Bet all the usual suspects moaned like feck to each other about encroachment on their rights as academics to self-determination.
I preferred to set up task and finish working groups with tight deadlines chaired by the egregious moaners to deal with the shite they raised. Soon stopped the worst of it as they couldn’t get the stuff done on time.
and 
at the same time
He said, bitching and moaning to his buddies on the internet about not being listened to. 
Oh no no no. The ones that needed speaking to have been spoken to, the ones that won’t work with because they’re too self important have been ignored or have other tactics deployed.
I’m just venting at the overhead and need to maintenance around their character flaws.
Maybe they just feel the same about your character flaws?
me too - oh what fun watching from the sidelines…i got a validation being lead by one such prof. (to his credit he has stepped up to the mark)…I would rather them on the inside pissing out, than on the outside pissing in…The latter can be quite toxic IME.
Yes, everyone can benefit from reflecting on that…
CP to valves, rooms like a fucking furnace now.
Lovely.
So the John Lewis service is deliver only. Fine, I’ll be able to get someone locally to install it, found a couple of places, I can manage this.
But I also want to old one removed and taken away. The JL delivery company say that I need to contact JL and get an order put in for collection. I’m now 16 minutes into a call to JL, and the guy can’t do it, I need to speak to a different department. So on hold again while he connects me.
Such a waste of time. Thank fuck I have loads of time to waste 
JL installed our new oven when the old one blew the fuck up.
That was late 2012 though.
Covid has totally fucked this kind of thing. JL have probably subcontracted out their delivery and install process for ages, but with Covid they have had to rejig their systems as services go on and off line.
But now I’m in the bizarre situation that the subcontractor says that they can dispose of my old one, but need an order from JL to do so, and the people at JL have no idea how to order this service. They are hoping to get back to me today or tomorrow.
Multiple CPs to the 3 wankers who came to look at my old car that is on Ebay.
There is a scam where they work in a pair or more so that at least one can draw your attention from the fact that one of them is pouring used engine oil into your coolant header tank so that when you return from the test drive they open the cap and voila your head gasket has failed making your car worthless!!
Then they offer you peanuts to help you out.
In the last 4 or 5 years I have sold 3 cars and this scam has been tried twice.
You must live in an “interesting” area, I’ve never even heard of that.
Not at all, I live in a small Suffolk village, first lot came from London and the second from Ipswich.
A selfcockpunch is due to weak willpower.
Very pleased to have culled my camera lens collection from twenty four down to eight in the last two months. Then failed myself and family completely being unable to resist the urge to grab a bargain lens to reward myself (Tamron model 103A) for £10.60 landed. Ten minutes later a eBay seller offered me a special discount for an even better condition one, couldn’t resist that either. Then I further let myself down by bidding (and currently winning) on two different old tamron lenses whilst I wait for a 300mm model 54B, the only lens I really want, to turn up.
They simply doesn’t get back to me. Fortunately I have found a local company that installs cookers and removes the old one, so they’re here now sorting it all out. Apparently they are getting a lot of business right now from the sales companies failing to provide any kind of service.
What is it with people buying cheap stuff? When I was retailing hifi, it was always the cheap bits’n’bobs that caused near-infinite ballache, with cunts to-ing and fro-ing endless emails and phone calls about the minutiae of a £2 self-adhesive foot for their shitty amp &c. I even had one cunt try to haggle the price down from £2 to £1.50.
Big ticket stuff sold easy by comparison, that is until you hit Buyer’s Remorse a few days later - novelty over and suddenly it’s faulty or the budgie needs incredibly expensive emergency heart surgery, or any bullshit apart from “I changed my mind and want to return this to your hifi lending-library because Fuck You is why”.
But I digress… Ahem…
As a retailer, you just have to suck it up, but I’m currently thinning the ludicrous number of watches I’ve bought during lockdown/breakdown - I’m just a bloke who should have spent the £££ on a shrink selling his barely-used bits’n’bobs - but fuck me watchcunts are a collection of pricks that make me positively warm to you fucking hifi knobgoblins. They’re not just tightfisted wankers (we all want something for nothing, amirite?), they don’t just inflict their tragic life-history on you before hitting you up with a hilariously insulting offer for something you’re asking 1/10th the current cost for (and then sell it themselves on ebay…) - they want it with bells and whistles and ribbons and bows, they want lube AND a reacharound, they want it yesterday, and they will copiously shit all over your rep if the slightest thing doesn’t meet with their approval.
And yes, it’s always the ones buying the cheap odds’n’sods - the ballache declines in almost exact proportion to increasing value.
And no, I’m not referring to anyone here. Amazingly.
TL;DR - cockpunch to watchcunts the World over, me included 
Top cockpunching!
I love the fact that you are both 