Tribunal incoming.
Tribunal incoming.
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My office building has been evacuated due to the possibility of a collapsing crane. Genuinely gutted if I miss such scenes.
If it's in Leeds I have seen internal reports at my spot saying they've cleared trains to run past it as they have had assurances it won't fall.
Latest from my cute little sidekick:
Also called me a lovely person yesterday. Well and truly friendzoned, which is probably for the best.We are like two gossip girls about peoples working activity but we just spend the entire day using our teams as MSN?
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Mate, she knows she's got you wrapped around her pinky. Stop flirting on Teams before somebody files an FOI against your department.
You can’t extract Teams conversations as part of an FOI, only emails.
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A lot of organisations seem to think otherwise.
Even so, nothing would be achieved.
As for being wrapped around her little finger, that doesn’t really make sense cos she does all the work she is asked to do.
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Not like that, hun.
Is the 'cute little sidekick' and the new starter you were complaining about the same person?
Our team moved our group chat off teams to try and avoid FOI nonsense, our teams group chat is really just for sterile technical chat now.
Ours gets used mainly to moan about the systems going down.
Does Baz know he has a wife and kids?
Yep. Still can’t spell.Originally Posted by Lofty
Yep.
It’s not like omg I wanna eat her arse but she’s just dead sound and pleasant. I remember being out once with some mates and we got talking to these two girls and one lad was chatting to one for about 20 mins and came back buzzing about how fit she was. She wasn’t fit 25 minutes ago though.
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This is some sinister shit.
Not really, it’s just some mild exaggeration for forum relevancy.
Best part is the two other people who were employed at the same time at her level are absolutely rubbish. I interviewed one of them (big pat on my back for correctly identifying the best candidate, by the way) and after we said no she applied again and the idiots who interviewed her (and have now left) somehow thought she was a valuable acquisition. She has since cried to my mate that she has no guidance and complained of poor line management. (Another big pat on my back..)
And the other one has had three formal complaints from service providers cos she hasn’t paid their invoices and hasn’t replied to them about it, and she’s only ten weeks in.That was my original job too and I had it absolutely nailed down tight, so they’re basically used to 7-star service and now have zero. Sure, if you insist, another pat on my back, ty.
But yeah nothing sinister. It’s not like I’m posting her pics on here for approval to ask her to cancel her wedding next year. Not yet anyway.Christmas Do season is almost upon us.
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But yeah nothing sinister. It’s not like I’m posting her pics on here for approval to ask her to cancel her wedding next year. Not yet anyway.
This one has gone off sick for four weeks.And the other one has had three formal complaints from service providers cos she hasn’t paid their invoices and hasn’t replied to them about it, and she’s only ten weeks in.
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Hope not.
Interview Monday for my preferred role in the company. Technology specialist. Helping the company integrate its new CCaaS system over the next two years. I did the exact same at Dunelm, stress testing, building reports, feeding back across the teams etc. 20% bump in wage.
Easy street lads.
Was getting my regular lunch at Tortilla and they were banging some great latin music whilst 5 people worked the production line for my burrito. Simple work, decent camaraderie and customer service, no stress and no crushing monotony of office labour. No WFH, hour long toilet breaks and outstanding pay and pension though.
On the topic of WFH though, aa if morale working for these cunts wasn't rock bottom already:
https://www.civilserviceworld.com/pr...een%20by%20CSW.
My team was on 60% already so minimal effect for me but it's only being enforced recently with login data aiding managers so the masses who weren't adhering to it will be bitten as well as the numerous other teams who were only working toward 40%. There will be space issues if they succeed in getting everyone in but we truly lost this war that we thought we had won after COVID. Mon a juicy AI-instigated redundancy offer.
That's me fucked.
My company jumped early with their agile working policy being rolled out officially and thanks to the power of the unions in the rail industry they'll be hard pressed to roll that one back
Also they are abandoning our Manchester office with no replacement lined up so there's that.
I fucking love that place. But for the British man's penchant for abominable fried shit at every meal, they should have 1,000 branches nationwide and be turning over £5 billion.
Hear, hear. It being one of my two meals of the day, I need big volume for my lunches and I'm not sure if there's anywhere that offers the same value as their £8.70 large burrito so I average 3 a week. Loyalty scheme making 1 in 6 free and you're looking at £7.25 too, top stuff.
Is this the posh Taco Bell place? I'm miles away from any of them.
There are 51 in the south, 7 in the midlands and 9 in the north. I'm afraid until you educate your peers to stop eating chips out of the loo, and make them willing to part with more than £1.80 for quality fare, you won't be afforded such advantages.
We still put gravy on chips marra, it's going to be a while.
I hit up a Taco Bell and although their veggie quesadilla or whatever I had wasn't too bad in its ingredients, it still retains much of the fast food physical damage and distress. The portions are pathetic also.
Have wondered just how Mexican Tortilla's offerings are, i suspect it's just a very random Western take on it. Disappointing that they got rid of their coriander rice recently.
We've got one of those Tortilla places in Belfast these days too. Not tried it yet. There used to be a really good local chain that did burritos the size of a new born baby for about £7 but the original founders sold it off to some private equity firm and it's gone to shit since. Prices went up and portions went down.
Posh Taco Bell?Is this the posh Taco Bell place? I'm miles away from any of them.
Probably not at all Mexican, but it's protein + veg in a decent sized hot wrap with actual flavour available for less than a tenner, I'm not sure such a thing is otherwise available in this country.
Kebab.
The first time I ate a burrito was in the US. I occasionally eat in Chipotle (which from the description, seems to be the same thing) and it is decent. Can never go wrong with rice + beans + meat.
Speaking of Mexican food.
I was at a food hall in Warsaw a few days ago. I went for Greek but it wasn't enough so I went to the Mexican stand for some Al Pastor tacos.
What I was served was absolute horseshit.
Flour tortillas (why no corn ffs?) that were toasted far too much so they were crispy, the meat had almost no flavour, there were boiled onions on the taco, crushed peanuts as well which was weird and the salsa verde was far too sweet with not enough heat.
The only thing I could taste was lime juice having put 3/4 drops on each taco myself. It felt like they had never tasted Mexican food but had seen it on TV once before.
That does surprise me actually as there's a huge Mexican community in Lodz, noted around Europe for their culinary flair. You should see the place on the Day of the Dead, it's like being in Cancún. When the communists got kicked out in 1989, they had a massive Solidarity rally (or 'Solidaridad' as they call it there) and cooked a 100 foot taco in the shape of Walesa's moustache.
I've never had a good taco al pastor outside Mexico and even within Mexico most are shit.
True marras have jam sandwiches for lunch eh
Getting into full countdown mode now for Xmas holidays.
Unfortunately failed to respond to the Xmas party invitation quickly enough and it’s fully booked
Peanut butter and jam.
Peanut butter and Marmite.
Jam and cheese
Bizarrely the best sushi I've ever had was in Krakow.
I've never had great mexican food full stop. Big fan of cheese, chilies, beans, slop, wraps etc. but I've never found it to be more than the sum of its parts.
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As an uncultured swine I'll say I once had a nice Quesadilla from a food truck in Chrissy Field. That's the extent of my Mexican food experience.
Taz big manning his anti-consumerism all over the forum; meanwhile, irl, he's dropping twenty-odd quid a week on fast food for his little zogslop loyalty points. Reeling.
My man, where corners aren't cut is food. And as I say, £8.70 a meal (supplemented by about £5 of Lidl nuts and fruit) is still top value such is the ridiculous nature of food prices. A Pho lunch sets me back £18.50 for one meal.
Poland in general does have good Sushi but for some reason they like putting fruit on sushi, especially strawberries.
3 weeks in a row with 4 days (including this week) followed by a 5 day week and then off until 8th January.
Meanwhile, having an assistant has turned into having my own personal hypeman.
It does feel like dangerous territory but ah well, it makes my day on Teams more enjoyable.
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"Baz! Baz! He's our man. If he can't do it ... I'll have to."
I regularly get the last hour of the day now to do nowt. I can thank the new starters (and their obscene productivity) for that.
Needless to say, I read this as 'hymen'.
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