I'll be manning a stand with some colleagues at New Scientist Live this weekend at the ExCeL and staying at some crappy hotel in Ilford. We leave tomorrow evening, get back Sunday night. Absolutely buzzing, obviously.
I'll be manning a stand with some colleagues at New Scientist Live this weekend at the ExCeL and staying at some crappy hotel in Ilford. We leave tomorrow evening, get back Sunday night. Absolutely buzzing, obviously.
Small talk is rife in our office so I'll be saying hi then putting my headphones in until it's time to leave.
My new tablet is a Dell Latitude 7320 2-in-1 kinda thing. It’s actually surprisingly good, with 16GB ram, usb c and an actual HD screen. I also get rid of my docking station and connect directly to the monitor which is another plus.
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Absolutely hyped for sitting on an uncomfortable stool for 10 hours a day and then going round Munich nightlife with the Arab in a couple of weeks.
Will he - perhaps unwisely - get involved in the nightlife shenanigans, or will he stand around looking confused and disapproving?
He'll get involved, I'll stand around looking confused and disapproving. Let's just say there are better Muslims out there. He was telling me about receiving some magic mushrooms in the post. I presume he ordered them and they didn't just turn up out of the blue.
Surely you just wait until he inevitably makes horrible night out friends then you can just fuck off and leave him to it?
Christ sounds like you have the worse deal. I get two days TOIL and plenty of time to read my chess openings book (need to nail the Scandinavian, and not my colleague Anna) so I'm fairly alright with it.Show life
Absolutely hyped for sitting on an uncomfortable stool for 10 hours a day and then going round Munich nightlife with the Arab in a couple of weeks.
I may have a pint or two.
Reading the chess openings book in front of her will help.
Our contracts are explicit about no time off in lieu. I'm doing Thursday to Monday, obviously, while the senior lads do Monday to Thursday.
I don't know how anyone manages to work in retail. The general public are fucking moronic cunts. This is just pricks trying to put dynamos on tractors. Imagine what it must be like selling shoes or something. Appalling.
Fond memories of standing behind the Customer Service desk at Tesco being shouted at because the HP Ink Cartridge he'd bought didn't have any red ink in it. An exchange was simply not good enough because "how do I know this one won't be a dud too!?"
We don't fill them up here you cunt. I don't know.
Believe it or not there are family history roadshows, where all those genealogy sites and Who Do You Think You Are? and that have stands. My work used to go on behalf of the government to help people access old service records, and apparently Dan Snow is a massive wanker.
Well, I never would've guessed.
Family history is MASSIVE, largely unseen by we millennials. There's a woman in her 60s at work who only ever talks about that, Mike and the Mechanics, or cake.
All fun and games til you reveal something you don't like. Like past lives, no-one wants to be a peasant and no-one wants to find out theie great great grandad was a slave owning meganonce.
Yeah I share a surname with one of the statues that was ripped down during the BLM protests, so I'm leaving this stone unturned.
I will use the extremely diluted victimhood of my maternal lineage as a badge of honour, however. Reparations please.
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I did mine a few years ago and I'm extremely proud to reveal there were absolutely no racists or nonces, just extremely attractive, intelligent and honest folk.
My dad went through a phase of really wanting to know the family tree. Doing it without spending a penny seems a proper ballache, though. Someone on my mother's side did hers, though. No drama aside from someone getting disowned for settling with the wrong bloke.
I seem to remember there being a shit ton of suicide on one side of the family and an endless line of useless farmers on the other side. I seem to be going down the latter route.
I always just assumed mine was really boring so never looked into it. If anyone had done anything interesting, I'd have heard about it already surely?
If you line up the free trials amongst the big websites (Ancestry, Findmypast etc.) you can do it but you've got to commit the time and smash it out. I went back into the 1700s before really starting to struggle with the lack of information.
My family was/is terribly boring so except for a great-great-grandad with loads of illegitimate children I discovered nothing remotely interesting.
My dad was raging when my grans sister did ours in detail as it turned out there used to “lord” in the history but at some point someone just abandoned it.
Apparently also married into the family of that Scottish traitor John balliol (?).
Looking back through old photos is cracking though. Suits and moustaches galore.
Mexican and Scottish traitors in our midst. We roll deep.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63204333
If you assume that things like cancer remain at a roughly constant rate, what on earth is causing such a dramatic rise in long-term sickness? No wonder we have a productivity crisis.
It can't be Covid as that's hardly long-term.
Well long COVID is.
Probably the vaccines.
There's got to be some interesting criteria at play here. No way are ~6% of the working population actually long-term sick.
It'll be mental health related issues.
Probably proportional too - lots of people left due to Brexit/Covid and so the people left (along with Covid aftermath) mean the numbers get worse
Every cunt has "fibromyalgia" these days. Which - as far as I can tell - appears to be a completely made up.
It'll fit in well with most of the mental health excuses at least then.
I just looked it up. All the symptoms can also be attributed to "shitty lifestyle".
You will be surprised to learn that they tend to have a triple digit BMI.
Bodes well for my line of work.
First TTH colleagues??
'Didn't Jimmy post that last night?'
'What?'
'Yeah. You just added "wank puffin" to it.'
*HR complaint*
First day back in the office since March and only one other person from the wider team is in. *Packs up*
I start my new role on Monday so have just been declining a load of meeting invites to stuff I don’t do anymore.
There doesn’t seem to be a way to reassign meetings I’ve organised to someone else so I can delete it from my calendar though.
I'm a twit
The best feeling ever.I start my new role on Monday so have just been declining a load of meeting invites to stuff I don’t do anymore.
There doesn’t seem to be a way to reassign meetings I’ve organised to someone else so I can delete it from my calendar though.
Sometimes it really is amazing working here. Turned my outlook on this morning and the first email I saw was this cracker from my 79 year old sales manager:
The customer is going to say that the price without the plate should be lower.
I have to think how I am going to answer her, female parts managers are more difficult to deal with.
Best regards.
John
Does he mean parts managers who are female or is that OAP slang for minge?
The new version of Female Parts Manager is really good.
He means parts managers who are female.
He has a cracking track record. A few weeks back he told the (female) head of engineering not to 'worry her little head' about something or other. Then he asked me on a Teams call to describe the new girl who works here, looks-wise (he works remotely). I declined to do so and so he simplified the question to: 'Is she a looker?' I suppose we should really be reporting him for all of the above, but the management are South African so you might as well be reporting an assault to the Zodiac killer.
We've got a few Saffers and the casual racism, classism and misogynism is everywhere. No wonder their country is fucked.
Working on no commission and high basic is tough. Hard to get past that can't be arsed feeling.
Email this morning saying 15% pay rise in Feb and bonus in November, alongside regular 4.5% yearly pay rise.
My last pay rise at fucking Dunelm was 8p an hour.
Giz a job lad.
If you can get to Manchester one day a week they're hiring big man
What is it you're doing again? Given I am now being forced to do that in my job but without the pay rise for three years.
How did you people cope with life pre-2020 when five days in the office was normal behaviour?
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