lol a country with 1/3rd of the population spends more, owns all the assets, and makes a profit.
lol a country with 1/3rd of the population spends more, owns all the assets, and makes a profit.
The government regulates the life out of it and then has to bail its own failures out. The worst of both worlds, pissing into the wind since 1921.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...t-tfl-covid-19
£19bn for a 73 mile line, it's white collar crime of the highest level. Give me some comparable EU/world projects phonics.
Be nice if they could electrify the railway in the North before sinking more cash into London.
When I went on a train from Manchester to Rochdale once (don't ask) my best guess was that a couple of hefty blokes were running along the track pulling it. The journey took about 4 years.
And yet you probably arrived several decades before you left.
Careful. My first trip to Edinburgh took two hours because the train lost traction outside Berwick.Originally Posted by Kikó
Still, it's better than what America limps on with.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53726607
I would say 'get a proper desk' but she makes it sound like her London flat is a shoebox and her husband wins most of the arguments.After five months of working from home, she says her back was "in absolute agony" from sitting hunched over her laptop without a proper desk.
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Christ, how the mighty fall. Someone get Chrissy Nolan on the phoneFirst day off today and won't be returning till 1st September
First week of break has been tarnished by having to rest from my near fatal accident and I'll have to do a fair bit of life admin with the house situation and some bits of work to ease my return but FIRST OF SEPTEMBER, YOU CUNTS.
Ain't done a jot of that work I was planning to do too.
I've had maybe one day off in nearly three weeks but tonight was the last of that stupid mother fucking eatouttohelpout bullshit and I'll be amazed if there is no spike in Covid around here.
If there isn't then it's all bollocks. FML though, I thought I'd left my life and found myself experiencing Groundhog Day recently.
I'm going to do one or two more months then I'm signing out of kitchen life for good. It's just not for me any more as I feel I need to do something more with myself.
Obviously would have been nice to do this in the 4 weeks prior to restarting but the time has come to get myself a monitor even though I'll probs be back in glorious Landan town soon enough and the purchase is really only a desperate attempt in the hope it'll improve my productivity after what has been a dire day of procrastination.
I just need something that doesn't weigh a tonne so I can move it off the dining table if needs be. The choice is dizzying for my budget of £100.
I read a little about it and tbh I don't think I care about aspect ratio, response time, refresh rate, etc so I may just go with an Ip Dip Do. VA, IPS, LCD, TN, does any of this shit matter?
If it’s just for work, just go for as big as your budget allows.
And if it’s from Amazon, hit me up for a referral link.
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My boss says 'go ahead and...' before every single verb he uses, and it's really starting to get on my tits.
I'm going to go ahead and go out for lunch
Can you go ahead and contact the customer please
We all need to go ahead and check before we go ahead and send quotes out like that
Aaaaaaaagh.
Sounds exactly like Office Space.
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I think we all do something like that, but once you've noticed it, you're destined to a lifetime of triggering.
I went to Uni with someone that could never answer a question correctly first time.
If he agrees, you got "Nah, yeah exactly" if he disagreed you got "Yeah, nah". I currently work with a woman (obvs not right now, thank you Covid) who answered everything. EVERYTHING with 'Perfect'.
Cup of tea? Perfect! Ah, no tea bags. Ugh, perfect!
Fuck off!
Yeah, we all do it. I'm not sure what mine is, but I did find myself saying "Absolutely" a lot recently, and made an effort to stop it.
You know those little gaps between sentences when someone is explaining something? The ones that people say "Right" or "Mm-hmm", and nod? My co-worker uses "Okey-dokey" every single time, and it infuiritates the living hell out of me.
My colleague says "I guess" every sentence. He knows as well but hasn't been able to sort his life out to stop saying it.
+1 for "absolutely" as nice filler. And also "we'll see" when there's fuck all destination to what I'm waffling. That often results in me saying "we'll see what happens" about four times towards the end of call as opposed to "fuck off now".
I saw "anyway" a lot.
Mine is 'Happy days' in response to basically any situation (good or bad), but I probably only say it about once a day in reality. I've just performed a comprehensive search of emails for 'Go ahead and...' man, and can confirm he has never even once used it in writing. Weird.
Like Taz I definitely have some (possibly including 'we'll see what happens' or similar) when what I want to say is "I don't want to be on the phone any more, stop talking."
My go to meaningless platitude - usually when someone old is determined to set the world to rights - is "it is what it is". If they double down, I fall back on "I get you John, now I'll let you go so you can tell the rest of 'em". Hilarity then ensues, and I put the phone down amidst breathless goodbyes.
I work with someone who needlessly adds “and stuff” to the end of most sentences. Most of the time it doesn’t even make sense.
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Somebody at my work, who I have reason to believe lives in a constant state of buried SEETHE, says 'Jolly good' when he's having to push yet another potential emotional explosion deep down inside.
I can’t begin an email without “I’m just writing so that...” “Just wanted to see” “i just wanted to know whether”. If there were synonyms for just I’d get an RNG out and mix it up, but i don’t think there are any
I quite often do that one.
I think I over-use "just" in emails in general to be honest and often have to go back through and reword the starts of some sentences.
Well, that was a fun month. All hands on deck to nudge this backlog five inches from where it started. It feels like we're still stalling until the old normal comes back.
Do you aspirations to be a manager shindig?
You’re so passionate about this.
About a month until I find out if I have a career/job or not.
Nah, no ambitions to climb the ladder. Not in this place. Change is coming in 2021 anyway.
Yesterday the joint chairman mysteriously rang me to ask how my Spanish is. Today I've been summoned for a meeting with him and MD at 2.30. If they're sending me to Bolivia, please accept my thanks for all the posting fun these last 15 or so years.
It's always good when a manager asks you a question that starts the alarm bells ringing but won't tell you why.
How is your Spanish?
I could, and perhaps should, be Marcelo Bielsa's translator. But I couldn't be Marcelo Bielsa himself.
I mean Spanish isn't that hard, really.
"OI, PEDRO, DOS PIE AND CHIPS POR FAVOUR."
Obviously you have to bellow that at the top of your voice very slowly.
They don't even get put off by how utterly terrible the pie and chips are in Spain.
I won a cheapo holiday near Malaga a couple of years ago and I reckon about 70% of the top-rated places on tripadvisor were various British or Irish bars with reviews saying "ROAST DINNER JUST LIKE I'D HAVE HAD AT HOME FRED WAS A GREAT HOST AND IT'S THE BEST PINT OF CARLING I'VE EVER HAD" or whatever the fuck these people write about. Grim stuff.
Still, that's going to be your life soon so good luck!
Those British cafe's in Spain with plastic patio furniture and €3.99 all day breakfasts are tragic.
Just you lot wait until Bam sees this.
So, it turns out they're not sending me to Bolivia.
They want to send me to do a full lap of Latin America over 4 two-week trips a year.
Jesus Christ.
That would be quite fun if it wasn't for the pandemic.
They know a lot about llama husbandry over there, this could be a great learning opportunity.
My Wifes Uncle did this for a Medical Supplies company. He earned 6 figures a year and retired in his 40's.
Do it. Bank the experience.
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I will do it. Took a bit of sinking in while I was in there, even though as you can see I kind of guessed it in advance. Eventually managed to communicate that yes, I'd be interested. Then came out and thought jeez, I hope they'll actually promote/pay me accordingly. But I can ask that the next time I'm in there.
But as Boydy says, I'm probably not going anywhere until Covid fucks off.
There are some great overseas postings on the internal civil service website. I would love a year on Ascension Island or the Falklands knowing they had left my job open for me, but unfortunately they want you for two or three.
Yeah, as long as they don't expect you to go when all this shit is going on.
And yeah, they better pay/promote you. Also rinse those expenses.
Insist on flying business and rack up those Avios miles, my man.
"It allows me to socially distance."
We got the Voluntary Redundancy slide show today. No way I'm taking that in the middle of this.
Why do I get the feeling I'm about to get fucked again?
Start asking around local supermarkets Smiff, if we do start locking down they will need more online shopping staff. Plus, you'll be a key worker so we can all clap for you in round 2 of "who's the nicest neighbour".
Nah that’s strictly for NHS staff, not key workers. Fuck you teachers, postal workers, social workers, supermarket staff, etc.
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