The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant.

[mrcharly-YHT]

"Meetings, the meaningful alternative to work" 

where I work, people have well-paid careers going to meetings

I am well paid. I attend many, many meetings.

Unfortunately, I am also expected to do much work in addition to attending the meetings.

[TheLurker]

"Meetings, the meaningful alternative to work" 

where I work, people have well-paid careers going to meetings

I am well paid. I attend many, many meetings.

Unfortunately, I am also expected to do much work in addition to attending the meetings.

I wish the same could be said of our, "I go to meetings" cadre.  Many of them are very pleasant people, but I'm damned if I can work out what they contribute to the organisation.  It occurs to me that it must be really quite depressing to be doing a job like that.

[SoreTween]

The AA have just sent me key insurance policy schedules for myself, Mrs Tween and Miss Somebody residing half a country away.  GDPR anyone?

Included in the envelope are 3 key fobs each with a unique identification number on them.  Now which is mine, which should Mrs Tween use and which would it be a very poor idea indeed to attach to our key sets?

[Beardy]

Watching Endevour on the idiot box and for the second week in a row they have identified a caller after the event by the use of call records. In 1969 this was not a thing. 

[Kim]

Watching Endevour on the idiot box and for the second week in a row they have identified a caller after the event by the use of call records. In 1969 this was not a thing. 

It's okay, there's more than enough "keep them on the line so we can trace the call" rubbish in modern drama to make up for it.

[Beardy]

Watching Endevour on the idiot box and for the second week in a row they have identified a caller after the event by the use of call records. In 1969 this was not a thing. 

It's okay, there's more than enough "keep them on the line so we can trace the call" rubbish in modern drama to make up for it.

Having done call ‘traces’ for "keep them on the line" situations¹ that gets me grumbly as well. I actually have no idea how it’s actually done these days, but i suspect it’s not a lot different from Sys X and involves a person at a terminal.

1. It could get quite stressful doing s 999 grade when you had to decipher grading charts in a hurry. Repeat malicious calls were easier because you could plug in _things_ to hold the circuits up.

[ElyDave]

But they didn't trace it, it was a call for a line check?

Surely you know which number that was?

[Beardy]

But they didn't trace it, it was a call for a line check?

Surely you know which number that was?

Yes, they said that later, but the initial inference was that they’d got ‘call records’’. That’s certainly what was intimated last week.

[Mr Larrington]

Watching Endevour on the idiot box and for the second week in a row they have identified a caller after the event by the use of call records. In 1969 this was not a thing. 

Nor were Series III Lard-Rovers.

[essexian]

Woken up at 6am this morning by a cat vomiting on CBH everything was in place for me to go swimming when the pool opened at 7am. This would allow me to do the required 500 to 800m and get home in time for breakfast and work.

But no, I decided I would rather sit and read the paper for a bit before starting work at 8am. Afterall, there is an adults only session at lunchtime I could attend. So, that's what I did....

The grumble, it wasn't an adults only session but a public one. It seems that some of the local schools were off today despite half term being last week meaning the pools was full of brats children getting in the way and having a good time!

Bah! Having a good time in a swimming pool. That's not what pools are for! 

[ElyDave]

Watching Endevour on the idiot box and for the second week in a row they have identified a caller after the event by the use of call records. In 1969 this was not a thing. 

Nor were Series III Lard-Rovers.

Was it a 3 or a 2?  I thought it had headlamps in the grill and sidelamps on the wings making it a 2?

[TheLurker]

Watching Endevour on the idiot box and for the second week in a row they have identified a caller after the event by the use of call records. In 1969 this was not a thing. 

Nor were Series III Lard-Rovers.

I find it hard to be irked by this sort of thing these days. I notice it and think, "Oh that's a bit off. Never mind it'll do as set dressing, carry on with the story."  Having said that, the thing that's making my antennae twitch in the current run is the paucity of suffix alpha registrations on the vehicles being used, especially on the police vehicles.  ICBA to goggle it but I have it in mind that "A" registrations appeared in '62 (might be '61) and while everyone else would be driving around in clapped out pre '62 bangers, the Family Lurker had a string of them until well into the 1970s, I'd sort of expect the police to be driving around in fairly new stuff.  S'not important enough to spill any green ink over though.

[Beardy]

Watching Endevour on the idiot box and for the second week in a row they have identified a caller after the event by the use of call records. In 1969 this was not a thing. 

Nor were Series III Lard-Rovers.

I saw an early Bronze Green series 2a (headlights in the grill) but not a series 3. But then, the mobile library in the first episode of this series was L (1970) registered although Neil was taking his small step for man on the TV.

[Mr Larrington]

I thought the vet's L-R was a SIII as the grille was the one shaped a bit like an Alfa's, not the inverted-T of earlier ones.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Word! Why does it keep changing the language of my document from UK English to US English? I know why sort of, it's because it doesn't recognise words like "unutilised" as existing in UK English so automatically changes them to US English "unutilized". Wrong! "Unutilised" might not be a pretty word, but it's certainly a word.

[hellymedic]

What's wrong with 'unused'? 

[ElyDave]

Word! Why does it keep changing the language of my document from UK English to US English? I know why sort of, it's because it doesn't recognise words like "unutilised" as existing in UK English so automatically changes them to US English "unutilized". Wrong! "Unutilised" might not be a pretty word, but it's certainly a word.

This is worth far more than just a grumble.

I once had a colleague correct EVERY English spellung in a report of my to that other version. Probably a good job I didn't need to use queue anywhere

[Kim]

I once had a colleague correct EVERY English spellung in a report of my to that other version.

That's slightly less bad than only changing some of them...

[Giraffe]

Word! Why does it keep changing the language of my document from UK English to US English? I know why sort of, it's because it doesn't recognise words like "unutilised" as existing in UK English so automatically changes them to US English "unutilized". Wrong! "Unutilised" might not be a pretty word, but it's certainly a word.

Delete the US 'English' (oxymoron?) dictionary. Needs to be a UK English dictionary installed before this will work.

[Basil]

I have just dropped yet another cafetiere.  Luckily we have three two singles and one large one, but this is becoming worryingly common.  It is now me 2; Mrs B 1. 

[ElyDave]

I once had a colleague correct EVERY English spellung in a report of my to that other version.

That's slightly less bad than only changing some of them...

No, it's FUCKING annoying, why employ me to write reports amongst other things if all you are going to do is correct my vernacular for Leftpondian.  Have you nothing else better to do?  Do you think English people are inherently unable to write in their mother tongue?

See, I told you it was supposed to be in the RANT thread

The guy doing the correction BTW is Iranian, nice chap otherwise

[fuzzy]

I once had a colleague correct EVERY English spellung in a report of my to that other version.

That's slightly less bad than only changing some of them...

No, it's FUCKING annoying, why employ me to write reports amongst other things if all you are going to do is correct my vernacular for Leftpondian.  Have you nothing else better to do?  Do you think English people are inherently unable to write in their mother tongue?

See, I told you it was supposed to be in the RANT thread

The guy doing the correction BTW is Iranian, nice chap otherwise

I'd have thought the last thing he would want to do would be Americanise shit.....

[Cudzoziemiec]

What's wrong with 'unused'? 

Nothing, but the choice wasn't mine.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Word! Why does it keep changing the language of my document from UK English to US English? I know why sort of, it's because it doesn't recognise words like "unutilised" as existing in UK English so automatically changes them to US English "unutilized". Wrong! "Unutilised" might not be a pretty word, but it's certainly a word.

Delete the US 'English' (oxymoron?) dictionary. Needs to be a UK English dictionary installed before this will work.

Both are installed, both are needed (and both can be annoying).

[essexian]

This week has been nothing but noise out here in my shed, what with two of my neighbours having Tree Men around with their chainsaws. Now.... one of my neighbour is having their roof pressure washed!

I mean...roof...pressure washed.....why?

If you want quiet, don't live/work a a retirement neighbourhood!