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    Do you know when you email someone asking something very specific and they reply with the answer, do you then reply to them to say thanks or just presume they know you’re grateful?
    I'm a twit

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    ty

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    I will usually reply, but it depends on the nature of both the question and the working relationship with the person. I will always reply to someone I don't often collaborate with and I will also always reply if the question was fairly complicated. If it's something somewhat simple and someone I work with a lot, I might not bother.

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    Cheers shagger.

    Regards,

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    Quote Originally Posted by Baz View Post
    Do you know when you email someone asking something very specific and they reply with the answer, do you then reply to them to say thanks or just presume they know you’re grateful?
    Depends if I like them, but I usually just reply "Thanks".

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    Never reply with thanks - it's bad email etiquette. Do you care if someone replies to you saying thank you? It's just another email for you to delete.

    Only exception is a customer - client relationship where a thank you can go along with acknowledgement that x has been received.

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    Slack > email

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    I thank people if I'm genuinely grateful.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lofty View Post
    How long have you worked there?
    4 years.

    Had the chat and we're going to get the 'conflict' team in HR to help us through it (or not). I've had this week off with stress from the situation (paging giggles). Need to see if my proposal of continuing to work on things independent of my boss while we wait for mediation is something acceptable for the current boss.

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    Bet the Germans love someone coming in and circumventing their structures and ze rules. Have your bags packed ready.

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    And you should reply and thank them Baz.

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    I’ll say nothing re the “stress” as there’s just nothing good could be said.

    Unless you’re pulling a move, as most people off with “stress” are doing. Then I doff my cap to you.
    Last edited by Giggles; 18-03-2022 at 01:38 PM.

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    The stress of somebody disagreeing with him. You can see how that might knock him sideways.

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    I was expecting more back slapping and then this happened...

    I am actually following procedure to escalate. Unfortunately she has behaved poorly and led to this shit situation.

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    Talk of actually having an HR department in the company, this brings back memories.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    Talk of actually having an HR department in the company, this brings back memories.
    To when? Business studies GCSEs?
    I'm a twit

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    The Koreans probably had an HR department made up of 50+ Korean women that told anyone complaining that they were bringing dishonor to their families.

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    The Korean HR department was actually in Korea, and therefore inaccessible. The one here just doesn't exist. 70 employees I think, no HR function. We've just acquired another company, laid off their HR people in the merger. I think someone in finance writes the contracts and signs off the holiday forms.

    Last time I had one was about nine years ago, then.
    Last edited by Jimmy Floyd; 18-03-2022 at 04:43 PM.

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    The response from payroll about why I keep getting double paid for my locums so far is "We cannot explain why this is happening".

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    HR departments will always help the person higher up. Pointless going near them.

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    Was in a meeting before and I brought up some pharmacy data for people who had received the morning after pill, just to show what kind of info we have access to. Bloke noticed one of the girls was 13 and started crying.
    I'm a twit

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    Surely you've broken some sort of NHS regulation / GDPR?

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    Doubt it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Luca View Post
    Surely you've broken some sort of NHS regulation / GDPR?
    Course not. He was in my team.
    I'm a twit

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    There's talk of going back to the office afoot. A new job may be needed. Fuck sake.

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    I'm back in next Wednesday. I can be bored at home.

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    A couple of days' holiday have come at the right time, the Arab has started dishing out his terrible football opinions. Apparently, we English 'don't know how to watch football' because games like Barcelona v Real Madrid attract a lesser TV audience than our domestic games.

    His anger was piqued by the fact that Walkers apparently have the rights to use Messi or Salah in their marketing and choose not to do so in the UK, meaning that the UK market clearly 'doesn't appreciate great players'.

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    Does Gary Lineker still do them (and I of course mean, shag crisps)?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    A couple of days' holiday have come at the right time, the Arab has started dishing out his terrible football opinions. Apparently, we English 'don't know how to watch football' because games like Barcelona v Real Madrid attract a lesser TV audience than our domestic games.

    His anger was piqued by the fact that Walkers apparently have the rights to use Messi or Salah in their marketing and choose not to do so in the UK, meaning that the UK market clearly 'doesn't appreciate great players'.
    I do quite like a terrible opinion prompted by somebody being irritated by something really fucking stupid.

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    'He started Mahowing about it.'

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    Linekar's the Specsavers bloke. He's not been near a crisp packet in years.

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    Mediation hasn't started yet and we're half way through this week and my emails have pretty much dried up. Feel like I'm almost on gardening leave which, while cool for laziness, isn't a great feeling on job security.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kikó View Post
    Mediation hasn't started yet and we're half way through this week and my emails have pretty much dried up. Feel like I'm almost on gardening leave which, while cool for laziness, isn't a great feeling on job security.
    If I'm not mistaken, this is your first time in this scenario, correct?

    Let's hope it's not the first time for your manager.

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    Verbally accepted a new job offer nearly six weeks ago and they’ve dicked about so long with sending me the actual offer I’m considering just sacking it off.

    Keep telling them I have a 12 week notice period and I just know they’re going to try and push for 4-6 instead. If they’d got their finger out earlier I’d be in by now. Annoying.

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    You can usually negotiate your notice period down, depending on your employer. 6 weeks to get a contract out is pretty shambolic though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Panda Bear View Post
    If I'm not mistaken, this is your first time in this scenario, correct?

    Let's hope it's not the first time for your manager.
    Yep and not sure for her. The company is big enough for me to find a new role if needed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kikó View Post
    Yep and not sure for her. The company is big enough for me to find a new role if needed.
    If you were in a unionised industry in this scenario you could have just cracked open a Warsteiner and lived the dream here.

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    We are unionised really. We have a worker's council which pretty much protects the workers.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Raoul Duke View Post
    You can usually negotiate your notice period down, depending on your employer. 6 weeks to get a contract out is pretty shambolic though.
    Yeah, I’m not too concerned about that. Just annoyed I’ve had to play the game in work for six weeks and still got a notice period to go. They’ve said it’ll be sent tomorrow now so we’ll see!

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    My sister recently left the Scottish government for the English government, and I believe it took her five months before HR in the Scottish government decided whose job it was to sign her out so that she could take up the new position (technically this was an internal transfer within the civil service), during which time she sat around, in London, doing basically nothing on full pay. Her days were spent Teams-calling a rota of people in HR (obviously there's an aggressive work from home culture in Scottish government) for them each to tell her it was the job of one of the others.

    That's probably not even in her top five horror stories of working for the Scottish government either, though Sturgeon's dictatorial tendencies account for about three of those.

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    I am going insane. I've been in my new role for 3 weeks and I've basically got no work to do. My manager barely bothers to catch up with me on teams more than once or twice a week, and the last actual jobs he's given me were to process some return to senders we had back from some people - this was about 10 days ago and it took me 15 minutes, and two weeks ago when he realised the handover notes my predecessor had given me where completely wrong and he got me to make a spreadsheet of all the people in my portfolio and all of their most recent donations/and what reports they needed. That took me a day or so.

    The worst thing is that I know the whole department is massively behind on stuff, but I can't get stuck in cus I've literally received about an hour of training. My senior colleague was like "hey Igor, how are you getting on with that report for blah blah" and it's like mate I don't even know how we are supposed to write reports. I would use my initiative and just try to train myself on stuff but I literally don't even know what I should be training myself ON. What the fuck is going on.

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    Use your initiative to tell your manager that you don't know what the fuck is going on, but in nicer language.

    Take what you wrote here, make it charity-friendly, and send it to them.

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    Ignore what Panda said, kill the manager and take their position. Your next new manager will both admire your go-getter mentality and, more importantly, fear you.

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    Just spend the day playing video games.

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    Shag the entire office.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Manc View Post
    Shag the entire office.
    The people in the office or the premises itself? The stationary cupboard would be an upgrade on my current romantic situation tbf.

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    When I made the spreadsheet of all my portfolio as a starting point, my manager was like yeah this is great, we'll go through all of them and work out what our next steps are.

    This was two weeks ago lol like wtf

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    Quote Originally Posted by igor_balis View Post
    When I made the spreadsheet of all my portfolio as a starting point, my manager was like yeah this is great, we'll go through all of them and work out what our next steps are.

    This was two weeks ago lol like wtf
    Then put a meeting in with them to review it and also do the stuff Panda said.

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    Start a Journeyman save and document it on here. It's what the charitable people want.

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