What grinds my gears...

[String fellow]

Three things. Firstly that stupid Tesco advert telling us that there's no naughty list this Christmas. Secondly, folk who tell others that it's okay to feel or react in a certain way, as if they have superior wisdom. Thirdly, folk who blame the PM for every damn thing that goes wrong anywhere in the world. 

[Facecloth]

1 hour ago, Miquel The Work Geordie said:

Anyone who says their favourite Christmas film is Die Hard - desperate for the recoil and "DIE HARD?!" reaction, don't give it them.

 

Same folk that say their favourite City goal of all time was Eden Hazard's.

I'm not saying it's my favourite Christmas film, but it is a Christmas film.

 

Lethal Weapon is a film set near Christmas, but you can take Christmas out and the film still works. The whole plot of Die Hard is that its a father travelling to see his estranged wife and daughter at Christmas to try and mend the relationship. Its the reason he's going there. The only reason they building is full of people is because its Christmas eve and they are having their Christmas party. It's a Christmas film.

Edited 22 December 2020 by Facecloth

[Strokes]

On 18/12/2020 at 19:38, tom27111 said:

 

Yeah, have to scan them and get them in the van asap and out of the depot.

 

I pull over before my first delivery and get it in some sort of order.

 

Most things are in those bags, you only scan the bag, not the contents, then my phone tells me which bag the parcel is in when I arrive at the address. Usually working 1 bag at a time.

How much do they pay you Tom? If you don’t mind me asking.

[tom27111]

8 minutes ago, Strokes said:

How much do they pay you Tom? If you don’t mind me asking.

Not as much as I got paid for selling cars!

 

It varies from agency to agency and if you have your own van.

 

I'm on £140 a day.

 

Pays the bills.

[UniFox21]

1 hour ago, orangecity23 said:

If you want to save some cash, then Netflix are kindly offering this Aldi own brand Die Hard. Contains almost 80% as much Bruce Willis as the leading brand.

https://uk.newonnetflix.info/info/81306216

Don't watch that film unless you're bloody desperate, it'd be like replacing Maddison with Nick Powell and hoping no-one realised.

Edited 22 December 2020 by UniFox21

[orangecity23]

13 minutes ago, UniFox21 said:

Don't watch that film unless you're bloody desperate, it'd be like replacing Maddison with Nick Powell and hoping no-one realised.

Good to know - sounds like the 2 stars out of 5 on IMDB wasn't undeserved!

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

49 minutes ago, Facecloth said:

I'm not saying it's my favourite Christmas film, but it is a Christmas film.

 

Lethal Weapon is a film set near Christmas, but you can take Christmas out and the film still works. The whole plot of Die Hard is that its a father travelling to see his estranged wife and daughter at Christmas to try and mend the relationship. Its the reason he's going there. The only reason they building is full of people is because its Christmas eve and they are having their Christmas party. It's a Christmas film.

 

Aware of that, I've seen Die Hard, I like Die Hard - but anyone saying it's their favourite Christmas film is doing it for one reason.

 

The favourite Christmas film equivalent of Mourinho walking down tunnels before a ref's blown a whistle - look at me look at me, PATHETIC.

[Strokes]

55 minutes ago, tom27111 said:

Not as much as I got paid for selling cars!

 

It varies from agency to agency and if you have your own van.

 

I'm on £140 a day.

 

Pays the bills.

Thanks, I wasn’t sure and it seems like quite a frantic stressful environment. I’m glad it’s reasonably rewarded.

 

[tom27111]

4 minutes ago, Strokes said:

Thanks, I wasn’t sure and it seems like quite a frantic stressful environment. I’m glad it’s reasonably rewarded.

 

 

The pay is quite reasonable really. Technically I'm self employed, so can work as much or as little as I like. Been doing 6 days a week recently, it's not like I can go out to the pub is it!

 

Few days off now for Xmas. 

 

Without sounding disrespectful, it's not my long term choice of career, but everyone has to keep the money coming in.

 

The worry at the minute is getting another job and another lockdown coming, where I wouldn't be eligible for furlough.

 

Amazon will only get busier in that scenario, so I'm happy doing it.

 

Also nice being in Leicester every day.

 

[Julian Joachim Jr Shabadoo]

9 hours ago, Facecloth said:

I'm not saying it's my favourite Christmas film, but it is a Christmas film.

 

Lethal Weapon is a film set near Christmas, but you can take Christmas out and the film still works. The whole plot of Die Hard is that its a father travelling to see his estranged wife and daughter at Christmas to try and mend the relationship. Its the reason he's going there. The only reason they building is full of people is because its Christmas eve and they are having their Christmas party. It's a Christmas film.

 

This

 

Also, when you really boil the plot down to these two classic Christmas films, you tell me which is actually darker:

 

Die Hard:

- a policeman attends his wife's Christmas party. Unfortunately some terrorists turn up and start making demands, said policeman takes it upon himself to save the day. Along the way he encounters an ally in Sgt Al Powell, and between them they take down the terrorists.

 

Home Alone:

- we witness an entire family bully a young child, and then abandon him to go on holiday. The child has access to adult videos, pornographic magazines, a potentially venomous tarantula, and other unsuitable material. Two thieves show up, and the child is forced to defend the house for fear of his life. After a struggle, the thieves pin the child to a wall and literally threaten to eat his fingers. An elderly neighbour (note: suspected mass murderer) enters the house, and knocks the 2 thieves unconscious with a spade. We cannot be certain to why the neighbour was trespassing in the house in the first place.

[Zear0]

Don't forget, Alan Rickman says "ho ho ho". It may be written on a corpse but still. 

[Crinklyfox]

Right now, Virgin Media.  I have an 'all inclusive' package with phone, TV and internet.

 

1400 Monday - phone dies, internet dies, message on TV tells me to contact a phone number or log on to a website for more info.  No programmes available.

1800 Monday - fed up waiting for services to return, phone the number advised on my mobile, get a pre-recorded message that there is an outage at my postcode and that the problem has been identified and engineers are working very hard to restore services.  Predicted fix time 1000 Tuesday.

1100 Tuesday - no services.  Phone the number again, exactly the same message except the fix time has been changed to 1600 Tuesday.

1700 Tuesday - no services.  Phone the number again, exactly the same message except the fix time has been changed to 1800 Tuesday.

1830 Tuesday - no services.  Phone the number again, exactly the same message except the fix time has been changed to 1000 Wednesday.  Go through the options on the pre-recorded message in the vain attempt to try to get to speak to a human being, no luck.  Check with a neighbour and informed that the outage has affected the whole town (30,000+ residents).

0700 Wednesday - find services restored.  No sign of any explanation.

 

This was frustrating enough for me but there will have been people isolating for whom the phone is a lifeline and the TV and internet are their windows to the world.  Others for whom their business depends on these services.  This just isn't good enough.

[stix]

On 19/12/2020 at 21:19, Izzy said:

I think we're singing from the same hymn sheet Tom. Maybe we should pivot the idea and see if it washes it's face or not. Then we can peel the onion and get on all fours.

 

When you're a change agent like me, it's all about blue sky thinking. Anyway, time to boil the ocean and sweep the sheds. Lets take it to the next level and go after the low hanging fruit  

Potty mouth!

[stix]

14 hours ago, tom27111 said:

Not as much as I got paid for selling cars!

 

It varies from agency to agency and if you have your own van.

 

I'm on £140 a day.

 

Pays the bills.

That is a really decent amount considering you don’t really have to worry about the wagon or refilling it. I’m impressed and surprised about that!!

[steve555]

18 hours ago, tom27111 said:

Not as much as I got paid for selling cars!

 

It varies from agency to agency and if you have your own van.

 

I'm on £140 a day.

 

Pays the bills.

Beats Royal Mail by some way, that. Plus the fact we have to trudge the streets in all weathers, with a heavy bag on our backs. I think I need to look for a transfer, when's the window open!

[tom27111]

8 minutes ago, TOMMYG said:

Beats Royal Mail by some way, that. Plus the fact we have to trudge the streets in all weathers, with a heavy bag on our backs. I think I need to look for a transfer, when's the window open!

You boys are back home by 1pm though aren't you? 

 

There's pros and cons. Getting in and out of the van about 160 times a day is actually a lot more strenuous than you would think. And there's still a fair bit of walking in bad weather and lugging heavy boxes about. 

[steve555]

2 hours ago, tom27111 said:

You boys are back home by 1pm though aren't you? 

 

There's pros and cons. Getting in and out of the van about 160 times a day is actually a lot more strenuous than you would think. And there's still a fair bit of walking in bad weather and lugging heavy boxes about. 

1pm, that ended a few years ago now, nearer 2.30pm these days. This week I've been leaving home at 3.20am & arriving home about 3pm ( that did include some sorting overtime though ). I know what you mean about lugging heavy boxes though, before we start the walking part of our job we have to do the oversize parcels from the van, this takes about an hour or so. Some of the stuff we deliver now is well overweight. Hope you enjoy a couple of days of well earnt rest before it all starts again with the online sales.

[tom27111]

Just now, TOMMYG said:

1pm, that ended a few years ago now, nearer 2.30pm these days. This week I've been leaving home at 3.20am & arriving home about 3pm ( that did include some sorting overtime though ). I know what you mean about lugging heavy boxes though, before we start the walking part of our job we have to do the oversize parcels from the van, this takes about an hour or so. Some of the stuff we deliver now is well overweight. Hope you enjoy a couple of days of well earnt rest before it all starts again with the online sales.

I was only joking about the early finish! Thought you worked a lot later than 2.30. That's a bloody early start though.

 

Thanks, mate. Likewise. Sounds like you deserve a few days off over Xmas and New year 

[TeamRocket]

The place i work and the one if the managers grrr ahhhhh. He has messed up my mood, my day and I feel like car-rap. 

[Wymsey]

Being wide awake at after 01:00, despite working two 12-hour shifts the two days before.

[Free Falling Foxes]

3 hours ago, Wymsey said:

Being wide awake at after 01:00, despite working two 12-hour shifts the two days before.

Being woken up at 4 am by my wife's friend, who has a habit of texting at that hour and my wife leaving her phone by the bed with notifications on.

It's now an hour later and I'm still wide awake.

Meanwhile, my wife is snoozing gently and I bet her fricking friend is too!

Edited 24 December 2020 by Free Falling Foxes

[Buce]

6 hours ago, Wymsey said:

Being wide awake at after 01:00, despite working two 12-hour shifts the two days before.

 

On the plus side, Wymses, no more sleeps till Xmas!

Edited 24 December 2020 by Buce

[Footballwipe]

22 hours ago, Crinklyfox said:

Right now, Virgin Media.  I have an 'all inclusive' package with phone, TV and internet.

 

1400 Monday - phone dies, internet dies, message on TV tells me to contact a phone number or log on to a website for more info.  No programmes available.

1800 Monday - fed up waiting for services to return, phone the number advised on my mobile, get a pre-recorded message that there is an outage at my postcode and that the problem has been identified and engineers are working very hard to restore services.  Predicted fix time 1000 Tuesday.

1100 Tuesday - no services.  Phone the number again, exactly the same message except the fix time has been changed to 1600 Tuesday.

1700 Tuesday - no services.  Phone the number again, exactly the same message except the fix time has been changed to 1800 Tuesday.

1830 Tuesday - no services.  Phone the number again, exactly the same message except the fix time has been changed to 1000 Wednesday.  Go through the options on the pre-recorded message in the vain attempt to try to get to speak to a human being, no luck.  Check with a neighbour and informed that the outage has affected the whole town (30,000+ residents).

0700 Wednesday - find services restored.  No sign of any explanation.

 

This was frustrating enough for me but there will have been people isolating for whom the phone is a lifeline and the TV and internet are their windows to the world.  Others for whom their business depends on these services.  This just isn't good enough.

I've just joined VM in my new home. I've not had anywhere near the bad experience you have, but it's like pulling teeth with them.

 

Initial install they didn't have any V6 boxes, so put in the painfully slow old TiVo boxes as a temporary measure.

Send two V6 boxes, but don't include the remotes in the box

Dispatch the remotes but then realise they didn't include any adapters for the signal cable so I can connect the box up

Ask them to dispatch the adapters and they send me ONE. Another call needed to ask for the other one

 

Nearly three weeks into having the service and it's not fully up and running. All they needed to do was include.

 

Their service, when working, is good (especially at half price for 18 months) but HO BOY do they make it hard sometimes.

[Crinklyfox]

1 hour ago, Footballwipe said:

I've just joined VM in my new home. I've not had anywhere near the bad experience you have, but it's like pulling teeth with them.

 

Initial install they didn't have any V6 boxes, so put in the painfully slow old TiVo boxes as a temporary measure.

Send two V6 boxes, but don't include the remotes in the box

Dispatch the remotes but then realise they didn't include any adapters for the signal cable so I can connect the box up

Ask them to dispatch the adapters and they send me ONE. Another call needed to ask for the other one

 

Nearly three weeks into having the service and it's not fully up and running. All they needed to do was include.

 

Their service, when working, is good (especially at half price for 18 months) but HO BOY do they make it hard sometimes.

I've had Virgin Media for just over a year, renewed last month.  I have the 'old' TiVo boxes and the only problem I've had with them is the occasional crash, after which I have to reboot, which to be fair is no different to the Sky boxes I had previously.  I've had a few instances of the internet connection dropping but only for a few seconds which wasn't a problem.  They have at least sent me an email feedback form which I've completed.

 

I had 50% off for my first contract like you.  When I received the renewal notification I phoned them and asked what they could do about the renewal costs.  They offered an immediate £25 per month off the full price.  I said I'd think about it and was looking at changing my phone package and was then transferred to another call handler who offered me £40 a month off the renewal price, which I accepted.  Not saying that things will be the same in 18 months but it's worth bearing in mind.

[The Bear]

I'm having VM installed on 7th Jan. First time it's ever been in my area so hoping things go smoothly.