The sideways move to another company to get a payrise is common in finance as well. It's amazing how little you can move the dial when you're in a job.
The sideways move to another company to get a payrise is common in finance as well. It's amazing how little you can move the dial when you're in a job.
Interviewed for this today and got it.Originally Posted by Baz
This seems to be working out well. Started a level 5 apprenticeship (dunno) in March and today got a call from my line manager asking me to apply for the job above mine, that states a degree is required. “Well, you’re working towards one so that counts.”
Annoying but it seems like I’ve got a job on 50% more if I want it, right?
I'm a twit
Every fucker under the sun is getting promoted atm.
At our spot there are whispers of a re-org.
Gonna be in the office most of this week because one of our yanks is over. I don't even know why he's bothering this week as they want an MVP by the end of September so he's just gonna be here and slow us down. Really cannot be arsed. Proper dreading this week.
Really loving my new job lads.
In other news, my ex-employer got their external HR to draft a legal letter asking my ex-colleague who they fired to update his LinkedIn to say he no longer works for them.
Real hurt or injured shift today after I rolled and sprained my ankle while hammered yesterday. Absolutely killed it but then my 15 minute walk home took 45 minutes. Best bartender in the biz. I need a raise.
I'm off to Berlin tonight for a few days to work from hq. We've arranged go karting on Wednesday for some organised fun which i am actually looking forward to.. 🤦
There’s the two sides of the coin right there.
Informal drink driving lagers.
It's FUN
I’ve dropped my hours at work to four days and an hour into the first Monday not working and it’s already boss.
This was about as bad as I thought. Two hour meeting this morning when he wanked on about the company values. It apparrently took them two months to come up with 14 and then whittle that down to six. Maybe you should have been doing some productive work like buildjng the product we don't have yet during those two months ffs?
For context, these "values" are for a company with about five people in the US, four in Belfast and a handful of contractors in Romania. Oh, and one guy in India.
After that we went for lunch where the 3 Belfastians there had a pint with lunch and he had... water. Also had to listen to him say that the US was becoming too socialist these days with Bernie Sanders, trade unions and Biden's student debt relief plan. And he moaned a bit about their stimulus checks and no one wanting to work any more too.
Wednesday afternoon is meant to be a team building day and the boss in Belfast has basically just organised a drinking session so it'll be interesting to see how that goes.
First day in the office since March 2020. Greeting.
The upside is it’s 80% WFH now instead of just going back in the office full time.
They've started monitoring office attendance using IT login and giving the info to managers in order to 'provide support to those who are yet to return to the office'
Can't believe we're still on the 3 days a week policy. Bring on the winter tears.
Anyone who pushes 'values' has absolutely nothing to say.
We were hiring lately and seen about 95% drop off in applicants once the ad was edited to say it was office based, as everyone presumed wfh. Covid has bred a generation of lazy cunts.
Some people don't like being in the office for no reason.
I mean, the work is the reason.
But the cheek of asking someone not to walk the dog or watch Judge Judy while ‘working’.
I've got far more done today wfh than I did yesterday. No fucking distracting music that gets into our office from the open plan co-working space downstairs and not having to listen to people down there making phone calls.
And I'm still working trying to get something finished off before quitting for the day whereas if I'd been in the office I'd have left at 6pm (it closes then) and would be on the bus now.
If as an employer (through whatever combination of managerial incompetence, being stuck in the past or people just being underworked generally) you can't tell the difference between somebody working or not they'll get away with doing fuck all whether they're in the office or at home.
Everyone is clocked and their productivity is logged either way. The end result is all that matters. I can't stray too far away from the PC because some of my tasks are time sensitive.
The distractions and annoyances are early teething problems to getting adjusted to the new normal of hybrid working so man the fuck up Boydy, we're in this together.
Spent the day at head office doing a "deep dive". Because nothing solves understaffing like wasting a whole day pissing and moaning and making existing processes more convoluted.
The is nothing worse than middle management.
Unless your work depends on the physical location, then it's a weak excuse. I work 3 weeks from home and a few days in the office and I'm equally shit in both locations.
The Arab is coming with us to the Munich exhibition in October (if he can get a Schengen visa, which as an Iraqi citizen is by no means certain) and has booked himself a flight to Frankfurt, rather than Munich. When I asked why on earth he had done that, he said he didn't know there was more than one airport in Germany. When I laughed at him for thinking that there was only one airport in Germany, he said 'Well I'm from Jordan, there's only one airport in Jordan'.
The company are fast tracking this guy to god status.
Tbf Munich airport is a fucking disaster.
Well, today was shite. Whilst the office were speculating about the Queen's inevitable death, we were pulled into a meeting to announce a colleague had just passed away. Shocked doesn't cover it.
You worked with the queen?
Technically, I work for her.
Past tense
Just had a message through from one of my bosses (79) lamenting the death of QE2.
"I suppose you don't remember the coronation, but..."
You're fucking right there, mate.
Our company flag is at half mast and someone in H&S has stuck an A4 portrait of the Queen to the back of her chair. But other than that, nothing.
What a tribute.
Out of respect for her maj the regional director has cancelled his Teams Q&A session no-one attends anyway
I'm one of those disgusting layabout civil servants these days and other than a post or two at the top of the intranet page you wouldn't know.
Wish my customers were as keen to confirm orders as they are to console me on 'la muerte de la reina Isabel'. Can't believe she's died too, a hard day for queens everywhere.
RIP Isabel.
We've got a full webpage up with guidance for students and staff in these next few difficult weeks, including links to wellness hubs, employee assistance programmes and a chaplaincy. I assumed the kind of people who you see wailing on the news outside the gates after this happens were in the minority but clearly they're everywhere, they walk among us.
The Queen’s firmly in second place in the condolences stakes over here.
There was a ‘special assembly’ in work today. A member of staff got upset and a boy with autism put his hand up on seeing this to ask if he was supposed to be upset about something.
Thanks. I hope so too. One of the consultants in the team rang (Teamsed?) me today to “congratulate” me but ended up just moaning that another consultant (my line manager) had got their first as she had previously expressed interest to the director in wanting me to be her commissioner for sexual health. I think I’d rather do substance misuse though, cos there’s some crazy generous funding grants for the next three years, and our service provider is much better for addiction than the one for sexual health services. But yeah, the good news is still sinking in.
I'm a twit
Your email signature's going to be ridiculous by the time you leave. It's ridiculous now.
Some people have the weirdest chat up lines.
From the makers of Domestic Abuse Champion.
It's like a badly translated JRPG redemption arc
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