Gordon EF Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 1 minute ago, KnightswoodBear said: I have my Outlook set up to inform me if someone has a read receipt on their mail and hit "No" when it asks if I want to send one. Aye, figured out how to do that pretty quickly. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 (edited) 42 minutes ago, KnightswoodBear said: I have my Outlook set up to inform me if someone has a read receipt on their mail and hit "No" when it asks if I want to send one. I sometimes would have hit "No" for a read receipt, just to be a c***, tbh. One of my old bosses on more than one occasion copied in everyone on his address list to e-mails. He also always hit "Yes", when asked "are you sure you want to" (do whatever it was you were going to do - probably deleting an entire file), on the basis "It must be o.k. or they wouldn't ask you." The amount of times someone had to sort out his faux pas was unreal. One time his laptop died and he couldn't figure out what had happened, and had two of my colleagues up trying to sort it. Turned out he had everything plugged into an extension lead - which wasn't plugged in to the socket.* * He had the plug for the extension lead plugged into the extension lead. Edited September 27, 2019 by Jacksgranda Update 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 Someone else came back from holiday the other day and told literally everyone that she actually enjoyed being back as she loved her job. Why'd you take holidays then you daft cow Most employers make you take you holiday entitlement, even if you don’t want to. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MONKMAN Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 What kind of utter weirdo wouldn’t want to take their holiday entitlement? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HenryHill Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 21 minutes ago, MixuFixit said: Receive email addressed to me & about other 20 folk. Minutes later, receive same email forwarded by boss asking if I've seen the email I was just emailed. Weekly occurrence at least. Send it back to your boss asking if they have seen it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 30 minutes ago, MixuFixit said: Receive email addressed to me & about other 20 folk. Minutes later, receive same email forwarded by boss asking if I've seen the email I was just emailed. Weekly occurrence at least. Must be related to my old boss... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.A.F.C Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 f**k off with your read receipts 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
microdave Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 What kind of utter weirdo wouldn’t want to take their holiday entitlement? People whose home life is so shite they'd rather be at work probably. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 What kind of utter weirdo wouldn’t want to take their holiday entitlement? In my work, we repair the gritters so the winter months are a gold mine for OT for the guys on standby. We also have to use any of the previous year's annual leave by the end of January, there have been a couple of guys who have let holidays go rather than miss out on the OT. Arseholes to a man. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSU Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 On 26/09/2019 at 12:24, ICTChris said: My team are based across a number of sites, usually a minimum of four but up to six or seven different offices each day. We communicate with each other using electronic tools and calls, we are constant contact. I'm actually lucky in that there's always four or five people in my team in the office so we have a better rapport with each other because of that but there are some people who are pretty isolated. When I was at my last job in Scotland, we had a guy like the one you're lumbered with. Hired on the basis that he knew the tools and processes of the job, he knew neither, and it proved very difficult to get rid of him. After several performance improvement plans during his first year, he was on the cusp of getting his jotters when he invented some mental health problems, claimed he was being bullied and sexually harassed and ended up getting another 18 monthly paychecks before he was finally escorted from the building. It was a hugely frustrating time but I think there was a quiet, resented admiration from many in the team that he had the guts to be so utterly useless for such a long time while showing absolutely no guilt for the extra work he was causing others or that he was getting paid quite literally for nothing. IIRC, he lived from payday loan to payday loan, had questionable personal hygiene standards, and yet was apparently banging some guy's missus in a conference room on a regular basis. Some boi. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 7 hours ago, MONKMAN said: What kind of utter weirdo wouldn’t want to take their holiday entitlement? Take sickies instead and ask to be paid for your excess holidays. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.A.F.C Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 After whinging and complaining about things for so long I’ve realised that there’s nothing I can or should be doing to fix a broken workplace. I care about being professional and doing a good job but I really couldn’t care less about anyone else or how anything is run. Such a lift and haven’t given a f**k for weeks now. I wish I had realised this years ago. Something got rewired in my brain, self preservation maybe? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 10 hours ago, Jacksgranda said: One time his laptop died and he couldn't figure out what had happened, and had two of my colleagues up trying to sort it. Turned out he had everything plugged into an extension lead - which wasn't plugged in to the socket.* * He had the plug for the extension lead plugged into the extension lead. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philpy Posted September 28, 2019 Share Posted September 28, 2019 We are doing the start of a stocktake today and someone has phoned in sick. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Orton Posted September 28, 2019 Share Posted September 28, 2019 8 minutes ago, philpy said: We are doing the start of a stocktake today and someone has phoned in sick. Hopefully someone comes in wanting a big order 5 minutes before you're due to finish. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted September 28, 2019 Share Posted September 28, 2019 9 hours ago, D.A.F.C said: After whinging and complaining about things for so long I’ve realised that there’s nothing I can or should be doing to fix a broken workplace. I care about being professional and doing a good job but I really couldn’t care less about anyone else or how anything is run. Such a lift and haven’t given a f**k for weeks now. I wish I had realised this years ago. Something got rewired in my brain, self preservation maybe? You're going to be more insufferable enjoying work than when you hated it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cardinal Richelieu Posted September 28, 2019 Share Posted September 28, 2019 1 hour ago, philpy said: We are doing the start of a stocktake today and someone has phoned in sick. I remember my stocktaking days with fondness. "One two, miss a few, 99, 100". 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted September 28, 2019 Share Posted September 28, 2019 35 minutes ago, Cardinal Richelieu said: I remember my stocktaking days with fondness. "One two, miss a few, 99, 100". Still used today by referees calculating time added on when Celtic are losing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.A.F.C Posted September 28, 2019 Share Posted September 28, 2019 You're going to be more insufferable enjoying work than when you hated it.Nobody said anything about enjoying.[emoji38] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.A.F.C Posted September 28, 2019 Share Posted September 28, 2019 We are doing the start of a stocktake today and someone has phoned in sick. Cant understand why companies need to physically count stuff. Seems antiquated. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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