Missed payments? Is the company doing alright or is the money being filtered through to Johannesburg as we speak?
Missed payments? Is the company doing alright or is the money being filtered through to Johannesburg as we speak?
I'm going to Seattle tomorrow for a week with work. I really cannot be arsed. There's work shit every day and the CEO said the other day in a message to everyone "we will have lots of team time for fun/connection in the evenings" so the evenings won't even be our own.
Work-related after hours "fun" is just the worst.
Especially miles from home in a city where you'd rather do anything else.
Anti-Strike rhetoric whilst hoping they remember to pay you, there's a reason they never fuck the wages on railway
I don't know if I mentioned it in here, but a while back I visited an old boy that wears nappies (for some reason he can't have a colostomy bag) and he sat there for the duration of my visit slowly shitting himself.
Well, guess who's been racist to one of his neighbours and needs another visit later today? Fuck sake.
Strange to think you've been considering a career change.
Considering accompanying you to South America and starting a new life as a drug mule at this point.
Work night out tonight for someones 30th*. They're all meeting at 5:30 and going for food at 7, so when I rock up at 8 when the kids are in bed all the work talk will be over and done with and everyone will be merry.
*Sat in the office yesterday people watching members of other teams going to and from the kitchen made me realise how old I am now. Like I'm not one of the fresh-faced 20-somethings anymore, but one of the old heads. Depressing.
I'm a twit
Peru is kicking off big style, which is making life interesting. It seems to be impossible to actually plan anything properly, as the senior road sales type guys here (and no doubt everywhere) are impulsive shitheads who can't sit still. If we can't go to Peru (which is in the middle of the itinerary), I would have thought we should just bring forward the subsequent destinations and skip it, but no, Old Man Idiot seems to want to delay the start of the whole thing so that we can attend a company sales seminar. You see, it was booked for the first Monday of our trip, and he recently found this out and started a massive seethe, believing they're trying to force him out. He also had a diva strop about not being invited to the Christmas lunch, even though he lives 250 miles away and so a trip down south for a pub lunch seemed silly.
All the while, I can't plan anything in my life at this point, as I have no idea whether I'm flying in two weeks' time as has been booked for the last two months, or not. In these guys' minds, because I don't have a wife/kids, my life only involves work, so I can operate on this basis forever. They even asked me if I was willing to travel alone to the Ivory Coast in May (I lolled that idea into the bin).
Mate, you're 79. Fucking retire.
Have you been paid yet?
Yeah, we got paid at about 11am once the finance department had finished their artisan coffee and gourmet pastry selection, and decided to log on for the day. Just hadn't bothered doing the payment run on time.
Can't help but have a rye laugh when you've got private sector workers moaning about not getting paid until 11am on payday whilst we have doctors being paid over a year late and having debt collectors sent after them for money they were never told they owed (and actually didn't owe).Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
What's that an argument in favour of? Privatisation?
Strikes.
I guess it's an argument about private sector workers saying they have everything just as hard and the public sector should stop moaning.
Surprised you even have energy bills when your halo can light and heat the place.
"When I were a lad I had to to walk 10 miles to school, barefoot, in the snow, uphill both ways"
Was it even really moaning though? More wry commentary.
This is a depressing reality. Particularly when there’s a new hottie in the office and you have to screen out the “will she think I’m a creepy old guy?”. The answer is always yes, because as it turns out, I probably am.Work night out tonight for someones 30th*. They're all meeting at 5:30 and going for food at 7, so when I rock up at 8 when the kids are in bed all the work talk will be over and done with and everyone will be merry.
*Sat in the office yesterday people watching members of other teams going to and from the kitchen made me realise how old I am now. Like I'm not one of the fresh-faced 20-somethings anymore, but one of the old heads. Depressing.
I'm not sure why the doctors feel so entitled. I clapped for them which is more than I did for the parts sales people.
I thanked the surgeons that delivered my kids, meanwhile I called the MOT geezer that charged me Ł180 for new brake disks and pads a cunt under my breath.
Sucks that you have to do both together now. Bring back asbestos!
I'm a twit
Got a 5% pay rise even though still on probation.
Well I fucked up. Had to rebook my flight for monday as I didn't know what an ESTA was and that you had to do it before turning up to the airport.
I swear someone told me once that you just signed a visa waiver form on the plane?
On the bright side, missing one of the days of the corporate shite on monday.
Haven't ESTAs existed for most if not all of your adult life?
On a side note, the new EU one sounds like it's going to be a bit of a bureaucratic nightmare so that may put pay to going there for a few years until everyone has been sufficiently fingerprinted etc.
I have no idea, I've never been to the US before.
The girl at the desk said it normally comes through quickly (within an hour) once you've submitted it. So I did and waited around at the airport for like an hour and a half as I had time. Gave up and got them to rebook it and got the coach home again. It came through about 15 minutes after I got on the coach. Would've been too late then anyway.
Also have to go via San Francisco on monday instead of direct. I'll probably fuck something up there too.
I always figured they checked ESTA's at customs rather than check-in.
ESTAs are valid for two years as well, so bear in mind it can run out
Probably some bollocks about the airline being held liable for the costs to customs to turn you around. Same reason they were arsey about COVID forms.
Yeah, airlines get stung for loads for any type of entry failure, which is why they won't let you on a plane unless you have over the actual maximum allowed expiry left on your passport.
I can't remember ever being asked for it at check-in. Speaking of which, now's probably the time to ask this:
Can you change contact details on an ESTA? If shit were to go down, I don't want someone bothering a hotel I'm not even staying in.
So creepy as you know he's smiling when he's typing these posts.
You what?
Yeah that post has me baffled too.
It's always good value when Magic calls someone creepy. Remember when he posted on here saying he was considering setting up secret cameras to film his wife doing spray tans?
And he calls us boomers. Learn to use a plane you gobshite.
Giggles on his 3rd pint.
No. You’re flying and you’re doing connections then you plan and have everything covered. Not moan afterwards like you’re entitled to something.
Taz halfway through his first Smirnoff Ice.
Remember when you got a boner after finding garlic in some seven year old's cunt.
:weeping:
Coming out with stuff like this doesn't really help your case.
In the air now. Got up at 6am this morning to get the coach to Dublin at 7:40. By the time I get to the hotel in Seattle, it'll be 4am UK time.
Enjoy the team bonding mate
If he can get through customs.
A completely unrelated person has just told me that I'm now leaving for South America a week later than planned (as far as I know, we're leaving in 12 days' time). First I'd heard of it, not heard a peep from the guy who's going with me and organising the trip, but he's clearly told the unrelated person. I've emailed him asking wtf.
Am I really expected to suspend normal life on the expectation I could be leaving for South America for 2-3 weeks at any random point in the next month, or is this just amateur hour?
Both.
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