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Random Irritations

Having an industrial palette of bottled water arriving as I am walking out the door and being told to find a home for all of it. Each packet of water had 40 bottles and there must have been the best part of 60+ packs in this consignment which was apparently 1 of 2. Now ignoring the fact this is the type of work our team of technicians are assigned to do, our ICU is not a TARDIS and we cannot simply put it anywhere as it could be an infection risk or block the movement of beds and patients.

Suffice to say each of our 6 pods (five treating Covid patients and a cold zone treating normal ICU patients) have their kitchens well and truly stocked and there isn't too many nooks and crannies without water discreetly tucked away. No idea where the second one will go. It's currently sitting outside stores. Tempted to leave it there and take pot luck people don't dip into it too much. Add in the fact it didn't help my glass back and I manage to get my hand trapped between a door and the trolley and bruised it nicely.
 
Lincoln Quaker said:
The British Gas engineer that didn’t fix our boiler correctly so we now have a water leak that’s managed to go through 3 floors in the house.

Absolute clown.
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Look on the brightside you’re in for a nice compo claim now ?
 
Lincoln Quaker said:
They didn’t seem that bothered about it.
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They wont be, chances are he's a sub contractor so he'll foot the bill for the damage/repairs, or his PL insurance will.

British Gas have totally changed their business model. They used to be 80/20% cards in/ subby labour. They are now 20/80% yet you the punter are still paying top top dollar for repairs and installs.

I'd swerve them and use a local registered engineer.
 
Stuart_C said:
They wont be, chances are he's a sub contractor so he'll foot the bill for the damage/repairs, or his PL insurance will.

British Gas have totally changed their business model. They used to be 80/20% cards in/ subby labour. They are now 20/80% yet you the punter are still paying top top dollar for repairs and installs.

I'd swerve them and use a local registered engineer.
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I know. It’s my missus that wants to do a monthly payment thing so we are covered.

I argued about it but she did what she wanted. It’s backfired big time.

It was a contractor that did the damage. We have had them out again to sort and we had a proper British Gas employee turn up. He was embarrassed.

Lessons to be learnt I think.
 
Lincoln Quaker said:
I know. It’s my missus that wants to do a monthly payment thing so we are covered.

I argued about it but she did what she wanted. It’s backfired big time.

It was a contractor that did the damage. We have had them out again to sort and we had a proper British Gas employee turn up. He was embarrassed.

Lessons to be learnt I think.
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Depending on what type of boiler you’ve got the Best thing to do is put yer £60 a month away and when something goes wrong you’ve got the money to pay for the repair.

Last month my customer got quoted by BG £4100 for a job I done for £2700. 10yr parts and labour warranty On the boiler. Told my customer to cancel the BG cover @ £60pm iirc. In 5 yrs the boiler has paid for itself and hes still got 5yrs warranty.

A mate of mine subbies to BG, he would’ve got paid £270 for that job.

Did he say what he’d done?
 
Football Manager 20 Touch. I can't believe I wasted £22 on a random result generator. I could have got the same effect by tossing a coin or rolling dice. Beat Man City 2-0, the same team loses 3-0 at home to Bournemouth. All season long. Just rubbish, I knew I shouldn't have bothered getting the game but this is what lockdown boredom does to you. And here I am playing it until 2am like a total moron.
 
Now I'm really getting irritated as their giving plenty of air time to companies allegedly offering the right type and amount of PPE but have not heard anything...

Guy number one referring to end of March making first contact. Being put through lots of red tape and since then "at least a month" with no contact.
Guy number two referring to millions of FFP2 masks - from my reading it's the FFP3 that protect against coronavirus.

If you're going to have such people on then keep them honest and question appropriately...don't just give them a platform.
 
Rupert....

wife let him out for his last pee last night, but took his collar off.... que barking and a big commotion. went out witha tourch to find him. he was in the big Berberis at the end of the garden going mad a the biggest Hedgehog i've ever seen... it was like a football!!
he would not come out and with nothing to grab had to push my way in ... getting cut to bits, pick the idiot up and carry him back to the house. . Blood everywhere and loads of spines stuck in his nose. had to pluck them all out. the other thing is hedgehogs are renound for being infested with fleas.

spent all night in bed scratching, FFS
 
patricks148 said:
Rupert....

wife let him out for his last pee last night, but took his collar off.... que barking and a big commotion. went out witha tourch to find him. he was in the big Berberis at the end of the garden going mad a the biggest Hedgehog i've ever seen... it was like a football!!
he would not come out and with nothing to grab had to push my way in ... getting cut to bits, pick the idiot up and carry him back to the house. . Blood everywhere and loads of spines stuck in his nose. had to pluck them all out. the other thing is hedgehogs are renound for being infested with fleas.

spent all night in bed scratching, FFS
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How's the hedgehog?
 
patricks148 said:
Rupert....

wife let him out for his last pee last night, but took his collar off.... que barking and a big commotion. went out witha tourch to find him. he was in the big Berberis at the end of the garden going mad a the biggest Hedgehog i've ever seen... it was like a football!!
he would not come out and with nothing to grab had to push my way in ... getting cut to bits, pick the *** up and carry him back to the house. . Blood everywhere and loads of spines stuck in his nose. had to pluck them all out. the other thing is hedgehogs are renound for being infested with fleas.

spent all night in bed scratching, FFS
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Not sure if my tale is better or worse. Took Daisy out for her bedtime ablutions and the security light didn't come on so we were in darkness. Not sure if that's why but she had a huge poo and then seemed to tread in it! Tried to see if it was flat - it was...so then the sniff test on each paw to find out which one needed a good clean. I went to bed with the smell of dog poo stuck in my nasal hairs :poop:
 
AmandaJR said:
Not sure if my tale is better or worse. Took Daisy out for her bedtime ablutions and the security light didn't come on so we were in darkness. Not sure if that's why but she had a huge poo and then seemed to tread in it! Tried to see if it was flat - it was...so then the sniff test on each paw to find out which one needed a good clean. I went to bed with the smell of dog poo stuck in my nasal hairs :poop:
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Ah, the joys of being a dog lover.
 
The absolute moron giving it large firing a replica 9mm pistol with blanks from his balcony today in St Mary's Island, Chatham. Yes nobody would've got hurt but he caused hysteria, panic and fear to all those in the area. Meaning armed police had to intervene.

All so he could like like a "gangsta" to his social media followers ?
 
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