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ITT: Workplace annoyances. |
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I don't even celebrate my birthday. |
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This thread makes me very happy I no longer work in a conventional sense and I will hopefully never work in a corporate office ever again. |
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The majority of offices I've worked in has had some weird manchild in their 40's. |
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Gareth_Keenan.jpg >>1808 |
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I'll assume everyone's been on those forced team bonding weekends where you go to a rapey serial killer looking woods and do activities? |
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I've been working in a new job for the psat 6 months or so and unlike my prior jobs it is very heavily office based. I just do everything possible to get out of the office, this includes site inspections, going to pick stuff up/place orders in stores or just plain hiding in the bog, using my phone to browse the net. My problem is I have a short attention span as it is, so me having a job where I'm sat in front of a computer for 8 hours a day leads to me just staring at the wall or playing solitaire far too much. |
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I've not long gotten out of a 2 and a half hour long meeting. Which was such a fucking waste of time, nothing of any worth was said or done. I've not even had my lunch yeat, so i'm fucking off out to go and sit in the park or possibly a beer garden for the rest of the day. I'll head back to the office for 4.30 to clock out. |
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That one CRAZY female worker. You know the one. She works in accounts or human resources, she's a bit overweight, and the first thing she says when introducing herself is "Don't mind me, I'm just a bit KER-AZY". Her CRAZINESS involves liking cute animals, and talking about how CRAZY she is, because if you say you express a particular trait often enough it apparently manifests itself as something approximating a personality. They always love Nandos too. |
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I ended up getting stuck working with the office bore today on a project. 8 hours stuck with a middle aged man who kept going on about trains, with all the computer savvy of a mentally handicapped chimp does not make the day go quickly. |
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Don't be hating on trains man. |
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THE LADS. THEY'RE IN THEIR 30'S BUT THEY'RE STILL LADS AND THEY LET YOU KNOW THAT THEY'RE LADS EVERY OPPORTUNITY THEY GET. LADS LADS LADS. |
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THE FUCKING POTTED PLANT |
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brit.gif >>2385 |
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I work from home now (for a company), but we're all based from home and meet up in a regus every week or two). It's great for avoiding workplace bullshit. |
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Fucking invalids who don't know what they want but think I do. "What would you recommend for a 15 year old?" I don't know what music your son listens to do I? Fuck off you old slag. |
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org_impulse_body_spray_temptation_152418.jpg GONNA SPRAY HALF A CAN OF IMPULSE WHILE I'M SAT AT MY DESK SO IT'S ALL EVERYONE IN THE OFFICE CAN SMELL FOR THE NEXT 5 MINUTES. |
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HELLO I AM A WOMAN AND EVEN THOUGH THE MEN HAVE TO WEAR SUITS AS PER THE DRESS CODE I CAN WEAR WHATEVER THE FUCK I LIKE. |
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HI I AM YOUR BOSS EVEN THOUGH I HIRED YOU BECAUSE OF YOUR SPECIALIST SUBJECT KNOWLEDGE I AM GOING TO DISREGARD YOUR ADVICE BECAUSE SIMON IN ACCOUNTS JUST SHOWED ME SOMETHING COOL AND SHINY |
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YOU WENT THROUGH TWO MAJOR SETS OF ROADWORKS WHICH REDUCED LARGE STRETCHES OF A-ROADS TO ONE LANE AT RUSH HOUR IN YOUR TEN MILE MORNING COMMUTE ON THE EARLIEST BUS YOU CAN REALISTICALLY CATCH? |
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When I used to work in a foundry (IN A FACTORY! REMEMEBER THEM? BRITISH PEOPLE ACTUALLY MAKING THINGS TO SELL! HARD TO BELIEVE I KNOW) The office seemed like an unreachable wonderland. Just sitting about all day in a clean quiet envitronment sipping in comfy chairs with no actual physical labour. No constant clanging of metal together in extreme heat, repetetive heavy labour and going home black faced like a fucking coal miner every day. Cannily I managed to use their training budget to get an A level at evening classes for free on a one year course and then fucked off to uni as a mature student with my shiny new A grade in English lit before they shut the place down and fucked off to China. |
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Secret santa. |
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zdzi057_caution_cone_300.jpg >>2525 |
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I've had a word with a few people at work and they've suggested that I get him either a bottle of port or something Porsche related as he's obsessed with them. |
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1104314-umbro-elite-x-for-men-4.jpg >>2551 |
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The hyperactive guy who's just soooo lolrandom funny that he can't help but tell everyone in the vicinity whatever mental detritus wanders in. "(Typical moan about typical day, sarcasm), ah, it's great here isn't it? Hahahah". Every. Fucking. Day. |
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I used to work in an elderly persons home. I found it really hard to cope with the constant bitching and polotics that would go on behind everyones back. I didnt befriend any particular group and would float around somewhat independently, hearing from everyone about how much the other staff suck and what they've done recently thats pissed others off and all that bollocks. Piggy in the middle, really. I was very uncomfortable for the 2 years i was there and as a method of coping i made a route and routine that i tried to stick to, constantly on the move so i wouldnt have to engage my coworkers, most of the time ending up in the kitchen where i would wash my hands every time. It soon spread like wildfire that i spent far too much time in the kitchen and "he doesnt stop eating, does he?". A lot of the time i'd walk in on them talking about me and in my infinite youthful wisdom would just let it pass. Fucking bitches. |
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>>2550 >>2551 |
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Working in retail has taught me customers are arseholes. Particularly when I'm putting stock out. They don't even see you. I observed some customers and they will happily move out the way of other customers but not staff. I dislike the ones who don't put stock back where it was. I'm not expecting them to put it in the same exact spot but when I see a book in the middle of the floor I wonder whether they're doing it on purpose. If you're one of those people who will treat me like another human and move when I'm carrying a stack of heavy encyclopaedias then thank you. |
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I always make it a point to take the day off on my birthday. Surely I can't be alone? |
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tfc_weight_argument[1].jpg Primark... |
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I work as an intermediary. |
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HELLO. I AM A RESTAURANT CUSTOMER. |
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Speaking of cold work environments my place (shop) has this too. |
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The problem with all head offices is that they see things in terms of profit, figures, research, initiatives, units etc etc. They make little allowance for the humanity of their staff, or for variations between different branches and their surrounding areas and populations. When this shortcoming is highlighted, they see it as an indication that they need MORE INFORMATION, MORE SCRUTINY, more fucking hot air being blown about, more directives, guidelines, incentives, appraisals, audits, inspections, feedback and and other horse shit, when all that's really needed is to TRUST the lower-level employees to make the customers happy. Let staff have some degree of autonomy, let them give the people what they want, the way they want it, and forget all the fine print of company policy. So long as the big picture remains intact that can only be a good thing. A lot of the time, things get too specific, too fine a point on everything because some paper-shuffler has to justify their existence. |
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Zenoslad here. Recently we have been training from 9 - 12.30 and then jobseeking from 1.30 - 4.15. The network, being much too shit to actually handle the amount of people accessing it, crawls during 1.30 - 4, so what the head office decided to do once notified of the problem was let our floor get on the Internet from 1.30 to 3 and then let the other floor get it from 3 - 4.15. |
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office.jpg >>2750 |
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People using my fucking tools and not cleaning and returning them when they're finished. |
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frenchknife.jpg >>2781 |
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>workplace annoyances |
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sl.jpg >>2782 |
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demotivational-poster-indifference.jpg >>2784 |
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I've become so jaded to demotivationals and their layout being appropriated for any caption on the Internet that I actually quite like motivationals now. |
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Having to write in greetings cards at work. |
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I hate the phrases: "Going forward" and "We'll touch base soon". The latter sounds like a euphemism and by boss can just fuck off about the former. |
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When a boss goes "we need to get x done, don't we?" when they know they play absolutely no role at all in getting x done. We're not doing it, I am. You prick. |
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People who are proud of how useless they are with a computer. |
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Clipstrips |
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>>3049 |
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The Big Boss at my place always says 'reem'. Nobody even knew what it meant until that TV show popularised it. He'd say something like "this menu you've done, it's reem mate" and I wouldn't know whether to thank him or apologize. |
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image.png >>3049 |
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1333545760183.jpg >>3101 |
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>People who come in to declare that they can get something cheaper at a different charity shop than ours. |
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>Not sure how other charity shops deal with staff discount but BHF offers a 25% one which is pretty damn good. |
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I love going into charity shops and laughing at the vinyl on offer. |
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60943994.png I work in Spar. |
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STOP INFECTING ME WITH YOUR BASTARD GERMS. |
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Being caught in the middle of work politics. I don't care about your problems people. And it's unprofessional as fuck. |
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Elderly people should be banned from shopping between noon and 2pm. They have all week to shop, if I need to pop out during my lunch break then I don't want to get stuck in a great big tide of jam made out of old women. |
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Because the stupid fucking barstaff have either been stealing or simply not putting sales through properly, our bar is four grand down, which means now staff are no longer allowed to enjoy a nice cold - paid for - pint after work, or, in my case, a nice cold cuba libre during work. Luckily they haven't (yet) banned me from bringing in my own cans for the team to enjoy, as is the longstanding traditional staff incentive. |
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Ever get that feeling that you do all the work when your managers do largely fuck all, in terms of hard graft? |
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Why do people keep asking me if I'm enjoying my job? |
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Dear boss, |
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BBC 6 Music.png I'm an assitant working the stores of a local electronics factory. Pretty cushy job all things considered, it's not a huge amount of manual labour aside from carrying the odd heavy box. Mostly I just label and pack things. |
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Radio? You think radio is bad? |
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It's not so much the music that annoys me at mine, it's the adverts. |
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I work as a cashier in a supermarket. People seem to suspend their brain function when they come in. |
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I find it completely unprofessional when superiors swear in front of you. Even more so when they do it at you. |
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First thing when I got into work this morning to find my computer's already on with the task manager open and my boss is hovering nearby looking accusative. |
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Decided to give all of this thread a readover, as it has been a while since I've seen it. |
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>>3955 |
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I work at Primark, and to echo some of the other lads in the thread who work/worked there, it's full of minor annoyances (though I'm less tolerant of that stuff due to my maximum autism). It's a decent enough job in terms of pay and the fact it's not physically/mentally challenging, but there are some things that fuck me right off about it. |
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JUST BLOW YOUR FUCKING NOSE. STOP AGGRESSIVELY SNIFFING UP EVERY 10 MINUTES. |
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The receptionist. |
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I worked as a 'Telephone Fundraiser'. A tele-begger is a better way of putting it. Like a Chugger but I'd get to stay indoors. I'd call people all over the UK and beg for monthly direct debits on behalf of the Red Cross or whatever disabled kids charity we were doing that week. The whole place just reeked of failure, and they'd hire anyone who came to their wanky group interviews, which gives me tons of material for this thread. |
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my work.jpg I used to be an abseil instructor , I would work off my socks to build kids confidence to give the activity a go but once we got an adult to come up we had a lot of fun with them. |
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>abseiling instructor |
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Someone has started smearing shit on the walls in the toilets. Wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't almost exclusively used by 'professional' women. |
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if I worked as an architect I would slowly brick off all my workmates, slow imprisoning them. |
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Recently did a stint of temping over xmas for some extra cash. The person next to me was a dimwitted girl. She was really judgemental about other people's work (and people themselves) despite her own work being not outstanding. |
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The girls at work are obsessed with getting cards that everyone is expected to sign; one week it's congratulating someone in Leeds branch for squeezing out a kid, the next we're sorry that someone in London's dad died or congratulating someone in Edinburgh for getting engaged. I don't mind writing in birthday cards for the people I actually share an office with, but this is a bit much. |
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>I wonder how long someone needs to work in a place before they get a leaving do? |
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Pointless group e-mails. 100+ people do not need to receive a dozen e-mails that consist of nothing except in-jokes of 2/3 people sat next to each other. |
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Shared kitchens. Some people are animals. |
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The taps in the toilets at work go from freezing to scalding in a matter of seconds, so you need to be swift (or use more than one sink) if you want to wash your hands properly. There's an absolute bastard who leaves the taps on ever so slightly, so if you're not careful you'll put your hands straight into boiling water. |
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>>4469 |
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FUCKING FLIES. IF YOU OPEN THE WINDOW BECAUSE IT'S SWELTERING THEN I'M GOING TO COME IN AND BZZZZZZZZ AROUND YOU. |
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>>4877 |
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Every morning for the past fortnight someone in my office has had the same pack of foul smelling crisps. I don't know what flavour they're meant to be, but they're either McCoys or Seabrooks and reek of putrid cat food. |
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>>4881 |
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>>5043 |
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>>5056 |
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5058
What do people in human resources and marketing do all day? I can't see how it's actually a full-time job. |
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>>5058 |
>> | No. 5090
5090
"I can't see a copy of the illustration on the file, have you saved a copy on the shared drive before you send it to the client that we can print out later or shall I make a copy of this one now?" |
>> | No. 5092
5092
Customers in general, and the people who deal with them on behalf of myself. |
>> | No. 5093
5093
The Admin Head at my office has explicitly said that she won't hire men on the admin team because she wants to have the office as female dominated as possible. Evidently it's more important to hire on their ability to natter about zumba/yogalates/boot camp, what they're making for tea (dinner for you Southern Jessie's) tonight, Embarrassing Bodies/One Born Every Minute, spreading gossip and sharing almost every aspect of their personal lives than their ability to do the job. |
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>>2427 |
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>>2724 |
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5142
Cage has one special ability and that seems to be to go nuts. The best roles I've seen in him he is just going nuts. He's like Keanu Reeves most the time with a wooden and distant feeling otherwise. |
>> | No. 5180
5180
Oh hey, here's someone whose not your friend, but you know their name and work in the same office |
>> | No. 5186
5186
Completely my own fault, but I've just spent 40 minutes on a spreadsheet and then closed it without saving. |
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>>5186 |
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5191
I work in a hotel as a housekeeper |
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>>5191 |
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>>5191 |
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>> | No. 5245
5245
One of the women I work with double clicks every time. I know she's had it pointed out on more than one occasion that sometimes she only needs to click once but it hasn't stopped her. |
>> | No. 5284
5284
People who take their grievances home with them (I'm fully aware of where I'm posting this), namely my future mother-in-law. |
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5285
>>5284 |
>> | No. 5397
5397
Not really an annoyance, but why do some women feel the need to announce when they are going for a wee? |
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>>5397 |
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>>5398 |
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>>5406 |
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5475
They're on about Secret Santa at work already. Bollocks to that. |
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5476
>>5475 |
>> | No. 5477
5477
61J0VyomOVL._SX385_.jpg >>5476 |
>> | No. 5478
5478
At about 16 I managed to get a job as floor staff at a opening nightclub in town. At £6 an hour I was beyond chuffed as most of my mates were on like £4. It started off relatively ok. General duties included glass collecting, bar backing, greeting customers, table service, checking the VIP rooms... then she arrived. |
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>>5478 |
>> | No. 5480
5480
We have a corporate Christmas event every year. It usually takes place around Febuary, because until then there's no way we can get anything to accomodate nearly two thousand people from all our branches. It's still always pretty crammed and Ukrainians drink all the cognac they can find faster than you can even get to it. The last time we also had those horrible Freddy Mercury and Johnny Depp impersonators to greet guests and an 'anime photo booth'. |
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>>5478 |
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>>5478 |
>> | No. 5484
5484
Women who make a big deal about not using a computer at home because they're fed up of seeing them after spending most of the day in front of a computer screen (usually throwing in an implication that using a computer in your spare time is for saddos) but instead they veg out and watch the likes of Waterloo Road and Eastenders because they want escapism where they won't have to engage their brains. |
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>>5484 |
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>>5485 |
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5524
>>4005 here again. |
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>>5524 |
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>>5480 |
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>>5539 |
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>>5245 here again. |
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>>5592 |
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combine.jpg >>5594>>5595 |
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>>5594 |
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>>5598 |
>> | No. 5603
5603
Quite petty, but we have to print out a fair number of e-mails at work and so many pieces of paper are wasted by people not using print preview and ending up with one page that they actually need and a second that is usually the last line or so of an e-mail signature, which will just be chucked in the bin. Boils my piss. |
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>>5603 |
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>>1795 |
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>>5605 |
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>>5637 |
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>>5639 |
>> | No. 5754
5754
They're on about introducing wizards for the software we use and champions for the processes we have to do. NEED SOME HELP WITH EXCEL? ASK YOUR NOMINATED OFFICE WIZARD. |
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>>5754 |
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>>5754 |
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>>5756 |
>> | No. 5759
5759
Not workplace per se, but people (alright, women) where 80% of their Facebook posts are along the lines of "just two more days then three days off work!" Is annual leave so special that you need to declare when you're taking it? |
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5760
>>5180 |
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5768
Christmas party soon. |
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>>5768 |
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>>5769 |
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>>5768 |
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>>5776 |
>> | No. 5787
5787
Opened my Secret Santa last night, £10 Amazon voucher. Quite pleased with that. |
>> | No. 5799
5799
I have fuck all to do until I finish at 5. I only had a handful of things to do yesterday and it was a task making them stretch out all morning. I hate working this time off year. |
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>>5799 |
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>>5799 |
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crap.jpg >>5805 |
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>>5799 |
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5810
>Working part time for Home Office doing Immigration Casework, shit pays well |
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>>5810 |
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/pol/, lads. |
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>>5817 |
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>>5818 |
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>>5819 |
>> | No. 5837
5837
"Electricians" as opposed to actual electricians. "I want a cable, a strong one", "I want a plug, a strong one", "I'm wiring up a 2.5kW heater, can't you just give me 0.5mm two core"? I mean fucking hell, the saying "The Brits like to burn down their houses with gas fires, not electric ones" used to mean something. I'm not a sparky (let that sink in) but the amount of times I've had to serve people who clearly had less clue than me… (2.5mm 6242Y to make up a trailing socket? Clearly a good idea over 2.5mm 3183Y because the former is "more strong"). It's quite a regional complaint, but blimey… |
>> | No. 5838
5838
People who leave things for other people to sort. It's only little things - like taking a fax off the machine, noticing it's used the last of the paper and not topping it up or taking the last of something from the stationery cupboard, leaving the empty box inside and not telling anyone we need to order some more shite - but it's the office equivalent of not replacing an empty toilet roll tube. |
>> | No. 5839
5839
There's signs in the bogs at work along the lines of 'Gents, please leave these toilets in the state you'd like to find them.' Someone has left their arse explosion (it's hard to class it as a shit, it was an absolute mess. They must have some form of defective bowel) unflushed in the loo, closed both lids, taken the sign off the wall and left it on top. There's also someone who keeps deliberately pissing under one of the urinals, it has been confirmed it isn't a leak. Fucking animals. |
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5840
>>5839 |
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5841
>>5837 |
>> | No. 5843
5843
Someone keeps putting the bog roll in our loos the wrong way around, so the flap of the roll is facing the wall. I make a point to turn them all around the right way but they keep fucking doing it. |
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>>5843 |
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>>5841 |
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>>5841 |
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Jeremy-Clarkson-007[1].jpg >>5846 |
>> | No. 5848
5848
There's a new receptionist at work (middle aged, overweight, loud, thinks it's acceptable to get a 4 year old an iPad because "you've got to spoil them at Christmas") and she keeps trying to be funny but we're not on the same wavelength/I'm boring/I don't want to play along. For example, our department went out for a fancy meal the other night and she boomed at me "can I come? YOU THINK I'M JOKING, DON'T YOU?" but it wears thin when it happens several times a day, usually with her pointing out she's joking. |
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>>5848 |
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>>5848 |
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5851
derpessed.png >>5850 |
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WHOSE YOU CUNT.jpg >>5851 |
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>>5850 |
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>>2976>>2981 |
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5949
Derek-Acorah-looking-spoo-001.jpg >>5948 |
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>>5948 |
>> | No. 5973
5973
I now work in one of those business parks full of two storey square buildings. The layout means that the stairs, kitchen and bogs are in the centre, with a meeting room taking up one of the sides and the rest of us in an open plan horse shoe. I do not enjoy shitting in this building. I am paranoid they can hear me as we're only separated by a wall. I used to spend over an hour a week at my old job shitting and on my phone when I should be working. It's really getting me down. |
>> | No. 5998
5998
Our marketing department have sent out a snotty email to say that we must use their specific out of office wording or our branding will be harmed. It's bad enough that most of what they come up with is grammatically incorrect and then sent to our clients/potential ones, I'm talking not even knowing the difference between its and it's - I think the record is 6 basic and glaring errors on an A5 flyer, but they really will do any shite to justify their existence. |
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>>5998 |
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>>5999 |
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6009
The ladies in the office are excited because last Friday of the month = dress down day, which means they'll be wearing what they do for the rest of the month (i.e. almost whatever they want) but with JEANS. |
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>>6009 |
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>>6029 |
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6037
This. This would drive me up the wall. |
>> | No. 6038
6038
I've never worked in an office. What kind of reply do you think I'd get if I asked "What does 'squaring the circle' actually mean?" |
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>>6038 |
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>>6038 |
>> | No. 6063
6063
Every letter and e-mail that comes in or goes out has to be attached to our 'document management system'. Now, this wouldn't be so bad if people actually bothered to name each document they attach so that it'd be easy to retrieve something specific quickly. As it is, I have to open about seven or eight documents in some instances because they all have the same name (whatever the activity entry is titled) and there's no guarantee I'll even find what I'm after. |
>> | No. 6084
6084
After days of having builders noisily installing a new air con system, the past two months or so has seen daily arguments on whether the temperature is too hot or too cold. I wish we could just go back to radiators, opening the window and desk fans. I really do. |
>> | No. 6085
6085
>>6084 |
>> | No. 6086
6086
I've just bought a high-powered floor fan for my room. Seems like the best thing is to point it at the ceiling and create a cool draft round the whole room - much easier than air con, at least. |
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>>6085 |
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>>6091 |
>> | No. 6168
6168
There is an obese woman who drinks a 2 litre bottle of Diet Coke at her desk every day. What is it with fatties and Diet Coke? You're not going to lose the lbs that way, love. |
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>>6168 |
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Had a fairly interesting day at work today. |
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>> | No. 6193
6193
At work yesterday we had an argument between three parties of customers. Today, one of these customers had complained to head office about me, and I had to write a witness statement to explain the situation. Thankfully the managers all knew I wasn't in the wrong. But seriously, fuck customers. |
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>>6191>>6192 |
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6201
The marketing department have unveiled an absolute monster of an e-mail signature; 5 images and 6 hyperlinks. An e-mail signature should not be greater than 200kb. Anyway, a fair few people have had e-mails bouncing back because other companies just think it's spam. The director who ultimately has the final say (who usually sends e-mails from his BlackBerry with no signature attached) thinks the fault is with the IT department for not being supportive enough of marketing because apparently we receive big shiny e-mails from other companies no problem. |
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>>6201 |
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The IT lads have said in the first two weeks of June nearly 200 emails bounced back as spam, compared to just 2 in May. Rather than changing the signature the 'solution' is simply to delete it and re-send to anyone it's bounced back from. |
>> | No. 6335
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>>6201 |
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6349
The Kiss/Kisstory (I don't know) radio station being on daily, I've heard the same songs daily for almost two years. I'm not one to bitch about the radio but when it's this repetitive. |
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>>6349 |
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>>6349 |
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6352
When I was working nights at a factory many moons ago they used to alternate between Radio 1 and local radio. Local radio was fucking nightmarish, especially Graham Torrington's late night love. Radio 1 was fine because you got Gilles Peterson and John peel. I would often take my Discman in though. |
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>>6349>>6350>>6351 |
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Wanker.jpg Trigger Warning: Social recluses may begin to spasm/vomit/weep. |
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>>6373 |
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6376
I heard the phrases 'touching base', 'whistle stop tour' and 'internal engagement' in a single meeting today. |
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>>6374 |
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>>6379 |
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6391
Fuck me, what a day. In my ten years of employment, I can say this has been one of the worst. Today, I worked with this middle-aged bitch on my own for 9 hours. She is senile, stinks of piss and most of all retarded. |
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>>6389 |
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>>6391 |
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>>6391 |
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6400
Wow, came back into the office and some brilliant person decided to have a fish lunch at their desk. Now our entire office reeks. |
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>>6400 |
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>>6408 |
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>>6423 |
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>>6419 |
>> | No. 6428
6428
People who just don't give a fuck about doing their job correctly when it is easily within their capabilities. |
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>>6428 |
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>>6428 |
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I have a somewhat work-related question: |
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We've got this work experience/intern (paid) lass in. I know I was a bit dim when I was 18, but I don't think I'd need it pointing out to me that you should amend template letters so they don't go out to clients saying 'Dear [NAME]' or that you should actually check the letters in the outgoing post tray instead of just bunging them all in one envelope, especially considering she's been here about 6 weeks. |
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When someone else has to show you how to do something on a computer and they do things |
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Pupils-using-mobile-phone-007[1].jpg I fucking hate people who talk and use their phones while a work presentation's going on in office hours. It doesn't matter if it's fucking boring, you're being given money to fucking sit there quietly and you're probably getting more free food and coffee than you can shake a stick at. But oh no, it's such a big ask for you to sit still and shut the fuck up for a while without reading whatever vacuous wank has your momentary attention. |
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Maybe if your presentations weren't so shite naybody'd be ignoring ya'? |
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Shower of Bastards Limited, knobchops speaking. |
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We've recently had the new intake of graduates. There's this particularly gormless one who hasn't heard of read receipts and will call you 10 minutes after sending an email to see if you've read it. |
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1384358246543.jpg >>6766 |
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A friend of mine runs an Engineering company and has the problem of getting university grads and such who really want to be engineers, then recoil in horror when they spend a day at his place and realise you have to actually build stuff and get dirty instead of sitting at a computer. |
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I had to sit in on a webinar this morning, that's 90 minutes of my life I'm not getting back. |
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That one bitch that thinks the place is owned by them. Always commenting on your habits, and noticing when you come in and leave. |
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I'm not sure which I dislike more: standard hours, or flexi accounting. Especially for knowledge work, where one should be measured by output, not input. |
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dus6t[1].jpg People who accost you in minutes of friendly conversation while you're clearly packing up your shit. |
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WE'VE GOT TO MANAGE CLIENT EXPECTATIONS. WE'VE GOT TO MANAGE CLIENT EXPECTATIONS. WE'VE GOT TO MANAGE CLIENT EXPECTATIONS. WE'VE GOT TO MANAGE CLIENT EXPECTATIONS. WE'VE GOT TO MANAGE CLIENT EXPECTATIONS. WE'VE GOT TO MANAGE CLIENT EXPECTATIONS. WE'VE GOT TO MANAGE CLIENT EXPECTATIONS. WE'VE GOT TO MANAGE CLIENT EXPECTATIONS. WE'VE GOT TO MANAGE CLIENT EXPECTATIONS. WE'VE GOT TO MANAGE CLIENT EXPECTATIONS. WE'VE GOT TO MANAGE CLIENT EXPECTATIONS. WE'VE GOT TO MANAGE CLIENT EXPECTATIONS. WE'VE GOT TO MANAGE CLIENT EXPECTATIONS. WE'VE GOT TO MANAGE CLIENT EXPECTATIONS. WE'VE GOT TO MANAGE CLIENT EXPECTATIONS. WE'VE GOT TO MANAGE CLIENT EXPECTATIONS. |
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If BBC Stoke mention "Marvelous" thrice more today, mandem gonna get bled. |
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We've got a temp in. Usually I'm empathetic to them as I'd hate to be in their shoes - the last one we had was made redundant in the caravan industry and he was temping while he tried to get back into it and I genuinely hope he's done well because he was a thoroughly decent chap - but with this one all I can conclude is that she's a temp because she hasn't been cut out for having a proper job as she's an utterly shite cretin. |
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People trying to talk business while they're ringing from the drivers seat in a car and I'm at a desk. They can't think straight and I can't hear a fucking thing over the WRRRRRR of the motor and tarmac. If it's important pull over for a minute at a service station. |
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People who mark emails as high priority when they're nothing of the sort. There's one woman that marks every single email she sends as important. That should tell you all you need to know about her. |
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THE INTERNET IS DOWN. |
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Everything came to a standstill, because the printer/copying machine stopped working. |
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They're being a bit racist at work this morning because Eid means there's hardly any |
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Standing in the lab waiting for iron to dissolve. Typing and on a phone is bloody hard in lab gloves. |
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Bill Baker[1].jpg >>7000 |
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Personally I take no interest in whatever these goings on are because I don't live in anywhere with a particularly high number of non-white-Britons. I don't feel any sort of need or want to learn much about the Other, even now living in Brighton the nearest thing is the gay parade, which I couldn't give a toss about aside from it being a nice atmosphere on parade night and you can go and get wankered on Old Steine. |
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Lads. |
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VSnkVJCCA9cb04fsrSRgYl6t_500[1].jpg >>7020 |
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The speling and grammer in this thread is atrocious. |
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gangnam-style-feature[1].jpg >>7047> |
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So. Workplaces annoyances eh? |
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ASDA FM (FM) BRINGING YOU THE BEST IN NEW MUSIC WHILE YOU SHOP [WHOOSH] {SAMPLE 1} {SAMPLE 2} {SAMPLE 3} ASDA FM [SMASH] |
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>>6994 |
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Wankers not turning up to meetings, claiming ignorance of them being informed about the meeting. This was even more insufferable since they wouldn't answer their fucking phone a good half an hour before the meeting to confirm something else with them. I was going to have a half day Friday, but now I can't because I had to reschedule before I'm off next week. |
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Boring recycled student hipster cunts protesting in Sainsburys. |
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One of the fellas I work with is nicknamed Chicken Little because he's a constant source of doom and gloom. Any little thing and he'll proclaim the sky is falling and every time he gets it into his head there's going to be cuts because he misconstrues some piece of information he starts working feverishly. Yet the rest of the time he's terrible for doing next fuck all. |
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I'm a department head, with 36 people underneath me split over 14 seperate sites. I still don't understand why the previous department head quit because of stress, the job is a doddle for the most part. The fact I've spent far too much time on here today is proof of that. I'm just clock watching at this point waiting for 5 so I can fuck off home. Most of the people who are working under me can work on their own autonomously, unless something goes completely tits up. |
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Out of curiosity, to the people who posted above, what are your jobs? |
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Hot off the presses: |
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I was trying to havt a lie in this morning and I was wojen up by someone at work phoning me. Apparently the fact that I have a fortnight off work wasn't told to one of my colleagues. So I end up spending 20 minutes having to explain something to him which he apparently couldn't do without my permission. I wouldn't have minded too much, apart from the following 3 more calls for bits of information. |
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I do some graphics design on the side, and it's a lot of fun. Especially if the project calls for a bit of creativity with constraint. |
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For designlad: |
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At work today was one person with a viral infection, one person with a suspected nose infection and someone else who spent most of the day sneezing. |
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I've been drafted into a project where it seems everyone has been begrudgingly forced into it. I've ended up as the middleman between analysts writing reports and the seniors who have to check and sign off the reports. |
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The VOIP system at work was down for half the day and for the rest of the day everyone's internal communications was out of whack. I've not had such a quiet day in ages. It does go to show how lazy a lot of the people I work with are when they can't be arsed to go up or down a floor to see someone. |
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>7281 |
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They've recently given almost everyone a Moto G as a company phone, which means I'm spending half the day hearing the text message noise for my personal phone going off. |
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>>7284>>7285 |
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Obese people. Well, to be specific, slovenly obese people. |
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>>7288 |
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She didn't turn up yesterday because the job "wasn't for her", which we believe was down to having to walk up two flights of stairs. We then got a call from a temp agency to say she'd registered there that morning, said she'd done a bit of work for us (apparently those two days were the first bit of work she'd done in over 18 months of trying) so asked for a reference. She did not get a good reference. |
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shite.png >>7309 |
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The metre is one ten millionth the distance from the pole to the equator. |
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>Is [colleague] there please? |
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The work experience girl has been folding letters with the blank side (and therefore the side showing in the window envelope) on the outside. I just don't get how people can be that thick and have no initiative. |
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>>7364 |
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Not quite a workplace grievance, but I suppose it fits here. |
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1012.strip.gif >>7367 |
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I had a terrible dream that someone with a nut allergy started at my work. No more Brazil nuts or roasted peanuts. No more Picnic bars. No more bringing in currys/stir frys with cashew nuts in. I don't think I'd be able to manage. |
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>>7375 |
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It's so easy to assassinate people with allergies. |
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That Kendra was a right bitch in the jungle last night. |
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>>7407 |
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>>7375 |
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When someone knows something is going to go wrong in an area they're not involved in, probably with those people completely unaware of the problem, but instead of alerting them to this or doing anything at all to stop it from happening they do nothing just so they can say "see? I told you this would happen." |
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>>7428 |
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I've just been referred to as "techie" for being able to put files into a zip folder. |
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Ancient IT. Today, a joyful combination of Win98(SE, at least) and XP boxes running recalcitrant machinery. 8.3 filenames, baulky networking and permissions, fucked support for USB sticks and a keyboard that kept dropping back into German. Grumble as we might now, things used to be (differently) awful. |
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Someone had tuna at dinner and I can still smell it now. |
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>>7449 |
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6484742[1].jpg >>7450 |
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>>6636 here again. |
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Every email I sent today received an out of office reply. Today was a good day. |
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>>7490 |
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>>7493 |
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gibbshug.jpg >>7495 |
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There's a company called 'Your Franking Machine Supplier' and they always try and catch you out when they phone, the misleading rascals. |
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We have no milk and we have no bottles of water for the cooler. What the hell am I meant to do? Drink tap water? Purchase my own beverages? |
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>>7580 |
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>>1795 |
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HELLO. I AM THE LOW WINTER SUN AND I'M GOING TO BE IN THAT NARROW GAP BETWEEN THE EDGE OF THE WINDOW AMD THE END OF THE BLINDS, DAZZLING YOUR EYES LIKE THE SHINY CUNT THAT I AM. |
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tmp_2304-ONLINE A037 32740-1583873738.jpg >>7585 |
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130813f.jpg >>7585>>7586 |
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Vertical blinds combined with a draft coming through the windows and I've been sitting near a low tech strobe light. I expect that is why I finished work yesterday with a headache. |
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I'm trying to eat less to lose some of the podge I've accumulated over Christmas, but if I don't fill up my belly with food it fills up with farts instead. I've spent the past two hours sat at my desk making incredibly audible gaseous noises. I'm now cowering in the bogs, firing off a few fart artillery rounds to try and ease the pressure. |
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>>7590 |
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I got collared to go through a report at 16:53. They had all fucking day to ask me about it and they left it until a few minutes before I'm ready to shut down and bolt out the door. |
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>>7610 |
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I don't know if they're sawing it or gnawing it like a beaver, but someone is eating an apple and it is going right through me. |
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I've got a mechanical keyboard for work now, so it's clack clack clack mother fucker. This probably rubs someone up the wrong way but the typing is so much better than on the rubber dome it's ridiculous. |
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switches.gif >>7625 |
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Yesterday a slight fuck up was unveiled at work. It's partially my fault, and I'm fine owning up to that, although I simply did what I was told and queried what I had to do a few times as it didn't make sense to me. |
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I've done it again. I told myself I wouldn't get another office job, but I took one anyway in December, because I was in need of a quick and steady income. |
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I wish my job involved sitting around and being inconsequential for seven or eight hours. I'm sure it seems quite mentally tiring to you, but as someone working 14 hour days with constant pressure, being an office drone sounds like a dream come true. |
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'Friendly' receptionists who are thick as fuck and embarrass you with their shit chat. |
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Having off-site training today. Mainly me and businessmen in their 40s and 50s from other companies. I cannot handle the relentless banter. |
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>>7766 |
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I have just started a new job, first time working in the uk for a few years. More responsibility than I've ever really had and starting to realise people are taking me seriously and looking to me for help and solutions (I'm a sales account manager). |
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Peters_principle.png >>7768 |
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Even if you really like the song playing on your headphones, please don't whistle along to it. You're off key. |
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I'm sat in the canteen and on the next table I'd a woman with verbal diarrhoea and no indoor voice rabbiting on about a load of inane bollocks. She's just been off on one about how the bus driver stopped too far from the kerb this morning and so she had to queue up in the rain to buy her ticket. |
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Finished my lab and went to get something to eat, sat down in the cafe and saw my lab partner across the room. I ran away because I really couldn't be arsed to talk to her any longer. She's French and miserable and making conversation is a massive effort. |
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Sharing an open-plan office doesn't normally bother me that much, because I only pop in here to eat my dinner before going back to the lab, but today I have to actually do some work here and it's sending me around the bend. The lad across the room is slurping his drink, the guy across the desk is using his mouse scroll wheel like he's tryna make it squirt and there's no fucking window. |
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Also I've been jobhunting today and came across this rather odd firm: |
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singer-susan-boyle-006[1].jpg >>7797 |
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TheDreamers.jpg >>7795>>7797 |
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Question; |
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Middle class kids working part time so they can "learn the value of money". |
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I guess staying on the dole is better than this shit I am reading. I don't think I could last. I would maybe kill myself, or maybe murder everyone else around me. |
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I had to work with someone with really bad breath, like a mixture of plaque and pork. It also makes me paranoid that my breath smells but people are too polite to tell me. |
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I work in an office of a company that deals with exporting machine tools to Germany, which is my particular specialisation, but this doesn't stop fishwives across the office constantly asking me "Oh, so you speak German then?" before demanding to know "What does this German word mean then?" before giving me a word without any hint of context. |
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>A top woman lawyer who claims she was sacked for objecting to her boss circulating a nude portrait of his wife had “the maturity of an eight-year-old”, a tribunal heard. |
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attenborough.jpg >>7868 |
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What's so bad about saying "grow a pair?" When did you lot get pussy-whipped by the feminists? |
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Some UKIP target seats |
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Have I ended up on /pol/ by mistake? |
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Forgot about half-term and the roads being quiet so got to work over half an hour early today, so I'm mentally ready for my lunch now. At least I'll clock off early. |
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My office employs quite a few Polish and Eastern Europeans as admin staff. It's heaven, everything gets done right and on time. |
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1424252954863.jpg >>7906 |
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Has .gs gone full cunt-off recently? Why? |
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Is "grow a pair" going to get word filtered? |
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vZmavHR.jpg I think we should dust off and nuke the last 50 posts from orbit, it's the only way to be sure. |
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>>7898 |
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Minor work gripe/ |
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Apparently I can't change my password to one I used a couple of years ago, but I'm fine to go from 'Newpassword99', to 'Newpassword88' to 'Newpassword77' no problem. |
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>>7947 |
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vennegoor.jpg >>7948 |
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Has anyone worked in a group where there are predominantly young people? Like where the manager has got no balls, and is a yes man - so the workers can have their own way, lest there be pouting, shouting, and overall teenager-esque behaviour? |
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>>7953 |
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We've ran out of milk, thanks to THE PORRIDGE HOG. |
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s_Nestle_Carnation_410_gram.jpg I fucking love full fat milk. Dairy products can never be too creamy. In fact, if it was me what did the shopping, we'd never even have normal milk. Just this stuff. |
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FeelsGoodManBlackSS[1].png >>8080 |
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My girlfriend is on a training course for how to encourage underachieving kids. Apparently you do this by pretending to grate cheese and saying "grate... grate... GRATE JOB", pretending to sizzle a steak before saying "WELL DONE" and clapping like a seal before saying "SEAL OF APPROVAL". They've also done team building where they all have to hold hands and keep a balloon up in the air while the Mission Impossible theme plays in the background. |
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18th March - the first wars about the temperature of the office this year have begun. |
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There's new paper towels in the bogs and it's impossible to pull one out without either taking another 3/4 in it or tearing the next towel to shreds. |
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>>8142 |
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Working on a smaller team I am beginning to learn how much I hate fat menopausal bints who find humour in everything. |
>> | No. 8352
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I've been getting funny looks at work because I've told them I'm going on holiday to Switzerland, as their idea of going away is a trip to Spain or Greece and spending the entire time getting pissed with their extended family. |
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>>8142 |
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No idea why, but I've been reminded of when I worked in the public sector and went for job interviews in other departments which were a complete waste of everybody's time because they were going to fill the vacancy with someone from their department and knew this from the off |
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>>8352 |
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>>8397 |
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For the past couple of days I've gone in 30/40 minutes early and it's really throwing my day off and it feels like time is dragging more than usual. |
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Hamoopa.jpg I fucking hate forced social interactions, but because I don't have any qualifications to verify my "dicking about with computer" skills I work in a dead end retail job. Many shifts I sit on a til scanning items for 10 hours straight. I'm lucky if I get 1 of my 2 fifteen minute breaks. |
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One of the consultants I work with keeps giving me two thumbs up when he asks me to do something |
>> | No. 8429
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Accidentally clicked to restart my computer to install updates. That was over half an hour ago and they're still installing. |
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>>8426 |
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People clustering around the printer to have conversations, or just generally standing in front of the printer being a gormless idiot. |
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zipblog.jpg >>8439 |
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I'M GOING TO SPEND MOST OF THE DAY YAPPING SO LOUD THAT YOU'LL BE ABLE TO HEAR ME FROM ANYWHERE WITHIN THE BUILDING BEFORE COMPLAINING ABOUT HOW MUCH WORK TO DO. |
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There's this new girl at work who stands out because she actually seems to be around my age (early 20s) and looks as bored as I am. It's an annoyance because she looks like she'd be well up for it but I can't take her to the disabled loo and bend her over a lidless toilet. |
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I was on a conference call this morning that literally lasted less than 5 minutes when it was scheduled to be an hour long. I missed half of what was said because most of the people dialled in late and the conference call service we have at work interrupts the line to announce when someone has joined. |
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"This week has really flown by! |
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Useless management has ordered the workforce to remove tyre marks from out front of the farm, despite it being frequently visited by feed lorries and the like. The manager in question has never worked on a farm and has zero knowledge of livestock. |
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>>2520 |
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I read it once ages ago, i even linked it on an IRC channel with my coworkers who quoted funny bits for the rest of the day. I'm not sure why I replied to that fella, perhaps I wanted to spark discussion about how "modern" workplaces have a changed attitude to time keeping. I don't see the advantagethough, I work a shift. |
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I'm sure this has been posted before, but people who shit at work. |
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everyonepoops.jpg >>8513 |
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My office is horseshoe shaped, with the toilets in the middle with the stairs. Yesterday one of the women did a shit so foul that it lingered over the entire stairwell for at least 4 hours. The warm weather and poor ventilation for the bogs didn't help. |
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A couple of annoyances from today: |
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>>8524 |
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References are the most ballache thing. So many companies now (4 out of the 5 I've ever worked for) refuse to give personal references these days. Trouble is I've just been offered a job in the NHS, and they want 2 personal work references, a character reference won't do. |
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>>1795 |
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>>8532 |
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I've just walked past the person I sit opposite as he makes his way back from lunch while I make my way to it. It's always awkward. There's nothing specific to say, I've just spent all morning near him, but you have to acknowledge them. A nod? Hello? Alright? 'Sup my nigga? |
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Qs3FMoy[1].gif >>8537 |
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I'M GOING TO FILL THE SINK WITH WATER AND DIRTY DISHES AND WAIT FOR THEM TO BE CLEANED BY MAGIC. |
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>>8537 |
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>>8537 |
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• People who don't know the difference between 'biennial' and 'biannual' writing contracts and client agreements so we've now offered to provide four times as much service for the same price. |
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The fucking radio at ASDA. The minions adverts which have thankfully ended now. |
>> | No. 8605
8605
Who else feels absolutely nackered after 2pm every day? It's like I'm hungry, agitated, and generally want to curl up into a ball and be left alone. |
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>>8605 |
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8612
Today I made an order that was larger than any purchase I'm ever going to make personally, and felt about shit about it for fifteen minutes. |
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>> | No. 8617
8617
I've got a new monitor at work and I just can't cope. It's a couple of inches wider and far sharper and I simply can't take it all in. It's blowing my mind. |
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>>8617 |
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ERROR(ORCAP-1733): Allegro footprint CON_101_00492_20a.PSM was not found in the search path. |
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Much_about_apu_nothing.jpg >>8619 |
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>>8619 |
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>>8620 |
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8623
Pointless processes. |
>> | No. 8624
8624
Being in purchasing obviously I receive a lot of orders. Thorlabs are particularly looked forward to since you get a box of snacks with them. |
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>>8624 |
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>>8623 |
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>>8624 |
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8630
My current annoyance as an employer is wanting to bang a member of staff. |
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>>8630 |
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>>8631 |
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Thorlabs.jpg >>8629 |
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8634
Apfel crisps update. |
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Birthday/Leaving gift buying. |
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>>8635 |
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My boss is having a full on domestic, over the phone, at her desk. |
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mk_wcd5000_otherviews01[1].jpg This little shit right here, or specifically how the escape and function keys are tiny and the main keys are all skewiff. |
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>>8645 |
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serveimage.jpg >>8646 |
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>>8645 |
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P8162006.jpg >>8648 |
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8653
I know there's been a lot of posts about women recently, but I just don't get why you'd suddenly declare "ooh, I think I need a wee". It's bad enough that one of them tells me when she's due on. |
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MB110B.jpg >>8645>>8645 |
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1437949015244.gif >>8663 |
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article-0-1B48A4F8000005DC-270_634x422[1].jpg >>8664 |
>> | No. 8667
8667
Fucking chef yelling at me for asking "So you're saying that creme brulee isn't on today?" despite it being on the menu, for testing the side of a plate to see if it was hot before I picked it up and for apparently lying about telling him the starters for table six were finished (I told him twice). I'm sorely tempted to key PAEDO into his car. |
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>>8667 |
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tmp_15579-11f5950e-5e7f-4552-ba02-d84a149d5ad4-369.jpg >>8668 |
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8690
On Monday I emailed HR with some questions about the overtime I'm supposed to be working this weekend. A follow-up call today revealed they're still trying to figure out the answers. All I wanted to know was whether or not my journey to and from the office on a Sunday, which I do not do as part of my working pattern and will take twice as long because because the train stops halfway for 20 minutes for no apparent reason, counts as travel time or commuting. (The extended journey time means the TOIL at double time works out to half a day if the former.) |
>> | No. 8691
8691
One of my friends is an administrator for a company who deal with high net worth clients, because of this she seems to think her job is more important than other people I know in admin jobs. I have friends who have admin jobs at the local council, they are on more money/better pension than her and have more prospects/chance of career progression than she does in her current role but she thinks she's superior to them. I don't get it, sure you may be dealing with rich/ important people but, when you're an administrator earning fuck all, I don't see how that makes you important/anything special. |
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>> | No. 8754
8754
After pushing everyone to work their balls off during a major project, which has been going on since June and should last until November, the board sent out an announcement today saying they've decided to cancel the tradition, which has been in place since the company was formed 14 years ago, of closing the offices a couple of hours early on the day of their respective Christmas parties. Thanks for the hard work and all that. |
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>>8754 |
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>> | No. 8758
8758
We had a temp in today. I know he was only trying to strike up conversation, but there's only so many times you can talk about partying, getting wasted and alcohol before it gets tedious. |
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8759
>>8758 |
>> | No. 8760
8760
Someone had a massive shitfit today because I went into their folder on the shared drive to look for a document I needed. I didn't touch her fanny, I didn't burgle her house, I didn't piss on her kids. A folder on a shared drive everyone in the office has access to is not a private space which can be violated. |
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>> | No. 8773
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GONNA HAVE MY MEGA FUNKY RINGTONE ON SUPER LOUD DESPITE THE FACT THERE'S SEVERAL CALLS A DAY I'D RATHER NOT ANSWER AND WILL MAKE EVERYONE IN THE OFFICE ENDURE LISTENING TO IT INSTEAD OF PRESSING THD IGNORE BUTTON. |
>> | No. 8774
8774
>>8773 |
>> | No. 8781
8781
(The body of the email is nothing but a huge wall of disclaimers.) |
>> | No. 8786
8786
I've spent a today being the "techie guy". |
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>>8786 |
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>>8795 |
>> | No. 8803
8803
Everyone disappeared 20 minutes ago. I'm sat in the office with about two other people (about 200 people in the practice) wondering where the fuck everyone's gone. |
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>>8803 |
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>>8804 |
>> | No. 8806
8806
"I need you to update x, as some of the information in the report is out of date. I could do it myself in 5 minutes, as I know the subject matter inside out, but I'm going to delegate it to you so I don't have to. I'm not going to tell you which parts of the report need updating so here's a dozen or so documents, including one over 500 pages long, for you to cross reference it against." |
>> | No. 8807
8807
A couple of months ago we did away with paper payslips. This month's payslip was due to show up online last Friday, but it's still not there now. |
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8808
>>8805 |
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>>8807 |
>> | No. 8810
8810
I'm currently being emailed encrypted PDF payslips. Nobody knows the password. |
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>>8810 |
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>> | No. 8818
8818
I can't ask the daft bint (again) because she'll throw a strop (again), and I'm too weary to deal with that. I'll wait until she's not around and have a look myself (it's a small company). |
>> | No. 8819
8819
My overtime payment for this month hasn't come through. I even confirmed with HR, in person, that they'd received the claim and sign off before the deadline. Cunts. |
>> | No. 8820
8820
Not an office annoyance but a few years ago I worked in a call centre. It was a Saturday so it was a half day with reduced staff, I was ringfenced on a quiet line in a pod in a far corner with another girl called R. She was about 3 seats away from me so we did our own thing. Day went slow with like 3 calls an hour. I noticed after a while that she had her legs crossed over and was rocking one over her knee quite furiously. I watched as she did this for a few minutes and realised she was masturbating. I started feeling horny and i think we got on to each others vibe and we both realised what was happening. To cut a long story short we both ebded up secretly masturbating, watching each other and taking calls. Nobody knew. |
>> | No. 8821
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>>8820 |
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>>8820 |
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>>8822 |
>> | No. 8824
8824
Is it just me or are the older, more experienced and more-appraised staff (usually women) complete shit at their jobs? In numerous instances I've found information provided by them to be inadequate or missing entirely, we work with templates so everything has to be quite concise. Also for working with technology so few of them seem to really grasp it anymore. I asked for help when I was relatively new a few months ago and the woman who helped made an elaborate mess of just trying to note something down when she could have just IMed herself from my computer. |
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>>8839 |
>> | No. 8842
8842
Dear God. Reading all this... It is like a horror story. I don't think I will get off the dole train any time soon. If I do, I will do whatever I can to avoid office jobs, or any kind of work that forces me to interact with human beings. |
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>>8842 |
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>>5478 |
>> | No. 8847
8847
A couple from today: |
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>>8847 |
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>>8848 |
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>>8849 |
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>>8850 |
>> | No. 8852
8852
Pack it in, lads. I can still recall a cunt off from years ago when someone pissed in the sink of a hotel they didn't enjoy staying in. |
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>>8849 |
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>>8859 |
>> | No. 8863
8863
So, lads, what about them hot meat pies then, eh? |
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>>8863 |
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>> | No. 8874
8874
For what it's worth, I regret blasting that floor with piss even more now thanks to this derail. |
>> | No. 8875
8875
Stand-up meetings are fun. Stand-up meetings which get turned into daily project status meetings, not so much - especially when you still end up standing the whole time. It's enough to make a man blast the floor with piss, I tell you. |
>> | No. 8877
8877
>>8874 |
>> | No. 8878
8878
At work yesterday someone made a hot meat pie, and the smell drove me so mad with hunger I stormed into the gents and blasted the floor with piss. |
>> | No. 8880
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>>8878 |
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>>8880>>8878 |
>> | No. 8882
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Hot-Pie-1435062552.gif >>8881 |
>> | No. 8883
8883
Does it count if people start asking me to do stuff that isn't my job, in a place I don't work? |
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>>8883 |
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>>8884 |
>> | No. 8886
8886
When I think 99p store I think blue polo shirt. Gormless expression. Unwashed hair in a large scrunchy bobble. Tattoo of a rose which has aged terribly. Inspirational quote tattoos, including one reminding her of her dead grandad. Stained teeth. Argos jewellery. |
>> | No. 8887
8887
>>8886 |
>> | No. 8888
8888
Today's techie job - going round to the other side of the office to help someone who didn't know how to save a document from an e-mail. |
>> | No. 8889
8889
Some daft bint is back from maternity leave and needs to remind the office she has a baby for the 100th time and it's not even noon. It wouldn't be so bad is she spoke like a human being but she fucking has to bellow her conversations across the office for all to hear. |
>> | No. 8890
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>>8889 |
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>>8888 |
>> | No. 8892
8892
I AM THE SELF APPOINTED GUARDIAN OF THE STATIONERY CUPBOARD, KEEPING IT UNDER LOCK AND KEY. YOU'LL NEED TO JUSTIFY EVERYTIME YOU WANT TO TAKE SOMETHING OUT OF MY CUPBOARD, BUT EVEN THEN I'LL TRY AND RATION WHAT YOU TAKE OUT AND GIVE YOU A DIRTY LOOK FOR EACH ITEM YOU TAKE OUT, AS IF YOU'RE SNATCHING MY CHILDREN. IF I GO ON HOLIDAY THEN YOU'RE FUCKED BECAUSE I DON'T TRUST ANYONE WITH MY KEY. |
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>>8892 |
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>>8895 |
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There has been an argument between staff over a photo accidentally going up briefly on Facebook from a work party that involved some lass getting her arse out. Also her practically giving the token dark lad a lap dance. |
>> | No. 8911
8911
>>8910 |
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>>8910 |
>> | No. 8914
8914
We had a problem with our server for a few days this week, causing a lot of issues the network drives and emails. |
>> | No. 8915
8915
>>8910 Wouldn't have happened to be last Friday night? |
>> | No. 8916
8916
Why do I only seem to be put into conference calls that have nothing to do with my team or department? |
>> | No. 8945
8945
"You can't book any leave during xxxx yet. It's the school holidays, so the mums get first refusal." |
>> | No. 8947
8947
Speaking of staff nights out, I'm in the awkward position of being a relatively new arrival to my place of work, but it's one of those places that's small enough for everyone to have a relatively close working relationship. Problem is I can't help myself after a few drinks and tend to get absolutely hammered, and with the obligatory Christmas do and what have you coming up I'm going to have to let my colleagues see what I'm really like pretty soon. I'm a little apprehensive. |
>> | No. 8948
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>>8947 |
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>>8947 |
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>>8947 |
>> | No. 8997
8997
I'M GOING TO REPEATEDLY WATCH VIDEOS ON MY PHONE OF MY BABY NIECE AT FULL VOLUME SO EVERYONE IN THE VICINITY HAS TO ENDURE LISTENING TO BABY BABBLE AND BACKGROUND NOISE FROM ARE SISTER'S HOUSE. |
>> | No. 8998
8998
I just typed a load of detailed instructions into a Chinese manufacturer's website as I placed a biggish order. |
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>>8998 |
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>>8999 |
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>>8999 |
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>>9001 Did you send them the gerbers for a whole panel, or for a single board? |
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>>9001 |
>> | No. 9011
9011
>Have we heard back from [client] about the report you did for me? |
>> | No. 9019
9019
One evening last week someone at work accidentally set off the alarms, which meant the security company have charged us £200 for a call out as they weren't notified it was a false alarm. |
>> | No. 9020
9020
It's that time of year where everyone in the office is getting colds, every fucker is sniffling and coughing and I've got a sore throat. This is now going to go on for at least a month of everyone re-infecting everyone else. |
>> | No. 9027
9027
>>9020 |
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>>9027 |
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9029
They've had to send out an e-mail reminding staff not to try going on porn on their work laptop. I can't even access my private e-mails and someone else has managed to watch porn on theirs. |
>> | No. 9039
9039
We have a shared cafeteria/canteen, where you can heat up your lunch and eat it with your friends. As I make my own hot lunch boxes, my lunches are pretty good - but I make them primarily not to feel hungry for the rest of the day. |
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9064
city-main_1178944a.jpg >>9052 |
>> | No. 9071
9071
They're toying with the idea of stopping people from eating lunch at their desks and making us eat on some manky chairs next to the kitchenette area. Something about making sure we get away from our desks and some bollocks about encouraging cohesion. |
>> | No. 9072
9072
>>9071 |
>> | No. 9073
9073
I do everything I can to spend as little amount of time in the office as possible. It's not possible to go have lunch in the park, with the shitty weather during this time of year. I've been driving to a Wetherspoon's for lunch, the winter fattening up has started to begin. |
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>> | No. 9097
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Is it normal to have extremely violent thoughts concerning your co-workers? |
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>>9097 |
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I don't usually do, but I needed to take a shit at work. Anyway, it was a little heftier than expected and it took a good few yanks of the handle to flush the bastard(s) down, and a curse or two for good measure. I come out, and behind me is a chap taking a piss at the urinal. My autism kicks in and I wash my hands in double haste and get the fuck out of there. |
>> | No. 9110
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Going out for a meal and being expected towplit the bill equally when only half of the table order starters and/or puddings or the most expensive meals on the menu. |
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It's the Christmas works do on Friday and we're supposed to hand over our secret Santa gifts as well. I haven't bought the person anything because I haven't got a clue about her, so I'm going to pop into Thornton's and get her a tenners worth of chocolates. |
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Today was a weird day, but I suppose that goes with the lull between Christmas and New Year. I managed to stretch out reviewing my inbox for the entire morning and it's the quietest I've known the motorway to be. Not a bad day, actually. |
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>>9147 |
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There's a new starter, sitting opposite me, and she's so softly spoken that half the time I can't actually hear what she's saying. I either say 'yeah' or laugh whenever she's finished talking but she could have said absolutely anything. |
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>> | No. 9190
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>Coming to me with a problem at 16:58, which takes me until 17:01 to make an attempt at sorting. Then coming back while I'm putting my coat on and walking out of the door to say it's not working |
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>>9190 |
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It's time of year again. |
>> | No. 9309
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What's the point in making annotations in pen or paper on the hard copy of the report you gave to me, before passing it back to you, when I can take a picture of each page on my tablet, write the annotations on screen and email every page individually to you? |
>> | No. 9310
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People who never click "Reply All" when there are people CC'd into the email. |
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>>9309 |
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>>9310 |
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For my sins, I'm a bus driver. Anyway... |
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I was in Berlin this Christmas, I've been many times - but rarely do I ever get the bus because the U-Bahn is just that great. |
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Apparently I'm a bit of a racist for complaining that I'm not happy when one of the administrators does work for me because her standard of written English is poor and it'll make the wrong impression with clients and suppliers. She's got Bangladeshi ancestry, but she must be at least third generation as she has an English name, is married to an Englishman and has a local accent. My issue is that she can't write for shit, not that she's brown. |
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It's pissing it down something biblical outside, and some utter fucking cuntface has decided to "borrow" my umbrella. Naturally I have taken the only reasonable course of action open to me, namely "borrowing" another umbrella. |
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>>9332 |
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We have a clock in and out machine and have to use it when we go for our break since it's not a paid one. The only problem is I work in a cash centre and have to pass through an air lock to get out of the place which means I lose around 5 minutes of my break getting in and out. |
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4203889533a5613998047l.jpg >>9340 |
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THERE'S A LONG LINE OF PEOPLE QUEUING BEHIND ME TO BUY MEAL DEALS. ALTHOUGH I HAVE THE NECESSARY £3 IN MY POCKET I'M GOING TO PAY BY CARD SO THE TRANSACTION TAKES TWICE AS LONG. |
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"I want to pay on my card. I'm going to whip it out of nowhere and stick it right in the machine, ignoring the staff member saying "wait don't put it in yet" before I even get my arm up. Then I will get annoyed when the machine crashes even though it's entirely my fault." |
>> | No. 9354
9354
My workplace has recently attempted to instate rotas in order to ensure all of us (read: the one lazy "disabled" fuckwit who never pulls her weight) are sharing tasks equally. All that has happened is that the people who usually do the work are following the rota, and the one lazy "disabled" fuckwit who never pulls her weight is ignoring the rota. Said lazy "disabled" fuckwit, upon being questioned as to why a certain task assigned to her has not been done, then revealed that she did not know how to do it. She has been there 5 years longer than all of us. |
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>>9354 |
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>>9353 |
>> | No. 9359
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People who think freelancing means you can dick about and don't need to plan things. Wankers. |
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>>9357 |
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>>9320 |
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>> | No. 9363
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I have to work with these two 50 to 60+ year olds. Unfortunately I have to listen to their bigoted views on capital punishment, prisons being too soft and casual racism. Part of it is a generational thing the other is being brainwashed by tabloid propaganda. |
>> | No. 9364
9364
My company buys loo roll slighty too big for the holders, which means the rolls have to be precariously balanced on top of the holder and fall off into the bog occasionally. |
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>>9364 |
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People who insist everything warrants bringing in doughnuts or cakes. |
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>> | No. 9370
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Those under the age of 25. I find it hard to believe someone in their early twenties hasn't heard of Blackadder. I'm not that much older, but the 90s was full of repeats of comedies before my time. |
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>>9366 |
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>> | No. 9373
9373
I write "Best of luck in the future!" in birthday cards and "Many happy returns!" in leaving cards. Neve been called on it yet. |
>> | No. 9374
9374
I'M THE LOW WINTER SUN. I'M GOING TO POSITION MYSELF IN BETWEEN EVERY TINY GAP I CAN FIND AT THE EDGES OF THE BLINDS AND SHINE STRAIGHT IN YOUR EYES. |
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>>9372 |
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>>9375 |
>> | No. 9386
9386
It's half-term. Parents taking their bastard kids everywhere, so if I go out on my lunch break I'm surrounded by the screechy little shitbags. |
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>>9386 |
>> | No. 9388
9388
Someone accidentally deleted over 100 reports that couldn't be recovered because they were created today, i.e. after the system was backed up last night. |
>> | No. 9389
9389
Doing timesheets when there is nothing on, and you know you're doing nothing, but the manager is insistent there will be no 'general duties' so you have to stick down that you're training yourself or some fucking wankpiss. |
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little friend.png In a way I'm lucky because in my company nobody has any time for any sort of HR wankery. The most we have along lines of CPD is a 15 minute yearly review, and this only happens at all because it's enforced as part of our ISO 9001 accreditation. |
>> | No. 9396
9396
I'm working from home today. I'd forgotten that the network connection off-site is so slow that it takes the best part of 10 minutes for an email to send and you can just about write off trying to do anything involving our back office system. |
>> | No. 9432
9432
Does everyone still get nervous as fuck looking for new jobs? I've had like, three jobs in a decade, and when I did move, usually it was with other people I already knew. Going in to an entirely new place, straight into a leadership role. I just feel like the ruse that I'm a competent adult will surely get found out. |
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>>9432 |
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>>9432 |
>> | No. 9438
9438
I've already phoned in sick, but I'll probably drag myself into work later today because I simply can't live with the guilt of leaving members of my team in the shit. We're already chronically understaffed (4 people down, we never get proper cover, I'm already booked in to do overtime on Friday to cover absence) and the stress is making us all miserable - I barely slept last night, which isn't helping the cold I've got. |
>> | No. 9439
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>>9438 |
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>> | No. 9441
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Are you infectious? |
>> | No. 9442
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>>9440 |
>> | No. 9443
9443
Not that guy, but we're down to three lab assistants at my work at the moment, out of what's supposed to be twelve. So to get anything sensible done, each person has to essentially run two benches at once and still find time to share the less busy ones. We've got a couple on long term sick leave and a couple more on holiday time, but three people? |
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>>9443 |
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>>9440 |
>> | No. 9446
9446
Pragmatically, you're not helping by working sick. If you're off sick, then no matter how essential you (think you) are, your team is a man down, and nobody can argue if their output is restricted. |
>> | No. 9448
9448
I'm at work and I really want a wank behind the counter whilst all the people walk past, but I know it will result in egg all over my face so I'm restricted to playing with myself through my pants which isn't helping my current state of horniness. |
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>> | No. 9456
9456
I disclosed my salary today during a conversation. I don't see the big deal about keeping it confidential or shrouded in secrecy, but some of the people at work looked at me as if I'd told them I liked to smear poo around my lips and pretend it's brown lipstick. |
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>>9457 |
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>>9456 >>9459 |
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Tvost_og_spik-e1337611913220[1].jpg >>9461 |
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Skerpikjoet_ErikChristensen[1].jpg >>9462 |
>> | No. 9471
9471
They won't stop sending emails out telling us to join LinkedIn and then constantly like and share any 'news and views' pieces the company decides to publish, because apparently this will mean tens of thousands of people will read it and bring in shitloads of new business. |
>> | No. 9472
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>>9471 |
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>> | No. 9475
9475
For insight away from the negativity, I use Linkedin very casually and I have a standard grad job. |
>> | No. 9476
9476
I got told off for recruiting someone via word of mouth, rather than creating a job post and circulating it (which costs us money). Apparently it makes us look less professional, to just pick up the phone and ask a reliable colleague if he's interested in interviewing. |
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>> | No. 9594
9594
Everyone had the back to work blues today. To top it off, I sharted. |
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>> | No. 9616
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Some of the women I work with have just discovered you can attach clip art to emails. |
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>> | No. 9620
9620
I was talking to someone working in a different department a little while back and apparently their manager would follow up every discussion with an email starting "Since we discussed x, y, z etc.". So one member of the team thought it would be hilarious to set up an auto-reply to emails that contained that string with "I don't remember discussing this." In response, the manager also set up an auto-reply to that string saying something along the lines of "We definitely did." |
>> | No. 9621
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>> | No. 9674
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The guy who brushes his teeth and shaves every morning in the work toilet. Why ? |
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>> | No. 9687
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Well I waited 15 minutes for him to be done and was late for my first meeting of the day because of it. |
>> | No. 9688
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>>9684 |
>> | No. 9689
9689
I don't understand why we're kicking up such a fuss about the guy shaving at work anyway. |
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>>9689 |
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>>9689 |
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9:00 CUP-A-SOUP O'CLOCK |
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>> | No. 9699
9699
I'll have to give this a try. Skip my morning routine, go straight to work at the usual time, sign in and immediately go away to do the three Sh's. I wonder whether they'll insist it deduct it from my hours for the day after a while. |
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>>9698 |
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>>9707 |
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tmp_8657-clean_toilets_bathtubs_showers_and_sinks8.jpg >>9708 |
>> | No. 9714
9714
Some fat lass at work keeps telling people I'm gay and my girlfriendis just a cover despite me never suggesting in any remote way that I might be gay. |
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>>9714 |
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>> | No. 9719
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I already hate one of the HR staff at my new university and I haven't even started there yet. She was introduced to me as "the go-to lady" in the department and the one who would be handling all of my immigration documents, but over the past six months she's not replied to a single one of my emails. She's emailed me a sum total of twice, firstly with some pre-employment certificates and an email that read "Anon, sign this" and tonight with "Anon, send me this". Admittedly, I might get over there and she might be really lovely, but fucking useless with a computer, but I don't see how you can possibly become top dog HR woman at a biggish uni without able to email politely/actually reply when someone asks you an important question. |
>> | No. 9720
9720
>>9719 |
>> | No. 9721
9721
Some pricks in our office insist on leaving their phones on their desks with loud and obnoxious ringing tones. Is it so hard to take the fucking thing with you? if you're in a meeting, just put it on silent. |
>> | No. 9722
9722
>>9721 |
>> | No. 9723
9723
>>9471 here again. |
>> | No. 9724
9724
The fucking new age feminists in my office. |
>> | No. 9725
9725
Someone's left something real oniony in the office fridge and the flavour had sponged into my water bottle overnight. |
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9726
>>9725 |
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>>9725 |
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>>9728 |
>> | No. 9731
9731
I get an email nightly about the revenue and wage margins of the business I work in. However, on the wage accuracy table they've written the word "varience". I've only worked here a fortnight, but every fucking night I open that email and I wince a little. |
>> | No. 9732
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>>9731 |
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>>9732 |
>> | No. 9734
9734
If any of you work for the Haunt in Brighton I apologise in advance for when you find a pair of boxers that someone shat themselves in. |
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>>9732 |
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>>9731 |
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>>9738 |
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>>9740 |
>> | No. 9742
9742
I don't remember what caused the shitting in Cineworld. Those boxers were abandoned in a toilet. I shat myself on Saturday because I was dim and had flu but went out anyway and needed to fart and then it turned out to be a small liquid poo. |
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>>9742 |
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>>9743 |
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>>9744 |
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People in the office taking ibuprofen nearly everyday...why? |
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>>9746 |
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>>9746 |
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>>9752 |
>> | No. 9757
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After a few weeks of hints that we should go out to dinner together, I finally relented and went out with a couple of my colleagues. It was exactly how I feared. 99% of what was discussed was work related because there was little else to say. Just leave me alone with my packing up. |
>> | No. 9758
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>>9757 |
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>>9757 |
>> | No. 9762
9762
What's better than hearing that your colleague's son hasn't left his bedroom once during the school holidays? Hearing it six times in one day. If there's silence she will fill it. |
>> | No. 9764
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>>9762 |
>> | No. 9765
9765
I had my appraisal meeting yesterday. They're worried I'm going to leave [apparently I'm extremely talented and they worried in a few years I'm going to be bored and unfulfilled] so they're going to create a new role which has been specifically designed where I'll be the only person in the team eligible to apply due to the minimum requirements including a qualification that only I hold. I'm all for getting promoted, but I'm not so keen on the subterfuge involved in setting up the role for me. |
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>>9765 |
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>>9773 |
>> | No. 9779
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sainsburys-white-chocolate-and-orange-cookies.jpg The office trainee was tasked today with picking up three bags of cookies from Sainsburys - one chocolate chip, one triple chocolate and either raspberry or orange with white chocolate chips, all Taste the Difference. He came bag with three bog standard bags - white chocolate chip, chocolate chip and oatmeal & raisin. |
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>>9779 |
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>>9792 |
>> | No. 9797
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This is a work-place annoyances thread, I'm not sure why you all get so het up about him complaining about something that happened at work. Yes, it's trivial. So what? |
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>>9803 |
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I've had an absolutely catastrophic week where everything I've touched has gone to shit. |
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PLEASE FUND MY CYCLING TRIP TO BRAZIL. IT'S FOR CHARITY. HONEST, GUV, IT'S NOT A HOLIDAY. PLEASE IGNORE THE FACT I CYCLE ABOUT 200 MILES A WEEK. DEFINITELY NOT A JOLLY I WANT OTHER PEOPLE TO PAY FOR. |
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2331b44db04b6c09ad43173d1007ae94.png >>9848 |
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>>9848 |
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There's building work going on at a nearby office. People keep making fart jokes every time there's drilling. Repeatedly. |
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Our Director thinks it's a great idea for a team day so I have to drive an extra bit out of my way and waste a day I could be doing work fannying about in a posh hotel listening to other colleagues talk about what went well for them this year. |
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I really enjoy being on a zero hours contract with very limited cover on the liability insurance, yet being made to help carry out maintenance work on the gas pipes. |
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>>9863 |
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At the toilets closest to my office, someone keeps taking out all of the paper towels in the dispenser and dumping them in the bin. Every time I go in I see massive chucks of clean paper towels just laying waste and the dispenser constantly starved of stock. |
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One of the women I work with has a happen of picking up printing and then going round the (fairly large) office loudly asking groups of people if they've printed it off. The printer has a log button, so if she pressed that she could quickly find out who's printed it off. |
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I started a new job a few months ago, my second job out of uni, with my first having been only for a few months. I'm not even 22 yet. |
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When someone is printing a large document, say 20 pages at least, there are people who are waiting for something in the queue after it who walk up to the printer, and as every single page comes out, they pick it up to see if it's theirs and then put it on the side (in the wrong order obviously). This is all despite the fact that the printer has a screen which tells you who's printing at that moment. |
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Because the sun was out, some people in the office had a puerile fit about wanting ice cream. |
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>>9914 |
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Football talk. I don't mind watching football, I can take it or leave it, but, fuck me, it's one of the most inane things to have a conversation about - especially when you didn't actually watch the match and are just reeling off possession and shots on target stats you've looked up online. |
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People won't stop fannying about with the air con. They'll put it on until it's freezing and everyone is too cold and then they'll turn it off until everyone is sweltering before deciding to put it back to ridiculously cold again. Just keep it at a constant pleasant temperature, for fuck's sake. |
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>>10033>>10032 |
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A few things:- |
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>>10039 |
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>>10043 |
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>>10044 |
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I'd be pretty chuffed if I got to not work and watch football instead but most companies wouldn't allow it. I don't think >>10042 is automatically the office killjoy just for pointing that out (although granted in this case they've admitted they are anyway). |
>> | No. 10048
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If my company didn't let me watch the England game I'd just leave and watch it anyway. |
>> | No. 10049
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I think it says something about the population of this board that it seems to think getting time off to watch a football match is the norm. |
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>>10049 |
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>>10049 |
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Apparently it will hit the economy badly, but some institute or busybody said that employers should allow their employees to watch the match because it will boost morale and maybe even productivity. |
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>>10054 |
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>>10049 |
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>>10053 |
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It is actually the opposite. People with nonjobs, on zero hour contracts and the like are going to be forced to work. The people with better jobs are the ones who are taking a half day. |
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Good grief. I think some of you lads might need a hobby, you place entirely too much self worth in your non-jobs. |
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I won't be taking any time off work to watch the football because I'm working from home tomorrow anyway. |
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Atleast you'll be able to watch the match you cunts, at best I might be able to listen to a bit of it while fighting off women for control of the radio. |
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>>10075 |
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>>10057 |
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Why is the BBC's live stream only in SD? |
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>>10076 |
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>>10078 |
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>>10080 |
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I work for a government agency through a temping agency. They sacked someone from my agency on Thursday for apparently watching the game on his phone (the England V. Wales game on Thursday). Apparently, he placed his phone on the table while working on his computer. It wasn't loud or anything, he was using his earphones. One of the managers walked over to him, and after a brief chat, he was told to leave his security pass, laptop, etc, behind and then he was escorted out of the building. |
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>>10083 |
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Couple of things: |
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Work are sending me to London for courses on 'assertiveness' and 'influencing'. |
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We've got a new starter and he's really getting on my tits. He is extremely qualified and his technical knowledge is very good, which means that he's extremely full of himself, but the standard of work he's actually producing is piss poor. If you can talk the talk then you need to back this up and walk the walk. |
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Today's the deadline for booking our Christmas party and we've also got to have our menu choices in. How am I supposed to know now in six month's time whether I'd rather have tiramisu or lemon cheesecake? |
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After a "restructuring," we had a long meeting, with people's workloads increasing because some four people were let go, and we were told to become more efficient. The consultant cunt who was talking was not happy that people sometimes get sick. 45 minutes into the meeting, a lad who worked in a different team to mine for some seven months, just loudly announced he was bored and didn't like working any more, and just left. He just left while the whole room just fell silent. |
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There's malware in our system after someone opened an attachment in an email last night without paying due care and attention. We were told to all turn off our computers at around 9:15. Just before 1pm IT ran some tests on our computers looking for any obvious malware files but we'd no access to the drive all our documents are stored, outlook or our back office system. At around 3pm they decided they'd need to clear each computer in the building, around 30 in total, and it would take around an hour to do each one. The IT manager was working from home today but didn't bother coming in to help with this. It was obvious that we could do fuck all today and it's likely it'll be the same in the morning but the management didn't let us go early. It's a good job they said we could use the WiFi and stream Wimbledon after they'd ran the tests at 1ish or I'd have gone out of my mind. |
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Lads, I love this thread, I've been hear since the beginning, but, it might be time for a new one. |
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They used to 'accidentally' order too much milk, so we'd be able to each take a couple of pints home on a Friday with the justification that it'd be off by the end of the weekend. However, they've stopped doing it now for some reason. I actually have to buy my own milk. |
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994LTP_Jean_Reno_005[1].jpg >>10123 |
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lol.gif >>10125 |
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father-ted-careful-now.jpg >>10126 |
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>>10127 |
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techpriest.jpg >>10114 |
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ZXSpectrum48k.jpg >>10139 |
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My first computer was a speccy, but for a lot of people from my generation computers were for spods. I got my first PC in 96 a 133mhz pentium with a massive 8 megs of RAM and a gig HDD. This means that I have been using PCs for over half my life, but I am definitely in the minority of people in the 35-50 agre range. |
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My dad had a weird Mac in the early 90s and a speccie and BBC micro and such before that. |
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>>10140 |
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>>10139 |
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I'm a member of the voluntary critical illness scheme at work. The renewal should have been in April but they forgot about it, so a hurried email was sent last thing on Friday. It turns out the premiums have gone up, so they are going to make a deduction in my pay for this month to make up for it and it just so happens that the payroll cut off date was last Friday. Is that even legal? I didn't get the email until Monday morning so by the time I received notice it was too late to have my pay for the month amended, not to mention that our HR bint has calculated the underpayment wrong and managed to get it at more than double what I really owe, and at that point I hadn't even consented to being in the scheme for another year. |
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Some fucking baby boomer cunt at work in the canteen line was talking about how he's just bought his fifth house to 'do-up' and rent to 'kids' who he can rip off and have them pay the mortgage on whilst it goes up in value. |
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>>10179 |
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>>10196 |
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>designated green belt areas are designated as such to prevent them being built on |
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>>10199 |
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>>10202 |
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I finished uni and had an interview for a good job. The interview went well but they said I come second despite impressing them hugely. They were really positive about my interview and said the only reason it didn't go to me was simply lack of experience as another candidate had 5-10 years. |
>> | No. 10205
10205
The light in the gents toilet on the floor below has gone but nobody there has bothered organising to get someone to fix it, so they've started using our toilet instead. One of them has bowel trouble and our toilet is only small so the smell has little room to dissipate, especially when they don't bother using the air freshener in there. Also, one of them broke the toilet seat and decided to place it back on top and say nothing, so the next person to sit on it slid off. |
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>>10204 |
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10207
Some cock decided to shit all over our team demanding we do some shit for them immediately. I replied telling them why they couldn't really do this. As I leave for a hospital appointment this morning, I check my calendar and there's a meeting set up for this afternoon. As I get back from the hospital, I find out in those few hours someone else on the team has gone behind my back and capitulated, rendering the meeting pointless. As a result, I now look like a dick for actually trying to do my fucking job properly. |
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>>10207 |
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10209
CONFERENCE CALL? BETTER SPEND THE ENTIRE TIME BREATHING HEAVILY INTO THE PHONE LIKE A SEX PEST! |
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>>10209 |
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The last conference call I was on I could hear someone playing Candy Crush in the background. Not that I blame them, I was browsing Facebook and leaving it up to a secretary to take notes. They should have had the nouse to mute the sound though. |
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>>10211 |
>> | No. 10213
10213
They've started using video for our 8am conferences. I'm trying to decide if I'm essential enough to just carry on with my usual conference call position of lying in bed with my hands down my pants watching Everybody Loves Raymond with the sound off. |
>> | No. 10214
10214
They've started using video for our 8am conferences. I'm trying to decide if I'm essential enough to just carry on with my usual conference call position of lying in bed with my hands down my pants watching Everybody Loves Raymond with the sound off. |
>> | No. 10215
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I can't fucking stand it lads. |
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>>10215 |
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dorismain.jpg >>10213 |
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image.jpg >>10217 |
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Stupid cunts who are oblivious to their own stupidity. |
>> | No. 10220
10220
I find it hard to drink water at work. I become aware that I'm drinking, a bit like when you breathe manually, and then I become too conscious that I'm going to gulp ridiculously loud. |
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>>10215 |
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>>10220 |
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>>10235 |
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As someone who isn't working an office job and won't do for a whole two weeks yet I can't help but confuse this for the minor complaints thread on /101/ |
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>>10239 |
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>>10246 |
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10250
The IT department has changed everyone's login passwords and sent out the email with the password late on Friday. I was one of the people who can't access their email because they changed my password. I was unaware of the changes happening because I was out of the office Friday. So I have been twiddling my thumbs for the past couple of hours waiting someone to turn up with the login details. |
>> | No. 10251
10251
I couldn't get on our back office system until around 9:10 this morning because Finance (I'm >>/b/404310) hadn't paid the bills again. |
>> | No. 10252
10252
A doctor asked me on the phone today what the "best kind of antibiotic, in your experience" is for treating e. coli. |
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>>10108 here again. |
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10275
I've started working with one of the senior directors of the company, which is great. The only problem is her number two. He's constantly sending me condescending emails, telling me to make sure I'm doing things that are par for the course with my role anyway and don't need pointing out to me. Anyway, today I made a slight mistake as they record things differently and I didn't realise I needed to choose something from a drop down menu first before ticking a box as, if you do it the other way round, it ends up removing the tick. Instead of an email saying something like "I noticed you didn't do [x], so I've sorted it this time but next time you need to do it like this..." I got a long-winded accusatory email questioning what I'd done like that way for, which would have taken him ten times longer than just correcting it himself. |
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>>10275 |
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>>10275 |
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I legitimately pity all of you officelads. You might earn more than me, have nicer cars and more fulfilled love lives, but truly I am grateful that at least I don't have to spend the majority of my existence in one of those purgatorial waking nightmares. |
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>>10291 |
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>>10298 |
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>>10299 |
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10301
Fat people at work who are on a constant diet but eat shit anyway or pretend they go to the gym loads. |
>> | No. 10302
10302
Marketing don't know the difference between its and it's. They keep publishing documents, including ones going to clients and potential clients, where they keep using it's when they should have used its. |
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>>10305 |
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I think our company's social media "guru" is the biggest lazy fucker who works for us. He makes one or two Facebook posts a day and emails any complaints from Twitter or FB to the customer services department. I saw him poncing about in a scarf today, it's been 24 degrees outside and I've sweated through a short sleeve shirt by midday. Then he's walking around in a waistcoat and a scarf, never mind his trilby. Picture your classic social media hipster wanker and he suits that downn to a tee. |
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Fucking cheapass Cisco VOIP phones. It's bad enough that I can barely hear shit, but it decided to tell me this afternoon that someone left me a voicemail yesterday morning. |
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I've been asked by somebody who gets paid over a million pound a year to do something, with that wage, you guessed, they're quite important. |
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So what if someone is a director? You don't have to put them on a fucking pedestal and get yourself wrapped up in what they've asked you to do. Have a bit of self respect and don't start tugging your forelocks at them. Nothing worse than a brown noser |
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This lad is constantly being accused of brown-nosing and yet I don't see anything in his posts to suggest that; only that the person 'deserves respect' by virtue of their salary and/or status, which while arguably naive, doesn't necessarily mean he is following their instructions in order to make them feel wonderful and himself rewarded. |
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I think everyone in this thread is being a dick now. You're all steadfastly refusing to acknowledge the others' point of view. |
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Surely it all depends on how forelocklad acts in response to this useless bint? If he goes back to the bosssman and says that he's made progress but is being blocked by the bint, maybe he'll apply some of the seven-figure salary grade pressure directly to the bint. Whereas if forelocklad waits until everything goes tits up and points his finger at the bint obviously that isn't going to go well for him. |
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>You lot can be weird sometimes. |
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Oh, fuck. I've just started a new job and as of today they've just sprung an away day on me happening in two weeks' time. 8 hours of "team building" and "icebreaker" activities with people who wouldn't associate with each other under any circumstances if they weren't getting paid to do it, interspersed with presentations from everyone trying to justify their wages. |
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I've come back from a three month secondment to find that I'm swamped with work because my managers didn't think much of my stand-in, so they decided the best solution would be to stockpile work for the past two/three weeks until I came back so they wouldn't have to give it to him. Needless to say, a fair bit of that work has become urgent. |
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On Monday, my manager came out of a shortlisting meeting saying the panel chair was surprised I hadn't applied for it. I told him I probably would have applied for it had I not been hearing about it for the first time right then. |
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I started my first full time job two weeks ago. I haven't yet been exposed to office politics. Also I have no idea how to get to know anybody. |
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I've turned into a massive shit stirrer and I've absolutely no idea why. My office manager and my line manager (working in a different office as my job is 'centralised') have fallen out and no longer get on with one another. I'm quite close with both of them and in a trusted position, which I am now abusing for all it's worth. For whatever reason I've started adding fuel to the fire and have been relaying messages whenever one slags off the other, which has increased markedly since I've been involved. Last week I sent a one line email to my line manager saying that my office manager thinks she's been stepping on her toes and I got an 8 paragraph rant back, some of which was in caps. I don't know what I'm trying to get out of this. |
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3f4.gif >>10404 |
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What is it with this weird thread and the weird people who just respond to every story or post with 'you're about to get fired!'? |
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I had LinkedIn training today. There's something quite jarring about having to listen to someone who is being paid to talk about news feeds and the differences between liking posts and sharing posts and shit like that. |
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Does anybody else have mates on facebook who occasionally post recruitment ads from their workplace? |
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Is it autistic if I aska girl at work who sits directly across from me to stop twizzling her hair? |
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People from work keep trying to add me on Facebook. |
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image.jpg Is it wise to remove my university education from my CV when applying for a job that asks for secondary school education as a requirement? |
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They're changing the destination for our Christmas party because they've hired a couple of eskimos so now we have to go somewhere halal. |
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Someone I work with retired at the end of August. It has since transpired that they must have spent most of the past decade calculating how many corners she could get away with cutting because the amount we've uncovered since she left has been quite impressive. I mean, the amount of effort she would have put in to figure all this out must have been a full time job in itself. |
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They've changed the venue, again. A few people said they'd boycott it as they don't agree with halal slaughter and the (actual church going) Christian said she'd have to check with her church whether eating it would go against her religion, although we think she was just looking for an excuse to get out of it. |
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Barry.jpg >>10549 |
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The lass I sit next to told me that she had to run to the toilet because a sneeze almost made her piss herself. My boss has let me know on several occasions whether a sneeze has caused a little bit of piss to dribble out, I've heard all about her weak bladder. Other women in the office announce if they need a piss and when they're going for one. |
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The same subject has come up before hasn't it? I can report it happens at my work too anyhow. '558 is pretty much right, I think, even if he is being half facetious. |
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Some woman at work (you know the type, she loves to buy into the corporate bullshit and will call meetings to look busy, whilst talking tautological platitudes and cliches that mean nothing just to justify her existence) has had an operation on her legs or something. |
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Someone sent an email out today asking if anyone would be interested in doing a secret Santa. They were almost immediately lynched. They don't do Christmas cheer where I work. |
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Fucking hell, lads. This is one of the threads we don't have a cunt-off in. |
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brent.jpg >>10657 |
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Ever since the clocks went back a 15-20 minute journey home is taking 40-45 minutes because everyone seems to have lost their collective minds and forgotten how go drive in the dark. |
>> | No. 10734
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My evening travel has gone from 15 minutes to 35 just due to the amount of road works. Even going down the ack roads doesn't help because everyone else has the same idea. |
>> | No. 10735
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So last month I was promoted to consultant at work, floating around sites and evaluating and improving them ad hoc. My payment structure involves invoicing the head accountant directly. |
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I WANT TO BE PAID MORE. |
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>>8619>>8619 how to solve this damn problem?! |
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>An email that was accidentally sent to all the NHS's staff in England has caused havoc. |
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>>10746 |
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I've been issued with an on-call phone and it's constantly fucking beeping. I wouldn't mind so much if any of them were relevant and therefore chargeable. |
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Lads I rang up a company I'd like to work for and they said to leave a number and somebody will call me back the day after. |
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This thread makes me really appreciate working from home. My biggest problem is running out of weed and rizlas. |
>> | No. 10768
10768
The set menu for the Christmas night out was circulated today. They've spent around 90% of the budget on the food, leaving enough for roughly two 330ml bottles of beer or glasses of wine. |
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>>10763 |
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They've hired a lass from Zimbabwe and her standard of written English isn't up to scratch, by quite some distance. This wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for the fact that the overwhelming majority of her work is writing things that will be client facing. However, the management are shit scared of doing anything about this in case it's discriminating. |
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>>10768 |
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It's the last full week of November and my boss still hasn't signed off my leave for Christmas. It's not like it's been in my calendar and the HR system since September or anything. |
>> | No. 10776
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There is a cupboard in my office, packed full of stationery, pretty much everything you'll ever need. It's free to take, no having to sign it out or anything, just open the cupboard and pick it up. |
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giphy-8.gif >>10777 |
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They're being a bit racist at work, again. Apparently:- |
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Lads, this is one of the threads we try not to shit up. If you want to have a cunt-off about it then kindly fuck off here >>/news/10962. |
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When I went to lunch, one of the lifts was being serviced. When the other one arrived, some cunt from the floor above had put it into Sabbath mode. Every. Single. Fucking. Floor. |
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I had to teach someone how to do a piece of work today. It was infuriating watching how slow they were on the computer. For example, if you're searching in a location that contains hundreds of folders within it listed alphabetically and the one you need starts with an 'M' the least you could do is type that letter on your keyboard rather than slowly scrolling down. |
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>>10844 |
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I applied for a job a week ago, the closing date is Monday and the interviews are at the end of next week. |
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Having to put out reduced items at a supermarket. When we do it, we're meant to have a manager or a member of security escort us to keep order, but it's always ends up being someone doing it alone. I had to do it the other night, and people literally sprinted at me and tried to shove me out of the way to get to the items as I was putting them out. Very unpleasant. |
>> | No. 10857
10857
A new starter from last week was let go today because it turned out he hasn't resigned from his last job and was actually doing work for them whilst getting paid by us. I've never known anything like it. |
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urine-sample.jpg >>10857 |
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I've passed the video interview for the civil service fast stream, which allows you to apply to several different streams. |
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Lads, I really don't know what to do here. |
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10875
At the end of the Christmas party one of my shift managers (female) started pushing me as to whether I "like" her friend. She wouldn't drop it, and kept nagging me. |
>> | No. 10876
10876
I've an interview tomorrow for a really good job and accordingly I feel too nervous to eat and my arse is running like a tap everytime I try and eat. |
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>>10876 |
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10878
A couple of things from today:- |
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10879
My mate is 24 and earns nearly 60 grand a year and I'm jealous. |
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>>10877 |
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10881
The secretary to one of the senior managers was drawing up a seating plan for all the "important" people that were going to come for a meeting with the senior managers. She placed brackets around the external members' names when she was drawing up the list. She then placed triple brackets around the director's name. |
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Someone at worked shared an article complaining about Git being a weapon of the patriarchy, because it bakes a committers name into the commit hash in such a way as to be prohibitively difficult to rewrite history if a trans person (or married woman) changes their name. |
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What's the consensus on going to a job interview that is meant to be half an hour but you end up chatting away for closer to an hour? |
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I remember when I started my first office job and wasn't sure wether I should shake hands with women or hug them as shaking hands was too formal. |
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The company I work for has recently added a new layer of management. In order to justify their existence they've started getting a right hard on for MI so they can measure all of the things. However, they're not entirely sure what they want to measure or how - they simply want to make things "more efficient" - nor do they fully understand what our department does so the format changes almost every week, to the point you'll be spending half a day retrieving useless information to put in their pointless MI spreadsheets. |
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Alright lads this thread has genuinely been stellar for advice, so any input from you lads is appreciated as other posters seem to have got. |
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Fucking recruitment consultants. I haven't been job hunting since late 2015 but they still pester me with calls. |
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"Whilst you were off we decided, between ourselves, that you'd be best placed to deal with the thing [that none of us want to do]." |
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This is my first time working in an office. I have been working for eight months now. My manager is an absolute moron. I thought she was okay, but not only is she a moron, she is also a cunt. She doesn't know how to use Excel, and always asks me for help. Being a naive twat that I am, I helped her. I helped her a lot. I did many of the rubbish she went around presenting to people. That's all well and good. |
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House_of_cards2.jpg >>10940 |
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My boss doesn't know what 'overview' means and keeps using it when she really wants an in-depth review of something, including making recommendations. |
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Applying for and acquiring a job is almost exactly the same as online dating, in principle. |
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Had a conference call today. I'd completely forgotten about the heavy breathing sex pest. |
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Are those "if you leave we'll deduct all training/exam costs within the past two years from your pay" policies enforceable? My company has one, requiring you to sign something agreeing to this each time you make a study request, but I'd like to jump ship and I reckon I'd owe at least £2k if I did. |
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My boss has started referring to herself as my "work wife". It's now caught on and other people keep calling her that to me, too. |
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'I'm not your boss, nor do I even work in the same group as you, but I'll give you tasks to do and expect you to do them first.' |
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Lads, I need a bit of advice. |
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A new guy's just started in my department doing a relatively similar job to me. He's got the same first name and surname initial as me but that's where the similarity ends. He somehow landed the job over the more qualified candidate as the latter came to the interview and didn't seem "fun" enough (and apparently "very large" according to one of the interviewers) despite being leagues ahead in practice and on paper. |
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I'm trying to get to a conference, and management is arguing about having to pay £200 in travel and accommodation. |
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An email was sent out today to check out our contact details on our "business continuity plan", in case our office was burnt down or something like that, to make sure it's up to date. It has everyone's address, personal phone number and contact details for their next of kin. It's viewable by the entire company. |
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I'm starting a new office job tomorrow lads. What are some dos and dont's? I got all my uncomfortable clothes and very uncomfortable shoes ready. Why are dress/office shoes so uncomfortable? Jesus. |
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I bring news |
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I found out today that I've been blamed for losing a client because a piece of work that should have been turned around in two weeks wasn't done for two and a half months. The person who has been spreading this around is the very same person who sat on the case for almost two months and then passed it to me without even doing what they were supposed to properly. |
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Uncomfortable shoes lad reporting here. My shoes are still uncomfortable. I have no idea what the fuck I'm doing at work. My manager is a "yeah do your thing, I don't like to micro-manage lol" type, so I literally don't know what to do. |
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>>11147 |
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Say I work 3 days a week at minimum wage, I get paid min wage for the hours I work and that's that. |
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nmw-holiday.png >>11150 |
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Conference calls. Fuck me what a waste of time they are, especially when there's 50+ people on the line and there's always some knobhead who puts it on hold instead of mute. |
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People bringing in things like McDonald's that fill the entire office with their aroma. |
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A month in the job and I've already been exposed to office power struggles. I need to keep up my Swiss attitude. I've lived in a house with majority women before, how hard can it be? |
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Chamberlain.jpg >>11166 |
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I've got a job interview this week, which means I'm going to have to find an excuse why I want Thursday morning off. Also, the recruitment consultant has been a bit vague so all I know is the company name and that it's the same job title as what I'm doing now but I haven't been sent a job spec. The salary could be one of four I said I may be interested in; two with an actual monetary figure and the other two are down as 'competitive' and 'completely on what is required for the right candidate'. |
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SLIDE.jpg >>11173 |
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Just say you got a dentist appointment. |
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>>11173 here again |
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Vague recruiters annoy me. If you won't even tell me the name of the company and a bit of background about what they do without me taking time out of my day for a surreptitious phone-call I can't really be arsed. |
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Lads I had a job interview and they asked what I look for in my work so I said 'I like to know I'm doing something challenging and know that i'm something that will make an impact.' |
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Oh, they also asked how I judge my performance on projects that take some time but the success of them isn't known and how I judge whether I'm doing a good job. |
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Interview questions largely don't matter. It's more about whether they like you and whether you'd fit in. |
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We've got a new administrator and I don't think she knows how to save a PDF document. Instead she'll print the document and scan it to the system, so instead of having a good quality PDF that's about 800KB we now have an inferior looking one that's at least 8MB after she's unnecessarily printed off a 30 page document in full colour. |
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>>11188 here again. |
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I've had various temporary full time jobs over uni. Most are quite respectable (i.e. not cleaning, no offence to cleaners), and I've been in QA at a big American engineering company for 7 months now. I have a science based degree and a management MSc. |
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aNKRt0u.jpg >>11206 |
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Loads of my coworkers are immature but they generally understand rules around consent and stupid immature banter i.e. I have a difficult time dealing with it so they'll not harass me if I'm not getting involved. |
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The printer has a massive screen telling you the name of the person who is printing right now. Why does everyone keep picking up every single page that comes off to see if it's theirs (and then put it back out of order)? |
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11213
Outlook has a scheduling assistant for arranging meetings, that will tell you that I've got a regular appointment in the timeslot you keep insisting on booking every fucking time. |
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I can't tell if my boss is insane or I am. I'll write out two pieces of copy for her and she'll tell me one needs a complete rewrite but lavish praises on me for the other and I don't understand what the difference in the copy is. There's nothing obviously wrong with the grammar, I just rephrase it slightly and suddenly it's, in her opinion, praiseworthy. |
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I've received my final payslip today, with £980 deducted for exam fees from the past two years. They've deducted this after tax, NI, student loan, etc. so my net pay is around £580 lower than I was anticipating. Should they have deducted it from my gross pay instead? That would have also saved them in employer NI, but I suppose if I had paid the fees myself directly it would have been from my net pay. |
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What do you lads do during your lunch breaks? I work in a small business park around 20 minutes away from the nearest shops and the company I work for is overzealous with the number of websites they block; even the likes of the BBC is unavailable. I can't spend the full hour just dicking around on my phone, it's going to drive me mental. |
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What's wrong with some lad reading Horus Heresy books? It's not exactly Tolstoy, but it's not that bad, is it? Or did you for the Games Workshop at one point? |
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I have to sit here and just watch my computer install updates. The first time I tried to let it happen unattended, I came back from the loo to find it just sitting at the FDE screen asking for credentials. The second time, I waited for the reboot, entered my credentials and went to grab a drink. I came back to find my desktop logged in and unlocked. |
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Brash women. I suppose it should be expected, working near Leeds, but fat Northern women, with their manly accents and talking brazenly about things like how they shat themselves a few years back. |
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I hate it when you get barracked for allegedly not sending something to a supervisor via email, perhaps CCing relevant staff, even though you sent it some time ago and they, and a CC recipient, specifically thanked you in a reply for sending it to them. This is further compounded when a CC recipient also denies that you actually did send something at all. |
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It is too cunting hot. |
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this is what hell feels like.jpg >>11327 |
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I appear to be the only person at work not watching Love Island. |
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That said, I do expect to start seeing more automation in fast food kitchens. I suspect there'll be a lot of grumbling, though, and possibly unrest / boycotts. |
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People who slice apples with knives at their desks. |
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In the bogs at work is two urinals and a cubicle. I went in today and my boss was at one of the urinals, he glanced around and saw me entering so I couldn't be a coward and slink off to the cubicle. I had to use the urinal next to me. He starts talking and I try to piss. Nothing. I strain and I worry if I try any harder I'll either shit myself, turn purple or my brain will try and exit out of my ears. He's pissing and talking for an inordinate length of time and it's clear there is no sound of piss hitting ceramic coming from the urinal in front of me. I'm just standing there like an idiot, straining and failing to piss whilst also trying to keep the conversation going. Eventually he leaves and the piss bursts out like a pressure hose. Two hours later and I've got ball ache, I'm sure they're related. |
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article-0-14253545000005DC-964_634x805.jpg >>11404 |
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aisleyne-horgan-wallace.jpg >>11407 |
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1415952225866_Image_galleryImage_THE_BLACK_EYED_PE.jpg >>11427 |
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YNt954lS_400x400.jpg >>11439 |
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I don't get how people can commute on the train. I had to go to Leeds for a seminar today and the train was heaving and I was stood near a man that absolutely stank; like a mixture of Quavers, wet clothes that have been left in the washing machine too long and how my Henry hoover smells if I'm using it when the bag's almost full. |
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>>11468 |
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>>11486 |
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Some autist/silly cunt has mixed all the earl grey that a few of us have been picking at sporadically in with the regular teabags because "all tea's the same, innit". |
>> | No. 11532
11532
There's a woman at work who always refers to people as "Hun". It drives me up the fucking wall. |
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>>11532 |
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>>11533 |
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"I'm going to save these password protected documents I've been sent by another company, but I'm not actually going to also save record of what the passwords actually are." |
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>>11533 |
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I'm glad I went out at the weekend to Marks and Sparks and bought some more short sleeved linen shirts. They are even allowing smart shorts n the office, so I bought some chino shorts as well. |
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11550
"Almost the entire company is out of the office on Friday for our biannual meet-up. We need to run an update on our servers, which will take 5 or 6 hours; instead of running this on an evening, weekend or when everyone is out on Friday we're going to start it at 9:30 tomorrow which will also be too short notice to prepare anything you won't need the computer system for." |
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R-419741-1454675353-7372.jpeg.jpg WE'RE GOING ON A JOURNEY. THE TENDERING JOURNEY. THE QUOTATION JOURNEY. THE APPLICATION JOURNEY. THE SUBMISSION JOURNEY. |
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Lads, do any of you ever wank in your office toilets? |
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I left my previous employer at the end of April. They still owe me about £200 in pension contributions. |
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>>11570 |
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>>11577 |
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Couple of things: |
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>>11582 |
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The amount of money to be given should be down to proximity/familiarity. Are they within 4 desks of you or do you regularly converse with them in person, email, slack etc. They get a tenner. |
>> | No. 11588
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Quite a lot of my department are middle class. |
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>>11590 |
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I know what you guys mean about feeling like these people are on another planet. I was in the last group of people who got into further and higher education with grant money. I didn't have to get a ridiculously large student loan and instead I got various bursaries. As such I came out of it with an education before a lot of universities let anyone who was willing to pay get in. |
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They can keep their planet. |
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>>11593 |
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11596
I accepted a job offer about 6 months ago, joining a relatively recently established team, and was explicitly told at the interview that they'd be looking for someone to head the team up down the line; that someone would be me but they couldn't offer me the job off the bat as I'd be new to the company and not familiar with the way they operate. I found out this week they've been interviewing a senior manager from a much larger competitor for the role and have been very impressed by him. |
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>>11595 |
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>>11597 |
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>>11597 |
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>>11599 |
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>>11600 |
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>>11598 |
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>>11602 |
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>>11603 |
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Cunts who think they are in charge when they're not. Cunts who are in charge but have no clue how to be. Cunts who are insufferable fat sacks of shit who need to make themselves feel better by meddling in the affairs of others. |
>> | No. 11632
11632
>>11588 here again. |
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>>11632 |
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>>11633 |
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>>11634 |
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>>11635 |
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11641
We're changing back office provider. I lost count of the amount of times I heard "new world" and "journey" during the WebEx training for it. |
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>>11636 |
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>>11642 |
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>>11643 |
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>>11646 |
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>>11647 |
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Lads, this is one of the few threads on here we try not to shit up with cunt-offs. Don't be cunts, now. |
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11651
>>11648 |
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>>11651 |
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11653
>>11650 |
>> | No. 11654
11654
Colleague: "My computers not working properly/is slow/etc." |
>> | No. 11658
11658
My team lead had the temerity to criticise me for browsing the web in the office while he's basically refusing to do parts of his own job. His manager's head is stuck in the clouds so naturally nothing will come of this either way. |
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>>11658 |
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11660
>>11659 |
>> | No. 11685
11685
"Hey anon can you do Task 1, it is very imporatant that we get it done as quickly as possible?" |
>> | No. 11788
11788
EVERYONE IS ILL AND THEY'RE ALL SPREADING THEIR GERMS. |
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11790
>>11788 |
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11791
>>11790 |
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>>11685 |
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11793
First day back lads. Absolutely fucked my sleeping pattern over my fortnight off, peaking with staying up till 8am one night, so today is going to be a long slog on little sleep, even though I'm not planning on doing too much hard work (Accounts Manager). |
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>>11792 |
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>>11797 |
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>>11799 |
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>>11800 |
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>>11802 |
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>>11803 |
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>>11805 |
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11807
Some of the best Excel videos are a series by Martin Shkreli - I think the one he does on eBay is particularly good. |
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>>11804 |
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>>11806 |
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>>11807 |
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>>11808 |
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>>11806 |
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>>11816 |
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>>11822 |
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>>11828 |
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>>11830 |
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>>11835 |
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>>11836 |
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>>11837 |
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11839
>>11837 |
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>>11839 |
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11841
The gents' at work only have one cube on each floor (400 people, 7 floors). I've just had to walk down three floors to find one that wasn't occupied. |
>> | No. 11842
11842
>>11836 |
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>>11842 |
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>>11842 |
>> | No. 11845
11845
Not sure if this is /101/ worthy but the cunting vending machine stole my money, this piece of shit never seems to work correctly. |
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11846
>>11845 |
>> | No. 11848
11848
Biscuits. Today the last of the biscuits from Christmas were eaten. At least that was the case until it turned out someone had hidden a tin especially for this scenario. |
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>>11848 |
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>>11849 |
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>>11849 |
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>>11850 |
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>>11851 |
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>>11854 |
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11856
>>11851 |
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11857
>>11856 |
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>>11856 |
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>>11857 |
>> | No. 11868
11868
s-l640.jpg >>11856 |
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>>11868 |
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>>11868 |
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>>11868 |
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>>11872 |
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>>11873 |
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>>11874 |
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>>11856 |
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>>11875 |
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>>11877 |
>> | No. 11879
11879
Now all we need is someone to blast the floor with piss and this discussion will be complete. |
>> | No. 11880
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>>11878 |
>> | No. 11881
11881
NEW-ONE-POUND-COIN.jpg >>11880 |
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>>11881 |
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>>11882 |
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>>11883 |
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>>11884 |
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>>11884 |
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>>11886 |
>> | No. 11888
11888
98% of job adverts read as "We want to hire someone who is already working in the EXACT same job doing the same things." |
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>>11888 |
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>>11889 |
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>>11856 |
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>>11892 |
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>>11896 |
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>>11897 |
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>>11898 |
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>>11899 |
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>>11900 |
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>>11898 |
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>>11856 |
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>>11856 |
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>>11856 |
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>>11911 |
>> | No. 11972
11972
Some utter twat had left their mobile on their desk with their ringer set obnoxiously loud. It's rung three times in the last 20 minutes. |
>> | No. 11973
11973
I've been tasked with training up an idiot. He's been at the company for over three years and he's still classed as a trainee; there's someone who was promoted into our team a few months ago and is already regarded as more competent than him. |
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>>11972 |
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>>11974 |
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>>11975 |
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>>11972 |
>> | No. 11998
11998
One of the young 'uns at work today said they'd never heard of U2 or Guns N' Roses. Is this what getting old is like? |
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11999
>>11998 |
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12000
>>11999 |
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12001
We had a kid doing some work experience with us this week, he was born in 2001. I remember when 2001 was the far future and we were going to have flying cars and personal jet packs. |
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>>11998 |
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>>12005 |
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>>12006 |
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>>12007 |
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>>12008 |
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>>12009 |
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>>12010 |
>> | No. 12021
12021
This isn't really a moan, I just wanted to share it: |
>> | No. 12022
12022
I've been referred to as a "techie whizz kid" this week because I showed someone how to add websites to their bookmarks bar. |
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>>12022 |
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>>12021 |
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>>12023 |
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>>12029 |
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>>12031 |
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6x-afa9458e602942a7da2ea258860b6289-Microsoft Wo.png >>12032 |
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>>12033 |
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>>12048 |
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>>12047 |
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12052
Dashboard. Everything's apparently a dashboard these days. Even opening a summary page on Excel has to be referred to as looking at a [topic] dashboard. It's driving me up the wall. |
>> | No. 12061
12061
>>12052 |
>> | No. 12062
12062
When I'm in charge of this country I'm going to outlaw GUIs and web apps in places of business, though I'll allow normal web use, so that only those with at least a rudimentary idea on how to google will still be useful to society. |
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>>12062 |
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>>12065 |
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>>12071 |
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>>12073 |
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12075
Just found out lads, wars over! There’s this hot new thing called windows. And get this! It is intuitive to use, and is compatible with 99.9% of software! |
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>>12073 |
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>>12085 |
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12088
Communal kitchens. |
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>>12087 |
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>>12086 |
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12091
>>12090 |
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>>12088 |
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12093
>>12091 |
>> | No. 12094
12094
I've had to play the fucking game of being in shit like the birthday club where you have to go a fiver in for some cunt you don't speak to lest I appear to be THE anti-social weirdo. |
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12095
>>12094 |
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>>12095 |
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12097
I keep having to go in meetings that I don't really need to be in. Normally I wouldn't mind, but my department is understaffed and we've got a ridiculous backlog at the minute. |
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>>12097 |
>> | No. 12099
12099
Just walked into the kitchen-cum-break room and some cad evidently thought it would be clever to set the climate control to 30C. |
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12100
>>12098 |
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12101
>>12099 |
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12111
I've got a former work colleague who keeps trying to connect with me. |
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>>12111 |
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>>12112 |
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>>12113 |
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>>12113 |
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>>12098 |
>> | No. 12178
12178
I've been completely sold down the river. I was allocated an urgent piece of work a fortnight ago but I didn't have the capacity to do it so I asked a colleague in another team if they could pick it up for me, to which they agreed. Boss comes back in from holiday today and chases me up about it; we go and ask the colleague together whether it's been completed but he just pulls a blank face and denies all knowledge of being asked to do it. Fuck sake. |
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>>12178 |
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>>12182 |
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12185
>>12182>>12184 |
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12186
>>12185 |
>> | No. 12188
12188
It's 2am. Do you know where your children are? I get called out because our system is throwing out alerts. I determine quickly that it's someone else's problem, and call them out. They conirm it's their problem and take over. At this point, I've got nothing more to do and want to get straight back to bed. Unfortunately, this thing isn't going to stop alerting until the other team have fixed things on their end. |
>> | No. 12189
12189
Are there any drugs that will allow me to complete basic typey-click office work but otherwise completely numb me to the whole experience? Even better if it can make 7.5 hours feel like 30 minutes. |
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>>12189 |
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12191
>>12190 |
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>>12191 |
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>>12191 |
>> | No. 12195
12195
Does anyone else feel like a bit of a fraud at work? |
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12196
>>12190 |
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>>12195 |
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12234
>>12197 |
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12235
>You are cordially invited to the Initech Christmas party, at $chain_club |
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>>12235 |
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>>12196 |
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>>12243 |
>> | No. 12246
12246
Scrolled past this thread so many times over the last few years. But workplace annoyances as a musician: |
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12247
>>12246 |
>> | No. 12248
12248
I realise this will come across as sexist, but certain women in a work capacity. |
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>>12248 |
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>>12253 |
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>>12255 |
>> | No. 12257
12257
I'M GOING TO SCAN THESE DOCUMENTS ON IN THE LOWEST RESOLUTION POSSIBLE AND THEN SHRED THE ORIGINALS. |
>> | No. 12258
12258
After a couple of slack months where I bid on a lot of work but didn't get to start any of it, it's all come in in the last week, and it's all urgent. It's all going to be late, the question is, in what order do I disappoint my customers? Aaargh. |
>> | No. 12259
12259
This is a very specific one, but chefs who try their hardest to fit the 'angry bastard' stereotype. They saw Ramsey do it in the 90s, in a Michelin star establishment owned by himself, so they reckon that now Zizzi are paying them 9.50 an hour they can do the same there. It's an embarrassment to the profession, and those that act like this aren't very good at the job anyway. Imagine your peers acting like petulant children and claiming it's part of the job, or even worse the 'culture'. You heat up soup for pensioners in Baisingstoke, for fuck's sake, what sort of workplace culture is that? |
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>>12259 |
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12261
>>12260 |
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>>12260>>12261 |
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12263
IMG_6795.jpg >>12262 |
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>>12263 |
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>>12263 |
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12266
>>12265 |
>> | No. 12267
12267
GUIDELINES, NOT TRAMLINES |
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12268
>>12266 |
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12269
>>12266 |
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>>12269 |
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>>12270 |
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>>12271 |
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>>12273 |
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>>12272 |
>> | No. 12278
12278
Well it should be self evident why. Who's going to eat at a money laundering front in Osset when a fiver's taxi ride will get you to the Brazillian carvery and the majesty of the Westgate run? |
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12279
>>12278 |
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12280
>>12278 |
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12281
>>12278 |
>> | No. 12315
12315
Got a job offer. Asked for more. Response was the same figure "with a review after 6 months". Admittedly they haven't yet got my date of birth, so maybe they aren't aware I wasn't born yesterday. |
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12317
>>12280 |
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>>12317 |
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>>12315 |
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>>12319 |
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>>12320 |
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12322
>>12317>>12318 |
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12323
>>12317 |
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12324
>>12323 |
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12325
>>12324 |
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12326
>>12319 |
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>>12318 |
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>>12322 |
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>>12322 |
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>>12330 |
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>>12328 |
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>>12331 |
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>>12328 |
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>>12339 |
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12341
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>>12335 |
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>>12332 |
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>>12344 |
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12346
>>12345 |
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12347
>>12345 |
>> | No. 12348
12348
I've been presented with a contract that has the Working Time opt-out written in directly with no separate signature, and also states that overtime is unpaid. Because I totally want to give my employer unlimited free labour. |
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12349
>>12348 |
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>>12344 |
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12351
>>12340 |
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12352
>>12347 |
>> | No. 12353
12353
fish.png >>12352 |
>> | No. 12354
12354
Listen, no cunt actually cares if it's cod, haddock, or pollock. Fish and chips is a working class meal and I find it offensive to the very core of my being that some wanker out there is making over a tenner for cooking the bloody chips twice. |
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12355
>>12354 |
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12356
>>12355 |
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12357
>>12356 |
>> | No. 12392
12392
There's absolutely no shade in the car park at work, which meant that my car was like a sauna. I could barely touch the steering wheel or gearstick because they were that hot and when I put my driving glasses on it felt like the frame was fusing to my head. |
>> | No. 12393
12393
Universal-Reflective-Car-Aluminum-foil-Windscreen-.jpg >>12392 |
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12395
>>12393 |
>> | No. 12396
12396
WARM DAY. |
>> | No. 12397
12397
I've been rocking up to work wearing chino shorts and linen shirts for the past month. The past couple of weeks I've even been wearing a pair of all black Vans,because wearing a pair of brogues with shorts doesn't look good. No one has said anything because there aren't any obvious logo and the one bright red "badge" on the heel got painted over with black acrylic paint. |
>> | No. 12425
12425
>>12392 |
>> | No. 12426
12426
We had a work experience lad in today and he couldn't even muster the fucking grace to at least pretend to be interested, and wouldn't pay attention to any of the instructions I gave him and assumed that as he'd been shown a similar process before, he knew all the software for this separate process, then fucked it up so I had to take the mouse off him and fix it every time. Fucking public school kid and all. Stupid haircut and those faded red chino shorts. Explains the massive sense of entitlement and complete faith in his own non-existent judgement. |
>> | No. 12427
12427
>>12425 |
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>>12426 |
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>>12428 |
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>>12426 |
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The company I work at has been tightening its policies/rules for about 1.5 years already. It's a shame really, I liked how liberal it was there on many grounds. Hell, it was one of the major reasons why I got in. |
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I've had a fortnight off and I've come back to find my calculator gone. I know it's petty to get annoyed about stationery, but the company only orders much cheaper and flimsier models now. |
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>>12485 |
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We've come in to work to the great Cheese and Ham scandal. |
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ARLbk8j.jpg >>12491 |
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>>12492 |
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People who overrun their meetings through poor time keeping then don't stop to check if anybody actually wants to eat at 12. 12 is sacrosanct eating hour fuck me. |
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>>12478 |
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>>12494 |
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Fuck offices. I'm going to work under the sea. |
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>>12498 |
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>>12487 |
>> | No. 12532
12532
Scrum (The software development thingy). It's being implemented at my work, and it all seems a bit wanky-bollocks to me. Loads of meetings, when I was want to be getting on with shit. |
>> | No. 12533
12533
We've had a new lad start and he's quiet. Really quiet. Now I'm fairly asocial and a bit awkward but he kills every conversation dead. Ask him if he had a nice weekend and you'll get a "fine, thanks" with no mention of what he did or asking you about your weekend. I know he's new and people take time to settle in but it's like drawing blood from a stone. |
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https://everything2.com/title/you+don%2527t+talk+much |
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12560
I'm finding it really hard to take a full hour for lunch at the minute. I've spent most of the past four months or so studying for an exam, where I'd spend twenty minutes eating or playing on my phone and the remaining forty reading textbooks. |
>> | No. 12561
12561
I work in quality assurance in manufacturing, smallish company, <100 employees. |
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12562
>>12560 |
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12567
The people with the keys to open up have overslept. |
>> | No. 12586
12586
We had two trainees, one was a smart lad who took his time to actually learn something and the other one was too dense to even pretend he wants a job. Guess who got told to bugger off. |
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>>12586 |
>> | No. 12590
12590
We've had someone new start this week and she is stunning. Really stunning. What's noticeable is that just about every single female in the office has upped their game; they're putting more effort into their hair and make-up and they're all wearing nicer clothes than usual. |
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>>12589 |
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>>12594 |
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12600
Someone came back from maternity about three months ago and all she ever talks about is her baby or her husband. I know barely anything about this person because she almost entirely chooses to define herself by being able to push a baby out. |
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>>12600 |
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12603
They've booked the Christmas do for a Saturday. A fucking Saturday. Fuck that. |
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>>12606 |
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12615
EVERYONE IS COUGHING AND SNEEZING, SPREADING THEIR GERMS. |
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12616
>>12615 |
>> | No. 12623
12623
They're having a charity bake sale at work this week. However, hardly anyone has baked anything and they've just brought in something they've got from the shops instead. They've also set the prices ridiculously high so barely anything is selling, either. |
>> | No. 12624
12624
I sit next to a woman in her late fifties and she doesn't maximise windows; if something doesn't open full screen automatically then she'll keep it as it is. I'll glance over and see her doing something like typing in Word with it only taking up about half the screen. |
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>>12624 |
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>>12625 |
>> | No. 12627
12627
I went out for a walk with a couple of people I supposedly work with and one of them gave me a cig (I don't smoke IRL). When we got back I threw the cig in the bin without fully stubbing it out properly and it caught fire. I kept soaking towels in the sink and throwing them on the fire but it wouldn't go out. I had to interview a couple of people for jobs in the afternoon and I had to tell each of them "don't mind the bins" and play it off like having a bin on fire in your place of work was one of the most natural things in the world. |
>> | No. 12628
12628
>>12627 |
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oh you!.jpg >>12627 |
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>>12631 |
>> | No. 12633
12633
>>12600 here again. |
>> | No. 12634
12634
>>12633Just be glad she doesn't bring the cretin in. |
>> | No. 12635
12635
They have sent an email saying that the hotel rooms for the christmas party must now be shared - you can pick your partner but if you don't then one will be picked for you. |
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>>12635 |
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12640
There is a lad who somehow thinks it's acceptable to utilise the frankly underpowered and shitty microwave in the staffroom for 10 minutes every lunchtime to bake a potato from scratch. Everyone else brings in leftovers that take, at best, 2 minutes of microwave time. All of our lunch breaks are only 30 minutes, so if anyone gets there after him they have to scarf down their food and get a burnt tongue simply because of his selfishness. |
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>>12640 |
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>>12640 |
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12643
s-l300.jpg It's faster to microwave a baked potato if you put in on a big plate with a small mixing bowl over it because then it gets nuked and steamed at the same time. |
>> | No. 12644
12644
I know people microwave potatoes to start them off, but I don't even know why you'd want to do it fully in a microwave. Wouldn't the skin be awful? |
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12645
>>12644 |
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12646
amaz.jpg >>12643 |
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12650
I tried air fryer chips, the way they suggested you make them, which is pre-microwave them, add a little oil, then put them in the air-fryer, and they just tasted like crappy reheated potatoes. You know that reheating-a-meal-after-it's-fully-gone-cold taste? It's not completely horrific but very distinctive. |
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>>12649 |
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>>12641 |
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12658
The macerator in the gent's toilets downstairs is fucked so we've commandeered the ladies' toilets upstairs. |
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12659
>>12658 |
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>>12659 |
>> | No. 12661
12661
I'd received an email today which was signed off reminding me that great people don't see problems, they see solutions. |
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>>12478>>12526 |
>> | No. 12667
12667
"How dark out is it? Horrible innit." |
>> | No. 12668
12668
>>4189 |
>> | No. 12717
12717
21730f06574ba3bc2042ae8da031862c.png The administration team at work are petrified of thinking for themselves. I had one of them approach me yesterday because they'd noticed an issue with something submitted to them. It turned out there were five separate issues with it and they came over five different times because it didn't occur to them once to review the entire thing to see if there was anything else wrong with it; every time they spotted an issue they just rushed over. I tried asking them a few basic things about each one and it was clear they hadn't even thought of doing even a bit of rudimentary digging around to see if there was background information which would mean the things they'd raised weren't even a problem. They have to be spoonfed absolutely everything. |
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12718
>>12717 |
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>> | No. 12729
12729
I've got an alright job to be honest, got promoted to the office manager for a medium family company, but I've just entered a permanent slump after a couple of years that I cannot seem to shake. |
>> | No. 12731
12731
>>12729 |
>> | No. 12733
12733
I am currently in the middle of the dull time of the year where my only work is doing the budget for next year. So all I've done is copy and paste last year's and check that none of the prices have changed. There's fuck all to do until about the end of February. So every day is just turn up to the office and kill 8 hours before going home. |
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>>12733 |
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>> | No. 12738
12738
I'd fucking kill to be able to get paid to sit on my arse for a few working weeks and do nothing. I didn't even get lunch breaks until I approached my thirties. |
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12739
>>12737 |
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>>12738 |
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>>12738 |
>> | No. 12742
12742
Thinking about it, it's quite interesting how this thread has evolved over the past seven and a half years. We've gone from moaning about our superiors and how clueless head office staff are to feeling like imposters because we've suddenly found ourselves in managerial positions, struggling to fill the working day out and moaning about how useless our administrators are. |
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>>12741 |
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>> | No. 12748
12748
When I first posted here I was a suicidal call centre drone. Now I'm a poorly paid and overworked NHS labrat. But at least I'm not suicidal. |
>> | No. 12749
12749
I think I posted this >>1802 |
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>>12749 |
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>> | No. 12755
12755
I’m nostalgic for those shitty workspace dividers they had 10 years ago that you can see in OP’s pic. They weren't perfect but now I keep locking eyes with the woman who sits opposite me and it's getting weird. It’s like when you lock eyes with someone on the train and she becomes your train-girlfreind. |
>> | No. 12758
12758
>>12755 |
>> | No. 12762
12762
EVERYONE KEEPS SNEEZING AND NOW I'M SNEEZING AND MY NOSE IS RUNNING. |
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12763
>>12762 |
>> | No. 12765
12765
This is the first December I'm self employed and it's only just dawned on me that I don't have to do secret santa, thank fuck. It also dissuades me from ever expanding my business as I never want to have to do it again. |
>> | No. 12766
12766
Untitled.png As the new guy I didn't really have a choice when it came to the team Christmas dinner/lunch. Can't be doing with being anymore anti-social even if I do end up with nobody to talk to. |
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12767
>>12766 |
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>>12766 |
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12770
>>12767>>12769 |
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>>12767 |
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12772
mechoui-slow-roasted-lamb-teaser-recipe-image.jpg >>12766 |
>> | No. 12784
12784
This afternoon's topic: Why Tommy Robinson should be Prime Minister. |
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12790
I've had a few pints at lunch and I'm finding it really hard to stay awake, nevermind actually doing any work. |
>> | No. 12791
12791
I realise this will sound like 'whining about millennials' but there is something about people around the age of twenty where they don't seem capable of entirely thinking through what they're doing and keeping other people informed if what they're doing affects them. |
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>>12791 |
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>>12791 |
>> | No. 12794
12794
I realise this will sound like 'whining about boomers' but there is something about people around the age of thirty five plus where they don't seem capable of entirely thinking about any perspective other than their own and thinking about how not every action revolves around them. |
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>>12794 |
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12797
Found in a job spec: |
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>>12796 |
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>>12797 |
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>>12797 |
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>>12799 |
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>>12799 |
>> | No. 12803
12803
Leaving cards that get sent around for everyone to sign. In itself it's pretty moronic but somehow you still have to do it even when you don't really know nor like them. I don't mean to sound like an 'orrible old git but it's one of those stupid traditions that I'm not sure anyone really enjoys but you have do it anyway. |
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>>12803 |
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>>12804 |
>> | No. 12806
12806
I really don't understand the point of the collection. Cash is the shittiest, most soul-less, least intimate present possible. |
>> | No. 12829
12829
I work with someone who won't put a comma in for four figure numbers but will do for five figure numbers and above; he'd write 5000 and 50,000 but never 5,000. |
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>>12829 |
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>>12829 |
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>>12830 |
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>>12833 |
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12841
>>12533>>12537 here again. |
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12842
>>12841 |
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12843
Today I went home at 13:30 and went to bed. Not for any good reason, I just felt like it. |
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12846
>>12841 |
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>>12841 |
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>>12846>>12853 |
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>>12854 |
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>>12856 |
>> | No. 12859
12859
I hate the majority of people and I can’t stand listening to the inane things they say for small talk especially in a forced environment like work, but even I say goodbye. |
>> | No. 12860
12860
>>12858 |
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12861
>>12856>>12857 |
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12862
>>12861 |
>> | No. 12863
12863
Surely if finishing time is the same time every day there's no functional reason to say goodbye to anyone. I also can't really imagine waddling around the office saying goodbye to everyone as if it was the last day of school. If someone's in my eyeline as I leave they might get a wave or a see you later but otherwise, no. |
>> | No. 12864
12864
>>12863 |
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12865
>>12861 |
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>>12860 |
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>>12863 |
>> | No. 12868
12868
He said 'have a nice weekend, guys' when he left today. Who the fuck does he think he is, making me feel obligated to wish him one back whilst I'm trying to crack on with my own work? It's a slippery slope from here on in; he'll spend next week droning on about how the training is going on for his Three Peaks Challenge, the benefits of his high protein instant chilli con carne pots or trying to pressure us into doing a work tough mudder now that he's revealed his true colours as someone who acknowledges his colleagues when he leaves for the day. |
>> | No. 12869
12869
Still waiting for my P45, I reckon I won't even get it. I'm sure if I phone up they'll say it's in the post. |
>> | No. 12871
12871
whythough.png Not my workplace, but this sort of shit really makes me despair. I know they're just trying to be cute and funny but it just reminds me of massive corporations like Innocent Smoothies who pretend to be your friend and write wacky jokes on their bottles. It's decidedly not what I want when working with a business. I want to learn about your company, not get second hand embarrassment for you. |
>> | No. 12872
12872
>>12871 |
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>>12869 |
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>>12871 |
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>>12877 |
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12880
bird.jpg >>12879 |
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12881
>>12880 |
>> | No. 12889
12889
People who rarely use their email signature so it's a massive pain in the arse when you try to look up their phone number. |
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>>12889 |
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>>12893 |
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>>12895 |
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12897
300px-MagrittePipe.jpg >>12896 |
>> | No. 12909
12909
The cleaner at work needs better fitting jeans; every time she bends over her big fat arse crack is on show. |
>> | No. 12910
12910
>>12909 |
>> | No. 12911
12911
Work thoughts bubbling up when I'm in my own time. This week has been stressful but I'm not being paid to plan at home and it's interfering with my personal life if I can't switch off and wind down. |
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12912
>>12911 |
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>>12924 |
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12927
oooooooh.jpg >>12923 >>12924 >>12925 >>12926 |
>> | No. 12928
12928
Yesterday someone sent a joke email around most of the office because someone left their computer unlocked. |
>> | No. 12929
12929
>>12924 |
>> | No. 12930
12930
Each day the sub-department I work at issues a pack of work orders to be done over the course of the day. There are three of us on the shift usually, with the all basic checks it takes about 10 to 25 minutes to finish it depending on how many orders there are. |
>> | No. 12931
12931
Two separate grumbles from today:- |
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12933
>>12931 |
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12934
>>12923 |
>> | No. 12935
12935
Someone at my work seriously and unironically wants us to do a tough mudder. It costs £38 to participate. Someone's put a poster up next to it for a night out in town the same weekend. |
>> | No. 12936
12936
>>12934 |
>> | No. 12937
12937
Anyone who feels the need to copy in a number of people, usually senior management and directors, on an email to an individual just for the sake of being a cunt. |
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12938
>>12937 |
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>>12938 |
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>>12939 |
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>>12938>>12939>>12940 |
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>>12941 |
>> | No. 12957
12957
I'm filling in an online application form. I'm invited to use the details from my previous application so I don't have to fill out the boring stuff again. It managed to transfer the reference contact details and nothing else. |
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12962
>>12957 |
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12963
>>12957>>12962 |
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>>12962 |
>> | No. 12965
12965
I started a new job where all my supervisors are significantly younger than me and it depresses me. They're all really nice and quite relaxed with the rules (employee handbook says no phones on shop floor, young supervisors encourage me to go on my phone to entertain myself in quiet periods; not meant to have break on short shifts but they give me 15 minutes paid break during short shifts), so I have no reason to complain, but I just feel like such a loser being lead by people younger than me. |
>> | No. 12966
12966
There's this lazy fat woman at work who is always throwing sickies or doing fuck all when she actually is in work, which she usually does wrong, but management are shit-scared to do anything about it because her husband is a HR manager; every time she is off sick she emails her line manager and also copies him in. I get the impression she's hoping they will sack her for gross incompetence because she wants to try and sue for unfair dismissal. |
>> | No. 12967
12967
cardiff-activity.jpg Corporate away days. For fucks sake, why can't I just go to work? |
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12968
>>12967 |
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12995
>>12967 |
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13027
>>12995 |
>> | No. 13047
13047
I identified a problem with a clients EPOS months ago and they appeared to take it seriously but never actually did anything about it - I just got a panicked email about exactly that and they've worked out the thing I predicted would happen has absolutely been happening. Some people are beyond help aren't they? |
>> | No. 13048
13048
anybody else here an eternal neet? |
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13049
>>13048 |
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>>13049 |
>> | No. 13051
13051
A recurring theme across every office I work in is no matter where I choose to sit somebody will then start trying to sit in that place. |
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13052
>>13051 |
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13053
>>13051 |
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>>13051 |
>> | No. 13055
13055
I'M GOING TO USE THE LAST OF THE WATER IN THE COOLER BUT I'M NOT GOING TO REPLACE THE EMPTY BOTTLE. |
>> | No. 13056
13056
>>13054 |
>> | No. 13057
13057
This is food service so a horrible nightmare of overwork is to be expected, but it still gets on my tits when I get handed all the pans from the front, 10 minutes before closing the shop, and someone deigns to visit the one-man kitchen 5 minutes later to figure out why I'm taking so long. |
>> | No. 13058
13058
>>13057 |
>> | No. 13060
13060
These days I often find I get hunger pangs in the morning sometime around 10 or 11. It probably wouldn't matter so much if I was doing an early shift but I don't have to be in until 10 and can't exactly go to lunch an hour after I get in. |
>> | No. 13061
13061
>>13060 |
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13062
>>13049 |
>> | No. 13063
13063
I've found myself in the middle of a shitstorm where something has gone wrong; nobody is taking responsibility for it and they're blaming others people for it. I'm finding it really, really hard to give a shit about it but they won't stop going on. |
>> | No. 13064
13064
>>13063 |
>> | No. 13065
13065
"I don't shop around for the cheapest petrol because I always put a tenner in wherever I go." |
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13066
>>13065 |
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13067
>>13066 |
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13068
>>13067 |
>> | No. 13069
13069
I'm starting to worry that I am becoming the workplace annoyance. Apart from someone being a bit of an overly judgemental cow whilst also being quite incompetent at her own job I don't really have any complaints. |
>> | No. 13070
13070
>>13069 |
>> | No. 13071
13071
There is this cunt who's onto fucking up the schedule for everyone. Yesterday he literally exploded, hysterically yelling that the March schedule is utter shite - after about 2/3 of March has passed, right. He then proceeded with 'correcting' it - which ironically included putting additional workdays for everyone except himself. After being told to fuck off with that by everybody else he decided to fiddle with the April schedule and made a 'better' version - again, with more workdays added. |
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>>13071 |
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>>13071 |
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>>13073 |
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>>13073 |
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13076
More kitchen complaints. |
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13077
>>13076 |
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13078
>>13077 |
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13079
>>13076 |
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>>13079 |
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13081
>>13079 |
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13082
>>13076 >>13077 >>13078 >>13079 >>13081 |
>> | No. 13083
13083
I can't work out if the fat kid at work vaguely smells of piss or vaguely smells of popcorn. |
>> | No. 13084
13084
>>13083 |
>> | No. 13108
13108
Someone sincerely talked about "being good corporate citizens of [our employer]" today. I know it kind of was a business strategy meaning, but that doesn't mean you've got to use language like that. |
>> | No. 13109
13109
>>13108 |
>> | No. 13110
13110
THERE'S A WASP IN THE OFFICE. BETTER STARE AT IT AND COMMENT ABOUT IT FOR HALF AN HOUR. |
>> | No. 13112
13112
>>13110 |
>> | No. 13116
13116
I genuinely think my colleagues are great and I really like them but it does annoy me when people say I won't be able to eat as much as I do and stay trim when my metabolism catches up like theirs, conveniently forgetting I run several miles several times a week and hit the gym. |
>> | No. 13117
13117
I hate how workplaces all say they have a subsidised canteen but in reality you end up paying out the arse for a very limited choice. Of course, the moment they do have something good there is a queue out the door and you have to spend your lunch in line. |
>> | No. 13118
13118
>>13117 |
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13119
>>13117 |
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13120
>>13118 |
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13121
>>13118 |
>> | No. 13122
13122
I recently jumped head first into a new career in a new industry. I still have a business ticking over in the old industry (cheflad) and I've not felt so engaged in my work in a long time, and have very obvious potential to climb the ladder here quickly. The annoyance is that all my new colleagues don't understand why I've done what I've done and clearly think I'm mental. I don't think I can take hearing "eh? but why?" many more times, let alone the looks of bewilderment I get when I explain I just got bored of my old job. I wish I'd just told everyone I'd been on the dole for fifteen years. |
>> | No. 13123
13123
Tomorrow at about 11am I will do what i always do and dive into a 100% fruit/nut bar as a healthy way to stave off my hunger cravings until lunch. |
>> | No. 13124
13124
>>13123 |
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13125
>>13123 |
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13126
>>13123 |
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13127
>>13124 |
>> | No. 13128
13128
There's a woman who constantly takes up about a fifth of the fridge because she'll bring in a massive bag for life full of food to sustain her during the three days per week she actually works. For some reason, I'm assuming because she's elderly and has been here longer than anyone else, most people see this as one of the 'cute' things she does. |
>> | No. 13424
13424
MODS = GODS |
>> | No. 13425
13425
Christ, has it really been over a year since this thread was locked? The days drag on, but the years fly by. |
>> | No. 13426
13426
Someone is retiring at the end of next month. Due to covid the person organising the presents has sent an email round saying if you want to contribute let her know and she'll send you her bank details. She didn't Bcc that email so everyone who is contributing knows who isn't, which has led to an almighty shitstorm. |
>> | No. 13427
13427
Somehow, in a highly technical department where at least 10% of people have PhDs in STEM fields, and most are at least Master's level educated, some people still cannot tell the difference between the "Reply" and "Reply All" buttons. |
>> | No. 13429
13429
>>13427 |
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13430
>>13427 |
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13431
>>13427 |
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13432
>>13426 |
>> | No. 13433
13433
My colleagues are all screaming self defecating retards. |
>> | No. 13435
13435
>>13433 |
>> | No. 13437
13437
Three day weekends make a huge difference to my quality of life. Like the other lad says, doing all your little jobs, takinga day to get into the weekend all helps massively. |
>> | No. 13438
13438
>>13433 |
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13439
>>13433 |
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13440
>>13434 |
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13441
>>13440 |
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13442
>>13441 |
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13443
>>13442 |
>> | No. 13451
13451
Regularly having to have meetings on MS Teams with someone pushing 60 who repeatedly clicks the screen share button but doesn't select which screen he wants to share and then complains it isn't working. |
>> | No. 13452
13452
Anyone who prints out a PDF, scans in the printout and then saves that to the system instead of the original document. |
>> | No. 13453
13453
>>13452 |
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13454
>>13453 |
>> | No. 13455
13455
>>13454 I've seen this too, too many times. |
>> | No. 13456
13456
>>It's always scanned in at a ridiculously low quality too. |
>> | No. 13457
13457
>>13456 |
>> | No. 13458
13458
Rich-Black-vs-True-Black-in-Large-Format-Printing-.png >>13457 |
>> | No. 13459
13459
>>13458 A chap could get quite cynical given the price of toner. |
>> | No. 13460
13460
>>13458 |
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13461
>>13460 |
>> | No. 13462
13462
>>13459 |
>> | No. 13463
13463
>>13461 |
>> | No. 13477
13477
Being in a Slack channel with people who aren't fully computer literate. |
>> | No. 13478
13478
>>13477 |
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13479
>>13477 |
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13480
>>13477 |
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13486
>>13480 |
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>>13480 |
>> | No. 13488
13488
5409_500.jpg >>13487 |
>> | No. 13489
13489
fellowkids.jpg >>13488 |
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13490
>>13489 |
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13491
>>13489 |
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13492
>>13489 |
>> | No. 13493
13493
I've been on one of these "reverse job search" sites for almost 6 weeks and haven't had a single approach. I'm starting to think that maybe they're just data harvesting exercises. |
>> | No. 13494
13494
I'm not entirely sure if this is a workplace annoyance or not. At work you used to be responsible for managing your own workload but they changed this about a month back so that now everyone gets their cases allocated for them on a weekly basis, including a timescale of how long each case should take depending on its complexity. |
>> | No. 13495
13495
>>13494 |
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13496
>>13495 |
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13497
>>13495 |
>> | No. 13511
13511
We've got a new email signature at work. I've had to remotely help six people update theirs because they were struggling with copy and pasting the template and then adding in their personal details, despite the fact they'd been provided with a PDF document showing how to do it step-by-step. One of them had spent over an hour and a half on it and it was still wrong. Another managed to save her Hotmail address rather than her work email. I do not work in the IT department. |
>> | No. 13512
13512
>>13511 |
>> | No. 13529
13529
Management always schedule IT upgrades to be done during work hours. It's alright dealing with downtime whilst at home but I can't see how stopping dozens of people from being able to really get on with anything is more cost effective than paying the IT guys a bit of overtime to do it in the evening. |
>> | No. 13530
13530
>>13529 |
>> | No. 13531
13531
>>13530 |
>> | No. 13532
13532
There's someone in my team who just absolutely loves the sound of their own voice; it's not just that they will ramble on, they'll actively find excuses to ramble on and on and on, spending 20 minutes to make a 30 second point. |
>> | No. 13533
13533
>>13512 |
>> | No. 13534
13534
>>13532 Just talk over the fucker. Nobody will complain. |
>> | No. 13554
13554
A couple of people I was quite close with have left my employer fairly recently. I know the dynamics within a team change as people come and go but I'm feeling a little bit bored and isolated; I kept in contact with these two while we're working from home far more than anyone else. |
>> | No. 13555
13555
>>13554 |
>> | No. 13556
13556
>>13554 |
>> | No. 13557
13557
>>13555 |
>> | No. 13558
13558
Unsolicited political discussions. Particularly ones that begin with "If Biden wins that'll be the end of free speech as we know it." |
>> | No. 13559
13559
>>13558 |
>> | No. 13560
13560
>>13559 |
>> | No. 13561
13561
Annotation 2020-11-05 175647.jpg >>13560 |
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13562
>>13561 |
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13563
>>13560 |
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13564
>>13563 |
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13565
>>13558 |
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13566
>>13563 |
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13567
>>13563 |
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13568
>>13567 |
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13569
>>13567 |
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13570
>>13567 |
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13571
>>13567 |
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13572
>>13569 |
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13573
>>13572 |
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13574
>>13572 |
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13575
>>13574 |
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13576
>>13575 |
>> | No. 13577
13577
HcuZIT5w8xJLMXoISDexG1GNz5Dj7xHO_QGeueMtdPU.jpg >>13574 |
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13578
>>13574 |
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13579
>>13576 |
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13580
>>13575 |
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13581
>>13580 |
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13582
>>13580 |
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13583
>>13580 |
>> | No. 13584
13584
>>13558 here again. |
>> | No. 13585
13585
>>13584 |
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13586
>>13581 |
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13587
>>13585 |
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13588
>>13586 |
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13589
>>13584 |
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13590
>>13589 |
>> | No. 13591
13591
Lads I'm at my fucking tether's end. |
>> | No. 13592
13592
>>13591 |
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13593
>>13592 |
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13594
>>13591 |
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13595
>>13594 |
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13596
>>13591 |
>> | No. 13597
13597
The sun has been getting on my tits this week, which I'm assuming is due to it being at a lower angle. It's either too dark in my home office or it's glaringly bright; there's very little middle ground. |
>> | No. 13640
13640
>>13597 |
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13641
>>13640 |
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13642
>>13641 |
>> | No. 13672
13672
I don't want to go back to work today. |
>> | No. 13673
13673
>>13672 |
>> | No. 13674
13674
>>13673 |
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13675
>>13672 |
>> | No. 13676
13676
Good job I'm off for another week, otherwise I'd've been quite late starting this |
>> | No. 13677
13677
>>13676 |
>> | No. 13691
13691
I was mildly rebuked today. I did a bit of work for someone last week, a bit of a favour as it's not my remit but this sort of thing tends to come my way because I'm seen as one of the most technical people in the company. The person I did the work for didn't actually do anything with it, which apparently is partially my fault as they're in senior management so I should have chased them up because of how busy they are. Nevermind the fact I had no way of knowing what happened next after my work was done as I have no further involvement in it and it's not like I have other things to do, like my actual job, and just sit there twiddling my thumbs instead. |
>> | No. 13692
13692
I've been rewatching the Office US during the lockdown and I love it so much. |
>> | No. 13693
13693
There's got to be something particular to the promotion chain from staff nurse through to matrons and sisters in a hospital that selects for the most absolute fucking bellends you can possibly imagine. The Karen meme fits nobody better. |
>> | No. 13694
13694
I've just been training a ~23 year old over Teams whilst they shared their screen with me. I don't think he knew a single keyboard shortcut; watching him slowly click copy and then slowly click paste was eating me up inside. |
>> | No. 13695
13695
>>13694 |
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13696
>>13694 |
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>>13694 |
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13698
>>13696 |
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13699
>>13694 |
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13700
>>13699 |
>> | No. 13701
13701
I can touch type, but I can't sit in a chair in a sensible way so it makes the typing bit that much harder. |
>> | No. 13702
13702
>>13700 |
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13703
>>13702 |
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>>13702 |
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13705
>>13704 |
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13706
>>13703 |
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13707
>>13706 |
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13708
>>13704 |
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13709
>>13708 |
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13710
>>13708 |
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13711
>>13707 |
>> | No. 13712
13712
I've suddenly got a terrible feeling that I spoke with someone yesterday, possibly even the day before, and said I'd drop them an email so they had my contact details in case they needed them. There's around a dozen people that could have been so I guess I'll just have to email them all in the morning. |
>> | No. 13713
13713
>>13712 |
>> | No. 13715
13715
Like any true British worker I clock in and leave on the dot. I don't really like working hard before 1130 either which is about when I have my coffee. Fortunately I have professional skills and tend to know how the system/office works so I get away with it. |
>> | No. 13716
13716
>>13715 |
>> | No. 13717
13717
>>13715 |
>> | No. 13718
13718
Back in the days when I worked in an office instead of at home I used to be in by by 8 and out for 4:30. The first 2 hours were spent drinking coffee and checking/replying to emails. If I didn't have a meeting to attend to I could bugger off out to do site visits for a few hours before idling at my desk until clocking out. |
>> | No. 13719
13719
Pretty much every place I've worked at have always had the hump with me leaving on time. |
>> | No. 13720
13720
>>13719 |
>> | No. 13721
13721
>>13719 |
>> | No. 13722
13722
>>13721 |
>> | No. 13723
13723
I've been on flexi for a while as have the rest of my team and my manager. As long as the work gets done and gets done, no one cares. WFH is even better, answer a few emails/Team messages via my phone whilst in bed, have a slow start and sit down at my desk for about 11:30am, do things around the house as I get bits of work done, eat and then finish about 7:30ish with everything done (including housework and dinner), drink, read and write into the evening, watch a film and fall asleep. Pretty comfy life. Can't remember the last time I wore more than a t-shirt and boxer shorts. I do not miss my old 'proper' job, having to wear shirt and trousers everyday, 9 - 5 - fuck that. Works for some, not for me. |
>> | No. 13763
13763
Everyone seems to be in a whiny mood today. There's been an hour long bitch on Teams over something not working properly, which could have been quickly nipped in the bud if any of them decided to try and get it resolved themselves. |
>> | No. 13764
13764
>>13763 |
>> | No. 13765
13765
>>13764 |
>> | No. 13766
13766
I keep hearing the Microsoft Teams dial tone even when my computer is off and I'm not working. |
>> | No. 13767
13767
>>13766 |
>> | No. 13769
13769
Anyone else find that your nose will run when you're speaking on a videocall? It's very distracting. |
>> | No. 13770
13770
>>13769 |
>> | No. 13771
13771
>>13770 |
>> | No. 13783
13783
A company-wide email has gone out saying they're concerned that people haven't taken enough leave yet and they want to avoid too many being off at the same time by... making everyone take 50% of their entitlement by the end of June, so shitloads of people will be taking at least a couple of weeks off in the next two months or so. |
>> | No. 13784
13784
I could've sworn that in the beforetime there was a rule that you wouldn't assign people more work on Friday. It's not like I'm going to do it today so I'm just going to have it hanging over me all weekend when in reality I would've been happier learning Monday morning when I'm in need of direction. |
>> | No. 13785
13785
>>13784 |
>> | No. 13786
13786
>>13784 |
>> | No. 13787
13787
More info about when an employer can and can't make you take leave here: https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights/booking-time-off- |
>> | No. 13788
13788
I popped into the office earlier to drop something off, the second time I've visited since March last year. I didn't recognise at least half the people as there's been a fair bit of turnover in the admin departments so I expect the atmosphere will be completely different when everyone is back in. |
>> | No. 13789
13789
>>13788 |
>> | No. 13800
13800
>West Midlands Trains emailed about 2,500 employees with a message saying its managing director, Julian Edwards, wanted to thank them for their hard work over the past year under Covid-19. The email said they would get a one-off payment as a thank you after “huge strain was placed upon a large number of our workforce”. |
>> | No. 13801
13801
>>13800 |
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13802
>>13800>>13801 |
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13803
>>13800 |
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13804
>>13802 |
>> | No. 13805
13805
You can't mute audio shared through Zoom without muting the whole application, so if someone wants to blast shit music there's little you can do about it. For fuck's sake. |
>> | No. 13806
13806
>>13804 |
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13807
>>13804 |
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13808
>>13807 |
>> | No. 13809
13809
My Teams notifications are still going off. I get that they don't expect me to answer until the morning but this feels like asking someone to do a task on a Friday afternoon that's not due until Wednesday. |
>> | No. 13810
13810
>>13809 |
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13811
>>13810 |
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13812
>>13811 |
>> | No. 13815
13815
Just checked the rotas for June/July and I've been put down for four weekends in a fucking row. Seething. |
>> | No. 13816
13816
>>13815 |
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13817
>>13816 |
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13818
>>13817 |
>> | No. 13819
13819
90 day passwords for admin functions. That cannot be the same as the last 3 entries. That must include capitalisation, a number, a symbol, be 9 letters long ad nauseam. And then if you get the password wrong 3 times you will of course be locked out and have an absolute ball-ache getting let back in. |
>> | No. 13873
13873
>>13819 |
>> | No. 13874
13874
>>13815 |
>> | No. 13875
13875
People putting preferred pronouns on their email and yes I get why they're doing it but this seems a bit daft. The more people do it, the more pressure I have to spend 5 minutes doing my signature for absolutely no benefit - a form of workplace assault. |
>> | No. 13876
13876
Has there ever been a workplace that hasn't faced chronic understaffing, what's that like? |
>> | No. 13877
13877
My workplace cannot make up their mind when it comes to IT. We've got more than one shared server for storing files, our institution subscribes to Box, and we use Office365 for email so we have access to quite a lot of storage on OneDrive, but there is no consensus on which one we should be using. For VoIP/teleconferencing, we had been using BlueJeans for a long time, then were pushed towards Teams to handle our scheduling and meetings and to have more fluid interactions during Covid, now we're being pushed towards Slack, which is just... Teams again? |
>> | No. 13878
13878
>>13876 |
>> | No. 13900
13900
I'm just finishing employment with a company and I'll be paid a few days leave in lieu in my last wage. Standard annual leave is 22 days plus 1 day which has to be taken off at Christmas, so 23 days. When they're working out how many days I'm owed they're basing it off the 22 days for the year rather than the 23, which is just enough for them to pay me one day less in lieu. That doesn't seem right to me. |
>> | No. 13901
13901
>>13900 |
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13902
>>13901 |
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13903
>>13902 |
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13905
>>13903 |
>> | No. 13909
13909
We've had a graduate start fairly recently and he's completely insufferable. I don't think I've ever met a bigger brown-noser in my life. If everyone was still in the office then he'd have had the piss taken out of him mercilessly, which would have taken him down a peg or two but unfortunately that hasn't happened yet. |
>> | No. 13910
13910
>>13909 |
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13911
>>13910 |
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13912
>>13911 |
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13913
>>13912 |
>> | No. 13922
13922
Job vacancies when they have an internal candidate in mind but have to go through the motions of advertising it externally and interviewing for it. |
>> | No. 13923
13923
>>13922 |
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13924
>>13923 |
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13925
>>13923 |
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13926
>>13925 |
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13927
>>13925 |
>> | No. 13928
13928
2mnsv7k895t41.png >>13927 |
>> | No. 13929
13929
lnkd.jpg LinkedIn. |
>> | No. 13930
13930
>>13929 |
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13931
>>13929 |
>> | No. 13932
13932
I'm on a salary and I don't get paid enough to to be in work for 5am. If I was working at that time you would be sure that I would be done by 1pm. |
>> | No. 13933
13933
>>13932 |
>> | No. 13934
13934
>>13933 |
>> | No. 13935
13935
I don't get the joke, what's wrong with wanting to better yourself? |
>> | No. 13936
13936
>>13935 |
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13937
>>13935 |
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13938
>>13937 |
>> | No. 13939
13939
Getting up at half-three is only impressive if you went to bed at midnight. |
>> | No. 13940
13940
>>13939 |
>> | No. 13941
13941
>>13924 |
>> | No. 13942
13942
I think I got tricked into a not so great job. The role I applied for has been job shared between four people, and most of my work has been doing a more demanding role in a different part of the organisation. Also zero hours contract so very much underemployed. All because I can't handle full time work. |
>> | No. 13943
13943
>>13942 |
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13944
>>13941 |
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13945
>>13944 |
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13946
>>13945 |
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13947
>>13941 |
>> | No. 13948
13948
Never apply for anything that needs you to do a test or presentation. I have recruiters getting in contact and selling me some shit role, and when they say "test," or "presentation" - I tell them to do one. I am not going to spend 3 hours trying to convince someone to hire me, and it has worked out great so far. |
>> | No. 13949
13949
>>13948 |
>> | No. 13950
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They've introduced a new online rostering portal in an attempt to streamline the whole process. But they've decided not to give individual departments/shift leaders access to the supervisor view on the portal, meaning the process is that one person at each base plans the roster for every department, inputs it into the portal, but then also copies that information into an excel doc that then serves as the roster for each department for their allocating. |
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I'm having a well-earned lull in my work this afternoon but Teams keeps moving me to an 'Away' status. The paperclip in the insert key trick doesn't seem to work anymore, instead the AI picks up when you're idle. |
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122211455_3433025156776296_8744520676152139382_n.jpg I'm still working from home but I've been copied in on the email chain (and associated drama) because SOMEONE HAS BEEN TAKING THE CHARITY BAGS OF SWEETS WITHOUT PAYING FOR THEM. |
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D6pL7puXYAAmJCt.jpg What exactly is the appeal of Steve Wright? |
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There used to be a Hooters in the Bull Ring in Birmingham around 20 years ago. It looked a bit grim from the outside, none of the girls working looked particularly happy. Compared to the one time I went to one in the States, it was night and day. |
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https://suburbanturmoil.com/sport-clips-the-hooters-of-hair-2/2010/02/10/ |
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I'm just coming back to point out that right this very moment (09:00-11:00), ITV3 is showing Carry On Follow That Camel, the one which bizarrely has Phil Silvers in it. I'm watching it and it's all over the place, with hilarious jokes followed by utter atrocities. And yes, it is politically unrepeatable. |
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>In early 2009, Carry On London or Carry On Bananas was once again 'back on', with Charlie Higson attached as director, and a different, more modern, cast list involving Paul O'Grady (as the acidic Kenneth Williamsesque character), Jynine James, Lenny Henry, Justin Lee Collins, Jennifer Ellison (as the saucy Barbara Windsor type), Liza Tarbuck (paralleling Hattie Jacques), Meera Syal, James Dreyfus, and Frank Skinner (filling in the Sid James role). Despite new media interest and sets being constructed at Pinewood film studios, the film once again was put on hold, and the project was abandoned after the death of Peter Rogers in April 2009. |
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I've been working in a snack factory for about two months now and I'm impressed that their workers on the primary production machinery consist of 3 longer term employees, myself and one other new guy...that just quit. |
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I'm a health and social care job on a zero hour contract. I'm underemployed, but that isn't what bothers me. What bothers me is that there isn't a rota, it's all very ad-hoc. A client messaged me today asking why I didn't call them, but nobody in my organization told me I was meant to be ringing them today. I feel bad for the clients - when you're needing regular care, you don't want to be doing it with an organization that just doesn't turn up because communication is piss poor. |
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Someone on one of the shared email accounts keeps subscribing to that Cortana daily digest thing. |
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I'm helping out on a recruitment campaign at the moment and yet again that I'm having to intervene to make sure people get a fair shake. It's difficult for me to grasp at times that concepts like transferable skills, demonstrated initiative and even hiring someone on a promotion is a revolutionary concept. The worst part of it all is how you see the people you work with who talk a game about doing right but absolutely do not do it when it comes to themselves. |
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In a couple of weeks most of the company will be going back to the office, but on a rota where it's 2/3 days the first week and 3/2 days the second week. Everyone affected has to return all equipment they took with them when we started working from home last year, but will be given an 'extremely generous' taxable payment of £150 to buy a new computer for the days they will be working from home. |
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Found out with 1.5 hours notice that I have to see a client. I'm drunk already, so I'm going to have to mask my pissed state so as to not give a bad impression for the client. |
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My work laptop's battery has died which I wouldn't mind but it keeps popping up that I'm on low battery. I can get the laptop replaced but now I need to mess about sorting all the files sitting on my desktop onto the cloud because I can't just use a USB. It's going to take ages because you know how it is with random pdfs and the like being downloaded and then forgotten. In the mess there's stuff I probably shouldn't delete and might even one day need. |
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They've cancelled the Christmas party this year, with the aforementioned rota system the justification for this. Anyway, someone has organised an unofficial pissup in December via WhatsApp and just about the entire company has been added to the group. Some of the directors have been added and they've said they'll come along; I think it's gone over their heads that part of the group's existence is to take the piss out of the fact that they're refusing to organise (and pay for) an official one. |
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My "boss" has been trying to organize an hour of "fun" for about 6 months now but staff changes and remote work attempts have "sadly scuppered the plans". |
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I went to Morrisons to get a salad bar meal deal for my dinner but they didn't have any nice pasta so I've had to fill it up with grains and assorted spicy mush. |
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ted-talks-pie-chart.jpg Most of my workplace training/'wellbeing' seems to consist of watching TED talks these days. Incidentally, I cannot believe this thread has been up for over 10 years without it being mentioned. |
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I feel torn. My work has been handing out raises and higher starting salaries to any fuckwit who spent the entire pandemic at home, while those of us who have been coming in every day and keeping the company running are quite openly treated as an afterthought. Now, petrol prices are going up, and anyone who doesn't drive in every day, or indeed at all, is getting richer than the key-worker gang even faster. We're the backbone of this company, and it's a tiny company (~15 people), and every day consists of just us and nobody else moaning about how utterly offensive it is that utter charlatans reap all the rewards of our hard work. And all our announcements and things, both internally and externally, are about how incredibly rich the company is and how they can't spend the profits fast enough. The parasite departments award themselves huge bonuses while we don't get a goddamn thing. So everyone has been annoyed for a while. |
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I think I just accidentally talked myself into doing security auditing for work, I brought it up fairly casually in a meeting and now the site owners are adopting an "oh yeah? PROVE IT" attitude to stuff that could very easily be verified by just looking around themselves, and my company is into it because they're weirdos who think making extra work for service providers is a good idea. |
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I've had an 8 page booklet through the post from HSL to let me know they're hiring and explaining why I should go and work for them. I guess the staffing shortages are really starting to bite. |
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I always nominate other people come bonus season for work they've done. Even making a special effort to write out a compelling justification so they get that proper message of 'good job' when it arrives. Doesn't need to be a bonus situation either, just a nice message of thanks to recognise someone as doing an important job can sometimes be very welcome. |
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I've been doing some machine operating job for about 3 months now and I am not enjoying it at all. I'm nervous/anxious generally and the work environment is exacerbating it, in spite of most of the other staff being agreeable enough (minus the absolutey inane pettiness between the morning and evening shifts). |
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My boss is a thick twat. He manages to get by through over-planning and being completely passive at dealing with other managers but it doesn't negate the fact that he's a thick twat and creates more work for me. |
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I didn't think I'd ever be enough of an old man to care about email sign offs, but "Brgds" is rude as fuck. You have a 30 line company signature complete with legal small print, but couldn't be arsed to add "best regards" to it? |
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I know compliance people are almost always oddballs but we've had a new compliance guy recently start at work and he just makes everything a massive ballache. |
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How much "homework" should you be expected to put up with at a job? I'm in a low skilled zero hour contract job in health and social care, and 15 minutes before a shift I get told I'm in charge of the client's benefits applications. I have received zero training on benefits, so they're expecting me to research it in my own time which seems kind of wanky. |
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Pre-coronavirus, my colleagues had a habit that I remembered recently and now I'm angry all over again. They mostly work from home now for 40 minutes a day and then just dick about, which is also annoying but in a different way. |
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On weekends we work with a skeleton crew, so it's pretty hit and miss who you get. Today I've drawn the short straw of having the most boring set of fuckers and it's dragging like fuck. |
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How much am I supposed to contribute to someone's retirement collection? There's someone else leaving this month as well. It does get out who has and who hasn't contributed to these things. |
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I missed a call from a number I don't recognise on my work mobile a few hours ago. I've just rang them back and I had an old cockney bloke shouting abuse at me before hanging up. |
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Messaging me for a quick chat at 5.30pm. No. |
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I hate clients who tell me their whole life story on the phone. I know that if you want their money you are going to have to be prepared for a bit of banter and chit chat, and that's fine with me, but I had a slightly older woman this morning who went on for an inordinate amount of time about her family history and this and that. I often struggle to then just tell somebody, ok that's interesting, but let's get to the fucking point of this phone call, I've got about five other people that I need to call before noon. |
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arslnkd.jpg I've had to sign up for LinkedIn through work. 99% of it is completely awful, but this morning I saw "man close to retirement posts a picture with his hand on his much younger girlfriend's arse" and it's really tickled me. |
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First day back since before Christmas. I really, really can't be arsed to do anything. |
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How easy is it to start a union? The chairman is very anti-union, which makes it even more of a fun project for me to start one. |
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"I know it's short notice, but can you give an hour long presentation to ~100 people tomorrow despite only having a couple of hours of proper training on the material because one of our usual presenters can't make it due to something that was entirely foreseeable?" |
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My work are expecting me to do one hour shifts at a client's house. So I have to pay £5 on the bus, travel an hour each way, for a net profit of £5. Absolute wank. |
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Someone has started a "side hustle" as a Body Shop At Home consultant, which means they're constantly trying to sell their wares. |
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I've been put onto a team at work I really didn't want to join, and for the first time since the days of working shitty supermarket jobs I find myself constantly counting down the hours until I can stop working, with days dragging on. They knew I didn't want to join this team and everyone else got their first choice but not for the first time in my life, and definitely not for the last, I've been forced to do something I didn't want to due to a 'business need'. They say in 12-18 months I'll be able to make my case for being moved, but I'm not sure I'll want to be there for that long. But, I'll never find anywhere that treats me as well as this, I imagine. |
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Staff turnover since the start of the first lockdown has been something ridiculous like 70% where I work. This has meant that the workplace culture, which has generally been one of the best things about working here, has completely changed. |
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Is it just the company I work for, or are people who work in administration generally a bit thick and incompetent? |
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I felt bad for a young lass in Boots today who was working the till. I asked her a few specifics about Voltarol pain relief gel, and she seemed a bit helpless looking that information up on her screen. She then asked her boss for help, and he came over and really made her look stupid and like she had no idea what she was doing. He then said to her, in a needlessly annoyed tone, "Go and help the other customers, I'll just do it myself". |
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I'm meant to apologise for being 'disrespectful' on Teams, but I'm finding it really hard to lower myself to it when I don't feel even remotely sorry. |
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My work has a variety of online chat channels, including ones for different departments. So IT support, that's us, have our own one, and then there's also Technical, which is us plus IT guys who refuse to do any kind of customer service as well, and there there is Sales & Marketing, which none of us are in. But, through some fun oversight, it is a public group so we can all see it even though we're not in it. We can see what they say about us, and they don't know this. It's a great laugh, because we all have to go in every day and do our jobs for a set number of hours per day, while the stay-at-home shysters just fanny about for half an hour a day and then fuck off to the cinema or whatever. It really adds to the office bitterness against these twats who get paid more than us for doing a tenth as much. Anyway, if they actively chatted shit about us as a group, we would: |
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Someone I know has made a separate Instagram account for showcasing their work. They're a section manager at the local Asda. |
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kermit-freaking-out.gif I was offered a job 2 months ago. I accepted it. It took them a month and a half to do my checks (i.e. right to work in the UK) and they rejected a few documents at first over very minor things. Now they've said that the checks are complete and the hiring manager will be in touch. |
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lynx.jpg LinkedIn continues to be really fucking weird. |
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I joined one of the many International Women's Day meetings online at work today to ask why in wars such as currently in Ukraine, it is the men that have to stay and fight. Surely a woman in her 20's could hold a gun and fight just as well as a 60 year old man. If you want gender equality then you must be ready to take the rough with the smooth. I might as well have driven over their numerous cats they live with, alone, the looks I got. |
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Friday will mark two years since I started working from home and I haven't worked a day in an office since. I think my working pattern has been completely fucked; some days I'll waste a few hours scrolling on my phone or reading, other days I'll effectively down tools around half 3 and laze near my computer in case I get any calls or emails I need to deal with, some days I find myself working past 6pm because I have things I need to finish off and I've spent the day dicking around. For these past two years I've had my girlfriend at home with me, but in a couple of weeks she starts a new job so I'll be alone most of the time and I worry I'm either going to lose my mind or my behavior will worsen. It's a given that I'll be wanking myself silly until the novelty wears off. |
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I have a couple of Spanish clients at work and I have no idea what they're saying most of the time. Their accents are ridiculously thick and I have to really pay attention to try and process the words coming out of their mouths. It's surprisingly draining to have to concentrate that hard just on having a conversation. |
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Someone wrote a poem from the perspective of the office, and left it on the printer. It's one of the worst things I've ever read. |
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How was this poem left on the printer? Could someone who works from home have written their ode to the office, then sent it to be printed at the office, seen only by the people who are actually in? That would be a whole new level of office banter. |
>> | No. 14381
14381
I found out today that my new boss is under 30 and has never had a proper job before because she came up on a grad-scheme. She's in a job that I actually applied for and which my previous boss also applied to made permanent in post but neither of us even got passed the sifting. This isn't the first time I've encountered this, my career has a grad scheme that deliberately creates a separate class of people so even if someone is on the same rank as me they'll have different opportunities and frequently be put in as my superior even if they're newer to the post. |
>> | No. 14382
14382
6pm on a Saturday and my mother-in-law has rung to complain about her week at work. This is after calling several times during the week to moan about it. She has literally nothing else going on in her life. |
>> | No. 14383
14383
>>14382 here again. |
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14384
>>14383 |
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14385
>>14384 |
>> | No. 14391
14391
If payday falls on a weekend/bank holiday, should you get paid the working day before the weekend/bank holiday, or the working day after it ends? |
>> | No. 14392
14392
>>14391 |
>> | No. 14397
14397
Two things at the moment: |
>> | No. 14412
14412
I was speaking with the lad who does my admin and, during his recent appraisal, he was criticised by the office manager for not saying "good morning" loud enough when he comes into work. |
>> | No. 14413
14413
I have to do CPD for my job, a certain amount every year. A lot of the accredited CPD courses are pricey (considering my own income and the face it's a zero hour contract), it seems odd that I'm expected to shell out £200 on courses relevant to my role just for the sake of it. |
>> | No. 14414
14414
>>14412 |
>> | No. 14415
14415
My boss has gotten into the Economist big-time to the level he has 2 junior employees doing a digest of articles and seems to believe it's some guidebook to understanding investors. |
>> | No. 14416
14416
>>14415 |
>> | No. 14417
14417
Does anyone else have a co-worker that seemingly everyone agrees is good at their job, or perhaps an expert at some particular niche within the job, but you have only ever experienced them being a completely thick cunt, and suspect they have their reputation as "the expert on x" simply because nobody else can be fucked to learn about x? |
>> | No. 14418
14418
>>13558>>13560 here again. |
>> | No. 14419
14419
Oh, and don't listen to any teachers moaning about the cost of living because their job is recession-proof. There's not suddenly going to be a shortage of kids. |
>> | No. 14420
14420
>>14418 |
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14421
>>14420 |
>> | No. 14422
14422
I do care work type stuff. Travelled 90 minutes to see a client yesterday. Knock on her door, her mum answers, looks shocked. "Were you expecting me?" I asked. "No, I told your manager this already". I rang my manager, confused. He said the client didn't want to see me anymore, he just didn't get around to telling me. Felt like a total fucking mug. I don't mind the client not wanting to see me, you can't gel with everyone, just fucked off that management didn't think it appropriate to tell me. |
>> | No. 14423
14423
With all your posts in this thread recently about appraisals, perhaps I should tell you what just happened in mine. Every day, we all rage that we're not paid enough. The boss himself asked me how unionising works last week, and if we could go on strike. He has also loudly announced, "If anyone plans to ask for more money in their appraisal, here are some arguments that would really support your case!" So today, I, the world's most docile and subservient employee, suggested that the job should have more opportunities for us to develop and become deserving of a raise. The boss's response was that he asked the higher bosses last week how much more he could offer us, and the answer was zero. |
>> | No. 14424
14424
>>14423 |
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14425
>>14423 |
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14426
>>14423 |
>> | No. 14427
14427
New IT policy at work means the company reserve the right to fully search personal computers if they're used working from home. |
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14428
>>14427 |
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14429
>>14427 |
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14430
>>14429 |
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14431
>>14430 |
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14432
>>14430 |
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14433
>>14429>>14430>>14431 |
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14434
>>14432 |
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14435
>>14432 |
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14436
>>14435 |
>> | No. 14437
14437
Replying to a very obvious email containing lots of people to say 'please take me off this list' and then being one of the people that continues to hit reply all should be a discipline worth offence. |
>> | No. 14438
14438
>>14437 |
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14439
>>14436 |
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14440
>>14439 |
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14441
>>14439 |
>> | No. 14442
14442
Does anyone actually have 8 hour days anymore? I don't mean some bollocks where you clock out at lunch so you work until 9-530 but an actual 9-5. |
>> | No. 14443
14443
>>14442 |
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14445
>>14442 |
>> | No. 14449
14449
What are some of the more annoying ways you've been fired from jobs? |
>> | No. 14450
14450
>>14449 |
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14451
>>14449 |
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14452
>>14449 |
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14453
>>14449 |
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14454
>>14452 |
>> | No. 14466
14466
We badly need to hire more men at my place. The gender balance has been slipping and the ratio of women to men is almost 3:1 now. Unsurprisingly, cattiness and petty drama is on the rise, beginning to dominate conversations over the largely good natured banter we used to have. |
>> | No. 14467
14467
>>14466 |
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14468
>>14454 |
>> | No. 14480
14480
When someone emails you out of the blue just saying, "Please see below", and there's an email chain of hundreds of emails going back months, mostly discussing totally irrelevant things, that you need to read through because they couldn't be bothered to just ask their fucking question, I'm not exaggerating when I say I would cheer such a person being publicly guillotined. Just tell me what you want, for fuck's sake. |
>> | No. 14481
14481
>>14466 |
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14488
>>14481 |
>> | No. 14520
14520
I've got an email for our work's Christmas party and it's dawned on me that almost everyone I actually like enough to spend an evening getting drunk with has left since our last one in 2019. |
>> | No. 14521
14521
>>14520 |
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14522
>>14521 |
>> | No. 14523
14523
I don't know if it's the heat or working remotely is getting to me, but yesterday I was on a Teams call with one of my colleagues and I could feel myself getting the horn because she had a strappy top on. She's an overweight middle-aged woman. |
>> | No. 14524
14524
>>14520 |
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14525
>>14524 |
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14526
>>14523 |
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14527
>>14525 |
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14528
>>14527 |
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14529
>>14528 |
>> | No. 14530
14530
Cunts who do fuck all all day, complain about being tired and/or ill, and ultimately just stand in the way. |
>> | No. 14531
14531
>>14530 |
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14532
>>14530 |
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14533
>>14530 |
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14534
>>14530 |
>> | No. 14535
14535
Took a day off work on wednesday to let a contractor in for a boiler service. I get back in the next day and my colleague is oozing about how much she missed me. I check on our inbox and task folders, and there's twice as much in there compared to tuesday. She's done fuck-all work. For the last two days I busted my arse to catch up while she spent half the time floating around the office nattering. |
>> | No. 14536
14536
>>14535 |
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14537
>>14536 |
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14538
>>14537 |
>> | No. 14539
14539
Now whilst I was at the forefront of making fun of >>14530 I do think there's a difference between those who take work easy and those who create more work for others. The latter should be liable to immediate defenstration, regardless of if they're in a union or not. |
>> | No. 14540
14540
>>14538 |
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14541
>>14540 |
>> | No. 14542
14542
You see. Fallen right for the bourgie divide and rule, haven't you, given them exactly what they wanted. Worker arguing with his fellow worker about who works hardest. |
>> | No. 14543
14543
>>14542 |
>> | No. 14544
14544
One of my coworkers, a lad in his mid-40s, just got divorced in March after twelve years of what he now calls an "unloving and joyless marriage for half of that time". Fair enough. The marriage was childless because his wife |
>> | No. 14545
14545
Yesterday I popped out to the shops until almost 11, spoke with one client on the phone and spent the rest of the day either watching The Office or playing Football Manager. This morning I've mainly done housework, sent exactly two emails and left a few voicemail with clients. I've just launched Football Manager again and I'm not going to do anything for the rest of the day unless someone gets in touch with me. |
>> | No. 14546
14546
>>14544 |
>> | No. 14547
14547
This morning I've had a 20 minute Teams call from someone who wanted to vent because they'd come back from holiday to find their name label had been taken off their desk fan and a separate 30 minute call to show another person how to download a document from Google Drive and then share that document in Zoom. |
>> | No. 14548
14548
>>14547 |
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14549
>>14548 |
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14550
>>14549 |
>> | No. 14560
14560
I really enjoy it when customers think that their shitty little contextual jokes and small talk/lines of discussion are entirely unique, and I end up hearing the same stock phrases from about 50 people a day. |
>> | No. 14563
14563
>>14560 |
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14564
>>14563 |
>> | No. 14565
14565
I realise I'll sound like a bit of a cunt saying this, but people need to stop raising money for charity. |
>> | No. 14566
14566
>>14565 |
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14567
>>14566 |
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14568
>>14567 |
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14569
>>14568 |
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14570
>>14569 |
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14571
>>14570 |
>> | No. 14577
14577
It must be a struggle being obese, but if it's dress down Friday the least you could do is wear t-shirts that actually fit rather than having about half a foot of gut dangling free. |
>> | No. 14578
14578
>>14577 |
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14579
>>14578 |
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14580
>>14578 |
>> | No. 14581
14581
People at work who have a token salad once a week then tell me how lucky I am to be skinny, particularly if I treat myself to something mildly unhealthy, ignoring the fact I gym moderately and walk literally everywhere under an hour (unless in a rush). |
>> | No. 14582
14582
>>14578 |
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14583
>>14582 |
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14584
>>14583 |
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14585
>>14584 |
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14586
>>14585 |
>> | No. 14587
14587
I made the original post and I have no idea what the fuck's going on. Sometimes I just... post something and come back later to find out it's set you lot off bickering. I seem to have a real knack for it, but I can never tell in advance which posts of mine are going to set you off; it's more effective than when I'm actually trying to wind you up. |
>> | No. 14588
14588
>>14587 |
>> | No. 14589
14589
>>14587 |
>> | No. 14590
14590
I think some people just don't understand it's possible to recognise a joke and play along with it, and the default assumption is that anyone making any form of contradictory response is trolled to tears; and likewise it's probably pretty common to make posts pretending you're way more bothered about something than you actually are just for the shits of it. |
>> | No. 14591
14591
>>14590 |
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14592
>>14590 |
>> | No. 14593
14593
I have discovered that my work has been fined £100 for failing to provide a return for Class 1A National Insurance payments for employees. Now I'm trying to read up on what that actually means. It's very boring and I don't think it's a cool smoking gun that the bosses are against us after all. I think they just didn't bother filling in a form. Given that we sometimes get paid up to a week early with absolutely no warning, and until maybe five years ago received our wages via manual bank transfer from the company owner, maybe we're just not very well run. But I hope it does turn out to be something cool. |
>> | No. 14594
14594
>>14593 |
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14595
>>14594 |
>> | No. 14596
14596
An email has just gone round from management confirming we're closed for the bank holiday, but we have to set an out of office message between 5pm on Friday and 9am on Tuesday with a message of condolence about the Queen. They will provide us with the wording once they've come up with it. |
>> | No. 14597
14597
>>14596 |
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14598
>>14596 |
>> | No. 14599
14599
They're asking me what "vibe" the company website has. I am now a Marxist-Leninist. |
>> | No. 14600
14600
>>14597 |
>> | No. 14601
14601
I think I might have to have to sack a consulting client because I'm a horrible sexist beast. I do a few days a month on-site for them and the department I work with have just got a new employee. She is Spanish, straight out of university, constantly flirtatious and indescribably beautiful. I'm not exaggerating, she is unnaturally beautiful, like a Hollywood starlet has inexplicably decided to work in the engineering department of a very dull multinational. |
>> | No. 14602
14602
>>14601 |
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14603
>>14602 |
>> | No. 14604
14604
I've been on a CPD webinar since 11 and not a single word has sunk in. It doesn't help that it's a very dry subject matter in the first place, but it's a couple of men sat around a board room table so the audio is terrible. |
>> | No. 14607
14607
Having to watch a middle-aged woman put together a PowerPoint over screenshare. Might actually kill myself on camera. |
>> | No. 14608
14608
>>14607 |
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14609
>>14608 |
>> | No. 14610
14610
>>14609 |
>> | No. 14613
14613
My line manager literally has no idea what the job I'm meant to be doing is. |
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14614
>>14613 |
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14615
>>14614 |
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14616
>>14615 |
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14617
>>14616 |
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14618
>>14616 |
>> | No. 14619
14619
2d7.jpg >>14618 |
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14620
>>14619 |
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14621
>>14620 |
>> | No. 14622
14622
Went to the office for the first time in a while. The heating was set to 30° and most of the windows were open. |
>> | No. 14626
14626
A new phone system is meant to be going live but they haven't properly tested it; it turns out it isn't working/set up right, so the phones are down today apart from two numbers which are having all of the calls company wide redirected to them. |
>> | No. 14627
14627
>>14619 |
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14628
>>14627 |
>> | No. 14629
14629
How should I respond if a middle-aged woman asks me if I can help her get off the naughty list after I'd sent a generic "hope you had a nice Christmas too" when she emailed me? |
>> | No. 14630
14630
rat_up_a_drainpipe.jpg >>14629 |
>> | No. 14631
14631
>>14629 |
>> | No. 14632
14632
I should probably add that I'm not interested in having sex or flirting with this woman. I can see why she'd appeal to the .gs demographic though; slightly chunky single mum in her mid-forties, looks and sounds a bit common who was unsuccessfully throwing herself at men during the Christmas party. |
>> | No. 14633
14633
>>14632 |
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14634
>>14632 |
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14635
>>14632 |
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14636
>>14635 |
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14637
>>14635 |
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14638
>>14637 |
>> | No. 14639
14639
le_moustache.jpg >>14638 |
>> | No. 14640
14640
Not really a workplace annoyance as such, but my missus has asked me to help her find a better job recently, and while I'm happy to help, it's becoming clear part of the reason she's always had shit casual jobs is just because she can't let go of some quite... Naive idealism about what a "good" job is. |
>> | No. 14656
14656
Imagine giving a 146 slide presentation on a Friday afternoon. Fucking hell. |
>> | No. 14657
14657
Hell.png It's finally wrapping up. |
>> | No. 14658
14658
>>14657 |
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14659
>>14658 |
>> | No. 14662
14662
>>14657 |
>> | No. 14663
14663
How can anyone be delusional enough to think that people will pay attention to, or remember anything from, that many slides? We've got a pretty hard limit at 10, and encourage 5. Backup slides that no fucker reads go at the end, so people with a slidemaking fetish still get to stroke themselves into a frenzy, but they have to acknowledge that nobody cares. |
>> | No. 14664
14664
>>14663 |
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14665
>>14662 |
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14666
>>14665 |
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14667
>>14665 |
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14668
>>14667 |
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>>14667 |
>> | No. 14670
14670
Senior, older, management at work who bought their first houses at the equivalent place on the scale to the younger staff who can now only afford to rent a room. |
>> | No. 14671
14671
>>14670 |
>> | No. 14672
14672
"Instead of giving decent pay rises this year we're going to give most of it in the form of a bonus so the base line is lower when we have to raise salaries in the future." |
>> | No. 14673
14673
>>14670 |
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14674
>>14673 |
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14675
>>14674 |
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14676
>>14674 |
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14677
>>14675 |
>> | No. 14680
14680
Morning everyone 🙂 today we will be focusing on self love ❤ following on from Valentines day ❤ we will be watching a video around the Psycholog and finishing on a meditation to manifest it. The session will run from 10:30-11am on this link [Meets link] |
>> | No. 14681
14681
My work organised going out for drinks for someone's retirement last night and decided that Wednesday would be the best option given a lot of people were scheduled to be in the office. They could've just forward planned this a bit with diaries but nobody thought this was a good idea. |
>> | No. 14682
14682
I wish they'd send all the office plebs back to home working, so that those of us with real life jobs can get there in peace. My commute has been steadily lengthening since the quiet sidelining of the 'rona, and nearly reached the hour mark today. |
>> | No. 14683
14683
>>14682 |
>> | No. 14684
14684
I'm normally only in the office twice a week now, unless there's a meeting I have to attend. Even then I have had days where have gone in checked for any physical post, gone to a meeting and fucked off home sharpish afterwards. I don't miss slogging into the office every day. |
>> | No. 14685
14685
>>14683 |
>> | No. 14686
14686
I think I'd rather clean toilets than ever have to pretend to work. |
>> | No. 14687
14687
>>14683 |
>> | No. 14688
14688
>>14687 |
>> | No. 14690
14690
I've had a slight issue with a request to work from home for a couple of days due to issues with my car that I need fixing. |
>> | No. 14691
14691
hj137povjmj81.jpg On Monday morning's we have a check-in on how all the work is progressing. A zany part of my team's routine is we will have 9 ducks in various stages of being deflated and you have to tell everyone which duck you are and why. You may have seen it. |
>> | No. 14692
14692
It's not going to be my problem for much longer, but I've handed my notice in at work and now I'm getting complete radio silence when I need to hear back from certain individuals. It's extremely petty, so now I'm going to do even less than planned between now and leaving. |
>> | No. 14693
14693
>>14692 |
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14694
>>14693 |
>> | No. 14695
14695
It's probably time for me to look for a new job and I feel really ambivalent about it. Not because I really love my job and don't want to leave or whatever, but because it's just so daunting to think about uprooting myself and going through all the stress, and I doubt if I'll even get something that satisfies me more anyway. I worry about putting myself on the wrong side of a grass is greener kind of situation, because I've definitely fucked up and done that before; except now I have a mortgage to pay so I can't afford to fuck about. I can't just decide I don't like a job and fuck it off like I did in my early 20s. |
>> | No. 14696
14696
>>14695 |
>> | No. 14697
14697
7255978-L.jpg I had a recent graduate come in to a position above me last year. It was one of those cases where she'd done a advanced programme after going to Oxford so I ended up working to someone with zero life experience but in theory had a lot of classroom training beforehand. What followed was us continually clashing as I had to stop her doing what wasn't just corporate bootlicking but making destructive decisions. Now she's been given a promotion to a more senior position, one of the most important for my organisation and I'm not only shocked but I don't know what to do given she poses a risk to everyone around her. |
>> | No. 14698
14698
>>14695 |
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14699
>>14697 |
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14700
>>14698 |
>> | No. 14701
14701
I enjoy it when a manager claims you've made an error and wants to have a meeting about it because it amounts to a corporate fuckup, and it's the same manager you sought counsel from in the first place who told you to do something a certain way. Marvellous stuff, well done. |
>> | No. 14702
14702
My work was bought out and now we're changing a lot of things to use whatever is used by the company that bought us. Wage slips are now hosted on a totally different website. When I try to log in, it tells me I can't, so I clicked on "Reset password". The password reset link will be valid for one hour. However, it gets sent out at a completely random time. I requested it over an hour ago now and still haven't got it. It will probably arrive tomorrow at some point, while I am at work. By the time I get home, the link will have expired. Everyone I work with is complaining about being taxed too much and all sorts of other problems, so I would really like to see how much shit I am in. But I can't. Thanks a lot, incompetent shitters. |
>> | No. 14703
14703
>>14702 |
>> | No. 14704
14704
My seventh day back in an office and the air con wars have begun. |
>> | No. 14705
14705
I have to activate my LinkedIn about once a year for conferences and events, some people whinge if you give them an email you see. I hate it, I don't understand it and I don't want to understand it. The worst part for me is that it becomes a second work inbox and I set it up on a personal email account. |
>> | No. 14706
14706
>>14705 |
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>>14705 |
>> | No. 14708
14708
90uwgiofs.jpg >>14704 |
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14709
SBS.jpg >>14708 |
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>>14709 |
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14711
>>14709 |
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14712
>>14711 |
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14713
>>14712 |
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>>14713 |
>> | No. 14715
14715
Greg Davies did a whole comedy series about crime scene cleaners but it was that whole completely middle-of-the-road forgettable BBC schlock so nobody noticed. |
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14716
>>14715 |
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14717
>>14715 |
>> | No. 14718
14718
Do you ever look at the clock and disbelieve how long it is until you finish for the day? It doesn't feel right that I've still got almost another two hours to go. |
>> | No. 14719
14719
>>14718 |
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14720
>>14718 |
>> | No. 14721
14721
Anyone saying things like "Ricardo, I've got a questionie for you." |
>> | No. 14722
14722
My boss is incredibly lazy. I was really desperate to get this kind of job so for the first year or so I kind of grin and bared it and I got a lot of work at first which was great for my development but left me ridiculously busy. |
>> | No. 14723
14723
>>14722 |
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14724
>>14722 |
>> | No. 14725
14725
Unpaid lunchbreaks that mean you're expected to work later. I remember nobody talking about this until after the pandemic and then everyone started nodding along and getting on flexi-contracts. |
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14726
>>14725 |
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>>14726 |
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14728
>>14727 |
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14729
>>14727 |
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14730
>>14727 |
>> | No. 14731
14731
I don't have enough proper food in and today's one of my days in the office so I've had to take in soup for dinner. Fucking soup. |
>> | No. 14732
14732
So I keep hearing about this tight labour market and all that. But where are the actual shortages? Do any of you lot know, so I can sort out a better job? I've always told myself I prefer an "easy life" over making money, but I'm sick of being skint, now, honestly. |
>> | No. 14733
14733
>>14732 |
>> | No. 14734
14734
office space.jpg >>14733 |
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14735
>>14732 |
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14736
>>14732 |
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14737
>>14736 |
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14738
>>14737 |
>> | No. 14739
14739
I am a working class northerner and I sound like it too. At an after work social event somebody mentioned something about private school and another person said I'd be most likely to know. |
>> | No. 14740
14740
>>14739 |
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14741
>>14740 |
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14742
>>14739 |
>> | No. 14743
14743
I don't ever want to write a cover letter, doing it properly is going to take me an hour, and there's a good chance you'll reject me with a canned one liner. |
>> | No. 14744
14744
>>14743 |
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14745
>>14744 |
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14746
>>14743 |
>> | No. 14747
14747
We have a desk booking system at work as the next evolution in hot-desking but people who have occupational health needs have a desk reserved for them. That's all very good and the right thing to do but I'm very sceptical that a recent trend has meant that every desk by a window with your back to the wall has been labelled by someone, this started a few months ago I might add despite the system being in place since the pandemic. |
>> | No. 14748
14748
>>14747 |
>> | No. 14749
14749
I seem to get a dozen emails a week from colleagues, often in other offices, peddling shit. Debbie, I don't want to buy raffle tickets for your son's school. Tracy, I don't want to buy your imitation perfume. Darren, I don't need to know every week when your son's mobile car valeting business is in Leicester. |
>> | No. 14750
14750
Some fucker has given me a cold. |
>> | No. 14751
14751
1298262100-85ed35a6a0cbf780a9df2.jpg I found out from a chat I'm in that there's been an explosion of bedbegs at one of the buildings my team occasionally visits but I'm on holiday and the last time I posted something when I was on leave I got a massive bollocking from my manager for it. |
>> | No. 14754
14754
My new boss keeps trying to discuss feelings with me which may have been standard practice at her old job. She's moved to putting regular chats into my diary to strictly discuss personal growth and development which will be built on a psychometric test that list my weaknesses. |
>> | No. 14755
14755
My chair has been taken. I know that I'm in the office one of the least and there is a new starter next week, but if you're going to give him my chair you can at least put another one at my desk. |
>> | No. 14756
14756
>>14754 |
>> | No. 14757
14757
People who cc your boss into an email when they're having an irrelevant moan to some workplace commissioning you're doing. I've always been tempted to do it back to them but I know it won't end well if I do it. |
>> | No. 14758
14758
I've been in my job just under three months and it looks like I may get dragged into workplace politics at some point. |
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14759
>>14758 |
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14760
>>14759 |
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14761
>>14760 |
>> | No. 14762
14762
I am very good at my job and my manager doesn't do a huge amount and this is an openly acknowledged secret. |
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14763
>>14762 |
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14764
>>14763 |
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14765
>>14764 |
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14766
>>14762 |
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14767
>>14765 |
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14768
>>14763 |
>> | No. 14769
14769
My line manager is a useless cunt |
>> | No. 14770
14770
I work with several people who always mumble when they're on the phone. I've no idea what they're talking about half of the time. |
>> | No. 14771
14771
>>14768 |
>> | No. 14772
14772
"Have you completed this urgent case which has to be done today that you don't even know about because I accidentally emailed the request to someone else with the same forename?" |
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14773
>>14772 |
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14774
>>14772 |
>> | No. 14775
14775
Konstantin-Chaykin-JOKER-FIVE-1.jpg >>14773 |
>> | No. 14776
14776
I was explicitly told not to lead on coordination of a document across teams and to focus only on the section I was asked to. I got a 'bad dog no biscuit' for even following up with others on when they will be inputting so I can have consistency. |
>> | No. 14777
14777
>>14776 |
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14778
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14779
>>14778 |
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14780
>>14778 |
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14781
>>14779 |
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14782
>>14780 |
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14783
>>14782 |
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14784
>>14781 |
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14785
>>14784 |
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14786
>>14785 |
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14787
>>14783 |
>> | No. 14788
14788
So what kind of jobs should we get proper thick people to do? |
>> | No. 14789
14789
EjupD_1XgAItOjU.jpg >>14788 |
>> | No. 14790
14790
>>14779 |
>> | No. 14791
14791
>>14788 |
>> | No. 14792
14792
1_xqdikA8xTvyUsXQDO5CbVA.jpg >>14788 |
>> | No. 14793
14793
>>14788 |
>> | No. 14794
14794
Yeah. you didn't really hit your points this sprint. Or last sprint, or the one before. I know we said the points were cosmetic and my contributions in LoC both + and -, useful reviews, and gentle tutoring over the chat system add up to a bit, but that just doesn't count anymore because we have a new system. |
>> | No. 14796
14796
>>14793 |
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14797
>>14793 |
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14798
>>14797 |
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14799
>>14798 |
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14800
>>14799 |
>> | No. 14801
14801
When I was at school the only careers guidance we had was filling in an online questionnaire on something called Kudos, which was meant to suggest jobs for us but all us lads did was search for things like 'fence erector' because that's what teenage boys do. |
>> | No. 14802
14802
I remember I had one appointment with a careers advisor the entire time I was at secondary school. We mostly talked about what bands we listened to for 90% of it. There was no guidance that I recall at A-level. University was a much nicer environment than most others I'd been in, so I toyed with the idea of becoming an academic, until I realised it was entirely dependent on finding funding and my face didn't really fit. |
>> | No. 14803
14803
>>14802 |
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14804
>>14803 |
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14805
>>14802 |
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14806
>>14802 |
>> | No. 14807
14807
So, can we all conclude that nobody knows what they're doing and nobody can really help you. A young person on the conveyer belt of life flails their limbs around in the glitter of life and hopes something sticks which usually falls into some sort of place in their 20s. But you might sometimes have to do a bit of a butterfly crawl I guess. |
>> | No. 14808
14808
>>14806 |
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14809
>>14807 |
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14810
>>14807 |
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14811
>>14809 |
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14812
>>14811 |
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14813
>>14812 |
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14814
>>14813 |
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14815
>>14814 |
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14816
>>14815 |
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14817
>>14816 |
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14818
>>14815 |
>> | No. 14819
14819
For a bit of perspective, this is what being thick and working a menial job is actually like. |
>> | No. 14820
14820
>>14819 |
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14821
>>14820 |
>> | No. 14822
14822
I think we're leading onto a bigger, and perhaps, in my opinion, more interesting question, here. |
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14823
>>14821 |
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14824
>>14822 |
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14825
>>14822 |
>> | No. 14826
14826
They're really funny at work about crossing on the stairs. I think it's a West Yorkshire thing; I never experienced it before I moved here. |
>> | No. 14827
14827
Week six of call centre wagie life. |
>> | No. 14828
14828
>>14827 |
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14829
>>14827 |
>> | No. 14830
14830
>>14829 |
>> | No. 14831
14831
I didn't have a sniffle before I went into work today. |
>> | No. 14832
14832
My stupidly bad call on staying in a role on a counter offer for more money when I was poised to leave. |
>> | No. 14833
14833
They like to send around an email on a Monday morning outlining who has days off this week. There's been three follow-up messages since then about people who've either changed their leave or booked a day off that's not been logged on the main records. This happens almost every single week. |
>> | No. 14834
14834
>>14832 |
>> | No. 14835
14835
"I saw on LinkedIn you changed jobs about five months ago and I always make a note to phone people four or five months after starting a new job to see whether they're settled or if I can help them find somewhere new." |
>> | No. 14836
14836
Next Tuesday (Halloween) we have an office "fuddle". We're encouraged to dress up and bring in food and stuff, and we all socialise. I don't know how it works in terms of they need staff on the phones to actually operate the business. Can we fuck customers off so we can dress as sexy nurses and eat sweeties? We also have a Halloween quiz. |
>> | No. 14837
14837
>>14836 |
>> | No. 14838
14838
>>14836 |
>> | No. 14839
14839
The senior leader I report to has decided to harness my reputation for creative problem solving by holding a discussion session on key future questions for the entire organisation. Mostly how we manage ambition against a difficult fiscal and staffing environment. At 9am the morning after I've had to go to a conference all-day today and when I've been run ragged all week with work. |
>> | No. 14840
14840
>>14839 |
>> | No. 14841
14841
I'm going to have to start buying jumpers because the office is slightly too cold and the women get all fussy about the heating. |
>> | No. 14847
14847
A couple of weeks ago I had one of the directors sound me out about a new role they are creating, essentially managing the team I'm in now with a few other responsibilities thrown in, which I said I'd be interested in. Realistically there's only one other viable candidate and I know they're interviewing for a job elsewhere so they're unlikely to go for it. |
>> | No. 14848
14848
1c3c36564394384d3a8a1b2466aa2c69.jpg The company that bought my company (we were a better company and yes, everyone is bitter) is going to buy all of us a Christmas present. We can choose one present from a list that was sent round today. There are two chocolate gift boxes to choose from, or you can have six bottles of wine or prosecco. |
>> | No. 14849
14849
At some point in December we've got a celebration day, where instead of having our regular team meeting and our individual lunches, we get a 1.5 hour mega lunch for socialising and Christmas activities. I'm dreading it because I have no social skills, but then again 1.5 hours away from the job instead of just 30 minutes is appealing. |
>> | No. 14850
14850
We've got an office jobsworth. I'm not entirely sure what her job title is but most of her tasks could easily be automated through spreadsheets or using our client management system better and I think she is aware of this, so she gets very petty about the general upkeep of the office to try and seem important. |
>> | No. 14851
14851
Sweet suffering fuck. I would be choking down sarcastic reply-all emails. |
>> | No. 14852
14852
>>14851 |
>> | No. 14853
14853
Work in energy. Had a customer call without hot water. Next appointment available is in a week's time. She says it's an emergency as she has kids, youngest being 8. I foolishly say we only consider children 5 or under as priority. |
>> | No. 14854
14854
>>14853 |
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14855
>>14853 |
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14856
>>14853 |
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14858
>>14853 |
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14859
>>14854 |
>> | No. 14865
14865
I guess it's less of an annoyance and more of something I find really bizarre but, for some reason, at work all of the men get addressed by their full forename. Not even my parents call me by that. |
>> | No. 14871
14871
It turns out it's tradition for the women at work to bring in all the chocolate and junk they've received over Christmas which they won't eat at home. I've already eaten enough as it is over the past week, I don't need a mountain of chocolate near my desk. |
>> | No. 14872
14872
I just wish that I could do one thing at a time. |
>> | No. 14895
14895
Can you lads recommend a decent and inexpensive hands-free kit? There's a lass in my team who has ADHD and autism who calls me every day and I'm lucky if she's on for less than an hour. |
>> | No. 14896
14896
>>14895 |
>> | No. 14897
14897
When a customer is unhappy or explicitly raises a complaint, it goes on the caseload of the advisor who picked up the phone/email. So if someone rings up to moan her bills are high (as happened this week), I have to investigate and take responsibility for it. |
>> | No. 14898
14898
>>14897 |
>> | No. 14899
14899
>>14897 |
>> | No. 14900
14900
>>14898 |
>> | No. 14901
14901
>>14897 |
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