Regardless of the sentiment, anyone calling themselves a fampany can gtfo.
I'm a twit
I've thought for a while that when Barry Musk or whoever comes out with statements about 4 zillion hours of hard work being required per week to change the world, it's all really a load of horse shit, for the following reasons:
1) most people don't want to change the world, they just want to put food on the table and enjoy life.
2) these people are bloodsuckers overpaid by a factor of thousands and to justify this - to the world and to themselves - they come up with this fictional narrative in which their wealth was earned because they worked hardest (the same applies to professional sportsmen, 100% of whom, whatever they tell you, reached the top because of natural talent, not hard work)
3) to maintain the status quo they need to keep people in their place, part of which is barking at them to work harder, like a 19th century mill owner
The less we listen to 'business leaders', the more wise we will become.
One of our senior management team actually just said 'without further adieu' on a company call. It's not often I encounter one of these outside the internet.
However it has helped me learn that things like this (tender hooks, peddle stool, etc.) are called eggcorns, which pleases me.
That article conflates hard work and productivity, which aren't the same thing, but probably seem like the same when you're struggling to write the same worthless article on different things every week.
Word. My productivity's class because the majority of the office work slower than me. I work to their pace, not my own.
fucking hell, i had the football manager message board equivalent of how you'll start getting facebook adverts relating to stuff you have been talking about at the pub
about 4 hours after you posted this, the IT guy started howling with laughter. when i asked him wtf he was laughing at he said "wait for my facebook post"
for context, IT guy is a Polish guy my age (29) who moved to the UK at 16, and wasn't fluent until he was 19, and "JOHN L" is a 50 year old english man. excellent.
My work initially went to two/three days a week in January (by orders of the parent unit who apply their stupid rules to us), so I used some holidays and stayed home a bit longer, but then it just got closed properly in February and I've been sat off since. We were meant to be back in by now, but our section of the site has got some Legionella bacteria in its water, so that means another few weeks off. I have had seven of the past thirteen months off.
My productivity proves the point.
Lewis, how do you reconcile being lazy government worker scum with your worldview? You must bowl around like Ron Swanson.
I tell myself that I'm one of the actually important workers, and use all of my interactions with other areas/departments to reinforce it.
This is great.
Excellent.
One of my colleagues has royally chimped out today, basically walking off the job (virtually) when it wasn't finished and due to be ready, then leaving both work related group chats. High level drama for a Tuesday.
End of the line for him.
I got declined for an internal job because the person spec said a degree was essential, but chanced my arm anyway considering everyone knows I can definitely do the job, despite dropping out of university in 2005.
Didn't mind so much cos I knew this when applying. What does annoy me is they've just decided to not fill the post because nobody else applied.
I'm a twit
Should have just made up the degree.
This sort of thing pisses me off - what difference does having a degree make to actually carrying out the job? Why not just interview you and make a decision based on your (much more relevant) work history?
I've sort of had the opposite today - denied the opportunity to interview as I'm now too experienced and therefore more expensive as 'just' a classroom teacher. The only way out of my school now is promotion (something I've thus far failed to achieve)
I didn't know they even advertised internal jobs without having already stitched the candidate[s] up. I wrote the interview questions for mine when we got upgraded.
Time has stopped moving.
Just came out of a three-hour workshop, so I feel your pain
Thank fuck for a three-day weekend.
I'm (in work related written correspondence, not here) increasingly starting to drop my use of contractions like someone's turned the dial up on my autism. It's subconscious and I'm yet to bottom out the full impact so stay tuned for more.
My current office had like ~75 people in a day pre-covid, now it's just the little team i'm in plus the odd handful of different randomers.
My boss is absolutely sound, and incredibly easy-going, but I'm starting to get quite annoyed by her fear of upper-management. Like, I'm not expecting some us-against-the-world shit, with her LAYING DOWN ULTIMATUMS to her bosses whenever they do anything that annoys us proles, but still.
Our team of 5 people has been split into two - me and the woman who mostly do one task have to sit at the far opposite end of the office to the other 3, apparently with the logic that if someone on one team got the vid, the other team wouldn't have to isolate. That's the logic of my manager's boss anyway. It's completely pointless cus after lunch time, the other woman on my team of 2 goes home and a woman in the team of 3 goes home, and i have to go and sit in the other bit for the second half of the day anyway with the remaining 2 people in the other team! We all have to intermingle constantly throughout the day anyway for various tasks so, clearly, if anyone got vid we're all fucking isolating, no questions.
This decision was made about a month ago, and it's massive pain in the arse cus the bit us two get banished to isn't cleared for taking sensitive info on the phone, so we can't take any calls, and half of our overall team's stuff is down there.
My boss made it sound like she'd pointed this out to HER boss, and her boss basically didn't get it/refused to listen. Today I pushed it a bit and actually asked "so, when you pointed this out, what did she say?" cus she's bit a bit evasive about it, and she blushed and said "well i haven't actually had a chance to...".
Like, what the fuck. I am not expecting her to make some crazy ultimatum about it if her boss doubles down, but it sounds like she's just gone "okay", and not even bothered to explain why it's stupid. The thing that makes it even more perplexing is that HER boss is really chilled out and sound as well, and has almost certainly made a genuine mistake in making this decision. I'm almost certain that if she came in tomorrow and i was like "don't you think it's a pointless having us split up cus blah blah blah" she'd just go "oh yeah, good point, fuck it then".
I don't get it, like there's being a bit in awe of your superiors and being scared of conflict, but this feels borderline deranged to me. I fear that if upper-management were like "yeah igor has to work sundays now" she'd just be like uhhh yeah sorry igor :/
She sounds like one of those passive melts that's too afraid of confrontation and causing any kind of scene. Touch her up if you get any alone time.
Aye, it takes a second to raise it in a meeting or whatever. If it goes nowhere, she's done her bit.
i'm sure it's no coincidence that she's also exactly the worst kind of work martyr who arrives an hour early and leaves an hour later and answers emails at the weekend despite being in some pointless 30k middle-management job supervising divs like me
Frig that. We had a lass like that at our level once. She dropped a clanger then desperately tried to hang around the office whilst it was fixed. She did it enough to get warned about it. Just go home and survey the damage tomorrow.
There's a similar dynamic in my office. My manager always dresses up quarterly / end of year performance as a scary thing because she has to explain our performance to her managers manager.
This makes little sense, because the manager she reports this to is one of the nicest people you could meet and would almost certainly look for any reason to give people the benefit of the doubt.
In fact, we ended just shy of 1% off our team target (I beat my target because I am a hero) this year, and she gave us all a gift voucher and said it was a miraculous achievement considering everything that's happened over the last year.
So, either she's an absolute dragon once her office door snaps shut OR this is just the technique that ineffective low-level managers use to avoid having to justify their bull shit.
Personable girlbosses running the show whilst their underlings vent on their little computer game forum.
The top, TOP boss is a geezer, so we're still keeping the feminist lobby out of the board room.
Bitchboss or bossbitch?
lol yeah sounds like your boss is exactly the same as ours. she was freaking out foe weeks because our team was "massively over budget" for the quarter.
turns out the reason we were MASSIVELY over budget was that we got a really high invoice from one of the agencies people can donate to us through. so, er, it was because we'd gotten MORE money, it's just that the agencies ostensibly fall under our adminny department, whereas the money in goes into the fundraising department. it isn't like she had any control over it - she doesn't even choose which agencies we work with. so whenever she'd panic i'd be like "yeah, but...we're not ACTUALLY over budget, it's just that we were charged more cus we got more donations?" and she'd sorta flap and not really reply.
once she finally had the end of quarter meeting she came out really relieved and surprised, saying "well they didn't care about being overbudget because it was just because we had a higher than usual amount of donations, and obviously out of our control anyway"
er...well, yeah. she's worked here for like 30 years as well.
'it says "hated by the daily mail", 'cause i'm the sort...'
'Right, and do you think that's an appropriate thing to wear for work?'
*invents reasons to hate her*
I would watch the movie about Igor written by Lewis.
And narrated by Jimmy.
Some cunt was complaining about me and all sorts a month ago but in his most recent email he has included a light pun which I feel needs acknowledgement in what would otherwise be 'thank you for the report' response. It's an external so it needs to also be professional. Is there a solution for this incredibly difficult position I find myself in?
What's the pun?
It's just some bollocks surrounding the topic of the report. It's not actually funny ffs. What I need is a formal business equivalent to the laughing crying emoji that I can chuck his way and we can both continue to live our lives in peace.
I would probably just ignore it and thank him.
Just ignore it. Power move.
I never realised Taz was such a beta.
Replying with another (better) pun is the obvious answer.
"LOL m8 :*******), thanks for the report."
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