Your work situation (12 Viewers)

[Cormcolash]

Once many years ago, in fact possibly at the old company, office guy said"yeah, it's fine. Guys just get a bit fed up once in a while. It's not really anything to do with the work or too many hours or not enough hours. Usually they come back around".

He meant this in a positive way. As in, it's no one's fault, it's not a black mark on anyone. It's just life.

He has a fair point

 

[magicbastarder]

in a large teams meeting (80+ people) where the topic currently being discussed is version management; but several of the talkative attendees pronounce it 'virgin'.
i just heard the line 'we need to reduce the number of virgins we use in the company'

 

[seanc]

i've asked around, and the industry has gone to shit. I thought it was just me trying to juggle things and getting pushed down the pecking order as I'm not always available.
But no, it's all fucked.

No one knows what to do. I guess I still have soccerball. The lads though in the box pushing world are scrabbling around. It is a bit scary.

It is a lot to do with Trump. Also new govt in this country. And that is weird that I won't get paid to push a box from here to there because of stuff I see on the news.

 

[therealjohnny]

Did teams call on how to set goals for 2025. The example they used on the screen share was something like "Inspiring DEI initiatives in 2023." How young and innocent we were back then

 

[seanc]

In other happier news, I was surprised with how at peace I was working in the Cockney-drome last Saturday. It was all fist-bumps and jokes and gossip (there had been a massive fight in the stands at the last game, which was hilarious to anyone not directly involved. People got sacked), and my favourite security guy opening up about how he buried his dad in Pakistan last week. That was touching, there was hugs.

I hope I don't fuck this up. That said, I was late, I lost my door pass (one of the good stewards found it and got it back to me, hopefully before the big scary security guy found out), there were thermal faults (which we fixed),

Any one of those things, even the fist-bumps, would have had me in a heaving puking mess three years ago. But it was all cool.

Having spent the previous few days in desperation world, it was just a pleasure.

 

[egg_]

2 people off my team fired today. Saw one coming a mile off, the other is a total shock - one of the best people at her job I ever worked with (and super fucking smart - Ph.D. in maths from the Sorbonne)

 

[magicbastarder]

Fired, or 'let go'?

 

[egg_]

"Let go" I guess - their positions are being ... erm, can't remember what the word was. Anyway - they won't be replaced, and everyone else on the team is being moved

 

[pete]

"Let go" I guess - their positions are being ... erm, can't remember what the word was. Anyway - they won't be replaced, and everyone else on the team is being moved

RIGHT-SIZED

 

[rettucs]

"Let go" I guess - their positions are being ... erm, can't remember what the word was. Anyway - they won't be replaced, and everyone else on the team is being moved

obsolete, made redundant.

my position was made redundant once, just before they changed their minds and hired a replacement.

making a position redundant gets them around some legal bullshit in EU law and it makes it easier to fire someone.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

my position was made redundant once, just before they changed their minds and hired a replacement.

You’re not supposed to hire for the same position for 6 months after redundancy but not sure there is any real impact for them not giving a shit and doing it anyway.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

My colleagues are discussing some kind of soccer lucky bag things. It seems you can get cards in them (I don't know what's on the cards, pictures of soccer players probably) and if you're lucky it might be signed. It's like real serious playground nerd-out, I wish they were interested in interesting stuff that I like

 

[therealjohnny]

You’re not supposed to hire for the same position for 6 months after redundancy but not sure there is any real impact for them not giving a shit and doing it anyway.

In my place, they have dozens of titles for similar jobs, so there is no obligation to backfill if they make someone redundant. They can just say that position doesn't exist anymore

 

[rettucs]

You’re not supposed to hire for the same position for 6 months after redundancy but not sure there is any real impact for them not giving a shit and doing it anyway.

they replaced me with a lad in California

who they got rid of less than a year later. I know that cos he contacted me on linkedin to compare our war stories. The place was toxic as fuck.

But what goes around comes around. One of the lads who was making it toxic contacted a mate of mine last week looking for an 'in' for a job he's hiring for. My mate told him to go fuck himself.

 

[egg_]

the place was toxic as fuck ... one of the lads who was making it toxic

This is the weird thing about workplaces, or really any group of people - there are just some individuals who ruin things for everyone, and there's nothing you can do about it

 

[egg_]

... there's also some individuals who make everything better, who can cancel out the ruiners sometimes I guess

 

[egg_]

How bad can hayfever get? One of the guys on one of the teams I work with is taking a sick day because he has hayfever - can it get more debilitating than I realised, or is this guy just pathetic?

 

[ernesto]

How bad can hayfever get? One of the guys on one of the teams I work with is taking a sick day because he has hayfever - can it get more debilitating than I realised, or is this guy just pathetic?

Yeah I used to get it really bad in my 20s. To the point where I couldnt see because my eyes were so itchy, nose raw from blowing it and sinuses completely swollen

 

[seanc]

How bad can hayfever get? One of the guys on one of the teams I work with is taking a sick day because he has hayfever - can it get more debilitating than I realised, or is this guy just pathetic?

It can get quite bad actually.
One of the boys came into work at 22:00 once absolutely gee-eyed. I knew he was fond of the weed, he looked like absolute dog shit and I was just about to send him home, but he explained that he had spent the day moving straw bales around some country festival thing. He's an inner city kid so was not good for that sort of work. The hayfever was absolutely debilitating. He didn't expect it, but he'd never seen a bale before.

It did lead to a H&S thing which basically ended up with the RAMS saying "no townies are to work with bales".

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

How bad can hayfever get? One of the guys on one of the teams I work with is taking a sick day because he has hayfever - can it get more debilitating than I realised, or is this guy just pathetic?

Yeah, it can be pretty bad. I’ve had to send people home because their antihistamine couldn’t cope with the reaction. Literally was leaking from every facial orifice every time I looked at them and looking miserable.