Gripe of the day - What is yours?

[admin]

Not me for a change. Although I'm working boxing Day and the day after. The joys of retail.



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[Grant66]

Don't go back till the 6th, Christmas prep all done so spending the day making a media server.

This shouldn't be in gripe

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[punyXpress]

Originally Posted by shiftin_gear98

Who else is at work today?

Early 60s worked somewhere a bit different over Christmas: the City of London!
London Metal Exchange company was being sold to an American one and stock figures were required for the sale date.
There were 4 of us, plus the client company's Company Secretary.
Felt like Marie Celeste's ship's cat - 3 days and not a soul about!
Two good things:
Riding into work was the easiest 3 days travel
Company gave us all gifts of spirits & fags - since others were of Pakistani persuasion, they were eager to swap their dring for my smokes.
Win win !

[admin]

I used to work up to the 24th when I was in full time employment. As you say it's nice and quiet and you can catch up on a few things.

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[punyXpress]

Best day was Christmas Eve:
Working in London, but on the train.
Early long lunch (liquid) & met pal who had collected their turkey from Smithfield Market. Put it in huge carpet bag, leaving feet sticking out using rubber bands to move the claws.
Managed to get seat, and as other drunks joined us, he moved the claws.
New arrivals went green and left the compartment so we had lots of space!
Happy Daze, and we made our fun in simple ways.

[shiftin_gear98]

The only good thing so far about today were the empty streets this morning.

[Seeker]

For the last couple of months I've been getting a new email scam - the threat to deactivate my bank account(s). What's interesting is that most of the banks in question have been in the Philippines - a place I've never visited nor opened an account.

It starts with a warning about a (non existent) dormant account and then increases in threat levels to account closure - they are quite persistent, I've had the same bank emailing me for the last 4 days - I just bin them. I suppose it makes a change from Nigerian princes.

[DarrenSV650S]

Originally Posted by shiftin_gear98

Who else is at work today?

The scamera van operators were working hard today

[Bibio]

the quality of new vinyl lp's is shocking. i got a few new lp's and they all arrived with surface marks on them along with masses of dust. i would class that as used not new.

[Kenzie]

Stupid BMW driver, took the bike out today to take advantage of the nice weather and I come up behind this guy. He is slowing picking up speed and ends up doing 40mph in a 30 leaving me behind. We hit national speed limit and he then does 40 in a 60. Nice long straight bit of road and he then brakes for no reason. I wait for the cars going the other way to clear and left him behind.