The missus got mild COVID (little headache and cough for a couple days) during our holiday in Turkey and she's just gone up to HR and requested her annual leave back, the cheeky fuck. They said 'we don't do that here, love' but immediately changed their tune when she linked to GOV.UK guidance. I didn't know this was a thing.
If you do end up in Frankfurt, we can definitely have an informal pint.Originally Posted by Giggles
Where are you now? I'm going to Germany in a couple of months
You're deifntely well off out of that whole setup though. She sounds like a head case.
Want my cousin to knock up a couple of memes?
It's standard at big companies but can be a bit of a grift. Same way you accrue holidays when you are on the sick.
It's a massive bone of contention on the railway because someone will be off full pay for 6 months then come back to work and take all their owed holidays. I did it once and they basically said 'take the rest of the month off' to clear my outstanding holiday allowance
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Will be Munich. Was actually due to go to Frankfurt earlier this year but it was knocked on the head and covered remotely.
I really need my old manager back from beyond the grave. Her counterpart is currently juggling the whole team and she has one mode: Panic Stations. I don't really do Panic Stations, so we butt heads a bit. Not Kiko levels of butting heads, but I can tell my matter of fact ways get her back up a bit. Not enough drama when "it is what it is" is my default setting.
Anyway, a few weeks ago we heard from a neighbour that there was a putrid smell coming from one of the properties. She said the immortal words "it smells like death". Further investigation confirmed it was indeed death, and the 8 weeks without payment suggested it had been a while.
Well, the Council now want 12 weeks of Housing Benefit back and my manager is having kittens. "This is going to be a huge arrears case, what are we going to tell *big boss*?!"
I don't know, we could start with "she died and nobody knew". I imagine that would probably do it tbh.
Calm down ffs.
Won't they just write it off? She's hardly sitting on much money (for an estate to pay off the debt) if no one noticed she was gone for 8 weeks. Your manager sounds like a head case.
Yeah, it'll be written off. I have never known us try to claim from an estate, largely because pretty much nobody we house is likely to have one anyway.
At worse the boss will ask why her death went undetected for so long and why no welfare check was carried out, to which the answer is "people that stop paying also usually stop taking our phonecalls and opening the door to us. It's normal. We can't exactly get the police to force entry everytime that happens or we'd need Essex police on a permanent retainer".
This has all gone absolutely horribly wrong. They are making me claim mileage from HQ (Glasgow) so I've lost out on £750 of expenses since I started.
They've also told me to stay away from Glasgow. Absolute nightmare situation. Totally bombed it lads. Left a £65-75k job for a complete nightmare. Fucked it. I sent the MD who hired me an email saying it needs to be sorted otherwise my position is untenable and he's ignoring my calls and texts etc.
Has he paid his rent recently?
Nah, he's living in Magics head rent free.
Shite one, that.
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What's wrng with staying away from Glasglow? Because it means you can't claim mileage?
Yep, they are saying my 'starting point' is HQ so I can't have any meetings near there...but they have a caveat to say 'or home if it means less miles'.
So if I go to Aberdeen I can't claim from Glasgow, has to be my house.
The MD is ignoring me.
At least you invested in Mellin, @Magic.
I’m broke and the local shitty pub just had a walk out and I said I’d fill some hours, blagging that id done it before. Anything I need to learn outside of learning how to change a keg?
The Arab turned up in Ferrari shoes today. Like, black loafers with a prancing horse stitched into the top. I'm not sure if it was his most alpha move yet or his most beta.
If you can pour a pint you'll be grand. Even if you can't, just blame it on the tap until you get the hang of it.
You must have some Formula 1 clobber knocking about to challenge him.
I had a (fake) Ferrari jacket when I was a young'un. Bright red with a black logo on the breast. I went between thinking it was the coolest thing ever to being embarrassed by it on an hourly basis.
I've got a video call with the new MD called 'mileage' at 1000.
Think I might just jack it, because if there was any chance of this being resolved it would have been an apology, an adhoc credit in my bank and confirmation it's all sorted going forward.
This flexi time rollout is one of the great shambles, even by this company's standards. First of all we were told that it constituted starting an hour earlier to finish an hour later or vice versa on the same day, and had to be pre-arranged in advance for a good reason (i.e. non-flexi flexitime). Then one of the department managers started saying it was the opposite, and you could rock up 20 minutes late if you finished 20 minutes late whenever you want, and could accumulate time across multiple days etc. Others then went into uproar that their department had been told differently. Everyone is claiming they want to change their hours to 7-4 or whatever, as if any of these fucks are capable of getting up that early.
Then this morning we were all handed forms to sign agreeing to move onto 'the new Flexible Working Hours Policy', without stating what it actually was. I said I can't sign it until I know what it is. The MD looked at me like I'd stepped on his toe. Then he went around collecting the forms and shredded them, saying 'the policy needs amending'. Not heard anything since.
Lol. Amazing shitshow which clearly hasn't been thought through properly. It surely isn't that hard to be coherent?
@Boydy what's your programming language and what did you use to get up to speed?
Well?
Donning the MD
Learning programming from scratch or just moving from one language to another?
Learnt from scratch on a masters conversion course where my first language was Java.
I've picked up Javascript, Go and recently Python along the way. Udemy is normally pretty good for courses. I'll go through a course (or at least a bit of one) when picking up a new language or framework on there and then just pick up the rest from the existing codebase I'm working on. There's enough on there to learn it all on your own though.
Anything in particular you want to learn? I can have a look at what courses are good and try to give you some advice if you like.
SQL and probably machine learning more generally. Both will be used in my new job pretty much so trying to get up to speed.
Appreciate it!
You probably can't go wrong with datacamp if that's the sort of thing you're after. The data scientists at my last place were big fans of it. I assume you'll be using Python for ML?
I'm not actually sure - will learn in the coming months when I join. I'm on freecodeCamp at the moment.
I thought about offering Flexi time, but it means I'd probably end up having to man the phones if the receptionist decided to start/finish early. And fuck that for a game.
Was thinking about giving Python a go for bants (without any prior background in this shit), is uDemy the place?
There's tons of stuff everywhere online and much of it free but although udemy costs (it's usually cheap/has a "sale" on or there should be voucher codes if you google - never pay more than £15 for a course), you can't go wrong with the more popular, higher-rated courses on there.
Ambiguous answer and I've still not got my money back...
The most predictable outcome.
There are loads of courses on udemy and the like that probably teach you similar stuff, and are generally very good. I did this one and then started building small projects of my own. For ML and data-y stuff you'll eventually want to get good with certain libraries, numpy (maths), pandas (analysis/manipulation), matplotlib (visualisation) and scikit-learn (ML).
These might be obvious but I found the best way to get good at coding is getting stuck in and actually coding (rather than reading about coding) and knowing how to get help when stuck (google, and the reddit and discord python groups are great).
Thanks both. This job will be a bit of a technical leap but agree that it's a lot easier to get hands on rather than being theoretical.
Python isn’t too hard to pick up. I got an arduino kit and started with the manuals and samples there and then did some udemy stuff. Applied it a few times for work for a few things, seriously handy to know.
You realise this is going to be Boydy's new "Wait, Giggles uses Instagram!?"
I worked at a pub on trial today. I passed with flying colours. It's such a disgusting shithole I'm never drinking there again but I'll take the money.
Instagram is easily the best form of social media.
Shitholes are the best boozers.
I’m fine with shitholes but this is ‘reusing plastic glasses’ levels of gross.
Nah, I remember Giggles posting about coding before.You realise this is going to be Boydy's new "Wait, Giggles uses Instagram!?
I have an arduino controlling my brewing system now too. It’s savage stuff.
Is Reddit social media? If so lol at suggesting instagram.
80% of instagram is reposts from TikTok anyway.
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Reddit is turd.
Class. I bought one of them away back at the start of the pandemic and never did anything with it. Just like the painting set and the keyboard.
How? Genuinely, why do you think this?
You can opt in to follow content about literally ANYTHING you’re interested in. Home brewing? Yeah join that. Angry courier memes? Sign me up. Dragons shagging cars? You’re in.
Need to find an answer to something but Google is coming up dry? Add Reddit to the end of your search and before you know if you’ve found a post from 2016 explaining the best way to descale your specific brand of camping kettle.
And if you’re bored and it’s 3am and you’re doing a night feed, just scroll the Popular section and let it’s greatness wash over you.
Reddits great. Up there with transfermarkt for best website ever.
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