Kinky.
Kinky.
At least it's easy to figure out which one would smell the best.
In fairness, Baz is hiring. Probably for role of office juggler or something.Originally Posted by Boydy
Something well below a GP but it’s forriners wanting to work for two years and become Public Health Registrars.
The final one today was extremely lovely, but clearly got a bit flustered and hasn’t scored great. Experience working in Sri Lankan army camps, dispensing medicines. Meanwhile an earlier one has never had a job and all her examples were around uni work and societies, but somehow scored far higher. The scoring is clearly flawed but hey that’s HR for you.
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All interviews are wank and your interview master will fuck you over come the crunch. My team made that mistake, hired one who was amazing in the interview but completely incapable of doing the work. She started recording all conversations in her notebook so acrimonious tribunal was her exit.
Uni lass will get it because she's cheaper to hire, probably.
Entry level Civil Service jobs are usually a set wage anyway. I'd take the doctor. You know they have a brain and you know you have them for 2 years.
Hiring is impossible. Anyone can blag an interview, and any sort of "test" you give a candidate for a skilled role rarely reveals how they'd adapt to your own working methods.
I've just counted, and I've hired 12 people since I took over the business in 2016. Out of those:
- 5 were excellent and show that a brilliant judge of character I am.
- 2 were absolute chancers that didn't last more than a month
- 3 were retards who I gave the benefit of the doubt for a while, but got the boot after 6-12 months.
- 1 was "fine"- not as good as she interviewed, but passable. But I was secretly delighted when she handed in her notice
- 1 has only been here 3 months and seems alright, but the jury is still out
Barney's gone on his first ever sales trip this week, to the only market he has been trusted with, Northern Ireland. Day 1 and day 2 seemed to go fine. Day 3, it was time to visit our biggest customer in NI, who are somehwere out past Newtownards on that weird peninsula. While touring their premises, he 'lost his balance suddenly', fell, and broke his arm. He's had to cancel the rest of the trip.
It says a lot about Barney that when news came back of this, we were all pissing ourselves laughing in the office.
That's why he isn't paid the big bucks.
@Baz I did, yeah!
When I got a promotion at the last but one place, HR made a real hash of listing the job (plus it was kinda shit), and after three weeks the only applicant was a Nigerian bloke literally in his 80sI think they should have given him the job tbh.
One of our team members has chosen to have a massive kick-off to director level about why we can't wear shorts in the office, when women can wear 'summer dresses'. Have some decorum will you.
I wore shorts to the office yesterday.
My line manager told me I looked like I was going playing tennis.
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I'm wearing shorts at the office right now. I'm sitting in a room with exactly one other person and have no in-person meetings today, so why not? It's much more comfortable.
No issue with shorts if the environment permits it, but making that argument about women's dresses is pathetic. He should lose a bollock for it.
Some of the best men in the world only had one bollock tbf.
Geoff Horsfield as an example
Barney to come back from sick with a cast on his arm, and a skirt on.
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Hitler.
We can wear shorts but nobody in the office takes the chance.
We can wear shorts in the office. Smart casual. Unless going into a meeting with people outside the team.
Hopefully Barney has one of those comical casts where his arm has to be set in a certain way with supports for maximum comedy value upon his return.
I sometimes see men in full Bermuda Short order, which seems to involve comedy long socks, making them look like giant prep schoolers. I think they do it for charity sometimes, but then there are outliers who seem to deem it acceptable more generally. It isn't. Formal shorts are just the worst.
It's 2023, just wear summer dresses.
What shoes do people wear with shorts in the office?
I wore white Nikes with white socks and felt I looked a lot better than my pal in sockless loafers, but what do I know. A colleague said I was dressed for Wimbledon and he was dressed for TOWIE.
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Ankle socks and Adidas Classics cos old man vibes. As long as you don't come in with a Borat bathing suit our work doesn't really give a fuck.
Leggings season is
I had to pop into the office earlier this week and people were giving me the full once over. Birkenstocks, linen shirt & shorts. Couldn't see the issue.
Birkenstocks alone deserve more than a full once over.
Were you also wearing a Panama?
If only.
Birkenstocks are alright. Alright for fucking Pride month cunts. Chuck it in with Boom's misunderstanding of double denim, Phonics' (and Baz's?) hi top ways, Sand's short-sleeved shirts (he may yet have a real slow burn victory on this as my stance has softened) and all the homos and their ankle socks.
It's conversations like this that make be relieved to not have to answer to anyone.
Taz in his Crocs, knee high socks, leather shorts and wife beater vest then
Our sales director originally gave the OK to shorts but he was quickly overruled by the MD, who having already banned hot food, and t-shirts without collars on 'dress down Friday', was fuming at the idea. Allegedly he keeps the only (useless) woman in the sales department around because he likes her big nipples.
I would understand it if the very few customers who come in here aren't always shabby old vagies who stink of piss and booze.
Full PPE including Engelbert Strauss wellies for me. Scandalous.
I’ve been in shorts all week. With both white Nikes and white converse. Not at the same time
I hope they approve shorts and hot food in the same week so Barney scalds his lap.
my new place is slightly stricter than the last few places - no shorts, jeans just about tolerated, though most go with chinos/smartish trousers and plain polo shirts/fairly casual collared shirts, with, to continue a theme, semi smart shoes. id be a bit fucked off with no shorts, but unlike the previous places we actually have aircion so I don't really give a shit
if your office is 25°c+ with no aircon, you're a fucking nobhead if you don't let people wear shorts.
It's work, not some party hostel.
If received wisdom and historical precedent was for employees to drink their own piss, you'd be running your methane smelling gob trying to explain why the new generation were a bunch of feckless shirkers, despite spending most of your working life eating chicken fillet rolls in service stations.
fuck, I meant ammonia, you can tell I put my shorts on when I got home
That has to be the worst look going.
The American dream .
You're not wrong, it's like the old man "casual wear" shit you see advertised in Sunday broadsheets.
Is this from Luca's stag do?
That's one thing that was only sorted recently in our office building. Everyone moaned it was hot so the hallkeepers shut all the windows and soon it was freezing, cos the aircon was finally allowed to work. Thankfully I'd booked a private office to do interviews in so I turned the aircon off in there and opened the window to enjoy the lovely 29 degree warmth from outside on my bare legs and forearms.
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Barney has now been signed off for two weeks with not only the broken arm previously reported, but also a broken wrist and two broken ribs. All from 'losing his balance' during a customer visit. How hard is the ground in Northern Ireland?
Is Barney angling for compensation?
You sure he didn’t ‘lose his balance’ in inverted commas, rather than actually losing his balance? He hasn’t come back with a monstrously big order at a great price for the customer or anything?
We're honestly all baffled. We even started doing JFK-style simulations earlier to see if we could recreate the type of fall that would break all of those bones in a healthy 34 year old man.
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