leviramsey Posted February 26, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted February 26, 2014 This describes 90% of Americans. Even when they're trying not to be loud their voices just carry. At least Til Tuesday... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethRDR Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 Can I apply? Yes, and from the looks of it as an external candidate you'll have a pretty good chance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 People who say 'I'm hungry' then go and buy a chocolate bar When I say I'm hungry I want a fat roast dinner or something like that, people who eat a chocolate bar are not hungry they are bored I never really get hungry. If I am on my own in the house I forget to eat and only remember as i am going to sleep. Not my favourite thing eating, wastes an awful lot of time. That's crazy. I spend most my life looking forward to my next meal. Food is amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eames Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 FOI requests. **** you and your attempts at public scrutiny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dAVe80 Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 The fact the company I work for is running a competition, to win Club Wembley tickets for the League Cup Final on Sunday, but not providing travel etc. Bugs me that a decent prize, comes with the catch that you'll have to spend a fortune getting to London and back, as they only announced the competition 5 days before the event. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 I love my job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethRDR Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 FOI requests. **** you and your attempts at public scrutiny. Look Eames, I warned you at the time that if you wouldn't tell me your bra size, I would escalate the matter to the proper authorities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jadenb42 Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 Barclay's banking apps not working on rooted phone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 I invented a thoroughly awesome decorating tool that perfectly illustrated why humans have taken command of the earth. I took a professional long handled decorators scraper, about 400mm long with twin easy grips. Using masking tape I then lashed a quality paint brush to it. Thus allowing me to relatively safely reach over the cavernous and treacherous stairwell to paint the inaccessible out of reach bits of wall. However, due to the wide scraper blade, it won't dip into my pot of paint. So now I've had to go to the fridge, empty the mushrooms out of their carton and dispense some paint into the wider plastic pot. Now I need to find a container for my mushrooms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theunderstudy Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 This recent spate of changed avatars. Given that everything revolves around me, I can only assume you've all done it to piss me off. The forum change thingy ruined my shapeshifting illusion cube Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rovers13 Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 Trouble is, he's loud. He'll take over a cafe or a bar with his voice and I cringe whenever I glance around to see people looking at us. This describes 90% of Americans. Even when they're trying not to be loud their voices just carry. I am unfortunately like this. I try to talk quieter when I think of it, but it's not easy to constantly think about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 The red tape within my company is **** ridiculous. Incredibly pissed off at the moment. This is the kind of shit that makes people leave the company, and then they wonder why good employees are leaving. All big companies are the same unfortunately. I suffer the same at my place. So frustrating. I'll walk you through what's happening with me. I've been told, for at least the last 12 months, that I'm due a promotion (a minor miracle considering how much time I spend on VT ) In the middle of last year I was told I was good enough, I'd pushed my way into the top of my peer group and I should start applying for jobs a grade above me. I did this with a job, didn't get it. That's fine. I was then told that because so many people were applying for promotions at the moment (the internal vacancy thing is actually quite new within FInance here) they had decided to only allow certain people to apply for promotions. Fair enough, that should be me, I'm in the top of my peer group, right? Wrong, they'd decided to base the "list" off the last year end assessment that everyone had done, 8 or 9 months previous in my case. This meant I was just outside "the list". So that was annoying, means I've had to bide my time. My next year end is due in 6 weeks time. Now, my supervisor is leaving. He's a grade above me. He said that I should be allowed to do his job as my promotion. We both spoke to HIS boss, who agreed that he wants me to be promoted into that role. He asked HIS boss, and he also agreed. That's everyone between me and 3 grades above me agreeing. It would still have to be advertised internally and if anyone else applied, they'd have to be considered. If they didn't, the job's mine basically. Advertised, nobody applied. Happy days right? Wrong. The comittee here who decide rotations and promotions etc have said that I can't have it because I haven't had my year end assessment so can't go through the process to get promoted (there's an assessment centre thing). Fine, just let me do it early? No, that's out of process. So they are now forcing my boss (his words) to take on an external hire. They'll have to pay her more, it's cost more to recruit her, she doesn't want to work down here because she lives in solihull AND she has a 3 month notice period so won't be able to start until June at the earliest. By which time I'd have done my year end assessment, and my next up assessment to get promoted. Not to mention she'd be coming into the company and starting from scratch, and this job has a LOT of technical knowledge in it so it'll take her months to get up to speed, yet she's supposed to be supervising me. Whereas I know it all now and can do the job now. But I still can't have the job. So the candidate doesn't want the job, her predecessor doesn't want her to get the job, her new boss doesn't want her to have the job, and everyone wants me to have the job. But because it's out of process by a month or 2, according to people who don't know anything about the job, I can't have it! And to top it off, they've asked me to do it, for nothing, for the 3 months until she's hired. **** YOU tl;dr my company is run by words removed. I'm fuming on your behalf after reading that! I need to throw a chair across a room! Is anything more bureaucratic than a large multi national organisation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 Couple of things pissing me off today: - People who are always 10-15 mins late for work, Leave 10-15 mins earlier you arseholes - Prolific posters on this site who haven't got an avatar. You know who you are! At last something that fits in with the title of the thread - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 Do you mind if I borrow your avatar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 Help yourself. I have no idea who the handsome chap is! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baselayers Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 FU drunken mini bar charges. My bank account is sad now Did you try the incredulous "Don't you know who I am?!" shtick or are you yet to reach that level of 'fame'? I will never be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaajax Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 My sister's friend has come round, apparently to use our bath to bath her kid. It's supposed to be my bath time damn it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8pints Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 My sister's friend has come round, apparently to use our bath to bath her kid. It's supposed to be my bath time damn it! Throw the baby out with the bath water then. And run yourself a new one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Risso Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 My sister's friend has come round, apparently to use our bath to bath her kid. It's supposed to be my bath time damn it! and that your honour, concludes the case the case for the defence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaajax Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 I like it. I should shout "This isn't a creche, you know?!" whilst doing so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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