Geez! I hate that!

[tut0r]

I get sick of working in the trade industry and never getting paid on time!!! That or arguing with other trades about having to repair their damage!!

[DFB FGXR6]

Originally Posted by tut0r

I get sick of working in the trade industry and never getting paid on time!!! That or arguing with other trades about having to repair their damage!!

Oh I HATE THAT.
Tradesmen that go about their job and think its someone else's responsibility to clean up/fix up when they are finished.

[mik]

Originally Posted by tut0r

I get sick of working in the trade industry and never getting paid on time!!! That or arguing with other trades about having to repair their damage!!

Mmm..............sorta reminds me of being an owner truck driver............ often akin to banging ones head against the wall while being cavity searched with a pineapple........... can any one say mugs game ???

[blackf6]

I hate car drivers.(when driving a truck). They do all manner of stupid manoeuvres. Of course I never do.

[Bushbasher]

Hate of the week this week.......... bloody sneaky malware crap that hijacks your browser and refuses to be killed off. Right now I've got one called Mystartsearch that has taken over my Opera Browser and even though I've dumped all the cache, all the history, gone in and rooted out all the cookies I can find, run multiple anti malware programs over it and done everything I can think to do, the bloody thing still over rides my home page and opens a tab front and centre on starting Opera up. Registry cleaners don't see it so if it's in there I don't know how to dig it out and after doing a search I can find instructions to get it out of IE, Chrome and Firefox but not Opera, so short of un-installing Opera to get rid of it and start again, I'm at a loss right now. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!

[my_gxl]

Pet hate of mine this week is the sneaky non disclosure of Halal certified products.
All consumers in Australia have the right to know about how their food is prepared.

[Simple6]

Originally Posted by my_gxl

Pet hate of mine this week is the sneaky non disclosure of Halal certified products.
All consumers in Australia have the right to know about how their food is prepared.

Can you just change what the homepage is? Or does it override that change too?

[tut0r]

Originally Posted by Simple6

Can you just change what the homepage is? Or does it override that change too?

Don't you hate it when you quote the wrong person? Sorry but I had a chuckle just then.

[my_gxl]

Originally Posted by tut0r

Don't you hate it when you quote the wrong person? Sorry but I had a chuckle just then.

It was a bit interesting...lol

[Bushbasher]

Simple6, I'm going to assume that was supposed to be for me so.......It overwrites everything initially but if you only reset your home page it'll overwrite it again. You need to delete and uninstall everything you can find before you bother to reset your home page. With Opera, I have finally found the last little bit of code that was causing it to load it's page along side and on top of my home page. It was hiding in the start menu and once I deleted it everything went back to normal. It was a free adware killer called AdwCleaner that found it eventually.

[danzvtil]

Origin energy and estimated bills.
I used to get an estimated gas bill, call them up with the reading, they will send an amended bill.
But NOOOOOOOOO that wasn't simple enough, now, I need to find out when my next reading will be (5 day period) and write the reading and sticky tape it to the front door. OR leave my garage open for all and sundry to pillage.FFS

[poppa smurf]

Originally Posted by danzvtil

Origin energy and estimated bills.
I used to get an estimated gas bill, call them up with the reading, they will send an amended bill.
But NOOOOOOOOO that wasn't simple enough, now, I need to find out when my next reading will be (5 day period) and write the reading and sticky tape it to the front door. OR leave my garage open for all and sundry to pillage.FFS

I used to take all my own readings and submit them to Lumo, I got an estimate once and I rang to find out why, they didn't read the meter is what I was told.

I asked why my data wasn't used to make up the account, I was told they can't use that because it may be inaccurate......????

I don't take my own readings now for them, only for my own usage data.

[Road Games]

Ran a quicker time at the track with factory engine than last time spending 7k on mods...

[Bridgette01]

Sitting behind someone at the lights, lights go green.....waiting, waiting, give a polite beep of the horn to tell the driver in front to "stop texting on your bloody phone" They look up, realise whats going on, jump on the gas and proceed through an amber light. I am stuck there for another set. Come on people, these stupid phones.....

[Yellow_Festiva]

Originally Posted by Bridgette01

Sitting behind someone at the lights, lights go green.....waiting, waiting, give a polite beep of the horn to tell the driver in front to "stop texting on your bloody phone" They look up, realise whats going on, jump on the gas and proceed through an amber light. I am stuck there for another set. Come on people, these stupid phones.....

Yep...

There is an intersection close to me that has either a dodgy sensor or one that is set too far fwd in the road for the RH turn lane.

Every now and again some overly cautious driver decides to sit around 1.5+m away from the line. For what reason I have no idea seeing as there is an island to their right with a light pole on it...

After 3 phases of lights do you think they would creep fwd to trip the sensor? Nope - lets just sit there are wait like a goon while everyone behind them is losing the plot and beeping...

Happened several times now...

[my_gxl]

Originally Posted by Yellow_Festiva

Yep...

There is an intersection close to me that has either a dodgy sensor or one that is set too far fwd in the road for the RH turn lane.

Every now and again some overly cautious driver decides to sit around 1.5+m away from the line. For what reason I have no idea seeing as there is an island to their right with a light pole on it...

After 3 phases of lights do you think they would creep fwd to trip the sensor? Nope - lets just sit there are wait like a goon while everyone behind them is losing the plot and beeping...

Happened several times now...

That happens near here too. LAst time I was far enough back to be able to turn left, U-turn, then proceed the direction I wanted to....all the while they still sat there.

[DBourne]

Originally Posted by Bridgette01

Sitting behind someone at the lights, lights go green.....waiting, waiting, give a polite beep of the horn to tell the driver in front to "stop texting on your bloody phone" They look up, realise whats going on, jump on the gas and proceed through an amber light. I am stuck there for another set. Come on people, these stupid phones.....

Or they get irate at you for beeping them.

Uh, if you could pay attention for 2 seconds you idiot, I wouldn't of had to beep you!

[damo76]

Originally Posted by SgtBourne

Or they get irate at you for beeping them.

Uh, if you could pay attention for 2 seconds you idiot, I wouldn't of had to beep you!

On a similar note, we were coming back from fishing in Busselton one day, anyway saw this women in her car next to me near Capel she was on her phone, we got into Bunbury 25km later and she was still on her phone so i sounded my horn to her to get her phone but she didn't pay any attention. At the traffic lights near Australind she was still on her phone 15km later so i got out and told her to get of her f***en phone she will kill someone but she didn't even aknolege me at the front of her car. I'm a big bloke and she just kept talking, i wanted to ram her head through the window.

On anther note, waiting in line at the supermarket and there's cues of people with trolleys and only 1 checkout open, i refuse to use those self serve checkouts as they take away jobs.

[Geez Louise]

Don't you hate it when the internet at work is down all day! You can still do some work as emails are still coming through. You spend the day from 8.30am until 4.30pm telling the computer tech that you think it is a software update that ran last night on the modem software, because we have a connection and emails are coming through, you just can not access the interwebz.... only for him to insist that it most certainly is not that causing the issue!

You call Telstra, and the line is fine. Comes to just past 4.30pm and you tell so called computer geek that it HAS to be the update as that is the only thing that has changed in the past 24hrs. As I am the client, I insist he checks it. He finally checks and what do you know...the software update changed a setting!! 5 people all sitting around doing nothing today because he didn't check the first thing I asked him too! Grrrrr!

Normally I would love a day of doing nothing...but when the internet doesn't work...I couldn't sit there reading my stories!

Cheers
Col

[MercurySilver]

****** managers who have never worked on a shop floor in their life thinking they know how it works and put processes in place without asking those that work on the floor....and then can't fathom for the life of them why it failed, even when repeatedly asked if they actually asked anyone from the floor and stare back blankly.
Or
Put a system in place, complete it by 50% put another system inplace , complete the second one by 80% and then wonder what my prob is when I go off tap calling them dumbasses for putting a third system in place, not completing it, and they wonder why the whole process of system fails.
Billion dollar global company.
******* useless middle management

/rant

[Franco Cozzo]

Originally Posted by MercurySilver

****** managers who have never worked on a shop floor in their life thinking they know how it works and put processes in place without asking those that work on the floor....and then can't fathom for the life of them why it failed, even when repeatedly asked if they actually asked anyone from the floor and stare back blankly.
Or
Put a system in place, complete it by 50% put another system inplace , complete the second one by 80% and then wonder what my prob is when I go off tap calling them dumbasses for putting a third system in place, not completing it, and they wonder why the whole process of system fails.
Billion dollar global company.
******* useless middle management

/rant

Efforts to improve the productivity and performance of Australian organisations are being stymied by inefficient and under skilled middle managers according to the findings of a major research survey released today.

http://blog.aim.com.au/middle-manage...-survey-shows/

[chrisric]

Shopping trollies! Every cars nemesis....

[my_gxl]

Alternator crapped itself. Love it. That wasn't all yesterday, it was just the end of it.

[Tonz]

Many years ago travelling through USA and working (illiegally) we had a van that we travelled and lived in when not working at motel/resturants.
Parked at a huge big L shaped shopping centre one time, 8.30pm and started her up put into drive and bang some one parked their trolley under our nose, trolley takes off like a spoilt kid gathering pace as it did so, we watched in horror as it travelled down heading for a (we now know) Cadallaic ....Bang into the side, It was bad taste but we also took off in the other direction.

Getting stopped by highway patrol and having guns drawn course I hopped out to talk with him....not done, then the dumb one wouldnt recognise international drivers licence...dragged off to station in hand cuffs. The captains MIL happened to be Aussie and he knew our accents.
Aus had just beaten USA in America cup and Men At Works I come from a land down under was the hit....gotta love the yanks ,....sometimes

[Vincenzo]

Originally Posted by Tonz

Aus had just beaten USA in America cup and Men At Works I come from a land down under was the hit....gotta love the yanks ,....sometimes

1982 / 1983 - was woking at Jabiru as a storeman.


Cheers Vincenzo

[NTF6]

Originally Posted by Vincenzo

1982 / 1983 - was woking at Jabiru as a storeman.


Cheers Vincenzo

September 1983, I was in Jabiru with ERA from Jan 1986.

[Vincenzo]

Originally Posted by NTF6

September 1983, I was in Jabiru with ERA from Jan 1986.

Worked for the Office of the Supervising Scientist, Alligator Rivers Region Research Institute beside the Airport.


Cheers Vincenzo

[Bushbasher]

People who have to touch, fiddle or otherwise interfere with your hard work even though they have no clue about the job you are doing.

I've just spent the last couple of days putting in fence posts for a 2m high corrugated fence and gates for the missus. All the posts have to be aligned properly, and all vertical of coarse, and the gate posts precisely spaced to allow for the gate clearances etc. I dug out the holes by hand, aligned the posts with string line and spirit level then cemented them in, half yesterday, the other half today. When I'd finished I was standing there at the end of the row of posts eyeing up the alignment and noticed that one of the posts I cemented yesterday was a bees' left one off of vertical. Nothing noticeable once the fence is up, but just noticeable when you eye up the line, bugga'. While I'm standing there eyeing up the line, out wanders the missus to the other end of the line,(the ones I did yesterday with the semi set concrete), sees what I'm doing so eyes up the alignment from the other end and notices the fractionally misaligned post. "There's a post with a bit of lean on", she says as she wanders up the line, and as I'm in the middle of saying, "yeah, I know but you won't see it once the fence is finished", she grabs the post and tries to push it straight!. Now I have a slightly loose post with no way to firm up the fit again.
I love her dearly but GEEZ!!, sometimes I just want to slap her up side the head.

[poppa smurf]

now, now......count to 10 and just smile......the blunt end of the crowbar will not only straighten up the post but will firm it up as well.

wait til it's dry, in a few day's, then just give it some gentle nudging on the "off" side.

years ago I built a besser brick and wrought iron fence for my B.I.L........

after spending all day setting the piers to perfection in order that the wrought iron scroll work (all built myself the week before) fit perfectly.

his foolish mate came and wriggled one of the still wet piers, destroying the mortar????

my whinge.......why don't people look after their tools.....really annoys me when I see a perfectly good tool rusted simply because the owner can't be bothered cleaning and oiling it.

[Bushbasher]

Originally Posted by poppa smurf

now, now......count to 10 and just smile......the blunt end of the crowbar will not only straighten up the post but will firm it up as well.

Like I said, I cemented them in yesterday so the cement is too "set" to allow for a little friendly persuasion with the crow bar without ruining the integrity of the cement I reckon.

Originally Posted by poppa smurf

wait til it's dry, in a few day's, then just give it some gentle nudging on the "off" side.

It's over 2 foot into a hard clay base so I don't think it's going to move unless I can put enough pressure on it to bend the 50mm square tubing.

But that was never the issue, like I said, the lean is no more than a 1 or 2 degrees at most, just enough to be noticeable at the top of the line of posts and only if you eye it up like I did. It's about it now being just slightly loose, maybe 3-4mm of motion at the top of the fence once finished. I might let it dry completely and see if I can drizzle a little water, with a sprinkling of cement dust in it, down the back side of the post into the gap to back fill it and firm it up.