Welcome to Thursday.

It’s once again time for the Complaints Thread, so come on in, have a chat, and tell us all about those things that have gone wrong, got you annoyed, or got you on a little bit of a rant.

by dexbydesign89

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  1. I haven’t had a full night’s sleep since Saturday and it’s starting to catch up to me. It’s been a long week with the emotions of a driving test and having to go into London for a project day. I just want to spend a day rolling around in bed drifting in and out of sleep

  2. Also people that make no effort to problem solve really frustrate me. Had to go to London yesterday with a few colleagues and one went out of her way to get on a stop earlier so I could help her collect her ticket from the machine. After I had explained the process to her and pointed out her collection reference on the email. Then she spent the whole journey yapping at me and saying more than one mildly racist thing on a packed train. People.

  3. Adulthood is basically a constant succession of things breaking and having to be fixed or replaced.
    This week’s edition features a stone hitting the car windscreen, and a water butt crack (tee hee).

  4. I’m trying to learn python. Mostly because I want to . Which sounds easy enough. And I’m making progress. 

    But it’s not always easy to understand why I’ve done something in a practice exercise even if I got the answer right. And that’s fine. I just wish I had a resource that explained things in more of a layman’s terms sometimes.

  5. Getting the hard sell from an internet provider. I’m already a customer of theirs. I only made a brief enquiry on their website to make sure their services were available when I move house. 

    Ended up being bombarded by sales calls pressuring me into signing a new contract before I’ve even moved. 

    I might go with someone else now. 

  6. Bin collection today. Bloody well forgot to put them out last night. Just had to get up stupidly early for no other reason than to make sure they were out in time.
    I hate myself right now

  7. I’m not losing any weight and it’s really fucking annoying. I go to the gym, lift 4x a week and do cardio 5x a week and am in a calorie deficit but I’ve hit a definite plateau.

    On the bright side I have lost 60ish lbs in the last year and I get that it’s probs just muscle gain + fat loss. But I’m not done yet and this is defo knocking my motivation and mood

  8. For various reasons, I am the only person in my little team with a billable contract this month.

    For related reasons, I am also the person who has to set up the tooling for our new venture (currently non-billable while we go through setup, but hopefully lucrative thereafter).

    And it feels like every time I delegate some admin or chasing or similar, I have to keep tabs on it or it doesn’t get done.

    I only have two hands and one brain and the constant reprioritising of both tasks is so frustrating!

  9. It’s my birthday today and I’m working, as I have to save my last few days annual leave for moving house in a months time. Sigh.

  10. I have a really annoying tickly cough, my husband and eldest son have a cold, daughter has a stomach bug, but at least our youngest is absolutely fine despite having every illness under the sun since October. I would just like one week where none of us are ill!

  11. I thought it was payday today but it’s not, it’s tomorrow. Had a massive unplanned expense this month and am running on empty.

    It doesn’t help that I did a bulk boots order for some toiletries and medication a couple of weeks ago and it just hasn’t arrived. They’re dragging their feet investigating but in the meantime I have no shampoo and no money to buy more shampoo.

  12. My 7 year old had a bad dream involving a giant walrus so came to our room in the middle of the night.. didn’t get any sleep after that.

    Have a few important tasks today at work. Hopefully will get it all done and so I can do admin bits tomorrow and relax for a bit!! It’s been a really long week!!

  13. In work today but still rather ill. I am on tea all day. Luckily I work from home

  14. I’m looking for an easy coconut cake recipe. It’s my mother in laws birthday so I want to make her a cake and she loves coconut but I’ve got 2 small kids so limited time. All the recipes I see online are American and have sour cream and other strange ingredients. Surely there’s a simple one somewhere!? Except good food has changed from bbc so I can’t get in there! Any help much appreciated 

  15. Spent most of yesterday visiting another office to sit with a different team, so you’d have expected my work to be picked up by the rest of my team during the day, right?

    Nope. Got back to my office at 4ish, nothing had been done. There wasn’t even a lot, I’d intentionally made sure there wasn’t much in case I wasn’t coming back, but that’s not the point. Now I’m going to have to spend this morning catching up, and I have calls at half 9 & 10 as well.

  16. It’s my birthday today and I have woken up pissed off because my late brothers gf blocked me on fb after I asked about meeting up to get some of his things that she’s been promising since he died. I’m fuming.

  17. I was planning to go to the gym last night but my kid wouldn’t go to sleep so I stayed with him until 21.10 when he finally slept, and then it was too late to go. It’s thrown my whole weekly routine out of whack 😅 hopefully I’ll get a session in tonight.

  18. I had to say goodbye to my grampy yesterday, and it’s knocked me for six. I’m very fortunate to have all my family at 36, so it’s the first time I’ve had to do it.

    He’s 95, which is an extraordinary age, but seeing him like that when he’s usually so funny and full of life was very sad.

  19. I lost my headphone case on a bus and Arriva dont check their depot so im £30 out with no headphones for a week. Luckily I was wearing the buds themselves.

  20. Its supposed to be 60mph wimfs tomorrow and I don’t like driving in it

  21. Monday evening, the 80+ year old in the ground floor flat left a shepherds pie in his oven and fell asleep. He’s also disconnected all of his smoke alarms as he smokes like a chimney.

    The rest of us woke up when the smoke alarms in the hallway and stairs started going off at midnight.

    The hallway and stairs are being redecorated and the windows were sealed shut, so we couldn’t get them open to air the place out – the only way to get rid of the smoke was to open our doors and windows to let the smoke through. My air purifier was reading over 800 pm2.5 with all the doors and windows wide open and it only dropped below 50 on Tuesday evening.

    Needless to say, all our flats are now saturated with the smell. I spent all yesterday with bedding, clothes, curtains, cushion covers, etc in the washer. I got is worst as I’m on the top floor and it all just went straight up the stairwell.

    Today is a trip to Makro to get bulk Shake’n’Vac and Febreze to sort out the carpets.

  22. I’m bored of Drama.
    Drama on TV, in life and in the stuff I watch online. 

    I can’t be arsed watching things like the traitors because people create odd drama, because Simon looked like he had indigestion so must be a traitor and then everyone cries. 

    Taking kids to their hobbies there is drama among the parents.

    YouTube, I just want to watch with a coffee someone with more money than me, do stupid things with stuff I’d never own or indeed do if I did own it. 

    I love things like the pottery throwdown or the sewing bee because it feels like even though it’s a competition everyone genuinely likes each other and supports each other. 

  23. I got so much work to do and I’m kinda ignoring it. This will not end well. 

  24. I’ve woken up every day this week with a splitting headache. Not sure if I need new pillows or it’s something else. Yesterday the pain was right behind my eyes which always ends up making me feel sick and I have to be careful it doesn’t become a migraine.

    It’s generally gone by mid afternoon though I’ll have taken a few painkillers by then, but something is making it come back by morning.

  26. I’ve got a cold/flu, everything hurts, heads about to split open, can’t breathe…I might as well end it

  27. Enjoying coffee this morning with my wife and she leapt up from her chair ran to the loo and proceeded to projectile vomit all over the place.

    No warning, not even a grumbly tummy and nothing like this has happened to her before.

    She called her boss to phone in sick (she works in a GP surgery) and his response was “policy is that you have to call in sick before 6am so you will need to come in”. She then threw up again while on the phone to him.

    I took over the call, made it very clear she was too unwell to work. What a fucking prick.

    She’s tucked up in bed now sleeping it off and I’ve gone through near on a whole roll of kitchen roll in the clean up.

  28. We’ve got this colleague, bit of an office dickhead, that just leaves his chair right in the middle of where people walk. I have to tuck it back in to get past to my desk.

    We call him out on it but he just laughs and says “you’ll just have to hate me for it then!”

    I want to get some really petty revenge but I’m not creative enough. We thought about hiding it or taking the wheels off.

  30. Got a day off tomorrow and apparently the weather is going to be biblical. Be an awful shame if I have to stay in all day drinking beer and playing Factorio.

  31. Depression is at max levels and I’m struggling to go anywhere on my own at the moment, I’m supported by lots of people so I’m ok. Just tired of it.

  32. Went to see the Bob Dylan biopic last night- what a snooze fest. Hopefully the brutalist is better on Saturday

  34. Woke up with a sore face, not sure if it’s my jaw or a tooth. I’m hoping it’s the jaw. I’ve had a good poke around at the teeth and can’t make any of them hurt.

  35. Another storm at the weekend. This is becoming a pattern

  36. Had a terrible nights sleep last night because I found out yesterday an employee who I hired when I first started this business 11 years ago has been stealing from me. I pay him 50% above national average for his job, I paid for his wedding and his honeymoon and gave him £10k towards the deposit on his house and gave him a year off paid when his mum died. I let his granddaughters come to mine every weekend to ride my horses.

    Then I found out over the years he’s been stealing thousands from me. I’m heartbroken and I need to confront him about it today.

  37. Was there a national New Years resolution to start driving like a complete prick? I have a 40 minute commute for work and the past few weeks have been dreadful. I’ve been doing the same drive for the past 2 years and it’s never been this bad. It’s not like bad weather is to blame it’s just full on tossers. It’s not even the German car dicks either, just everyone.

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