The Lean Machine will ground you into dust, boy.
The Lean Machine will ground you into dust, boy.
I could be those macros.
Just had an absolutely brutal phonecall with a man who's wife died yesterday while they were on holiday. He was driving home from Devon. He was in floods of tears and I don't think the anxiety of expecting him to crash at any second will ever leave me.
She's in Devon now.
lll
You are all deeply terrible people.
Crisis calls are the worst thing I've ever had to deal with, to be honest. When a call takes the turn, I shit bricks.
I don't know why this annoys me so much, but two of my six bosses both call each other 'Mister' in emails (as in: 'Hi Mister', 'Thanks, Mister', 'Have you called the customer, Mister?') and it's becoming close to a resigning matter for me.
They're both English, so there's no excuse.
Sounds like flirting to me.
Just run of the mill twattery I think.
More likely to go with just surname if that were the case.
They're not public school boys, just old. Public school boys are more 'Fancy sharing a prostitute, Johnners?' and all that.
Very frugal. Yuppies get atleast one each.
Yeah but for the public school boys the prostitute is just a cover.
I've been sent this and have been told not to book any [internal] meetings on Friday afternoons for the whole of July.
I'm a twit
That'a a great idea, I'd wonder how some of these people get anything done given their entire day is b2b calls if I didn't already know the answer.
On getting to work news, the flexi season tickets are a load of horseshit. Only really work for me if I don't go in more than 2 days a week.
https://www.theguardian.com/money/20...id-19-pandemic
Some anomalies were apparent: the new flexi fare appeared to be more expensive than a daily anytime return on at least one route, with Brighton-East Croydon costing more than £30 a day on a eight-day flexi season ticket, compared with a peak anytime return of £27.20.
The fact that can even occur shows what a complete shambles the whole pricing structure of rail fares is.
Called my boss a lying dick head to HR and then put my resignation in 15 minutes later. 3 months notice and I'm going back to the UK after give or take 15 years in Switzerland. Pints are on me lads.
Bloody men all the same 😡😡
Haha an AIDS joke, top shelf stuff as usual from late-period Lewis.
Has been an ongoing issue and my lease/period of notice lines up so seems the perfect time to jump.
Who else had 'misunderstood something and kicked off'?
I was thinking that, to be honest.
It was actually a Zombie joke.
I'm working from the office today and it's terrible. Deeply, deeply terrible. The norm must be resisted. Embrace the third wave.
I don't think it's gonna happen any time soon but our managers clearly want us back in the office at some point. Fingers crossed for a limited number of days per week but I'm just gonna assume it'll be back to the 5 day commute when it happens and anything less than that is a bonus.
My 'unreliable' colleague has gone off sick, and then emergency holiday (which he phoned in at 4.57pm to arrange) in consecutive days. Not sure I've seen that one-two attempted before.
You should take a few days sick to allow your stock to rise.
I had a text message from my manager asking if I could attend an "Emergency" at 2am last night because I'm "closer".
Now, I slept through that like a freshly titted baby, but the audacity is still impressive.
Firstly, I'm not on call and receiving the MASSIVE 20p per hour or whatever the fuck it is, you are. Get your arse in the car.
Secondly, you live 10 minutes from me. How much fucking closer can I be? Not close enough that waiting for me to reply, get ready and head out is a game changer. I know that much.
Thirdly, "emergency"? I don't know what's happened, but I reckon any of our Emergency Services can get by without my help.
She was almost certainly pissed and couldn't drive.
I am keen to find out what this emergency was.
Also fuck the 20p per hour for being on call. That's not remotely worth it.
I've not had a reply to my response but will update when I do. Hopefully she's been up all night.
It probably isn't 20p per hour, it will be whatever the standard going rate is (everything is). I just remember it being a very underwhelming amount, although this must be the 2nd or 3rd time I've heard of someone on call actually having to do something and it's usually as simple as an alarm going off somewhere.
Is this the one who was pissed on a video call?
The very same.
100% she would have been pissed.
We have to do emergency call outs at my place and I'm constantly having to.l cover other areas fir various reasons and I'm betting 95% involve drinking you can tell as soon as they ring the phone.
The money is really good though, usually £300-600ish for my callout week. A 2am callout like that would get us the next day off paid as down time. Its a pretty sweet gig.
We have to do an on-call weekend one week out of about 8. It fucks your weekend but it works out quite well. An extra £2k a year for being on that rota and then without going into the boring admin of it you'll usually end up claiming £250- £500 for each on-call weekend depending on how much time you've actually spent on callout. Sometimes even more than that.
She's not emailed and I can't see anything that hints at an "Emergency" having happened anywhere. God damn it. I need closure.
May she was out of booze.
My version of on call is varying degrees of the platform is broken and we need to get 75 people off ASAP and help fix the broken thing to the helicopter has crashed into the sea and everyone is dead. Help manage the phones.
Works out as something like an extra £250 for the on call week about 6-8 times a year. A lot of inconvenience and potential life changing event exposure for a nominal financial reward. No thanks.
You know what'd be cooler? Speedboats. Big Oil should fund that.
The project I'm currently on has run out of work and the expectation is that I just stare at my fucking screen until the end of my shift.
Is there any way to amend Teams so it appears that I'm active? God I miss Skype.
What do you do that there's literally nothing else they could have you working on?
If they literally are just expecting you to sit and do nothing then will they even notice if you show as away?