Work colleagues

[HenryHill]

3 hours ago, highlandcowden said:

cant imagine its as easy to go on a murder spree in your workplace if all that's available to you is a baseball bat with nails hammered through it

 

Sounds an amazing way to do it. With open plan offices you could get a good few and no need to reload. Well, thats the how bit sorted...

[Cerberus]

After my survey which laid waste to one and all I got a follow up email asking for suggestions on which improvements could be made.
This is what I wrote:
 

Problem-
Senior management is a joke. Terrible leadership, corruption, blatant nepotism.

 

Proposed Changes-
Clean house from director level up.

[Jacksgranda]

9 hours ago, highlandcowden said:

if guns were freely available in this country I suspect we would have.

cant imagine its as easy to go on a murder spree in your workplace if all that's available to you is a baseball bat with nails hammered through it

 

Try it and report back how you got on...

[highlandcowden]

1 hour ago, Cerberus said:

After my survey which laid waste to one and all I got a follow up email asking for suggestions on which improvements could be made.
This is what I wrote:
 

Problem-
Senior management is a joke. Terrible leadership, corruption, blatant nepotism.

 

Proposed Changes-
Clean house from director level up.

well,duh

[BFTD]

On 15/06/2019 at 07:43, Nkomo-A-Gogo said:

Was in a file stores job few years back when we were all called in by management as someone had written "Bernadette sucks Dave's cock" on the back of one of the dirty vans.(Two of the managers) Everyone knew what was written but a few were asking in the meeting what it was. Eventually a fuming Bernadette said it out loud. Dave started trying to say it's not on but boys will be boys. Then Bernadette stood up furious and shouted at Dave "YOU START LOCKING THE DOOR WHEN YOUR DOING A SHITE TOO" and stormed off.

Just wanted to add that I work with a Bernadette, so this has greatly amused me.

On the subject of workplace surveys, I used to work at a firm that ended up on the Sunday Times' 100 Best Places to Work list. Apparently, the mother of one of the directors read the paper and he wanted her to see his company in it, which is how we ended up being considered. There was a three-line whip in effect by the time the staff were asked their opinion by the survey company; undisclosed consequences if we didn't make the cut.

Just in case anyone thought there might be any validity to those things at all.

[D.A.F.C]

Glass door is funny to check out.

shit 

shite 

rubbish

a fullfilling brilliant challenging workplace 

^^^fake entry found

[LincolnHearts]

There is no chance those workplace surveys are anonymous.

We did our annual one last month using an email link sent to you which they said would only work for you, alongside a sentence or two telling you not to share the link with anyone else.

Was less than complimentary, working for a company with massive staff turnover (compared to similar sized businesses) and a rampant culture of bullying.

[IrishBhoy]

On 19/06/2019 at 14:41, KnightswoodBear said:

Generally as you move up the ladder the amount of arseholes/incompetents increases dramatically.

Unbelievable how true this is. 

When I worked on the tools I believed the guys upstairs knew the job inside out. Now that I’m part of the upstairs I realise they are absolutely incompetent. Being able to talk nonsense in a confident manner gets you a long way in most places. 

[GordonD]

8 hours ago, IrishBhoy said:

Unbelievable how true this is. 

When I worked on the tools I believed the guys upstairs knew the job inside out. Now that I’m part of the upstairs I realise they are absolutely incompetent. Being able to talk nonsense in a confident manner gets you a long way in most places. 

 

[Cardinal Richelieu]

Not a week goes by without a "How are we doing?" type survey getting sent to everyone in the work. 

However, Today's email wasn't a survey. It was an email to whet our appetites - to inform us about a NEW survey that's coming next Monday. It was even accompanied by the hashtag #threedaystogo

Yes, we're now getting a countdown to surveys. The opening line informed us that the survey is BACK (I honestly didn't think it had gone away). And now, instead of giving scores from 1-5, we get to use SMILEY FACES. 

Haud me back. 

[Jacksgranda]

6 hours ago, Cardinal Richelieu said:

Not a week goes by without a "How are we doing?" type survey getting sent to everyone in the work. 

However, Today's email wasn't a survey. It was an email to whet our appetites - to inform us about a NEW survey that's coming next Monday. It was even accompanied by the hashtag #threedaystogo

Yes, we're now getting a countdown to surveys. The opening line informed us that the survey is BACK (I honestly didn't think it had gone away). And now, instead of giving scores from 1-5, we get to use SMILEY FACES. 

Haud me back. 

[Sergeant Wilson]

22 minutes ago, Tynierose said:

 relatively normal people.

Was right with you until that bit.

[Honest_Man#1]

19 hours ago, IrishBhoy said:

Unbelievable how true this is. 

When I worked on the tools I believed the guys upstairs knew the job inside out. Now that I’m part of the upstairs I realise they are absolutely incompetent. Being able to talk nonsense in a confident manner gets you a long way in most places. 

There is a balance though that a lot of people on the front line completely fail/refuse to understand/accept. Management often won’t know the fundamentals of the day to day jobs themselves, but do a lot of stuff (e.g. client relationship management, financial management) that the front line teams don’t have to worry about at all.

The team I have at work are great and definitely know far more about the trades they have and use than me, but I’m sure if I left them to run things that they’d probably spark out the client on day 3 or bankrupt the contract within weeks through relentless spend.

[supermik]

1 hour ago, Honest_Man#1 said:

 

The team I have at work are great and definitely know far more about the trades they have and use than me, 

So, basically, there are a load of people at your work that know a great deal more than you about your job and you are in charge of them!!

Think I will stick to nicking the odd bit of cheese rather than a weekly wage.

 

[Sergeant Wilson]

1 minute ago, supermik said:

So, basically, there are a load of people at your work that know a great deal more than you about your job and you are in charge of them!!

Think I will stick to nicking the odd bit of cheese rather than a weekly wage.

 

Bosses get paid monthly...because we can budget.

[supermik]

11 minutes ago, Sergeant Wilson said:

Bosses get paid monthly...because we can budget.

Well some folks should budget on a weekly wage as they would not have lasted a month with my company.

[IrishBhoy]

2 hours ago, Honest_Man#1 said:

There is a balance though that a lot of people on the front line completely fail/refuse to understand/accept. Management often won’t know the fundamentals of the day to day jobs themselves, but do a lot of stuff (e.g. client relationship management, financial management) that the front line teams don’t have to worry about at all.

The team I have at work are great and definitely know far more about the trades they have and use than me, but I’m sure if I left them to run things that they’d probably spark out the client on day 3 or bankrupt the contract within weeks through relentless spend.

Would agree that the men on the tools wouldn’t last long in that type of environment and doing those type of jobs. 

My current company build and repair pumps for off shore rigs and I could walk up to the procurement manager with a drawing and he wouldn’t be able to point to one component and tell me what it is. Project managers are the same, they might be brilliant when talking on the phone and dealing with customers but when they need to know anything technical they will go and ask the guys on the shop floor. If you are taking a wage of 70k you shouldn’t be asking guys on 35k for information about the product. 

[Raidernation]

What sort/make of pumps?
Used to be my wheelhouse til I took up teaching

[Honest_Man#1]

2 hours ago, supermik said:

So, basically, there are a load of people at your work that know a great deal more than you about your job and you are in charge of them!!

Think I will stick to nicking the odd bit of cheese rather than a weekly wage.

 

No, quite the opposite - they know pretty much f**k all about my job and how to do it. They would struggle with an excel spreadsheet. 

They are far better than me at the technical bit, and I’m far better than them at the management side. They’re happy coming in bang on time in the morning and leaving bang on time at night every day, so fair play to them and as I say I know they’re good at their jobs. A lot of technical front line staff I’ve met have had a “management do nothing and get big wages for f**k all” attitude, but fail to appreciate the numerous things they do that keep the place running (my team actually do get that management do a lot, but I’ve met plenty who just refuse to accept it).

Edited June 22, 2019 by Honest_Man#1

[IrishBhoy]

39 minutes ago, Raidernation said:

What sort/make of pumps?
Used to be my wheelhouse til I took up teaching

All different to be honest. The contract is with companies like Shell, ConocoPhillips and the like to service all pumps on their rig. Weirs and Sulzer are the main larger pumps but also repair Rams, submersibles and smaller centrifugals. I was about 15 years on the tools working on them so I suppose that’s why I get annoyed when I need to sit in meetings with daft uni graduates who know nothing about our product.