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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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good morning.
I fucked something up at work last Friday and as a result I'm getting an Official Bollocking on Monday. Ever been disciplined for negligence or misconduct etc? Ever had to issue one to someone else? If not, why not get some practice in for the five other times today when you'll be asked on here, and outline your weekend plans?
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 7:54, 201 replies, latest was 12 years ago)
I got out of management about 14 years ago thank god
The last bollocking I gave was to my own boss for acting like a cunt.
My weekend plans do not really amount to much I’m hoping for a quite one so I can watch 'Beat Dis: a Hip Hop History'

Also It seems them Kiwis are remaking “Dad’s Army”
www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/rugby-league/simon-mannering-made-new-zealand-captain-8515950.html
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:05, Reply)
Verbal or written warning?
If written is it just a first warning or was the fuck bad enough for them to go final warning (if it's a sufficiently substantial fuck up they can go straight to final).

Ask how long it will stay on your employment record for.
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:08, Reply)
It's a 'formal capability hearing'.
'Capability is distinct from the disciplinary process and there is no suggestion of misconduct'
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:20, Reply)
in some ways, capability is worse
It means that you're too shit to carry out the duties of your role, rather than doing the role fine but making a mistake.
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:27, Reply)
The thing is, it relates to a single specific indicent.
That is made clear in the letter.
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:28, Reply)
WHO DID YOU SHAG

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:30, Reply)
NIGEL FARAGE.

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:30, Reply)
WAS HE ANY GOOD?
I WAS THINKING OF HITTING THAT
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:34, Reply)
TERRIBLE.

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:36, Reply)
HOW DISAPPOINTING
I'D HOPED HAVING HIS MOUTH FULL WOULD MAKE HIM A MORE PALATABLE COMPANION
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:38, Reply)
U KIP WITH HIM?

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:06, Reply)
I had a written warning from work for purchasing £30k of the wrong type of cable.
It wasn't LOL at all. It also wasn't my fault as I had told all the people who needed to know, that the correct cable was unobtainable in the quantities we required. They all denied knowing anything, and I got the bollocking. I left after a another year. Cunts, it was a great job.
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:14, Reply)

purchasing £30k of the wrong type of cable.

Hanging around school playgrounds when I should have been working.
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:17, Reply)
Alright Battered?

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:20, Reply)
Yeah. You?

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:20, Reply)
Fine thanks, just drifting along.

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:30, Reply)
I hear ya brother

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:43, Reply)
yes.
The accusations were bollox, I fought my corner and I won.
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:15, Reply)
Why is it taking them so long to bollock you?
Lack of efficiency innit. They could learn a lot from us. Monty, you're a cunt. They should give me a job.
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:15, Reply)
They are working out a plan of witty reposts to counter his witty backchat.

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:17, Reply)
more like they're comparing his b3ta post count
To his key output measures xx
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:20, Reply)
Imagine finding out that your boss was Nakers or Kroney.

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:22, Reply)
imagine finding out your head of recruitment is Albert Marshmallow

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:23, Reply)
Monty wouldn't mind that
He'd be up to his nuts in guts

guts Albert Marshmallow's sloppy seconds
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:25, Reply)
Not sure which would be worse
Being forced to eat a shit sandwich by way of penance, or having to spend a day wearing a T-shirt with the letters "WTN" emblazoned in bright red upon it.
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:24, Reply)
Again, we can help them out there
"I work more hours here than anyone else" - "That's because you're a povvo LOL"

"My dedication to this company is beyond doubt" - "STRIKETHROUGH this company END STRIKETHROUGH massive drugs LOL"

Anything else - "Get a haircut"
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:23, Reply)
They have no chance.
I already have a zingtastic riposte referring to my boss's negligent failure to pay our Royal Mail invoices on time - resulting in our account being suspended all week and the subsequent backlog of paid-for customer orders that are currently in a massive pile in our warehouse. Pretty sure that will endear me to him, the wanker.
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:23, Reply)
The last thing you need is to get fired.
Take the bollocking. Don't turn it in to an argument, you'll lose.
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:28, Reply)
I'm joking.
I've held my hands up and grovelled all week. If I just apologise some more and give assurances that I shan't make the same mistake again (and I really fucking won't) it will be over quicker.
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:30, Reply)
I made my interlocutors look like right pricks in front of their boss.
It was quite funny really. Wouldn't want to go through it again though.
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:34, Reply)

Made sucked look like right
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:36, Reply)
Just tell them Holly caused it.

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:36, Reply)
ho ho

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:45, Reply)
They're working on a strategy that gives his bins a wide berth.

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:21, Reply)
Haha

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:24, Reply)
Good sig.

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:36, Reply)
Just for you x

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:49, Reply)
How were the burgers?

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:53, Reply)
Non-existent.
My co-diner decided 12 cans of Becks were preferable.
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:55, Reply)
This doesn't surprise me.
Spoke to him last night, he mentioned his brandy consumption the night before.
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:55, Reply)
They had to wait for him to sober up a bit.

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:48, Reply)
This will end well
b3ta.com/questions/allwentwrong/post1880449
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:31, Reply)
I've been dipping into QOTW a bit more the last couple of weeks
I swear half the users on this site only frequent it for the trolling opportunities it provides.
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:36, Reply)
The main thing that's ruined it is people complaining that it's ruined.

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:37, Reply)
As far as I can tell the formula runs thus;
5-10% decent-ish or amusing stories, undermined by bitter trolls

20% tedious braggadacio, rightly trolled to fuck in a cruel rather than funny way

70-75% mawkish sentiment or desperately unfunny punning, also underpinned by an outpouring of bile from those with nought to live for save the false sense of superiority granted them by keyboard hardmanning

100% PURE INTERNET GOLD
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:42, Reply)
Good use of braggadacio.
An underused word.
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:42, Reply)
Agreed
Was trying to work "expunge" in there too but it didn't really fit
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:44, Reply)
I do like posting pictures of Mrs Doyle though.

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:44, Reply)

posting + wanking to
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:45, Reply)
How does trolling ruin them? The story remains intact and can be enjoyed or ignored

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:44, Reply)
TERRIBLE TROLLING etc
I didn't say ruin did I, "undermined" was the word. I can see why you'd be confused, it has all the same letters, plus a few extra, interspersed with those the two words share and rearranged to form, in combination with the aforementioned extra letters, an entirely new and different word bearing its own, entirely different meaning.

Simples.
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:47, Reply)
You lose this argument by using the phrase "simples"
you're worse than people who say " I'm confused dot com!" in real life. I want them to die
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:50, Reply)
It was a deliberate reference to Robert Webb's Compare The Market advert
in which he illustrates that "Market" and "Meerkat" are different words, that are pronounced differently.

And the word you're looking for is "pwned".

Although that's not really a word.
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:52, Reply)
I don't really understand the word "pwned" what it means or where it came from

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:53, Reply)
As I understand it, it is to 'owned' what 'teh' is to 'the'.

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:54, Reply)
but why?
how do your get from "owned", which is stupid in itself, to "pwned"?

typo?
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:56, Reply)
Chess reference? Pawned?

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:56, Reply)
I don't think chess counts as high end gaming

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:58, Reply)
Clearly you haven't seen the size of computer needed to beat a human grand master.

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:01, Reply)
whatevs I've got an app for that

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:07, Reply)

hess ash converters
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:58, Reply)
LTI.

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:59, Reply)
For that?
Really?

We both know it'll get worse before the day's out
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:00, Reply)
Yes it certainly will.
An early LTI was required though; got to try and keep some discipline in the ranks.
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:15, Reply)
Typo
The letters are right next to each other on the keyboard, and people are stupid.
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:57, Reply)
o and p are next to each other in the keyboard you nebt dpasyic.

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:57, Reply)
It's a mistype of "owned" from online gaming that's become a word in itself.

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:56, Reply)
Do people say that?

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:54, Reply)
I've heard it, also "Wow that was really lastminute dot com!"

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:54, Reply)
I'm leaving the world at the next chance I get.

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:55, Reply)
Don't forget to delete your account first.

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:16, Reply)
No way, this is my legacy to mankind.

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:19, Reply)
Unfortunately.

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:54, Reply)
They do
It is so genuinely cringeworthy to hear that I am compelled to agree with Nakers.

You read that right.
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:55, Reply)
I also agree
anyone who says "something.com" when not referring directly to the actual website "something.com" is an annoying wanker.
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:00, Reply)
an annoying wanker dot com.

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:02, Reply)
Careful now
This is on the verge of becoming a 24-hour meme
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:04, Reply)
24hrmeme.com

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:06, Reply)
Once again I breathe new life into this tired old place

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:07, Reply)
words on the internet

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 10:01, Reply)
What did you do?
I got fired from a job once, suspended, full investigation and all that.
I hadn't done anything wrong, but the new manager and me didn't get on, and he fucked me over. Still, turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to me.

Working tonight, might go out Saturday night, see how I feel.
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:49, Reply)
Buggered up the prices of our goods on Amazon and had to cancel a whole load of orders as a result.
I am completely responsible. I just have to take the bollocking.
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:51, Reply)
that was silly of you.

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:54, Reply)
Yup. I was, and remain, mortified.

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:55, Reply)
I can see why they're deeming you incapable.

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:58, Reply)
Thanks a lot.

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:59, Reply)
To be fair, it's apparently difficult to type prices with a head dobber.

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:59, Reply)
Is that Monty's job title?

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:04, Reply)
You could come round my house
First of all, you can guess where I live. It'll be like a little game.
I'm very tired Windus...I didn't sleep well last night.
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:23, Reply)
I got fired in 1999 when I worked for WH Smith.
Two weeks later; job at Amazon. Lots of stock options during the .com bubble. Made a good amount from the stock and improved my CV. Much more enjoyable place to work too.
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 8:51, Reply)
Had a few run-ins over the years
Mostly to do with "office politics" and people trying to fuck me over to save their own arse. I fight my corner rather well as I'm such a shy, retiring type. If I've done something wrong, I'll happily take a bollocking (in the non-Darth sense) but I'll go all Accord on you if you try and pin something on me that I've not done
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:13, Reply)
Of course not - I'm fucking ace, me.
I've had to sit in on a couple of redundancy meetings before.
They were not fun.

I'll save telling you about my weekend plans for the next thread that asks.
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:13, Reply)
Our place had to make some years ago and one of the lasses in the pub at lunchtime managed to make herself truly hated
by issuing the statement "They couldn't get rid of me. I'm indispensable" right in front of all the people drowning their sorrows

Well done pet
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:16, Reply)
There's always one cunt who is sure that the whole place would fall apart if they ever left.
Usually everyone is considerably happier once you get rid of them.
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:18, Reply)
She is actually very good at her job
but FFS, time and place....
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:18, Reply)
I got fired once, best day ever
I was miserable in that job and it gave me the impetus to move on
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:15, Reply)
Was it related to cable purchasing?

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:17, Reply)
Unlike the poster up there, no it wasn't
It was nothing really, it was almost mutual, they knew I was unhappy, my work was suffering etc etc.

is was a nonsense job, so no biggy
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:19, Reply)
During a discliplinary over something really stupid
because I appeared to not be taking it all very seriously, I was asked "Do you like this job?"
I responded by LOL'ing heartily, and saying "Is that a joke?"
I walked out a few days later.
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:17, Reply)
Excellent

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:19, Reply)
That's retail for you
Self-important little people that think that because you're working for 5p over the minimum wage, that somehow makes it the best job in the world.
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:21, Reply)
There is far too much football chat in this thread.

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:25, Reply)
You were in Uxbridge and you didn't visit and buy me a sandwich?
What's that about, you top 1% earning prick?
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:27, Reply)
Had to get to Amazingstoke straight after my meeting.

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:29, Reply)
Yeah, whatever mate
Whilst you were swanning around visiting all the top tourist spots, I was staring at a sandwich-shaped blank area on my desk.

Think about your actions, yeah?
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:31, Reply)
Don't really like dining with the french.

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:33, Reply)
I didn't want you to hang around, just buy me a fucking sandwich.
Is that so much to ask?
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:38, Reply)
Yes.
More than you deserve.
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:40, Reply)
Typical corporate fat-cat attitude
always trampling over the honest workers.
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:41, Reply)
I regularly get pulled into meetings about my "attitude".
Apparently making it clear in the tone of your voice that you think the person you're talking to is an incapable half-wit is undesirable in a customer-facing telephone support role. Who knew?

Also, during a similar experience in my first proper job I was told "now, I know working in a bowling alley isn't the be all and end all" I responded with "you've got to be joking. you might be happy wasting your life here, but I'm not". And that is how I lost my first ever job.
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:26, Reply)
It's even more difficult when it is clear from the tone of your voice that you think the person issuing the disciplinary is an incapable half-wit.

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:29, Reply)
Just this very morning I have received an extremely imperious email from some jumped-up consultant
who seems to think that the best way of getting me onside is to copy in his boss and his boss's boss in the email which refers to his issue "directly impacting his candidate attraction for live vacancies". He would like me to inform him on the best way of getting it resolved.

I am having to take a bit of break before replying in the hopes it'll stop me saying "Please apply the following procedure 1: Climb down from the several feet you appear to be lodged up your own anus..."
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:36, Reply)
Big Picture manoeuvre usually works
single user fault....not business critical. ..lower priority.....appreciate important to you but in the company scheme of things you are an insignificant twat.*

*This last phrase may need editing.
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:43, Reply)
I'll probably just leave it until this afternoon
and tell him to try again in ten minutes with no further explanation.
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:46, Reply)
This is my worry about next Monday.
My boss already knows I consider myself his intellectual superior.
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:36, Reply)
In truth, I actually am.

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:37, Reply)
From the little I've seen of mid-level management in warehousing
you'd struggle not to be.
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:38, Reply)
However, he's the one that had the balls to set up a business that pays you a salary.
You owe him a level of respect for that.
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:41, Reply)
No he didn't - he bought it when we were fucked.
I do respect him for the work he's put in but he is an administrator with no imagination or people skills, and an ill-mannered cretin, to boot. Plus, yid.
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:43, Reply)
Alright, at least he had the balls to buy a failing business to keep it going & to get it back on track.

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:44, Reply)
That's true.

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:49, Reply)
and the finance
money makes money
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:59, Reply)
Nope, as I'm quite good at lying about other people not being total fuckwits.
Otherwise I seem to have dodged a few bullets.

I've had to had out warnings a few times. I tried and failed to have one of my underlings sacked for gross misconduct when I was in industry but the head of HR pussied out so I quit instead. THAT SHOWED 'EM.

The company folded 6 months later. Mwahahahaha.
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:35, Reply)
I can imagine misconduct in your field is pretty gross

(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:59, Reply)
Actually, this guy went into my computer (open plan office)
whilst I went for a piss, and searched through my files to look at my personal review objectives and that of others in my team. And then printed them off.

I think that's pretty top-level misconducnt. Guy was a paranoid idiot.
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 10:48, Reply)
I've been neither a receiver or a bollocker.
this is because I either don't fuck up or don't get caught and I have only rarely been in charge of others, it's not something I enjoy.

That said, it looks like we are interviewing for a Junior Dogsbody who will come, at least partially, under me. It will be quite nice to dump some of the more mundane work onto someone, but I cannot help but assume he'll fuck most of it up, on the basis of, you get what you pay fro and he's to be paid peanuts.
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 9:49, Reply)

under inside

YOU BIG GAYER
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 10:16, Reply)
everyone makes mistakes all the time
but hardly any of them come to light or matter. it's just unlucky this one did. they know you do a good job.

so fuck 'em.
(, Fri 1 Mar 2013, 10:00, Reply)

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