What a character.
What a character.
Handed in my notice today. What a feeling.
Great work. Anything lined up?
Cheers. Research role at Leeds Uni.
Looks like a new team leader role is up. This all came about because the incoming employers fucked up the existing one’s role during the TUPE process.
Their pension and wages look shit. I’m not going forward for that.
Today I've had to do 5 extra phone calls because I'm the only one between myself, the Romanian and the Arab who can understand a Northern Irish accent (specifically county Tyrone). Absolutely seething and ready to chuck a brick through the window of Greggs and loot a steak bake, fucking useless immigrants.
Or as the man on the phone would say, hurdy durdy hurdy roind soind durdy.
I'm a twit
Spent all day yesterday interviewing people as a favour to someone, and the person who was the standout for the job has decided he lives too far away and doesn't know whether he can accept it. Why get this far only to say no.
I'm a twit
Is there an easy way to claim the extra 20% tax relief from my pension, or is it one of those things I just need to pay an accountant to do?
I have no idea what you're talking about, but I'm listening. What's this?
My company is backwards so our pensions aren't salary sacrifice (most are now so you don't need to worry if so), so the pension provider claims the basic 20% tax relief for you. However, if you're a higher rate tax payer (ie. 40%) then you've got to manually claim back the difference yourself.
I had a go on my self assessment earlier in the year but it said I owed money so I obviously did it wrong.
Just wondering if there is a fool's guide to doing it before I overpay an accountant to do a five minute job.
You could ring HMRC and ask them.
Cheers men.
Just had to tell a mum that her son is dead... I've had better days. As, I suspect, has she.
How does that come about? He stopped paying his rent six months ago, door bashed in, he's dead, you have to tell her? Surely the police can do it.
His mum has consent to discuss his tenancy as he has additional needs (read: addictions), so she calls every now and then to make sure all is OK as he keeps things from her.
However, the police and paramedics were called a couple of weeks ago after a neighbour saw him on the floor through his window, they forced entry and he had been dead for a day or so. I can only assume the police just didn't contact her. Which was nice of them.
Yesterday in the bathroom at work there were only two stalls available: one sandwiched by two persons having one of those intense grunting shits and the handicapped one at the far end. Needless to say, I took the handicapped one. I did my business and then probably stayed a good ten minutes browsing on my phone. When I came out, I saw a man on a wheelchair leaving the bathroom, who then turned around when he saw me leave the stall. I wonder how long he waited.
I can't match that, although I did read the phrase, "Human debris." on some paperwork this week.
Just handed in my badge as we're moving to a new office (and company) on Monday. I think I'm the only person so far who's passed the vetting process.
Sorted this.Originally Posted by Ben
Weird that you still have to do it by post when pretty much everything else is online now. But easy enough.
I just exchanged my Irish driving licence for a Northern Irish licence (yes, 8 years after moving here). The application had to be posted with a cheque and proof of ID. It took 2 months from date of posting to the new licence arriving at my door. The website claimed it would be a maximum of 3 weeks.
The new office has no bins. Feels like the last office I may ever work in. There's no mobile coverage and the place is just barely out of reach of civilisation.
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Today I'm hosting a Q&A session after a film screening at a cinema.
Remember when I tested eyes in care homes?
I'm a twit
You probably should do stuff like that for a living. MC, hire yourself out for a grand a night.
Can it be watched and - more importantly - can questions be submitted online?Today I'm hosting a Q&A session after a film screening at a cinema.
Remember when I tested eyes in care homes?
Sadly not. Went well.
I'm a twit
Should you put your references direct on your cv or should it say 'available on request'?
The latter. They’re all bollocks anyway.
I don't have references but direct quotes from customers and clients. They are named along with the company they own/work for so easily contactable. Gets you loads of interviews and offers.
Thats not a bad idea.
Probably more relevant if you're in sales. If it's just a normal job then "available on request" is fine. I'm not sure I've ever had mine checked
I have. My current job was delayed for about a month cos my previous job was stalling on giving a reference until they hired a replacement. I wouldn't have put them down but they insisted on 'current employer' being one. F U Specsavers.
Speaking of which, got a 'congratulations on six years' notification on the payslip website today.
I'm a twit
Speaking of payslips, got the last one for the old employers today. Got the bonus
Been battling with business ethics in my head recently. Heard something last week which really ticked me off and I couldn’t stop thinking about it over the weekend, even impacted my sleep.
My employer are looking to reduce costs and are restructuring, whilst simultaneously hiring in a low cost area (where they currently don’t operate). It’s clear their plan will be to gradually shift roles from area A to lower cost area B.
In some aspects of the business you could argue that might be acceptable, but it seems to be being used widely as a “we have a problem, hiring a UK employee or contractor is too expensive, get them to do it” which is abhorrent for a company extracting a natural resource, profitably, from a country.
Told my team leader and then direct line manager I believed how it was being used was unethical and am now working out to approach someone more senior to understand what ethical assessments have been done to define ethical boundaries for use.
Hopefully I don’t get sacked, but I suspect the “but we need to reduce cost” is the new ethical culture basis. Spoke to a few other people who hadn’t really thought about it, but seemed to then come to the same scathing conclusion I did.
Suck it up cupcake or go work for a charity.
How close is said ethical quandary to something like ... say, a Piper Alpha scenario?
I've landed on my feet with a new job. Less hours, more money, and greater flexibility.
Unless it will produce dirt that could hit top people personally, you'll get nowhere with ethical anything in the analytical efficiency age.
Someone at work bangs on about some project he lead on being a huge success and getting loads of engagement and spent almost all of his puny budget (£7k vs my £4m lol) on the launch and advertising the website people visit to ‘pledge.’
One of my service managers asked if something I’m involved in could have a similar pledging system so I did some digging and found the person in the comms team who set it up for him. Emailed her expressing my wishes and her response was basically ‘don’t do it, it’s a massive failure, they had a handful of pledges in the last 12 months’ olol good one pal.
Really enjoyed forwarding that on to stakeholders saying we’re not gonna do it and here’s why.
I'm a twit
I got up at 4.30am this morning to go to Leeds and do a customer meeting. Drove 4 hours there and 4 hours back in the driving rain, as well as 4 hours at the meeting. Got back home half an hour ago. Got a whatsapp from my boss complaining that I didn't take pictures at the meeting to put on the company LinkedIn.
Fuck off.
Been at my new job for two months and still done fuck all. Best part is that scamming time is piss easy, even though we're supposed to log in everything we do in six minute increments for a total of 40 hours per week. Lad next to me has spent the last three weeks discussing the purchase of a heat exchanger. 200 billion dollar company and they cannot agree on who to buy a $2k piece from
What are you doing now?
Nothing.
Designing airplane engines.
Boeing, is it?
They don't do engines. General Electric or Pratt and Whitney?
*Aeroplane you noob
Foe, go short on all Aviation stocks.
He's had us all on and took a job at Rolls Royce.
It's a joke m8
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