[Rules p.1] Things that annoy you guys. 100 percent. Not gonna lie

Fade wrote:

Green Gecko wrote:strawberry floating skaffies again.

Clanging and scraping the pipes by lobbing them into the truck while guffawing bollocks with the radio on full blast together with one of those boomboxes.

Enveloping sound, because sound travels and it's impossible to determine words or anything else from whatever radio 1 or dance anthem bollocks it is, all you can hear through the ground floor of the house is indistinct warbley bass noise of talk radio. Like strawberry float are they listening to it. It's transmitted through the tires. Music wouldn't be as bad, but even that is generic thumping shite.

I appreciate I am autistic but after hours this shite feels like being repeatedly stabbed in the brain.

So I confront them from my door. Please turn down the radio and/or the Makita boombox (specifically pointing to it) as its all I can hear. The bass travels and you can't hear the music anyway because it's inside the strawberry floating truck, not outside.

(the solution isn't to turn up the radio so it goes THROUGH the steel plating of the truck, its to use some strawberry floating headphones or something isn't it??)

"alright mate. we're working mate"
[unintelligible muttering]

Please can you turn the radio down.

"Were WORKING mate."
"It's metal" (as if this fixes all such grievances)

I know it's metal. I'm not talking about the scaffolding, but the radio, which is so loud, and yet you still can't make anything out.

"we're WORKING"

"working from home??" [sarcastically ie you aren't working as hard as us, typical presumptuous banana split, that is]

I'm working just as hard as you are.

I know it's metal, but that's not inseparable from doing your job, is it? Do you have to have the radio on?

"we're working".

"alright mate have a good day bye" (sarcastically)

They did piss off to be fair, they might not be able to consider the people living by their site but their employers likely would if I called them.

Thank strawberry float it's going down. I could do without the anxiety.

The scaffolding work has been up there for 3 months and I've only just thought strawberry float it. I don't want to make these guy's lives miserable. But it's not Ibeza. Shut the strawberry float up, you don't have to willingly add to the noise, do you? It's not a requirement of the job to park a truck with the radio on full blast for 3 hours continously outside several people's homes.

The insinuation I'm not working or that having the radio on that loud is the devine right of any proper tradesman and an important component of the work we do is extremely annoying.

I felt I could mention autism but they'd probably just joke about how I'm retarded or don't look disabled and should piss off.

Carrying out works within communities that people live should have their wellbeing as an important part considering the environment in which you work, and others. banana splits.

See, this is what happens when men don't have empathetic role models when they're young

Imrahil wrote:That's strange. My Post Office always gives me a receipt for when I hand over a Click and Drop parcel. And the receipt contains the tracking number and Post Code.

Make sure you demand a receipt! Sounds like they're trying it on. I know some Post Offices are unhappy with C&D because they only get 10p for processing it instead of the usual 40p for postage bought at the counter, but a receipt is required.

KK wrote:

Imrahil wrote:That's strange. My Post Office always gives me a receipt for when I hand over a Click and Drop parcel. And the receipt contains the tracking number and Post Code.

Make sure you demand a receipt! Sounds like they're trying it on. I know some Post Offices are unhappy with C&D because they only get 10p for processing it instead of the usual 40p for postage bought at the counter, but a receipt is required.

I've never had this problem before either, but it's a new directive apparently. I was there on Saturday and no issue and now today I had to go through this whole rigmarole of effectively having an argument over a poxy receipt. Properly peeved I was.

I don't know what happens with 1st and 2nd class. With no receipt you may as well stick it in a postbox and cross your fingers.

Stugene wrote:

Fade wrote:

Green Gecko wrote:strawberry floating skaffies again.

Clanging and scraping the pipes by lobbing them into the truck while guffawing bollocks with the radio on full blast together with one of those boomboxes.

Enveloping sound, because sound travels and it's impossible to determine words or anything else from whatever radio 1 or dance anthem bollocks it is, all you can hear through the ground floor of the house is indistinct warbley bass noise of talk radio. Like strawberry float are they listening to it. It's transmitted through the tires. Music wouldn't be as bad, but even that is generic thumping shite.

I appreciate I am autistic but after hours this shite feels like being repeatedly stabbed in the brain.

So I confront them from my door. Please turn down the radio and/or the Makita boombox (specifically pointing to it) as its all I can hear. The bass travels and you can't hear the music anyway because it's inside the strawberry floating truck, not outside.

(the solution isn't to turn up the radio so it goes THROUGH the steel plating of the truck, its to use some strawberry floating headphones or something isn't it??)

"alright mate. we're working mate"
[unintelligible muttering]

Please can you turn the radio down.

"Were WORKING mate."
"It's metal" (as if this fixes all such grievances)

I know it's metal. I'm not talking about the scaffolding, but the radio, which is so loud, and yet you still can't make anything out.

"we're WORKING"

"working from home??" [sarcastically ie you aren't working as hard as us, typical presumptuous banana split, that is]

I'm working just as hard as you are.

I know it's metal, but that's not inseparable from doing your job, is it? Do you have to have the radio on?

"we're working".

"alright mate have a good day bye" (sarcastically)

They did piss off to be fair, they might not be able to consider the people living by their site but their employers likely would if I called them.

Thank strawberry float it's going down. I could do without the anxiety.

The scaffolding work has been up there for 3 months and I've only just thought strawberry float it. I don't want to make these guy's lives miserable. But it's not Ibeza. Shut the strawberry float up, you don't have to willingly add to the noise, do you? It's not a requirement of the job to park a truck with the radio on full blast for 3 hours continously outside several people's homes.

The insinuation I'm not working or that having the radio on that loud is the devine right of any proper tradesman and an important component of the work we do is extremely annoying.

I felt I could mention autism but they'd probably just joke about how I'm retarded or don't look disabled and should piss off.

Carrying out works within communities that people live should have their wellbeing as an important part considering the environment in which you work, and others. banana splits.

See, this is what happens when men don't have empathetic role models when they're young

they're just arseholes mate. they're mucking around and trying to get a rise out of someone for a laugh.

Green Gecko wrote:

Stugene wrote:

Fade wrote:

Green Gecko wrote:strawberry floating skaffies again.

Clanging and scraping the pipes by lobbing them into the truck while guffawing bollocks with the radio on full blast together with one of those boomboxes.

Enveloping sound, because sound travels and it's impossible to determine words or anything else from whatever radio 1 or dance anthem bollocks it is, all you can hear through the ground floor of the house is indistinct warbley bass noise of talk radio. Like strawberry float are they listening to it. It's transmitted through the tires. Music wouldn't be as bad, but even that is generic thumping shite.

I appreciate I am autistic but after hours this shite feels like being repeatedly stabbed in the brain.

So I confront them from my door. Please turn down the radio and/or the Makita boombox (specifically pointing to it) as its all I can hear. The bass travels and you can't hear the music anyway because it's inside the strawberry floating truck, not outside.

(the solution isn't to turn up the radio so it goes THROUGH the steel plating of the truck, its to use some strawberry floating headphones or something isn't it??)

"alright mate. we're working mate"
[unintelligible muttering]

Please can you turn the radio down.

"Were WORKING mate."
"It's metal" (as if this fixes all such grievances)

I know it's metal. I'm not talking about the scaffolding, but the radio, which is so loud, and yet you still can't make anything out.

"we're WORKING"

"working from home??" [sarcastically ie you aren't working as hard as us, typical presumptuous banana split, that is]

I'm working just as hard as you are.

I know it's metal, but that's not inseparable from doing your job, is it? Do you have to have the radio on?

"we're working".

"alright mate have a good day bye" (sarcastically)

They did piss off to be fair, they might not be able to consider the people living by their site but their employers likely would if I called them.

Thank strawberry float it's going down. I could do without the anxiety.

The scaffolding work has been up there for 3 months and I've only just thought strawberry float it. I don't want to make these guy's lives miserable. But it's not Ibeza. Shut the strawberry float up, you don't have to willingly add to the noise, do you? It's not a requirement of the job to park a truck with the radio on full blast for 3 hours continously outside several people's homes.

The insinuation I'm not working or that having the radio on that loud is the devine right of any proper tradesman and an important component of the work we do is extremely annoying.

I felt I could mention autism but they'd probably just joke about how I'm retarded or don't look disabled and should piss off.

Carrying out works within communities that people live should have their wellbeing as an important part considering the environment in which you work, and others. banana splits.

See, this is what happens when men don't have empathetic role models when they're young

they're just arseholes mate. they're mucking around and trying to get a rise out of someone for a laugh.

Tbh I don't care what their upbringing was like someone can still choose to be a dick. Leaning on this or that problem in society is an explanation but not an excuse. I'm sure plenty of men think that way. "I'm a dick because my family were a disk to me. So tough gooseberry fool that's life".

I just realised this was pointless as they couldn't even fathom what I was saying, seethed "strawberry float you" and shut the door.

Hardly got anything done however as I tend to stew about such things, as pathetic as it sounds it can make the world feel like a more inhospitable place, so that day was a write off. The headache didn't help.

Much better today thankfully.

Stugene wrote:

Green Gecko wrote:

Stugene wrote:

Fade wrote:

Green Gecko wrote:strawberry floating skaffies again.

Clanging and scraping the pipes by lobbing them into the truck while guffawing bollocks with the radio on full blast together with one of those boomboxes.

Enveloping sound, because sound travels and it's impossible to determine words or anything else from whatever radio 1 or dance anthem bollocks it is, all you can hear through the ground floor of the house is indistinct warbley bass noise of talk radio. Like strawberry float are they listening to it. It's transmitted through the tires. Music wouldn't be as bad, but even that is generic thumping shite.

I appreciate I am autistic but after hours this shite feels like being repeatedly stabbed in the brain.

So I confront them from my door. Please turn down the radio and/or the Makita boombox (specifically pointing to it) as its all I can hear. The bass travels and you can't hear the music anyway because it's inside the strawberry floating truck, not outside.

(the solution isn't to turn up the radio so it goes THROUGH the steel plating of the truck, its to use some strawberry floating headphones or something isn't it??)

"alright mate. we're working mate"
[unintelligible muttering]

Please can you turn the radio down.

"Were WORKING mate."
"It's metal" (as if this fixes all such grievances)

I know it's metal. I'm not talking about the scaffolding, but the radio, which is so loud, and yet you still can't make anything out.

"we're WORKING"

"working from home??" [sarcastically ie you aren't working as hard as us, typical presumptuous banana split, that is]

I'm working just as hard as you are.

I know it's metal, but that's not inseparable from doing your job, is it? Do you have to have the radio on?

"we're working".

"alright mate have a good day bye" (sarcastically)

They did piss off to be fair, they might not be able to consider the people living by their site but their employers likely would if I called them.

Thank strawberry float it's going down. I could do without the anxiety.

The scaffolding work has been up there for 3 months and I've only just thought strawberry float it. I don't want to make these guy's lives miserable. But it's not Ibeza. Shut the strawberry float up, you don't have to willingly add to the noise, do you? It's not a requirement of the job to park a truck with the radio on full blast for 3 hours continously outside several people's homes.

The insinuation I'm not working or that having the radio on that loud is the devine right of any proper tradesman and an important component of the work we do is extremely annoying.

I felt I could mention autism but they'd probably just joke about how I'm retarded or don't look disabled and should piss off.

Carrying out works within communities that people live should have their wellbeing as an important part considering the environment in which you work, and others. banana splits.

See, this is what happens when men don't have empathetic role models when they're young

they're just arseholes mate. they're mucking around and trying to get a rise out of someone for a laugh.

Tbh I don't care what their upbringing was like someone can still choose to be a dick. Leaning on this or that problem in society is an explanation but not an excuse. I'm sure plenty of men think that way. "I'm a dick because my family were a disk to me. So tough gooseberry fool that's life".

I just realised this was pointless as they couldn't even fathom what I was saying, seethed "strawberry float you" and shut the door.

Hardly got anything done however as I tend to stew about such things, as pathetic as it sounds it can make the world feel like a more inhospitable place, so that day was a write off. The headache didn't help.

Much better today thankfully.

aye - it's all too easy to say "oh it's not their fault! it was their upbringing!" when someone is launching missiles of dogshite at your window. they're just being arseholes.

Vermilion wrote:I had a gooseberry fool time during my teens, but i didn't feel the need to throw gooseberry fool at windows (maybe i should have, would have allowed me to let off steam, especially had it been my brothers window).

Outrunner wrote:Being used as a threat of punishment. I'm at work and just heard a mum say to her young child (5 or 6 years old): "You'd best behave or the man will tell you off!"

1) No I won't, I'm not the parent and I won't tell your child off. Particularly when they aren't doing anything particularly bad

2) With young kids in the library, its important that they trust us and don't see us as bad. That way if they become lost they'll trust us and come to us for help while we try and find their parent/guardian.

It's a depressingly common threat that I've heard countless times working in libraries.

Outrunner wrote:Being used as a threat of punishment. I'm at work and just heard a mum say to her young child (5 or 6 years old): "You'd best behave or the man will tell you off!"

1) No I won't, I'm not the parent and I won't tell your child off. Particularly when they aren't doing anything particularly bad

2) With young kids in the library, its important that they trust us and don't see us as bad. That way if they become lost they'll trust us and come to us for help while we try and find their parent/guardian.

It's a depressingly common threat that I've heard countless times working in libraries.

Winckle wrote:

Outrunner wrote:Being used as a threat of punishment. I'm at work and just heard a mum say to her young child (5 or 6 years old): "You'd best behave or the man will tell you off!"

1) No I won't, I'm not the parent and I won't tell your child off. Particularly when they aren't doing anything particularly bad

2) With young kids in the library, its important that they trust us and don't see us as bad. That way if they become lost they'll trust us and come to us for help while we try and find their parent/guardian.

It's a depressingly common threat that I've heard countless times working in libraries.

I've had that experience since I left school and would take the bus to work. Random women using me as a threat to scare their kids. I wonder why people grow up to be scared of men?

Knoyleo wrote:

Outrunner wrote:Being used as a threat of punishment. I'm at work and just heard a mum say to her young child (5 or 6 years old): "You'd best behave or the man will tell you off!"

1) No I won't, I'm not the parent and I won't tell your child off. Particularly when they aren't doing anything particularly bad

2) With young kids in the library, its important that they trust us and don't see us as bad. That way if they become lost they'll trust us and come to us for help while we try and find their parent/guardian.

It's a depressingly common threat that I've heard countless times working in libraries.

Two US fans of Cuban-Spanish actress Ana de Armas have sued Hollywood studio Universal Pictures, saying they were duped into renting a film because she was in the trailer.
Conor Woulfe and Peter Rosza say they each paid $3.99 (£2.94) for the comedy Yesterday, only to discover the actress had been removed from the final cut.
They are seeking $5m in compensation on behalf of all affected viewers.

rinks wrote:Americans’ willingness to sue over anything.

Two US fans of Cuban-Spanish actress Ana de Armas have sued Hollywood studio Universal Pictures, saying they were duped into renting a film because she was in the trailer.
Conor Woulfe and Peter Rosza say they each paid $3.99 (£2.94) for the comedy Yesterday, only to discover the actress had been removed from the final cut.
They are seeking $5m in compensation on behalf of all affected viewers.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-60092299

Just wait until these twats hear about DreamWorks Face.