They are not so much toxic but there are definitely maturity issues.
My advice re your poison dwarf is get rid of her or at the very least fob her off onto another team whoâs manager you dislike
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sell her to West Ham.
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Turn it into football management. Call them back in to your office and explain âthe sack raceâ.
It might be a lot of hassle, but from what youâve said it wonât stop until you force it too. A shame but what else can you do, if you canât completely separate them.
If your job is to manage the team, you may have to get rid of whoever(letâs cal them Jose or Fonte) canât accept your authority and their role in the team. Are you allowed to sell them yet or do we need to leave Europe before we can do that?
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I did voluntary work in a nursery abroad once. I didnât run the place but often left in charge of 8-10 three/four year olds. It was knackering. Iâd have to have a nap when I got in.
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I had more bureaucratic idiocy yesterday. Took about 7 hours of my time to find, arrange and buy something for a family. Purchase orders were going to take days, no business credit card so I got sent out with a shed load of cash to the local Argos. Then trying to return change I was told to fill another form out. Which was incorrect.
Anywhere know of a job where I donât need to fill any forms out? Does it exist?
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James Cordenâs voice. If its not bad enough that he hogs the TV, his voice now being used all over the place on radio ads. Argh!!!
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@intiniki I hope you wore your work ID in Argos and around townâŚjust to remind everyone that you are just a number and the property of the company.
This is an extension of the exhaustive paper trail policy.
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Been to Glasgow for a few days. Flew back to Stanstead yesterday. Went to pick up the car only to find that the battery in the key had died. Opened the door with the key and all hell broke loose. Piercing alarm and flashing lights. Went to the service station. Sorry, we dont sell batteries. Feck it. I am going to drive home with the alarm going and lights flashing I thought. Fortunately the alarm got bored after about 5 minutes and switch itself off, as did the lights. I spent 1.5 hours on the motorway waiting for the fecker to go off again. It didnt thankfully. If they are going to make it so hard to drive your car when the key battery dies they could at least sort out some kind of early warning so you know the fecker is on its way out! Blood pressure only just back to normal!
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Itâs ok Soggy, I think you got away with the car theft.
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People I like at work resigning.
2 in 2 weeks. One due to having a new job up north, the other because she cannot take the rubbish where we are. A 3rd person left 3 weeks ago because of rubbish systems . I hope they can get 2 new staff asap as 4 of us would struggle to take their caseloads.
I feel a new career coming on. Although I dont think driving down the M11 with the alarm blaring and hazard lights flashing was the best start!
Might have that beat on a pure âhead fuckâ level.
People you like at work being let go simply because youâre decent at your job. Happens a lot in IT Contracting. No political skulduggery, no backstabbing, just turning up and doing your normal job.
Iâd feel a lot worse about it except for a couple of things. One of the first things you learn as a contractor is that you canât assume competence just because someone is on a good whack. I suspect thatâs true elsewhere too.
Contractors arenât intrinsically better than permies. Theyâve just elected to work under different T&Cs, trading security for the financial opportunities on offer. Thereâs no guarantee of competence or work ethic. There doesnât need to be; if it doesnât work out, they can be cut quickly.
There is an expectation of delivery. I make it my mission to deliver as much as possible, especially when getting my feet under the table. Iâve often been in situations where Iâve done just that, and seen lunch buddies disappear as a result.
Itâs shite - I once saw someone sacked at 2:30pm on a Wednesday afternoon and my then boss played it terribly. He should have told him at the end of the day, not to come in tomorrow, and paid him off for his notice period. Instead, they made him work until the end of the week, while telling him they werenât really impressed with his skills. The Wednesday afternoon was intolerable for the pair of us. We both knew what had just gone down. He was close to tears. I had difficulty looking him in the eye.
Well thatâs an utterly shit way to treat anyone. I saw someone get sacked in the middle of a call centre floor after theyâd taken his pc away to check if he was sending jokey emails. He was and it was against the work rules.
In truth, they likely already knew. Very easy thing to pick up on, especially if he was dimwitted enough to send the emails over company mail. Itâll land on a company server before going anywhere else.
Itâs the dirty little secret of the so-called free world, but when youâre at work, youâre effectively in a hierarchical dictatorship. In that context, I suspect what you saw was an example of the âstateâ flexing its muscles rather openly to deter any other revolutionaries.
Yeah we knew that it was that. Theyâd brought someonein from outside to sack staff. There were lots of rules in the call centre. One was to not use the Internet at all. They made it hard to do but all the night staff knew how to get around it and did. I was quite happy to be made redundant.
Ratâs
Not the cute ones you see on tv the bloody big river rats that you used to see under the Hythe ferry pier
Now invading my house little bastards
whether they moved from Hythe is open to question but the little fuckers need destroying.
Some moist bread
Very toxic poison
8 hours and a black sack
Rat problem cured for the moment.
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Donât forget to disconnect your device from the bluetooth speaker after listening to music whilst in the home âgymâ when you then want to surreptitiously look at a couple of x hamster clips and youâve put the speaker back in the kitchen where the wife is with her mate. Ahem. 
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