Deporting Mexico to France is the sort of thing Trump might try as an election promise, to be fair.
From what I've seen here. It's similar to Liverpool/City, these two are in a league of their own imo. UBS are shady but they're just copying off the big boys. BNP Paribas are a similar type of arsehole to the rest of them but they're feeding off crumbs in comparison.
JPMorgan seem to fly under the radar here but considering their size they must be as knees deep in it as the top 2. They're very minimal though, you wouldn't know their office if you didn't work there.
That lad looks like James.
Signed contract today for old position. I was hourly last time but now salaried, it won't make too much difference but a few more benefits with salary than hourly as last time I'd get sent home early if quiet and holidays were less I think.
£21K a year which isn't too bad considering my level, I think an experienced CDP would get around £22-23 so I can't complain.
Booked a four hour course in Marylebone at the end of the month which looked handy. Knife skills and different cuts, the mother sauces and filleting fish. £150! Ouch.
Pay review came in today. 0.75%
Submitted my request to move desks.
I'm a twit
Would anyone like to take a wild swing at which bank was involved in bankrolling the paedo?
Spent half the day on a remote fault finding session on the phone to two middling English speakers in Katowice. Christ, I'd rather dig holes for 12 hours straight.
I'm not actually senior enough to open accounts. I could book you an appointment though, @Magic.
Ever since I started there’s been talk of my team moving to the old banged up building that used to be the library in the town centre, but closed as a library due to it being unsafe. The office I currently work in is pretty swish and I was happy seeing it was just office gossip.
We’ve now been given a moving date.
And it’s when I’m on holiday so I’ll get the worst spec.
The building is horrific, doesn’t have a lift (I’ll be on the 2nd floor), everywhere’s damp and it smells like school trips to a museum.
Ah well, hopefully I will at least get to enjoy the best desk in the current place for four weeks.
I'm a twit
Following on from that. The stupid fat lesbian who doesn’t actually have a job role has moved to the desk I wanted.
And just now my bosses boss just rang up to speak to my boss but she’s out. “do you have access to <a certain contract> to tell me how much we contribute?”
YES. THAT IS MY JOB. I LOOK AFTER THE CONTRACTS. OF COURSE I DO.
I swear everyone thinks I’m just an apprentice, here to make brews and print stuff.
I'm a twit
It's just a nicer, less direct way of telling you to do something.
Finished my first week at the new job. Really like it so far. Small team of five (including me, a sixth is joining in September) in our office and everyone's really nice. The work's a lot more interesting than my last job too.
Did you take the job with the geezer that's going to stick all his profits up his nose or a different one?
I just enjoyed two glorious days off and then went in expecting a long week. Off tomorrow and Tuesday too. Banging.
I spent four hours cleaning a walk in fridge, stripped it bare and went to town before joining in service for the evening whereby I did pretty much sod all. As much as I like the days off, it bugs me that when I go back in I have to rearrange my section back to as it was and having to use what has been prepared by one of the other chefs. It's only little things but I do julienne cuts for my duck salads as it tangles in amongst the watercress better but this prat just shaves it with a peeler so it's wafer thin slices of carrot and mooli which looks shit. Leaving the tiniest bit of whatever in a container being another. Why would you wrap it up and pack it up when there's not even enough for a portion?
I've tried talking to him but his English isn't the best and he clearly doesn't understand my accent. Rabbit in headlights look but it's pissing me off.
I just found out the office drunk got so pissed last week she came back into work at 7:45pm thinking it was the next day. Wow.
Last day in work until September.
I always feel jealous of teachers at this time of year but then I remember what they have to do for the rest of it.
My wife is off until April. Holiday then maternity leave starts just before she's due back.
That's seriously short holidays for a teacher.
I think a new career change is in order ha. FML it's beyond roasting.
I deep cleaned that fucker on Sunday. A nice four hours but it was nowhere near as hot. I just got absolutely slammed for lunch service too.
Tomorrow scares the life out of me as we're due a hotter one and I already know we've got a lot of tables booked. I honestly don't know how people can eat meals in this weather, just a nice easy bite surely?
Glad I’m not the only one - most of the country seemed to break up on Friday!
Had a meeting today and the guy was wearing a three piece suit. I was wearing shorts and t-shirt.
It was a client. I work at a creative agency, not a bank.
Fair play to him taking it seriously, then.
That was honestly one of the hardest days works I've ever had, I found cementing driveways in Canada easier and it was even hotter then.
I am most definitely not looking forward to tomorrow. It's the hottest day out the lot, isn't it? On the plus side, I smashed it throughout although evening became a little wobbly as I was jumping on starters and mains, it's the mains section that I'm trying to learn but it's difficult when you're only doing it in dribs and drabs, I'd rather have a few straight shifts on it.
Which are the best languages to learn when it comes to coding? I've been pissing about with HTML but I'd like to get proper stuck in since I've got a lot of free time at work.
I don’t know the correct answer but if I had time to learn, the one I’d aim for is React.
I'm a twit
If it's web stuff you're interested in, javascript is your best bet. You can do other stuff with it too but it's primarily a frontend (making shit move around and respond to the user on the page) web language.
You can use it on the backend (server stuff that dictates what you see when you go to a url/click on a link etc) too with NodeJs.
Freecodecamp is good and should be easily enough accessed from your work.
Java (completely different from javascript) or python are good shouts too if you're looking for a career in it.
React isn't a language on its own, it's a framework for javascript. It'd be best to learn javascript first.
Cheers. I'll give javascript a go then. At what point did you end up applying for a developer role? I'm not sure if it's something I want to solely pursue, but I figure it's probably the best use of my spare time at the moment. Is it common for people to design as well as develop?
I did a masters conversion course so about a year after starting that.
A mate of mine taught himself python and got a job with it after about a year though. Depends how much time you've got to dedicate to it, I suppose.
I don't think it's all that common for people to do design and development but I could be wrong. @SvN would know more about that than me.
There was some boring email went round work this morning about a reward scheme, and then one an hour later saying it was malicious and if you’d clicked on the link you had to turn your computer off immediately and report it to IT.
So I went back to the original email, clicked on the link and then shut my PC down.
I'm a twit
@Offshore Toon
If you're serious about going into web stuff, HTML and CSS are a must before you start moving onto anything else. You don't need to be an expert, but you need to fully understand the basic principles of how the web works - especially if you want to learn something like React.
Vanilla JS is a good starting point before you move onto frameworks, as Boydy said.
10 or so years ago, you were expected to code if you were a designer. Since then, "development" has branched off into so many different subsets that it's no longer that common for someone to do both. It's also quite rare that someone can be creative and a competent coder - most people are either one or the other.
What kind of personality are you Toon?
I'd reccomend following SvN's advice with the HTML/CSS. Get yourself a pirated copy of Photoshop/Illustrator and put together a couple of projects with/for mates and see which things kept your attention more. The only way you get anywhere with either field is through repetition. If you're just pissing about and want a side-thing to learn I'd recommend pissing about with Ableton and plugins as that's already your scene.
My boss won't let me wear shorts in the same office out IT guys are wearing NFL tops and World of Warcraft t-shirts.
Came offshore on Monday after a week of annual leave. Was due off on Thursday. Flight cancelled. Was due off on Friday. Flight cancelled.
So here I am, at 8am on a Saturday awaiting a helicopter to take me home to salvage my weekend.
Fog is now my least favourite form of weather.
And Helicopters might be my least favourite form of transport.