10€ - I didn't have that much money (the week before payday) so the driver agreed to come back the following week. Also said I couldn't pay by card, had to be cash. Ok.

My friend actually transferred the money to me the next day, but no contact from UPS.

No contact from UPS since the first attempt at delivery.

So my aussie friend is saying "phone UPS in France" and getting stressed as he arrives in two weeks and at the mo won't have any ski gear!!

I've tried UPS a few times and can't get past the automated system, so last week I called the uk shipper (not the seller, but the shipper they used). She said she'd raised it with UPS but nothing has happened.

Then my mate created a UPS notification account thingy in my name so that so now I get notifications that they aren't delivering. I have to pay the customs charge first. BUT, there is no way to actually pay the customs charge. I don't have a piece of paper with the correct info on it that I need to be able to get to the place I have to pay on the website FFS

My friend has sent me increasingly stressed messages. I REALLY want to reply with "bloody call them yourself" but hey ho. So I tried again this afternoon. After being on hold for 10 mins, the call centre person comes back and said she was in a queue for UPS so would call me back!

When she did, it was with "here's the number for UPS, you need to call them"

I very politely lost my cool and pointed out that if I could sodding well get through to UPS, I would not be calling Interparcel now, would I??

Luckily she'd called me this time as I was on hold for another 25 mins. This time she came back and agreed that it was almost impossible to get through to UPS and so she has raised the issue by email and would try and contact them again tomorrow.

FFS - I do not understand why the shipper does not have more ability to contact UPS as they are the ones who booked them.

Or why my friend isn't giving the seller a bit more stick on their choice of shipper - or at least why they didn't give him a heads up about just how much the customs charges would be (it's almost 50% of the cost of the items, which is way higher than expected!!)


Anyway - FFS UPS!!!

The way the narrator on Outback Truckers pronounces 'ton'

Finding out from BiL that FiL (who has money problems due to not being able to reign in his wife’s spending and is equity released to the gills already) has , despite many warnings not too, got involved in what appears to be another Bitcoin scam

MingtheMerciless wrote: Fri Feb 17, 2023 8:43 am Finding out from BiL that FiL (who has money problems due to not being able to reign in his wife’s spending and is equity released to the gills already) has , despite many warnings not too, got involved in what appears to be another Bitcoin scam

Could be worse. My F-I-L found out that not just once, but twice, that his son had borrowed money from money lenders. And twice he bailed him out.

For me this morning it was stumbling downstairs at 6am, grinding some coffee beans, boiling the water, warming the French press, brewing the coffee, pouring it into the warmed mug and then adding a splash of milk, only to the see the lumps of gone-off milk rising to the surface....

FFS.

Let's start all over again...

gremlin wrote: Fri Feb 17, 2023 10:42 am For me this morning it was stumbling downstairs at 6am, grinding some coffee beans, boiling the water, warming the French press, brewing the coffee, pouring it into the warmed mug and then adding a splash of milk, only to the see the lumps of gone-off milk rising to the surface....

FFS.

Let's start all over again...

yuck.


I came this >< close to pouring fruit juice onto my cereal this morning.....


(I have actually eaten cereal that way before* ... it's somewhat odd, but not necessarily inedible)


* A friend of mine is seriously lactose intolerant** and has eaten cereal that way since he was a babe.

** As in fatally, he nearly died several times as a baby before his parents/doctors worked it out.