Our team one's not even been mentioned. My old team's sorting out a murder mystery meal thing which will probably be alright.
Our team one's not even been mentioned. My old team's sorting out a murder mystery meal thing which will probably be alright.
https://www.holohansatthebarge.co.uk/Originally Posted by Giggles
Must have been after my time.
We've booked a team one near tower bridge but I'll be away for it. Our department one has also not fell into the inbox which means I can avoid all that crap.
Take your housemate.Mine's on a boat. It's a restaurant on a moored boat rather than an actual moving boat though.
People bring their partners at this place.
She'll invite herself anyway as soon as she twigs he's leaving the gaff.
Quite a few people started this year so plenty of us haven't been to the Christmas dinner/party before. We were told we could bring a partner or a friend or whatever. It's basically just an open plus one. But why the fuck would you want to take someone who doesn't know anyone and then have to spend the night making sure you're integrating them into things well enough? Fuck that. I don't really want to have to make awkward small talk with other people's guests either. I just want to eat some turkey and get drunk.
Not sure we'll have a whole staff one this year as one of the organisers last year has left and the other got a promotion, so little time to organise I'd imagine. Think we'll have a department one though on the last day of term, late lunch type of thing.
Maybe they don't get on with the work guys so they're crowbarring their significant other in for the conversation. Or they need a designated driver.
So my route to market (my channel partners) are mostly really slow with business. I need some quick wins so I've started going direct. This annoyingly means I have to do a lot of networking now, and I fucking hate it.
It is nauseating, and half the time cunts are trying to load stuff on to you, drowning out any message you had in the first place. Really hard to stomach cunts.
Sidenote: I've hardly sold anything and will probably be unemployed by Christmas.
When's double the wage coming, mate?
How much is the dole?
Are you looking for other things now?
Had you done any sales before now, Magic?
I had one job involving sales and was atrocious at it. I think it's something that is at least to an extent is just down to how you're wired.
Sales is easy. Just gotta find the right mix of chipper bellend and likeable nice fella.
That said, I don’t miss it.
I'm a twit
Yes but that isn't just a thing to turn on and off for everybody. Anything is easy if you have a natural affinity for it.
I actually did really well in my first fortnight when I didn't actually have a clue what I was doing and was just chatting to people but by the time they'd tried to sales-ify me and I was actually thinking about it it all went to shit.
It's more consulting, or that's how I billed it. Yet I'm being given targets as if I was a chicken in a call centre. The turn around times on these deals can be months.
I don't have any of the Baz stuff, so I do it with extreme efficiency and zero bullshit. Most people seem to buy that, in my industry at least. If you're trying to flog people things that they don't want or need, then I don't know.
The closest I’ve come to a ‘sales job’ was trying to flog Gold Cards to old women in BHS. That was back in ~2004.
Sales can fuck right off.
I'm supposed to do a certain amount but I'm just not able to be a shiny toe so I leave it to the others and try keep relevant in other areas. My bonus does only be about a quarter of theirs but I'm happy with that price.
Just had an email forwarded to me from 28th October with someone saying she didn't receive two documents so had to make do with the old ones.
Yet I've got an email directly from her on the 23rd October saying thanks for the documents, after I sent them to her.
If the system didn't use rubbish Lotus Notes (or is it IBM Notes?) and it was easier to forward e-mails from different threads, I'd make a show of her. As it is, she's made me look a mug.
I'm a twit
Screenshot the shit out of it and don't be a sap. Destroy her.
Just reply saying “I received a reply from you on the 23rd confirming receipt of them. Please check again.”
Fixed.
I figured I could copy and paste from different e-mail threads and it kept the formatting.
In yo face.Hi Julie
Please see the e-mail below dated 23rd October were you confirmed the receipt of the 2018/19 claim form and invoice template.
I will process your invoices for Q1 and Q2 today.
Regards
I'm a twit
Lotus Notes, fuck me. Do they make you use Netscape Navigator as well?
I got sent a brochure at work unsolicited but with all my details attached, which I thought was weird. They sent me a followup e-mail so I asked how they had all this non-public information on me. Today they sent a grovelling apology telling me
Which implies to me that there's some company they're buying their data from (illegally post-GDPR) so I've asked them to provide me that companies details. I'm going to sue my way to the topFor our events we regularly look for partners and interested parties to ask for feedback or support in our surveys. After such a telephone search for contacts in your region, a colleague placed you on one of our mailing list which was wrong and should not have happened.
Recruiters are the absolute worst for it. I've never once worked with a recruiter, but I get emailed about 5 candidates per day that they want us to hire.
You run a business though, your contact has to be somewhere public? I'm just a staffer. The guy got back in touch to say that they got this information originates back in 2014 from 3 jobs ago and could name my entire career path since. They have my phone number and the address of everywhere I've worked as well as my e-mails. It's nuts.
That doesn't mean they have the right to spam me with shit. Having someones details does not equal consent to receive marketing emails.
In other news, you may hate your colleagues but...
Attempted murder fail. Finish the job properly, hide the body somewhere in ANTARCTICA and tell everyone he said he's going for a walk and might be some time.
Not everyone has a criminal mind, mate.
Baz
I have a new job!
It's not the public sector one which I've not heard back from but was less keen on AND my job title has engineer in it. I've finally made it, lads.
Well in Ian.
You’ll probably find out in the early 2030’s about the Civil service one.
This doesn't match that 10k pay increase sadly but with shift allowance for some lates (from home) I will be doing a week in five it works out to a bump between 15 - 20% so hopefully that'll be noticeable.
HR continues to get angry at me. I have 12 days to use between today and Dcember 31. A period in which I am already taking 14 days holiday.
I'd force you to take it as holiday pay.
It's use it or lose it our place. You can carry 5 days over but only at managers discretion which at the moment would probably be met with a lolmate.
If only I could, I requested this but they claimed it was illegal in Switzerland or something
Taking said 14 days would put me to the 'use it or lose it' limit of 10 days carry over, I currently have nearly a full month of unused vacation.
Engineer Ian
Use your fucking holidays, you idiot.
Whinging about having to take time off work. Sort yourself out.
Yeah take them off and stop moaning.
Yes, you have.
Ian.
Lawl hit my target on the last day of the month.
Should see nearly 3k comish.
Just got a bonus. 5.6% of my salary. Boom.
We need figures Kikeo.
Plus ones at Xmas parties is disgusting. We're doing a 'christmas carnival' at the Ricoh. Sounds pretty fun in fairness, there's a load of fairground rides and stuff. And casino afterwards is LOCKED IN.
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