Doctors' staff rooms have always been called messes, I don't know why.
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Doctors' staff rooms have always been called messes, I don't know why.
That's my thing for today learned.
I think my work have finally managed to achieve peak retardation. They have decided that they want to become more community focused, and they want us plebs at the heart of that. Fine. Sounds good. Today's request is that we involve ourselves in a volunteering effort to clear up the litter on Southend beach following the bank holiday.
Cool, a working day at the beach! Right? Wrong. We are to do this after work or at the weekend. :D
The ripple of laughter and knowing glances that were exchanged suggest uptake may be limited.
Nothing worse than bosses who don't have anything else in their life and expect the workforce to be the same.
That reminds me of one of Sandman's rules for life that his uncle taught him: never shit in your own time.
If you shit for 10 minutes a day at work every day, by the end of the year you'll have been paid a whole week for shitting. :thbup:
What if you need a shit on Saturday?
Expense it
Hold it.
Overtime is paid time and a half.
People who linger on the toilet - reading or whatever - are the worst kind of nonce, so talk about counter-productive.
My mate who works in a junior IT role, his boss, HR woman and the office manager who is part of the same department as IT for some reason had a meeting today - HR person said they're gonna try to be more active in training people so they can progress, to which IT manager said "well I don't agree with that because then people get overqualified and want to leave the role". Great strategy mate.
The IT department is just this manager, a slightly senior officer below him and the junior role my mate is currently in(plus the office manager lady who's sort of her own mini department responsible for watering plants and shit), and he's had about 3 predecessors in 18 months cus people get frustrated at the lack of training and being kept doing crappy turning monitors on servicing shit and leave anyway - Shirley you might as well give people a bit more to do so they are at least not miserable and unmotivated before they fuck off.
Or better yet you just hire middle aged people happy to coast doing basic reactive support stuff - my mate joined specifically cus the job spec asked for a young, ambitious person who wants to progress and actually said they won't just be doing 1st line turn it off and on again stuff. Class.
And they wonder why there's a skills shortage. How are these morons in management.
My mate actually left a place offering him 35k to stay and go more senior cus he wanted to work somewhere more progressive (charity rather than some corporate place with ancient old bastard management team like Jimmy's place), but more specifically cus he was sick of just doing laptop setups etc. Our place (I work here too) as I alluded to said in the job spec it was gonna be more project work and learning network and programming things and room to progress and he's spent the vast majority of his 6 months doing laptop setups lol.
When he told the manager that he left a 35k job for those reasons, manager and his little sidekick basically lolled at him and said ha should have stayed there mate.
Mate.
`More progressive lol.
The agricultural boss (80 years old) is on holiday today, as is his number one consigliere, so he rang me last night to tell me I'm in charge of making sure we hit the August targets today. I said OK no problem, but I don't have permission to access to the relevant areas of the system, so I have no idea either where we are at the moment, or where we need to get to by the end of the day. He said 'Thanks, I'll leave it in your capable hands' and rang off.
Currently starting the day very much like George with the Pensky file.
That's probably your fault for being sarcastic. :D
The not training people because they will leave issue is something I've experienced at my last place. Attrition is going to happen and I get you don't want to train everyone (some people are shit) but the lack of ambition makes people leave anyway. My current lot have said here's €1500, spend it on things you think are relevant to your role.
Yeah it's odd. My company have no issue putting people through master's degrees or whatever course or qualification is necessary. In fact, they actively encourage it. But they're German too so could be a culture thing, because company loyalty is a lot stronger over there.
My old company were German so I'm not sure it's universal :D
The guy who started this job same time as me said his old firm basically discouraged work-funded training by saying you had to pay them the money back if you left within however many months of completing the course.
That's hardly discouraging it, more protecting yourself from leeches.
I’ve got some right nerd trying to step on my toes at work, who thinks Q3 ends in October and Q4 ends in January. If you’re gonna try and intervene, at least don’t be dumb.
Mess is the catchall term for the railway in general iirc.
And the NIH amirite.
Apparently peak retardation has yet to be reached. I have today been asked to drive an hour and a half to help a man write his own name. I have politely declined.
Still don't know if we made it or not. It's like Schrödinger's sales target. The MD even sent out an email that stated 'We have posted strong numbers for August' but didn't state what those numbers were or whether the target had been met.
Transparency is so 1990s. This company inhabits the 1970s.
They might not even know how much they sell.
The real target was the demented customers you acquired along the way.
I'll have you know we've just moved over to an online portal for booking holidays, rather than printing out an application form .doc, writing in the requested days, and having it signed.
I work for a billion pound company and we only moved to an online portal a couple of years ago. Our buying department is still heavily dependent on Excel.
Or print it out physically, take a picture of it with your phone and then email it to someone?
Those poor agency bastards.
We're working with some massive energy companies at the moment on a project involving electricity trading. Turns out almost everything runs off Excel.
Excel is the lifeblood for a lot of organisations. We had risk models and compensation calcs based off a spreadsheet.
My career woes continue as I approach ten years of service.
After my appointment as carbon champion I’ve actually managed to create myself a reputation as a competent person in in the region for reducing emissions, with people seeking out to learn from and share across the other regions. Great. Who’d have thought that turning emissions conversations into an equipment running cost would be so effective to actually getting stuff reduced?
I’m continually getting told how impressed people are with what im doing and what an impact im having, including at the strategic level way above what my level of influence should be. Great.
I’ve had ten years of being told im “exceeding expectations” and a “high performer”. Great.
Where’s my salary? Bang middle of the road for anyone who joined at a similar time. Will they give me a promotion? Nope, not possible for this role. Whilst they continue to try and load additional shit onto me. Do they have any idea of upcoming roles that would be good for me to apply for? Nope.
Said no for the first time today. I also told my boss I need clarity on my chance for promotion in this role/area and whether it’s the same as the message I received 12 months ago form a previous (totally shit) manager, otherwise im going to start applying for other jobs.
Realising the “promotion” delta is probably worth about £10k in base salary, £5k in bonus and ??? in pension means im an idiot for accepting the status quo because I enjoy my job as eventually I’ll need to leave anyway, so I might as well do it now.
Mental in this company that performance and reward are not linked. Want to get paid more? Abandon your job every 2 years and apply for roles at a higher level.
Could you take your skills outside the oil industry for anything like the money you earn, or are you sort of boxed into it now?
Nuclear power. :cool:
I think it sounds like more or less anywhere, unless you have specialised skills that are a massive ballache to try and replace.
I do love the idea of an Oil Company having a Carbon Champion. It's like Baz taking his Domestic Abuse Championship Belt and taking on Father's For Justice and Chris Benoit in a Triple Threat Match.
I actually debated applying for a government sort of role last year as I though it would be interesting (oil and gas authority). The pay would’ve been roughly the same, but no share schemes or bonus, so a net pay cut.
Ironically the job I’m debating applying for is “new energies” ie non oil and gas, and it’s the grade above so as a minimum would be a 10% pay rise as the grade above me gets an “allowance” on top of base pay.
I’m paid more than an average job, but it’s not massively so. My pal abandoned oil to go work for a whisky distillery and had to take a maybe £10k pay cut to leave.
I’ve got the magic 10 year experience kicker now that should make me very employable given the skills I’ve learned and the company I’ve worked for. Leaving is an option, but I’d rather stay. They just need to pay me what I think I’m worth, and what correlates with the praise they keep giving me.
MATE, I work for an integrated energy company, not an oil company.
;)
Carbon champion basically does nothing. I’m supposed to just hassle people to do actions related to emissions. I might put it in my email signature actually, and it’s definitely going on my CV.