MEADOWXI
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Trying to sort out some deliveries from suppliers.
Bloke at company in Essex just stated 'can't help you today Europe is shut'.
It would appear that today is Ascension Day (I had to google it being the heathen that I am)
and this means that the excuse of the day from many of my suppliers will be sorry
Europe on holiday - as an aside I thought we were part of Europe so why are those
b*ggers off and I'm at my desk
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Boss sense of humour failure.
Staring at beautiful sunny day outside.
He came in my office, and there was a small audience but he's usually ok,
I said I had a heap of stuff to read and get through and did he remember when
we were kids at school you got to work outside. Would he mind if I diverted my
phone to my mobile and went and sat on the grass bank outside and read all these
updates from head office there ?
It would appear he does - I know it's Monday but lighten up
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You and MEADOWXI should start a thread just to post stories like these. The puppy one had me laughing like an idiot for a good five minutes.
Visit to house, music blaring but no answer at door.
Same next day.
Third day door is answered.
Were you the folk buzzing the last couple if days.
when confirmed we were this is the response I got.
'sorry wissnae answering the door the last couple of days,
I was depressed as one of my rats died - but come in'.
They were just running about the house - no cages.
That was a quick visit.
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Worked in the same field for nearly 20 years. Bannisters were always the firsr for firewood. Followwed by alternate stairs and floorboards.
In the days of grants rather than loans a guy from Blackhill kept applying for decorating grants due to damp walls. We visited to find he was telling the truth. Water was running down the walls. No other flats seemed troubled with damp. So a visit to the upstairs flat to confirm was arranged. A lovely man conducted a tour of his flat. Living room, My room, kids room, rabbits room, big cupboard..........Wait a minute, rabbits room?.... Aye, where I keep the rabbits.
The room was turfed, he watered it regularly to keep it nice for the rabbits
Another one along the road kept a donkey in the kitchen.
City centre Aberdeen flat - on 3rd floor of 7/8 storey building.
Had knocked 2 bedrooms into one for space to repair motorbike
(which was in bits all over both rooms - wall knocked down without council permission
and he was council tenant that had made whole building unsafe as supporting wall gone)
and he had bed and all possessions in living room where a large vent in window was missing
to allow barn owl to come in and out (saw pictures of owl in room but owl was out when I visited)
It is unbelievable and unendable the number of stories if you have spent any time visiting
in relation to what at the time was Crisis Loans/Budgeting Loands/Community Care Grants.
I would say it drove me to alcohol but I was already there.
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Living rooms with flat screen Tv/sky/PS - but no money for carpets or settee.
How comet and others are still in buisness god only knows.
It is hilarious - once had an argument with a woman,
was giving her a £12 crisis loan at 16.00 on a Wednesday and she could cash her book the next day.
Her comment 'how can I feed me and my two kids tonight a fish supper is over 4quid each'.
The concept of supermarket and cooking beyond her. Absolute nightmares.
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floorboards. thats nothing i went into one house and the livingroom door was hanging out the fire they were just pushing it in a bit more every few minutes.
Walls that have more graffitti than underpasses,
beds that are a mattress, sheet of plywood and four car wheels
Cat litter trays that are more cat sh1t that litter
Living rooms with flat screen Tv/sky/PS - but no money for carpets or settee.
The joys of visiting the better parts of our country
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It's now 08.54,
No phone calls, no mail - was hoping foe a few hours peace at work to clear the sh1te that lies why you are doing everything else, and the boss has just arrived
There is 5 people in in a building that normally has 100+ - I'll get no peace from that chunt to do the stuff he want s me to do - totally F'ed monday - may as well go to the pub.
The last hour comprised idiot boss telling me about his bowling game yesterday.
I am actually trying to fix the mess of other sfor you while it is quiet - bugger off
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tesco garage ,whit ever its a kowp.and the trend of boots wearing pyjammas all day long, has spread from places like craigneuk (excelsior) why the f##k do they go about wi jammies on wi a coat over them.
Most of my youth spent in Irvine and I have to admit the 1st place I saw 'pyjama people' was Irvine - middle of the day walking to each others homes as the kids are at school and they can't be bothered it is a depressing mark on society.
But the main point is everywhere has garbage bits - now lived in Aberdeen for a number of years, and althoug in prviate sector now spent time with DSS, including visiting and although Aberdeen has some of the richest bits of Scotland I have been in houses where you have to be careful where you walk as some of the floorboards were in the fireplace
This is a genuine experience and the gorier details of smelly/scummy visits.I have lived from Ayrshire to Edinburgh to Highlands to Aberdeen and visited much in between - good everywhere and bad everywhere.
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Im on my own as well.Just had one customer on the phone wanting boxes delivered to London.There is no overnight service,so i just told her how much it would cost to drive down.I heard her fall of the chair...
The idiot just took 8 minutes to come in, say good morning, confirm no receptionist, no mail and annoy me - p1ss off to your office if you not busy and leave me to do the work you asked me to do at 16.29 on Friday when I was on the way to the pub and not interested and said I would come in on Monday and do.
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It's now 08.54,
No phone calls, no mail - was hoping foe a few hours peace at work to clear the sh1te that lies why you are doing everything else, and the boss has just arrived
There is 5 people in in a building that normally has 100+ - I'll get no peace from that chunt to do the stuff he want s me to do - totally F'ed monday - may as well go to the pub.
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Have now spent (aka wasted) an hour on an e-learning fire safety course.
I work on the ground floor and the assembly point is the other side of the car park right outside my window,
the answers 'f*ck off outside by window or door' didn't go down too well.
At end had conversation with H & S bloke about me being a fire warden -
'P*ss off I work closest to the exits, if a fire breaks out I'm offski
and every man/woman for themselves'.
Called me selfish, i said call me alive you want me to check 4 offices on the ground floor
and 5 on the first floor and I'm nearest the exits/reception - no thanks.
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you or them?
it seems a bit off to start a job and then take a day off.
I was off, last week was their first week,
but no danger to cancelling annual booze up at Perth races.
Would have replied earlier - still fixing Friday.
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New mnager started today,so im babysitting him through our systems.Cant get on much today.Work agggggh
I'm training someone to take away a lot of the admin work I do so I can get on with my other jobs,
and today I have no patience for it today. Was off Friday so between catching up and that she is still at the
stage where I would be quicker doing it myself than showing her what to do.
Must show tolerance
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That sounds far worse than mine, I ended up in a fair bit of pain after a swimming training session (which that morning mostly involved running around a car park) but being a 14 year old testosterone ridden baw bag I never sought advice for a couple of weeks and just compounded the damage. I might regret that on some days.
We really should start a support group. Cripples unite!
Support Group - 'Crutches Required'
Meetings to be held at very long notice to allow us to get there.
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Mines not quite that bad, I presume because I never seriously lost the muscle tone when it happened. Thankfuly, I was only laid up for a few weeks before I was back in the pool and the muscle is reasonably solid.
Had 6 months off in 1998 (only up side was I was signed off the morning of the Scotland V Brazil world cup opening game - enjoyed that tournament, saw every game) and was off as knee cap had slipped as had lost about 6cm of muscle size on the inside of my knee, leaving the kneecap in the wrong place.
What a bunch of crokes we are.
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I feel for you gentlemen, having a long standing ligament/cartilage problem in my left knee I often find myself in a fair bit of pain. I'm only 24
It also means that I favour my right leg for walking and wear through my right shoe far quicker than the left. Which is annoying.
I have similar ligament/cartilage problem in left knee, compounded by muscle wastage due to it never being properly fixed in the first place (some 17 years ago), and me favouring my right leg / walking with my foot pointed out to the side.
Currently back at physio and if things don't improve it is kneecap removed, or knee replacement surgery.
Walk like a cripple some days. pain that can reduce me to near tears some mornings, and only in my 30s,
God knows what I'll be like if I make it to be a pensioner.
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SCOTRAIL -
despite all the snow having disappeared and mild weather returning
Scotrail continue to run an 'emergency timetable' between Aberdeen & Inverness.
This simply involves them running only about half the normal number of trains,
and at different times. The 17.30 Dyce to Aberdeen has not run for about 10 days.
Seriously - GET A GRIP.
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On the majority of days I quite like my job,
today I could murder idiot buyers and foreign suppliers.
Spent all afternoon on e-mail and phone to companies in Florida & Texas
trying to sort arsed up orders and deal with Americans with stupid names
(I've had a Melba, a Britt and a Melinda) - and no I can confirm spoken english
and spoken american are completeyl different languages.
and if a buyer could send an e-mail correctly in first place
and deal with queries I wouldn't be thinking about having to
seriously abuse my liver again tonight.
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Scotrail are appalling.
Saturday - Aberdeen to Irvine involved the Aberdeen train being diverted through Fife and over the Forth Rail Bridge,
which is a bit confusing when you wake up and think where is this train taking me - followed by th joy of the bus transfer from Glasgow Cent to Pailsey GS.
Abd for the SJC 4th Rd I have the joy of a bus from Aberdeen to Dundee as a 'replacement service' as that end of the line is closed around 17/01/09.
AND they couldn't even run the Aberdeen-Dyce service on time this morning, it's only an 11 minute trip.
SCOTRAIL - I only pay you money to do one thing - run trains on time !!!!!!!!!!
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Petty Things That Get On Your Nerves...
in The General Nonsense Forum
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had to give someone a bollocking today.
New admin girl that is supposed to help me isn't.
She p*ssed off one of our best customers (and me),
and it was the 'still on probation, sort out your work or else' speech this morning.
Standards have to improve - Have felt like an absolute b*stard since.