Welcome to Thursday.
It’s time, of course, for another Complaints Thread, so come on in, have a chat, and tell us what’s got you mardy this week, why you’d like to eject someone out of the airlock, and what’s gone wrong this week!
by dexbydesign89
Welcome to Thursday.
It’s time, of course, for another Complaints Thread, so come on in, have a chat, and tell us what’s got you mardy this week, why you’d like to eject someone out of the airlock, and what’s gone wrong this week!
by dexbydesign89
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Pub quiz last night.
What is the name of the ship that took the first settlers to Australia? The first fleet…
What solo artist won the 1993 Mercury prize? Suade….
And no Hawaii isn’t a country….
Got to the train station early so i could get a seat on the train as it terminates but before it starts, at the last MINUTE it changes destination and i have to jump across the platforms into a packed train. I missed my morning tea and biscuit for NOTHING.
Going to sound like an insensitive arsehole here, but balloon releases when someone’s died. I can’t believe so many people still think these are okay and a lovely thing to do. There are so many harmless alternatives to remember a loved one.
Team meeting today, therefore wish today could be over already.
My Dad is currently undergoing treatment for cancer, and needs a special type of radiotherapy which isn’t available in his home town, so both my Mum and Dad are staying with us for 2 weeks. This isn’t my complaint.
My complaint is that for some ungodly reason my Mum has turned on a feature on her phone so that when she is typing a message to someone on her phone every single additional letter makes an audible ‘tap’ sound. I mean EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.
Because of how my Dad is, she sends a lot of messages to friends and family to keep them updated. This means a LOT of tap coming from her phone. It’s driving me mad anytime I am around her. ‘TACK. TACK. TACK. TACKTACKTACKTACKTACK’.
She has the same type of phone as my wife, so I asked her about it, and apparently it’s a feature that has to be turned on, so why in God’s name would you choose to turn that on?!
Was doing a wardrobe inventory yesterday and I found out that nearly half the pairs of socks I own have holes in them. Time to do a major sock shopping spree…
I started typing a great long complaint, but I’m too tired to type properly, so I’ll just put work, winter, back pain, lack of proper sleep.
Really not looking forward to having 8 hours of training over Teams today (about a dry as hell topic, to make it worse!).
It did give me the opportunity to have a lie in but I’ve just been tossing and turning for the whole hour. Boo.
1st world problem, but it’s become very tough to find Dettol touch free soap refils. I’m pretty sure these use less plastic than the pump type ones, and they don’t need to be cleaned after every use when you have dirty greasy hands. I’ll miss them.
In other news, my job has imploded because for 2 years, 2 different people have been led to believe they run the same function. It turns out this doesn’t lead to harmony and happiness, and this has come as a shock to some people.
Good luck to everyone with a job interview today. I’m going to give one, but I know how it is to be interviewing a lot.
I’m annoyed that I’m still thinking about the football. The result doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things, and I was doing so much better with my emotions around football, so to still be dwelling on it the next day feels like a step backwards.
Michelle Visage sitting in for Elaine Paige hasn’t been awful so far, but the insistence of that show of playing any version of Les Miserables except for the 1995 or 2019 versions drives me up the wall. The version of One Day More from the original is awful.
God bless my 2 year old, he slept for 4 and a half hours last night, ran into our bedroom, then kicked and wriggled for 4 hours before finally falling back asleep.
As a result I’m running on 4 hours sleep.
My wife had about 7 hours, but guess which of us is going to be more grumpy for the day….
I’m working with a guy who **has** to be right, and it’s pretty fucking annoying.
Even on stuff he admits has no experience in (and I do), he still wants to chime in and argue the completely wrong thing.
More than a couple of times this week, I have effortlessly shown him to be completely backwards on things.
And it doesn’t even stun him, I’m sure most people would think, *hang on, maybe I’ll shut up for a bit*. Not this guy: gets straight back up and desperately pulling on the “push” door of life.
What’s really annoying me is that he has a new guy with him who is utterly clueless and is believing everything he is told.
Yesterday, I ended up just working in silence and letting him make mistakes. I couldn’t deal with the confrontation anymore.
This feels like a really long winter.
Gym routine seems to have gone off track.
Ugh.
STILL haven’t got my car back from the garage. It’s been over 3 weeks now and it’s bugging me.
I am sick of people parking in front of my house. Even though they are completely and legally entitled to but this is besides the point. We live in a cul de sac and there is a level of parking etiquette amongst residents. We leave spots open for people who live directly in front of those spots. It’s not my problem you’ve got 4 cars to a household, piss off I’ve got shopping to bring in.
The whole cat food pouch thing:-
Firstly it looks and smells like diahrreoa (side complaint I can’t spell this word which goes against every rule of logic or language);
Secondly there is always a damp little dribble left in as the pouches aren’t effective;
Thirdly when I try to squeeze said last dribble out because the cat is GLARING at me having wolfed down the pouch in five seconds I always get wet, smelly, cat food encrusted hands.
If I could afford the expensive stuff in tins, I would get it.
I’m still not well. I haven’t had an unbroken nights sleep in well over a week, and my throat is red raw from coughing. Also still don’t have a voice which is fun.
Upvoting purely for the Gowron meme
I have realised I’m living in a groundhog loop where a situation I had at work this time last year (and in the 3 jobs before that) is repeating itself.
Blatant disregard for my experience and expertise by people who have no idea how to do my job while expecting me to effectively manage the project in spite of their undermining me and meddling.
With 2 of the previous jobs, I found something else and left, with the other 2 I just left as it became intolerable with all the conflict and aggression. But then ended up out of work for a while.
I don’t want to stay here but can’t afford to justify leaving without something else but the job market is really quiet and competitive.
How the everliving fuck does Currys survive? I wanted to buy a PC monitor yesterday, and Currys was convenient. I found one online, it was in stock so I popped into the store.
After wandering around like a little lost child for 10 mins I went and got on the queue at the collections desk.
After 5 mins there, I thought “fuck it” and went to sit in my car (no signal inside big metal box) and look to see if I can find it at the local Argos inside Sainsbury’s, but no.
So I went back in, waited for another five minutes whilst they continued to deal with the same couple wanting to return their Dulce Gusto without a receipt, as were there when I was waiting the first time.
Finally, someone found the time to talk to me. I explained that I was after a monitor. “I’ll get someone over”, he says. Then finds his headset isn’t working so asks if someone else can call someone over.
I’m sent to wait by the monitors, and eventually someone saunters over, and I tell him what model I’m after. “It’ll be on the shelf if it’s in stock”, he says. I explain that their website shows it in stock, but it’s not on the shelf. I’ve looked. “What about that one?”, no that’s the UHD model.
He reluctantly says he’ll go and look out the back
Cue a bit more waiting around. I’m just about to give up, because my wife has pinged me to say she’s ready to be picked up, when he comes out with a monitor in his arms.
30 minutes, it took. It should have taken 5.
Did I mention that I _loathe_ Currys?
Management at my work want us to have a company TikTok shop… I put my argument against it across yesterday but they’re basically insisting and saying if we don’t try we’ll never know (if it’ll generate sales or not).
Anyone had any luck with it?!
Why people won’t stand in the back end of the bus, after the exit doors? Plenty of space, people wanting to come in and can’t…
Spent most of yesterday being highly irritable, hopefully today will be better.
Colleagues are still saying utterly stupid things, which hasn’t helped.
I am still dating documents with 2024…sod this day so far.
Teabag burst in my cup. I barely touched it, but the thing still emptied its entire contents. Not the first time either. What the hell PG tips?
I started a new job but think I’ve made a mistake taking it, but I can’t undo it now.
On top of that my apprenticeship is being delivered entirely using chatgpt at the moment, it’s unbelievably poor. Probably going to have to make yet another complaint – I’m sick of it and want to quit.
Daythree of feeling like shit. My dog doesn’t understand I don’t have the energy to play so I’m mock wrestling to just let him win and keep him quiet. Love the little furball but I’d rather be in the office…
Oh God! I’ve just deleted a rant that I went on, telling off fellow trekkies for not talking about Gawron and / or DS9 stuff (I’m a member of the r/DeepSpaceNine sub and thought that’s where I was) so glad I didn’t post it.
I think I was thrown by the mention of ‘Space on the bus’. I even made a Deep Space No.9 joke. 🤦♂️
I’m getting made redundant at the end of March, I really need to start looking for a new job, but I just can’t be arsed with it.
I don’t want to have to meet an entire new group of people and pretend I want to be friends with them. Or pretend that I hold the interests of my new capitalist overlords over my own.
I’ve had it too easy for too long.
Power went off in the middle of the night and my UPS in the other room started beeping. I got up to turn it off at 4:30 and I couldn’t get back to sleep until 45 mins before my normal wake up time. Going to be a heavy coffee day I think.
If I didn’t need the thing I would have thrown it out the window. Why it needs to beep I don’t know.
I started a new job six weeks ago working on a big internal project, and this week I really felt like I was struggling. I feel like I’m being pulled in a lot of different directions trying to make everyone happy, with people asking me for things and then wanting it back the way I did it originally, or feeling like I’m going round in circles trying to get the information I need to do my job and feeling like I’m letting people down.
It all came to a head earlier this week where I accidentally got emotional in front of my boss and told her I was struggling. She was super lovely and understanding about it, but now I feel really guilty and am worried that she thinks I can’t hack the job and I’m going to end up getting sacked (even though my logical brain knows they almost certainly wouldn’t do that). I really like my team and the work is interesting, it’s just a lot right now, and I don’t want this to leave a bad impression.
What frustrates me is I know I *can* do all the stuff they want me to do if I just crack on with it, but I have a habit of getting overwhelmed when there’s a lot on and then it sort of paralyses me and I procrastinate for ages before I have a burst of last minute productivity. Like I don’t want work taken off me, I just need a kick up the bum and some discipline and to stop being lazy.
Oh, and I think my cat might have to be put to sleep. She’s 17 and has been having various health issues for a while and doesn’t seem to be getting better, so I feel like I’m preparing myself for the inevitable. The vet’s coming tomorrow and I’m feeling really anxious about it for various reasons, but it just feels like one more thing to deal with right now and I’ve got a lot of conflicting emotions about it.
Just…….fucking……stats.
It’s insane how hard this is for me. Thankfully, I have extremely supportive colleagues and supervisors but it’s ridiculously how hard I have to work to grasp even the most basic concepts.
Broadband contract moved from BT to EE (they are merging) to get their 500mbps deal. Was told the change is functionally just moving from system A to system B, and that I don’t need to do any manual configuration of account / payment settings their end as its just storing my details iin the other system and my payment date remains the same
Get charged yesterday, 2 weeks early, had to spend the better half of an hour ringing them to try and return the money, being hung up twice while being transferred to billing before finally being told “you’ll have to tell your bank to chargeback and then call us” and then do that, then ring back to let them know, and along the way I got the “do you have a mobile or landline? no, well we’re offering unlimited minutes for £10 a month!” spiel
Folk tend to have these payments set after payday for a bloody reason, so I highly recommend if you go through any such transition you verify that the payment date is explicitly on the day you want.
On the plus side, Santander were really good about this and returned the money pretty much instantanously so there is that
Arriving at work 10 minutes BEFORE the team meeting because of signal failure on the tube, great fun!
There’s now 10 (!) people off in my son’s class with Norovirus including a few teachers. They’re breaking up anyway and they don’t do bugger all the last couple of days so we’re having a few home school days because ffuuucckk bringing that home for half term.
We’re off to build a slapaphone out of PVC pipe shortly!
Where’s the bloody sun gone??
Winter has outstayed its welcome.
My brain is annoying me today because Wednesday Evening me decided to pretend it was Friday and have 3 gin and tonics. Thursday morning me is really pissed off with WM for giving me a crashing headache on a day when I have SO much work to do before V Day.
I have been on and off with flu / cold since Mid-December and finally got better around late Jan / early Feb. I visited a client for work on Monday, and for some reason her colleague was in despite being down with what seemed to be a really bad cold. And this morning I now feel like I am getting ill again. Selfish prick.
Ordered takeaway pizza for dinner last night. Feeling shit this morning. I think I might be getting too old for takeaways.
Hewlett fucking Packard.
Every smart device in the house is connected to my printer with no issue.
HP Smart, HPs own monitoring app is insistent that I have no printer and if I do it isn’t connected to the internet, and if it is well fuck you!
I just want to get some of your shitty overpriced ink you bastards, why do you make it so hard.
Had parents evening yesterday and Christ some people really shouldn’t be teachers.
My son tries really hard at Spanish, tries to talk it at home. Really, really tries!
Don’t turn to him and say “It’s really not for you is it?”
Waaay to kill any enthusiasm. I thought teachers were supposed to inspire learning now kill it.
Really wish my baby would sleep for a bit longer than 90 minutes. She used to be really good! I was the smug mum who had 0-2 wakes per night. She clearly wanted to keep me humble.
There is something not right with me. Nothing I can narrow down, but something is *off*. My internal thermostat is broken, I am having flares of my more minor issues that come and go, and no amount of time sitting under SAD lamps is waking me up during the day, then no meds will put me to sleep at night.
I have the dentist this afternoon, fortunately I am getting a lift rather than forking out for a taxi or hauling myself around on public transport. Hopefully, hugs from my best friend will lift my spirits too.
45 days until the clocks change. I can’t be the only one counting, can I?
I don’t wanna work anymore smh, I should marry rich.
_For the glory of the Empire_
Work has taken away our air nozzles so now people are jamming random objects into the quick release instead. Bravo!
50000 people in front of me for the Black Sabbath presale after joining the waiting room as it opened.
Are telecommunications companies deliberately bad? Abandoned Virgin as they were shocking. Currently being sent around the houses on Vodafone chat support.
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