welshbairn Posted September 26, 2019 Share Posted September 26, 2019 1 hour ago, Torpar said: Our office has had a "dress for your day" policy for a while now. So a lot of the men go with a business casual look, jeans and t shirt or trousers and polo shirt. There is one roaster from another floor though who frequently wears shorts, today he's taken it to new levels of roaster-dom and paired his shorts with leather sandals. I suppose that gets a radical label in Canada. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted September 26, 2019 Share Posted September 26, 2019 “Electronic Tools” 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dee Man Posted September 26, 2019 Share Posted September 26, 2019 18 minutes ago, UsedToGoToCentralPark said: 1 hour ago, Dee Man said: Seems a bit unfair that you have to work in a team with a guy who you can't tell face to face to get the fucking finger out. This is easy to do on the phone and follow up with a summary of the discussion in the email. Aye, but my point is it's surely not going to have the same impact as a face to face discussion. I'd imagine it's far easier to ignore a work colleague's calls or emails that you're never going to meet than risk an awkward conversation at the water cooler or photocopier or wherever you office workers bump into each other. I suppose it's unavoidable in those type of work environments but to have to be part of a team where I couldn't personally pull someone up for not doing their part would do my nut in. I'm never, ever going to work in an office anyway so I don't even know why I'm getting involved here. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dee Man Posted September 26, 2019 Share Posted September 26, 2019 25 minutes ago, Melanius Mullarkey said: “Electronic Tools” NSFW Spoiler 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donathan Posted September 26, 2019 Share Posted September 26, 2019 "Dress for your day" means exactly that. Put a suit on for any external meetings with clients but feel free to dress casually when you're just in the office. Isn't this the policy in all offices these days? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugster Posted September 26, 2019 Share Posted September 26, 2019 1 hour ago, Adam101 said: Wearing sandals on the other hand is extremely OFTW behaviour Absolutely. So is wearing them on your feet to be fair. 17 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deej Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 In a different office the last couple of weeks, where one guy is apparently unaware you can just send emails and insists on 'pinging' them. 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 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon EF Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 8 minutes ago, deej said: In a different office the last couple of weeks, where one guy is apparently unaware you can just send emails and insists on 'pinging' them. Used to work with a guy that had read reciepts set on for every single fucking email. Even if you'd just answred a question and all he'd sent back was "thanks". He was an insufferable c**t to be fair. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightswoodBear Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 3 minutes ago, Gordon EF said: Used to work with a guy that had read reciepts set on for every single fucking email. Even if you'd just answred a question and all he'd sent back was "thanks". He was an insufferable c**t to be fair. 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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...
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