I changed one of my passwords on Friday. I didn't write it down right and the helpdesk number I need has vanished. I am completely locked out of our systems now. The IT guys on staff don't appear to have it. Contacted them an hour ago and have had no response.
Accidental day off
Well, the dude is still alive, but he'd probably be better of if he wasn't. Poor bastard.
An absolutely bizarre start to the new year from the Arab. He's just gone around the office inviting people to submit their guesses as to what his December electricity bill came to, with the closest winning a prize of £20. I guessed £309, but the real answer was £654, with the Indian guy collecting the prize.
Now he's talking about how his jeans cost £120. I think he's having a meltdown of some kind.
How the fuck has he spent £654? I'm doing a steady £6-7 a day at the moment and that's with the heating on 24/7 due to having a baby.
Cryptomining?
Did not expect the Arab to wear jeans to work.
I'm a twit
Bet they look wet.
Anticipated most people not being back to work until tomorrow leading to relatively quiet and relaxing days.
Turned out to be exactly the case.
Also had a major thing I wanted/needed to do today, and we might’ve just gone and done it on day 2. If it works, I’m coasting the rest of the year.
Also, my job title now has “senior” which makes me feel much better about being extremely bald.
First day back and been landed with two full-day of negotiations for a maintenance contract for a fleet of planes (didn't realize 737s were still a thing). Obviously all super urgent, written in technical gobbledygook and completely new to us/me, so that's fun.
The return from Christmas also means recruiters are back en masse, so my LinkedIn inbox has been busy today. I've been contemplating a move in-house and have been offered an interview for a fairly interesting company, but undecided if I'll take the leap, partly because only been in this job 8 months. Won't hurt to interview though.
In a meeting about potential weather-related power outages and the guy presenting it is hammering home how low risk it is, and one person I work with is doing her best to start laying down contingency plans - so we shouldn't travel into the office? Traffic lights will fail? All buildings will have no heating or lightning? No hun, he's saying nothings going to happen. Now get your arse in the office every Thursday like the rest of us.
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Got my complete itinerary for South America now, I think this flight is definitely the winner from the sixteen:
22 Feb 2023
Wednesday
Flight: Boliviana de Aviación - OB 741
LIM, Jorge Chávez International Airport, Lima, Peru
Depart: 01:00
VVI, Viru Viru International Airport, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Arrive: 04:30
Class: Economy
What’s the weather gonna be like?
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Nacional Potosí - Independiente Medellin in a Copa Libertadores prelim on the 22nd.
Managed to oversleep on my second day in the new job
what a fucking MORON
There's no fear like the fear when you wake up and it's just too light outside.
What alarm setup does everybody go with? I don't snooze because that's playing with fire. I have two alarms that go off the same time so I have to wake up enough to turn off my phone and the alarm clock. Think I've only overslept enough to make me properly late once.
Originally Posted by Baz
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Haven't needed to set one since having children. Pricks.
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I had it in the 20s / maybe high 20s inland, no detailed knowledge though.
Isn't February the wet season over in South America?
I put my phone over on the window sill so I have to get up to turn it off.
It's October-November in Colombia as far as I know.
yeah I need to get a proper alarm clock cus I am entirely wedded to listening to podcasts on my phone as I fall asleep, which leaves the handset far too close to avoid the risk of just turning the alarm off and going back to sleep without realising I've done it
I have just the one. Most of the time I'll wake up before it's due to go off. Then I stay in bed for another 15-30 minutes.
It will be when Jim gets there. Oi oi
Re: alarms. My Fitbit usually is for between 645-730 depending on whether or not I'm working out. My kid usually wakes up at 6 anyway so it's a bit pointless.
Day 2 back in the office and really CBA.
definitely noticing subtle differences between new place and old place. the stupid mandatory training stuff about how to sit in your chair and how you shouldn't get pissed on shift made me go "oh yeah I spose I had better plug my laptop into my monitor and not just sit on the sofa all day", until I realised my new laptop doesn't have a hdmi port lol, spose I better get a VGA adapter
A vga adapter? What sort of laptop have they given you? Is it from the noughties?
Presumably it has no display port at all and you just need a USB to HDMI adapter.
Is it a Surface? Need a Mini Displayport to HDMI adaptor.
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It seems my employers want their revenge. So after agreeing in early December a new part time shift I was to permanently switch to, I assumed that was that. I've double checked today to see what about I might get paid and I've noticed that, instead of immediately changing me over, they put me down to switch to that shift on the 1st of January.
In the meantime they've had me as authorised absence for half a day and let me work the other half. Now Decembers pay was halfway ish between a full time pay and a part timers, so I didn't really question it as I thought that should cover the bit early in the month where the crossover was.
Turns out you get paid as normal this way until you switch, so essentially they overpaid me by pretty much double in December, but some was clawed back. Now they're going to want the rest back in January as all through December I've been on the same. So pretty much come payday in January I'm going to be lucky if I get anything at all.
I forgot you pulled that stunt. HR remembers.
Luckily enough I've seen them pull that one before so I was able to stick some aside ready for this day.
I have 3 interviews in the next couple of weeks so hopefully something good comes my way.
Are you still in Spain, or am I completely misremembering things?
Are they all for similar jobs?
Do you feel prepared?
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I am not. Got my PhD there, then worked for a year in Paris and now I am back in Greece doing a very boring job for relatively little money (though it's fairly good to have on the CV, it's for the regulatory authority for energy).
@Baz: The jobs are actually quite different from each other. One is R&D in McLaren in my actual field (computational fluid dynamics), the other one is on wind turbine patents in the Netherlands (fairly bureaucratic but pays a fuckton) and the last one is for the R&D department of the major electricity provider here in Greece.
The first one sort of terrifies me as the interview will be with all the heads of the CFD department, who have been in McLaren for like 15 years each, so I expect it to be highly technical and quite challenging, the second one I've passed the technical interview so it's more so HR stuff, the only "challenging" thing being that I told them I know German, but I haven't spoken in like 10 years (I do have a B2-level degree) so we'll see, and the last one is a very initial sort of interview where they get to explain what exactly the position is and the likes, so nothing too scary there.
Got fired and re-hired in the same day. Love the bar job world.
Why are you still doing that?
'cos he needs money.
I think what he means why is he still pulling pints when he used to [claim to] have a well-paid job in a specific field.
He's probably still applying for that stuff but getting nothing back. Still, I'd be taking entry level admin over pint pulling.
That or some SvN figure offered you twenty-five grand a year and it turned out that your well-paid job was actually just living in a wealthy country.
Yeah, it was obviously that.
Maybe he enjoys it.
Pulling pints is great. I used to love it.
Once a month for a year. And they won’t hire me for those 25k jobs because ‘you have too much experience’. The job market is dumb.Unfortunately, we will not be offering the role to you on this occasion. It was very clear that you had a great range of creative and technical skills and abilities, but we had a number of very strong applications and there was another candidate that more closely aligned blah blah blah
There is some merit to the "you have too much experience" argument in fairness, which is that they mean "you'll probably leave at the first opportunity". I do get that.
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