Guest Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 Unsure what the rancid behaviour bit is in reference to? Unless you’re one of those weirdo types who will only shit in their own house.The toilet is just a wee toilet right off the workshop, stinks the whole place out, to be at the point of sprinting in the door to go for a shite is absolute weirdo behaviour. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thistle_do_nicely Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 (edited) 3 hours ago, ICTChris said: I worked in a job in a call centre after leaving Uni but I wasn't on the phones, I did back office analysis sort of stuff. If we were missing our SLAs one of the managers would just make loads of calls directly to an agent from his personal phone, all would be answered in 0.1s and it would get the average wait time down to below SLA. A good early career lesson in the benefits of defrauding your customers, who were all huge companies and some government departments and never queried our numbers. Similar story working as a home delivery driver a while back; regional manager was querying some utilisation stat or suchlike for the stores van at quiet periods. So the store manager started padding out the day by adding deliveries to other nearby stores on the delivery runs (sometimes it was still a good few items but other times it would literally just be a handful of plastic bags) edit: no-one afaik actually cared or looked at where the van was going on the delivery runs, just as long as it was hitting some arbitrary % through the day. The wire has it right, you focus too much on the numbers and it all just becomes a stats game that gets played. Edited February 21, 2022 by Thistle_do_nicely 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thistledo Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 6 hours ago, GordonD said: By which I assume you mean they gave you a bollocking if you were a minute or two late coming back. But you'd also get a bollocking if you hung up on a customer because it was time for your break. Exactly this. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 I no longer have holidays, annual leave or any other term you'd normally use for time off - I have 'planned absences' 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 3 minutes ago, Miguel Sanchez said: I no longer have holidays, annual leave or any other term you'd normally use for time off - I have 'planned absences' I have UK Annual Leave (Days) - not to be confused with Paid Leave UK (Days) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorongil Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 I hate office “cup of tea” culture. “Who’s turn is it?” is twee, embarrassing nonsense. If I want a coffee when I’m in work I get one from the vending machine or pop downstairs to Pret or whatever. It’s better not to involve other people, like with most things. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 2 hours ago, Miguel Sanchez said: I no longer have holidays, annual leave or any other term you'd normally use for time off - I have 'planned absences' Keep the unplanned ones up your sleeve and never take a single day as sick. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 6 hours ago, Empty It said: The toilet is just a wee toilet right off the workshop, stinks the whole place out, to be at the point of sprinting in the door to go for a shite is absolute weirdo behaviour. Horrible flashbacks to working at a hotdesk separated from the lavvy by the thinnest of walls. We had a volunteer with Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Imagine enduring a rectal explosion in the full knowledge that all your workmates could hear every squeak and splatter. We could've had a conversation without raising our voices. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 4 hours ago, Thorongil said: I hate office “cup of tea” culture. “Who’s turn is it?” is twee, embarrassing nonsense. If I want a coffee when I’m in work I get one from the vending machine or pop downstairs to Pret or whatever. It’s better not to involve other people, like with most things. At last. An opinion from Cattlegridville that I can wholeheartedly agree with. Have a greenie. Hell is other people. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theroadlesstravelled Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 15 hours ago, Empty It said: There is 2 guys in particular at my work who come in and pretty much race each other to go for a shite every day, pretty sure they don't shite in their own house absolute rancid behaviour. I worked with a guy who refused to shite at work and would drive home if he needed to go. His dream was to be sent home one day because he shat his pants. And yes, he was a civil servant. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eednud Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 Place I worked at in the 70’s didn’t pay overtime for the first half hour but once the clock ticked one minute over you were paid an hour’s overtime Cue exodus to the bogs about 25 minutes past with almost communal flushing around the 35 minute mark then clocking off for the day. Not many had a shite though as the done thing was to have one earlier in the day. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arabdownunder Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 15 minutes ago, Eednud said: Place I worked at in the 70’s didn’t pay overtime for the first half hour but once the clock ticked one minute over you were paid an hour’s overtime Cue exodus to the bogs about 25 minutes past with almost communal flushing around the 35 minute mark then clocking off for the day. Not many had a shite though as the done thing was to have one earlier in the day. One of the first jobs I ever had, I went towards the bog from the break room. "Where do you think you're going?" asked one of the older workers. When I told him he told me to sit back down and gave me some advice which has lasted me in good stead in the 40 years since; "Always shite on company time, son." 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 I used to work with a guy who would only drink during the week, never at weekends, as he thought it best to recover from a hangover on their time. I couldn't do that - being rough as f**k at work all week. Plus he mororbiked into work every day. I was sure he'd end up being done for drink driving. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiegoDiego Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 Touching moment at work today. The look of surprise and delight on my colleague's face was priceless as he was handed his card and cake. Turns out the surprise was due to his birthday being the 22nd of March, but still. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thistledo Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 11 hours ago, Arabdownunder said: One of the first jobs I ever had, I went towards the bog from the break room. "Where do you think you're going?" asked one of the older workers. When I told him he told me to sit back down and gave me some advice which has lasted me in good stead in the 40 years since; "Always shite on company time, son." A place I worked in before we knocked up some basic code that you could start and stop when you went for a shite. It would eventually output a spreadsheet of how much money you earned and how much time you spent doing a shit in work. Time well spent I must say. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busta Nut Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 Has the tedious shite about Scottsdads work been resolved yet? I am skipping 4 months of pages cos it was fucking shite. Wait until that is concluded and give us a paragraph about it FFS 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 21 minutes ago, Busta Nut said: Has the tedious shite about Scottsdads work been resolved yet? I am skipping 4 months of pages cos it was fucking shite. Wait until that is concluded and give us a paragraph about it FFS ^^^The Prof. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 1 hour ago, Busta Nut said: Has the tedious shite about Scottsdads work been resolved yet? I am skipping 4 months of pages cos it was fucking shite. Wait until that is concluded and give us a paragraph about it FFS At least @ me when mentioning. I've dialled back the posting about him after a few posts like this one. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busta Nut Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 I didn't want to @ you. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 1 hour ago, Busta Nut said: Has the tedious shite about Scottsdads work been resolved yet? I am skipping 4 months of pages cos it was fucking shite. Wait until that is concluded and give us a paragraph about it FFS ^^^posted from his Greek timeshare. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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