I had to stroll over to the east wing.
Here's another: when someone says 'Guess how much this thing costs???!!?!?', talking about a thing that is clearly way more expensive than they thought it would be, and you have to try and pitch your guess reasonably high, but not as high as the truth, so that it doesn't kill their banter.
I just succumbed, guessing £850 when the banter was that something was FIVE HUNDRED! Room instantly dead.
I can’t be doing with people telling me they’ve put their heating on, like it’s a big life-changing event.
Or that they’ve “made the most of the weather and put the washing out.” And?
Probably just because my only interaction with others is on Teams.
I'm a twit
That’s the thing though. I’m offended people feel the need to use those lines on me, no matter who it is.
I'm a twit
I'm afraid that is just a byproduct of being a narcissist and I feel your pain but it's up to us to not let it get to us.
He just hasn’t found the opportunity to fiddle them out of any cash yet.
Be the one to join in late. Avoid the small talk, look cool arriving late. Win, win.
It tends to happen more at the end of meetings, so I usually leave fast. I’m not one for messing around so I like to arrive on the hour and get straight to business.
I'm a twit
When 2 kids are ill at the same time there is always someone on hand to trot out 'oh, there must be something going around'. Well yes, there's fucking thousands of things going around.
When people caption their photos and use the term “this one” to mean another person.
”fab few days away with this one.”
You mean Darren, Kayley. His name is Darren.
Last edited by Baz; 02-10-2020 at 07:16 AM.
I'm a twit
That sounds like the type of thing you'd do if you were a girl. Do you still point at people in photos?
Nah.
I'm a twit
"This one" is up there with "the boy".
I've never seen 'the boy' other than dad's talking about their sons. Or is that what you mean?
Nah basic bitches do it about their boyfriends. Dad's talking about sons "the boy" is fine.
I've never seen that, but then Essex girls have enough ridiculous slang of their own so it's probably just fallen off in favour "salty potato" or something equally stupid.
There are Victorians fucking everwhere in my street tonight as it is the Gabba traffic boundary for rideshare.
Time to start a posse!
EDIT: Knicked off to the pub and it is all Victorians.
Last edited by Queenslander; 03-10-2020 at 09:26 AM.
When you say Victorians...
People than answer questions you didn't ask.
We're due to go to CentreParcs in a months time and with all the talk of Circuit Breaking it brings some doubt to the situation, so my Mrs messaged her manager asking 'if there's a short lockdown when I'm meant to be going away, is there any availability to move my annual leave back a week?'
"We don't know if there's going to be a lockdown"
Yeah mate, she didn't think she was texting BoJo.
Last edited by Spikey M; 14-10-2020 at 07:25 PM.
Control your woman.
I got sick of the one 'Vegan Tiramisu' ad on Twitter it would show me over and over again so I blocked the account and Twitter is punishing me by showing me awful 'viral' content accounts instead.
Maybe Twitter just isn't for you.
My work laptops webcam is awful and only picks up blues well. Whole image is black and white apart from my eyes. I look like Gollum with a toupee (no change their then!)
Just semi-flooded the kitchen by forgetting to put the washer's hose in the toilet to drain.
Go me. Missus is gonna go mental
My brother flooded the downstairs of my dad's house by leaving the bath running then tried to hoover the water up with the dyson.
Haha at least im not at that level
Would be seriously handy.
I hate all these journalists saying ‘I sat down with Player X where he said...’ and then every journalist has the exact same quotes. Lads, you went to a press conference.
i fucking wish haxball were still a thing
i miss those dumb times with cord and welby at the core
Cord? It’s not 2004.
also what's up with people writ large having no sense of nuance
i see it all the time in these realms:
1) design, where people do these dumb superficial projects like "this app makes an ALARM BELL sound every time a BOMB goes off in yemen" and you're all like "yeah okay" and it's one note
and
2) politics, where blah blha blah who cares am i right
i miss playing haxball with giggles
so many good times scoring against giggles
Slow meme day on WhatsApp.
Absolutely fucking sick of my job right now. I love the job itself but I have very few other colleagues who do the same job as me and the one I work most closely with can be incredibly fucking difficult to work with.
I've suggested a certain way of doing things which makes a massive amount of sense but she's against it, I think, because if I do it like that it'll make her look bad because she doesn't want to do it like that. Well....fuck off. I'm going to email the management and make it clear to them how I want to do things, and they'll agree that my way is a good idea and I'll get to do things in a way that helps people the most.
If they don't see it then they can fuck off too. Or I'll just email their manager until finally I meet someone at this shitshow of an organisation who knows what they're fucking doing. We're putting people's lives at risk needlessly, doing things the way we're doing them. Basically I want to do things online with the people who want to do them online, as I've had a number of people contact me saying they're uncomfortable attending anything physically as they've got health problems or their family members do. Well, that's fine by me - I'll just do things online. Or I'll do things online with the people who want it done online (at no significant loss to what's being offered) and do things in person with the people who are happy to have things done in person.
Jesus Christ. Never worked somewhere which is so badly managed. An absolute shower of shite. Job itself, working with the people I work with as part of the job - love it. Every single dealing with the management is a fucking shambles though. Nobody knows what they're doing, everyone wants to pass it on to someone else and deflect responsibility. I don't even know which manager to email about this - I have 3 names and I don't know who would be responsible, so I guess i'll just email all of them.
Fuck sake. I'm thinking of sacking it off and going back to my doss job I did a few years back. The one that was ok, not great, but which caused me very little stress and which I could forget about afterwards. Pay wasn't great but I could get by. We live in a cheap house and the missus gets paid well so I could do.
Might use this place to vent every now and then.
Jobs thread, surely? Also, there's a reason why the other job is lesser pay and why you probably won't go back out of choice.