swiss health ball woman update!so yesterday, i overheard the husband of the swiss health ball woman talking to another coworker (and btw, the number of married or soon to be married couples around here is absolutely pathetic--journos only associate with each other! i can count 15 couples here without thinking about it too hard) about his wife. he spoke of some sore back issues she was having. hearing this i thought, "hmm. will it mean, could it mean...?!" YES! the next day her ball was set aside for a normal office chair! she hasn't taken the ball home, but this should give me a few days of relief at least. i mean, i hope she gets her back soreness taken care of and all, but this makes me happy.
― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 23 September 2005 16:27 (eighteen years ago) link
Also - WAY TO GO TRAYCE!
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 23 September 2005 17:35 (eighteen years ago) link
To my right I, have a complete headcase who talks her actions. Something like this, “I’ll just open this e-mail, proceeds to read it out, oh I’ve got another one, if I times that by that then I’ll get this ooh that’s not right”, and so on.
Opposite right is my boss who’s done everything you’ve done but better, faster or more terrible.
Opposite me I have brown nose yes man, he asks if I’ve got my stats for the team leader. Like it’s anything to do with him.
Opposite left is ok guy, but doesn’t speak, just stares.
― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Monday, 17 October 2005 10:41 (eighteen years ago) link
That's work, it's supposed to be like that. Otherwise it wouldn't be work.
Not speaking colleagues are the best.
― nathalie, a bum like you (stevie nixed), Monday, 17 October 2005 10:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― William Paper Scissors (Rock Hardy), Monday, 17 October 2005 10:54 (eighteen years ago) link
i know this but we've moved around and i used to be surrounded by better/real/fun people.
― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Monday, 17 October 2005 10:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― nathalie, a bum like you (stevie nixed), Monday, 17 October 2005 11:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Monday, 17 October 2005 11:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 17 October 2005 11:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Monday, 17 October 2005 11:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 17 October 2005 11:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Monday, 17 October 2005 11:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 17 October 2005 13:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Monday, 17 October 2005 13:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― nathalie, a bum like you (stevie nixed), Monday, 17 October 2005 13:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Monday, 17 October 2005 13:24 (eighteen years ago) link
shock: "dude i was watching a british television show and they had bloc party as the background music!!"awe: "what?"
― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Monday, 17 October 2005 14:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Monday, 17 October 2005 15:17 (eighteen years ago) link
jesus WEPT.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 12:38 (eighteen years ago) link
haha well to be fair it's not like you can do a lot more with an ibook than that.
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 12:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 12:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 13:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 13:04 (eighteen years ago) link
and?
― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 13:07 (eighteen years ago) link
He must be clubbed & skinned before he has a chance to breed.
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 13:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 13:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 08:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 08:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 08:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 08:19 (eighteen years ago) link
Also I'd woken up an hour late and so had had no breakfast or coffee and my email was broken.
Grrr.
― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 08:20 (eighteen years ago) link
"people"
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 09:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 09:30 (eighteen years ago) link
This is getting really bad so it is. I've got Stinkyman sitting opposite and The Phantom Carrier of Death Breath somewhere in the vicinity. What's going on?
I've been choking back the Wrigleys so I can rule myself out...
― Rumpie, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 09:31 (eighteen years ago) link
Well, next time they ask why I haven't created the reports, I'm just going to reforward the questions I asked and still haven't received an answer on. Grrrrrr.
― Paranoid Spice (kate), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 09:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 09:34 (eighteen years ago) link
Or rather, I had one, but I unplugged it a few weeks ago and have neglected to plug it back in because it was so peaceful without it.
Honestly - I don't do phones, *especially* for report modification. If someone asks me for specific modifications, I want a record of what was requested and by whom.
― Paranoid Spice (kate), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 09:37 (eighteen years ago) link
ITS THE STUFF IVE SPENT 3 MONTHS SAYING NEEDS F'ING DOING.
So, I agreed. WITH. An email that said, to HR, "I withdraw my resignation BUT this is a provisional 1 month trial pending discusson on what this role actually is" blah blah...
I have not yet had any discussion with said boss as to what they want me to stay FOR. I suspect I'm going to end up office dogsbody in lieu of being on a shift (which they've yoinked my extra shift allowance because of).
I still dont really know why they want to keep me here. I dunno wether to be flattered or shitted off. ARGH.
― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 10:27 (eighteen years ago) link
Are you sure they're not one and the same?
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 11:06 (eighteen years ago) link
I finished the report I mentioned above, and the NITWITS in question of course have come back going "this is wrong!!!" but not providing any examples of what, specifically, is wrong. I felt like writing back and saying OF COURSE IT'S BLOODY WRONG BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T ANSWER ANY OF THE QUESTIONS I ASKED YOU EARLIER.
CNUTS. And I don't mean Danish kings.
― Paranoid Spice (kate), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 11:20 (eighteen years ago) link
oh well yeah. it has to be in writing but from my limited experience it's so much better to phone them to tell them to check their emails and remind them rather than sit and wait and be frustrated. oh god yes.
― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 11:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 11:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Paranoid Spice (kate), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 11:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 11:29 (eighteen years ago) link
This has pretty much been my internal monologue all day today. Sadly I don't seem to have a choice :(
Trayce, I hope you get some definite info about the job. Why, if I can ask, did you withdraw your resignation - even temporarily - though? I thought you kind of hated this place?
― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 11:33 (eighteen years ago) link
Everyone's like "hey they're offering you whatever you want to stay!" but on reflection I dunno if thats quite it. They just dont want to lose a qualified, experienced, *knows the company process* ways* person, I think. But my email said "PROVISIONAL MONTH TRIAL" so in a month I may still fuck off. Depends how this pans out I spose.
Hell its a job. And the way the IR laws are about to die and rot here I shouldnt be so fussy :|
― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 11:44 (eighteen years ago) link
"The business have not received there daily reports from the complaints DB, please can you investigate and have the reports sent ASAP."
Since no-one in "the business" deigned to tell me they wanted to receive any reports today, or indeed on any day, what a fucking surprise, I hadn't turned it on yet. (Background - I'm developing the reports for the new complaints database which to my knowledge hasn't or hadn't until today gone live yet). This whole project has been a total mess. I just hope some of these people leave the company after Centrica sell us off.
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 11:48 (eighteen years ago) link
(We are)
― feminazi (feminazi), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 11:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Paranoid Spice (kate), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 11:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― when something smacks of something (dave225.3), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 11:58 (eighteen years ago) link