Pet Peeves

[Pagan Saviour]

People asking "When are you finishing up?" in work.

[Jward]

People asking "When are you finishing up?" in work.

When are you finishing up though?

[Yung Led Zeppelin]

I'll shorten that to simply "in work" as my current pet peeve

[mickO)))]

Builders pricing jobs and not including VAT. Trying to get some work done on the house and every quote I have been given doesn't include VAT. Stop trying to be sneaky and give me the full price because when you add the VAT on it's a big chunk of the price.

[Bürggermeister]

They might be offering you the cash price 😉

[mickO)))]

Unfortunately I don't think they are and the last fella that gave me a quote is a relation.

[Pagan Saviour]

People asking "When are you finishing up?" in work.

When are you finishing up though?

Tomorrow thank fuck. Only two weeks and it'll be changed to "How was your christmas"

[ochoill]

People asking "When are you finishing up?" in work.

When are you finishing up though?

Tomorrow thank fuck. Only two weeks and it'll be changed to "How was your christmas"

Start asking lads in January when they are finishing up

[Pagan Saviour]

People asking "When are you finishing up?" in work.

When are you finishing up though?

Tomorrow thank fuck. Only two weeks and it'll be changed to "How was your christmas"

Start asking lads in January when they are finishing up

[open face surgery]

The Xmas banter at home has a lot of "are ya still in Dublin the whole time?"

[Bürggermeister]

I ordered a chainsaw from Screwfix last week, a not cheap electric one which didn't come with batteries, so I had to order not cheap batteries too. No bother. It should have been delivered on Friday but I received an email from DPD on Friday morning telling me "Your parcel has been delayed due to an unexpected issue."

It was delivered by DPD this afternoon in a big cardboard box which opened unusually easily. Inside, there was a box with the chainsaw in it but surprise, surprise, there was a big empty space where I imagine the two batteries were.

They can't despatch two new batteries to me because they will have to do a weight check on the box which left the warehouse. They tell me I can't just go to either of the Screwfixes in Kilkenny or Clonmel and pick replacements up in person either because I selected delivery in the first place so their only option is to deliver again, even though the original batteries mysteriously vanished during delivery. I'm stuck with a useless fucking chainsaw until their warehouse trawls through the records and then they send new batteries out for delivery again.

Bah humbug to thieving cunts.

I had something delivered a few months ago from screwfix which was missing parts so I rang them and got the got the same spiel that I couldn't go to the local screwfix and get a replacement as it would have to be delivered again to match the original dispatch method, but to get the ball rolling I would have to take the original item with the missing parts to the local screwfix to get the ball rolling and to save time, so I took the item into the local screwfix and they gave me a replacement there and then no questions asked as they had a record of the phone call I made reporting the issue. 

The replacement batteries arrived today. I can't say delivered, as the cunt just lobbed the jiffy bag over the gate, left them in the pissing rain and drove off. Luckily, I caught the end of the cunt pulling away and was able to get them before they were soaked through. It hit the ground hard enough to burst the box one of the batteries was in. I got delivery notification, hilariously complete with a blurry picture of them lying on the soaked driveway, over 20 minutes later.

Fuck DPD.

[Giggles]

An Post slapping a €6 service charge onto a customs fee of €2.50 

[Eoin McLove]

I had a really shit night's sleep on Friday night so was expecting to sleep like the dead last night. What I wasn't expecting was fucking insomnia  cuntish. We are all riddled with a bit of a virus in the house so that's probably not helping matters. Luckily I have Monday off too so if I can get a good sleep tonight I'll be back on track but I'm half dreading another night of sleepless misery.

[Circlepit]

Sleep you evasive mistress.
2 weeks now, 2 weeks this cunting flu has been knocking the shit out of me.
When I sleep it's like the sleep of the dead, then I wake in the night all bunged up and full of misery.
Fuck this shit.
I even had the flu jab, I should have just asked the pharmacist to inject me with dog  jizz.
It may have given me more resistance.

[Ducky]

Currys.

I'm embracing the bald (or at least a tidy 1 blade buzzcut), so figured a new pair of clippers is due.

Went up there 11 days ago to order one (a Wahl one, importantly with a lithium battery so I don't have to pay much mind to where it is in its discharge cycle, will charge quick, has better capacity, etc.).

First off I tell your man I'm looking for a hair clippers. He says they don't sell anything like that. Ya sure, bud? Because your website having a hape of them and there being a shelf full of them says otherwise.

So I find the one I want, complete the transaction on their tablet, approve the payment my banking app, get an email with an order number saying they're working on my order. Tickety-boo.

Called into them on Thursday as there's not a peep out of them. Turns out there's a "glitch in their system" (is this fucking Hackers or something?) when you order in-store it can become a "ghost transaction" - they've no record of it, the item is never ordered, and despite me approving the transaction, the money never came out of my account (which seems to be the only saving grace here).

Ended up buying the same clippers with the (presumably) NiMH battery because I need it for the weekend to not look like a gomey.

Harrumph.