It's on a corner.Originally Posted by bruhnaldo
It's on a corner.
End of terrace.
End of civilisation
No it's not a terrace.
You're the fucker in the slasher film who gets everybody killed when you unlock the door because the killer is 'probably gone.' You'll doom us all.
He's more like the shitbag who acts a bit shifty the whole film before revealing with twenty minutes to go he's actually on the baddies' side.
So, I laughed at someone's tale of self-harm today. I was reading about a claimant who committed self harm by pouring boiling fat on her feet. I blame TTH for this.
Did you genuinely find it funny, or were you simply unable to process the absurdity of the moment?
It was entirely down to DavGooner's post prior to Liverpool's triumph in Istanbul. Without knowledge of that specific post, I wouldn't have batted an eyelid.
Maternity will be paid in full in one lump sum so a fairly tidy amount on the way (about 2 years pay). That also frees me up to work normal hours now, so I am starting to apply for jobs again. Only downside is I am having to consider London as I could easily get what we both earn working there. That would mean she wouldn’t have to work until the kids go to school and we could keep her redundancy to do whatever with.
Do it for England.
On the London note, why do employers just put ‘London’ on their job adverts? I’m not going to fucking Fulham every day. I need East London to even think about it.
The same reason West Ham United decided to put 'London' on their badge.
I get that, but ‘East London’ doesn’t detract from that, and it stops Tarquin from Berkshire wasting their time.
My mate sent me his CV. This is the very last part:
Interests
International Travel, Wigan Warriors Season ticket holder, Family Adventures, Fire Breathing, City Breaks, Gaming and Cinema.
I'm a twit
Interests should be forbidden from CVs. It's utterly irrelevant.
If it's relevant, it's only for interview ice breaking and small talk.
You can have it on there if it says something relevant about you. I have on mine that I run a cricket club, but not that I enjoy Indian food and the poems of Philip Larkin.
Most people see it as a section to fill out rather than actually having something worthwhile to say. 90% of CVs with it included just list the usual "Socialising with friends, eating out, cinema" crap.
I'm doing an 'informal' talk to a bunch of business owners that form a FEDERATION on Wed. It's supposed to be a high-level informative afterwork chat. It's about telephony. I'm doomed.
You could have shortened that to 'noncing'.
I work with a JIRA ticketing system for their requests and I absolutely love when people do this because I allow them the rights to change that status so they can close their own tickets.:
Considering I'm not even going to look at what this request is for another 3 weeks, it is most definitely not in progress.
My last week of dole scummery. Is working shit lads?
Yes.
You will hate it, Lewis.
Lewis will be sacked within weeks after telling his boss how he should actually be doing his job.
You lose time, joy and energy. Gain money and self-respect.
I fail to see how a poxy job will do more for my self-respect than six Best Poster awards.
Work.
Just got a 5% raise and a snazzy new Job Title. I’ll be carrying on in my current role but will be in and out of the office all day, which will put some noses right out of joint.
Aye. Plus I'd have nowt else going on.
In recent months we've somehow managed to appoint two new Deputy Heads (was one before like most schools, wanted to add one more and just employed both applicants) which left us with no assistant heads (one leaving, other two became deputies). Now bearing in mind we can't afford to employ enough TAs to actually go to lessons to support children who need it (kids have to go to the 6 TAs or whatever we have in the 'Learning Zone') or to pay teachers properly, today they appointed three new assistant heads. Pointless. We're a smaller school than most yet have the biggest Senior Leadership Team.
Still, if I do get an interview for Head of Year, the newly appointed Assistant Head on the panel may sway things in my favour at least.
I have a friend who was a deputy head over here (recently moved to the UK to take a job as a head teacher) and I had absolutely no idea of the layers of bureaucracy that the education system is blighted with.
So much money must be wasted on all that oversight.
It's worse now with academisation - you have executive principals of Multi Academy Trusts (MATs) giving themselves obscene salaries because they can. I work in what seems to be one of the few remaining state schools and it seems to be less greed, but equally as wasteful.
Yeah, he's just gone to some failing school that has been eaten up by a nearby academy with a financial plan to implement.
At the high school he was at over here (probably what would still really be called a secondary modern) there were three assistant heads, one or two deputies, and then a head teacher. This model was largely replicated over the other 3 state schools I believe. Then you have the executive head teacher to oversee them all, and other non-teaching management bods as well. It just seems totally bananas for a place so small.
Insanely busy here. A designer has just been off for 2 weeks on holiday and has a huge amount of work scheduled for today. So of course they've phoned in to say their granddad has died and need the day off.
Hope you gave them a proper yelling.
A guy at our work who was personally very nice but as a colleague was an insufferable, lazy know it all left and has been sacked for telling his new employer who to do their jobs/ run their company inside about six weeks. He also chose to leave on such a date that if he'd hung about an extra week he'd have been looking at about a £600 bonus.
He's the gift that keeps on giving.
I've had seven hours of it, and living alone is the best thing ever. I'm almost in tears, like when Webly realised how much biscuit and milk action he had missed out on over the years. It's too hot here though fucking hell. I've pretty much been living in shorts since 2011, so I'm going to die at work. I'll give it a couple of days until they crack on that I'm indispensable and then see how flexible they are with their smart casual bullshit.
My presentation was applauded. Is that normal?
What are you doing?
Living mate. LIVING.
I meant in your job.
He sells the TTH spreadsheet to third party advertisers.
He's an engineer.
That's what he said. Living.
The job seems good, but I'm the youngest engineer there by at least twenty years.
What sort of engineering is it anyway? Real or plugging in things?
Exactly what Magic does, but without the loser non-engineering sales component.
That's a win anyway.
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