siampolee
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Post by siampolee on Mar 10, 2018 9:45:01 GMT 7
Superb but already practised and proven mismanagement skills Mein Herr.
Well I suppose it saved on the gas bill!!!!
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oldie
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Post by oldie on Mar 10, 2018 11:46:29 GMT 7
One of my colleagues is from the Philippines. He told me he had 7 managers in a year. I asked him if they resigned or got fired. Neither, they were shot in the carpark by a disgruntled employee.  .... |
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Post by rubl on Mar 10, 2018 12:42:25 GMT 7
^^| So they did get fired, fired at that is  Rumour has it some democracy lovers feel the same about politicians  |
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Post by rott on Mar 10, 2018 19:17:37 GMT 7
Gravitated to being a director of a smallish printing company, my contribution being the marketing and distribution of computer stationery. Very stressful 15 years but the latter 10 were also very profitable until I received a High Court writ alleging breach of copyright. Liquidated and firked off and spent a number of years doing very little in South Africa and Thailand interspersed with spells of menial work in London eking out my pension and savings. Overall could have been a lot worse.
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oldie
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Post by oldie on Mar 11, 2018 12:17:35 GMT 7
I left the work function early last night without even raising a glass after hearing "Dear Fred was a valued team member who dedicated himself to his work...bla...bla....bla...".
When he was vertical a few days ago they hated each other with a passion.
How pretentious and patronizing.
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Post by Soutpeel on Mar 11, 2018 19:25:02 GMT 7
I left the work function early last night without even raising a glass after hearing "Dear Fred was a valued team member who dedicated himself to his work...bla...bla....bla...". When he was vertical a few days ago they hated each other with a passion. How pretentious and patronizing. Let me guess a member of the Senior Asset Management Consultative Steering Committee ? A complete fwit lacking in any empathy, a career manager with a brown nose who will put a knife in the back of his own mother if it was to advance his career I stopped going to company functions years ago, simply because i would end up feeling like i wanted to vomit up the cheap arse meals they put on, after listening to pretentious and patronizing speeches, and self congratulations |
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Post by oldie on Mar 12, 2018 5:59:45 GMT 7
I left the work function early last night without even raising a glass after hearing "Dear Fred was a valued team member who dedicated himself to his work...bla...bla....bla...". When he was vertical a few days ago they hated each other with a passion. How pretentious and patronizing. Let me guess a member of the Senior Asset Management Consultative Steering Committee ? A complete fwit lacking in any empathy, a career manager with a brown nose who will put a knife in the back of his own mother if it was to advance his career I stopped going to company functions years ago, simply because i would end up feeling like i wanted to vomit up the cheap arse meals they put on, after listening to pretentious and patronizing speeches, and self congratulations A member of the committee isn't capable of constructing a complete sentence of it's own. It would have taken several meetings with drafts presented in power-point and then voted on. |
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Post by rgs2001uk on Mar 12, 2018 20:48:33 GMT 7
I will add just briefly that this mob lined everyone up against the wall a week before Xmas and told them that they can be replaced by contractors tomorrow. So half of them handed their notice in on the spot and moved onto better paying (and better) jobs. 2 months later some have been replaced by unhappy contractors at twice the price and the company can't figure why profit margins have plummeted, Or maybe they can, hence the kind offer of a sausage on a piece of bread (in our own time). I did some consulting work briefly for Norwich Union in the early 1990's at a time when they were downsizing many of their departments. I was sat in the IT Dept at the time which was permanently arranged like some O'Level exam room with all desks facing the front of the room and evenly spaced. On the day the layoffs were announced all staff were told to be at their desks and to remain there until noon, if their phone rang they would be instructed to go to the nearby meeting room where the dept. manager and two members of human resource were waiting. The silence in the room was only interrupted by the sound of a telephone on someone's desk, summoning them to the slaughter, the routine was always the same - person stands up, walks into room, ten minutes later walks out, sometimes in tears, packs up belongings and walks out, all in silence. One chap simply picked up his stuff and walked out when his phone rang and didn't even bother going into the room. At noon about one third of the desks were empty and everyone broke for lunch knowing the process was over and done with, the sense of relief and other emotions hung heavy. After watching that process for three hours, my partner and I stood up and walked into the IT Directors office and terminated our contracts and unleashed a torrent of sh*t on him for treating people that way but it didn't really register with him. It was by far the absolute worst example of abuse in the workplace I have ever experienced in over 50 years. Good man. |
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Post by rgs2001uk on Mar 12, 2018 20:53:32 GMT 7
I left the work function early last night without even raising a glass after hearing "Dear Fred was a valued team member who dedicated himself to his work...bla...bla....bla...". When he was vertical a few days ago they hated each other with a passion. How pretentious and patronizing. Let me guess a member of the Senior Asset Management Consultative Steering Committee ? A complete fwit lacking in any empathy, a career manager with a brown nose who will put a knife in the back of his own mother if it was to advance his career I stopped going to company functions years ago, simply because i would end up feeling like i wanted to vomit up the cheap arse meals they put on, after listening to pretentious and patronizing speeches, and self congratulationsWe organised our own down the local boozer, pictures were photocopied up to large size, we then put them on the dart board. We also had games such as pin the prick on the donkey, put it was a donkey with a photoshopped face of some management prick, and you had to put the photo of whatever other prick was the furthest up his ass. To be honest the worst of the lot were their effin ass kissing wives. |
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Post by spitfire - TV deserter on May 27, 2018 8:10:11 GMT 7
I spent 30+ years as a driver, of aircraft, sometimes known as an airline pilot, a profession described as enduring hours of boredom, punctuated by minutes of sheer terror.
Importantly I survived.
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Post by smokie36 on May 27, 2018 14:52:14 GMT 7
I spent 30+ years as a driver, of aircraft, sometimes known as an airline pilot, a profession described as enduring hours of boredom, punctuated by minutes of sheer terror. Importantly I survived. Were you ever half baked in charge of 300 poor innocent passengers all being fed tripe whilst you practiced your Silence of the Lambs face in the cockpit? |
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Post by oldie on May 27, 2018 15:08:53 GMT 7
I did a first aid course last week. Compulsory after that poor chap died at work. It was a 4 hour course and I learned how to bandage an arm. Got the certificate to prove it.
The first first aid course I did 50 years ago was a week long and we learned everything from emergency childbirth to getting a splinter in your eye.
Anyway, if you are in need of first aid I will happily bandage your arm.
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Post by me on May 27, 2018 15:15:48 GMT 7
I did a first aid course last week. Compulsory after that poor chap died at work. It was a 4 hour course and I learned how to bandage an arm. Got the certificate to prove it. The first first aid course I did 50 years ago was a week long and we learned everything from emergency childbirth to getting a splinter in your eye. Anyway, if you are in need of first aid I will happily bandage your arm. Yes, the old courses trained us to help for a long period. The theory is most of the population in cities can be reached in 12 minutes by an ambulance so it is better not to have people trying too much. Of course if you half way to Ularu via the Black Stump and the Ettamagourah pub is closed you are stuffed. |
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Post by oldie on May 27, 2018 15:24:06 GMT 7
I did a first aid course last week. Compulsory after that poor chap died at work. It was a 4 hour course and I learned how to bandage an arm. Got the certificate to prove it. The first first aid course I did 50 years ago was a week long and we learned everything from emergency childbirth to getting a splinter in your eye. Anyway, if you are in need of first aid I will happily bandage your arm. Yes, the old courses trained us to help for a long period. The theory is most of the population in cities can be reached in 12 minutes by an ambulance so it is better not to have people trying too much. Of course if you half way to Ularu via the Black Stump and the Ettamagourah pub is closed you are stuffed. I couldn't believe it. It was embarrassing. |
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Post by smokie36 on May 28, 2018 1:25:43 GMT 7
Yes, the old courses trained us to help for a long period. The theory is most of the population in cities can be reached in 12 minutes by an ambulance so it is better not to have people trying too much. Of course if you half way to Ularu via the Black Stump and the Ettamagourah pub is closed you are stuffed. I couldn't believe it. It was embarrassing. I posted the full monty here before but here is the abbreviated version. 1. Call for help. 2. Make sure you called for help. 3. ABC shit. 4. Get someone else to do ABC and have a smoke while waiting for the ambulance. |
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