I've just been to a meeting with a tenants Social worker and carer at the tenants request. It turns out that she wanted me there because they "gang up on" her and I'm her only friend. Now, considering I've only met her twice -Once to deal with her ASB and once to deal with a complaint about her neighbour - I think this might be the saddest thing I've ever encountered.
How alone do you have to be to think a half-interested Housing Officer is your best friend?
That is a bit tragic. Actually so.
Jimmy, give us a story about one of the awful people you work with to lift the mood, please.
Had a pretty bad interviewee today. I don't know why you wouldn't do some basic research on the domain topic before applying.
It's your own fault for hyping Spikey up.
Well, the Arab spent a lot of today refuting the findings in The Origin of Species, if that counts. 'Darwin was just one scientist.'Originally Posted by Ian
Is he wrong, Jimmy? Is he wrong?
Say what you like about the man. He's nailed counting.
There was once a guy on the train to an interview for a job as a conductor who had decided to do his research on his way in, quizzing the conductor. He didn't get the job.
Why was that seen as a bit too pro-active?
He should have sent a replacement bus driver.
What would you need to do research on?
Yes, the most proactive approach trying to find out answers that would score well in an interview from someone trying to sell hundreds of tickets on a busy commuter service, as well as operate the doors etc.
I'd reckon most current employees wouldn't know the top scoring interview answers without bothering to look them up. For instance knowing how many thousand services the company operates daily etc.
Never mind that they use the STAR interview format anyway so if you cant link all your answers to previous experience of a relevant situation you are doomed.
Trying to attend an interview for a new job around your existing work/calendar (and that of your interviewer) is such a pain. Four rearrangements in one day and now postponed to Wednesday.
Changing jobs is too much hassle.
Just remember to research what the job is first. I've got another one today, hopefully she's better than the last.
I've genuinely just given up with recruitment. We desperately need at least one person and I can't face any more interviews, so I've just put it on hold for a few weeks.
My new person started on Wednesday last week but IT didn’t have a laptop ready for her, and then I’ve been off this week, so she’s been getting paid for nothing. Start as you mean to go on.
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Told you you should have hired me SvN.
When my sister worked in the Scottish government (which is basically Mordor) she did nothing for the first four months because no one could agree whose responsibility it was to provide her with a laptop.
Some of us went to the nearby Italian for lunch today, as we do usually once a month after payday. For what is a really decent bowl of pasta (shoutout Gregg Wallace) and a drink, it's about Ł16-18.
The Italian woman who works here stalked into the office after we came back - having emailed the whole team beforehand stating that she would not join us - and had a huge rant about how we must all be on massive salaries to be able to afford this luxury. Completely unhinged. If the Arab hadn't spent 10 minutes loudly complaining to the waiter that the onion in his bolognese had not 'melted' sufficiently for his tastes, it might have been the stupidest thing that happened in relation to the meal.
I don't know if it's the same at every workplace but round here you can't even go and have lunch without some stupid bollocks happening.
Well I've worked with sane people so can confirm it's certainly not the same everywhere.
Massive salaries to afford a lunch that is slightly more than an hour of minimum wage work?
And also yes that's really not that much, surely especially in your neck of the woods that's positively bargainous?
Just paid Ł18 for a steak sandwich. I'm with her.
I go to lunch once a year with my colleagues. This is the way.
Oh no.My new person started on Wednesday last week but IT didn’t have a laptop ready for her, and then I’ve been off this week, so she’s been getting paid for nothing. Start as you mean to go on.
Defiantly.Thanks so much for this email, I am just reading through things and trying to get to grips with it all.
Yes, it was defiantly an interesting first week, I went into the office yesterday to meet everyone and managed to get my laptop today!
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So much for your thorough vetting process.
Did ChatGTP not do a spelling test?
She spelt defiantly perfectly tbf.
Defiance is a great quality in an employee, particularly if Baz is their boss.
If that email was in comic sans, sound the alarm.
If anything it did it on purpose so that it can perfectly blend in with the majority of the population.
I think this might be the busiest week of my life.
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The South Africans are here this week. I don't think there's anything more cringeworthy than when the chief South African comes into the office and attempts banter.
Gid mooooorning everyone!
*approaches the only woman in the office, who's wearing an orange cardigan*
Naaass to see someone bringing a bit of colour! Not laak all these boring borstards, eh?! *points at all the men*
*silence*
Sounds very Partridge, does the Arab not engage?
The Arab licks his shoes.
Has Barney departed yet?
He's off next Wednesday. The boss is trying to recruit an 'organised older lady' to replace him. I'd kill myself if I heard that when leaving a job.
Probably less prone to falls than the Barnster, to be fair.
My Saffa manager appears to genuinely be nice but it's so hard to believe that's possible. I've only met one before that appeared nice, but he was about 5 foot tall so I imagine he left the country before they caught on how short he was.
I got sent an email by our big dog director saying Lisa from "regeneration" has informed her a pharmacy is closing due to them repurposing a load of buildings.
I emailed my contact at "medicines" asking 'omg WHEN?' cos 22 people use it for methadone, and she was like dunno lol ask Shaun in "regeneration."
I emailed Shaun but he is off, so his PA forwarded it to Lisa (the same one from the start), who replied to me saying 'thank you for informing the regeneration team.'
WHAT?!
Meanwhile 22 people can't get their medicine so might start taking street drugs again. Praise be.
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Baz facilitating my News Thread predictions. Good lad.
I worked with a genuinely very lovely and outgoing white South African about 7 years ago, really chatty and generous and all that shit. We had a work night out towards the end of the year or so I was there, and struggled to tell this anecdote to me and another colleague because he was laughing too much. When he finally managed to regain enough composure to finish, the basic punchline was that he got pissed, crashed his mum's car, then blamed it on one of the black domestic workers they had, and they got fired.
Institutional racism is a whole different ballpark over there.
I play cricket with a white South African and he said one of the best things about living in the UK is that you don't need ten foot walls around your house "to keep the blacks out".
I also work with an older white gadge whose family run a farm over there and by the sounds of it the black folk employed there are basically slaves, yet the white guys hate them and from what I can gather are hoping for a race war or something because they think if they don't shoot first, they will be wiped out in some sort of genocide. I don't know, the guy is pretty mental all round.
You do though.
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Fucking love my new job.
I'm at the end of a week in Berlin at the office. Had to give a mild dressing down to the guy in my team who also does the team days (also not based in Berlin) because he got absolutely blasted again and was completely hungover during the day. No issue with what you do in your own time but if we only get together as a team every 8 weeks and you're basically out of it during the day then it's pointless.
Also, we're doing a bring your kid to the office day this evening so the little one is with me. Looking forward to telling her this is all she has to look forward to when she's older.
What is it?
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My work tried to do this and they were lolled out of the room. They're enough of a pain in the arse when WFH during the holidays, we don't need the little darlings in the office.
Work and kids do not mix.
Don't be silly, civilisation will have collapsed by then.
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