My line manager has just started maternity leave.
Instead of getting someone in on a temporary contract and training them up, I and the other technician are taking on most of her work. This is simultaneously quite exciting and pant-shitting.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 25 Nov 2011, 19:42, 3 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

Will you get extra pay for this?
I had to do two jobs simultaneously a few years ago and I got my pay increased a bit for it. Not as much as the job at the higher grade would have got normally, but it was a reasonable compromise all the same.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Fri 25 Nov 2011, 19:43, Reply)

We have been assured that we will both be officially going up a grade at some point.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 25 Nov 2011, 19:45, Reply)

That's a positive then.
When I did my two jobs, I can honestly say it was probably the happiest six months I ever spent in an office. Plus I was always busy, which made the days fly over.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Fri 25 Nov 2011, 19:49, Reply)

So this means if she leaves for good you can apply for her position?

( girlinthehole, Fri 25 Nov 2011, 19:44, Reply)

It's such a small team it'd probably get restructured anyway.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 25 Nov 2011, 19:47, Reply)

Oh sweet, what is it you do again? I'm sure it was someting scientific.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 25 Nov 2011, 19:55, Reply)

R&D for a cosmetics/toiletries manufacturer.
What it mostly amounts to is that we'll be making executive decisions on projects as well as running them from day to day.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 25 Nov 2011, 19:57, Reply)

So pouring soap in to rabbit's eyes? WIN.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Fri 25 Nov 2011, 20:07, Reply)

Don't say that, I don't want the Animal Defence League firebombing my flat.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 25 Nov 2011, 20:10, Reply)

I did a greenpeace chugger in a few weeks ago, as in, countered most of his points. He was well against Dove.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 25 Nov 2011, 20:09, Reply)

Ethical, commercial or other reasons?

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 25 Nov 2011, 20:13, Reply)

Both
1) Displacement of local population and wildlife due to deforistation, along with a lot of Ocupy talk, who he couldn't give a main objective too. We totally agreed that any american against a nationalised healthcare isn't 'human'.....

It was was meet with....

"So we as westeners are allowed to use up our natural resources, manage to get a good quality of life, but nobody else can?.... these companies create jobs where none exist, creates a local economy. It's horrofic when you see young children sowing together shoes, but they're the ones who'll be eating that evening. Ok, they should pay a hell of a lot more, too much profit, but where it's gone wrong is between the farm and factory owners, and their staff. THAT is where things need to change.".
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 25 Nov 2011, 20:25, Reply)

I have a regular sport of telling chuggers to fuck off. Regardless of the charity.
As I dislike the fact that the charity doesn't see any of the money for at least the first 12 months.

I have managed to tell 4 to fuck off this week. This is down on my weekly average of 6.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Fri 25 Nov 2011, 20:16, Reply)

I hate the way they try and reel you in with their cheerfulness and false compliments.
Hello young lady my arse.
( girlinthehole, Fri 25 Nov 2011, 20:23, Reply)

one said I she thought I was about 28
but I had already agreed to sponsor a kid so I take it as a real compliment. especially as some drunk guy asked if I was my mate's mum that same day :(
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 25 Nov 2011, 20:24, Reply)

haha! drunk guys don't count.

( girlinthehole, Fri 25 Nov 2011, 20:25, Reply)

how about his landlady's daughter
who has a mental age of about 6 who said the very same thing later that day?
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 25 Nov 2011, 20:27, Reply)

Nope! she don't count either.
Drunks, mentals and kids don't count.
( girlinthehole, Fri 25 Nov 2011, 20:28, Reply)

When DJ was a teenager
people used to think I was his mum.
I'm only six years older than he is. *cries*
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Fri 25 Nov 2011, 20:29, Reply)

The very worst ones are the ones who go door-to-door.
Got one a few years ago and made the mistake of answering the door to him. I only agreed and signed up to get him to fuck off out of my house.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 25 Nov 2011, 20:25, Reply)

They're like vampires.
They can only come in if you invite them. So don't.
( girlinthehole, Fri 25 Nov 2011, 20:26, Reply)

They're there at Farringdon station at least every 3 days.
I normally say something like "OK, I already give to 3, you choose who's spot you'll take because I have limited funds" I'd ask them to do that on camera if they agree.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 25 Nov 2011, 20:26, Reply)

Holborn and High St Ken' tubes seem to be the worst that I have encountered.
I have seen a couple of good things on the tube recently:

A hawk being released (on a long lead) inside Marylebone to scare the pigeons away. Watched this for ages.

Several blokes offering to help a mum with a newborn baby get up the stairs - reassures me that people will help my wife if I am not around when she is out and about.

Sniffer dogs stood at the bottom of the escalator. The look on some peoples faces as they come down is priceless as they try and work out how to ditch whatever they are carrying.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Fri 25 Nov 2011, 20:31, Reply)

Oh man, the hawk thing sounds amazing.
Above Smithfields they have a kite that is shaped like a big bird that I presume is there for that reason. The snifferdog thing would make me lol, it's not like if you can start running up. They seem to use Kings Cross for guide-dog training, I do like it when I see them. And the new trains on the metropole are amazing when I get on one of those.

Yeah', you're right 'bout the misses, it's always good to help out, I've helped out a few times, plus grannies with big bags. But what gets me is that sevrel times Iv'e gone home and been blatently what I thought that I wasn't right (bent over double and squatting down), without getting offered a seat.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 25 Nov 2011, 20:39, Reply)

You're at McBxxxxx aren't you?
(I went to school with Bxx McBxxxxx's daughter - think I've told you that.)

I'm in line for another process-mapping contract with a company doing similar stuff on the far side of Leeds - an area that sounds like it should be on the coast.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Fri 25 Nov 2011, 20:13, Reply)

I am indeed.
Funny you should say that, one of the top brass in the Barrow site's engineering department has been doing a lot of that stuff round here in the last few months.

This place in Leeds. It wouldn't be U****** would it?
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 25 Nov 2011, 20:18, Reply)

That'd be the one
Not what I want, but since the property market doesn't want me I'll take it.

Bxx McBxxxxx hasn't done too bad since he walked away from his family on Shxxxxxx Grxxx, Barrow, in 197x.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Fri 25 Nov 2011, 20:24, Reply)

I like this thread. It's like being in the foreign office.

( girlinthehole, Fri 25 Nov 2011, 20:27, Reply)

One of the participants would make a fine Anthony Blunt.

( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Fri 25 Nov 2011, 20:34, Reply)

Or Anthony Burgess, as the papers often mistakenly called him at the time.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 25 Nov 2011, 20:36, Reply)

Easy mistake to make

( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Fri 25 Nov 2011, 20:38, Reply)

Aye, it's a multinational these days.
If this job is anything like our process mapping it'll be wall-to-wall with acronyms. Still it's better to drown in acronyms than bullshit business speak; at least they actually mean something.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 25 Nov 2011, 20:34, Reply)

It's stock control - one of my specialist subjects.
It's trying to turn a Rothko into a Mondrian.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Fri 25 Nov 2011, 20:45, Reply)

Turning a shambolic pick face with no less than seventeen part-pallets into a lean, efficient workspace with a place for everything and everything in its place.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 25 Nov 2011, 20:58, Reply)

Yes
Or, if you'd like, Escher into Beck.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Fri 25 Nov 2011, 21:02, Reply)

turning aPollak
into a B&Q emulsion department
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 25 Nov 2011, 21:05, Reply)