A place to rant about things that wind you up ( keep it clean lol)

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When your report a van with a split tyre wall at work, incase someone dies, look the next day and see it hasn't been changed for a new one. Not on my back now, I did warn
 
SkyPipDotBernie said:
When your report a van with a split tyre wall at work, incase someone dies, look the next day and see it hasn't been changed for a new one. Not on my back now, I did warn
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I warned my boss and the foreman, honestly that will blow out any minute.
 
Claire W said:
There’s a Court and a Place that are right next to each other. Our mail is often delivered to Place especially if it’s a new postman. We have to go over and collect it even though when their mail is delivered to us, we put it through their post box or knock on the door if it’s a parcel. It’s a shame when favours aren’t returned :(
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yes it doesn’t take long to delivery it yourself, but some it’s not the case!
 
So fed up of the rain and the wind now. Can’t we just get one dry day? Supposed to be more rain and wind headed for Cornwall in the next few days.
 
Sonnet said:
So fed up of the rain and the wind now. Can’t we just get one dry day? Supposed to be more rain and wind headed for Cornwall in the next few days.
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Storm Sebastian is coming apparently. I'm sick of it too, grim
 
Phoned some friends up north tonight and they said their garden resembles a bog it's rained so hard and heavy up there. They haven't been flooded out and yesterday it rained heavily for around 20 hours and it rained all day up there too.
 
When you want something off Amazon and it says that you only need to order x amount more for free delivery. So you think that you will order more piggy stuff so that the thing you want will have free delivery. Only to find at the checkout that the piggy stuff is not the "eligible" stuff to make your original thing free delivery anyway! So annoying!
 
I’m a little worried as an amazon delivery was left in a container in our back garden. I know it was raining but should they be going into peoples gardens like that?
 
Siikibam said:
I’m a little worried as an amazon delivery was left in a container in our back garden. I know it was raining but should they be going into peoples gardens like that?
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Was it your delivery? If it was someone else's delivery, ask them to double check where they've said the "safe place" is. It's likely just a driver being lazy but if a signature isn't required, I know Amazon deliveries to my parents house took to leaving the parcels at the gate at the side of the house (towards the back, not the front, you're not gonna see something there just by walking past because of a hedge. My dad's actually pointed out a couple of times, if he's waiting for something he'll leave the external door unlocked so they can leave it in that space, but most aren't happy with going over a doorstep. Gardens though, I can see that.
 
Lorcan said:
Was it your delivery? If it was someone else's delivery, ask them to double check where they've said the "safe place" is. It's likely just a driver being lazy but if a signature isn't required, I know Amazon deliveries to my parents house took to leaving the parcels at the gate at the side of the house (towards the back, not the front, you're not gonna see something there just by walking past because of a hedge. My dad's actually pointed out a couple of times, if he's waiting for something he'll leave the external door unlocked so they can leave it in that space, but most aren't happy with going over a doorstep. Gardens though, I can see that.
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It was a delivery for us. Sometimes if it can’t fit through the postbox they leave it near the front door or have occasionally left it in the garden. But going in and finding somewhere to put it. I’m not entirely comfortable with that. I’d rather they try leaving it with a neighbour or trying to post another day.
 
Siikibam said:
It was a delivery for us. Sometimes if it can’t fit through the postbox they leave it near the front door or have occasionally left it in the garden. But going in and finding somewhere to put it. I’m not entirely comfortable with that. I’d rather they try leaving it with a neighbour or trying to post another day.
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Unfortunately this is a problem with Amazon and their "self employed" drivers who have a matter of minutes to get to an address and complete delivery. They get paid a pittance and have to go over their hours to complete all the deliveries. I always think I should be trying alternative sites or shops but the convenience and short notice deliveries is a huge draw.
 
Lady Kelly said:
Unfortunately this is a problem with Amazon and their "self employed" drivers who have a matter of minutes to get to an address and complete delivery. They get paid a pittance and have to go over their hours to complete all the deliveries. I always think I should be trying alternative sites or shops but the convenience and short notice deliveries is a huge draw.
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Same here. But overall they’re actually perfectly ok. It’s a pity they’re not paid appropriately. Unfortunately that’s how some big companies work - the aim is profits and big boss’ pay 🤷🏾‍♀️
 
Siikibam said:
Same here. But overall they’re actually perfectly ok. It’s a pity they’re not paid appropriately. Unfortunately that’s how some big companies work - the aim is profits and big boss’ pay 🤷🏾‍♀️
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I'm always amazed by how positive, happy and polite our Amazon drivers are. Haven't had anything thrown over the 7ft wall for many months either
 
Lady Kelly said:
I'm always amazed by how positive, happy and polite our Amazon drivers are. Haven't had anything thrown over the 7ft wall for many months either
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Mine too. They always leave the packages as stated in my instructions. I haven't really had any problems with delivery guys (whether Hermes, Yodel, DPD, etc.) for quite a long time to be honest.
 
When you look everywhere for your Boots advantage card coupons because usually use them for Christmas shopping but can't find them. I don't think I've even received any Christmas offers yet!
 
When your 90 year old Mum who came out of hospital last Friday after a stroke has taken two wrong tablets despite having a specialist stroke carer to supervise her morning pill taking. Called up the Care Manager and she says that’s not their responsibility? Not what I was told by the hospital discharge team. Who’s passing the book then?
 
@Bill&Ted my Mum's back in hospital for the 2nd year running to get her meds sorted out, GPs keep repeat prescribing, dosages get muddled etc. etc. Mum keeps falling over in the middle of the night and can't get herself up. My poor sister who lives a lot closer than I do is having a hard time with it all on top of having her own issues to sort. They want to keep people in their own homes for as long as possible, but the support's not there. I hope your Mum is okay and can get the help she needs.
 
Zombie apocolypse? Wea re kind of in one with smartphones taking over, the worst is mother's not even caring what their kids are doing, because they are too busy updating Facebook. Get a life, everything is passing you by, but you're too busy telling other people who don't really care much, that you just had 20 chicken nuggets in mcdonalds and now you are going to the toilet. We'll done
 
Bill & Ted said:
When your 90 year old Mum who came out of hospital last Friday after a stroke has taken two wrong tablets despite having a specialist stroke carer to supervise her morning pill taking. Called up the Care Manager and she says that’s not their responsibility? Not what I was told by the hospital discharge team. Who’s passing the book then?
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Shocking isnt it, my mum's carers wont take responsibility for her medication either, one awful "carer" woman (who has since been dismissed) tried to cook my mum a fried breakfast (she never eats breakfast, she has coffee, about 12 different pills, and 3 different nebuliser meds in a morning) instead of helping set up her nebuliser that keeps her breathing while mum was turning blue and gasping to breathe! Home social care is a right state, no wonder the hospitals are full of older people who would love to be at home with just a bit of appropriate support :( home your mum's ok @Bill & Ted x
 
piggieminder said:
@Bill&Ted my Mum's back in hospital for the 2nd year running to get her meds sorted out, GPs keep repeat prescribing, dosages get muddled etc. etc. Mum keeps falling over in the middle of the night and can't get herself up. My poor sister who lives a lot closer than I do is having a hard time with it all on top of having her own issues to sort. They want to keep people in their own homes for as long as possible, but the support's not there. I hope your Mum is okay and can get the help she needs.
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Many thanks, yes, they want them out of hospital with promises of help and support and when things go wrong on one is responsible. The hospital chemists failed to give her all the meds on discharge, then the carer was giving her the wrong tablet on two separate occasion. I can understand this as the blister pack was incomplete with extra packets to be taken /stopped on different dates. Now I am stuck trying to sort all the tabs out with the doctor and chemist to try to get them all into one blister pack a week, 🤬 nightmare!
Sorry to hear about your Mum, hope she improves soon x
 
Bill & Ted said:
Many thanks, yes, they want them out of hospital with promises of help and support and when things go wrong on one is responsible. The hospital chemists failed to give her all the meds on discharge, then the carer was giving her the wrong tablet on two separate occasion. I can understand this as the blister pack was incomplete with extra packets to be taken /stopped on different dates. Now I am stuck trying to sort all the tabs out with the doctor and chemist to try to get them all into one blister pack a week, 🤬 nightmare!
Sorry to hear about your Mum, hope she improves soon x
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Yes the number of times the hospital pharmacist has sent my mum home without her morphine on a weekend, then its phoning 111 and trying not to swear at them... last Christmas my mum was sent home with no blister pack at all, just 12 different random boxes, and she's partially sighted- I had to buy 24 small tupperware boxes and spend about 4 hours dispensing all her pills for the week with a big checklist and a marker pen to label it all with the right day then whether it was morning, afternoon or evening tablets :(
 
PigglePuggle said:
Shocking isnt it, my mum's carers wont take responsibility for her medication either, one awful "carer" woman (who has since been dismissed) tried to cook my mum a fried breakfast (she never eats breakfast, she has coffee, about 12 different pills, and 3 different nebuliser meds in a morning) instead of helping set up her nebuliser that keeps her breathing while mum was turning blue and gasping to breathe! Home social care is a right state, no wonder the hospitals are full of older people who would love to be at home with just a bit of appropriate support :( home your mum's ok @Bill & Ted x
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That’s appalling, your poor Mum, how cruel x
I hate to criticise carers as they do a very hard job with little support, little sympathy from the general public unlike nurses and dreadful pay, but there is a culture of “passing the book“ This runs right down the NHS from what I’ve seen, out of mind and out of sight. I just feel glad I’m retired so can go round and help her, how anyone holds down a job with sick and/or elderly relatives who need care I cannot imagine. half of my day is filled with caring or sorting out “professionals ups” Luckily she is doing very well and is capable of dressing and washing, has good balance and can walk unaided.
Mum says if anything happens again she does not want resuscitation and go through the anguish of uncertain care, I think that says it all! 😞
 
SkyPipDotBernie said:
Zombie apocolypse? Wea re kind of in one with smartphones taking over, the worst is mother's not even caring what their kids are doing, because they are too busy updating Facebook. Get a life, everything is passing you by, but you're too busy telling other people who don't really care much, that you just had 20 chicken nuggets in mcdonalds and now you are going to the toilet. We'll done
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Yes, get off your phones and talk to your kids, I’m always astounded by the parents when I pick up my Grandchildren. You’ve not seen them all day but you‘re still on your phone, what’s so important! It makes me so cross, I want to snatch the phones and throw them down the drain 😆 Nasty Grandma!
 
Using a phone when in charge of a child should be a criminal offence. I've rescued several tots in the last few years from the road, Mum/Dad wandering along on the phone paying no attention to what the child is doing. To me this is child neglect.
 
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