Pip.
Pip.
Not the button factory, that’s for sure.
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...eek-stress-job
Won't be long now, gents.
Things like this:
Don't sound like real life to me.On his free days, he loves to sleep in, then to make long phone calls to his fellow pigeon fanciers while cleaning the kitchen, before going to the shops in search of interesting books. Moreover, he is home in time to pick up our son from school at 13.40. Since I collect our son the other days, this gives me the freedom every other Friday afternoon to meet friends for a chat, volunteer, or simply to go to the swimming pool alone, which is an absolute gamechanger for a tired teacher who wants to escape burnout.
My brother in law's wife is also an engineer but in France and despite them having 35-hour workweeks by law, she works way longer hours than me.
My wife recently applied for a job that was only M-Th. That sounded great and I hope it catches on.
I would argue that there is already an unofficial 4 day week in many sectors. Today is absolute bedlam as usual with people trying to get things done, tomorrow will be deathly quiet.
I work remote Monday and Friday and we all know what that means.
Yep the supplier of some of our critical gas equipment has dropped the Friday because they already make a shit load of money so why not have an extra day off. Chaos on Fridays here is not uncommon as a result, but they're rolling in our pounds so they don't care.
And no, there are not really any decent alternatives.
In classic NHS style, official communication to doctors from NHS Employers was that we will receive all backpay automatically, regardless of whether we have moved trusts or not, in this month's pay.
Slowly coming out that loads of trusts are not planning to pay it unless you specifically contact them and ask for it. They have obviously made absolutely no effort whatsoever to communicate this, people have just had this response to individual emails because they (correctly) did not trust the hospitals to do what they've been told they are meant to do. They are citing various excuses including GDPR.
Being a non-consultant NHS doctor is so fucking tiring. And yes, we are treated uniquely badly (because we are rotational so who gives a shit) compared to any other staff group. Case in point, Trusts made noise all over social media and via emails to make sure other staff knew how to ensure they got their backpay, but absolute silence for us.
Thoughts and prayers, mate. Hope you can pull through these trying times.
Nah but having to deal with a big beast like the NHS does sound quite tiring.
Funny how often GDPR is used as an excuse for organisations not being arsed to do something.
What do you mean?Originally Posted by niko_cee
Just the narrative of what these people spend their time doing.
I mean, he's gone to some effort to concoct an apparently believable story to cover his morning of doom scrolling pornhub, I guess.
'meet friends for a chat, volunteer...' is proper early 2000s German language textbook territory.
'At the weekend, I play volleyball and spend time at the youth centre with friends.'
Pottering about is what life is all about. Not fucking emails or calls or b2b saas.
Waking up after 3 days in a bath robe not sure where the jizz starts and kebab sauce ends probably doesn't have the same ring to it.
I'm about to become a top big bollocks canine alpha male at work (or heading up Europe, anyway) and the first decision I've been given is whether I want to sack my long time field sales 'boss', who is 75 and increasingly useless, and replace him with a younger model. I do want to sack him, but going from working under him to sacking him in the space of literally ten minutes feels like some KGB shit. Am I right to be trying to shove that decision upstairs?
You've been hired to do it. Do it.
Or send him on a six month sales trip to Africa on his own.
Had a bloke call in a lorry breakdown yesterday called Andy Townsend and I'm gutted (not really) that i bottled asking if it was his tactics truck.
Perhaps it is a test from the superiors.
If not then it seems you are the designated hit man.
Football cliches recently mentioned a lorry driver called Andy Townsend being mistaken for the real thing and invited on a football podcast, or something, surely it must be him.
They are itching to let him go, and his contract is with them, I don't see why I should be wielding the murder weapon. Oh well.
I've been doing shallow but fast paced and reactive work for 18 months now (call centre work), and i really do fucking love it, still, after years of middle class bullshit jobs.
A couple of us were invited into a teams meeting with some head office people, and it was fucking whiplash having to deal with that world for half an hour. The first five minutes was spent with us using some app to reply to questions like "what word describes how you're feeling about this quarter's challenges", and "give the name of a song that describes your mood"
By the fifth slide I was desperate to get back to answering fucking calls, and I'm the laziest cunt in the world. A third of my fucking working week was being in or preparing for meetings like that in my previous two jobs, now a typical week is like
Monday 2pm-10pm make and receive calls, do associated admin
Tuesday 2pm-10pm make and receive calls, do associated admin
Wednesday 2pm-10pm make and receive calls, do associated admin
Thursday 2pm-10pm make and receive calls, do associated admin
Friday
2pm-4pm make and receive calls, do associated admin
4.30pm-4.50pm quick huddle with some colleagues and a manager
4.50pm-10pm make and receive calls, do associated admin
I know it's prob most people's idea of hell but I fucking love it. I do appreciate it's a bit gutting to realise, despite being a high academic achiever, and naturally reasonably (more than I seem here) smart, my professional skill set is precision engineered to be really good at and really enjoy low paid work with little chance of progression but fuck it. I'm a lot happier.
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Couldn't do it.
We've had a new approach (or finally a decision on WFH policy) at our work. The managers have got it first ahead of the big announcement tomorrow and it will move to a mandatory two days in the office a week and more restrictive on working from abroad. There's quite a few in our team, me included, that likes the opportunity to be at a family home and still being able to work but that will pretty much be gone or harder to do without prior authorisation. While giggles will be happy, it will likely lead to good people leaving. There's also a group of people who are remote first and a few of them will not be offered a remote contract and be expected to be in the office. I'll have to have the conversation with one of my team tomorrow on that while I'm one of those who will be able to continue working remotely full time. Good end of year bonus for everyone.
I am. Absolutely delighted this fuckery is being weeded out.
I would love the novelty of doing my work from another country but the job strictly forbids it. As for another WFH hiccup, my laptop doesn't like one particular windows update so I've been hastily called to get it swapped.
I miss the good old days (July) when we had one desktop for home and one in the office If this laptop ever gets knackered, that's me out of work for however long it takes for a replacement.
Two days in the office is the sweet spot.
Our new WFH policy is going to roll out soon, one of my soon to be team is mad keen to move to 3 days a week at home. No matter how many times I tell him the policy is going to be 3 or 4 days a month at home, he's not having it and 'believes' it will be 2 days a week in the office. Hopefully tripling the size of his commission will shut him up but I'm not sure.
Congrats Jim. If it’s the right thing for the business and the rest of the people in it bin your old boss off.
The boss.
You need to at least take him on a road trip and end it with something like I told you the le centre du job was this way.
Oh wait, is the the boss of former trips fame or not? If not then yeah, congrats and in the bin.
Yeah, it's him. Recently he's been giving it the 'I don't even need the money, I just need to stay active' chat. He knows the gig is up.
The Arab's dad will then be the last of the old guard. Well, him and the Aussie who is the number one salesman so gets away with pitching up once a year and calling all the women 'sweetcheeks'.
The thread's going to be class when the roles get reversed in 40 years.
Congrats Jim.
Sack the old codger.
I'm a twit
I think it's fine and if I was close enough to the office, I'd go. I can see how it impacts people though as mandated days means having an extended home visit (most people who work for the company aren't German) is now not possible. I think ultimately my days will be numbered on being one of the remote exceptions but I cannot see myself living in Berlin in the short term.
You'd have to say there's a somewhat chequered history for those who choose to work from home in Berlin, and much more success for foreigners who have the get up and go to travel into the city.
Zero.
The call has begun with a stream of downward thumb emojis. The populace has taken this well.
I'm all for WFH but working from abroad is an absolute con. If I could have lived in the UK while earning my Swiss salary for 6 years I'd be out there with the farmers protesting about inheritance tax.
Well, this laptop doesn't have the things I need to actually start working with it. I'm going to see how much of Half-Life 2 I can blast through instead. I think they might've given me the wrong accesses.
Old Father Time would sack you in a heartbeat, Jim. Give him the Old Yeller special.
If they try and get me back in the office fulltime I'll be cooking off kippers for breakfast and exceptionally harsh curries for lunch every day in the office kitchen, under my newfound religion Loftism.
Nothing like a grief fueled 3 hour eviction to end the week. Brutal. Cherry Jim Beam on offer in ASDA on the way home though. £14. Bargain. I haven't got drunk in months, but I'll be doing atleast £10 worth of damage to that tonight.
(Note: I won't.)
Indeed. My UK wage in a second World country (or a cheap part of a first World one) would see me living like a king.
Alright, this day was a complete write-off. I do have those systems allocated to me but they're just not coming down the pipe yet. At least I got to see Sunderland (had to go there to pick the laptop up) for the first time in 20 years.
It's still shit.
Big ITK news - Dundee United's bus has broken down.
We're doing all we can to help.
Shit, apparently we failed, apologies to @Waffdon and his people
Last 5 week day of the year coming up. Followed by a couple 3 day weeks and then off from Wednesday 11th until Monday 6th January. Mon
My leave is shit this year. I'm only off on Christmas Eve because I've booked it off, and I'm back in on the 2nd.
I've got the two weeks over Christmas and I might do one extra for the first week of the year. Quite a bit of work to get done in the next three weeks before being able to switch off.
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