In might current mood I might be.
And I've just found out one of my tenants is involved in County Lines. There's currently a 'cuckoo' 20 years her junior (2 years older than her daughter) living there. Good stuff.
In might current mood I might be.
And I've just found out one of my tenants is involved in County Lines. There's currently a 'cuckoo' 20 years her junior (2 years older than her daughter) living there. Good stuff.
At my work, we have a team of four people in my team and a Director.
A - left just before Xmas
B - leaves next week
C - is going on maternity leave in two months
D - is me, and I have a job offer but am just negotiating salary. Once that's done I think I'm going to bail
E - (a cover replacement for C) started on Monday
The Director told us today that he's leaving
Feel so sorry for E, but overall it's MEGALOLZ
I'll take all of the jobz you have going.
I thought you'd sorted your new job already? The Amsterdam one, right?Originally Posted by Raoul Duke
At my work, we have a team of four people in my team and a Director.
A - left just before Xmas
B - leaves next week
C - is going on maternity leave in two months
D - is me, and I have a job offer but am just negotiating salary. Once that's done I think I'm going to bail
E - (a cover replacement for C) started on Monday
The Director told us today that he's leaving
Feel so sorry for E, but overall it's MEGALOLZ
Whys everyone leaving/left?
I'm a twit
Ok, you start Monday.
It got held up by Xmas. Just waiting for their salary offer to come through - assuming that's good then will go ahead. But yeah, Amsterdam.
A + B had been there a while and kinda reached the end of a cycle. It just so happened that they both are leaving within a short timeframe. Kinda the same for the Director too really.
I've just got an interesting offer, so will likely take it up. Have been there for a year and a half.
What's the current place and what's the new place?
Current place is a cosmetics company and the new place is a travel company.
Booking.com?
God nights are fucking awful.
The first one wasn't too bad, but by about 5am on the second I was absolutely dead on my feet. I'm on 3 of 4 currently and feeling not too bad, courtesy of ten hours drug-cocktail induced sleep during the day.
I nominated myself for an in-year reward before Christmas, and my line manager tried pushing it today, but apparently our overall manager blocked it because of how I 'conduct myself'. There is nothing work-related to complain about, because I do my work and then all of the shit that other departments send me; but apparently things like glazing over in meetings and then lolling out loud at 'e-mail-free Fridays' counts as not buying into the departmental way of doing things. This is Mark and Faggotgate all over again.
How does a mechanism exist where you can nominate yourself for a reward?
I had almost exactly that at Vodafone. After a year where I'd scarcely taken a break, done my own work plus whatever managers shovelled at me and either done most of the training or trained folk on the job after they'd had an idiot doing it I was graded lower on my annual review for not "showing willing" which I took to mean "being corporate."
One exists to nominate people you consider worthy. If nobody has thought to nominate themselves before then lol at them.
How does email free Fridays work? Do you send people Morse code printouts instead?
Nominating yourself for an award.
Look upon my initiative, ye mighty, and despair.
I had "you could act like you're happy to be here" in an otherwise exceptional review. I assume HR demands that managers must provide some form of negative feedback to help you continue your "development".
I must've made £80 from awards at work by now. Training people means you're always a point of contact for some bombscare.
This the 'energise' system Lewis?
We've got that at my place and in the two years it's been about I must've seen about £2.5k worth of amazon vouchers.
On the jobs front, Im definitely moving roles this year. I did however spot a new job available this week which I'd heard rumoured. Near identical to the job I'm doing just for a bigger platform and it turns out it's a grade higher.
Told my boss I'd be an idiot not to apply for it and he is now shitting himself at the prospect of his entire team leaving at the same time.
Definitely won't get it, but I'm applying for it regardless.
Been doing some recon of people who might apply... there's not a lot of potential applicants. Might actually get an interview.
Colleague overheard my boss discussing it with the head of my discipline in the region after I'd left also, saying he was "surprised I'd come out the woodwork for it". Telling him to "fuck engineering" at last years Xmas party working well.
I don't know what it is. I got five-hundred quid onto my wages out of them last year, but it seemed like half of it went in tax and student loan costs, so I would rather have had the vouchers.
Nights have fucked me up good and proper. They are awful.
The girlfriend of the lad at my school who died just before Christmas died this week. I'm rather grateful I don't know the 'how' for either; knowing they took their own lives is sobering enough.
'Kinell.
Boss told me today I’d be wasting my time applying. Seemingly they are looking to hire an external candidate with a bit more experience. Legally that seems a bit shaky for me for an internally advertised job. I’ve printed off the job description and marked up that I meet the requirements bar charter ship, which I have ignored for the last few years because it’s not been important (might be nowOn the jobs front, Im definitely moving roles this year. I did however spot a new job available this week which I'd heard rumoured. Near identical to the job I'm doing just for a bigger platform and it turns out it's a grade higher.
Told my boss I'd be an idiot not to apply for it and he is now shitting himself at the prospect of his entire team leaving at the same time.
Definitely won't get it, but I'm applying for it regardless. Yeah
Been doing some recon of people who might apply... there's not a lot of potential applicants. Might actually get an interview.
Colleague overheard my boss discussing it with the head of my discipline in the region after I'd left also, saying he was "surprised I'd come out the woodwork for it". Telling him to "fuck engineering" at last years Xmas party working well.).
Going to apply tomorrow anyway. Fuck it.
Signed my promotional contract today. I'm making an extra 12-13 grand a year not including pension etc. Genuinely life changing amount, time to plan out something savings wise long term.
You’re going to snort it aren’t you?
Nah, even in those months when I was massively over-doing it I came out with a balance at the end of the month.
Which goes on trainers.
Congrats Phonics
I'm getting sent up to the arse-arse-end of Scotland in mid-February, and in return for flying up on the Sunday I get two days extra leave(!). Unfortunately, I have loads of leave left over as it is, so I would rather have had the Sunday. Thank you for your service.
Applied on Tuesday (which is what I thought the deadline was) as it expires 15th (I assumed at midnight on the 14th).Boss told me today I’d be wasting my time applying. Seemingly they are looking to hire an external candidate with a bit more experience. Legally that seems a bit shaky for me for an internally advertised job. I’ve printed off the job description and marked up that I meet the requirements bar charter ship, which I have ignored for the last few years because it’s not been important (might be now
Going to apply tomorrow anyway. Fuck it.
Today my boss gave me an absolute bollocking for “applying without permission” and that he was pissed off. His tone was pretty aggressive too. He was absolutely raging. Accused me of applying and effectively lying on the form “ticking that I had line manager approval to apply”. I bit my tongue, apologised and left. I was absolutely raging, didn’t think he was right and I didn’t need approval as I’d been in role more than two years (he told me I was wrong, it was three).
Checked when I got home:
1. My contract, signed 2.5 years ago. States I will not considered for other roles without line manager consent within 2 years.
2. The application process asks whether I have “informed my line manager of this application”, not got permission to apply. (Which I did, as above).
Going to speak to a senior engineer in another area of the business on how to approach a conversation with my boss and then talk to him about. Basically he abused the shit out of me with no substance. Concerned he will either hold it against me, factor it wrongly in my performance review scoring or complain (wrongly) to others in the business - his temp boss is a senior leader in the job I’ve applied for.
I want it to be a calm, sensible discussion where I can show that I didn’t intent to disrespect him and haven’t done anything wrong.
If he gives me any grief at all, I’m leaving the office and going home but speaking to HR on the way out. He’s clearly stressed but he can’t flip out on me like that (he did it before Xmas too and actually apologies as he realised he was stressed and took it out on me).
Thoughts?
Bring someone with you.
I'll come with you if you can wait a month. I'm not shaving my head though.
Been offered a job with the Panama papers people. Less money, risk of getting car bombed but could be fun.
Do you drive? Problem solved.
It’s like buying two.
fucking hell.
Whys that in the jobs thread?
I'm a twit
Congratulations on your job at B&Q, Mahow.
Started my new job at the beginning of the year and have hammered the hours where I can but I've made an absolute cock up in that way more stuff is store bought or frozen than I am happy with so I figured I'd give it two months to get myself settled locally then look for something else. I don't mind the chaps that I work with but there's so little passion or interest from any of them that it's really frustrating. I expected way much more after my trial but unfortunately it's all a bit shit. Sad times.
I'm toying with the idea of finding a new career but given my lack of skills I'm unsure as to what so perhaps working part time and finding something I can work towards are the way forward, I think. It's so demoralising though as I thought I found a good place where I would be able to progress and learn more but how much can one learn when you bang so much stuff in a microwave.
Because I'm a mong who can't read.
Retirement watch will be fun this year. 3 are definitely going with a 4th trying for medical retirement and a couple on long-term sick leave.
Wasn't your new job something where you had a bit more control over the output? Why not stick around and steer things in the direction you'd prefer rather than just looking for the door because things aren't exactly to your liking right away?Started my new job at the beginning of the year and have hammered the hours where I can but I've made an absolute cock up in that way more stuff is store bought or frozen than I am happy with so I figured I'd give it two months to get myself settled locally then look for something else. I don't mind the chaps that I work with but there's so little passion or interest from any of them that it's really frustrating. I expected way much more after my trial but unfortunately it's all a bit shit. Sad times.
I'm toying with the idea of finding a new career but given my lack of skills I'm unsure as to what so perhaps working part time and finding something I can work towards are the way forward, I think. It's so demoralising though as I thought I found a good place where I would be able to progress and learn more but how much can one learn when you bang so much stuff in a microwave.
If you like working in a kitchen and want to learn more then go part time where you are if possible and go to college for a food prep course or something. If the interest is there on your end you'll get there, and better that than bouncing around different fields until the perfect job falls in your lap.
Mostly because it's soul destroying. I've only been there two weeks and it genuinely feels like I've been there a life time already. 12-10pm isn't all too bad in chefs world but it drags and drags until maybe 6pm when you get people coming in after work and that's where it goes to shit too. I'm no food snob but I do think if people are paying decent money for it then the least you can do is put some heart into what you're doing. Other examples being I went to make a tomato sauce for pizza's only to discover it's bought in, I went to find peas so I could let them soak for the day so I could make mushy's only to discover they are tinned and bought in. I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say in the two weeks I've been there I've probably made a carbonara sauce and that's about it. I'm going to give it another two weeks and then I think I'll be forced to find something more fitting or seek a different line of work.
I was tempted to go to a cooking school as it happens but then I was getting told by chefs that it would be pretty pointless now as although I'd gain certain skills, it's quite expensive given I'll learn much more on the job. My other idea was sticking it out for as long as I can to get some funds behind me then try and create my own product and go the e-commerce route whereby I try to package it and sell it but I'm a dumb fuck at the best of times so that'll probably lead to delusions of grandeur.
You might as well walk tbh.
A kitchen set in their ways like that is only going to bring you down.
Considering going for a job at a school I used to work at before I was a teacher. They've been through heaps of change and were part of a town-wide lambasting from Ofsted a few years ago, but the names on the staff list look pretty familiar, which is unusual given it's been nearly ten years and all the upheaval. There's also another role potentially attached to it which would be pretty interesting, overseeing the trainees and NQTs. Going to message a few people who are still there and get their take on it.
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