Things you hate IV

Same for the like of Farage, Robinson and Tate. The publicity these bell ends get from places sharing even how stupid they are is nuts.

 

There is one of these cinema's in Wokingham. I have yet to to get through a film there without dozing off!

 

Trump threatening a special military operation to seize Greenland. No doubt it would rescue the Greenlanders from their evil government, but wouldn't a better way of strengthening the West against its enemies be to offer to strengthen its defences? Not entirely different from an offer to buy the place, but better for western solidarity than purchasing sovereignty.

 

You'd have though with his penchant for the Ladies he would have been more interested in Iceland where all the mums are?

 

On the Met line en route to the Cottage and a few seats down there are a couple of twenty-somethings eating each other's faces off on a busy train, hardly even surfacing for air, been going on for ages- get a room!

 

Why didn't you ask to join in?

 

They were both ugly!

 

Call the sodding midwife. How do they get away with making this sh1t and why does Mrs Lloyd like it?

 

I hear you, Mrs Diamond watched it and I could actually see her brain losing billions of cells.

 

Employers thinking your commute time is their time.

This is just a minor annoyance really, I work for a startup and have some equity, so I do appreciate you get out what you put in and it’s going to be in my general interests to work outside the normal hours… but it’s still annoying.

But anyway, I generally work in the office as they want their pound of flesh. Roughly 40 minute commute, most of that on the tube, so I leave about 7:30 get there about 10 past 8, normally before anyone else, officially we start at 8:30 but the others, the founders etc filter in slightly afterwards.

Occasionally I work from home when I need to, like today, but then the work seems to start at 7:30, lots of messages and emails flying about before 8:30, shall we jump on a call to discuss this etc. which wouldn’t happen if I was commuting in.

It just seems like because I’d be commuting, that is still somehow seen as their time. It’s not an extra hour at home for me to sleep in or exercise, because it would’ve been ‘dead’ travel time, from their point of view they think I may as well spend it working.

I appreciate that I could just ignore it, and sometimes I do, it’s more the principle of it that annoys me.

 

Shouldn't you be working now?!

 

Yes I get a lot of emails on Sunday and before 9am weekdays as I work for a Middle Eastern company who are 3 hours ahead and have Sunday as a working day.
I've always taken the view that it's my choice if I read/respond to anything outside normal hours and will usually find a fake reason to not join any calls/meetings on sunday to emphasise I'm doing personal family stuff, visiting/out for a walk etc etc. If I see a request for info message I will deliberately not "read it" until I'm ready and happy to respond.
I guess employers are different and I might feel different if I had some equity ! Was promised share options when I joined but they never materialised !

 

Is it actual equity or options?

 

Can anyone who is even remotely connected with teaching explain Ofsted to me please.

Why when I called in September to ascertain the progress of our application to run holiday camps at the club did the very friendly lady say all was fine and I'd hear in twelve weeks.

Fourteen weeks on another lady,Claudia, equally personable,told me I needed EY2 and EYS forms together with the EYO I had submitted. Despite me asking why the system had told me previously that I didn't need to complete these particular items.

For all I know I will now need an ELO form after this.

Perhaps if staff actually had a common answer when some poor sod has sat through forty five minutes of Aha's greatest hits it might help?

 

I've heard that it's actually the EIEIO form you need to complete

 

Nothing would surprise me!
Followed no doubt by the UTFLWG form?!

 

My incompetent bank.

Submitted a form to add an additional account holder back in November.
Heard nothing - chased by phone - oh we sent you a letter asking for ID - no letter received and none asked for ID with the forms. No record of the ID request letter sent on the on-line system either system, my guess it never went out.
Sent the required id to the required address as per the phone call.
Heard nothing - chased again by phone - can't answer your query department is closed can;t pass them a message or raise a query pelase clal back.
Called the next day - not sure if we've received it, will text you.
Text received query complete - I assumed they'd received the ID I posted then.
Heard nothing further and no update online.
Received a letter asking for ID - dated 3 weeks previously, stating included info and pre paid envelope, neither included and letter not on on-line system either.
Called to see if this had crossed in the post with me sending the ID - don't know, not on system. You could take it to the branch? Except the convenient branches are closed down and it would need to be arranged with the other account holder in non working time when the branch is shut.

Nearly 3 months this has taken so far.

Recorded delivery ID and letter going off tomorrow.

Got probate to deal with after this is sorted and not looking forward to it.


My daily job is dealing with banks and finance companies and none of them have asked for physical ID since covid and copies sent through the post are invalid for verification anyway so God knows why these people are ******* me about, other than to be awkward.

 

I'll put this in simple terms, Ofsted are c***s. Mrs Diamond and many many others gave up childminding due to the unending amount of new rules / paperwork / visits etc. It honestly felt like they are an organisation with nothing to do except stop people caring for children.

 

Confusion ? She sounds like an Evil Woman.

 

Heart attacks, cancer and strokes - not necessarily in that order

 

Add to that, Alzheimers, Parkinsons and Dementia.

 

Motor neurone too ?

 

Two out of three. F*ck them!

 

Documentaries from e.g. channel 4 covering mundane things such as “Christmas mega sweet shop” where a narrator explains “Phil is filling up the basket for the third time today because it is very busy at Christmas” “meanwhile in the Cheltenham store manager Rory is confident they will sell more advent calendars this year than their rivals branch in Bath” and he has to pretend he and his minimum wage staff are highly motivated by this annual corporate tradition

 

Lol!

And the saddest part of this is that there are enough twee people about who enjoy watching this sort of stuff !!.

 

35 year old teenagers who appear on cutting edge programmes like "love island" etc.

 

This crisp factory makes over 200 MILLION crisps per day! That's enough crisps to fill 4000 bathtubs!

 

Wine reviewers.

What sort of pretentious ****** posts 4k wine reviews on the internet.

WHO writes things like this?

"Beautiful crisp notes with a soft mousse and a clean finish. Fresh fruit with minimal yeast autolysis".

Or

"Absolutely delightful. Rose colour, blush straw. Rich velvet biscuit. Non effervescent mousse, complex piquant but sumptuous mouth feel".

Or

"Strawberries on toast with squirty cream on the aroma"

Jesus Wept.

 

...and whilst I am having a whinge about 35 y.o. teenagers
Those 35 y.o. teenagers who have a YouTube channel commenting on
music from yesteryear . I saw one who was waxing lyrical about Sham 69
without once thinking "if the kids are united" is not really about someone of
my age . Grow up FFS.

 

Just give me a pint of fermented grapes please! Big Sam style!!

 

Yep.
What you got there is a glass of Prosecco !

 

People who don’t have salt and pepper pots/grinders.

Someone on my feed just slapped up a story of their 4/10 roast dinner and there’s a great big white receptacle of table salt.

Have a word with yourself.

 

If a roast dinner needs extra salt n pepper then the chef needs a word with himself

 

Going off the picture I saw it definitely did.

 

The thought that the Radio 2 Breakfast Show will be ruined come next Monday