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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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Or 'unwieldly' as my boss says. It makes me want to punch him. He is also incapable of correctly pronouncing 'shown' - the cunt thinks it's two syllables and insists on saying 'show-un'.
What makes you irrationally (or perfectly justifiably) angry about your boss or colleagues?
PS one of my staff thinks the name Hughes has a silent 'H'. He can say words like 'house' etc without difficulty but the next time he calls 'Mrs Youse' I think I shall cry.
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in the last five minutes. Either you all think I'm some kind of filthy pervert, or all b3tan men are filthy perverts.
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I don't usually get very needy for human comfort when I'm ill but for some reason I am this time.
(, Thu 23 Jun 2011, 11:02, Reply)
Not the same as the real thing but better than a kick in the teeth as they say.
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Colds are shit, Blousie. Day Nurse and Night Nurse are where it's at. Also, hot toddies and hot baths. And lots of sleep.
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I do wonder sometimes how she ended up with a heiffer like me for a daughter.
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My Dad, that is, not yours. DJ takes after our Mum, which is why he's apparently so good-looking.
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By rights I should be fucking gorgeous.
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but I am certainly a filthy pervert.
I didn't choose a creepy gaz as my medium, though. Points!
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It sometimes drops out of the bottom of his shirt, and is most off-putting.
Another one has just about the worst case of dandruff I've ever seen. When he combs his hair, it looks like it's snowing.
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"My" thoughts. Yep. We believe you.
What's going on around here, Luggers? That's three in three days.
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I admit it was flimsy in your case, but B3tans seem to be lining up to take the pink bullet this week
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and by work I mean do nothing but gossip, be on flexi time, or simply fuck-it on the sick for six months
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Except I fucking *hate* being loomed over. Everytime he does it I get angrier and angrier until I have to tell him to sit the fuck down, at which point I get accused of being grumpy etc etc.
The rest of his habits, slurping coffee, leaving his chair in the middle of the cubicle when he gets up, arguing every. single. point. to death, are also extremely irritating.
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He asked me how long it would take to do a case involving a whole bunch of fiddly, time-consuming tasks. I tell him it'll take X hours at the absolute minimum.
He comes back and says that we got the job, we have 1/2 the amount of hours I said it'd take, plus we have to rush it through as an urgent case. It now falls on me to do the damn case, and my protestations are being largely ignored.
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Either they tell the client they will need to pay more, or they tell them that they won't get as thorough a job. Or my company can just suck up the loss.
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engineering sucks.
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I'm just making my bosses aware that this manager fucked up, and it's on his head, not mine.
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the difficulty we have is that if we don't put in low proposals we don't get the work, and loss making jobs are better than no jobs.
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because if there is no work then our overheads don't get covered at all, whereas if we have some work then they do. To a certain extent.
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In another example, we were asked to do a particular job, every analyst this manager asked said there's no way we could do it, we don't have the skills, experience or equipment. He quoted a high figure in order to put the client off without saying we can't do the job. The client accepted...
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but we can usually wing it. or sub-contract.
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Why did you let me go to the pub last night? I had 4 pints - hardly excessive - and I was throwing up for hours in the night.
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I was drinking 6x and I think that might have been responsible.
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It was okay going in, but bringing it back up at 3am was far from enjoyable.
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with two thirds of a Trebor XXX mint dropped in
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Shitty work for almost no money. 800 CVs so far. 3 have made it to interview but no further.
Amazing, in this world of 65 A***** GSCEs for all children isn't it? These cunts are all illiterate or live two hours away.
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They just teach the children what they need to pass the specific exam questions they set now. It started happening when I was at school but we, at least, still got instruction in some basic grammar. I don't think that happens anymore.
I'm sure I read a story a while ago that they no longer mark down spelling mistakes and grammatical errors.
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as will every other company in the country. Can you imagine the state of the place after that happens?
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Grammar and spelling are still essential parts of English exams.
(, Thu 23 Jun 2011, 13:29, Reply)
That's all, really, you need to meet him.
Actually, I can think of an example - last year someone asked me when I arrived at work in the morning "What did you think of the final of Strictly Come Dancing?" to which I replied "I haven't seen it yet, don't tell me anything about it, and that goes for The Apprentice as well". He proceeded to Google the winners of both and talk about it as loudly as possible, going to the length of standing over me to do so when it became apparent I had my headphones in. This culminated with him just saying "KARA TOINTON KARA TOINTON KARA TOINTON" until he was sure I'd heard.
Cunt.
(, Thu 23 Jun 2011, 10:55, Reply)
this sounds like something you might consider amusing internet japery, but I can (and did) avoid B3ta in instances such as this. I doubt you'd do it IRL. No idea what I'm basing this supposition on.
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My sister-in-law insists on pronouncing 'humans' as 'yumans' and also 'yuge' instead of 'huge'
I have trained my 5 year old son to correct her every time.
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Drives me fucking mad, it does.
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He pronounces 'here' as 'yur'.
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but they come from a very small part of Wales.
My ex was properly Welsh, from Swansea, but had cultivated a posh English accent.
One thing I noticed while hanging out with a lot of Welsh speakers and Welsh people generally is that they drop their t's and things like that a lot less than most English people would do.
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when I lived in Wales.
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there are some jobs that are just made better by having a welsh person do them. Tour guide is one, I'm sure registrar will be another.
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He's not really what you would class as 'normal'.
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So no... unnatural feelings towards woolly jumpers then, or any ovine members of the animal diaspora?
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This is unusual here, so I shall not accuse you of being Bert, or of driving a Honda Accord, or any of the usual greetings.
Instead, I shall just say hi.
Hi.
(, Thu 23 Jun 2011, 11:00, Reply)
Isn't that nice? I get the full-on OT hazing and you roll over and just say "hi" to the next newbie who comes in?
Well thankyoy very much.
I think not.
(, Thu 23 Jun 2011, 11:03, Reply)
you've done well though.
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although that is mostly his own fault.
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Synopsis; 16-year-old comes to OffTopic of all places and tries to tell us that we're wrong.
(, Thu 23 Jun 2011, 11:13, Reply)
But we're still, on average, far more knowledgeable and worldly-wise than some teenager.
(, Thu 23 Jun 2011, 11:18, Reply)
That was his principle error. That, and going up against Dozer, who is stubborn and argumentative even when not being provoked by some uppity little twat
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The invincibility cloak of one's teenage years diminishes when you start to learn life lessons
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It's fucking massive though, I can't read it even with maximum zoom on my puny work PC
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Oh yeah, he turned out to be a thread deleter too, didn't he?
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God forbid he should have to stand by his opinions once they'd been proven bollocks.
I don't have a link sadly mate, and I can't remember how to spell Woodside's full name to search for it! Wouldn't be surprised if Amorous Badger had got hold of it though.
(, Thu 23 Jun 2011, 11:27, Reply)
in the local Working Men's Club.
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and he knows all about everything, despite being 16. Unless he's making it up.
I'm undecided. I've seen a facebook page which is apparently his, and I could believe he is what he says. Others are fairly certain he's not.
Frankly he seems kind of boring and needy, whereas other newbies aren't
(, Thu 23 Jun 2011, 11:13, Reply)
They consider themselves immortal, more highly evolved than anyone who came before them, righteous and seers. In fact they are opinionated and cursed with a colossal sense of entitlement matched in scope only by their naivety.
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until they grow up they should be gagged and forced to toil in mines away from the light of day.
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And would go so far as to say that the law be changed to allow abortion up until they reach 18 years old.
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edit: as an aside: Passive by APC just came on my ipod. Fucking brilliant tune. Really nice vocal melody and lyrics.
I was well excited to read that article yesterday. New Puscifer, APC are touring with 'good energy' so may get new songs, and Tool are writing.
(, Thu 23 Jun 2011, 11:21, Reply)
Originally a Tapeworm song that he finished with APC, same with Potions.
Just wish APC would play some UK dates.
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ditto. I'd love to see an APC and Tool gig.
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I don't half have some absolute dross on there.
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and the battery has just run out.
Arse.
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And if I deleted all the stuff I never listen to, it would be about half that.
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A good portion of that is stuff I rarely, if ever listen to.
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otherwise I always select the same few songs and listen to them. I can't deal with choice. I'm rubbish if I go in a record or book shop.
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I am constantly on nearly full with my 80GB classic and I really wanted to upgrade to a 160GB, but then they downgraded it to 120 which is shit.
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My Creative Zen is 60Gb, but I use that for video. Which, when you think about it, is pretty stupid, considering the ipod touch has twice the screen size.
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I don't want to watch video on something that tiny.
I've just checked and you can now get 160GB ipods again. I might wait until I go to New York in the autumn and get one there.
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but that suits me. It doesn't take long to change stuff and it means I listen to random things from the big collection on my computer.
I've discovered some great music I didn't know I had because of it. Or brilliant albums from artists where I just have all of their albums but only listened to one or two.
(, Thu 23 Jun 2011, 11:39, Reply)
Don't be disgusting.
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I can't even joke here. You really are the gayest straight bloke ever
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I think that's the first time you've ever called me straight
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Your lack of obvious mental deficiencies or gayness means you've had it rather easy, I'd say, Luggers old son.
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I did get the Bert accusations initially, but I think I managed to dispel them by not going mental or sleeping with any family members.
However, it is often the ones who don't seem like a mentalist that you have to watch - cf "He seemed such an ordinary guy, kept himself pretty much to himself"
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You must have a giveway tick that you show when they do it. I expect they are pissing themselves with laughter in the toilets right now, while you frown at your keyboard.
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Think that 26 degrees is a comfortable working temperature and when it drops as low as 20 in here start complaining that it's "freezing" and lobby to get the air-con/heating turned up until it's unbearably hot.
We have windows and they do open them, but last time I opened mine the MD walked past and I was castigated for as apparently opening a window "messes up the air-conditioning".
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our air con is stupid and annoying, and I'm the only one who knows how it works. Doesn't stop other people fucking with it though.
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which is either a blessing or a curse as it means it takes a while to get it changed/fixed.
On balance this is good, but I'd prefer a few radiators around the place, the ability to open windows at will and for the winging flange-fairies to learn to put on a fucking jumper when they get cold.
(, Thu 23 Jun 2011, 11:25, Reply)
but there's not much you can do if you're too hot. The next time they do it start taking your shirt off, because you 'can't work in this temperature'.
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But I'm not malnourished, a bit overweight if anything ATM. I have threatened to strip before though.
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Mine does tend to make me avoid television, but I'd rather that than the dreams you must have some nights.
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I do something very boring peripherally to do with television.
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You seem more relaxed these days, have you given in the capitalist machine and got yourself a nice big Starbucks hot chocolate?
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Maybe I was having a bad day, I can be shouty about politics if you like, but mostly where's the point, almost no one agrees with me so why waste my breath.
If you want to add to the stereotype I also ride a bicycle to work and am a vegetarian, oddly not as much of a yogurt knitter as you might expect from all that, but I'm a hippy in the same way Darth is gay.
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what a massive cunt
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as I drove off and left him sprawled in the gutter.
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an awful lot of cyclists are cunts, just look at Al.
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we argued about the necessity of lycra a while back, anyway, being a cunt is part of your internet persona, no? or is it just being fat?
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For some reason I thought it was Ape that was opposed to wearing sensible clothes when cycling long distances.
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And to be fair if I rode more than 10 miles at one time you might have a point, although I'd still rather walk that wear Lycra, anyway, as above I was probably having a bad day, so will apologise, a bit anyway.
(, Thu 23 Jun 2011, 12:01, Reply)
I wear lycra when running too. I think turning 30 had something to do with it.
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so, you're fat, old and run around in Lycra, what a mental image *shudders*, this among other things is why I (36 and not in great shape) do not wear Lycra, I always remember the line about it being a privilege and not a right.
(, Thu 23 Jun 2011, 12:07, Reply)
Presumably you really like air travel, or fucking hate trees
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it's like being on the tube but with a guaranteed seat and a better view and while I have no objection to trees I much prefer to live in the city, specifically Lahndin, best place in England and therefore the world.
Edit: and come to think of it, unlike you, I don't look like the stereotype.
(, Thu 23 Jun 2011, 11:51, Reply)
but then remembered that B3tans have compared my profile pics to famous quenders John Barrowman and Tom Cruise. So you... SHAVE?
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I do have a beard, but it's well-kept and my hair is short and I don't dress like a hippy either. And yes, sorry mate, it may just be those profile pics but you do look epically gay
(, Thu 23 Jun 2011, 11:58, Reply)
whereas now I'm like, "eh..."
(, Thu 23 Jun 2011, 12:02, Reply)
Not like it matters, you have a woman you seem happy with, as long as she know's you're straight what do you care?
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You are either extremely wise or terrifyingly psychic, sir
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I may also have been accused of being too in touch with my feminine side for my own good at times, never bothered me as long as I'm getting laid. Not that I am at the moment but I've gazzed BGB a picture of my nipples, so hope springs eternal.
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There's a girl here who works overtime at least 3 times a week. Last friday she went over her lunch by 5 minutes, and was pulled into his office for a bollocking.
The reason she was late back is because she'd been asked by the Sales Director to pick up a card for a colleague, despite her not heading anywhere near Tesco.
His double standards are shocking, and when he's not here the atmosphere is so much better. There's shitloads more, but I think I've mentioned them all in the past.
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It appears to be unprotected and allows HTML in the comments. I am fighting temptation.
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Why are these areas always staffed by useless jobsworths?
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HR - don't know what they are doing, work their days to the minute, are massively unhrlpful and try and outsource as much of their work as possible back onto us.
Finance - incapapble of billing on time
IT- slow, useless and patronising
Office services - walk around doing fuck all except meddling where it's not needed
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I can get you free Apple Tango if you wnat to come over and watch Steven Segal movies
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We have very strict time limits on all logged IT calls and we hit 98% calls close within resolve time last month. If we don't then we get bollocked.
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But we have 98% resolve within time stats you'd probably not hate IT so much if you worked here.
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if you took a straw poll of people here, who don't work in IT support, or on the street a vast majority would say that IT are useless.
This would either because they have no understanding at all of the difficulties of IT support or you are actually all useless
(, Thu 23 Jun 2011, 11:41, Reply)
that having a Northern Housing Implmentation Team might be OK but the Southern Housing Implementation Team might not be best pleased by their new nickname
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It is his human communication skills that are lacking.
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Information sponges that cannot be wrung out. It gets right on my tits when people dont tell you things that could help
(, Thu 23 Jun 2011, 11:48, Reply)
but nobody seemed to give a shit, some of them even said so. So I stopped bothering.
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it will be that they don't have the first idea of what they're doing or of what we do, or how difficult it is to do what they're asking us to do.
For the rest, it'll be because there are some cretins working in IT, the same as there is everywhere else.
(, Thu 23 Jun 2011, 11:47, Reply)
and then see how long you last without somebody to explain to you how to sort a spreadsheet (three calls this week) or how to attach a file to an email (two).
(, Thu 23 Jun 2011, 11:52, Reply)
Is they only contact IT when they have a problem and are thinking negatively. I rescued someone phd the other day and didn't get so much as a thank you. I rebuilt several database servers that went wrong and no-one cared they just saw their websites come back online and though "Took long enough"
Yes the vast majority would say "IT are useless" But if you did a poll and said "Why don't you fix it yourself then" They wouldn't know how.
(, Thu 23 Jun 2011, 11:55, Reply)
only about 80% of us are useless and only 50% jobsworths
(, Thu 23 Jun 2011, 11:26, Reply)
He has a cool box full of sandwiches sitting at the side of his desk that he's constantly dipping into and he doesn't let conversations get in the way of his mastication. I once saw him dip into the box during a lengthy phone conversation with a client and start munching away noisily.
(, Thu 23 Jun 2011, 11:50, Reply)
If indeed that is his name
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