Working from home extended until mid may.
Also, our yearly pay rises deferred by a few months which is annoying but understandable.
Someone on yammer (eurgh) offered to return her bonus (pre tax) to the company. Just a regular employee too. Moron.
Working from home extended until mid may.
Also, our yearly pay rises deferred by a few months which is annoying but understandable.
Someone on yammer (eurgh) offered to return her bonus (pre tax) to the company. Just a regular employee too. Moron.
Fell asleep and missed the start of it so didn't bother joining.Originally Posted by Boydy
“Not a team player”.
That Jimmy story has tickled me.
And on the topic of non-work related shit, godbless the geezer in my team who does a weekly quiz on whatsapp to keep some sort of connections going. I miss the non-work related chat in the office which is not something I ever thought I'd say.
They're finally allowing us to take gear home and work. I might ask to go for that instead of sitting around waiting to be put on the rota.
I've been let go.
Shit. What were you doing? Were you let go because of the coronavirus and lockdown? Could they not furlough people?I've been let go.
I emailed his boss to say he was an associate of Waff.
Facilities management. Last in first out.
Sorry bub.
I've got a date for coming back into work. Not next week but the week after. YAY! I've decided not to do the working from home stuff because I've got very little faith in the stuff working. Back in on payday.
Last edited by Shindig; 08-04-2020 at 05:22 PM.
My work have announced some furloughing and temporary pay reductions for three months but nothing that affects me. The highest earners are taking the bigger salary hit.
My wife is now in furlough which is pretty cool as they're topping up her salary.
Had to have a chat with my boss the other day around what we should do with the contractors. Seems a few are being binned.
My furlough pay is based on my average pay over the last 12 weeks rather than my basic salary which is a relief.
My lot are already talking about bringing a couple back off furlough because demand is at 50% of normal, and not the 20% they anticipated. I lolled.
It's weird, we've had a surge of leads come through over the past week, which is the last thing I anticipated. If even a few of them lead to something, I'll probably need to get people back by May.
I thought you said your lot were working from home?
The way this scheme works, the most efficient way to go about it from a CEO's point of view is to furlough absolutely everyone you possibly can, and then you can bring them back later if it proves you need them. Probably can file that reality under 'unintended consequences', but that's how it will work for most companies.
Presumably that's how Daniel Levy, Liverpool etc got caught in a PR storm, as they just made sense of the scheme that way and didn't see the bigger picture (as bottom line men often don't).
The few of us that are still working are. The others are furloughed (on full pay, I might add #clapforSvN)
Ah right, fair enough. Decent of you to do it on full pay.
Edit: Forgot that was a real smiley on here and now it just looks really sarcastic.
Nice to see you making use of that loan WE gave you.
I was thinking of using the Ł10k grant to buy a full size snooker table and putting it on Twitter with the #thanksHMRC hashtag.
The clap emoji (or the Sir Henry Winter clap, as it should be known) should be taxed at 100%.
I've got a potential whole load of ballache with regards to moving to Amsterdam. Firstly due to the pure logistics of it all and second in relation to the tax set-up (they have a 30% tax rate for foreign hires). I think it looks ok, but won't know until it's confirmed.
I think I'll be working remote here for some part of it and then look to move over once we're allowed to move..before inevitably getting locked down in NL once WAVE TWO happens
We're getting so much free food in paeds atm, and doing less work than we've ever done.
We got delivered a load of Thai food and dominos during my last shift. Today we've got about 50 Easter eggs, cream eggs, packets of cookies and they've just turned up with a lorry load of kettle chips.
Well I wont be clapping for you fat slags tonight.
"I'll make sure the kids get those."
Bet Randrew wouldn't eat Easter Egg chocolate anyway.
Not unless it was at least 73% cacao picked by a 12 year old slave from Ecuador.
Trufax
Do they send you a picture of the kid each month?
You're mixing him up with Magic.
I did wonder what the fuck he was going on about.
I have never known work be as stressful as this. Demand for our parts is basically unchanged (maybe slightly down, but not hugely) and we're running on like 1/4 of the staff. Those of us still here are getting absolutely battered and quite fraught. The phone never stops ringing and customers expect the same service as normal (impossible). Some French cunt, sorry, some Frenchman was just on the phone crying about delivery times being a day slower on average at the moment. Yes, mate, they fucking are.
My furloughed team members have a whatsapp group going, half of which is complaining about being bored, and half of which is asking me what's going on and looking for hints they'll be brought back soon (they won't be). I haven't got a clue what to say to them.
Meanwhile David fucking Brent keeps coming into the office for what he imagines to be morale-boosting pep talks about how he watched Walking Dead last night and his wife cut a tree down without asking him. Just fuck off mate.
Stop meeting demand Jim. Leave the phone ringing, let your processing time drop, etc. You're being taken for a cunt. There's no reason you can't have the full token of office staff working from home aside from 'the fee' for call forwarding. Force his hand.
Yeah, it’s a mare. Don’t drive yourself to shit storm to protect company margins.
If the system has to start failing for them to realise there’s an issue you have to let it fail if reporting it isn’t working.
This isn’t the time for work to be giving you a mental health issue.
Take a step back. Call your MD a cunt and work at your usual pace.
Got my exit interview today. I don't want to speak to them. They cut my mobile off even though they knew I had no personal one.
If you don't need the reference then don't show. Let them think you will though, obviously.
I was extra nice and said they were amazing. This will lull them in to a false sense of security.
You bottled it you mean.I was extra nice and said they were amazing. This will lull them in to a false sense of security.
Good feedback. That's them told.
Why would I help them sort their problems? This is far more insidious.
I had an interview for a role in Frankfurt yesterday. Think it went reasonably well. Find out next week if I'm in for a second interview.
You don't. You just call them a sack of shit and don't go into the hows and why's.
If you haven't realised that Magic is a massive pussy by now, then you never will.
"lull them into a false sense of security.
"far more insidious."
Calm down man, you're not exactly bringing down a megacorp here.
Didn't even tell them I still have a notepad I got out of the stationary cupboard before I left the office last. 1-0 to Magic, methinks!
I take the wins where I can.
This is a capital, bold, underlined L.
"In my last ever contact with them after they took my car and cut off my phone I told them they're great".
I feel for them at this trying time.
Yeah but he was lying - he really thought they were mean, so needless to say he's had the last laugh.
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