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    The MD, yes.

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    Monday: stop selling.

    Wednesday: I'm retiring, see ya.

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    No, he's staying to die of stress in a few years. The retiree is the old man, i.e. Israeli patriarch who is now 12 million quid's worth of rand richer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    We had been given express instructions to each go up to the old man at some point and thank him personally.
    Would anybody have noticed if you hadn't?

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    How big is this organisation? It always strikes me as being reasonably small, to the point where someone you have apparently interacted with at points over the past 4 years shouldn't be talking to you as if this was the first time you'd ever met.

    Wasn't it just you and a few others [presumably including the old man] during covid?

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    About 50-60 in UK and 30 worldwide, so yeah, not massive. He's done 4 of my annual reviews. He just doesn't give a fuck.

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    At least the warehouse bloke didn't make a quip about bovine fellatio.

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    Bonus payment day today.

    Celebrated with a packet of haribo twin snakes.

    Anyone tried any of those new haribo flavours? Best discovery since squashies.

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    Also asked a guy at work today (who’s job sounds interesting) if he has any plans to move on. He does not.

    Unfortunate.

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    Two more jobs came up today with travel and they’ve just assumed I’ll go again. I haven’t broke the news yet that post-pandemic me will never darken the door of an airport again.

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    If post-pandemic you will never darken the door of an airport again, will post-pandemic you be able to darken the door of your current employ again?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Panda Bear View Post
    If post-pandemic you will never darken the door of an airport again, will post-pandemic you be able to darken the door of your current employ again?
    Well I don’t fly to my current employer so I think I’ll manage it yeah.

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    What's wrong with planes post-pandemic?

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    Yeah, they're pretty much the same as pre-pandemic except you're wearing a mask the whole way. You get ill either way if you're around that many people.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    What's wrong with planes post-pandemic?
    If you're terrified of COVID, quite a bit I'd imagine.

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    Their air change rate is quite high and they have very good filters. It's also not like people talk that much during a flight, but that may vary.

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    I do know alot of people that have caught Covid on Holiday. I'm sure Yev did. Obviously impossible to know if it's the Plane or the hotel though.

    Are tests / masks still mandatory on the flights? I'm not sure I'll be going away until the rip-off tests fuck off. A few months ago someone from my School was flying out to the Maldives for their Honeymoon, only to be told at the airport that they can't go because they would be landing in Dubai for their connecting flight 2 hours after their test result expires. What a load of bollocks.

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    Told a service that we commission there is absolutely no way we’d be reducing their funding for the new financial year. Received an email yesterday while I was off (spa day, babes) with the intention to reduce their funding.

    Sent an over the top email this morning to the big big bosslady saying we’d be daft to cut their funding and think she should carry some money forward from elsewhere to ensure their service isn’t disrupted.

    I shouldn’t be allowed to attend meetings without any backup. Imagine arranging a meeting to try and secure hundreds of thousands of pounds for your business, and I turn up to sort you out.
    I'm a twit

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yevrah View Post
    If you're terrified of COVID, quite a bit I'd imagine.
    It’s absolutely nothing to do with planes or covid. I despise airports with the fire of a thousand suns. The pandemic has meant I haven’t been in once since 2019 and I’m never giving up that bliss. No bother going on a plane, even now, if someone can drop me from my house straight to the bottom of the steps.

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    I’m going to France by boat for my holidays. Same as I went to England by boat last time in 2019 and for the same reason.

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    France by boat must be a bit of a slog, how long does that take?

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    Had another superb argument with my manager over email. I don't think this is going to last long.

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    All the best arguments are via email. Passive aggression to the max.

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    Quote Originally Posted by niko_cee View Post
    France by boat must be a bit of a slog, how long does that take?
    About 16 hours.

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    Just do a round trip and call it a cruise.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    All the best arguments are via email. Passive aggression to the max.
    Mostly just aggression at this stage. She cc'd her manager in who is helping us mediate , i'm hoping he's reading it and going wtf is her problem.

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    Have you tried easing the tension with a joke? Or is she a German and naturally immune to humour? Even so, you could ask her to stop being a Sour Kraut?

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    Post the emails.

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    Don't do that, but do summarise what her problem with you is.

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    'Yeah? Against karate?'

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boydy View Post
    Post the emails.
    yeah this

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    After a browse through a #dublinairport trend on Twitter I feel even more vindicated. Absolute shit show.

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    Manchester airport is just the same. I was thinking of going back for a few days next week but can't be arsed battling with this:


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    Lol.

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    Why is that happening? Aren't flights still nowhere near pre-pandemic levels? Is it just that they have no staff?

    It gets better:




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    It's the staff I've read. They sacked loads of them and they haven't been replaced (also read it takes ages to clear the security side of it).

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    We really need to get over fucking airport security. The whole thing is ridiculous. Some grandma with her two grandsons will not carry a bomb. Just do some profiling and check those who look suspicious. Let everyone else be.

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    Clearly the airports are resisting employing new people to reach old staffing levels. Not experienced any issues myself but it looks pretty blatant that this is the reason from the clips doing the rounds on Twitter.

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    I'd imagine some of the furloughed staff never bothered to come back. Newcastle are looking for a couple of Air Traffic Control roles which erm ... sounds fun. Beats getting Ł9.59 an hour to do security or customer service.

    Bag handling and cargo's probably handled by a third party as well.

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    The Manchester Airport Twitter gives no shits. Responding to complaints with "it's your airline's fault" basically.

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    Cheeky buggers. It's not even remotely true.

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    I think all businesses are trying it on. I noticed Costco never seemed to bother restoring their staff levels in their takeaway kitchen post covid restrictions - probably worked out they make roughly the same amount of sales for a big wage saving, the customers just wait a lot longer.

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    Was it Cardiff or Swansea that manc sean declared to be a 'booming little gaff'? Because I'm in Cardiff and it is rubbish.

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    You missed me by a day, and yes, it's terrible.

    The countryside around it is nice, though.

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    Got a week of chaperoning international colleagues around our various construction sites and explaining how everything works. I am not a people person.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    Was it Cardiff or Swansea that manc sean declared to be a 'booming little gaff'? Because I'm in Cardiff and it is rubbish.
    Is everyone in Cardiff still 6' 5" and luminous orange?

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    It looks to be all students and deadheads without all the hen and stag parties the entire city appears to be built for.

    The castle is decent though.

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    The Bay is nice, but I had to walk through Aleppo to get there. Five out of ten.

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    One of my colleagues ('Barney', for long time listeners), who has a bit of a chaotic life including being a divorced dad, is having a shit fit this morning. You see, one of our managers, the Russian, is also a divorced dad, and in the holidays (such as now) he works three days a week from home to cover the childcare. Barney, however, in the same situation, is told by management that he has to 'make arrangements' and 'sort it out', and cannot work from home.

    As he tears around the place in a massive sulk, refusing to pick up the phone (which is his job) and whingeing, I'm torn between sympathy for the blatant double standards, and also thinking he has to be more mature and accept that the world is full of such injustices.

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    I've got a third interview (a panel interview) with the team I'd be managing on Friday. Both of them are pretty new to the business (2/3 years experience) so I'll try and David Brent it and look cool.

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