Getting a letter from a debt collection agency claiming I owe Pipex £57 :mad: I know for a fact that I left them approx 3 years ago not owing a penny so I’d love to know how they magically produced this £57 debt and where the so called ‘reminders’ regarding this went.
I foresee Pipex getting a very peeved off call from me first thing Monday :mad:
not fav people either Mel. … bloody tiscally time to cough up the readies so to speak and I no longer can log into my own account to pay.
Ok ask for system to retrieve login details… nope no such ability exists… the webform exist to do it but I get a account not recognised.
…its not a supported feature ref the Tiscally or (whatever they call themselves these day) returned email to do that.
WTF. so I have to phone them or send formal letter to get my own login details back… the same login I have always used and no longer does 
Holly bought me a bottle of Jura superstition Whiskey as a surprise.
WooHoo you say, so be happy you might say… Hmmmmm
A quick read of the box and it superstitious roots are established
“Never cut peat before May. Always finish a Bottle of Jura on the day it’s opened”
So I will need to enlist a few willing quaffers to ensure the tradition is upheld
Are you sure you need help with that? 
Work has p!$$3d me off today
Well more precise the new young lad made up to production manager.
Tomorrow will be a case of Me being told not tread on his toes or
I will be his worst enemy if he gets bollocking for sending the email he did to me.
We share the same boss but he is not mine - If he won’t push matters with his own staff I will as I am sorting there f**k Up$ !!
Saying that production have only the responsibility for completing the plan at the neglect of making sure all raw and packaging materials are issued in full then moaning about material shortages is somewhat daft… when material shortages is of there own making because we are showing more stock than we should because… surprise surprise they have not issued them to the orders.
:catfight:
Got my grumpy head now lol 
bit like our place Paul, many occasions where we have to ‘short’ an order because of missing materials that were shown to be on site after the weekend stock count …
… of course it has nothing at all to do with one of our fork truck drivers having a slight problem with numbers when rushing to get to her next tea break, and quite regularly numbers like 361183 will be noted down as 361138 :rolleyes: the planners therefore believe we have 6200 cases for product A but it’s really product B, or 900K of a certain flavour when we actually have only 270K of the stuff.
we stopped conforming to plan a long time ago :lol:
Flavouring yep I hate those lol high priced - stock takes tend to see a 0.5kg to 1kg accuracy so knock off 1kg and all hell breaks lose because of the ££££ value sod the fact its only 1% of the stock and we have a further 4 * 25kg containers lol.
Our issues are less warehouse based but more production, but warehouse get the blame when its wrong within picking locations.
Finance cringe at the though of writing off stock without 1st attempting to find out which MO’s should have consumed and amend that way.
Production don’t want to stock check there own area & don’t want to do the house keeping for what they consume.
Starting to get me annoyed - and the only outcome is embarrisment for production. This is sister company for where I used to work working for Director of where I used to work who is MD now here.
I only forsee one outcome and its not me on the the losing end
Torchwood - Series 2 - Episode 7 (Dead Man Walking) Time 18:45 mins to 20:00 mins.
Quite possible the funniest and grossest thing I have ever seen.
[QUOTE=PMM;453198]Work has p!$$3d me off today
Well more precise the new young lad made up to production manager.
Tomorrow will be a case of Me being told not tread on his toes or
I will be his worst enemy if he gets bollocking for sending the email he did to me.
We share the same boss but he is not mine - If he won’t push matters with his own staff I will as I am sorting there f**k Up$ !!
Saying that production have only the responsibility for completing the plan at the neglect of making sure all raw and packaging materials are issued in full then moaning about material shortages is somewhat daft… when material shortages is of there own making because we are showing more stock than we should because… surprise surprise they have not issued them to the orders.
:catfight:
Got my grumpy head now lol :D[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=wolram;453199]bit like our place Paul, many occasions where we have to ‘short’ an order because of missing materials that were shown to be on site after the weekend stock count …
… of course it has nothing at all to do with one of our fork truck drivers having a slight problem with numbers when rushing to get to her next tea break, and quite regularly numbers like 361183 will be noted down as 361138 :rolleyes: the planners therefore believe we have 6200 cases for product A but it’s really product B, or 900K of a certain flavour when we actually have only 270K of the stuff.
we stopped conforming to plan a long time ago :lol:[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=PMM;453201]Flavouring yep I hate those lol high priced - stock takes tend to see a 0.5kg to 1kg accuracy so knock off 1kg and all hell breaks lose because of the ££££ value sod the fact its only 1% of the stock and we have a further 4 * 25kg containers lol.
Our issues are less warehouse based but more production, but warehouse get the blame when its wrong within picking locations.
Finance cringe at the though of writing off stock without 1st attempting to find out which MO’s should have consumed and amend that way.
Production don’t want to stock check there own area & don’t want to do the house keeping for what they consume.
Starting to get me annoyed - and the only outcome is embarrisment for production. This is sister company for where I used to work working for Director of where I used to work who is MD now here.
I only forsee one outcome and its not me on the the losing end :D[/QUOTE]
man I feel your pain. I’m on the production side and it is deffo “produce or be damned” because that’s how the production management are taught. But how many times do we miss plan due to no sleeves, product, packaging? Bizarre.
Shop floor data collection (with mobile touchscreens) is the only way forward, at least if it is rigorously applied. Then the stock figures may start to make some sense.
Cars air con stopped working, sometime over the winter i guess. Man came to look at it for me, posh machine attempted to regass and basically stuck little electronic fingers up at me.
Bottom has corroded off the Condenser rad, car is only 5 years old :s
[QUOTE=Mojo;453205]man I feel your pain. I’m on the production side and it is deffo “produce or be damned” because that’s how the production management are taught. But how many times do we miss plan due to no sleeves, product, packaging? Bizarre.
Shop floor data collection (with mobile touchscreens) is the only way forward, at least if it is rigorously applied. Then the stock figures may start to make some sense.[/QUOTE]
We have Intermec handguns but our Production Lawson Business system is relatively new to the company Just over a year old… alot of people are still Anti computers and old school its not rocket science and will save them time but they rather do things on the computer as and when sometimes 5 or 6 orders later when stock has been returned and they can then only make presumptions on what they actually used yet for the few seconds it takes to scan a barcode enter a qty and scan a 2nd bar code they rather spend more time doing it the daft way :wall:
They don’t realise the control/accountability and visibility is gives we are relatively small and made something like a 1.5mill loss the year before last… in the year the system has been it its turned to a 1.5mill Profit and the software was not cheap we can see exactly what profit/loss per item we made and how much is lost in waste/giveaway/alternate materials usage/reclassifications.
I but know what you mean about push push push - a good example was achieved by myself once when I had a stint(secondment) to production supervisor at the old place ended up with a tonnage record… by turning the speed of the machine down :spit:
It men’t less reject’s less product being returned to start of line and unwrapped and sent back through - also less rejections of the checkweighers to handle and less strain on the machine meaning less downtime.
But for some reasons the powers that be must always run it that bit faster.
The fun of working in the food industry lol
At least after my rant by boss’s returned email wen’t to the effect of ‘what help you need off me let me know’. Result hopefully 
I hate brickwalls called managers we all work for the same place.
[QUOTE=PMM;453242]… ended up with a tonnage record… by turning the speed of the machine down :spit:
It mean’t less reject’s less product being returned to start of line and unwrapped and sent back through - also less rejections of the checkweighers to handle and less strain on the machine meaning less downtime.
But for some reasons the powers that be must always run it that bit faster.
The fun of working in the food industry lol
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It’s a nation wide epidemic :sigh:
… ended up with a tonnage record… by turning the speed of the machine down
I’ve got one guy here who whenever he gets a problem with a setup slows the speeds and feeds down… even if the problem is unrelated to those speeds, over time he has murdered profitability on some jobs where over and over again he slows a setup to get over a problem he created. Fingers crossed that the new starter will start to pull things back and see all the little things I don’t get time to see.
Other times your right, we knock back feeds to give reliability, taking more time but running all night without a problem is more than a payback. Fortunately in a small firm the managers are the ones who want it to do well.
We have a twin screw APV at our place, if it’s set up right it will run days on end - just keep feeding the hungry bugger
The company is changing flag on my ship, sending home my Norwegian coworkers and replacing them with Filipinos and Poles 
We will be 3 remaining Norwegians onboard.
Still, balut and borscht will make a change from Lutefisk.
Recycling.
I’m into that. Makes a lot of sense to me. I like to garden, so I compost lots of stuff.
We used to have black bin for main rubbish, blue bin for paper.
In their infinite wisdom, the local council have swapped us to black bin for rubbish, blue bin for steel and aluminium cans, glass and clear plastic bottles, but not including margarine tubs, or bottle tops. Blue ‘box’, net cover, no weather protection, for paper.
Fine. Black bag under the net to protect the paper. But no tops on plastic bottles? A mate argued with me that you can crush them if you tramp up and down on them enough. But it’s heck of a lot easier if you loosen the top, squeeze the air out and tighten up again. But nope, no tops. Different plastics.
Neither are we allowed to put anything in any bin (according to the council) that has been in contact with food. Tin’s, glass and plastic can be washed off. But what about Pizza boxes, sandwich bags ?
Had a discussion with a bin-man friend. He told me there is talk of fining anyone that puts the wrong stuff that in his opinion are in the wrong bin, and they can, at least refuse to collect it.
Worse, if you want an extra bin, they’ll send a couple of council guys round to advice you how to ‘reduce your waste’. Then decide.
Sure it would be cheaper to employ someone to unscrew tops or sort out anything food contaminated? I’m sure that can be recycled. Tells me one thing. Local gov is being dictated to by commercial interests.
Ok, thats a no news on the commercial, but heck, how much cost cutting is being redirected back to the the taxpayer?
exploding bottle of home-brew ginger beer, cue shards of glass gauging my hand, arms, and top lip and an afternoon spent at A&E getting patched up with glue and steri-strips.
Thankful for the relatively superficial damage though, and only a light cut to the face and nothing more serious.
What troubles me is the 30+ more bottles I’ve got to dispose of - time to don the full bike gear, leather jacket + gloves and full face visor helmet 
BT routers, specifically a Speedtouch and a HomeHub.
Both devices share the same characteristics, losing the ability to DNS the internal network correctly, hanging, randomly closing firewall ports, having the same wireless signal strength as two coke cans & a bit of wet string, being unfit for use.
So I dug out my Netgear Prosafe Firewall/Router which is a nice piece of kit, has lots of grown-up options like VPN and SPI, but unfortunately has no DSL modem.
Easy, thinks me, just open up the router (no firewall no port forwarding no nothing), switch off its wireless function, plug the Netgear in behind it, give the new wireless network the same keys and SSID as the old one. easy.
Except being BT devices both the HH and the Speedtouch insist on being 192.168.1.254, and I wanted my Netgear to have that address so the internal network would not notice any changes.
It was so unbelievably hard to do, but I’ve done it. You have to change quite a few settings for the thing to run 192.168.0.xxx (or indeed anything but 192.168.1.), because of its built in “easy, simple interface” one setting changes another without you asking for it, a complete farce. At one point I had laptops plugged into both routers and my Android on the wireless just to make sure all was as it should be.
Still all done, loadsa wireless signal, Shields Up! reports I don’t exist on the net, all coochy. DynDNS and a VPN will be my next project.
Zero out of ten BT for making things stupidly difficult for mildly technical users - no change there then!
getting a combo of messages by email etc etc that meant no 4x4 day today
DT.