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    Quote Originally Posted by Pepe View Post
    No such thing as major brownie points. No one will ever be thankful. They will just expect you to do it next time, since you agreed this time.
    Yeah you're right generally, but I've made it pretty clear that I'm barely capable of working the hours I'm contractually obliged to, let alone any extras. If you're being a super keen spaz doing 70 hours a week from day one you're just fucking yourself and fucking your comrades, but me doing this 4 hour shift for my boss will deffo be rewarded more than adequately. At the very least I'll get the hours back and if I make any cock ups in the next couple if weeks this will lessen the pain.

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    It’s not really the overtime that gets me noticed. It’s the extra tasks I end up doing and doing them well.

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    Overtime would be class.

    In my job I could work my contracted 36 or 70 and I’d still find work to do. Leaders would just baseline what’s achievable based on what’s done, so I’m very diligent with working contracted but for emergency scenarios. Making it the norm is a dangerous outcome.

    I suspect that’s what all these leaders have done though. They’ve worked ridiculous hours to try and get to their position and now just expect everyone will do the same. Certainly the feeling I get in my industry - if you want to really go far, you’re sacrificing a lot of your own time to get there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Foe View Post
    Overtime would be class.

    In my job I could work my contracted 36 or 70 and I’d still find work to do. Leaders would just baseline what’s achievable based on what’s done, so I’m very diligent with working contracted but for emergency scenarios. Making it the norm is a dangerous outcome.

    I suspect that’s what all these leaders have done though. They’ve worked ridiculous hours to try and get to their position and now just expect everyone will do the same. Certainly the feeling I get in my industry - if you want to really go far, you’re sacrificing a lot of your own time to get there.
    Unrelated to what you just wrote, but you need to jump ship and find another company.

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    Still going strong in current job but I gotta be honest, it's a bit boring because you don't really do anything different from one day to the next. I have helped with basic prep for the other chefs which is fine but mostly just choppy choppy bollocks. Not going to be impulsive and just walk but definitely need to see what happens with any potential restrictions etc and assess things because whilst getting up nice and early sucks, finishing so early each day does not but I have to be honest, AA/AAA/wannabe Michellin, any fucker could do this if given enough time to adjust to the pace and knows how to cook a damn egg.

    Trying not to overreact or fear the worst but I do think my initial thoughts of game over for the hospitality industry was in fact correct and if that's the case, what to do next? I was thinking combining both cooking and MH, two jobs I've enjoyed the most and going self employed and offering myself out to teach vulnerable adults the basics. I do think it has potential but not sure of the in's and out's of whether it would be possible.

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    Perhaps a period of boring, but stable is exactly what you need?

    Use it as a chance to build up some funds/buffer and if you really want to pursue something different, use your early afternoons to research.

    Or you know, enjoy yourself.

    I don’t think a perfect job exists, and finding something tolerable and sustainable really should be the goal.

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    There seems to be a fool-proof formula in this job about kids with cool names: Teenagers with the coolest names are the guaraneteed autistic. This doesn't include deed poll names which are largely schizophrenic.

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    For some reason I thought Monday and Tuesday is a bank holiday so set my out of office to say I’m back in on Wednesday. Turns out Tuesday isn’t a bank holiday, but I think I’m gonna risk it anyway and just go back on Wednesday cos YOLO.
    I'm a twit

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    Didn't get the job. There's no coming back from this.

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    They let you know on New Years day? Brutal.

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    Lol, year fucked on day one.

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    "New Year, New m... never mind."

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    Last day off

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    Same.

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    Slipped up by not arranging something for tomorrow so I wouldn’t have to go to the office and do the bullshit Christmas small talk.

    “Yeah”
    “Fine”
    “Quiet enough”
    “Nothing much”


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    I've got tomorrow off as well 'cause Scotland but I've still got some on call to go. On the flipside no callouts yet so it's mostly just been an excuse to stay indoors so swings and roundabouts, I guess.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Baz View Post
    For some reason I thought Monday and Tuesday is a bank holiday so set my out of office to say I’m back in on Wednesday. Turns out Tuesday isn’t a bank holiday, but I think I’m gonna risk it anyway and just go back on Wednesday cos YOLO.
    Quote Originally Posted by Ian View Post
    I've got tomorrow off as well 'cause Scotland
    Ah so thats what I've done.
    I'm a twit

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    It is easy to forget what country you live in if you're doing December drinking properly.

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    Ah, St. Helens. That famous border town.

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    I've been done by that before, cus Google calendar shows all UK bank holidays by default, and on some settings it doesn't show SCOTLAND ONLY HAHA BACK TO WORK DICKHEAD unless you click into it

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    We've got 'stock count' starting tomorrow, in which everyone has to down tools, go into the warehouse and count the tens of thousands of metal and rubber objects stored there. Earlier in the year we brought in a system called 'Perpetual Inventory' whereby the boss specifically employs someone to do this all year, precluding the need to do the antiquated physical stock take and thus lose 4+ days of business. However, being 83 and a mindless autocrat, he then decided in the week before Christmas that we're going to do the stock count anyway, because 'This is the way we've always done things', or at least that's according to the increasingly beleaguered MD who passed on the message.

    What actually happens is that nominated competent sales personnel (me, the Indian guy, and the lazy Russian) are locked up in the office all day to tell bawling customers that they can't have their orders for another week for entirely arbitrary reasons, while the rest troop off and count thrust bearings and cylinder head bolts for a week.

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    Well, it turns out that was his last bizarre decision - I've come back to the office to find he's sold the company and retired.

    I, for one, welcome our new, wait for it, South African overlords.

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    Korea, Israel [?], South Africa.

    Yikes.

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    A South Korean takeover should have been written in the stars. I'm devastated.

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    The uncertainty new ownership brings.

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    Oh well. The rise to the top is over. Long live the king.

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    Couldn't work for worse, horrible arrogant bastards. A change in ownership is still an opportunity though.

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    In theory it could be quite good for me, if they decide to clear out the methuselahs more quickly than would otherwise have happened. Also could be bad in various ways.

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    We need daily reports on the fallout, Jim.

    Also lol at the old cunt subjecting everyone to a pointless stock take as his final act.

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    The new owners would probably want the stock counted anyway. Good luck thought Jim, in the same situation myself and it's tedious.

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    The MD's just come into the office painting it as 'the best case scenario' and joking that he will be the first to be ousted. What could possibly go wrong. They seem to be the English type of saffas, rather than the Johannes van der Bloggenburg type.

    The most immediate 'concern' for me is that I believe I was promised the South American post in order to protect Partner B's investment, an investment which has now also been bought out by the South Africans, so one presumes that's probably in the bin. However, even if it is, I wasn't being paid for it so that's not a problem, and I'm still the most competent junior person in the building, probably by some distance.
    Last edited by Jimmy Floyd; 04-01-2022 at 11:48 AM.

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    Spoken promises strike again.

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    Tbh, I've never taken it to be anything other than a load of wind until something actually happens, which I suspect it now won't, as it makes more sense for the (admittedly useless) yanks to be running those markets than for me to be doing it.

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    I hope things go well for you, but I also hope new lols are delivered.

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    As long as your boss isn't gone and you have to go on more jollies with him it's all good.

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    He was strongly tied to the old regime so I reckon he will demand silly terms or leave (which could also be good news for me).

    As in any revolution, RIP to the regime moderates, specifically the Arab, who is about 3 months into a 5 year visa acquired via the personal patronage of the old fella. RIP also to all the useless cunts in purchasing and their 1970s wallpaper shirt-tie combos.

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    The South Africans who are famous for their strong support of gay people too. God speed, Jim

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    Frankly I'd say that's been the least of their problems in the diversity arena.

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    'Inclusion and diversity!'

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    Krugerrands all round.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    He was strongly tied to the old regime so I reckon he will demand silly terms or leave (which could also be good news for me).

    As in any revolution, RIP to the regime moderates, specifically the Arab, who is about 3 months into a 5 year visa acquired via the personal patronage of the old fella. RIP also to all the useless cunts in purchasing and their 1970s wallpaper shirt-tie combos.
    Do you dare dream of a company where the Spain salesperson can speak Spanish?

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    I mean, yeah, it's possible, but I'd be a bit of a punt tbh (as I was a massive punt/holding card for South America).

    This morning unable to get the words 'Johannesburg Stock Exchange', in a comedy 1980s PW Botha accent, out of my head.

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    The call work is apparently going by the wayside this week. I've got some mixed feelings about that. Sure, speaking to inconvenienced customers is a bit shit but what I'm left with is two boring days at the office. I'd rather be busy at the office or completely taking the piss at home.

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    Being at the office with nothing to do is pretty horrible.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Baz View Post
    I spent all morning chatting on MSN Teams to the "i cannot bear my life anymore" monday morning right on time girl...
    Todays opening gambit:

    [11:20] LB
    omg guess what me friend [xxxx] has done
    [11:27] LB
    Shes not with Kelvin no more, for about a month. On saturday when she was drunk, shes gone on to his emails cause he was still logged in and shes emailed his new work place where he is supposed to be starting today saying something like 'im a nonce, kind regards Kelvin'
    [11:28] LB
    shell have to ring the place today ahaha
    [11:28] LB
    how bad is that
    [11:40] Baz

    [11:41] LB
    I mean its funny cause Ive never liked him but it is bad hahaha
    I'm a twit

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    Over the weekend, the Arab has shaved off his beard and was telling me about a whole boatload of Hugo Boss shirts and suits he has bought. I think he might be attempting a rebrand.

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    What was he wearing before?

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    A beard, he already told you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Adramelch View Post
    Being at the office with nothing to do is pretty horrible.
    Yep. Fortunately, we've been given the all clear to work from home. They'll drag us in for training and cover but that'll be it. I was only in for the phone calls.

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