How Was Your Day?

[FoyleFox]

Dropped the car off at the Dealership in Loughborough at 8am for them to investigate the engine management light being on. Planned to then walk about the town, get the Christmas veg, nice lunch and enjoy the festive atmosphere.

Grabbed veg and abandoned the rest of the plan due to the inclement weather not being festive.

Home by 10am.

Great....unless the garage door remote is still in the car, at the garage. The key is inside the front door and the side gate is locked.

Borrowed a pallet off next door's front garden, scaled the 6ft side wall. All while it's absolutely teaming down.

Lovely.

 

 

[StanSP]

36 minutes ago, FoyleFox said:

Dropped the car off at the Dealership in Loughborough at 8am for them to investigate the engine management light being on. Planned to then walk about the town, get the Christmas veg, nice lunch and enjoy the festive atmosphere.

Grabbed veg and abandoned the rest of the plan due to the inclement weather not being festive.

Home by 10am.

Great....unless the garage door remote is still in the car, at the garage. The key is inside the front door and the side gate is locked.

Borrowed a pallet off next door's front garden, scaled the 6ft side wall. All while it's absolutely teaming down.

Lovely.

 

 

Hold on, you can't leave it there. 

 

 

You're still on the wall right? What happens next?! 

 

 

 

[FoyleFox]

1 minute ago, StanSP said:

Hold on, you can't leave it there. 

 

 

You're still on the wall right? What happens next?! 

 

 

 

Could you bring a ladder.....

[marbles]

2 hours ago, FoyleFox said:

Could you bring a ladder.....

That’s all it takes to get inside your house?

 

What’s your address?  Asking for a friend 

[Arriba Los Zorros]

7 hours ago, Daggers said:

I planned to spend today drinking tea, eating cake and gaming.

 

"Can you just 'pop' into town to get a couple of things," she said.

 

Three hours later...and all for some cheese and a fvcking tube of Pringles. That was the worst thing that's happened in 2022.

All I can say is your 2022 can't have been that bad. 😉

[Daggers]

1 hour ago, Arriba Los Zorros said:

All I can say is your 2022 can't have been that bad. 😉

Edited 23 December 2022 by Daggers

[Kopic]

I had an absolutely atrocious final (pre christmas) day at work today. The past week has been an absolute shit show, but somehow today, our quietest of the week, was the worst.

 

I work in a chilled distribution centre for a large uk supermarket. It's been seriously unreal for the couple of weeks. But now I have 5 days off for Christmas, which is the longest I've ever had over this period, and I felt quite happy, so I've sat at home after my shift tonight, and got absolutely hammered on my big Christmas Asahi beers and I'm feeling alright, but I've started to remember that i ****ing hate my job. I went to uni, did a decent degree, but still have the the same job I got when I was 18. The job has enabled me to buy a house, build a life, but it is literally so ****ing basic and shit. My degree is now 8 years in my past and jobs are extremely hard to come by (especially without experience), but I just want to get out of this shithole. 

[Nick]

5 hours ago, Kopic said:

I had an absolutely atrocious final (pre christmas) day at work today. The past week has been an absolute shit show, but somehow today, our quietest of the week, was the worst.

 

I work in a chilled distribution centre for a large uk supermarket. It's been seriously unreal for the couple of weeks. But now I have 5 days off for Christmas, which is the longest I've ever had over this period, and I felt quite happy, so I've sat at home after my shift tonight, and got absolutely hammered on my big Christmas Asahi beers and I'm feeling alright, but I've started to remember that i ****ing hate my job. I went to uni, did a decent degree, but still have the the same job I got when I was 18. The job has enabled me to buy a house, build a life, but it is literally so ****ing basic and shit. My degree is now 8 years in my past and jobs are extremely hard to come by (especially without experience), but I just want to get out of this shithole. 

Have you ever got any careers advice on direct or indirect transferable skills you have and potential options? Remember you also have a stable record of work history and ethic and your degree no matter if it was 8 years ago... I've re-invented what I do several times during my career which has involved evidencing and re-crafting CV's and interview responses to drill down experience from both work history and hobbies and past times to highlight specific areas of experience for specific jobs in different fields... Sorry if this is patronising - it's genuinely not meant to be.

Edited 24 December 2022 by Nick

[Paninistickers]

8 hours ago, Kopic said:

I had an absolutely atrocious final (pre christmas) day at work today. The past week has been an absolute shit show, but somehow today, our quietest of the week, was the worst.

 

I work in a chilled distribution centre for a large uk supermarket. It's been seriously unreal for the couple of weeks. But now I have 5 days off for Christmas, which is the longest I've ever had over this period, and I felt quite happy, so I've sat at home after my shift tonight, and got absolutely hammered on my big Christmas Asahi beers and I'm feeling alright, but I've started to remember that i ****ing hate my job. I went to uni, did a decent degree, but still have the the same job I got when I was 18. The job has enabled me to buy a house, build a life, but it is literally so ****ing basic and shit. My degree is now 8 years in my past and jobs are extremely hard to come by (especially without experience), but I just want to get out of this shithole. 

Mate,. i know how this sounds, ie pious and impractical, but just jack it. Leave.

 

There's thousands of available shit jobs out there. Anyone can literally pick up a shit job tomorrow. Good jobs are hard to come by. Just bounce from shit to shit until one of them actually proves quite enjoyable 

 

[tom27111]

I hate wrapping presents. I can't even begin to explain how bad I am at it.

 

I can turn my hand to most things and be half decent or better, but gift wrapping is not one of them.

 

I'm currently being held to ransom by two children who know this and are having a bidding war over who'll wrap their mother's presents for me.

 

Negotiations are breaking down. I'm holding firm at a fiver, but the best offer so far is a tenner.

 

I'm going to suggest £1 per gift. 8 need wrapping.

 

It's tense.

[FoyleFox]

1 hour ago, tom27111 said:

I hate wrapping presents. I can't even begin to explain how bad I am at it.

 

I can turn my hand to most things and be half decent or better, but gift wrapping is not one of them.

 

I'm currently being held to ransom by two children who know this and are having a bidding war over who'll wrap their mother's presents for me.

 

Negotiations are breaking down. I'm holding firm at a fiver, but the best offer so far is a tenner.

 

I'm going to suggest £1 per gift. 8 need wrapping.

 

It's tense.

How much has it cost you?

 

Surely you could negotiate with someone at work to do it, I mean, parcels are their specialist subject...

[tom27111]

3 minutes ago, FoyleFox said:

How much has it cost you?

 

Surely you could negotiate with someone at work to do it, I mean, parcels are their specialist subject...

 

I've told them if I meet their demands, it could mean inflation rises even more.

 

I think they're going to accept the £8 and do 4 gifts each, but they're playing hardball.

 

Negotiations could run in to the night.

 

I played my ace card by saying "You both had a 65 quid City shirt off me, you won't do me a favour?"

 

They ain't getting a shirt next season.

 

Buggers.

[Alfie.meadsy]

How was my day? Been working at spoons all day 🤣🤣. Chaos…

[tom27111]

Just now, Alfie.meadsy said:

How was my day? Been working at spoons all day 🤣🤣. Chaos…

 

Used to do that.

 

I genuinely feel for you. 

[Jattdogg]

2 hours ago, tom27111 said:

I hate wrapping presents. I can't even begin to explain how bad I am at it.

 

I can turn my hand to most things and be half decent or better, but gift wrapping is not one of them.

 

I'm currently being held to ransom by two children who know this and are having a bidding war over who'll wrap their mother's presents for me.

 

Negotiations are breaking down. I'm holding firm at a fiver, but the best offer so far is a tenner.

 

I'm going to suggest £1 per gift. 8 need wrapping.

 

It's tense.

My kids would do it without question...or else somebody gunna get hurt real bad

 

Having said that, i can wrap a present decently so no help is needed.

 

 

[tom27111]

5 minutes ago, Jattdogg said:

My kids would do it without question...or else somebody gunna get hurt real bad

 

Having said that, i can wrap a present decently so no help is needed.

 

 

 

Step kids ain't they, so I'm not 100% confident of beating them.

 

Fvcking snitches 

[Alfie.meadsy]

28 minutes ago, tom27111 said:

 

Used to do that.

 

I genuinely feel for you. 

Yeah In the kitchen it is chaos. Then we have had too many complaing customers today. For example today one customer had a go at us for not giving them enough chips even tho we gave them more than a usual scoop and it was so annoying 🤣. 

[Mike Oxlong]

On 23/12/2022 at 14:22, Daggers said:

I planned to spend today drinking tea, eating cake and gaming.

 

"Can you just 'pop' into town to get a couple of things," she said.

 

Three hours later...and all for some cheese and a fvcking tube of Pringles. That was the worst thing that's happened in 2022.

Useless fact - the bloke that invented the Pringles tube has had his remains buried in a Pringles tube   

 

[The Bear]

Who cares if it's wrapped any good. It gets ripped off in seconds any way. So long as there are no gaps and you can't see in to what it is then it's all good. 

[tom27111]

15 minutes ago, The Bear said:

Who cares if it's wrapped any good. It gets ripped off in seconds any way. So long as there are no gaps and you can't see in to what it is then it's all good. 

 

We're deadlocked so badly, I think I'm just going with kitchen foil.

[tom27111]

1 hour ago, Mike Oxlong said:

Useless fact - the bloke that invented the Pringles tube has had his remains buried in a Pringles tube   

 

 

Strange and slightly morbid thing from this...

 

Do you know how much ashes weigh?

 

My Father in law came back this week, in a box that was quite light, he weighs a fvcking ton 

 

Ongoing family joke now.

 

He was 6ft 5, but he's so bloody heavy!

 

We've all had a laugh about it, which makes things easier. And he'd have loved it.

[tom27111]

5 hours ago, FoyleFox said:

How much has it cost you?

 

Surely you could negotiate with someone at work to do it, I mean, parcels are their specialist subject...

 

Deadlock broken.

 

They went for the quid a gift.

 

I told them I'd leave them in the centre of Nottingham wearing their City shirts after the match if they didn't agree 

 

Dickhead here bought the tickets, so surely they should've done it for free? 

 

Unbelievable. 

[FoyleFox]

2 minutes ago, tom27111 said:

 

Deadlock broken.

 

They went for the quid a gift.

 

I told them I'd leave them in the centre of Nottingham wearing their City shirts after the match if they didn't agree 

 

Dickhead here bought the tickets, so surely they should've done it for free? 

 

Unbelievable. 

Happy days. Sometimes a quiet life comes at a price. 

 

For future reference, gift bags should become your friend. And if you're smart you can just reuse them each Birthday and Christmas. 

[tom27111]

1 minute ago, FoyleFox said:

Happy days. Sometimes a quiet life comes at a price. 

 

For future reference, gift bags should become your friend. And if you're smart you can just reuse them each Birthday and Christmas. 

 

It was touch and go if I had to use the turkey foil 

 

No tape, no folds. Genius.

[Mike Oxlong]

8 hours ago, tom27111 said:

 

Strange and slightly morbid thing from this...

 

Do you know how much ashes weigh?

 

My Father in law came back this week, in a box that was quite light, he weighs a fvcking ton 

 

Ongoing family joke now.

 

He was 6ft 5, but he's so bloody heavy!

 

We've all had a laugh about it, which makes things easier. And he'd have loved it.

Yes, I knew that they were heavy. I might get mine delivered for scattering by Amazon when the time comes.