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The mexican food in California was good when I was there, in fact all food and customer service was notably good. I was there for a month splitting time between San Diego, San Francisco and LA. Not sure where the lolling is coming from? This was 2010, mind.
That sums up my experience, to be fair. I also never got the whole preciousness about the homeless problem over there. It's just a fact of city life.
To be fair, he is from Canada, the Better America™️Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
Maybe once global warming makes it pleasant enough.
See you on the beaches of Nunavut. :cool:
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I'm on the flight back to Dublin. I have never been so happy to be returning to Ireland/the UK.
Sinne fianna fail/God save the King.
Unreal isn't it? Who's idea is it too leave that much of a gap when you just want to have a shit?Quote:
Originally Posted by Boydy
There was times in work where I could see someone waiting through the gap. I mean fuck off.
As part of my job every 4 years I have to go to a training centre put on a “survival suit” and escape from a helicopter being dumped in a swimming pool, and let me tell you, it is unpleasant.
I’d rather just sign a form saying I accept likely death if I was ever involved in an actual incident.
I don’t back my chances of escape if it ever happened for real.
Starting from today, my next day fully off work will be Saturday 11 March. Absolute fucking ironman stint coming up.
First of all we have a company sales seminar on Wednesday which will seemingly decide much of the future of this place, then on Saturday it's Bogota...
I will be expecting some real life contributions to the new "where am I" thread.
"Our first day in cartel country and none of these blokes look like farmers. I asked them what crops they grow as a way of making small talk. The mood soured quickly."
I suspect Jimmy's boss will end this trip paying off more than just Jimmy.
I except Jim's lot take that out of his annual leave allocation.
We are having a work beano to Normandy next week to see the D-Day beaches and hopefully the Bayeux Tapestry (I can take or leave the beaches). I managed to duck out of doing a presentation by jokingly offering to be the liaison officer with the locals, and the organiser appears to have taken it seriously.
'Le fry up, mon ami? Comprende?'
"What you mean you got no facking chips. I come ere on a plane you caant".
Drama here earlier. At about 12.25, the South Africans called a 12.30 meeting for all sales staff. Everyone goes upstairs with uh-oh faces on. The announcement is... they're setting a 40% growth target for the company next year, and to achieve this they're putting us all on same salary + commission for our own markets, which will be re-allocated on Thursday.
On the face of it a quality deal for us all, but jesus christ, I'm going to get Togo and Mali or something and end up getting kidnapped by Boko Haram.
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Does that mean the south America trip is cancelled?
Well, no. I'm going. Whether it's going to have long term significance or just be good general experience, we'll have to wait and see.
Well don't rule out being kidnapped there before Boko Haram even get the chance then.
40 percent growth seems alot.
It is a lot, but this is what happens when you get bought out by South African venture capital. That said, we have been doing things on a 1970s basis for years so there's probably a lot of room for growth.
The firm is full of virile young go getters after all.
Had another encounter with our wonderful French counterparts today. They're really massive arseholes.
Mad that despite it being a universally ackowledged fact, the pro-Brexit lot (who were probably their biggest detractors) reckoned it would all be hunky dory with Anglo-French relations in the aftermath.
Lads I need your input to avoid something turning out really really shit.
So at work they have these awards ceremonies where you nominate colleagues for certain categories. The shortlisted nominees (3 for each category) get to go to the ceremony as do those who nominated them. I didn't get to go last year but some of my team did and it basically turned into a mini Christmas Do, with free 4pm wine that spilled over into the pub for an afterparty. So obviously this year I'm going.
This came round:
tldr: I can come up with any idea for a video talking about why I voted my mate for the Wellbeing Champion Award, and work will film it.Quote:
This year we will have 28 videos to prepare and produce and will be supported by colleagues in our comms team and from an external professional production team. As you can imagine we will be working within fairly tight deadlines, so your flexibility would be grately appreciated to enable us to complete the task on time, within budget and to a high quality.
You will see from last years' videos that we had a variety of themed, avatar illustrated, and voice over/cut to the workplace videos, (sorry I'm probably not using the correct terminology here, but hopefully you get the gist), which we would like to continue this year. So, if you're happy to do something a little bit different, like be a quiz show guest, great, but if not, no problem.
The production team are currently preparing a schedule for us, so I will be in touch again shortly, but in the meantime could I ask you to have a think about ideas/themes for you video please. I have some thoughts which I'll share with you next time.
Turns out two of us voted for him, and the other person is my line manager. :uhoh: Why she voted him and not me, I do not understand either, but we digress. Your ideas should probably incorporate her having a supporting role though.
This video will then be played at the awards ceremony before the winner is announced.
I'd forgot about it and just had another reminder, with the following suggestion:
Quote:
. To avoid repetition and the event becoming overly corporate we are aiming to create light-hearted, humorous content in a mix of styles, but we also want to ensure that our nominators feel comfortable with their recording. With that in mind I wondered what your thoughts were about doing your video in the style of Family Fortunes? Maybe answering some questions based on your nominations - 'we asked our workforce..... our nominators said'
Your video will be a minute long and I would provide you with a short script based on your nomination.
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Hit me with it. How can I steal the awards show, without actually being up for an award?
Just show them the TTH awards video instead.
Just film Garden Soccer.
I'm not reading that shit in detail as my brain is melting currently from a long meeting so apologies if misunderstood but...Love island if the audience are into that. You all have a short clip in which you say why the geezer is a don but dress it up with a few 'he's a proper peng sort'/'he doesn't stop grafting'/'id put all my eggs in his basket' and a load of love island editing which you'll obvs be able to pull off. Get one of those z-list celeb videos from an old love island contestant for ultimate melty points.
Is all this happening in a professional setting? Am I missing something?
i ain't reading all that
i'm happy for u tho
or sorry that happened
Is there enough time to get Vince Russo involved?
Yes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
Some workplaces aren't complete misery.
One team at my spot used to have a daily lunch time quiz, a leaderboard for their daily jogs in work time and a badminton round robin league. They were unsurprisingly wank at their jobs.
I'd leave Vince off the table for this one. He's done more than enough.
Floyd getting it from all angles recently.
It doesn’t sound like a place it work at all. Absolute bluffers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Baz
Shit like this would make me more miserable than just working. I absolutely fucking hate this type of wankery.Quote:
Originally Posted by Baz
Don't be mistaken, I've chosen to get involved. It's easy to avoid/ignore. It passed me by completely last year, until I asked the nominated colleague where his glasses where and he explained that he'd lost them after the awards ceremony. Awards ceremony?Quote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
What could be better than a Domestic Abuse Champion? An award-winning Domestic Abuse Champion.
I wonder how many people up and down the country are genuinely stealing a living.
I think you could sack ten per cent of my organisation and nobody would notice, and if you replaced a couple of people with better ones then it could probably be twenty per cent smaller.
You couldn't lose anyone from my place, at least not in the serious departments. Everyone hammered to the bone and holiday cover is a nightmare. The South African private equity whirlwind has blown through again this week saying they want massive annual growth from the same number of staff.
You could get rid of the overpaid yanks in my place and we'd probably be much more productive.
We only have two complete wastes of time. One is finally going this month, I don’t know what he’ll do if the new place expects him to work.
We're so tight on staff you wouldn't even sack the bad ones.
My company has an annual awards do but rather than the bollocks Baz is on about they just hire a venue, put on a free bar for attendees (nominees and nominators) and book a professional comedian.
Sounds identical, only I shall fulfil the role of said comedian in a 1 minute video where I'm pretending to be Les Dennis.
It's 4.42am in Bogota.
I'm here with my 79 year old colleague for the start of a 19 day trip. Such an odd dynamic between us. He mainly calls me 'old son', 'young man', or 'Steve', which is the guy he used to travel with in the 70s and 80s. I had to start by driving to the office, then walking 20 minutes across town to meet him at the crap hotel and wait for the taxi. During this time his opening gambit was to tell me that he doesn't have any friends now because they've all died. He listed them off - Richard, Tony, Andrew, Stephen, Victor, etc etc. None of them had surnames.
When we got to Heathrow and had a couple of beers his stories became a bit less morose. I can only really remember the punchlines. One was 'Well, I tell you, she had some body, but not sure about the face'. Another was 'I looked down [from an opening in a rickety plane in Honduras] and it was all pineapples, man.' I hope he has plenty more to get us through the next three weeks. A notable feature is that he'll be telling a story that sounds like it's just from a few years ago, and then he'll say 'Yes, this was during the Mexico 86 World Cup, so we watched the final in a bar and then...'
10 hour flight to Bogota, in economy obvs, perched between him and Big Mama Sanchez, was no fun. Having to wear a mask for the full ten hours and still having to provide covid vaccine status at both ends was a bit of an eye opener - they still take Covid extremely seriously down here I think. After about six hours the mask started to wear me down and I felt like I was going to throw up several times. Fortunately managed to keep it down.
When we arrived we looked for the booked airport shuttle but apparently it doesn't start until five in the morning. We then got in a taxi and asked to go to the hotel which is a big brand one about 5 minutes from the airport. Unfortunately this, and everything else about his home city, was well beyond the taxi driver's ken and in a proper 'you couldn't make it up' moment, within minutes of being in Colombia we ended up being driven into some murky barrio with boarded up windows, massive security bars across every house (not sure if this is widespread or specific to that neighbourhood) and a live ambulance situation. Right in the middle of this area, his sat nav said ha llegado a su destino with no corporate hotel in sight. We then both started berating him until he turned back and after another half hour or so we managed to navigate him to the right place.
I'm going to bed. See you on Monday.