Minor Rant Thread - Part 9

[jayjaybee]

Filled my DIESEL car with £70 worth of unleaded petrol. Didn't realise until I'd driven two miles home wondering why car was labouring. Previous car was designed so unleaded nozzle wouldn't fit and guess what - I never tried! Before that I had a diesel van and an unleaded hybrid and never came close to misfueling either of them.

Anyway, called out one of the mobile companies that claims to be able to deal with this sort of thing - man spent four and a half hours failing to fix my car while I was at work. My partner finally suggested it might be wise for him to give up (and refused to pay) when he started hitting things with a hammer!

Next day called AA who sent someone else round. He fixed it in less than an hour after telling us the previous twit had drained it from the wrong place so there was still half a tank of unleaded in it and had then re-attached the fuel hoses the wrong way round. I had other plans for the £212 it cost me but compared to the £7000 I'd read on the internet I might have to pay it's peanuts.

Does this still count as a rant if I'm philosophical about it at the end?

I think you derserve 'major rant' status with major tolerance thrown in. Never done the fuel thing, but always have an underlying fear that one day I will. OH would be beyond mad if I did. My sympathies and comiserations.

[rustylady]

Took the grandchildren to school, sorted out the greenhouse, made lunch for daughter and two more grandchildren. Went to the lottie, managed an hour before going to pick the grandchildren up from school. Cooked their meal, made sure they were clean and changed ready for their school disco. Dad delivered them to disco and brought them back to me.

Got them all ready for bed, and now they are finally tucked up. Did a mountain of washing up, now need to put the washing machine on to wash their filthy school clothes.

Thank goodness Mum is home this weekend - how on earth did I manage with four children of my own?

[Glutton4...]

... and how on earth would your children manage without you bringing up their children!!? You are a saint, RL!

[Feral007]

Daughter's boss is cruising. She's a pita - I've heard people who've worked for her before talk about how they had no idea when they were working or could get time off etc. She is not training them to do anything, just tells them to do something without instruction, abuses them for doing it wrong or taking too long, all day long. She's said to daughter she smiles too much, then berated her for not smiling enough. She's learning to do the rooms at the motel, work in the office, take bookings, do invoices, put the receipts and invoices together for boss's hubby who is an accountant, and today she will be doing her first evening waitressing with a room of 200 eating. The boss has 3 kids 15 and 16 doing all this. They are doing the seating plans, prepping for the meal, serving, clearing and washing up, and manning the reception. One has been there 3 weeks. One has been there a week and a half and daughter has been there 3 days, today the 4th. She tells them they have to read her mind, to know what she wants them to do..........
Yesterday I went in to pick up daughter and the boss lady says it's hardly worth training her when she's only there so little (4 days this week, 3 next week - daughter dropped all plans for the holidays except my birthday and revising for school which has to be done) and boss was aware that I'll only let her work two days during the school terms. But now she's trying to push me to let her work more. She's 15 yo, she needs a casual job for afterschool/weekends to make a bit of money, she is a casual. And since you're paying cashi in hand (so we hear) then you won't be paying super or doing the tax work for workers. You're not apprenticing someone to learn a trade, you are taking on untrained casual kids, and not training them.
I suspect daughter will be looking for another job next week, as I'm not going to buckle under the pressure. Why does this woman need 3 new juniors to run the place and one senior housekeeper in the first real week of the snow season? Because she is so awful to work for the last lot obviously left en masse. Only good thing is, any other boss is going to seem like a pussycat!

[mrswadders]

The little bar stewards that vandalised my sons car last night while he was at work. Had it less than a month. Not anything special but his first car and its taken ages to get it because of insurance costs. I could ruddy swing for them grrrrrrrrr

[marchogaeth]

Daughter's boss is cruising........

What is it with these people? Mine got a minimum wage job. I think one of the reasons they employed her is because she's not 18 til august but whe works like an adult (which they knew). They could, of course pay her above the minimum but won't even though they rely on her to fill gaps in the rota etc etc. (It is the only real local job she can get so they do have a hold.)

A month after she was given the job they decided she had to have a uniform and you guessed it she had to buy the trousers and black shoes! Now bearing in mind this is a small local "supermarket" guess where they told her to go to get some cheap clothes/shoes - yep T*sc0 and not even the "local" shop (30 miles away) but on line! Support your local shop or what?

[alldigging]

Just people.
Usual sort of stuff they manage to do that cheeses you off just enough.

[PyreneesPlot]

Cabbage white butterflies - well the caterpillars - finishing off what the flea beetles and slugs started.

[alldigging]

"could not load shockwave flash"
zzz tedious having to try and sort it out. Might just stop using chrome.

[alldigging]

And it's too hot. Am cooking from being on allotment.

[SarzWix]

Water. Water, water, water. I have none left. And it's taking an average of 2 hours to fill containers, haul them to the plot in stages, empty them into the butt, then water the tunnel and greenhouse. I'm having to do this at least every other day, meaning that I have no time left for other jobs like weeding.
I wish it would rain for longer than 10 minutes.

[marchogaeth]

Daughter goes on holiday 3.30pm yesterday - treasured pet rat dies 9.30pm - she would have wanted to be here. Five days of avoiding telling her ahead.

Sarz no rain here yet please - hay down.

[Glutton4...]

I'm going to upset a lot of people now, but it really is far too ruddy warm.

I have been really looking forward to going out to a function this weekend, but it was held outside, in the full sun, and I just cannot cope with the heat. Instead, I am indoors, with the doors and windows open, and the curtains closed, doing housework, and sorting wardrobes and drawers full of clothes, and washing things that have been stored for too long and smell musty. At least it'll all dry quickly.

In between that, I'm catching up on Hubby's paperwork. Fun.
I love a warm sunny day like the next person, but I just can't cope with this temperature

[PyreneesPlot]

After six months of rain, it has taken just a week of temperatures in the thirties to empty all four water butts. And the mole has destroyed the soaker hose.

No pleasing some people (me).

[SarzWix]

F-off with your tennis, none of us have ever been remotely interested in it before, so why pretend to be bothered now?! Seems like a good excuse to get out of making the tea to me...