The vent

am seriously pissed off because I am an intelligent, creative problem-solver who gets along well with people and whose ass should be getting kissed by her bosses, but is not being put to any good use at the moment. I don't think I am good at being a little fish in a big pond.

Completely my problem. Dare i say it I am over qualified for my role here . After 20 years experience as a "Joiner" "Installer" "plumber" Electrician" "montage man" "einbauer man" , i feel like 17 not knowing anything. Went for an interview yesterday and lost. Someone else got the job ( I do have a job here with an electrical company Called "Elektro Kesser" ) only I am used as a laborour. For fuck´s sake I was earning 70k a year!!! (Euro) and now reduced to 42 pound a day "in pocket"... I am so pissed off BUT BUT BUT I will make it here!!!

Yep, now confirmed, the person who i gave a job to, trained, nurtured and protected is indeed the person who has put the blade between my ribs.

Loyalty? Don't make me laugh.

Co-worker, our boss is 18 years older than you and has a voice of his own. If he objects to $0.45 being shown as expenses (which they are) and wants them included in fees he is the one to say so. You don't tell me, "I think the boss will criticize this, change it before you submit the invoice." But you know this by now because I told you instead of ignoring your suggestion.

Trying to book Plane tickets over Opodo and lufthansa direct and cannot pay with a credit card registered in the UK on the Germans website as

The stupid site(s) wont let me send the tickets to a country other than where my credit card is registered. Why or why cannot I not pay in Euros on the german site and get the tickets sent to the UK (I am only trying to book tickets for other poeple), why oh why can I not do this!!!

Lufthansa, simple phrase/word.. E-Ticket. they are great, easy to issue and cost no postage.

Use them.

gawd damn it all... sitting here at computer reading, lift coffee cup only to find it is empty, so go to kitchen for coffee, dogs come begging for a treat, grab a few treats and do a little training with dogs in living room until treats gone, then wander back into the den and start reading, only to realise that the coffee is still back in the kitchen!

I must be getting old... but I suppose getting absent minded is also a way of getting more exercise ... or maybe I just need to touch up the plaster on my walls

Stupit effing ebayer who I bought from in the uk, didnt think it important enough to tell me that the item location "In UK" actually meant that they were sent from effing isra-effeing-el and now the zoll want money and a trip to effing weilheim to pick it up, neither of which I am going to do and the arse better give me a full effing refund or cough up for my extras.

arse...

Why is it so f*g difficult to sort out a wireless lan!!! I am pissed off! Waited until today for a friend to come and sort it out and it worked perfectly until he left! Now it does not anymore!! And fed up of using the ex's laptop and seeing what he has been up to the last 4 weeks!!!

2 mm.
2 f*cking mm.

My kitchen cabinet is somehow suddenly 2 mm too far to the left to put in my new 60cm wide cabinet where the old 60 cm wide cabinet was

How on earth will South Africa host the 2010 world cup soccer. We have load shedding everyday for the past week and to continue for next week as well. Load shedding is when the municipality cut the power supply because ESKOM (our national power supplier) haven't unforeseen maintenance problems etc. This is common practice now in SA through winter, but this is crazy. Our power has been for the past 4 hours without us knowing when it will be switched on. Everybody who can afford it is now buying generators - in our town there is a 2 month waiting list for one. Freaken ESKOM - bunch of id10ts.

I was mistaken. Thought the load shedding was only for this week, but it is not. From now on in South Africa we will have daily loadshedding - and it is high summer. In winter the power will probably off for half a day if not more. Traffic is a nightmare, shops close when the power is out. South Africa is moving back in time to the dark ages.

stupid secretary, you knew that my 7:00 patient cancelled, but did you tell me? NO! So, I am here for 7am, and no patient. And I get a little cutesy Opps! out of you. I have already complained to the docs about you, as have two of the other girls, and then I get spoken to, because you feel I have to much power and influence over the girls in the office, and you feel I am getting everyone to hate you. Well, baby! Its your own stupidity that everyone hates, and how you act like a fucking princess that got you no respect.

As I normally have a wee rant about German companies, I would just like to add that HSBC in the UK are a pathetic and incompetent shower of shit. Why spend zillions on flashy TV adverts, and then ignore a customer that has been with you for 20 years but not ringing back when you say, or the next day, or at all ever? Cannot speak to a manager, you have call lines open silly hours but only clueless fuckwits on the other end.

My Sparkasse branch over here is making HSBC look like a bunch of comedians in comparison. They pick up the phone, they answer emails and generally act like a bank.

Deutsche Telecom. How difficult is it for you to give 02 my landline number? I want their DSL because the offer allows my kids to ring their parents on their mobiles for free. I don't want to stay with you. I hate you at the best of times. I hate your crappy t-net box, crappy service, and crappy me paying more in line rental than calls some months.

This reminds me of when I moved to Germany and it took 7 weeks to get a landline connected. You're losing 100.000 customers amonth? We'll your selling a commodity and 'dem is driven by price and possibly service. Sell something with value add and I'm there.

2 favorite pet peeves of mine:

Drivers that crawl along at snail pace when approaching an intersection and then zip off at full throttle as the traffic light goes yellow so that THEY will make it across before the light turns red, but everyone behind them won't.

Shower knobs that don't do a damn thing to change the water temperature on 2 full revolutions, then suddenly go from much too cold right to way too hot if you turn them by a hair's width.

HSBC own First Direct in the UK. They have just screwed up a load of payments and overcharged me. Took 3 weeks to re-credit interest. I have also been with them for 20 years. I have their credit cards, mortgage, deposit a/c, current a/c etc.

They are advertising in the UK that they will give £100 if you open an account with them and, if you don't like it, they will give you £200 to go away.

I hate the couple of smug twats in the advertisement.

Having screwed around with me, I asked them how much they want to give me, one of their older customers.

Nothing, they said.

I am closing all my business next week and going to Lloyds who have arranged a meeting with a manager in their local office. I'm sure they will end up being no better, but I have, at least, had my little protest at the idea that smug advertising is the way forward.

Dumb ass colleague, just Shut the F**k up! I have told you, not once, not twice, but three times this morning within a 15 minute time frame that I do not have time to answer his stupid questions about how our system works while I am trying to analyze a major outtage on the system we support. Go away!!! (I feel better now!)

Fucking stupid little imbiss, it's Saturday, you're open till 12:30, not even noon yet, yet you still manage to somehow run out of everything bar leberkäse...what kind of dumb businessman would shut down a place that sells food right in the middle of lunch time anyway? What about people like me, who like to eat their lunch closer to one o'clock? You say fuck me, I say fuck you right back asshole.

So Mick the Builder. You put my shower cubicle up. You know, the one with the really heavy glass door? The one that you said you wouldn't over-tighten the fixings in case it shattered? You put it on so loose that it came away while I was having a dump and shattered all over me. The one I have just spent an hour clearing up. You think that's funny? Twat. I hope your insurance is good.

2000€ to get a drivers licence??? Then why is it that this morning not one person on the road today could drive their cars normally? Let's either:
a) drive super slow, about 20km/h below the limit
b.) sit at a green light for over 10 seconds, so by the time i get there and have the chance to toot my horn at you, the light is already turning orange, and you're too damn slow, yes you are you stupid dumb bitch. Then when i give you a congratualtory hand gesture, you get pissed off back at me, even though you've just personally wasted 5 minutes of my life (and even more now coz I have to write this rant). Your scary glaring at me in the rear-view mirror mortified me too...
c) same as a), but 10 km/h below, then, bam, stop without indicating so that your passenger could get out of the car, in the middle of the road no less

And damn you too McDonalds. All I want from you occasionally is a thickshake, which in my view is best consumed at breakfast and/or brunch. Then why was it so that passing 2 Maccas on my way to work, that in neither was the machine working? Coincidence? I think not. You lazy bastards. Don't get my hopes up by advertising things that you're not going to sell, just because you can't be stuffed turning the damn machine on. Now I'm thirsty from all this writing, and have nothing to quench my thirst. Assholes.

dude! I am not asking your medical history because i care about you... its my job, we need to know about your health before we can treat you. Well, then after I ask you and you tell me nothing, then 30min into the appointment, you tell me you are not allowed to bleed, because you have a mitral valve prolapse, of course I freak out! I can kill you! Seriously. I can kill you. Its not my rule, that you need to take Antibiotics, that was set by the Cardiologists... I just follow the rules! So don`t get pissy with me because you don`t think its necessary, then as you hand me your heart pass, I show you exactly where it says `for all procedures in the Dental office there is a risk of bleeding therefore Premedication is REQUIRED!` See that, not recommended, but required.
Asshole!

My co-worker is making me sick.

Oh for crying out loud!! The background: we are allowed to smoke in the kitchens in our company and recently, the principles (the big shots) had there normal monthly meeting and are going to make a decision on March 1 about what they should do. Well, one of the big shots (a woman who chain smokes) says she thinks that there should be smoking allowed in the kitchen and she doesn't want to change it because...she 'doesn't want our customers to be uncomfortable' when they come to our company for a meeting. As if!! Most of these people don't even freaking smoke!!! Arghhhhhhhhh. Let's hope the other 'decision makers' in our company have more common sense.

Next time you wanna talk about me just don't make it so obvious!!!

OK, you tell me if this seems reasonable: I'm traveling by train to FF airport; it's the crack of dawn, I'm already exhausted, and it's a VERY tight schedule...one Umsteigen that's tough to make (5 mins between trains), and I'm loaded down with two extremely heavy suitcases plus a rucksack. Naturally, the elevator to the platform ist defekt. So, I run UP the stairs with the two 30 kilo bags and almost pass out at the top. But before I do - not being able to see the destination sign - I manage to breathlessly ask a Deutsche Bahn-uniformed lady "entschuldigung, fährt dieser Zug nach Flughafen Frankfurt?". Mind you, it's 60 seconds to departure. My arms are about to fall off and I'm virtually apoplectic; huffing and puffing and clearly pressed for time to put it mildly. Even a German could clearly see the rush I was in. And:

Deutsche Bahn Frau: Guten Morgen!

Me: Fährt dieser Züg nach Flughafen Frankfurt?

DBF: Guten Morgen!

Me: Ja. Der Zug?

DBF: Guten Morgen!

Me: Guten Morgen!!!

DBF: Ja.

I got on the train with 7 seconds to spare. This has happened to me more than once with DB employees. Why must Krauts insist on teaching people "manners"? I was absolutely infuriated. This bitch was gonna let my arms fall off before she'd answer my question - unless I said the required "Guten Morgen" to her. It wasn't a good morning, and she made it far worse. It took me at least a half hour to cool off from that typisch Deutsch encounter. Is it any wonder people hate this shit? Am I wrong?

F*g Arbeitsamt!!!

I don't even know how to vent about it. I'm just really tired of my family overseas' inability to resist snarky passive aggressive or downright insulting comments that really bring me down any time I try to share something new and exciting with them.

I just bought one of those Krapfen donut things. It was marked shoko and thought it was shoko inside like the croissants. As soon as picked it up I knew that I had made a mistake – the shoko was some gooey sticky mass on the top of it. Now I keep finding sticky blobs all over my desk and am continually going to the washroom to rinse and at 1.30 a pop – hey I think you can buy a dozen of them at Tim Hortins for that price.

I thought I was healthy again but I slept 18 hours last night and woke up with a completely dry mouth and raging headache. FINALLY things at work have settled down and my body decides to get sick now that my mental stress is settled.

Too many things at this moment to list - but just overall need to get it out

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

They keep polluting my senses with this utterly disgusting English brat Declan on TV! Every other advert is this ugly-ass excuse for a male human gushing his corny, trite, pseudo-mature bullshit with all the stick-up-his-arse charm of a loser singing karaoke for the girl he's in love with at a school party.
Plus, he has just about the most HORRIBLE hairstyle I have ever seen anyone DELIBERATELY wear that wasn't Robert Smith. And just to get this straight, Declan beats Robert Smith by about 2.5 pounds of grease and general bad taste in hair.
They actually have the nerve to call him a "Stimmwunder", although all I hear is over-processed studio trickery on the completely boring and common voice of some teenage twat.
What's his target audience anyway? Very confused middle-aged housewives and deaf pedophiles?

I don't normally care enough about the shit that pollutes TV and radio, but some people have that kind of face that make me want to punch something very hard!

Yestreday morning I was told my contract was to be extended, mid afternoon was told that the purchase order for the extention was not approved, this morning its all back on again and extended for 6 months, and in the ast 5 minutes the guy from purchasing has said he cant approve the extention because he doesnt have the approval from the SAP project manager (which is me) and it seems I cant approve a budget for myself

ARGH! I was at Ikea last week, ordered some stuff to be delivered, they messed up and forgot a part of my order, so, the delivery guy said HE will personally take care of it, and deliver the other pieces monday, I gave him my work address, and no delivery, tried all afternoon to get thru the 2 different numbers I have for them, and nobody is answering, and the same today. I will not actually have to go back out to Ikea to pick up the last peice, fuck!
Then I go to Toom, to get a small shelf that I liked there, well, they only have a floor model, will take 14 days to order, or I could take the floor model without a discount! fuck!
Now I am off to OBI, to see if they have anything comprible, but have to take 2 different busses, because the MVV cannot plan anything properly, and the busses don't match up with good connections- you end up sitting 8 min and waiting for the next bus to come! fuck!

Roller have failed to send their work guys the right door hinge fittings so they can replace a kitchen cabinet door that was delivered damaged.

This fatre having sent them a door with different holes thus needing the other fittings.

This has only taken 5 weeks so far.

I am sorry Roller, not being from the area of work that deals with looking at various different ways to attach a f**k**g door to a cabinet I must be just expecting to much.

And next time plase right on the stupid work not that neither do I have to pay for the extra work or will I even consider it in return for a nice voucher.

Fix the f**k**g door so I can live my life in piece and not have to wait in for your workers to tell me they dont have the right bits, again!

And female work person, you talk to low thats why I cannot understand a f**k**g thing you say.

Talking slowly while still low does not help.

You talk low and mumble, german is my second langauge.

I am not stupid, retarded or deaf, speak up you dumb b**ch

mumble mumble mumble

Our cleaner at the office quit today after receiving a full page memo pointing out which jobs are not being performed such as cleaning the windows once a month, wiping down the doors and frames two times a week, sweeping under the shelves and mopping up the spillage from the last time the windows were cleaned. According to our local graybeard that was in November.
I just had to share my happiness with everyone else.

Once again mumble mumble woman speak the f**k up.

or, send an email.

Oh you did, you cant get to the f**king point using any form of communication can you!!!

FFS, I can't stand seemingly intelligent people who can't engage in a simple conversation about something inherently controversial without turning it into a battle royale when someone offers a point/question/alternative idea that doesn't jive with their own perspective. I just want to pick your brain a little and have a lively debate that DOESN'T end with you getting huffy and taking everything personally. CALM DOWN and GROW UP. Christ. Where's the advil.

I cannot think what you could be refering to...

I thought she meant me, then I read "seemingly intelligent"

In my pocket

Why, given that in any kitchen there are only a few places of use (coffee machine, sink, water holder, bin) do my German co-workers always manage to stand in front of them?

Its a big kitchen, explore the more unused bits that ARE MEANT FOR PEOPLE TO STAND SO THEY ARE NOT IN THE WAY OF EVERYONE ELSE!!!

That's just as bad as those incredibly considerate people who stand around deep in conversation and manage to arrange themselves in just such a way that they take up an entire walkway and hinder everyone else who's trying to get somewhere. Though I think that's an international phenomenon, not just German.

Haha, charming, thanks.

If I have to listen to one more patronising, pseudo-scientific explanation of condensation and the lifecycle of a water drop, I'll probably end up in prison. Where I bet you anything they have better bloody windows than I have in my kitchen! Seriously, wtf? I'm foreign, not stupid - you need to stop making lame excuses and put in a new window, dammit!

Also, you cannot influence the sex of your baby by willpower. No. Fucking. Way. Whatever you saw on TV or read in your pretend-science-for-the-gullible magazine, I do NOT believe that your kid's a girl because you concentrated very hard on not having a boy. However, feel free to concentrate very hard on resolving the problem with my kitchen window or you may well find yourself unable to procreate again. Thanks.

@TexasLauren,

Too right..

Please do not stand at the top of stairs or in front of doors talking.. They are there for a reason and it is nothing to do with standing still.

AND get out the way you daft git, this is the 'door' part of the tram/u-bahn/s-bahn. I have to gte out before you get in!!!

It works by the complicated system of 'people get out and then people get in'. This makes sure that there is space inside for you to get in everyones way.

Travelling, so much fun!

Assholes all over this country. And to think...before I arrived here, I thought Germany was ahead in all manner of areas...what bullshit propaganda! People can't even wait in line here...they try to cut ahead of you and then act all self righteous and self satisfied! Then...you go to the Arge and NO ONE knows what the hell they're doing and if you talk to 10 different people you get 10 different answers and mostly because they don't want to get off their lazy asses and do something!

Then you have the prices here in Germany. Shockingly expensive...for shitty little items like rubbing alcohol and hydrogen peroxide!! Hell, I can get those TWO items for under a dollar in the US!! F*ck!!! They cost 10 euros here!!! WTF??!!!

Then, you get on a bus, hoping to make a train connection, and you arrive just as the train is leaving because the bloody bus driver can't keep his F-in mouth shut or some bus rider takes FORVER to get their fare...

Then there's the slutty looking women who many of them look like death warmed over...with tons of makeup!!! SAVE ME!!!

Sorry to say I've found most Germans to be cold hearted, bloody unfriendly assholes who have no empowerment in their lives so they have to try to bully over yours and try to make you as miserable as they are!! I can't wait to save up enough money to get the HELL out of here!! I am married to a German citizen and thank God he wants to leave too!

The only positive thing I can think of now is only my husband, my cats, and the American restaurant in Buchholz, where thankfully, we'll be moving soon. I HATE THIS FUCKING PLACE!!! there's so much more...but I just can't write a book on here right now...but believe me, I AM writing a book..that will have "The Germany Chapters..."

Truly, there should be a special place in hell for stingy people. People who - however much they already have - are always trying to freeload and extract the maximum, never willingly give to others and forget their principles altogether for the sake of a few euros. Disgusting.

I answered your question: My job was to verify the client's credit or not. The result was: No credit, all payments are applied. I also said that I did not research into the status of its deregistration. Do not ask me if I looked into the deregistration after I have told you that I did not. Do not ask me what I did after I have answered your previous question. At length.
Most of all, do not say, "We have to look into this because I don't understand it".
I have my own work to do.

STOP talking about Bacon!!!

I am at work, hungry and have not a good Bacon Sarnie for 4 months..

STOP IT!!!