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rob, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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Tell me, everyone.......if you have your dream job*, and then some new people come in and your dream job is still your dream job, but its turning into your OK job and looking eventually to be your nightmare job, what would you do?
I really don't like my new manager, everyone thinks he's a cock, he's just not compatible with the team. I'm very needy and need to be told stuff I do "rocks", "is awesome" or "Holy shit"... I'll even accept "OK", "That Sucks", "You're Shit" or "What the fuck do you think you were doing?".
What I don't like to hear is "Why didn't you run this by me first? If you have time to do that, then you have time to do this. When you updated the the system last week and it broke it took us 3 hours to fix it"... espech when I would have fixed it in about 20 minutes if they just let me debug it rather than having to explain every 10 seconds what I'm debugging and having to explain the entire layout engine which was entirely irrelivent, and then I told them what code to change to fix it.
I got no problem with saying what I've done is shit, what I do have a problem with is someone saying they don't have confidance in me to do the job. My little crazy ideas last week saved someone having to manually enter 5k lines into a database one by one. My little crazy idea the week before resulted in a competition on the site go from 6 enteries in week 1 (with lots of "WHY ISNT ANYONE ENTERING???") to 60 enteries in week 3 PLUS some of them getting over 100 likes on Facebook. My little crazy ideas, pretty much once every couple of days someone comes across something they can't eaither stops them doing their job or makes their job a lot LOT longer/harder.
RANT RANT RANT.
* in everything but pay.
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G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩€, Thu 12 Apr 2012, 19:26,
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Once you launch your super appyou can tell them to shove their job conditions up their arses.
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b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 12 Apr 2012, 19:29,
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I got a thinggy that I know will sale well, it's not packaged or designed in a way that I could release it into the wilds, but it would only take a week to do that.It's a plug-in for Wordpress that allows for the "Read on...." "Commented on..." and whatever action I want (that facebook allows). As far as I can see, and I've looked, I'm the first to do this successfully to the point of it being in a public working site.
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G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩€, Thu 12 Apr 2012, 19:35,
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Just remember us when you're richer than Bill Gates.(
b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 12 Apr 2012, 19:36,
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Haha, I don't think I could forget ,)(
G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩€, Thu 12 Apr 2012, 20:03,
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Document what you've achieved over and above what you core tasks are.Pointing out the benefits to the company.
Might be worth speaking with your senior manager and asking if you can work without supervision or if your reporting line can be changed as it is becoming increasingly clear that your current manager doesn't like the work you're producing, but your previous manager was very happy with it.
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JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 12 Apr 2012, 19:30,
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I think I did something very telling today.I was supposed to have a review today with the big huncho, but he was out of his office. I then saw him at the end of the day and he appologised, so I asked if I could reschedual for next week, and he said yes. Big huncho said "I'll bring [new manager] in on it" and I said "Maybe if it's possible to have him there for half the time?" and he smiled, winked and said 'no problem'. I'm such a sucker for a smile and wink.
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G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩€, Thu 12 Apr 2012, 19:33,
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How long have you been in the employment of PD?(
JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 12 Apr 2012, 19:36,
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Just think yourself lucky you'll never have to find out.I'm a fucking nightmare.
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b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 12 Apr 2012, 19:39,
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Write rude stuff about him in Permanent marker on the bog door (
Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Thu 12 Apr 2012, 19:34,
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They'll know it was him.I can't imagine anyone spends more time in the office traps than Gonz.
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JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 12 Apr 2012, 19:37,
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If it's spelled right, he'll get away with it.(
b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 12 Apr 2012, 19:37,
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good point Jeffers, come to think of it 'Mike fcukd his dad lst nite' might give the game away(
Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Thu 12 Apr 2012, 19:39,
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If he does that, he could sell the idea to Battered who'd probably launch a international marketing campaign for French Connection.
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JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 12 Apr 2012, 19:40,
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Funnily enough they were a client of ours before I sold the company. We told them that the whole FCUK thing was outdated, chavvy and made new young consumers dismiss the brand.
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Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 12 Apr 2012, 19:46,
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Are things really that bad around here?I'm still annoyed that my 'Pay As You Grow' comment got the LOLZ it deserved.
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JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 12 Apr 2012, 19:50,
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I'm in marketing as well.Whodathunkit? I specialise in marcomms though.
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Haha, I remember when soemoen in primary school someone wrote some rude words on the blackboard...... and they got the police in and did hand writting analysis. Now I'm 28, I call BULLSHIT. Ditto with fingerprints and the fire alarm.
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G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩€, Thu 12 Apr 2012, 20:04,
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This is why i work for myself.Even though I'm a cunt it's all better this way.
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blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Thu 12 Apr 2012, 20:25,
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