scottsdad Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 34 minutes ago, The Moonster said: When given the choice of choosing to piss in a private cubicle or directly next to your boss you chose directly next to your boss. I'm afraid you have no one to blame but yourself for the awkward situation that followed. That sounds fair enough. Mea culpa... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, The Moonster said: Taking urinal 2 when your boss had taken urinal 1 is behaviour that would see me put you on a certain list that would have at least one of my eyes on you at all times. I trust you were left with no other option and are not a deviant though. Edited February 28, 2022 by GordonD 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 I work in the engine room of a ship and there is one toilet shared by us, there is one, or more, manky b*****d that has a bad habit of missing the toilet when they are pissing. the feeling of pulling up your boilersuit after a shit and the arm or back is wet through is absolutely soul destroying. My blood went cold for a second as I read that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 5 minutes ago, oaksoft said: 2 urinals? Am I missing something or is your arithmetic a bit weak? Is one of those THREE a hand drier or a sink? I don't see a soap dispenser. BTW, those are the new Japanese models. You're supposed to sit in them. This picture is not taken from the office building I visited in 2002, but rather was taken from the internet to show that bog design can be poor. Like this one: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curmudgeon Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 42 minutes ago, scottsdad said: This picture is not taken from the office building I visited in 2002, but rather was taken from the internet to show that bog design can be poor. Like this one: I'm expecting someone to start a Turdle thread for a daily puzzle of bog layouts. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 BTW, those are the new Japanese models. You're supposed to sit in them. I'm not falling for that one again. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 1 minute ago, oaksoft said: There used to be an online game where you were presented with various urinal scenarios in a pub and had to pick which one you would use - do you go next to the punk or the guy with tattoos etc. The game's response if you repeatedly picked a urinal already occupied by another person was fun. Just about to google "urinal fun games". Wish me luck. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillonearth Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 15 hours ago, The Moonster said: Can I just clarify here - was the cubicle free? Taking urinal 2 when your boss had taken urinal 1 is behaviour that would see me put you on a certain list that would have at least one of my eyes on you at all times. I trust you were left with no other option and are not a deviant though. There's an unwritten law with cubicles too...in our office there are banks of four of them, and the middle two are by far the least shat-in....everyone gravitates towards either Trap 1 or Trap 4, and will only use one of the middle ones in extremis. Which reminds me of a time I was reading the paper while launching a big brown submarine down the Clyde, when somebody came rushing in in a hurry, went into one of the middle ones and basically exploded, following the initial onslaught with a quavering sigh/groan combination: "Ooooaaaaggghhh..." Somebody in one of the other cubicles started laughing. So did I. Eventually the entire row of cubicles had someone sitting in them with their trousers at their ankles laughing uncontrollably, to the point where somebody innocently walked into the bogs a minute or so later, heard us, went "f**k that..." and walked back out, which only set us off again. 18 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 18 hours ago, Hillonearth said: There's an unwritten law with cubicles too...in our office there are banks of four of them, and the middle two are by far the least shat-in I can't have been the only one who got this far and pictured this kind of thing 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 3 minutes ago, BFTD said: I can't have been the only one who got this far and pictured this kind of thing ^^^^^ Dilbert found 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScarf Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 12 minutes ago, BFTD said: I can't have been the only one who got this far and pictured this kind of thing Uggggh….yeah….. that’d be great, Peter. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honest_Man#1 Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 6 hours ago, BFTD said: I can't have been the only one who got this far and pictured this kind of thing As someone who’s only ever worked in an open style office, I find these quite appealing tbh. Less inane chat with people and more potential for skiving on P&B without being noticed. That being said I could see why it might get boring. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theroadlesstravelled Posted March 2, 2022 Share Posted March 2, 2022 9 hours ago, BFTD said: I can't have been the only one who got this far and pictured this kind of thing Work w**k danger scale - 3/10 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 The auditors are in looking over my wife's department. She is at home today and one of these auditors called her 10 minutes ago on Teams asking to see copies of contracts that are held in the office. Wife: I'm not in the office today. I can get you these on Tuesday. Auditor: I was really hoping to get these today back and forth for 10 minutes. Last thing on a Friday afternoon, trying to pressure the wife to hop in the car and drive 40 minutes to work to pick up and scan some files. The wife was sympathetic...but said no. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thistledo Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 13 minutes ago, scottsdad said: The auditors are in looking over my wife's department. She is at home today and one of these auditors called her 10 minutes ago on Teams asking to see copies of contracts that are held in the office. Wife: I'm not in the office today. I can get you these on Tuesday. Auditor: I was really hoping to get these today back and forth for 10 minutes. Last thing on a Friday afternoon, trying to pressure the wife to hop in the car and drive 40 minutes to work to pick up and scan some files. The wife was sympathetic...but said no. This is just auditors all over, soulless robot b*****ds, unable to comprehend it's nigh on the weekend and no one gives a flying f**k about anything work related. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 Just now, thistledo said: This is just auditors all over, soulless robot b*****ds, unable to comprehend it's nigh on the weekend and no one gives a flying f**k about anything work related. It isn't just that. In the call the woman admitted she has had 4 weeks to get these files, but just decided this morning to get them. Then contacted my wife by email at 2pm asking for her to drop everything she was doing and scan these files before 5pm. The wife is a fair old distance from these files and had no intention (even if she was in the office with the files at her fingertips) of stopping all her other work and doing this. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itzdrk Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 It's more work than colleagues this. They told us they are moving office from the city centre to Paisley (we do not WFH) but they wanted to keep us so we would be getting a pay rise (we did not get one last year) so we got told today it's 4%, and after working it out between us all everyone in my team will be worse off due to travel and the extra unpaid time commuting. The whole team is leaving. I'd already started making moves and got an email notification on my watch asking me if I'm free for an interview on Monday within about 5 minutes of us finishing discussing whether it was enough for us to stay. Gonna be a fun talk for the last guy in the team when they resign 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 Just now, itzdrk said: It's more work than colleagues this. They told us they are moving office from the city centre to Paisley (we do not WFH) but they wanted to keep us so we would be getting a pay rise (we did not get one last year) so we got told today it's 4%, and after working it out between us all everyone in my team will be worse off due to travel and the extra unpaid time commuting. The whole team is leaving. I'd already started making moves and got an email notification on my watch asking me if I'm free for an interview on Monday within about 5 minutes of us finishing discussing whether it was enough for us to stay. Gonna be a fun talk for the last guy in the team when they resign Hope you find something better than you have. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorongil Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 1 hour ago, thistledo said: This is just auditors all over, soulless robot b*****ds, unable to comprehend it's nigh on the weekend and no one gives a flying f**k about anything work related. Too many people are scared of auditors. You’ve got to stand up to them and not allow mission/scope creep. Unless it’s specifically finance, they don’t tend to understand what they are auditing. I’ve been through countless audits. Internal, PwC, KPMG, Deloitte. Always they try to go beyond their bounds and try to impose nonsense which has no purpose. You’ve got to be willing to tell them No and tell them why. Eventually you wear them down. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 1 minute ago, Thorongil said: Too many people are scared of auditors. You’ve got to stand up to them and not allow mission/scope creep. Unless it’s specifically finance, they don’t tend to understand what they are auditing. I’ve been through countless audits. Internal, PwC, KPMG, Deloitte. Always they try to go beyond their bounds and try to impose nonsense which has no purpose. You’ve got to be willing to tell them No and tell them why. Eventually you wear them down. That seems quite new. I was always used to being asked about stuff by auditors pretty routinely. But nowadays everyone has a fit. If I've made a mess of something, big deal. As long as I'm not found emptying the till, what can they do? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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