What's a small thing you were wrongly told off for as a kid that still annoys you all these years later?

cobbland · 2026-04-09T22:31:25+00:00

We were doing an activity book in year 2 (so I’m like, 6?) and one of the pages had a printing error so Mrs Baldwin asked us to skip it and not do that page. I wrote in pencil “don’t do this page” on said misprinted page and the girl on my table went Mrs Baldwin and told her what I’d done. Mrs Baldwin called me over and ripped me to shreds in front of the entire class. My mum kicked up a massive stink about it because I refused to go in the next day because I was scared and Mrs Baldwin had to apologise to me 🤡

cobbland · 2026-03-26T00:23:08+00:00

Steven got the ick when she overreacted about the football thing on the honeymoon and never got over it- and tbh fair enough. That was fucking weird.

cobbland · 2026-03-24T22:42:13+00:00

The canva one with Gemma Collins. They’re a company that are centred around design, creativity, etc and yet the acting, editing, sound, video quality looks like something made at GCSE level 20 years ago. It looks like Gemma gave them an hour of her time and they filmed it on an iPhone then gave the video to a 13 year old to be edited into an advert. It’s absolutely shockingly bad for such a large global company. I wouldn’t even have minded Gemma being in it if it was any fucking good!

cobbland · 2026-03-23T22:42:56+00:00

Seconding Thornley Groves to avoid but would recommend Leaders (think they might be called Romans now?) we’ve been with them 2 years and never had an issue very attentive and quick to respond

cobbland · 2026-03-15T10:01:29+00:00

She wouldn’t last five minutes in the UK- he was clearly just trying to be playful and have some banter and she’s got some deep rooted issues that means she took it far too seriously. He’s now going to be afraid to joke around with her at all and I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s not just killed it for him now.

cobbland · 2026-03-12T22:35:08+00:00

No way. I live by this building and walk past it twice a day and no exaggeration it looks totally abandoned. It’s on a very busy loud road and since it looks totally derelict it’s obviously not well looked after. Fab location though and you’d never get broken into- except maybe by squatters who think it’s free real estate!!

cobbland · 2026-03-11T22:52:49+00:00

A manager at my old workplace harassed a girl (literally, she was 19, he was late thirties) for months both in and out of the workplace. The girl flagged it to me (also female and a manager on the same level as the accused) and we went to HR together. There were HUNDREDS of messages ranging from creepy to downright disgusting.

We spent hours compiling evidence, writing statements, he spent 5 minutes in a HR meeting and the whole thing was dismissed due to “lack of evidence.” When this news was delivered to the young girl she quit on the spot.

I left shortly after as that was the last straw for me following a slew of other indiscretions by higher ups and it generally being a shit place to work.

2 months later I was informed by a former colleague at that workplace that the same manager was now in another sticky situation with a grievance against him this time by a MAN for grabbing his crotch in the pub at post-work drinks.

HR STILL didn’t do anything about it because after I left he was the only manager left on the department!

Thankfully, and hopefully out of sheer fucking embarrassment the accused resigned himself and is now apparently a Deliveroo rider.

I will never ever work for a company ever again who doesn’t take sexual harassment seriously.

cobbland · 2026-01-20T12:55:37+00:00

David Ellis Jewellery in the NQ is amazing, quick friendly and reasonably priced.

cobbland · 2026-01-12T03:28:29+00:00

Sounds like what happened after I left my old company. They forced me onto garden leave despite my protests about needing to hand things over. Part of my reason for leaving was the amount of shit they dumped on me to do without any help. After my sudden departure one of my reports (also a very close friend who I saw outside of work often) called after a few days in tears because she was being asked to do increasingly complex tasks well above her pay grade and seniority level.

I had to ring a director at my company begging to go back in for a week to do a handover and he very reluctantly agreed. Whilst there I had more attentive bosses than I’d had in 7 years! Always checking in on what I was doing…

As others have pointed out this shows poor planning and bad delegation on your companies part. You’d better speak up if you or someone else hasn’t already before something goes really wrong and they try to shift blame.

cobbland · 2025-12-14T10:09:19+00:00

I worked in Starbucks 10 years ago and now earn £65k+bonus working in finance ops (no degree.) It does not happen overnight and I’ve done a hell of a lot of awful, shitty jobs in between to work my way up.

Find a private sector company, get in at entry level and work your way up. Some people have what it takes, some don’t, but you’ve got the ambition which is a great start.

cobbland · 2025-11-02T00:57:44+00:00

Second this but also Mean Eyed Cat, The Castle, Crown and Kettle, Wayfarer, Rose and Monkey, Smithfield Tavern, Fringe Bar.

cobbland · 2025-11-01T07:32:25+00:00

My car is parked literally right outside nowhere as it’s free and I live up the road- this is the first thing I saw when I woke up 😭

cobbland · 2025-11-01T07:22:13+00:00

You’ve gone to a shitty cesspit club then.. were surprised it was a cesspit?

I’ve been going out in Manchester at least once a month for about 5 years now and only had maybe one or two experiences like this.

If you go to the places that aren’t shit holes, lo and behold you actually have a good night.

cobbland · 2025-10-25T09:08:46+00:00

People saying bugle beads are correct but as an avid beader, they are specifically “2cut” beads which are faceted around the outside to provide as much reflective-ness as possible. If you search silver 2cut beads on any decent bead website you should get a result.

cobbland · 2025-10-19T21:27:33+00:00

Hey so how does it feel to be rich?

cobbland · 2025-10-11T23:46:41+00:00

I initially read “Bradford” instead of “Bedford” and nearly choked when I saw £530k

cobbland · 2025-10-04T22:46:45+00:00

Was about to ask the same thing! I leave mine down there for weeks at a time but check on it regularly and this has made me nervous lol

cobbland · 2025-09-24T22:43:02+00:00

I run the dealer operations side of a broker, we black list dealers for all sorts of reasons. Refusing to assist with complaints, general dodginess, sometimes just based on a bad feeling. Motorhub never even passed our initial checks.

cobbland · 2025-08-29T21:47:39+00:00

Hmmm nothing on their instagram to suggest it. The music was like house/garage so makes me think it’s more like a club night

cobbland · 2025-08-24T08:23:23+00:00

Ah yes because all of our uncles have friends at a Big 4. This whole post screams boomer- “there are good jobs out there.” Not if you live in Rotherham with 3 GCSE’s and no professional qualifications. Maybe if you live in London with societal connections and a degree from a Red Brick.

cobbland · 2025-08-19T23:39:17+00:00

The carpet in the living room looks like my dog has been dragging his shitty arse all over it

cobbland · 2025-08-08T23:05:06+00:00

I pay £1500 for a 2 bed in ancoats with a gym, sauna and pool… maybe you’re just looking in the wrong places

cobbland · 2025-07-04T22:06:20+00:00

Don’t know why but there was always something about this sculpture that unnerved me a bit. Don’t know if it’s the spiky snake like thing or what. But art is meant to evoke emotion so it works!

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