I swear I remember you giving it the biggun about hiring a PA and just going for the fittest one.
I swear I remember you giving it the biggun about hiring a PA and just going for the fittest one.
If they are disappearing roles to save money I might not go to laddo tomorrow and lead with 'stop giving this work to her she's not your PA' in case it causes a 'so what are we actually paying her for?' Discussion. From the lad who doesn't fancy her's point of view if he can disappear her job too he will probably get a gold star from higher up.
They did the same shit at our spot when someone in a niche assistant role left and we copped all their responsibilities for no uplift. Only just managed to palm them off on someone else 5 years later.
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That is a good point but due to the team structure I can’t see it happening. I won’t bore everyone with the details but she reports to two people and so has two workloads, whereas the other two people with the same job title only have one, so she’d be the last to go. Plus I’d rather take the risk if it means she’s happier at work, cos I’m a soft arse. She could waltz back into her old job, worst case scenario.
The more I think about it, the more annoyed I am that that other job will cease to exist, cos it’s been my long term target since I started in 2018.
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Aaaand I’ve just emailed everyone inviting them to a hen do I’m organising. What a top manager I am.
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her line manager:
What about making her cry everyday
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Thought that was a football manager screenshot for a second.
True. I saw someone using Teams in light mode the other day and was nearly sick.
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The Arab has just been at my desk in floods of tears (I'm always the last person left in at this time of day). He needed some dental treatment which cost several hundred pounds and asked his parents back in Jordan to sub him the money (they are wealthy). Some kind of massive dispute followed in which his father accused him of being out of money because he does drugs (he doesn't, or mushrooms at most) and it escalated to the point where his mother told him to delete her number and consider her dead to him.
It's sad, how these fucking people carry on. No cool heads or ability to withdraw from arguments. Still, ceebs being the person he pours this out to in the office. I just sat there chewing gum like Big Keith and said 'it's not your fault'. What else am I supposed to say?
What is he spending his money on?
Drugs.
Explosives.
Explosive drugs?
Explosive mushrooms?
Mushbooms.
Prostitutes.
Explosives prostitutes?
Combustitutes.
Thursdays gonna my last "work beano" for absolutely bloody ages.
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Two 4-day weeks coming up though
(albiet I have to take one day as holiday as the Dutch don't do Good Friday)
They don't but my company gives it off anyway.
Last week, the boss asked me for my honest opinion on the useless woman's work. Very generously, I said she had a good attitude and worked hard but needed to take more time to double check what she did and make sure it was correct. The truth is she's just too thick for this kind of work and will never improve, but I didn't say that.
This morning I come in and she's been signed off work for two weeks for 'personal reasons'. Oh well.
When they replace her you should request to be on the interview panel.
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Did they ever recover all the stuff she deleted?
Any union would arsefuck them to death with employment law over a statement like that.
Some clown at my spot tried to initiate a department re-org via the backdoor and was very sure of themselves until the union drafted a letter saying 'you've broken all these employment laws', suddenly the chief instigator had 'slept on it' and decided to do a proper consultation
Im in the process of updating my CV which I have not done in about 10 years.
Looks like you can put your actual photo in your CV.
You could put a picture of your dick in your CV if you wanted, it's your CV.
Steady on.
Do it Sincere.
I want to be hired for my brains and not for my body.
That and the A4 isn't big enough.
Racist!
I should have said a picture of literally any object other than 'your dick'. Never involve genitals in flippant online comments before 11am.
One of the nurses I used to work with has just put up a bikini photo from holiday (as is her prerogative) and the weird paeds surgical reg has replied to it with a massive "WOW!" sticker and "What a click!".
She's probably early to mid twenties and he's in his late forties.
Absolutely deranged.
Then again this is a guy who: doesn't believe in human evolution; didn't believe in covid for months and then decided he did believe in it and went completely paranoid about catching it; doesn't believe in autism; said "the taliban aren't all bad"; was against Saudi Arabia allowing women to drive because "what if they don't want to drive"; etc.
Sounds like he’d be popular on here.
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Was the bikini pic decent though?Originally Posted by randomlegend
Today is International Moron Day at my place of work.
First of all the Uzbekistan gold mine fuck-up rears its head again, another trip is required, this time with the chief engineer going out there as, you guessed it, a sales guy going out on his own to shrug at a broken engine didn't get things sorted. The chief engineer is summoned to the sales director's office to be given the news, the following conversation ensues:
CE: So do they speak Indian in Uzbekistan?
SD: Erm... no, no they don't.
CE: What language do they speak, then? Asian?
SD: ....
The Russian was quickly mobilised and added to the dispatch party. Meanwhile, I got drawn into the most needless argument in history with the Italian woman. The finance director used to send out an official exchange rate list every month, instead of this he has now said 'ceebs just use Google'. The Italian woman has chosen this, of all things, to be her hill to die on, claiming that the Google exchange rate takes too long to look up and isn't reliable. The Sales Director, already weary from the earlier conversation, delegated me to resolve this tantrum. I explained that the Google exchange rate is live, but she is absolutely unrepentant, saying that if the finance director can't issue a company-approved exchange rate for her to bung tirelessly into her calculator every time, then he isn't doing his job properly.
Finally, several hours later, I've managed to emerge, like Chamberlain from the Munich conference, waving a piece of paper with a pencil-written exchange rate which she can look up and rub out periodically before writing in the new one. Peace in our time!
Donned by big nipple energy.
Had a call with my Head of Department yesterday about returning to work after the Easter Holidays. Going to do a phased return, so current plan is exam classes first and pick the rest up over four weeks or so, but with room to deviate from the plan, which is helpful. I still plan to discuss going part time, but that won't be until September I imagine. I've rowed back a bit on quitting Head of Year entirely; it probably still needs to happen but will see what it's like picking it back up for the remainder of the academic year.
On the plus side, I've heard some snippets of some positive changes being made whilst I've been away (binning blazers, banning mobile phones, big push on defiance and disrespect) which has made me feel a bit more positive about going back.
Binning blazers?
Presumably that means removing them as a uniform requirement, rather than some symbolic bra-burning type act.
I thought it was some roadman speak.
How is that positive though?
Dunno. Probably lessens the number of places to stash a bladed item.
Or a phone, or any number of other implements.
Kids should all wear branded polo shirts to school really. All the discipline of wearing the right kit / the same kit as each other, without the bullshit. Cheaper too.
So should workforces. All dressed like they work for DPD or The Works.
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Polyester polos have to be one of mankind's worst inventions.
About time that happened. They're my favourite NXT tag team.
This is probably the actual reason. Some schools take the piss with their uniform requirements. The demand for embroidered blazers, rather than allowing a badge be stitched on, being one of them. They can cost £70 odd alone. Fine if you're sending your kid to a Private school. Less fine if they're attending a school in the middle of an underprivileged community.
I imagine the current economy has made the calls to end the pompous bollocks too loud to ignore.
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