Little Things That Irk You IX

[fishbowlhead]

They need to make it illegal to cycle in the road where a cycle lane exists, enforcing it. They also need to abolish bus lanes, they just eat up road capacity sitting there empty most of the time and the buses are slower than before the bus lanes were installed

There needs to be a law where running people over on escooters is mandatory, f*****g menace on the roads that needs to go away now.

[Cepp]

They need to make it illegal to cycle in the road where a cycle lane exists, enforcing it. They also need to abolish bus lanes, they just eat up road capacity sitting there empty most of the time and the buses are slower than before the bus lanes were installed

Bus lanes certainly help on the 8am trip into the office! I'd dread to think how long it would take without them.

Enticing people away from the roads and on to public transport with better options would help a lot, preferably connecting all of the towns as well so you don't have to go into Manchester and back out again.

[Neon Ignition]

They spent millions installing a dedicated bus route near us to get into Manchester and now the bus takes 15 minutes longer than it did without one not counting the additional travel time required because you need to get to the dedicated route because they've axed most of the other services. It was a massive con no doubt lining pockets.

One of the main troubles is that public transport is largely an unpleasant experience so the car remains a preferred alternative. Plus, as electric cars increase in number the pollution argument is going to largely vanish leaving congestion the only one where practically speaking road capacity has been poorly handled. Not a surprise though, what has been well handled in this country?

[Hirst]

Public transport will never be good where I am, because it is reflective of the broken society it runs through. When I get in the car, I don’t have to stop to pick up alcoholics, drug addicts and ASBO kids. Unless we can fix that (we won’t), it doesn’t matter how nice, frequent or cheap the bus is.

[Dogg Thang]

When I get in the car, I don’t have to stop to pick up alcoholics, drug addicts and ASBO kids. Unless we can fix that (we won’t), it doesn’t matter how nice, frequent or cheap the bus is.

Kind of sounds like you think the solution is you picking up alcoholics, drug addicts and ASBO kids in your car.

Which to be fair would reduce the load on public transport.

[Protocol Penguin]

I've been at my current place for 5 years and its got substantially worse in that time. Just non stop grinding traffic until I'm almost home.

First are the worst. When I used to work later shifts they would have one bus arrive an hour, and often it just wouldn't arrive. Ended up leaving my job because of it when they wouldn't give me an earlier shift.

Where I live, the main bus service went bankrupt last August, and loads of the routes and services have never been replaced by the other transport company which operates buses locally. It makes attempting to get anywhere in the area so much more limiting.

[Cepp]

Where I live, the main bus service went bankrupt last August, and loads of the routes and services have never been replaced by the other transport company which operates buses locally. It makes attempting to get anywhere in the area so much more limiting.

It all comes back to being better off in a car, which isn't much good if you don't/can't drive.

[Blobcat]

Had a staff meeting with our boss 'choosing to be honest ' saying the previous 5 years were the good times and now they are the bad with the cost of living/ business going sky high. Complained about staffing costs and mumbles about any bonus schemes being halted (the only one we ever had was supposed to pay out in April 2020 after 12 months of meeting target only to be cancelled because of the pandemic)

Reception staff member who is leaving is not to be replaced so management is taking on some more duties but leaving reception short in a crazy busy practice. One trainee who was to have her course paid (and not required to bepaid back if she remains in our employment for 2 years afterwards) has just been told she will no longer have her course paid for as she is only part time.

Had another email confirming what was said a few days later basically saying no raises, no bonuses (we never get them anyway?), No unauthorised overtime which is laughable and is going to hit them very hard if malicious compliance is in place. But the ****tiest after the pay rise is the staff BBQ being cancelled which was a highlight of the year and only happened 4 times in the 7 years I have been here (sudden death of colleague, covid an brushed under the carpet forgetting the reasons they weren't on other years).

The overtime thing is gonna stir some real **** as many of the dentists work very late 2-3 days a week. 2 of them will what they want as they always do and are in the bosses pocket, one of those however Always runs overtime into lunch so the poor nurse is lucky to get a 10 min lunch so she has ever right to kick off and refuse to work. I work 2 extended evenings a week when needed and I think the boss is targeting that despite the fact those late nights are for the £££ customers who are happy to spend £2k on regular treatment on a later time. Another guy works too and from abroad so does long days every chance he is in the country so who knows what's going to happen with him, I strongly suspect he will leave the practice if anything is made from this and frankly his flight tickets have increased a lot.

Management are rarely in past 3pm so won't be able to easily allocate overtime and tbh if they are strict about it, pretty much every staff member is going to have to call them every day past 6pm.

The only silver lining about this is I hope this means the reception will be stricter with people arriving late as seeing latecomers is what causes us to run over 50% of the time. No sob stories, no on the day treatments unless running ahead with a gap, stick to the book.

EDIT - just been informed we can no longer carry epipens in the practice and have to use amplues and measure out medication for anaphylaxis. Tbh makes sense as EpiPens are stupid expensive but all those meds have a short shelf life and luckily we have not had to use the pens in years (only once case in 7 years I think)

[Colin]

Feeling the major sting of a customs charge on a package from Japan, I've not missed that. Think I'll stick to buying stuff within the UK.

[Blobcat]

I feel your pain. Had that happen to me hard not long after the Brexit vote then when Brexit happened all eBay prices went through the roof of anything from the US. Rarely get anything from Japan now unless I'm willing to pay as much as IKEA wants for delivery of anything (£40+)

[Adam Stone]

[getting used to format alright! im rusty] delete me

[Adam Stone]

Had a staff meeting with our boss 'choosing to be honest ' saying the previous 5 years were the good times and now they are the bad with the cost of living/ business going sky high. Complained about staffing costs and mumbles about any bonus schemes being halted (the only one we ever had was supposed to pay out in April 2020 after 12 months of meeting target only to be cancelled because of the pandemic)


Just seen this - :-(
Made me think how often does your boss "have honest" meetings? And why do they need to declare their honesty??!!!

[dataDave]

I feel your pain. Had that happen to me hard not long after the Brexit vote then when Brexit happened all eBay prices went through the roof of anything from the US. Rarely get anything from Japan now unless I'm willing to pay as much as IKEA wants for delivery of anything (£40+)

The EU stepped up their customs/duty efforts and removed any kind of lower limit whatsoever, so now absolutely everything gets processed. Even if you buy something for $0.10 you get the standard admin fee plus whatever else plus a few days/weeks delay while their third-party associate sifts through everything to double make sure.

Just so you know it’s not just Brexit that’s the reasoning for this. All these twats are up for creating a ****show together.

Their reasoning being that it’ll keep trade within the member states and that’ll be better for everyone honest. Alright then, so please find me someone in the EU who’s producing steel N64 controller components and I’ll buy from them instead.

[dataDave]

Also, three out of the last six parcels I’ve sent out (tracked, but not insured) have gone missing. I’m just not going to ****ing bother at all anymore.

[fishbowlhead]

Also, three out of the last six parcels I’ve sent out (tracked, but not insured) have gone missing. I’m just not going to ****ing bother at all anymore.

The best thing about this is the carrier company’s have somehow got laws put in place resolving them of any financial responsibility for loosing packages, so they can just carry on being as s*** as they want with no repercussions.