il_serpente Posted November 24, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted November 24, 2020 4 hours ago, Stevo985 said: While we're on the subject, our internet went down for a whole evening a couple of weeks ago (BT, I think it was on the news) Some of her suggestions for what to do without internet: Watch Netflix Watch Amazon Prime Shop for house stuff online Have a Zoom call with her family Download a box set from Sky Q Log on to her work laptop and clear some emails She's very clever, honestly. What, knitting you some socks wasn't on her list? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 Just tried to watch the Cold War Steve programme on SkyArts. **** me, it’s reminded me why I don’t watch much telly. Adverts, adverts, adverts to the point where I thought maybe there was a technical problem with the programme. From when I thought that’s a lot of adverts I made a note of the time, 3 minutes of adverts from when I checked. Programme starts, 10 minutes exactly of programme, then adverts, adverts, adverts. How the **** do people watch that channel. I’ve given up on it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted November 25, 2020 Share Posted November 25, 2020 There will come a day when cricketing, cycling, and counting to a bloody thousand will sit at the top of this forum taunting me with their unreadness. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted November 25, 2020 Share Posted November 25, 2020 9 hours ago, chrisp65 said: Just tried to watch the Cold War Steve programme on SkyArts. **** me, it’s reminded me why I don’t watch much telly. Adverts, adverts, adverts to the point where I thought maybe there was a technical problem with the programme. From when I thought that’s a lot of adverts I made a note of the time, 3 minutes of adverts from when I checked. Programme starts, 10 minutes exactly of programme, then adverts, adverts, adverts. How the **** do people watch that channel. I’ve given up on it. I record everything to watch when I want and fast forward through the adverts. Cannot remember the last time I watched a tv programme ‘live’. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted November 25, 2020 Share Posted November 25, 2020 I had to do an anonymous survey on my boss, 30 questions ranking him on a scale of 1 to 10 My boss is a really nice guy, friendly, done a lot for me since I moved out here On the other hand he's also absolutely **** terrible at his job, I think he kind of made a power play to get promoted to a position that he's not qualified to do and he struggles with, he's working 60 hour weeks killing himself with stress, can't delegate anything, all whilst having some pretty poor management skills and non existent deadline management, my job is shit because of it Still it feels dirty and horrible when you're giving a guy 2s and 3s out of 10 I'm sure there are other people on my team who feel the same, he's had rows resulting in people storming out of meetings in the last couple of months and formal complaints made but they might not be as harsh as me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choffer Posted November 25, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted November 25, 2020 10 minutes ago, villa4europe said: I had to do an anonymous survey on my boss, 30 questions ranking him on a scale of 1 to 10 My boss is a really nice guy, friendly, done a lot for me since I moved out here On the other hand he's also absolutely **** terrible at his job, I think he kind of made a power play to get promoted to a position that he's not qualified to do and he struggles with, he's working 60 hour weeks killing himself with stress, can't delegate anything, all whilst having some pretty poor management skills and non existent deadline management, my job is shit because of it Still it feels dirty and horrible when you're giving a guy 2s and 3s out of 10 I'm sure there are other people on my team who feel the same, he's had rows resulting in people storming out of meetings in the last couple of months and formal complaints made but they might not be as harsh as me Had the same experience a couple of months ago. I absolutely adore my boss. She’s smart, kind, supportive and a really good laugh but she’s also haphazard, disorganised and forgetful. I had to answer 70 questions about her and about halfway through answering the questions, I got the fear that her boss (our brand new CEO) was going to see these results and presume she was bad at her job (which isn’t the case). The questions just didn’t give me the opportunity to score her strong points so I just ended up scoring everything top-end for the last 20 or so questions. Our brand new CEO probably now just thinks I’m bipolar. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted November 25, 2020 Share Posted November 25, 2020 1 minute ago, choffer said: Had the same experience a couple of months ago. I absolutely adore my boss. She’s smart, kind, supportive and a really good laugh but she’s also haphazard, disorganised and forgetful. I had to answer 70 questions about her and about halfway through answering the questions, I got the fear that her boss (our brand new CEO) was going to see these results and presume she was bad at her job (which isn’t the case). The questions just didn’t give me the opportunity to score her strong points so I just ended up scoring everything top-end for the last 20 or so questions. Our brand new CEO probably now just thinks I’m bipolar. yeah thats the same, very little on friendliness, demeanor and approach-ability, lots on delegation and time management, felt like there were far more questions on his weaknesses they did the company in general a few months back and the average score for "do you think people are qualified to do their job?" scored something like 4.2 / 10 so they know its a problem and i marked that one really low too, maybe an englishman abroad problem, life here is way less stress but at the same time that was because seemingly everyone's role was way more to do so my opinion on who should be doing what is skewed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted November 25, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted November 25, 2020 (edited) 3 hours ago, choffer said: Had the same experience a couple of months ago. I absolutely adore my boss. She’s smart, kind, supportive and a really good laugh but she’s also haphazard, disorganised and forgetful. I had to answer 70 questions about her and about halfway through answering the questions, I got the fear that her boss (our brand new CEO) was going to see these results and presume she was bad at her job (which isn’t the case). The questions just didn’t give me the opportunity to score her strong points so I just ended up scoring everything top-end for the last 20 or so questions. Our brand new CEO probably now just thinks I’m bipolar. I had two consecutive bosses that encapsulated this dilemma. The first one was a thoroughly nice, affable guy, came down the pub with us, always stood his round, etc. But utterly inept at his job. His successor was the diametric opposite - got things done, made the right decisions, etc., but was a total clearing in the woods of a bloke, everybody hated him. Edited November 25, 2020 by mjmooney Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mottaloo Posted November 25, 2020 Share Posted November 25, 2020 Yeah, i had a boss who, in his 15 yrs in our department, had p1ssed off pretty much everyone, even those not in his team. Anyway, he sent out one of those 360° assessments to all our team and we didn't hold back. He was totally shocked which we found it hard to believe that even he didn't think he was a word removed.....i mean, he took great pleasure in cancelling overtime especially up to xmas. He'd go playing golf on his own (no mates) and was the sort to hold his leaving do in a phone box he was that despised. I once laughingly took the mick out of his liking for the lighthouse family. He didn't talk to me for 6 weeks. What a total prat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted November 25, 2020 Share Posted November 25, 2020 (edited) *heavy sigh of existential despair* EDIT: "Golgrafinchan B-Ark to be captained and vice-captained by these three. Can also ask Piers Morgan and Nigel Farage. Could save money by not actually sending promised TV crew to launch." Edited November 25, 2020 by HanoiVillan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted November 25, 2020 Moderator Share Posted November 25, 2020 I'm not a fan of Twitter at the best of times but it's part of my job so I have to. The way desktop Twitter now handles images in tweets is an effing pain in the arse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkyvilla Posted November 25, 2020 Share Posted November 25, 2020 I hadn't heard about the Jordan Peterson thing, so staff at a publisher's cried and complained about their decision to print his book? That's insane. I've not heard of the other two, I'm probably lucky not to be on Twitter or read newspapers any more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted November 25, 2020 Share Posted November 25, 2020 4 minutes ago, sharkyvilla said: I hadn't heard about the Jordan Peterson thing, so staff at a publisher's cried and complained about their decision to print his book? That's insane. I've not heard of the other two, I'm probably lucky not to be on Twitter or read newspapers any more. I had actually managed to avoid learning what the Peterson thing was about, have only a hazy sense of what Allison Pearson has done today, and am sadly fully aware of what Suzanne Moore is up to, so I guess a batting average of about .500 there. Of course, that Twitter thinks I would want to read about them is thoroughly damning of my own use of the site. It frankly makes me want to throw all my worldly possessions off a ciff top and return to living in the trees. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted November 25, 2020 Share Posted November 25, 2020 1 hour ago, sharkyvilla said: I hadn't heard about the Jordan Peterson thing, so staff at a publisher's cried and complained about their decision to print his book? That's insane. I've not heard of the other two, I'm probably lucky not to be on Twitter or read newspapers any more. I've only heard of Peterson as well and don't really know much about him. My view, if the staff don't like it, then perhaps get a job a petting zoo instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted November 25, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted November 25, 2020 Jordan Peterson is a **** grifting clearing in the woods. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Follyfoot Posted November 25, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted November 25, 2020 2 hours ago, HanoiVillan said: I had actually managed to avoid learning what the Peterson thing was about, have only a hazy sense of what Allison Pearson has done today, and am sadly fully aware of what Suzanne Moore is up to, so I guess a batting average of about .500 there. Of course, that Twitter thinks I would want to read about them is thoroughly damning of my own use of the site. It frankly makes me want to throw all my worldly possessions off a ciff top and return to living in the trees. If you do can I have your underwear 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted November 25, 2020 Share Posted November 25, 2020 2 minutes ago, Follyfoot said: If you do can I have your underwear I can make an argument for using any of the 5 reaction emojis to this comment. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Follyfoot Posted November 25, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted November 25, 2020 4 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said: I can make an argument for using any of the 5 reaction emojis to this comment. Good job I didn’t add the word used 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted November 25, 2020 Share Posted November 25, 2020 1 hour ago, Xela said: I've only heard of Peterson as well and don't really know much about him. My view, if the staff don't like it, then perhaps get a job a petting zoo instead. They may well do that. If you don't agree with how your employer is directing your labour, you of course have the right to withhold it and go elsewhere. I don't see anything wrong with the intermediate step of "I strongly disagree with this business decision, if you insist on continuing, I'm off" though. It's something I've been forced to do a couple of times in my career, once successfully, the other time less so. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted November 25, 2020 Moderator Share Posted November 25, 2020 1 hour ago, Xela said: I've only heard of Peterson as well and don't really know much about him. My view, if the staff don't like it, then perhaps get a job a petting zoo instead. Good evening Ms Patel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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