The All New Jobs Thread

[Giggles]

That reminds me, I've no idea how I'm going to give the binman a few quid for Christmas this year as they don't collect from the gate.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Sellotape it to the actual bin. I say this as someone who lives down a cul-de-sac with no real footfall, so if you live on the Dublin version of Fifth Avenue I guess that might be a problem.

[Yevrah]

That reminds me, I've no idea how I'm going to give the binman a few quid for Christmas this year as they don't collect from the gate.

That is a lovely gesture and one I'd never thought/heard of.

[Giggles]

I'm on the side of a hill in the middle of nowhere and I've to leave the bins at the end of a long lane. I'd be wary of a passer by stopping a whipping it though.

[Boydy]

It is nice but isn't there a whole crew? How much do you give them? I've got three separate bin collections for general waste, recycling and compostable garden/food waste.

[Giggles]

That is a lovely gesture and one I'd never thought/heard of.

Binman and postman always, the parents always did it. I might send it in to the depot and mark it for the lads on this specific route.

[Giggles]

It is nice but isn't there a whole crew? How much do you give them? I've got three separate bin collections for general waste, recycling and compostable garden/food waste.

I only have the first two here as I can't get a compost one, but it's a small company so I doubt the ones doing the run would vary too much. Would normally be two of them just in an area like this, be only something like 20 quid each.

The postman climbs the gate every time we've a parcel and leaves it under the decking, so he might get a bit more.

[Baz]

Ireland’s weird.

[Panda Bear]

I only have the first two here as I can't get a compost one, but it's a small company so I doubt the ones doing the run would vary too much. Would normally be two of them just in an area like this, be only something like 20 quid each.

The postman climbs the gate every time we've a parcel and leaves it under the decking, so he might get a bit more.

You're a good man.

[Panda Bear]

Applied for a new job internally today. Was unsure about going for it but the girl leaving basically persuaded me to apply and spent an hour today making my cover letter less shit. She thinks I've got a chance of getting it and it sounds like barely anyone else has applied so who knows. I am a bit raw and lacking in some of the experience they want, but I think it's about 5 grand below the going rate for the job (but also about 5 grand more than I'm on), so taking a punt on me is probably about the best they can hope for. I don't think anyone else internally is interested, so I reckon I'll be against other people similarly so-so against the spec but with the advantage of #knowingtheclub. A binman in a corporate t shirt who knows how to use the archaic CRM basically.

i fucking told you to apply for account manager jobs. listen to me.

[Lewis]

Get them a 'Binmen Do It While You Sleep' sticker for the lorry.

[mo]

My dad was a postie until he retired in the summer - always got well looked after at Christmas by the village types. Shit load of booze, load of cake, bit of money. It's a nice gesture, probably on the wane as it's so rare you're home to see your postie/bin men.

[Baz]

My dad was a postie until he retired in the summer - always got well looked after at Christmas by the village types. Shit load of booze, load of cake, bit of money. It's a nice gesture, probably on the wane as it's so rare you're home to see your postie/bin men.

Probably back on the rise with everyone WFH now.

[Panda Bear]

Nobody actually works from home, though.

[Giggles]

I've just copped that when I updated my linkedin the other day I had the wrong 'open to work' thing selected :uhoh:

[Spikey M]

I don't use LinkedIn and have no idea what that means, but it sounds like you've accidentally become a Gigolo?

[Giggles]

I don't use LinkedIn and have no idea what that means, but it sounds like you've accidentally become a Gigolo?

One option is to show that you're looking for a new job but only to people using LinkedIn Recruiter; HR managers, recruitment agencies, etc.

The other option is it make it visible to all and put a nice big #opentowork banner on your profile picture.

[Ian]

Yeah a guy in my team has got that on his. I wonder if he's made the same error.

[randomlegend]

Don't have another shift til after Christmas now and it's only using one day of my annual leave :drool:

[Spikey M]

So stretched during the winter months. :(

[Manc]

Magic

[Don]

Whilst Manc and I get asked to volunteer to give boosters :D

[Spikey M]

Don't forget to drop a few selection boxes off at your nearest hospital on the way past.

[randomlegend]

:drool:

[igor_balis]

Had our Xmas meal today with our little team of 7. Right at the end they surprised me with birthday presents for tomorrow. Quite shocked at how decent they were, £50 Amazon voucher, decent bottle of red wine and an OG Colin caterpillar. Legends.

[Kikó]

Thought I was out for the year but actually with the CFO tomorrow. Sleepless night ahead as I shit myself with worry.

[Giggles]

Nothing has been said but I know by the boss that he’s seen that LinkedIn thing anyway.

[Panda Bear]

Nothing has been said but I know by the boss that he’s seen that LinkedIn thing anyway.Just point out that you're old and didn't understand technology if it ever comes up.

[Baz]

If you have LinkedIn its so you can be approached for jobs, so what does it matter?

[Panda Bear]

If you have LinkedIn its so you can be approached for jobs, so what does it matter?Or to engage with your industry or find potential collaborators.

[Ian]

Also it's a fairly clear distinction between "I'd consider an offer" a "I've turned this in please please offer me a job."

But then if you're doing that you've probably ruled out progressing in your current place anyway.

[Baz]

Or to engage with your industry or find potential collaborators.

lol losers

[Raoul Duke]

I've just copped that when I updated my linkedin the other day I had the wrong 'open to work' thing selected :uhoh:

I thought LinkedIn hides this from people at your current employer, and it's only available to those with Pro (gold?) accounts

[Shindig]

I really, really enjoy those moments in work where a mild fuck up leads to a desired outcome. So I was trying to book a claimant in for an assessment in the new year but ended up pushing them back a phase on the system. Whoever picked the case up, looked at the paperwork and said, "Fuck it. I can assess them on paper now." Awesome. Saves the claimant a few weeks and I get out of a hole.

And it's occurred to me that people mostly like how I handle claimants on the phone. It's weird because I don't really see it as a skill that's hard to learn. But I do hear some colleagues firmly set in reading a script and sounding robotic.

[Jimmy Floyd]

My work's approach to covid remains the absolute gold standard. MD comes down this morning, stands in the middle of the office. "Just so everyone knows, we've had some cases in the warehouse. Four guys off sick, some of the others getting a PCR test. They'll be back later. OK? As you were." and off he goes upstairs again.

The work from home guidance has never existed, as far as this company's concerned. They used furlough to snatch a few bob in lockdown 1, but that was it.

[Shindig]

I respect it. Fumigating the second floor over one case is our response. I know which one I prefer.

[Panda Bear]

lol losers
Kikó

[Giggles]

I thought LinkedIn hides this from people at your current employer, and it's only available to those with Pro (gold?) accounts

It does unless you are stupid enough to go and make it visible to all :uhoh:

[Kikó]

Kikó

Harsh but true. It's a real cesspit.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Right, so I've now got six days to keep coming into the office and avoid catching covid in the middle of a massive case peak if I'm not to spend Christmas alone. One of the two guys I work with has spent 10 of the last 14 days self-declared working from home for spurious reasons (you may think this is a canny move, but the bosses now think he's a lazy twat and are openly ridiculing him to everyone, so it's not going to work for him in the long run). The other guy, the Arab, has come in this morning with a heavy cough.

Work has dropped off for the year, so really feels like we're about to get shot hours before the Armistice.

[Giggles]

I’ve 4 food factory visits over my last 5 working days and they’re the absolute pits when it comes to any sort of cleanliness or protocols. Should have kept more holidays.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The Arab's just come up to my desk looking like death. I said 'You look terrible'. He said 'I know, I've had every single symptom since yesterday'. I said 'Well why are you here?' He said 'Because I can still work' and proceeded to bend over my desk to go through my catalogues, groaning all the way.

[Giggles]

You’d be well within your rights to knock him out.

[Spikey M]

Surely even your boss isn't going to let that slide?

[Jimmy Floyd]

I told him to go home, he refused. I called his brother (nepotistic appointments are handy sometimes) and he's come over and they're talking in Arabic with exaggerated hand gestures.

I don't know if it's just because I live alone or whatever, but I am fucking indestructible around here. Always the last man standing.

[Foe]

Fuck that.

If he doesn’t go home, you should. Voluntarily exposing yourself to anyone ill (flu, covid, bald) is a no-no in December.

[Shindig]

I told him to go home, he refused. I called his brother (nepotistic appointments are handy sometimes) and he's come over and they're talking in Arabic with exaggerated hand gestures.

Are they arguing over a tenner again?

[Jimmy Floyd]

He's gone. Sent this email to the whole company as his parting gift:


I’m feeling unwell so I’ll be leaving on a sick leave now.

Enjoy your weekend.

[Don]

Making soft shite gammons shit themselves over missing their dry turkey meat is more effective than explosives tied around our waist in this day and age.

[Bernanke]

Edit: thought I was in the news thread. :moop:

[Jimmy Floyd]

Obviously within minutes of being the only one left again, I discovered a fuck up made by my colleagues, a Welsh customer had made an order two days ago and no one had had it sent out. The Welshman called and I told him what had happened. He sounded physically sick. I apologised and said I didn't really know any more about why the fuck-up had occurred, as everyone responsible was now off sick. He rang off.

Ten seconds later, the phone rings again. It's another Welshman, the owner of the company. I WANT TO SPEAK TO SOMEONE WITH AUTHORITY, he said. I said I wish I could arrange that but I'm the only one left. He said WHY WASN'T MY ORDER SENT. I said I'm not 100% sure as the person has gone now, but my apologies, it looks like they've just made an error.

THIS IS DISGUSTING, he said. I said I agree, it is disgusting. He said WHY WASN'T IT SENT. I said look, they've just made an arse of it. These things happens. He says IT MUST ARRIVE TODAY. I said it's not going to arrive today, it hasn't even left here yet. He said MAKE IT HAPPEN and slammed the phone down.

Phoned a magic carpet service in Newport, unfortunately they're fully booked until the new year.

[Yevrah]

Making soft shite gammons shit themselves over missing their dry turkey meat is more effective than explosives tied around our waist in this day and age.

:lol:

That really got me.

And Jim, that is utterly ridiculous.

[Spikey M]

Obviously within minutes of being the only one left again, I discovered a fuck up made by my colleagues, a Welsh customer had made an order two days ago and no one had had it sent out. The Welshman called and I told him what had happened. He sounded physically sick. I apologised and said I didn't really know any more about why the fuck-up had occurred, as everyone responsible was now off sick. He rang off.

Ten seconds later, the phone rings again. It's another Welshman, the owner of the company. I WANT TO SPEAK TO SOMEONE WITH AUTHORITY, he said. I said I wish I could arrange that but I'm the only one left. He said WHY WASN'T MY ORDER SENT. I said I'm not 100% sure as the person has gone now, but my apologies, it looks like they've just made an error.

THIS IS DISGUSTING, he said. I said I agree, it is disgusting. He said WHY WASN'T IT SENT. I said look, they've just made an arse of it. These things happens. He says IT MUST ARRIVE TODAY. I said it's not going to arrive today, it hasn't even left here yet. He said MAKE IT HAPPEN and slammed the phone down.

Phoned a magic carpet service in Newport, unfortunately they're fully booked until the new year.

I watched Stephen Merchants "Click and Collect" the other day. Ring your man back and tell him that we have not just a solution, but an adventure. A Christmas Advinture.

[Ian]

He said MAKE IT HAPPEN

I love these.

As if the magic words will actually achieve anything.

[Giggles]

That’s when you tell them you forgot to pack your magic wand this morning.

[Disco]

I had someone yesterday (who's delivery had been delayed) claim that couriers vehicles don't break down.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Ah yes, the famously indestructible DHL straight six engine.

The worst thing about what's been an already terrible day is that when I get home I have to listen to the rest of Jacques Villeneuve's album.

[Ian]

You have to do what, now?

[Jimmy Floyd]

My agreed forfeit for having had inferior F1 season predictions to Disco is that I have to review said album.

[Disco]

I'd have accepted a one line review but I respect the commitment. We can rig it shamelessly in your favour next time if you like.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The covid melt in the next room has finally lost his fucking mind. First of all he rang me this morning asking if I've complained to management about why we're still here. I said we've been here for two years, what makes you think it's going to change now. He said it's ridiculous, this variant could kill people. I said OK, fine, if you have a problem then speak to them, but I'm just chilling. He didn't like this attitude.

Half an hour later he rang me again. He said could I put the company stamp on the stairs for him. I said why do you want it on the stairs? He said I want to leave it five minutes after you've brought it so that the viral particles have had time to dissipate. So rather than him coming 15 yards into the room to get the company stamp, I took the stamp out into the lobby, put it on the stairs, rang him to tell him I'd done it, and then he waited five minutes and went and picked it up, used it to stamp a single quote, put it back on the stairs, then rang me to tell me I could go and pick it up.

Heads have gone.

[Spikey M]

:D love it.

[Spikey M]

My will to work is non-existent today. I've done basically nothing. These next few days need to fuck off pronto.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I'm with you on that. Got 22 emails pending. Customers screaming down the phone for deliveries. Not interested. I've done my bit this year. You should all have been better organised.

[Boydy]

I've got my feet up on the sofa with a cup of tea and a box of chocolates from the hamper work sent me. Just finished off my christmas shopping online.

:baz:

[Baz]

I've got my feet up on the sofa with a cup of tea and a box of chocolates from the hamper work sent me. Just finished off my christmas shopping online.

:baz:
:D

I spent all morning chatting on MSN Teams to the "i cannot bear my life anymore" monday morning right on time girl, while polishing off some invoices (down to 15 outstanding now which is unheard of since the dawn of time) and then finished wrapping presents.

[Boydy]

I should be clear - I'm off, I'm not doing this on work time. Although tbh I doubt anyone would care if I did.

[Manc]

I'm finishing on Friday for two weeks. I know this, my manager knows this, and her manager knows this. As of immediately they have decided the rest of the week will be best served by me taking on an entirely new project. Fuck. My. Life.

[Spikey M]

I've just had to sit through an eviction panel with Social Services, and had a weeping tenant shouting repeatedly that they "can't be arsed with the agg. Just fucking evict me!" Then, upon being told we were hoping to get help in place because we don't want to evict her she replied "I can't believe you want to evict a single mother at Christmas".

We're not even close to eviction. She just had a warning letter and panicked to her "support worker". Just let the gas man in to sort the boiler and the plumber in to sort the pipe that's pissing into the communal area downstairs.

I just want a Selection Box and Wallace and Grommit, leave me alone you mountain of cunts.

[Spikey M]

Oh for fuck sake. I can't do this.

I'm helping someone make a claim for something and need evidence that the operation they've had means they can't work. I was expecting a doctors note, but no, I've just received 3 photos of her freshly stitched armpit wound.

I'm opening the Roses. Is Wallace and Grommit on iPlayer?

[Jimmy Floyd]

The useless cunt working from home just sent me a Teams message asking if I'm alright, because I've 'seemed stressed lately'.

Will send a reply in about 4 hours' time once I've stopped laughing.

[Manc]

Any hole is a goal.

[Ian]

Oh for fuck sake. I can't do this.

I'm helping someone make a claim for something and need evidence that the operation they've had means they can't work. I was expecting a doctors note, but no, I've just received 3 photos of her freshly stitched armpit wound.

I'm opening the Roses. Is Wallace and Grommit on iPlayer?

Oh no. :D

More importantly - what's your favourite Wallace and Gromit?

[Baz]

Grand Day Out. The rest care too much.

[Ian]

I think I would tend to go for The Wrong Trousers but they're all good. Other than the bread one, that was pretty meh.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I like A Close Shave as a film, but the penguin in Wrong Trousers is probably the most terrifying villain in the history of moving pictures.

[Ian]

And Feathers McGraw is a cracking name, not least because it could also be the name of a 1980s pro wrestler.

[Lewis]

The train scene in Wrong Trousers is the best chase in any sort of film.

[Spikey M]

Oh no. :D

More importantly - what's your favourite Wallace and Gromit?

The Wrong Trousers, but I will watch them all over the next week. Top tier TV.

[mo]

I think I would tend to go for The Wrong Trousers but they're all good. Other than the bread one, that was pretty meh.

Lots of top Wallace and Gromit opinions here, but have the decency to refer to 'the bread one' by its proper name - A Matter of Loaf and Death :nono:

[Ian]

That was it, I couldn't remember. Sticks in the memory less because a) everything sticks in my memory less these days and b) I've only seen it once.

A Matter of Loaf and Death is still comfortably the weakest of the lot.

[mo]

Yeah it was my daughter's favourite for a while, hence my remembering it. Wrong Trousers is clearly king though.

[randomlegend]

https://youtu.be/T0qagA4_eVQ?t=13

This bit with the football is one of my favourite things in anything ever.

[Baz]

Baz, can I have an update on the major babe? Have you spoken to her? become friends? is she still a babe?
She has left the team.

Apparently it was too fast paced for her. :violin:

[Ian]

Probably too knackered from all the shagging amirite?

Phwoar!

[Ian]

I don't think I've seen Quincy post in weeks, actually, so he might not even see that. Fuck's sake.

[Spikey M]

Please don't objectify our sisters.

https://hips.hearstapps.com/elleuk.cdnds.net/15/37/2048x2730/2048x2730-ad1-29f8-11e6-9feb-29ac32e8f3f5-assets-elleuk-com-gallery-23464-simon-pegg-elle-feminism-t-shirt-jpg.jpg

[Ian]

I'm suggesting she simply has a healthy, fulfilling sex life.

Women are allowed those too, granddad.

Or maybe she's just already sick of hearing about Baz's spreadsheets, I dunno.

[Lewis]

Please don't objectify our sisters.

https://hips.hearstapps.com/elleuk.cdnds.net/15/37/2048x2730/2048x2730-ad1-29f8-11e6-9feb-29ac32e8f3f5-assets-elleuk-com-gallery-23464-simon-pegg-elle-feminism-t-shirt-jpg.jpg

He looks like he's watching a woman balls up a simple task.

[Yevrah]

The internet reckons Simon Pegg's Net Worth is $25m. How on earth is it so low?

[Jimmy Floyd]

He burns it all on smashed avocado and lattes.

[Lofty]

Didn't Joss Whedon wear one of those shirts and then call Gal Gadot a splitarse?

[Baz]

I'm suggesting she simply has a healthy, fulfilling sex life.

Women are allowed those too, granddad.

Or maybe she's just already sick of hearing about Baz's spreadsheets, I dunno.

I've never interacted with her. That'll be it.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Had a teams video call just now with the 79 year old man in Mexico. He noticed that the new girl in shipping had emailed him with something. Let's call her Betty.

'Eh up, who's this Betty?' he asks me. Oh, I say, she works in shipping now. Replaced Emma, who left. 'Oh right,' he says. 'Is she good looking?' Now as you'll understand, this line of questioning fills me with deep-seated panic. I said 'John, I couldn't possibly comment'. John said: 'Oh, couldn't you?' I said no, John, I couldn't, especially not when she's sat ten yards away.

I hate people.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

You should have just responded with "Phwoar".

[Giggles]

The old fist in the elbow was needed there.

[Manc]

There's life in the old dog yet.

[Baz]

Is she good looking?

[Jimmy Floyd]

I couldn't possibly comment.

[Adramelch]

So one of the letters that was e-mailed to us today had a link that was a good five lines long. I tried to click on the link to check some data only to realise that they sent a scanned copy.

[igor_balis]

I have an interview for that internal thing just after we get back on the 6th. Not sure if I have much of a genuine chance but it's something I guess.

[Panda Bear]

I have an interview for that internal thing just after we get back on the 6th. Not sure if I have much of a genuine chance but it's something I guess.Fingers crossed it goes well.

How many account manager jobs have you booked an interview for?

[Manc]

Anyone not phoning it in two days before Christmas should be hanged.

[Shindig]

"Mate, if you come in today, you're not coming in forever."

[Jimmy Floyd]

I'm dreading today. Already got two customers snapping at my heels demanding parts to be delivered immediately. No one gives a fuck about Christmas in this industry, they see it as an unwelcome distraction from working on engines.

[Giggles]

I’m doing a last run around today with bottles of whiskey for people and I’m gone. Left all the Dublin ones for today as I knew I’d have to show face in the office.

[Ian]

I've had a weird week where the days themselves have gone quite quickly but this morning just have an overwhelming feeling of HOW THE FUCK IS IT ONLY THURSDAY MORNING?

[Manc]

What time is the TTH Teams bonanza?

[Spikey M]

Last full day today. Then finishing at lunchtime tomorrow.

Time has become an alien concept. Minutes have become hours. Days, full seasons, and now is the winter of my discontent.

[Ian]

It's a Teams thing that has properly done for my sense of time, I reckon. They decided they were gonna get our department all on for a quiz (second place snagged me a £20 Amazon voucher they will likely forget to buy) and that felt like such a Friday afternoon doss rather than a Tuesday thing that it's fucked me for the rest of the week.

[Andy]

All my work for tomorrow morning has been cancelled and we finish at 12. I'm tempted to just stay at home and see if anyone notices.

[Adramelch]

So one of the letters that was e-mailed to us today had a link that was a good five lines long. I tried to click on the link to check some data only to realise that they sent a scanned copy.

Now some other folks have done the same with a document containing a Teams link. What's wrong with people?

[Giggles]

Bottles are dropped, van is parked, out of office is set. Next stop some pastries and a can.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Today has gone quicker, principally because we've reached the point of maximum desperation. I had a grown man on the phone just now choking back the tears because the new water pump for his Komatsu PC138 excavator hasn't arrived and so now won't be delivered until 5 January. WHAT AM I GOING TO DO, he wails. I dunno mate, have an excavation-free Christmas?

[Ian]

I'm surprised the people in your industry all seem so emotionally charged.

[Shindig]

We're not finishing early tomorrow but I'm working from home. I can improvise.

[Manc]

I've really not been helped by the shifts today. Pretty sure it's just me and the gaffer for the first three hours. 30 minutes in and my to do list has doubled. :facepalm:

[Jimmy Floyd]

I'm about to enter the year's dark day, when business has officially closed but Ebenezer requires us at our desks anyway. One last chance to catch omicron before festivities begin.

[Ian]

Is there anything you can actually do?

Are you still going to be getting calls from men weeping about delayed tractor engines?

I'm in but y'know, it is at least possible there'll be real productive shit for me to do (if our customers are twats.)

[Jimmy Floyd]

Yep, the calls will still come in. I can take orders but nothing is allowed to leave now until January, so even the ones who beg and scream that they will drive three hours here and pick the item up themselves will have to be turned away.

The reason it's so emotionally charged (from their side) is that if their machine goes down it leaves them fucked. The difficult part is that they then transfer this emotional weight onto the person they hope can solve their problem, as if by not having that particular water pump in stock I am as good as personally breaking into their homes and stealing their children's presents from under the tree.

The worst one ever was a bloke who begged me for 20 minutes not to have to pay up front, because he was going through a messy divorce and didn't have any money.

[Spikey M]

I'm in from 9 until 12:30. It is utterly pointless. There is zero point calling anyone about anything as their outrage at being hassled on Christmas Eve will ruin any chance of a productive conversation and, to be honest, I just don't fucking want to.

[Shindig]

I've got a full shift. We usually leave early but nothing about this year has been business as usual. Good job I work faster from home and our productivity doesn't get updated live. Gives me a nice window of doing nothing.

[Ian]

The difficult part is that they then transfer this emotional weight onto the person they hope can solve their problem

Yeah I've done call centre jobs before and it's basically 100% this.

Taking calls for Scottish Power's (already a cunt of a company) PAYG customers in the build up to Christmas did not garner many japes.

[Shindig]

"I just feel like I'm being punished." gets thrown about by our claimants. I did enjoy catching a claimant out at the shops (when they were supposed to be having an assessment) and then hearing them rush out of the shop enough to trigger the security before continuing the call.

[Spikey M]

I did enjoy catching a claimant out at the shops


"I just feel like I'm being punished."

"Getting some food in like a normal person, are we? Oh dear... looks like your claim has been suspended now. Oops."

*Kicks guidedog in the face*

[Ian]

Do we have a picture of Shinners we could photoshop onto the 'And your little dog, too!' scene?

(Another of my searingly up to date pop culture references.)

[Shindig]

We were cancelling on them. DWP won't suspend a claim on that. And they can be wherever they want for a telephone assessment. I just find it odd when they're out doing other shit at an appointment time. Almost everyone else is hovering by their phone waiting for the call.

[Spikey M]

We were cancelling on them. DWP won't suspend a claim on that. And they can be wherever they want for a telephone assessment. I just find it odd when they're out doing other shit at an appointment time. Almost everyone else is hovering by their phone waiting for the call.
https://i.ibb.co/Qj89g3L/Screenshot-20211224-094326-Brave.jpg

[Manc]

This is brutal.

[Spikey M]

1 hour left but I checked out mentally about 3 weeks ago.

[Jimmy Floyd]

27 minutes to go. The Arab has just been singing me the lyrics from his brother's alleged top 40 hit on the Jordanian charts 20 years ago. Somebody get me out of here.

[Boydy]

27 minutes to go. The Arab has just been singing me the lyrics from his brother's alleged top 40 hit on the Jordanian charts 20 years ago. Somebody get me out of here.

:lol:

[Mike]

27 minutes to go. The Arab has just been singing me the lyrics from his brother's alleged top 40 hit on the Jordanian charts 20 years ago. Somebody get me out of here.
Get a YouTube video of the song up! The original, not his brothers version 20 years too late.

[Jimmy Floyd]

With just five minutes to go, he told me that he thinks gays are disgusting. Five minutes! We came so close to Christmas.

[Ian]

27 minutes to go. The Arab has just been singing me the lyrics from his brother's alleged top 40 hit on the Jordanian charts 20 years ago. Somebody get me out of here.

I both envy your job and 100% do not envy it.

I think on balance I'm glad it's somebody else experiencing it but that I get to hear the stories.

[Spikey M]

With just five minutes to go, he told me that he thinks gays are disgusting. Five minutes! We came so close to Christmas.

How does that come up in conversation? Or did he just want to make sure you weren't going off for a week considering him to be a pinko loving communist?

[Ian]

With just five minutes to go, he told me that he thinks gays are disgusting. Five minutes! We came so close to Christmas.

You should have returned the favour by teaching him the words to a song he might not have realised was about something he would consider deviant.

Lola, maybe.

[Lewis]

How does that come up in conversation? Or did he just want to make sure you weren't going off for a week considering him to be a pinko loving communist?

He'll have tried it on with him. You know what they're like.

[Jimmy Floyd]

How does that come up in conversation? Or did he just want to make sure you weren't going off for a week considering him to be a pinko loving communist?

Following his brother's music career he went on to work for a film production company and was unwittingly put to work on a film featuring homosexuals, which was shocking because they are disgusting.

[Lewis]

Palestinian Jeff had a Jordanian (Palestinian diaspora) mate who was a massive homophobe, but it was a weird sort of comedy homophobia that was so over the top as to be entirely non-threatening (like their lol anti-Semitism and perving). He actually lodged with a man who was clearly gay, but, because the bloke was 'normal' and not constantly trying to bum him, he didn't suspect/realise anything.

[Manc]

And relax.

[Shindig]

Christ, the last couple of days have dragged.

[Dquincy]

She has left the team.

Apparently it was too fast paced for her. :violin:

What she needs is a good shagging.

[Giggles]

You forgot the phwoar.

[igor_balis]

Our office shuts at Christmas, it always does. Nobody has been made to work between Xmas day and new year for the last twenty years.

Basically all year my managers manager has been trying to guilt trip/force us to work it, and we basically refused and pointed to the bit of the HR policy that states pretty clearly that NOBODY can be refused holiday for that period if they request it.

Anyway, the big appeal that was meant to land early Jan has accidentally been sent out a week early. Hilarious. So now there's nobody to take the dozens of telephone donations. I've volunteered to work 1-5 today from home cus major brownie points and I'm like doing fuck all anyways and a half day back

Anyways, some other senior management guy (who will be off work, at home with his family like everyone else) has sent an email to my manager's manager saying "well this is a good argument for [Igor's department] actually working?!" but he didn't realise I'm CCed in, lol.

[Giggles]

You’ve let your colleagues down.

[Pepe]

No such thing as major brownie points. No one will ever be thankful. They will just expect you to do it next time, since you agreed this time.

[randomlegend]

If you work with cunts, yeah. My rota co-ordinator wangled me ten days off over Christmas (without me even asking) using one day of my annual leave because I am super flexible the rest of the time and take a lot of the shifts she can't otherwise fill.

[Pepe]

These are people that are asking their employees to work during days where their contracts say they should not be working. Being cunts is a given at that point.

[Adramelch]

It's a bit of both. In a job with shifts, there's usually reciprocity since everyone needs to adjust their schedule here and there so you tend to get back what you give in a sense. In an office job, I'd say it's not that much of a thing.

[igor_balis]

No such thing as major brownie points. No one will ever be thankful. They will just expect you to do it next time, since you agreed this time.

Yeah you're right generally, but I've made it pretty clear that I'm barely capable of working the hours I'm contractually obliged to, let alone any extras. If you're being a super keen spaz doing 70 hours a week from day one you're just fucking yourself and fucking your comrades, but me doing this 4 hour shift for my boss will deffo be rewarded more than adequately. At the very least I'll get the hours back and if I make any cock ups in the next couple if weeks this will lessen the pain.

[Shindig]

It’s not really the overtime that gets me noticed. It’s the extra tasks I end up doing and doing them well.

[Foe]

Overtime would be class.

In my job I could work my contracted 36 or 70 and I’d still find work to do. Leaders would just baseline what’s achievable based on what’s done, so I’m very diligent with working contracted but for emergency scenarios. Making it the norm is a dangerous outcome.

I suspect that’s what all these leaders have done though. They’ve worked ridiculous hours to try and get to their position and now just expect everyone will do the same. Certainly the feeling I get in my industry - if you want to really go far, you’re sacrificing a lot of your own time to get there.

[Panda Bear]

Overtime would be class.

In my job I could work my contracted 36 or 70 and I’d still find work to do. Leaders would just baseline what’s achievable based on what’s done, so I’m very diligent with working contracted but for emergency scenarios. Making it the norm is a dangerous outcome.

I suspect that’s what all these leaders have done though. They’ve worked ridiculous hours to try and get to their position and now just expect everyone will do the same. Certainly the feeling I get in my industry - if you want to really go far, you’re sacrificing a lot of your own time to get there. Unrelated to what you just wrote, but you need to jump ship and find another company.

[Smjffy]

Still going strong in current job but I gotta be honest, it's a bit boring because you don't really do anything different from one day to the next. I have helped with basic prep for the other chefs which is fine but mostly just choppy choppy bollocks. Not going to be impulsive and just walk but definitely need to see what happens with any potential restrictions etc and assess things because whilst getting up nice and early sucks, finishing so early each day does not but I have to be honest, AA/AAA/wannabe Michellin, any fucker could do this if given enough time to adjust to the pace and knows how to cook a damn egg.

Trying not to overreact or fear the worst but I do think my initial thoughts of game over for the hospitality industry was in fact correct and if that's the case, what to do next? I was thinking combining both cooking and MH, two jobs I've enjoyed the most and going self employed and offering myself out to teach vulnerable adults the basics. I do think it has potential but not sure of the in's and out's of whether it would be possible.

[Foe]

Perhaps a period of boring, but stable is exactly what you need?

Use it as a chance to build up some funds/buffer and if you really want to pursue something different, use your early afternoons to research.

Or you know, enjoy yourself.

I don’t think a perfect job exists, and finding something tolerable and sustainable really should be the goal.

[Shindig]

There seems to be a fool-proof formula in this job about kids with cool names: Teenagers with the coolest names are the guaraneteed autistic. This doesn't include deed poll names which are largely schizophrenic.

[Baz]

For some reason I thought Monday and Tuesday is a bank holiday so set my out of office to say I’m back in on Wednesday. Turns out Tuesday isn’t a bank holiday, but I think I’m gonna risk it anyway and just go back on Wednesday cos YOLO.

[Manc]

Didn't get the job. There's no coming back from this.

[Spikey M]

They let you know on New Years day? Brutal.

[Shindig]

Lol, year fucked on day one.

[Spikey M]

"New Year, New m... never mind."

[Giggles]

Last day off :cry:

[Spikey M]

Same. :boydy:

[Giggles]

Slipped up by not arranging something for tomorrow so I wouldn’t have to go to the office and do the bullshit Christmas small talk.

“Yeah”
“Fine”
“Quiet enough”
“Nothing much”

:happycry:

[Ian]

I've got tomorrow off as well 'cause Scotland but I've still got some on call to go. On the flipside no callouts yet so it's mostly just been an excuse to stay indoors so swings and roundabouts, I guess.

[Baz]

For some reason I thought Monday and Tuesday is a bank holiday so set my out of office to say I’m back in on Wednesday. Turns out Tuesday isn’t a bank holiday, but I think I’m gonna risk it anyway and just go back on Wednesday cos YOLO.


I've got tomorrow off as well 'cause Scotland

Ah so thats what I've done.

[Ian]

It is easy to forget what country you live in if you're doing December drinking properly.

[Shindig]

Ah, St. Helens. That famous border town. :D

[igor_balis]

I've been done by that before, cus Google calendar shows all UK bank holidays by default, and on some settings it doesn't show SCOTLAND ONLY HAHA BACK TO WORK DICKHEAD unless you click into it :moop:

[Jimmy Floyd]

We've got 'stock count' starting tomorrow, in which everyone has to down tools, go into the warehouse and count the tens of thousands of metal and rubber objects stored there. Earlier in the year we brought in a system called 'Perpetual Inventory' whereby the boss specifically employs someone to do this all year, precluding the need to do the antiquated physical stock take and thus lose 4+ days of business. However, being 83 and a mindless autocrat, he then decided in the week before Christmas that we're going to do the stock count anyway, because 'This is the way we've always done things', or at least that's according to the increasingly beleaguered MD who passed on the message.

What actually happens is that nominated competent sales personnel (me, the Indian guy, and the lazy Russian) are locked up in the office all day to tell bawling customers that they can't have their orders for another week for entirely arbitrary reasons, while the rest troop off and count thrust bearings and cylinder head bolts for a week.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Well, it turns out that was his last bizarre decision - I've come back to the office to find he's sold the company and retired.

I, for one, welcome our new, wait for it, South African overlords.

[niko_cee]

Korea, Israel [?], South Africa.

Yikes.

[Spikey M]

A South Korean takeover should have been written in the stars. I'm devastated.

[Shindig]

The uncertainty new ownership brings. :drool:

[Kikó]

Oh well. The rise to the top is over. Long live the king.

[Giggles]

Couldn't work for worse, horrible arrogant bastards. A change in ownership is still an opportunity though.

[Jimmy Floyd]

In theory it could be quite good for me, if they decide to clear out the methuselahs more quickly than would otherwise have happened. Also could be bad in various ways.

[Lofty]

We need daily reports on the fallout, Jim.

Also lol at the old cunt subjecting everyone to a pointless stock take as his final act.

[Yevrah]

The new owners would probably want the stock counted anyway. Good luck thought Jim, in the same situation myself and it's tedious.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The MD's just come into the office painting it as 'the best case scenario' and joking that he will be the first to be ousted. What could possibly go wrong. They seem to be the English type of saffas, rather than the Johannes van der Bloggenburg type.

The most immediate 'concern' for me is that I believe I was promised the South American post in order to protect Partner B's investment, an investment which has now also been bought out by the South Africans, so one presumes that's probably in the bin. However, even if it is, I wasn't being paid for it so that's not a problem, and I'm still the most competent junior person in the building, probably by some distance.

[Raoul Duke]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isHZcy0RKEE

[Pepe]

Spoken promises strike again.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Tbh, I've never taken it to be anything other than a load of wind until something actually happens, which I suspect it now won't, as it makes more sense for the (admittedly useless) yanks to be running those markets than for me to be doing it.

[Pepe]

I hope things go well for you, but I also hope new lols are delivered.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

As long as your boss isn't gone and you have to go on more jollies with him it's all good.

[Jimmy Floyd]

He was strongly tied to the old regime so I reckon he will demand silly terms or leave (which could also be good news for me).

As in any revolution, RIP to the regime moderates, specifically the Arab, who is about 3 months into a 5 year visa acquired via the personal patronage of the old fella. RIP also to all the useless cunts in purchasing and their 1970s wallpaper shirt-tie combos.

[Gray Fox]

The South Africans who are famous for their strong support of gay people too. God speed, Jim

[Jimmy Floyd]

Frankly I'd say that's been the least of their problems in the diversity arena.

[Lewis]

https://i.imgur.com/7Ex8o95.png

'Inclusion and diversity!'

[Disco]

Krugerrands all round.

[Panda Bear]

He was strongly tied to the old regime so I reckon he will demand silly terms or leave (which could also be good news for me).

As in any revolution, RIP to the regime moderates, specifically the Arab, who is about 3 months into a 5 year visa acquired via the personal patronage of the old fella. RIP also to all the useless cunts in purchasing and their 1970s wallpaper shirt-tie combos.Do you dare dream of a company where the Spain salesperson can speak Spanish?

[Jimmy Floyd]

I mean, yeah, it's possible, but I'd be a bit of a punt tbh (as I was a massive punt/holding card for South America).

This morning unable to get the words 'Johannesburg Stock Exchange', in a comedy 1980s PW Botha accent, out of my head.

[Shindig]

The call work is apparently going by the wayside this week. I've got some mixed feelings about that. Sure, speaking to inconvenienced customers is a bit shit but what I'm left with is two boring days at the office. I'd rather be busy at the office or completely taking the piss at home.

[Adramelch]

Being at the office with nothing to do is pretty horrible.

[Baz]

I spent all morning chatting on MSN Teams to the "i cannot bear my life anymore" monday morning right on time girl...Todays opening gambit:

[11:20] LB
omg guess what me friend [xxxx] has done
[11:27] LB
Shes not with Kelvin no more, for about a month. On saturday when she was drunk, shes gone on to his emails cause he was still logged in and shes emailed his new work place where he is supposed to be starting today saying something like 'im a nonce, kind regards Kelvin'
[11:28] LB
shell have to ring the place today ahaha
[11:28] LB
how bad is that
[11:40] Baz
:lol:
[11:41] LB
I mean its funny cause Ive never liked him but it is bad hahaha

[Jimmy Floyd]

Over the weekend, the Arab has shaved off his beard and was telling me about a whole boatload of Hugo Boss shirts and suits he has bought. I think he might be attempting a rebrand.

[Ian]

What was he wearing before?

[randomlegend]

A beard, he already told you.

[Shindig]

Being at the office with nothing to do is pretty horrible.

Yep. Fortunately, we've been given the all clear to work from home. They'll drag us in for training and cover but that'll be it. I was only in for the phone calls.

[Lofty]

Working from home with a puppy is... challenging to say the least.

[randomlegend]

Working from home with a puppy is... challenging to say the least.

:D

Everyone told us puppies would play and play and play and be mental but then they'd get exhausted and go to sleep a few times throughout the day.

Ours did not do that. We had to enforce sleep time by putting him in his crate for an hour at a time throughout the day otherwise he would just become completely overtired and a total shithead.

Having a puppy was a fun thing to do once, but it's also pretty hard and if/when we get another dog my preference is definitely to adopt one that's out of the puppy stage.

In other news, I'm pretty sure my work have double paid me for the locums I did last month somehow. Trying to get a response out of Medical Staffing about what's happened and whether I need to pay the money back is like pulling fucking teeth, they just do not respond ever.

[Manc]

Moving to a new team on Monday. Nice of them to give me plenty of notice.

[Ian]

Is that doing the same job but with a different team / for different customers or something? Because yeah, that's a bit rubbish to just drop it on you.

[Spikey M]

Is the new manager dick waving?

[Ian]

His name is Richard Waving, Spikey, you know he doesn't like the nickname.

[niko_cee]

I came across a CFO yesterday called Nick Diligent, which struck me as apposite.

[AyDee]

Been offered an interview for a job that would almost double my salary. London salaries really are something.

However, it's probably my second choice atm if I do choose to leave my current firm. Alternative option is a firm offering a bit less money but more of a technology focus and fewer billable hours which means I'd probably enjoy the job/life more.

Either way, much love for the frothy lawyer market.

[Yevrah]

London does look like it's paved with gold. I may have to hit it if the outcome of this takeover isn't favourable for me.

[Kikó]

The flip side of the gold rush is what you spend in rent.

[Spikey M]

Only if you're stupid enough to want to live there. :o

[Kikó]

You should live in London if you work there. It's most of the fun of the place

[AyDee]

Sadly my partner would rather live at the bottom of the ocean rather than in London.

We'll probably end up moving from Cambridge (also expensive, but wonderful place) to somewhere in Kent like Canterbury, which wouldn't be too bad a commute for 3 days in the office.

Agree with Kiko about making the most of being in London. It's looking like a necessity for me regardless, but the opportunity to see friends is as much a pull as the $$$. TTH meet-ups here I come.

[Ian]

It's £££ in London, silly.

Saved you a massive faux-pas there. You can thank me later.

[Spikey M]

There is no "enjoying" London. You can enjoy things that happen to be in London, but having to go to London for them wounds any experience.

The Tubes, buses, prices, crime, pollution, people, traffic, it's fucking exhausting.

[Yevrah]

The flip side of the gold rush is what you spend in rent.

If I could get a gig that's two days in the office a week, with a hotel stay on the company for 1 night a week I'd jump at the chance if circumstances work that way.

[Yevrah]

There is no "enjoying" London. You can enjoy things that happen to be in London, but having to go to London for them wounds any experience.

The Tubes, buses, prices, crime, pollution, people, traffic, it's fucking exhausting.

I had a week there for work over the summer and it was a "we need you when we need you affair" and it was genuinely one of the best weeks I can remember having. Always stuff going on, just amazing.

I agree however, that living there and doing that all the time would be genuinely exhausting.

[igor_balis]

Id rather risk a stabbing to enjoy some culture than going to see some dogs with pretend horns attached to them, pay £7 for a large glass of pissy lager and get some pikeys try to sell me some plastic tat from the back of a wooden hut and then go actually wow this was amazing, let's find another one to go to.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I enjoyed my three years living there, but I wouldn't go back. Well, not unless the price was right.

That said I live about 300 yards from the London border now so I'm not exactly away from it.

[Kikó]

If I could get a gig that's two days in the office a week, with a hotel stay on the company for 1 night a week I'd jump at the chance if circumstances work that way.

A colleague of mine had managed to do something like this when he was contracting. Worked three days in London then went back to Yorkshire for the weekend with his family in his golden palace. Could expense the hotel as well for business so lived the dream.

On the busyness front, live somewhere quieter if you don't want to be in the bustle. Islington was close enough to work but still full of restaurants and bars if you wanted without being Soho.

[Raoul Duke]

Sadly my partner would rather live at the bottom of the ocean rather than in London.

We'll probably end up moving from Cambridge (also expensive, but wonderful place) to somewhere in Kent like Canterbury, which wouldn't be too bad a commute for 3 days in the office.

Agree with Kiko about making the most of being in London. It's looking like a necessity for me regardless, but the opportunity to see friends is as much a pull as the $$$. TTH meet-ups here I come.

Check out St Albans. Really nice commuter town. Was there for a couple of years.

[Spikey M]

I've just had an almighty barney with my manager and her stunned silence at the end could well be the end of this job.

There's an eviction taking place next week that has been managed by another department the whole way through, but now one of them has Covid and they want muggins here to step in. Fine. Or it would be if I didn't know the family from school. Said family are dodgy as sin. In and out of prison, drug dealing, assault, the works. It's basically half family / half gang in reality.

So I told my manager;

"Ordinarily, no problem, but I know the family from school and they know me"

How do you know them?

"From school. We're not friends or anything, but we nodd if we're passing each other and me being there would definitely make it personal and aggravate matters"

Well someone has to do it

"Agreed"

So why not you?

"Because they know me, my family and friends and it's likely to spill over into my personal life"

Is that really likely?

"Yes. Very likely. Look, I'm not doing it, at the bare minimum it's a conflict of interest on my behalf and at worst this is a complete lack of regard for my safety on yours."

....



I just need to hold firm until April and I'm applying for every job I can find.

[Manc]

Take the job, fudge the eviction, and embrace your new life as a crime bod.

[CJay]

That’s poor on her part. Conflicts of interest in our work (housing applications, etc) are always avoided whenever possible. Indeed you’d probably get the book thrown at you if you didn’t say anything and it came to light later.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Isn't that just basic conflict of interest stuff? A proper manager would step in and do it themselves if there wasn't another option available.

[Spikey M]

There's loads of options available, I think that's what has annoyed me the most. I would only be there as "anonymous eviction bod 4" to tape the Tort to the door. Any mug could do it.

[Shindig]

How likely are this lit likely to blame you for it regardless? Like, do they know you’re in that line of work?

[Ian]

I just need to hold firm until April and I'm applying for every job I can find.

Why April?

But yeah, proper shitebag behaviour on her behalf. Especially if you don't have previous for trying to dodge things, then I'd get her position but presuming you don't then she should know that and realise you're not digging your heels in for no reason.

[Lofty]

Are you not in a union? Fuck applying for a new job I'd be lubing her up for an anal destruction derby at tribunal if she doesn't fuck off.

[Yevrah]

Bonus I presume.

Reminds me of when I worked for Kwiksave as a teenager and one of the head office bods was encouraging us to approach shoplifters after they took our security guard away. I said that I lived round here (here at the time was hardly the bronx, but could still be pretty rough) and didn't want to run into them in the pub having done that. Her response? "You should think about drinking in a different pub".

[Spikey M]

Why April?

But yeah, proper shitebag behaviour on her behalf. Especially if you don't have previous for trying to dodge things, then I'd get her position but presuming you don't then she should know that and realise you're not digging your heels in for no reason.

Got no holiday until then to attend interviews, annoyingly.

I think the only other thing I've refused to do was when she tried phoning me in the middle of the night because there was an 'emergency' and I lived closest, despite her living about 5 minutes from me at the time and her being paid to be on call. Generally speaking I'm quite happy to do anything that'll get some 50p miles onto my next wage slip.

[Spikey M]

Bonus I presume.

Reminds me of when I worked for Kwiksave as a teenager and one of the head office bods was encouraging us to approach shoplifters after they took our security guard away. I said that I lived round here (here at the time was hardly the bronx, but could still be pretty rough) and didn't want to run into them in the pub having done that. Her response? "You should think about drinking in a different pub".

She won't be on any kind of a bonus, she's just lazy and tends to bark orders. She tends to bite at any form of pushback. The alcohol doesn't help.

(Well, it doesn't help her, it'll help me tonight. :drool: )

[Spikey M]

Are you not in a union? Fuck applying for a new job I'd be lubing her up for an anal destruction derby at tribunal if she doesn't fuck off.

Our Union rep is one of the Team Leaders for another team. I took one lol at that and didn't bother.

[Ian]

Got no holiday until then to attend interviews, annoyingly.

Surely it's worth keeping an eye out in case there's anything you really want and just pulling a sicky for it if need be? I get why you wouldn't want to do that for a job you're just moving to for the sake of getting out but what if a job for the Mark Noble Appreciation Society came up or something?

[Spikey M]

Surely it's worth keeping an eye out in case there's anything you really want and just pulling a sicky for it if need be? I get why you wouldn't want to do that for a job you're just moving to for the sake of getting out but what if a job for the Mark Noble Appreciation Society came up or something?

Yeah I've been keeping an eye on Indeed, but no such dream job has come available just yet. It doesn't help that I don't really know what I want. As much as I want out, I don't want to be a Housing / Hearing Officer any more. I'd rather take a job as Boris Johnsons fluffer at this point.

[Adramelch]

Surely it's worth keeping an eye out in case there's anything you really want and just pulling a sicky for it if need be? I get why you wouldn't want to do that for a job you're just moving to for the sake of getting out but what if a job for the Mark Noble Appreciation Society came up or something?

Spikey would have already been a founding member of such a Society you'd assume.

[Ian]

You may be right there.


Yeah I've been keeping an eye on Indeed, but no such dream job has come available just yet. It doesn't help that I don't really know what I want. As much as I want out, I don't want to be a Housing / Hearing Officer any more. I'd rather take a job as Boris Johnsons fluffer at this point.

To be fair I imagine poor Carrie is getting rogered senseless right now so he can announce his xth (Sue Gray to confirm how many he has) sprog and get some of the heat off him so there may be, for want of a better word, an opening.

[Jimmy Floyd]

My two colleagues have been talking about World of Warcraft for over an hour now. Whilst it's fucking annoying and because of the Arab's complete lack of self awareness I can barely hear myself think, I think rather than telling them to shut up, in the context of new owners in town, I think the better play is to stay out of it and allow them to talk themselves out of any kind of credibility with the two senior managers who are well within earshot on the other side of the room.

[Ian]

Are they Horde or Alliance though?

[Lofty]

Our Union rep is one of the Team Leaders for another team. I took one lol at that and didn't bother.

You can fuck them off and speak to the full time officer for your area, stating the reasons as to why you are bypassing your local rep.

[Shindig]

She won't be on any kind of a bonus, she's just lazy and tends to bark orders. She tends to bite at any form of pushback. The alcohol doesn't help.

(Well, it doesn't help her, it'll help me tonight. :drool: )

Ah, I forgot she was the problem drinker. I'd almost be tempted to wait that out but the civil service seems right cowardly about addressing functioning alcoholics.

[Baz]

Are they Horde or Alliance though?Very important question. If they’re alliance, you might as well whistleblow on them being nonces.

[Ian]

Classic Horde edgelord attitude.

I actually just played both.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

PvP Horde, PvE Alliance.

[Manc]

The new team is awash with absoutle nerds. Within five minutes the "weekend catch up" turned into a marvel discussion. Fml.

[Jimmy Floyd]

That's a huge problem at my workplace. I'm in a room with six other men, not a single one of them into football or any sport (aside from the Indian guy who half-follows the cricket), every single one of them huge on Marvel, Star Wars, Warcraft, RPGs, Stranger Things, and so on. Then they tell me I'm quiet.

The 60 year old shipping woman watching the fucking F1 is the closest I get to a relatable water cooler conversation.

[Ian]

It'll be interesting to see what the dynamic is like whenever we end up in the office, if I'm still there, as the team has changed quite considerably since the start of lockdown. The Monday morning chat was invariably Old Firm talk that I didn't get involved in but the core group of people who drove that and were the ones who'd been in the team the longest have all fucked off to other jobs so it's hard to see who or what will be driving the conversation in the office.

I also have a feeling the new manager is going to try and pretend like we're all great mates in the team who want to socialise and do activities together when we're just not and trying to force it isn't going to make that magically happen.

[Spikey M]

I have 2 Marvel Mongs on my team but they know not to talk to me about it. There are some colours that have to be nailed to the mast and "Don't talk to me about your noncy Comic shit" is right up there.

[Don]

26 Jan is when this WFH dream ends, isn't it? What a ride it's been. I struggle to see how my twice weekly commutes aren't gonna give rise to a shift towards Islamic extremism.

[Manc]

Slander.