• United Kingdom chat thread V3: We still miss our empire
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[QUOTE=MadBomber;52554207]Anyone got any tips on making time pass quickly, I work front of house/lobby at maccys and it's fucking DEAD this morning[/QUOTE] try remembering every embarrasing blunder you've ever made
[QUOTE=DiscoInferno;52552283]Fireworks at 5 to 10 at night, I just hear someone yelling "FUCK OFF" after a bang.[/QUOTE] Same thing happened here at 12am, just no fuck off
Work's a bit weird for me right now. The part of the company I work for is project based, this year we haven't had enough projects and er haven't been turning a profit. So that part of the company has been put into hibernation and I've been moved to a different part. But I've gone from being the most senior in my office with a team below us, managing projects from beginning to delivery to being the least senior. Been stressing about it for a while now, less so for myself and more for my team who have been made mostly unemployed. Also the worry that I won't fit into my new role.
Get looking for a new job rapid then
I liked my old job as well. It was hands on, sometimes challenging, I got to travel, I knew our archaic software inside out, had access to whatever equipment I needed. Everyone here is good to work with, the top boss actually speaks to us which is nice. It's a shame as well, while I don't want to say we're the only ones doing what we do, I don't think many other companies do what we do. We've had big clients as well, but I think for them it's a box ticking exercise, once it's been done there's not much point going back I'll give it a couple of months and see how it goes. Annoyingly someone's just (yesterday) commissioned a project so I'm still doing bits for that
Oh man it sure is fun when £60 goes missing from my bank
[QUOTE=meharryp;52555061]Oh man it sure is fun when £60 goes missing from my bank[/QUOTE] call your bank, silly. I woke up one morning and saw £3200 gone from my bank via some Chinese wire transfer. needless to say, I shit myself. it was right around Christmas time and that was a deposit I was saving up for a car. called my bank straight away, before my parents even or girlfriend. they froze my account, looked into it, and the next day it was back in my account. only thing they lose a star on is they didn't tell me how I lost the money in the first place: tampered ATM, dodgy website, card fraud? they told me it's a privacy thing or something, so it annoyed me a little bit seeing as I had no idea what to change / do differently to avoid getting robbed blind again. £60 is £60 and your bank will work with ya
reminds me of when I fleeced some spastic for £3200, sadly the bank realised my chinese proxy and took it back
[QUOTE=Zenamez;52553337]That's how they mate. The darkness hides their bootleg clothing and faces everyone would love to punch.[/QUOTE] Does this mean doing that awkward scuffle where one has another in a headlock, and smashing glass bottles on the floor is their mating dance?
[QUOTE=Vault Hunter;52555530]Does this mean doing that awkward scuffle where one has another in a headlock, and smashing glass bottles on the floor is their mating dance?[/QUOTE] Exactly! We should really get Attenborough to voice over them. It'd make for great TV.
Drove to London for work today, the drive back took nearly 6 hours.
What a opening match to the league, holy hell that was awesome.
[QUOTE=Vault Hunter;52534597]I suppose the real question is; What is the correct pronunciation for bath?[/QUOTE] bath (city): BAAFF bath (tub): barth
[QUOTE=geogzm;52563219]bath (city): BAAFF bath (tub): barth[/QUOTE] You'd be laughed at if you said baff whilst there
[QUOTE=GrizzlyBear;52563195]What a opening match to the league, holy hell that was awesome.[/QUOTE] [video=youtube;ESVjzf4FzyU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESVjzf4FzyU[/video]
I got offered that job. I'm gonna decline it. Interview went well, but they gave me a 30 minute "tester period" where I went onto the warehouse floor, did some picking, saw how things were run. It was kinda shit. People were jumping off of moving lollops in front of the manager, some employee walked up to me and said in a thick eastern european accent, totally deadpan, that the manager sucks and I should change teams if I get the job and am on his team. The pick rates they were asking for were ridiculous as well. For 3 large cages, you had a total of 40 minutes to stack them. Not too bad if it's a one-off thing, but you're on an 8 hour shift having to churn that speed out constantly. So it pretty much forces you to do things dangerously. The guy giving me the tour around the warehouse showed me how he stacks and he basically just threw shit into the cage and it was all fucked.
[QUOTE=loopoo;52564574]I got offered that job. I'm gonna decline it. Interview went well, but they gave me a 30 minute "tester period" where I went onto the warehouse floor, did some picking, saw how things were run. It was kinda shit. People were jumping off of moving lollops in front of the manager, some employee walked up to me and said in a thick eastern european accent, totally deadpan, that the manager sucks and I should change teams if I get the job and am on his team. The pick rates they were asking for were ridiculous as well. For 3 large cages, you had a total of 40 minutes to stack them. Not too bad if it's a one-off thing, but you're on an 8 hour shift having to churn that speed out constantly. So it pretty much forces you to do things dangerously. The guy giving me the tour around the warehouse showed me how he stacks and he basically just threw shit into the cage and it was all fucked.[/QUOTE] Welcome to the consumerist age. I'd take your coat but there's no time, get to work. [editline]12th August 2017[/editline] sorry, still angry
[QUOTE=loopoo;52564574]I got offered that job. I'm gonna decline it. Interview went well, but they gave me a 30 minute "tester period" where I went onto the warehouse floor, did some picking, saw how things were run. It was kinda shit. People were jumping off of moving lollops in front of the manager, some employee walked up to me and said in a thick eastern european accent, totally deadpan, that the manager sucks and I should change teams if I get the job and am on his team. The pick rates they were asking for were ridiculous as well. For 3 large cages, you had a total of 40 minutes to stack them. Not too bad if it's a one-off thing, but you're on an 8 hour shift having to churn that speed out constantly. So it pretty much forces you to do things dangerously. The guy giving me the tour around the warehouse showed me how he stacks and he basically just threw shit into the cage and it was all fucked.[/QUOTE] Sounds like you made the right call. Sometimes taking a job just to leave it within a month is more trouble than it's worth.
[QUOTE=loopoo;52564574] The guy giving me the tour around the warehouse showed me how he stacks and he basically just threw shit into the cage and it was all fucked.[/QUOTE] Sounds about right. Where I worked, a distribution hub for Hermes under Freemans, "Handle with care" was more of a challenge than anything else to some people. Not that you often had any choice since while you were picking up a package and trying to remember which of the 5 cages you had to cover was which, another 5 were already flying past you. Neatly stacked cages were a rare sight, in fact most of the time we kept them closed and just lobbed the stuff in Seriously, it was fucking shite, the only reason I stayed there as long as I did is cause I had a supervisor who actually gave a fuck, and apart from the foot pain everyone had within the first hour it was easy. We were on 10-hour shifts with 30min lunch and 2 15min breaks - it took ~5 to get from the entrance to the part of the warehouse we all worked, and to further take the piss, the entire ~90 of us had to go one-by-one through a bastard metal detector. If you were lucky you maybe got time to smoke a fag and then straight back in, or two on lunches. My supervisor just went "Nah fuck that" and said the 15/30 started once you got out. What exceeded my personal capacity for bullshit was that, despite consistently exceeding out daily targets by 50% in part cause of that decision, they sacked him the next week. Long story short, don't use Hermes at least in the lead-up to Christmas. They treat their workforce like shit, or at least go to zero lengths to ensure they aren't, and that gets taken out on anything they handle. If you have no other option, wrap it the fuck up.
Yeah, I thought it was really weird seeing how everyone was basically power walking to have a smoke, and people in the canteen were wolfing their food down. In the job offer letter, you get a 30 minute break throughout your 8 hour shift, and I'm thinking it's the same deal of "the break starts as soon as you take it, including walking off of the warehouse floor". Major respect to everyone who does that, will make me think twice next time I'm getting all my stuff at the shops and knowing some poor fucker was breaking his back to sort it out. Silver lining is I'm a little bit more experienced with job interviews.
[QUOTE=loopoo;52565787]Yeah, I thought it was really weird seeing how everyone was basically power walking to have a smoke, and people in the canteen were wolfing their food down. In the job offer letter, you get a 30 minute break throughout your 8 hour shift, and I'm thinking it's the same deal of "the break starts as soon as you take it, including walking off of the warehouse floor". Major respect to everyone who does that, will make me think twice next time I'm getting all my stuff at the shops and knowing some poor fucker was breaking his back to sort it out. Silver lining is I'm a little bit more experienced with job interviews.[/QUOTE] 30 mins for 8 hours is exploitative as fuck, not that 1hr of 10 isn't, but most people who end up in those sorts of working environments are there because they don't really have much choice and the people employing them know it. It's the sort of place that chews people up and spits them out, cause there are plenty of people willing to take shit for the money, you barely even have to understand the language. Myself and a couple others ended up walking out during lunch the day after our super got sacked, everyone was in a shittier mood than usual, nobody wanted to put an effort in at all. I laughed when one of the managers text us about how we'd fucked up the productivity for the day, as if it was our responsibility to make up for the sheer dip in morale resulting from their decision. I'd actually recommend taking a job like that while you look for something better. At the very least you get paid and learn something about how disposable you are in the eyes of such employers.
I really should get a move on with my uni application. At least then I'd have a way out of both bad job and the job centre. I don't even care if I can't use my degree at the end of it. I'll have the debt die with me. just want to point out (to expand on my angry posts) i'm anti-consumerist, as much as I can comfortably be which isn't a lot so i sadly recognise my hipocrasies
[QUOTE=DiscoInferno;52566901]I really should get a move on with my uni application. At least then I'd have a way out of both bad job and the job centre. I don't even care if I can't use my degree at the end of it. I'll have the debt die with me. just want to point out (to expand on my angry posts) i'm anti-consumerist, as much as I can comfortably be which isn't a lot so i sadly recognise my hipocrasies[/QUOTE] If you play your cards right you can come out the other end with most of your student loan intact
Monday is 2 weeks since I started my new job as a bookkeeper and once again I got super lucky...Office is ~25 people and about 20 of them are women including all of the managers and owners, everyone gets on really well and its super casual with a lot of banter (and they swear ALOT), its almost like a big family since everyone seems to know each other really personally and people bring their kids in and stuff when they are finishing up. Dress code is anything you want as long as it isn't offensive so jeans and tshirt fine, which is great cause sitting infront of a computer all day wearing a suit like I used to do is just really uncomfortable and unnecessary. One of the things I hated in software engineering was the constant anxiety/stress about work on evenings and weekends, it's nice to have the kind of work where its very stimulating and requires a lot of mental energy but as soon as I leave the office I literally don't have to worry about it anymore. It actually makes me look forward to going back and while I'm there I'm not desperate to leave so I don't mind putting an extra 30-60 mins in here and there to finish up some work. [QUOTE=loopoo;52564574]I got offered that job. I'm gonna decline it. Interview went well, but they gave me a 30 minute "tester period" where I went onto the warehouse floor, did some picking, saw how things were run. It was kinda shit. People were jumping off of moving lollops in front of the manager, some employee walked up to me and said in a thick eastern european accent, totally deadpan, that the manager sucks and I should change teams if I get the job and am on his team. The pick rates they were asking for were ridiculous as well. For 3 large cages, you had a total of 40 minutes to stack them. Not too bad if it's a one-off thing, but you're on an 8 hour shift having to churn that speed out constantly. So it pretty much forces you to do things dangerously. The guy giving me the tour around the warehouse showed me how he stacks and he basically just threw shit into the cage and it was all fucked.[/QUOTE] Yeah some people say 'a jobs a job' and that you should take anything you can get if you need one, but to be honest the toll of taking a job like that both mentally and physically usually isn't worth it. I volunteer at a British Heart Foundation furniture store on Saturdays in the warehouse and even though its much smaller scale, I'm happy to push myself to the limit for a few hours here and there voluntarily but I could not imagine having to work that day in day out while also being under the stress of knowing that if I don't break my back for them I could be fired at a moments notice. Doing that kind of stuff for an extended period is one way to cause yourself some severe long term damage or worse end up in some horrific accident due to unsafe working conditions.
[QUOTE=Morbo!!!;52566903]If you play your cards right you can come out the other end with most of your student loan intact[/QUOTE] "You can't take it with you" works with minus amounts of money, you fucks. Not you Morbo!!! I mean... [I][B]THEM[/B][/I] giant ants are ruining education
[QUOTE=DiscoInferno;52567041]"You can't take it with you" works with minus amounts of money, you fucks. Not you Morbo!!! I mean... [I][B]THEM[/B][/I] giant ants are ruining education[/QUOTE] Are you ok? [editline]13th August 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=Morbo!!!;52566903]If you play your cards right you can come out the other end with most of your student loan intact[/QUOTE] Personally think it's just better to spend it, have a good time and then wait for it evaporate in time after you graduate - you only pay towards it on everything you earn over 18k so the repayments are pretty trivial generally.
30 minute breaks are pretty standard. I'm a train driver and we only get 30 minute breaks - our shifts are 9h54m sometimes (though average is around 9h) That's in an industry with strong unions too. Office workers who get a 'lunch hour' have it good.
last night i tipped my taxi driver £10, please revoke my citizenship [editline]13th August 2017[/editline] hope he spends it well tbh
[QUOTE=Bengley;52567756]30 minute breaks are pretty standard. I'm a train driver and we only get 30 minute breaks - our shifts are 9h54m sometimes (though average is around 9h) That's in an industry with strong unions too. Office workers who get a 'lunch hour' have it good.[/QUOTE] How many though? And I'm guessing they're actual 30min [I]breaks[/I] and not "10min rush out doors, 10mins cram food and tobacco in mouth-hole, 10min rush back in" too.
[QUOTE=Bengley;52567756]30 minute breaks are pretty standard. I'm a train driver and we only get 30 minute breaks - our shifts are 9h54m sometimes (though average is around 9h) That's in an industry with strong unions too. Office workers who get a 'lunch hour' have it good.[/QUOTE] I hate lunch hours, I'd rather go home 30 mins earlier at the end of the day than spend an extra 30 minutes chilling at work. I'm glad my current job is 30 minutes and we leave at 5 instead of 5.30. I get break time being more sacred for labor intensive jobs but if I'm sitting at desk all day anyway I usually just eat my food while I work and don't really take a break, I hate sitting around doing nothing when there is work to get on with anyway.
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