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Post by Admin on Sept 17, 2024 21:35:30 GMT
 It's Wednesday. |
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Post by MrTiddles on Sept 17, 2024 22:04:22 GMT
Choose life.
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Post by gongfarmer on Sept 18, 2024 4:42:15 GMT
Minor panic….
Wordle 1,187 5/6*
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Post by lazybones on Sept 18, 2024 7:00:28 GMT
I have a primate problem. There’s another primate at work impinging on my life.
This character … is an academic who used to work on a degree that is hugely understaffed on the administrative side. The people doing the administration, though, are extremely efficient and conscientious.
I have someone else on my team - working on two degrees. I’m not going to say anything about whether they’re hard-working or conscientious, but the work getting done is frequently done way below the level I would want it to be done at, if done at all. I see the work done and l think ‘this is a shambles’. For this reason this team member and I are in a long-drawn out programme of capability and support / development measures.
Anyway this team member and I had a meeting within this remit. Perhaps a step up from previous meetings. There’s a bit more detail to this but ultimately … this team member asked to bring a representative, and this academic came. The two of them are friends. Hopefully he sees, having attended the meeting, the problems I’m having to deal with. I doubt it. The two of them went for a drink after work yesterday. The problem is that the two very conscientious team members really like this man. One of them is very unhappy with the job though, because of the amount of work they have. But I can’t restructure the team to give them less work because academic colleagues are asking me to not have this one other person (with the issues) on any of their courses. And I can’t pass any extra work to them while there’s anything resembling a capacity process in place because I would be seen as setting them up to fail.
This guy - this primate - turns up and banters with my team. And he comes to team drinks. Having attended a meeting on the side of someone with huge work ‘performance’ issues, though, I feel he’s very clearly taking a position in opposition to me, as a person.
Hell is other people. Hell is other primates.
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Post by lazybones on Sept 18, 2024 7:15:55 GMT
I need a powerful cosmic intervention.
I’ve occasionally visualised my workplace situation as the administrative deck of Max Zorin’s airship in ‘A view to a kill’. I imagine the two people causing me problems leaving the room and walking down some steps, which turn into a ramp. They fall off the airship ...
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Post by lazybones on Sept 18, 2024 7:19:11 GMT
I suppose I should be careful meddling with such sorcerous powers.
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Post by crankcaller on Sept 18, 2024 7:28:09 GMT
You need a cosmic intervention from Francis Begby.
As do I with this skinny wee Caucasian rat on the train wearing a “hoodrich” hoody who won’t stop vaping.
Canny even grow a proper hipster moustache yet.
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Post by crankcaller on Sept 18, 2024 7:35:49 GMT
Can we arrange for Mossad to put a gram or two of c4 in disposable vapes? Cunty boy smirks as he pulls on his vape, the smell of fake strawberries fills the air…
*Boom*
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Post by lazybones on Sept 18, 2024 7:45:02 GMT
I like the smell of vapes.
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Post by lazybones on Sept 18, 2024 7:57:51 GMT
I also like the taste of energy drinks. I guess there’s another dimension in which I’m walking at speed up a suburban street, with one other man a few metres away. We’re talking loudly / half shouting. There’s maybe an urgency to the walk. I do like vapes. Vapes and energy drinks. And snouts and pasties. In another dimension I’m getting demon-eyes from crankcaller. |
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Post by crankcaller on Sept 18, 2024 7:58:43 GMT
I like the smell of your badly performing underling.
That is not a euphemism.
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Post by crankcaller on Sept 18, 2024 8:00:14 GMT
Funnily enough cunty boy was chugging a monster.
Lazybones wants to cosplay a Mike Skinner song character.
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Post by lazybones on Sept 18, 2024 8:08:48 GMT
I miss jelly sweets.
They have the tangy artificial fruit flavour I crave, but most of them have gelatine in. I can’t be eating that. Beef and pork have no place on confectionary ingredients lists.
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Post by Faceless on Sept 18, 2024 8:12:09 GMT
What kind of primate are we talking about? A lemur?
I bet it's a lemur
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Post by crankcaller on Sept 18, 2024 8:16:02 GMT
lazybones Colin the Caterpillar chews from m&s are Vegan nowadays. Nowadays.
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Post by lazybones on Sept 18, 2024 8:18:38 GMT
They are. And they are extremely tasty. You can only get big bags of them though. And you have to go to M&S.
That sounds like a complaint. It’s not. I very much appreciate the existence of Colin the Caterpillars.
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Post by stxdpr on Sept 18, 2024 8:25:55 GMT
No Jim's, no adult TV, day out entertaining wife and child.
Adult TV as in things not for a small child, not like the things scam uses excel for.
Gaming funk, will browse gamepass to see if anything catches, any thoughts on diablo 4? Shonky rpg were not a hit and have been ditched.
2 days until back to work where they have implemented big changes with no training and very little explanation.
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Post by Faceless on Sept 18, 2024 8:28:28 GMT
any thoughts on diablo 4? Dull |
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Post by whatalark on Sept 18, 2024 8:30:15 GMT
Boy am I glad I'm retired from work.
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Post by whatalark on Sept 18, 2024 8:31:37 GMT
Mind you problems don't go away. I've got mutating zombies coming at me thick and fast.
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Post by RollingEscargot on Sept 18, 2024 8:33:04 GMT
With most workplace personnel issues I follow the golden rule. Simply ask yourself: what would Melvazord do? Then, don't do that. |
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Post by Destry on Sept 18, 2024 8:56:51 GMT
I like the smell of vapes. I love the sound of breaking glass |
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Post by Ozymandias Kane on Sept 18, 2024 9:01:50 GMT
LB Re your staffing issue.
A) Are they doing the job they were hired for?
B) Have you been through the usual warning/discussion/first conversation?
C) Are they happy go lucky on the outside and a complete mess on the inside?
If they are not doing the job they are paid for and play the 'but I'm your friend' card with others they shouldn't be working in the job they are in, explain to them in a stern dressing down after stating categorically the number of times you have spoken with them that they are now on a final notice, make it loud enough to be heard by others but not to be rude with it.
If all else fails, gripes go upwards.
(That or you could try pulling it if it makes you feel better)!
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Post by Ozymandias Kane on Sept 18, 2024 9:16:55 GMT
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Post by Faceless on Sept 18, 2024 9:25:36 GMT
Wordle 1,187 3/6
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