Watercooler Sub Zero: Ice Capades

Done it again! books < films < computer games. Stupid sandbox. Does two < mean something?

― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Thursday, 28 December 2006 14:25 (seventeen years ago) link

never even thought of the council! nah, if we can fix it ourselves, i'd rather do that. will prob be quicker too.

― emsk ( emsk ), Thursday, 28 December 2006 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe it's different round your way, but we phoned the council on the Monday and the almost-certainly-stoned mouse-catcher was round Wednesday lunchtime and "dealt with them". DIY mouse-catching seems far too much like hassle to me, although I've heard good things about the squealing mouse plug as well.

― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Thursday, 28 December 2006 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link

My mouse problem didn't get sorted until the pub downstairs got people in to deal with it. You may need to talk to the upstairs neighbours about it as well.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 28 December 2006 15:20 (seventeen years ago) link

jb i suspect hackney council may not be quite that fast-moving, and i'm certain there are hundreds of houses/flats with a worse problem than an mouse that they should prob deal with first. also the squealy thing will keep future mice away, right? good point ed, upstairs is our landlady so won't be a prob.

GAH i am going crazy trapped in house waiting for dhl!

― emsk ( emsk ), Thursday, 28 December 2006 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Johnney, try these ppl for mouse zapper:

www.conceptresearch.co.uk/

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 28 December 2006 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh wow, for £20, you can't argue with that. Bye bye mice!

― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Thursday, 28 December 2006 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link

if it were not for me that company might not exist. Are you coming on the pub crawl tomorrow?

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 28 December 2006 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link

MarkH = 12ft lizard!

I'd forgotten about the pub crawl! Yeh, I'm up for that, that might be fun. I've got my phone back (yay team me!) so could you text me details (when you're going, that kind of thing).

― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Thursday, 28 December 2006 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

no problem.

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 28 December 2006 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link

DHL I FUCKING HATE THEM FUCKING FUCKING FUCKING TWATS FUCKING WASTE OF TWATTING OXYGEN i have been waiting in the flat ALL FUCKING DAY with a BIG FUCKOFF SIGN on the front door saying THERE IS SOMEONE IN, PLEASE KNOCK or call this number etc and just called them and their FUCKING TWATTING TWUNTING SHITFERBRAINS DRIVER says "COULD NOT BE REACHED" FUCKING LYING SHITBAG CUNTING SCUM I HOPE YOU FUCKING CRASH AND DIE ON YOUR WAY HOME TONIGHT

― emsk ( emsk ), Thursday, 28 December 2006 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

but then they'll never reach you :\\

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 28 December 2006 16:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Thingbringers be scunners like that.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 28 December 2006 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link

maybe the dead driver will be replaced with one who isn't a TOTAL CRETINOUS MORON

― emsk ( emsk ), Thursday, 28 December 2006 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link

srsly i want all these fuckers to die. you are fucking up people's lives, you TWATS.

i think i am going to have a cup of tea.

― emsk ( emsk ), Thursday, 28 December 2006 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Where do you have to trek to to retrieve the thing from the thingbringer?

I shall join you in a cup of tea, and maybe some crystallised ginger with it.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 28 December 2006 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't get it - they just make more work for selves having to bring things a second time.

― suzy artskooldisko (suzy artskooldisko), Thursday, 28 December 2006 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Rarely. Most of the time you have to go to the depot.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 28 December 2006 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Last time - Phil's book - I made them bring it and they did.

― suzy artskooldisko (suzy artskooldisko), Thursday, 28 December 2006 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link

this is the THIRD

― emsk ( emsk ), Thursday, 28 December 2006 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link

oops

i mean

this will be the THIRD time, stupid dumb fuckers

the depot is in enfield and it is 200 cds so going to get it myself is totally out of the question.

― emsk ( emsk ), Thursday, 28 December 2006 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link

i feel slightly calmer and am going to have an beer

i am still SO FUCKED OFF AT THEM though

― emsk ( emsk ), Thursday, 28 December 2006 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link

the question is did the beer help or did loosening up just get you more angry?

― substitute, mitya for him (mitya), Friday, 29 December 2006 08:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I work for a company whose repertoire includes thingbringing.

Trust me, thingbringers are rubbish. The worst story I've heard about our staff was one driver who had a big heavy oven to deliver, saw a rather long and step-filled path from lorry to house, so stove in the oven door with his boot before the recipient spotted him. "Sorry love, I didn't think you'd want it like this, warehouse staff must have done it, don't worry they'll get a replacement out as soon as they can."

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 29 December 2006 09:25 (seventeen years ago) link

In other news, steam trains! Chuffing Nora!

http://www.symbolicforest.com/img/onblog/gcr2.jpg

http://www.symbolicforest.com/img/onblog/gcr5.jpg

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 29 December 2006 09:29 (seventeen years ago) link

just that story makes me angry, FP!

ah trains!

― substitute, mitya for him (mitya), Friday, 29 December 2006 09:36 (seventeen years ago) link

that makes me mad too fp. there aren't even any steps up to our house, the front door is like one metre back from the pavement. and the boxes aren't that heavy, they're a bit unwieldy but i can carry two at a time if i know where i'm going well enough that i don't have to look.

― emsk ( emsk ), Friday, 29 December 2006 10:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't agree with what they do either, but it's not something I have any say over. The warehouse staff are even worse.

(although the one time the Management thought valuable stuff was being nicked, it turned out just to be that they'd lost a few pallets - they found them again a few months later. The only stuff they actually nick are the toilet rolls from the loos)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 29 December 2006 11:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I hate home delivery network. My mums always getting stuff delivered by them and It's usually me who has to wait in for it as my mum has to take turns staying over at my grans to look after her(my gran is 93 and housebound)
And everytime they come the guy doesn't ring the doorbell. He just gives a light chap to the letterbox that is impossible to hear.(we have a porch so theres another interior door).
When we tell the prat to ring the doorbell he always says "most peoples doorbells never work so we dont ring them" Despite each time telling him OURS WORKS.
This has happened on about 6 occasions now.
The 2nd last time my dad called him an arsehole hahaha.

The last time i had to print out on a bit of paper PLEASE RING DOORBELL and stick it to the door.
It was a different driver who did indeed ring it.

oh and hello all.

― pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 29 December 2006 13:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Ugh. Seems like there is a kind of maths formula where, if the recipient is actually missing per-hour work to take delivery of a package, the thingbringer is more likely to be deceitful.

FP, sounds like yr firm's guy was proud of stoving in that oven. Did he face any consequences for doing this, or are they in some kind of sick competition WRT who can fuck over the customer most comprehensively?

Often postmen will leave a 'sorry you were out' when you're in because they never had your parcel to begin with.

― suzy artskooldisko (suzy artskooldisko), Friday, 29 December 2006 13:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't know Suzy - this happened some time before I joined, and I don't know any of the staff over there well enough to know exactly who did it even. The story's told very much in a "don't let the Management find out" way.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 29 December 2006 13:39 (seventeen years ago) link

i wonder if there's a market for a home-delivery specialist company (at least in london) that will be ideal for all things home-deliverable for fulltime-working households. it wouldn't cost that much more to hire folks running on evening shift, and most people i bet will be happy to pay a slight premium to not have to skip work?

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 29 December 2006 13:50 (seventeen years ago) link

It's almost worth getting a box at Kinko's and getting stuff delivered there. (I get stuff sent to the office most of the time, but it's a small company so it's acceptable).

― Ed (dali), Friday, 29 December 2006 13:52 (seventeen years ago) link

You'd make more money as a premium service because in reality the operating costs would be less than daytime in Central London, at least, because company would not have to pay c-charges nor would there be a major parking risk after 6.30 in all but the greediest parts of Westminster.

― suzy artskooldisko (suzy artskooldisko), Friday, 29 December 2006 13:56 (seventeen years ago) link

hurrah!

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 29 December 2006 14:25 (seventeen years ago) link

it's definitely a good idea. what kind of stupidarse idea is it only to deliver in working hours anyway? fucknuts. so since last night there has been a sign on next door telling them my front door is in x direction, plus two signs on my front door, one saying DHL PLEASE READ THIS in massive letters and the other one with all the please-knock-door-call-this-number stuff on. yesterday the guy told me he'd ask them to get it here by 12 if poss. at 12 i called them and they said it had gone out and would be here by 3 at the latest. at 3 i called them and they said it hadn't even gone out for delivery today. AAARRHJJJ CUNTYCUNTYCUNTYFUCKNUTS IHATETHEM THEY ARE FUCKING WITH MY LIFE.

and now i missed the start of the pub crawl, all because these twats can't rustle up a fucking brain cell between the lot of them.#

― emsk ( emsk ), Friday, 29 December 2006 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Mornin!

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 09:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Mornin! I slept most of yesterday. Isn't that was the 1st January's for?

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 09:33 (seventeen years ago) link

I wish!

I ended up here at 02:00 coudn't sleep etc

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 09:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Morning.

My new supervisor starts today. I haven't met him yet - he's been stuck in the boss's office since 9am.

Have just found that when we set up the recorded phone messages to say "Happy Christmas! We're not in!", I cocked up. I *actually* set them up to say "Happy Easter! We're not in!" and noone bothered to check.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 09:38 (seventeen years ago) link