What grinds my gears...

[tom27111]

Kids.

 

They've just broken up from school for the holidays, God knows why it was at 1pm on a Tuesday, but still.

 

It's nearly 30 degrees outside and they're both sat in their rooms on Tiktok or the PlayStation 

 

Then they'll moan there's nothing to do and they're bored at about half 8 tonight.

Edited 20 July 2021 by tom27111

[The Bear]

Slap some sunscreen on them and kick them out to the nearest park. Plenty of time for video games later on tonight. 

[tom27111]

13 minutes ago, The Bear said:

Slap some sunscreen on them and kick them out to the nearest park. Plenty of time for video games later on tonight. 

 

Innit. You even offer to take them places/do something with them and they just look at you like you're mental.

[LiberalFox]

Narcissistic abusers. 

[Stuntman_Mike]

Not being allowed a day off work for a mates funeral and only being allowed to have a few hours off for the service as annual leave, when people have been off for months fully paid with naff all wrong with them. 

 

[Jon the Hat]

On 17/07/2021 at 20:58, tom27111 said:

The Amazon advert with the woman who has a lot of very neatly stacked boxes in the back of her van.

 

That's about an hours work at most.

 

Loading your van like that would take more time, but after 16 minutes, the yard marshall's would be screaming at you asking what was taking so fvcking long 

 

Although I guess an advert featuring me, sweating my balls off in my Leicester shirt, with 300 parcels rammed in, so you literally can't move in the back wouldn't look as good?

It is a mystery to me how you find the parcel for the house you are parked in front of.

[Jon the Hat]

15 hours ago, LiberalFox said:

Narcissistic abusers. 

Cut them out of your life, it is the only way.

[LiberalFox]

2 hours ago, Jon the Hat said:

Cut them out of your life, it is the only way.

Yes it is. I'm finding it scary how credulous people can be.

[tom27111]

3 hours ago, Jon the Hat said:

It is a mystery to me how you find the parcel for the house you are parked in front of.

All the parcels are stacked inside big hard sided plastic bags. Typically have 10 to 12 bags with about 20 parcels in. Then your device tells you which bag it's in and what type of parcel it it (envelope, box, polybag etc.) Usually you work through 1 bag at a time. I empty the bag inside the cab so I don't have to keep going in the back.

 

The problem is the oversized parcels. You can have up to 40 of them just loose in the back. Literally anything from giant bags of dog food to microwaves and TV's. Finding them can be a pain.

[Jon the Hat]

8 minutes ago, LiberalFox said:

Yes it is. I'm finding it scary how credulous people can be.

My Mother in law has NPD, and I swear she can convince people of anything.  Mainly how awful we are, how badly we have treated her and how sad she is not to see her Grandkids.  Meanwhile she has made no effort whatsoever to apologise or otherwise make any amends, or even ask why we cut off contact (something she claims not to know).  nearly 10 years of relative peace so far

[Guest Manley Farrington-Brown]

Celebrity Gogglebox.

 

Celebrity. Gogglebox.

I really can’t decide which half of that is worse.

[LiberalFox]

54 minutes ago, Jon the Hat said:

My Mother in law has NPD, and I swear she can convince people of anything.  Mainly how awful we are, how badly we have treated her and how sad she is not to see her Grandkids.  Meanwhile she has made no effort whatsoever to apologise or otherwise make any amends, or even ask why we cut off contact (something she claims not to know).  nearly 10 years of relative peace so far

Glad to hear about the relative peace. 

[Guest Manley Farrington-Brown]

2 hours ago, Jon the Hat said:

nearly 10 years of relative peace so far

Without making light of a serious family situation, I did enjoy this pun!

[The Bear]

Fecking Hermes. 

 

Today I had an email saying "your delivery window is 2-4pm". Only problem was I didn't receive that email until 2:34pm. And the driver turned up 7 mins later. By the time I'd seen the email at 2:45pm, he'd been and gone. I was only in the back garden too FFS. 

Edited 21 July 2021 by The Bear

[KFS]

“I know you’re on holiday but…” work messages. 

[Saxondale]

8 hours ago, KFS said:

“I know you’re on holiday but…” work messages. 

Don’t take your work phone on holiday. Ignore.

[Jattdogg]

4 hours ago, Saxondale said:

Don’t take your work phone on holiday. Ignore.

I know it can be complicated depending on your profession etc. If it were life and death or could lead to your company/employer going belly up i get it. Anything else, piss off! Lol

[Guest]

The constant hunger for negative gossip about our own players

[z-layrex]

13 hours ago, KFS said:

“I know you’re on holiday but…” work messages. 

They do not get fully read and they do not get answered.

[urban.spaceman]

8 minutes ago, Guest said:

The constant hunger for negative gossip about our own players

Why what have you heard?

[HybridFox]

Anyone else get p**** off at work when you're the one who gets lumbered with tidying a mess that's been ignored for years before you 

[Silebyfox_89]

Just a few 'grinds my gears' that currently come to mind:

 

1) Parents who call there children 'Aurora'. Why? Pointless name mostly used by chavy parents trying to be unique

2) People who use Anxiety/depression as a excuse because someone/something has disagreed with them. e.g. "this is getting my angso up!" (I've been diagnosed with this condition before so i can have a strong opinion on it)

3) Foxestalk threads that go 'hot' due to being hijacked with conversations not relevant to the topic heading

 

[KFS]

22 hours ago, Saxondale said:

Don’t take your work phone on holiday. Ignore.

When I worked in the U.K. this was a dream but now I work in the US they expect us to do business off our personal phones. Not an excuse cos I put that on airplane on holiday days I REALLY need, but an interesting cultural distinction that I’ve found.

[Saxondale]

1 hour ago, KFS said:

When I worked in the U.K. this was a dream but now I work in the US they expect us to do business off our personal phones. Not an excuse cos I put that on airplane on holiday days I REALLY need, but an interesting cultural distinction that I’ve found.

That’s harsh. Especially as the US employers give such poor holiday allowances.

[Mike Oxlong]

Flies 

 

Utter utter bastards