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ovduk78

ovduk78

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Nick said:
Estate agents who try to bullshit you when you have made sure everything is in writing so a simple email search makes them look silly every time.
House sellers who are slow as fuck.
Conveyancers who can't read.

All cunts, actual proper cunts.
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When I was selling my house in Solihull I was working on a contract in Southend and the Estate Agents said that they would only arrange viewings at weekends. I had given them a set of keys but not for the garage and without me knowing took someone round to view. They called me at work to ask if I could get them a key for the garage as the viewers wanted a look inside so I got on my bike straight after work and did a 292 mile round trip to drop the keys in at their office. I called them the next day to check they'd got them to be told they'd decided the day before that they didn't need them. No phone call, no apology, Bairstow Eves utter cunts! I also got home early one Friday to find 2 estate agents in the house, they weren't doing a viewing, just having a look! They didn't do an awful lot to justify the ridiculous fee, at least the solicitors did what I asked of them for a fraction of the cost.
 
chiefdave

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SBAndy said:
Our IT department at work. Got an issue I raised with them the other day, gave me a couple of guides to try and fix it. Suffice to say, neither worked. They then told me to call them when I had 20-30 minutes available, which I did this afternoon. The guy proceeds to set off a factory reset and tells me that it’ll probably take 3 hours before I’m back up and running. No choice of when to do it, and now missed 2 customer appointments. Fucking imbeciles.
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Didn't know you were one of my companies clients :D

My first job today was trying to undo the complete mess the helpdesk had made of someone's laptop. Poor bloke only wanted an Outlook add-in loading and ended up with a completely destroyed laptop he couldn't do anything on. Would be nice if our own helpdesk wasn't generating more work than our actual customers. Not even my job to sort that mess out but as usual thanks to getting rid of most of the staff there was nobody else willing to do it.
 
Sbarcher

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The over use of the word "survivors"
If you get through a car crash or a bomb attack where it's a life threatening event, then you are a survivor.
I have full sympathy for people who have bee abused, sexually, physically or emotionally, but they are "victims" NOT survivors.
 
shmmeee

shmmeee

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Sbarcher said:
The over use of the word "survivors"
If you get through a car crash or a bomb attack where it's a life threatening event, then you are a survivor.
I have full sympathy for people who have bee abused, sexually, physically or emotionally, but they are "victims" NOT survivors.
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Think this is about framing. People don’t want to be seen as permanent victims. Not good for recovery.

Also lots of people don’t survive abuse.
 
SBAndy

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New entry coming directly in at number 1 - the fucking gimp who’s thought it is a good idea to set up a Teams chat between 130 of us to “talk about what we’re up to at the weekend”. Mission: to drive engagement. Result: me wanting to get out of this godforsaken hell-hole without raising attention. Onto mute you go.
 
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SBAndy said:
New entry coming directly in at number 1 - the fucking gimp who’s thought it is a good idea to set up a Teams chat between 130 of us to “talk about what we’re up to at the weekend”. Mission: to drive engagement. Result: me wanting to get out of this godforsaken hell-hole without raising attention. Onto mute you go.
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What are you up to at the weekend?
 
Nick

Nick

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SBAndy said:
New entry coming directly in at number 1 - the fucking gimp who’s thought it is a good idea to set up a Teams chat between 130 of us to “talk about what we’re up to at the weekend”. Mission: to drive engagement. Result: me wanting to get out of this godforsaken hell-hole without raising attention. Onto mute you go.
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"Getting a bag of coke and a few escorts as it's the wife's birthday"

That should put an end to those sorts of gatherings.
 
fernandopartridge

fernandopartridge

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SBAndy said:
New entry coming directly in at number 1 - the fucking gimp who’s thought it is a good idea to set up a Teams chat between 130 of us to “talk about what we’re up to at the weekend”. Mission: to drive engagement. Result: me wanting to get out of this godforsaken hell-hole without raising attention. Onto mute you go.
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Tbf to them I can see where they're coming from (not the 130 person chart maybe) but home working is a completely joyless isolating experience. It's good to chat about something other than the subject matter of thousands of Teams calls.
 
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Until very recently I worked in part of the department that is not only infamous for delivering the square root of zero, despite the millions it spends (mainly on useless, charlatan contractors*) but also is known for its deflection of blame, directed at individuals and groups. In an effort to raise morale the Director has arranged for a series of 'how great are we' sessions. From the Teams chat after the latest session:

[11:21] xxxxx
I am proud of the relationship my team has with xxxxs.

[11:21] xxxx
I am proud of xxxx Directorate and every single person working in it - WE ARE AWESOME!

[11:21] xxxx
Proud to achieve alot in the past year in developing the xxx function

[11:22] xxx
I am proud of the work we do and the colleagues I work with who are all so positive and helpful.

[11:22] xxx
I am proud of all the support I have had from my team and Director (smile) They are all amazing

[11:22]
I find the pride that xxx staff take in their work and striving to do their best in every situation is inspiring

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This sycophantic shite from the very worse part of the business I have ever witnessed, and who have just about zero to be proud about as a collective.

🤮

*as previously acknowledged, most contractors are good, and some utterly brilliant, and without which organisations such as mine would be screwed.
 
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chiefdave

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fernandopartridge said:
Tbf to them I can see where they're coming from (not the 130 person chart maybe) but home working is a completely joyless isolating experience. It's good to chat about something other than the subject matter of thousands of Teams calls.
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We have them with the added bonus that as its not counted as work they are all held outside of work hours. Its pretty difficult to keep coming up with excuses when we're in lockdown!
 
Nick

Nick

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chiefdave said:
We have them with the added bonus that as its not counted as work they are all held outside of work hours. Its pretty difficult to keep coming up with excuses when we're in lockdown!
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"Getting a bag of coke and a few escorts as it's the wife's birthday"
 
oakey

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dubed said:
Until very recently I worked in part of the department that is not only infamous for delivering the square route of zero, despite the millions it spends (mainly on useless, charlatan contractors*) but also is known for its deflection of blame, directed at individuals and groups. In an effort to raise morale the Director has arranged for a series of 'how great are we' sessions. From the Teams chat after the latest session:

[11:21] xxxxx
I am proud of the relationship my team has with xxxxs.

[11:21] xxxx
I am proud of xxxx Directorate and every single person working in it - WE ARE AWESOME!

[11:21] xxxx
Proud to achieve alot in the past year in developing the xxx function

[11:22] xxx
I am proud of the work we do and the colleagues I work with who are all so positive and helpful.

[11:22] xxx
I am proud of all the support I have had from my team and Director (smile) They are all amazing

[11:22]
I find the pride that xxx staff take in their work and striving to do their best in every situation is inspiring

---

This sycophantic shite from the very worse part of the business I have ever witnessed, and who have just about zero to be proud about as a collective.

🤮

*as previously acknowledged, most contractors are good, and some utterly brilliant, and without which organisations such as mine would be screwed.
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The leadership team at my last place used to talk like that and then got upset if they heard their positive messaging had been met with cynicism. What's wrong with these negative people they said. They never got that it was the perception that it was only "warm words' but insincere. Those type of leaders never do. They swallow the How to be an effective leader horsesh!t on those courses. They think listening means finding out what chocolate you like and putting a mini mars bar in your pigeonhole. That's not a euphemism BTW
 
fernandopartridge

fernandopartridge

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dubed said:
Until very recently I worked in part of the department that is not only infamous for delivering the square root of zero, despite the millions it spends (mainly on useless, charlatan contractors*) but also is known for its deflection of blame, directed at individuals and groups. In an effort to raise morale the Director has arranged for a series of 'how great are we' sessions. From the Teams chat after the latest session:

[11:21] xxxxx
I am proud of the relationship my team has with xxxxs.

[11:21] xxxx
I am proud of xxxx Directorate and every single person working in it - WE ARE AWESOME!

[11:21] xxxx
Proud to achieve alot in the past year in developing the xxx function

[11:22] xxx
I am proud of the work we do and the colleagues I work with who are all so positive and helpful.

[11:22] xxx
I am proud of all the support I have had from my team and Director (smile) They are all amazing

[11:22]
I find the pride that xxx staff take in their work and striving to do their best in every situation is inspiring

---

This sycophantic shite from the very worse part of the business I have ever witnessed, and who have just about zero to be proud about as a collective.



*as previously acknowledged, most contractors are good, and some utterly brilliant, and without which organisations such as mine would be screwed.
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We did an exercise like that once, everybody was asked to give a statement on why they were proud to work here. I blanked it.
 
Terry Gibson's perm

Terry Gibson's perm

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Bobby Bridge how this man has a job at The Telegraph I will never know, just read his latest about the changing of the seats.
 
cowboy1850

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Is anyone elses lives dominated and blighted by "women-time"?

Moans at me for taking 20 minutes in the shower and then she takes a 35/40 minute shower.

Gives my a large amount of DIY jobs to do but whenever I say I want to do them she won't allocate me anytime to do it.

We have to be somewhere at 10am, I tell her we need to leave at 9:30am. At 9:30am still not ready and we end up leaving at 9:50 and being 20 minutes late.

Tell her I'm about to leave for work. She asks me to have the kids for minute then disappears for 10 minutes.

:mad:
 
oakey

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My husband is just like that.
Ask him for a time when he / we're doing anything he replies - When I've finished my coffee. An hour later he has a shower then reappears, rattles his keys (not a euphemism) and says Are you ready then?
He then jumps in the car and drums his fingers on the steering wheel (not a euphemism) as if I'm dawdling.
 
richnrg

richnrg

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cowboy1850 said:
Gives my a large amount of DIY jobs to do but whenever I say I want to do them she won't allocate me anytime to do it.
:mad:
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A little worrying. Is she in charge of what you do in every second of your day? If she won't 'allocate' you any time to do these jobs, what does she make you do during this time instead?
 
Sbarcher

Sbarcher

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richnrg said:
A little worrying. Is she in charge of what you do in every second of your day? If she won't 'allocate' you any time to do these jobs, what does she make you do during this time instead?
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Do you need to book in for a s**t?
 
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tom88

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Mr Panda said:
Football badges tattooed onto the calf.

Why always the calf?
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I have the cov badge tattooed on my calf.

do I think I’m hard? No, never been a fighter

Am I out to look for trouble? Complete opposite

I have many tattoos but people are shocked when I have them out.

to answer your question, I wanted it on my calf because I can have it out when I want and hide it when I want with ease. I have a respectable job and will only have them on show when I think it’s appropriate too.

I find the people who have tattoos that wear shorts and t shirt in the winter to have them out more annoying.


I also find people who comment on other people having tattoos annoying too

did you pay for it? No

is it in your skin? No

do you have to look so hard at them to find faults? No

do I comment on you for not having tattoos? No

* I’m not pointing this reply directly at you BTW. It’s just my feelings towards people in general when talking about tattoos as seeing them as a taboo still.

we’re in 2021 now
 
JAM See

JAM See

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Toothache at 3.30 in the morning.
 
Mr Panda

Mr Panda

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Sbarcher said:
Why have you got a beef about that?
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tom88 said:
I have the cov badge tattooed on my calf.

do I think I’m hard? No, never been a fighter

Am I out to look for trouble? Complete opposite

I have many tattoos but people are shocked when I have them out.

to answer your question, I wanted it on my calf because I can have it out when I want and hide it when I want with ease. I have a respectable job and will only have them on show when I think it’s appropriate too.

I find the people who have tattoos that wear shorts and t shirt in the winter to have them out more annoying.


I also find people who comment on other people having tattoos annoying too

did you pay for it? No

is it in your skin? No

do you have to look so hard at them to find faults? No

do I comment on you for not having tattoos? No

* I’m not pointing this reply directly at you BTW. It’s just my feelings towards people in general when talking about tattoos as seeing them as a taboo still.

we’re in 2021 now
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Nah, you are right. Was a throw away comment without much thought put into it.
 
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