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Do you have smokers where you work? Do they take the piss with their fag breaks.
What petty workplace woes fuck you right off?
Alt: Is there anything other than alcohol worth people bringing back for you from their holidays?
Altalt: When was the last time you drank alcohol down the park?
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 12:01, 180 replies, latest was 13 years ago)
does anyone have any recommendations for a nice mid-priced bottle of whisky for someone to give to their dad who is a bit into whisky?
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Anti-blend snobbery is stupid. The only important thing is how good it tastes.
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 12:18, Reply)
Ledaig if he likes peaty ones.
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 12:11, Reply)
www.masterofmalt.com/whiskies/ledaig-10-year-old-whisky/
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 12:23, Reply)
Bruichladdich is also fucking lovely.
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 12:25, Reply)
I was quietly impressed with it.
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 12:35, Reply)
Usual protocol is to bang on incessantly about it on here.
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 12:38, Reply)
Quite strong though, so needs a tiny dash of water.
It goes well with gorgonzola.
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 12:42, Reply)
try Poit Dhubh as it's really not that common. It's also, strictly, a double malt, which might interest him.
a 12 year old will set you back about 30 sovs. Or 5 years in prison, depending if this paragraph is actually related to the previous one.
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 12:26, Reply)
Would be my recommendation you can get the 12yr for about 30 quid and it has one of the best bottle shapes I have seen quite unusual.
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:03, Reply)
blog.thewhiskyexchange.com/2013/05/talisker-port-ruighe/
It's gert lush.
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 12:48, Reply)
That quends me right off.
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so they can pretty much do as they please for all I care.
Alt: Yes but a bottle of duty free goes down well
Altalt: Yesterday, had a picnic and a bottle of wine
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 12:08, Reply)
YES, it's disgusting, and even in the poshest city offices, there are still a metric fucktonne of animals who leave the place in a state
yes and no, they are v hard working. but i've worked in other jobs where the smokers properly took the piss.
not having a microwave. it really fucks up bringing in healthy lunches/left-overs.
alt: GIANT SALTY ALMOND TOBLERONES, THANK YOU RORY
altalt: bottle of pink champagne in the chelsea physic garden last week, does that count?
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 12:11, Reply)
but it's fucking rubbish. It takes 10 minutes just to heat up soup. They might as well install a hob.
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 12:13, Reply)
but people bring hot food in/down from the staff restaurant so guess what, it still fucking smells
FREE DECENT MICROWAVES FOR ALL
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 12:15, Reply)
As long as it's kept clean, it'd be fine. People are so dumb.
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 12:22, Reply)
ie you made two portions, and put it on a fresh plate/tupperware box straightaway.
NOT fork in, fork out, saliva infested half-eaten shit.
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if you must shit, do it in your own disgusting bathroom
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monty's kid did, however, confirm the ginger thing. time to break out the sharpies.
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 12:47, Reply)
Once he reported one of my colleagues to HR because the sound of his label printer bothered him.
Naturally, my colleague started the printer running the next morning, then went out. He set it to print several hundred labels.
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Can relax a bit more.
Altalt, same as Mr Hare, park barbecue, nice bottle pf plonk.
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 12:12, Reply)
You're like those flids that lost all their million pounds on the first question and it dropped through the hole on that TV show, I forget what it's called.
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 12:54, Reply)
When I worked in a hotel many years ago I took up smoking so that I would be able to occasionally have a break.
Alt: No, unless you are prepared to smuggle some weed back for me.
Altalt: Too long ago, man. Too long ago.
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 12:17, Reply)
But that said, if you do clean up after yourself, you wouldn't shit all up the bowl and leave a dozen bits of toilet paper lying around at home.
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 12:18, Reply)
www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/jul/29/nhs-direct-111-telephone-service-risk
www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-23465966
And as an aside, best researched article ever. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23489702
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I drank prosecco and red wine at Opera in the Park on Saturday.
Does that count?
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 12:20, Reply)
and they seem to not be able to flush, leaving a daily eyeful of oaty goodness for all to see. Horrible.
People leaving things in the fridge pisses me off. Stinkin after a weekend.
Alt. Massive drugs.
AltAlt. Not since my teens
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 12:21, Reply)
Might need turning up a bit though, or people just eat horrible rubbish
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 12:35, Reply)
I am not a fan of having a poo in a public location.
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b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post2028725
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 12:30, Reply)
Are the bane of my fucking life. Constantly out of toner, or have errors, and they change the font of pdfs to something unreadable. And IT refuse to support it if I buy my own printer for my office.
Altalt: Barbecues and picnics in the park all the time, so - that.
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 12:32, Reply)
Why should they?
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 12:33, Reply)
As such, I don't fancy getting the sour milk from his lactating bitch-tits on them.
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 12:41, Reply)
I'd be buying it for work, from one of my accounts.
If they don't want to support standalone printers, they should fucking provide a printing service which is more use than a chocolate fireguard..
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 12:38, Reply)
That still doesn't mean they should support whatever printer you think it appropriate to provide. That isn't the way it works.
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 12:40, Reply)
one - by support, I mean "allow me to download the driver" and "don't come into my office and remove it" - I don't expect them to stock consumables or anything and
two - I will happily have any printer they recommend. I don't want something weird. And I will pay for it. I don't think that I somehow know better than them. I will buy my own consumables for it. What I want is to be able to print something when I need it fucking printed. Not in 3 days time when the replacement toner that the MFD automatically ordered for itself (Oh, sorry, did I fail to mention the "not carrying any toner for any of them on site" part?) has arrived and been located on the other side of the University where it has invetiably been wrongly delivered.
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 12:45, Reply)
It sounds like you have a shitty IT department. I'm just pointing out that it's almost universal that IT departments will only support the kit they provide.
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 12:48, Reply)
Except when it was a two person team with no policies but just fixed things.
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 12:50, Reply)
with tickets and SLAs and shit. Bureaucratic bullshit. People call us up and we fix whatever it is on the phone. If there's a reason we can't do something, or support something, we'll say so. If you don't like it, tough shit.
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edit well, the below proves MY point
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(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:05, Reply)
I really just mean "let me have a standalone printer which I will maintain"
Oddly, my "local" IT, as in the school, are great, and are as irritated with the printers as anyone. But central IT writes policy.
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 12:51, Reply)
The branches get printers bought through the IT budget fully supported. We will not allow them to install any kit they buy themselves, full stop. I've told people I can't support USB mice before now. It does make sense from an IT perspective because without a fairly homogenous pool of hardware, it can become surprisingly difficult to troubleshoot problems quite quickly.
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 12:59, Reply)
So what IT need, therefore, is to tell me which printer I CAN buy and install. I don't even need a choice. So they could have one acceptable printer on a list and I would buy it. That's about as homogenous a pool as you could ask for, really.
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:04, Reply)
I expect they're either locked into a contract with the original supplier of those printers, have no budget to replace them or just don't give a shit. Having worked in a school, I could believe any or all of these.
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:09, Reply)
Also, because no-one picked up on this in the general shenanigans, can someone tell me how the blue fuck a printer is changing fonts on a pdf? that's just witchcraft.
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 12:55, Reply)
Instead of letters, the printer just prints rows of little boxes.
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 12:56, Reply)
where the capitals are massive and the lower case letters are tiny. It's just about readable, but it's a fucking pain
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 12:58, Reply)
Turn it off and on again, change ink pull out paper jams. If it stops working use the shit one again. Most IT things can be fixed without opening a fucking ticket.
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 12:44, Reply)
"support" means "not coming into my office and removing because having a standalone printer is unauthorised"
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 12:46, Reply)
in a large office many years ago, everyday the first half hour the same bunch of people would spend that time talking about last nights soaps, people that disappear to the toilet for half an hour, people that pin an extra 10 Mins to each end of their lunch break, people that have their coats on and out the door 5 Mins before the official finish time....the list goes on
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 12:35, Reply)
No, but I think every workplace has a Placid
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 12:46, Reply)
If by drank you mean was up to my nuts in guts and by park you mean your mum then, Saturday.
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 12:35, Reply)
I am now completely soaked to the skin from head to toe.
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 12:42, Reply)
yet again the South proves itself against the North and weird middle bit of England
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 12:43, Reply)
#tough love
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 12:49, Reply)
You're in no position to lecture Battered about the risks of his smoking. At least cancer's only a statistical chance.
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 12:54, Reply)
Well, actually, it's probably not as simple as that. but there's an argument that if you happen to be not genetically predisposed to cancer, then all the smoking in the world won't give you cancer.
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 12:57, Reply)
Who the fuck would try a starvation detox diet when you don't even have the advantage of genetic odds as to whether it's harmful?
Also, everything is a risk. You live in London, which is riskier than most places for all sorts of reasons, but I don't notice anyone telling you that you really should stop that.
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and we can all go back to looking like James Dean again.
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:01, Reply)
I was hugely tempted to write into the ASA about the warnings on cigarettes as they imply that you will definitively get cancer by smoking. But then I realised that it was a) a waste of time b) the sort of thing only a huge prick would do
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:15, Reply)
I wondered statistically, if living in the countryside and smoking was better for you than living in the city and not smoking.
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:18, Reply)
I am a smoker, I have 5 or 6 fag breaks a day but if I didn't I'd just do something else in those times.
Workplace woes: Today's canteen main course is Artichoke and aubergine tart with gorgonzola. That's clearly incomplete as none of those things have been hacked from the carcass of a dead animal.
Alt: Duty free cigs
Altalt: ages ago, I'm a responsible adult.
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:03, Reply)
Busybodies who worry about what everyone else is doing and how this may be some sort of perceived slight on THEM.
Alt: Fags.
Altalt: first thing this morning.
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:11, Reply)
Apologies for the delay in responding, I was just having a shit and a fag.
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:49, Reply)
If you promise to be nice, I'll promise not to delete it.
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But if he's serious, today may be the day.
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:22, Reply)
Only two smokers here* - and they don't stick out as taking the piss. This is because the entire warehouse staff take the fucking piss every single time they have a break. They go back 5-10 minutes late without fail. I have to go down there and tell them to get back to work, the lazy Placids. I detest them. One's like fucking Rain Man, he remembers dates and stuff like a computer but is otherwise a retard, one's 65 and blatantly coasting to retirement, one's 40 and still lives at home with his spastic parents (whom he gets to phone in sick when he as a LIEgraine etc etc. Fucking scum.
Alt: yer, fags
Altalt: couple of weeks back, bbq in London Fields innit
*I don't smoke during the day
(, Mon 29 Jul 2013, 13:20, Reply)
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