My new company don't want me to join so much they've given me an ancient laptop with an HDD, no battery and a Samsung S8.
My new company don't want me to join so much they've given me an ancient laptop with an HDD, no battery and a Samsung S8.
Update: Piet Retief fobbed him off all day, and the meeting never happened. I left the office as the Arab stood there in his suit asking me: "Should I wait here longer? Should I go home?" and I could only shrug. This plot twists faster than a jet propeller.Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
Poor fella. Stood up by apartheid.
Just received confirmation that I have passed my qualification to give financial advice. Which is going to mean quite a big shake up for me because no one in the firm does it. Effectively means I will be going self-employed as a mortgage advisor and the financial advice will be my own spun off business but still working under the banner of the firm I'm with at the minute. Effectively though within the next couple of years I hope that I will be able to strike out on my own with my own firm and do what I want to do.
Still free for TTH though right?
I'm a twit
There's this thread you should check out...
@Mellin.
My generic free mortgage advice will remain completely free.
@Luke Emia
Hypothetical: Let's say a member on a message board I frequent said "Hey lads, I've got a great idea! If you all send me some wonga..."
I've not invested...
But that could mean I'm sat here sucking my thumb like a dick in a few months.
To be fair billionaires need financial advice so you could be quids in all the same.
This is an extremely encouraging sign.
3 days a week into the office beginning from tomorrow. Tube strikes been announced for the remainder of the week. Mon nuclear war.
We've just been called into an emergency meeting to tell us that our manager has died over the weekend. She's been off sick for a little while but this has come straight out of nowhere. Fuck me.
Jesus. Was it a 'short illness' or something longer term?
No idea, very little detail provided. I've never had a coworker die before. It's a really weird feeling.
The alcoholic one?
A point to be mindful in that you never know what other people are going through.
Tube concerns completely ignored by the community. Muslim tax on TTH is high.
Yeah. No idea if related. Or if her increased drinking - and the lack of reaction from her manager - was in response to a long term thing. She was quite a private person.
Quite possibly, yeah.
Good to see magics compassion to the fore yet again. Words of wisdom to live by.
The MD, Russian manager and the shipping manager are currently having a mini-conference in the middle of the office discussing how we can get around the sanctions (against truck parts etc) and still sell to Russia. Sometimes you just have to laugh.
We had a guy in a medically induced coma from sepsis last year. It was really touch and go for a while and thankfully he's now fine but the way we were told was in the strangest way, a quick 'by the way' at the end of a meeting where you'd normally have news like someone is bringing in cakes for their birthday.
Having your death announced under 'AOB' is what everyone should be striving for.
First day in my new role, think it'll be a good week of 'er, read this document' and general 'get a feel for stuff' non-tasks. Savouring the doss before I have to actually do the job I've been hired for.
You'll be the milk nonce in no time.
I just had to establish a no-fly zone over the Arab's desk after he began a largely pro-Putin rant about how NATO had 'forced' Vlad to invade. Luckily the Russian (of all people) came in on my side to end things. Probably the tensest moment I've ever had in the workplace.
"You're in a western country, mate, you've got to be careful," is a phrase I have never used in my life before now.
In a webinar where attendees must vote on questions being asked and the top ones with the most likes will be answered. Me and some bloke called Rob asked the same question (will we get copies of the slides?). Mine has 36 likes, his has 4.
Get fucked, Rob.
I'm a twit
First day back. £50.60 for the privelege. £607.20 per month. Some of thise Ukranian collections need to be diverted my way.
We'll donate with our millions from Binance.
Where are you commuting from, Donetsk?
On the other side of that, I tried to get a flapjack out of the vending machine and it took ages to authenticate, said I haven't been charged and then fired four of them out at me. Everything's coming up Milhouse
I'm still WFH and had some leftover pancakes for lunch
Just realised the ULEZ doesn't apply to me so £8 parking and ≈£15 fuel cost to replace the 2 hour £50 train and tube journey with a 1.5-2hr car journey may need to be trialled. RIP the London sesh.
Awesome. My next day in the office is right at the end of the month.
A two hour commute.
His nose gets there in an hour.
One week back and I'm on the ropes. Inevitable really. Hopefully my immune system hasn't become dormant.
You getting the daily email updates of positive cases at your office? These soft shites are our only hope.
If only.
So is the like your first week back in two years? That's mental, I did two weeks at home (doing nothing) when it first kicked off and was back to normal after that.
At this point positive cases aren't even talked about here, it's normalised.
I showed my face in November last year, but aside from that it's purely been WFH. If this week was anything to go by I haven't missed much.
Apart from the odd day here and there (I'd guess maybe 5) I have been WFH since March 2020.
Same. I’ve maybe spent 3 weeks in the office since May 2020.
My mate who's an IT type just messaged me there saying he broke his rule today of not doing IT stuff for peoples personal devices at work and instantly regretted as he typed in http in their browser to get something and a very specific 'sexanimalvideos.com' URL was the first thing to pop up.
That's why we have rules. When I worked at PC world I saw a customer laptop in for repair and the disc drive was open with a dvd of 'Teenage Cumsluts 4' which I lolled heartily at, then saw the 70 year old owner sat dejectedly ten yards away
Was it big Ron Hayward?
Fucking amateur.
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