General Things That Annoy You thread - part 2

Algarveaddick said:

Raith_C_Chattonell said:

Algarveaddick said:

Arsenetatters said:

Carter said:

Thames Water don't know their arse from their ear. Most likely at that time of night it was drainage contractors who might have a Thames water bit of livery on their van especially if ita drain covers they were lifting. That work will hardly ever get something called a NRSWA permit on it as the blokes doing it think that doesn't apply to them, thats how most utilities keep track of where people are on website called one.network. they should have some kind of work management system but in the kindest way possible they pay people who are answering calls from the public the about least they can get away with and funnily enough those people aren't always the brightest stars in the sky. And by the time there is a degree of separation, assuming the drainage subbies are working for them, rhats another link to a chain they won't see. 

Your best bet is to tweet Thames Water and ask whats going on 

Thanks @C@Carter that makes sense tbh. I didn’t realise they contracted out. That means there’s even less chance they’ll bother doing anything about it. They’ve got back to me again and asked me to take a video of them if they come back again. 

Tell them to send their CEO around to do it. The ******* gets paid enough 

Ah but his 'retention' fee is under threat.  

From the Guardian.

In a letter read out at the same committee session on Tuesday, the Thames Water chair, Adrian Montague, admitted he may have “misspoken” when he told the Efra committee last week that large bonuses to be paid to senior bosses out of an emergency £3bn loan were “insisted” upon by creditors.  (Insisted rather than agreed)

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/may/20/thames-water-chair-mps-bonuses

From where I'm sitting they've got fat on the complete cock up they've made of everything in recent years ... and just put up everybody's water rates by a third to add insult to injury.

At risk of derailing the thread, in case anyone sees this as political, but let's live dangerously.

I think this is something that annoys just about everybody, except the 5% of people who are on this gravy train.

“It was agreed that a retention plan was important to retain the people best placed to deliver the improved outcomes our stakeholders rightly expect during this current period of uncertainty and this was reflected in the term sheet we agreed with our creditors.”

The amount of disconnection from reality in these people's heads is stunning. The same people who have created this shitshow (literally) are supposed to be the only ones who can put it right? 

They must be borderline psychopaths to be able to hear, read  and see the amount of resentment they cause among 95% of the population, and still convince themselves they are due the salaries they recieve, let alone the bonuses. 

  

Carter said:

Algarveaddick said:

Raith_C_Chattonell said:

Algarveaddick said:

Arsenetatters said:

Carter said:

Thames Water don't know their arse from their ear. Most likely at that time of night it was drainage contractors who might have a Thames water bit of livery on their van especially if ita drain covers they were lifting. That work will hardly ever get something called a NRSWA permit on it as the blokes doing it think that doesn't apply to them, thats how most utilities keep track of where people are on website called one.network. they should have some kind of work management system but in the kindest way possible they pay people who are answering calls from the public the about least they can get away with and funnily enough those people aren't always the brightest stars in the sky. And by the time there is a degree of separation, assuming the drainage subbies are working for them, rhats another link to a chain they won't see. 

Your best bet is to tweet Thames Water and ask whats going on 

Thanks @C@Carter that makes sense tbh. I didn’t realise they contracted out. That means there’s even less chance they’ll bother doing anything about it. They’ve got back to me again and asked me to take a video of them if they come back again. 

Tell them to send their CEO around to do it. The ******* gets paid enough 

Ah but his 'retention' fee is under threat.  

From the Guardian.

In a letter read out at the same committee session on Tuesday, the Thames Water chair, Adrian Montague, admitted he may have “misspoken” when he told the Efra committee last week that large bonuses to be paid to senior bosses out of an emergency £3bn loan were “insisted” upon by creditors.  (Insisted rather than agreed)

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/may/20/thames-water-chair-mps-bonuses

From where I'm sitting they've got fat on the complete cock up they've made of everything in recent years ... and just put up everybody's water rates by a third to add insult to injury.

At risk of derailing the thread, in case anyone sees this as political, but let's live dangerously.

I think this is something that annoys just about everybody, except the 5% of people who are on this gravy train.

“It was agreed that a retention plan was important to retain the people best placed to deliver the improved outcomes our stakeholders rightly expect during this current period of uncertainty and this was reflected in the term sheet we agreed with our creditors.”

The amount of disconnection from reality in these people's heads is stunning. The same people who have created this shitshow (literally) are supposed to be the only ones who can put it right? 

They must be borderline psychopaths to be able to hear, read  and see the amount of resentment they cause among 95% of the population, and still convince themselves they are due the salaries they recieve, let alone the bonuses. 

  

You are right, not unlike members of our political "class" they do not exist in the same world as the rest of us. And those same wankers on the board at Thames water, severn trent, all of the former national utility assets in fact. They will pop up at another one when enough shareholders get sick of them. Which takes some doing as the big ones have been getting fat on the dividends us mugs are giving them. 

AFKABartram said:

people 

IdleHans said:

Solidgone said:

AFKABartram said:

people 

If it wasn’t for people I’d go to the cinema. 

Go to the 'Silver screenings' - all the old duffers know how to behave and their teeth can't risk popcorn. It's bliss.

Gribbo said:

The state of the roads vrs the amount of road works / temporary traffic lights / complete road closures.

The state roads round my are in, on the Kent / Surrey border are so unbelievably bad. Genuinely can't believe this isn't a bigger issue.