True. Getting someone sacked can make you feel bad, but if you saw something, then you should tell them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Benn
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True. Getting someone sacked can make you feel bad, but if you saw something, then you should tell them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Benn
work just hate it soon as see the place just puts me in a bad mood
find somewhere else.
i've done it in the past a few times
Know how you feel novadave24 i hate my place and most of the d!@k's in there. Need out believe me iam looking.
Strange this, lots of people currently looking to move for what ever reason.
I'm caught between 2 currently, have a lot of respect for one of my customers and don't really want to leave him in the **** with some fairly big projects coming up in London, however, I've lost a fair amount of cash through lack of Overtime over the past year, part of which makes me get to the stage I'm at now, looking around to see what is out there.
If your customers appreciate what you do, but know the company is poo, they will get over it and still accept you when your paths cross again. I had similar with my last job in that I went out of my way to make the best of a bad situation for my customers but they knew the shortcomings of the company, I'm still friends with the guys in the various places so all good.
I'm looking for a new job, while I'm paid well, I'm bored silly and only being used at about 10% of my capacity. This does my head in and I also feel its a massive waste for the employer. I've mentioned it many times and nothing happens... pesky large companies.
Sounds like we're in the same place then Stuart.
I have had a few discussions with the said customer to which he has sort of approached me, however its all dependant on him getting funding depends on my next move. I'd be happy with getting out of the office, which is where most of the issues are with directors all getting too hot under the collar, taking it out on others.
about a year ago I was running at 110%, over worked but happy with the pay, now I'm scratching around for work plus they have no long term plan for me so I think my minds made up, its just finding the right job to go to after spending 16 years here!
got a new works van and its a ****ty Vauxhall combo :yuck:
Lad that's had my nova 5 months for paint that I've been very patient with put a picture up on facebook and there it was in the background looking the same as it did 4 months ago in a corner. Anyway long story short I blew my top and told him 13th March it's either finished or coming home on a flat bed with me in bits and I'm not paying him.
I would have just turned up with trailer without notice.loaded up and gone.
far too many people let bodyshops take the piss on here.
Truth be told I can't be arsed putting it back together myself, if I leave it any longer though it's not going to be ready for when I want. Balls in his court now he can finish it or loose a lot of money.
3 things.
1. Some tool at a honda small engine parts supplier deciding that instead of sending a 200mm length of fuel line, they'd send 2 x 100mm bits instead..
2. A transit with ongoing poor running issues, and the lads have checked everything, so I finally got chance to look, and within a second, I found one of the intercooler pipes hadnt been put back on and tightened up, after we did a repair 3 months ago.
3. One of our tractor drivers used copper grease to stop damp getting into a beacon plug. Now, as copper is a great electrical conductor, you'd think that people might think that it was blindingly obvious that the fuses will keep blowing until the grease is totally removed....
God I love days in the workshop.
Sounds like you work with some right fukktards mike lol
reminds me of my reprobate mate,sent me a pic of a screwdriver bit in place of a fuse simply said "wont blow now will ya you bast4rd" after it kept blowing fuses
the problem is that we have got lots of staff & lots of vehicles and we could probably manage to keep a decent mechanic in work for 3 days a week, easily..... but i'm doing 60 odd hours a week already, and simply can't manage to repair everything... we did hire one last year, but he was truly the largest bullsh!tter on the planet.. his idea of fixing a machine was to clean it & put it back in the store.. he couldn't even bleed thru a perkins diesel engine, which i learnt when i was 8
Bleeding a perky is deff an acquired skill 😁
Trying to break a car and paypal froze my account, I was only breaking the car becauae I couldn't afford to repair it so now I'm even worse off as the postage is coming out my own pocket. Fuming.
Why have they froze your account?
Secirity protocol or somthing automated, because I had suspicious payments or some crap really not happyQuote:
Originally Posted by Andy
I cant understand why they do that.if your account is live and uses a bank account whats the issue?
The more money their users make the more they make.
iv once been paid for 32 items in one day when i had over 40items from a car i broke listed.Never had any bother.
Iirc the only time they twist is when you reach your limit of deposits which is about 10grand,or at least it used to be.
Normally it's if you have a boat load of 'gift' payments going through your PayPal account
2 payments in one day, so nothing major. The customer support are useless they tell me that one the computer has made its checks they can tell me when I'll get my money back. They don't seem to have a clue
so.... item 1's replacement just arrived... and the effing tw@t (sp) has done the same again, and cut the 200mm pipe into 2 x 100mm pipes!!!!!!! I'm awaiting the manager of the4 place to ring me... this could be sweary, very swearyQuote:
Originally Posted by mowgli
"Hello. Can I have two, hundred mm of fuel tubing please?"
"Certainly Sir"
Yet another lower on Facebook not committing to a sale. I couldn't make it easier - all I want is to drive to his and give him some money for two wheels! Facebook nova pages are full of clueless gimps and time wasters!!!
you'd think... its a non std bore pipe, and apparently (according to the manager himself) its a new computer system causing it, so when i pointed out that they no doubt managed to send out the correct size length of pipe before the new computer, and the same part no was used, so maybe, just maybe if they put the idiot who picked the item wrong twice on the phone to me, then i'd give him a few choice words of encouragement........Quote:
Originally Posted by meritlover
the saturday postal delivery will be interesting
People may think PNG is strictly moderated.... Try one of the Abarth 500 forums, oh my word, what a bunch of spineless goons.
i saw/heard a car with a fairly quiet exhaust (standard is quite loud) and asked what it may be. This led to the suggestion I should get a Prius if I wanted quiet, to which I said I'm mad not speshul. Someone else wanted speshul explaining so I did by saying I can't write the ride word I wanted due to the efficient moderation. I came back a few hours later and voila, all posts after the Prius one are gone with no mod message lol
time to find a new forum that's not owned by a company (they sold to some Canadian place recently) who want everything to be super family friendly..... Bollocks we are mostly adults lol
So, i know you are dying to know about my fuel pipe......
a 3rd jiffy bag arrived this morning.
i opened it, and found a 200mm long piece of pipe..... but 1.5mm too big on the diameter!!!!!!
so i rang the manager at the parts place. i then explained, in very small words, how to make sure they actually get the right sodding pipe sent.
he apologised and grovelled and said he'd refund me, and i said ' i couldn't care less about the refund, i just want the right pipe at the right diameter and the right length, and i want it in the post so i can mend the machine, i ask nothing more'
so on monday, i'll update
Stu, its not like you to get upset at internet idiocy....Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuart
as a famous race engine designer once said.... 'noise is wasted power'
Ffs, they still can't get it right!! Especially after x amount of phone calls you'd think they'd make sure it's the correct piece lol useless.Quote:
Originally Posted by mowgli
i'll bet that the boss man will be sh!tting himself at about 10am, when my postie arrives....i plan to actually ring him to thank him when it does arrive..
what galls me the most is that i actually spent about 8 years in the parts business, and i never, ever had something like this happen. i once got offered a job based purely on the fact that i turned up at a supplier warehouse 2 days in a row to collect stuff & had to correct them both days, i used to take delivery of 1000 line stock orders & be able to sort it in a couple of hours, i used to send parts info to a major tractor manufacturer's parts tech dept on new production models that would be launched 2 months before the parts book was published. i also was sent on training days and would end up telling them things... and supplying what the customer wants 1st time is all i expect....
something like this is driving me absolutely sodding loopy.
I guess its the realisation that the few Internet forums I call 'home' are the pinnacles of free speech, messing about and most importantly not taking themselves too seriously. As I venture out to other sites for other Marques, I find that as they have appeared 'recently' (as in after the invention of forums etc) they try far too hard and have zero soul or fun about them.Quote:
Originally Posted by mowgli
yes that's seemingly hypocritical or blinkered to come from me, but its the honest feeling I get from these other places.
Beeing told my landlord is selling up so looks like i only have a few months to get out and by the looks of it, and finding a place with a garage and still trying to keep out of ****ehole areas is going to be tough with out moving out of my comfort zone
****ing gutted love this area and this house :(
Its true.im on a few other forums and im the same on them as i am on here,yet on them ones people seem like seriously miserable.
Unwelcoming and cliquey also.205drivers was the worst.Proper crud.
Dropping off some parts to be electroplated and asking for zinc gold passivate. Told it would take 2 weeks but after 3 weeks of not hearing anything I called them to see what is happening. They say they cannot get the paint off one item so they cannot electroplate it but everything else was done. Went to pic them up this morning and find they have zinc plated them but looks nothing like the yellow passivate I asked for. His reply was, 'oh, we dont do that finish anymore, I should have mentioned that when you dropped them off'. Yeah you should have, now I need to get them done elsewhere. Just wasted 3 weeks of my time and money. Also they hadn't even touched the painted plate and they managed to lose another part. Bloody joke!
Cleaning our house till 11pm last night, ready for a house viewing and the knobs don't even turn up or have the common courtesy to ring and cancel, then phoned the estate agent to tell them, to get the reply "yea she has done that a few times now with other houses"
don't let her keep booking viewings then !!!!!!!!!!!!!:mad:
buy my house its got a massive garage and you can have the nova in it!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by turbojolt
Im not living in chesterfield full of weridos...
you wouldn't stand out then....Quote:
Originally Posted by turbojolt
Burnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
He's right though you massive freak. Let me know if you need a hand moving your suitcases of cash to your new house. One 2 down from me was up for rent but gone now
Everytime i want to take the let out its raining. Took it out and its running bad. Wideband all over the place engine trying to stall. !!