Or Wayne Hennessy.:D

Charles Hawtrey, David Niven…it’s easy to get confused about two of Britain’s silver screen lady killers of yesteryore.

Finding out that my Palace garden gnome has a broken nose and they are no longer in stock.

Was it in a fight?

It was either his appalling cocaine habit or a Brighton supporting fox ( and to be fair to Reynard and his ilk, they generally only support one team..sometimes Leicester ) knocked him over. Such are the perils of living in Hove.

I’m contracted to work 9-5, like it is explicitly written into my contract of employment. So when I start my Friday at 8am and say goodbye to one of the senior managers while packing up my stuff at 4:30pm, I expect more than a sideways glance and a check of the wrist watch before turning back to face whatever it is they were doing.

What a ****.

Cashiers telling me to tap now when the transaction hasn't even showed up on the PDQ yet. Feck off. I know when to tap and I don't need some wankstain telling me. These are the sort of people who bib as soon as the lights turn green.

The Jolly Green Giant

Did that senior manager know you started at 8 ? It’s an interesting post as in theory you are contracted to start at 9, which I suppose means your first hour, which started at 8, was not contractually worth anything.

The wish is that management respect you and there should be no sly wrist glancing as we are all adults, capable of self management.

Unless he’s a ****, of course :D

Maybe he was seeing your leaving as time for another wank in the toilets.

Senior managers huh, they do tend towards being c**ts who are very happy to ignore rules where it favours their interest but be passive aggressive twats, where it benefits the individual. That said, employees can be the same. Someone I work with would start at 7am, work through their lunch, and leave at three (having a minimum 2 Hour drive each way) and two members of staff complained, despite the fact they barely manage 9 to 5.

Isn't it a statement of truth? I don't trust men who'd claim never to have been a wanker. They're either lying, or waving a red warning flag.

How does it smell?

Maybe they didn't have a cock to wank.

Awful :lux:

I’ll set ‘em up… :p

I had that when I worked at Emap, got pulled into my publishers office about it, then I pointed out that if the complainers wanted to continue complaining then I would be asking for their ciagrette breaks to be taken into account and added onto their work time.

The complaints stopped.

These people make them to order - but they cost £40:
https://pixieland.co.uk/garden-gnome...ion-piece.html

It has no olfactory capacity. It's a plaster garden ornament.

Yeh, we greeted each other in the lift at 7:45.

The thing is, it’s not about my contracted start/finish time, as my line manager gives me the freedom to be flexible so long as a do my contracted weekly hours. The bloke is just a wanker. When England played Germany a few weeks back, he knew we all wanted to watch the game, but he sat at his desk till 6pm anyway, making sarcastic comments at anyone leaving before him to watch the game.


Oh, and he’s a Spurs fan.

****.

A really sour start to my weekend, completely unnecessary and pisspoor management from someone in a very senior position.

Never heard it called that before.

My experience is that altough one might be perfectly correct in that analysis, that kind of 'cheek' tends to come back and bite you on the arse later down the line.

:lux::lux::lux::lux::lux:

Might have done for you, didn't for me.

Was it a successful career stint at EMAP?

Yep.

Just to be nosy, what role did you have at emap? I very nearly worked for them in Croydon.

As a typesetter.

Arthritis makes it easier to drop things, and harder to pick them up

Heatherwick drafted in on the Covid memorial project.

Skateboarding being an Olympic thing.

I prefer the skateboarding than the 3 on 3 basketball.

These sports are being brought in to make the Games more relevant to young people , would like to know if the Olympics are watched by the younger generation.

While on the Olympics . Medalled and Podiumed as verbs. An old one but still annoys me.

Is that the one played on a half court?

Yep. 20mins a game, I think.

So?

Deal with it.

I've long held the view that 'fluff' as we called it should be in the Olympics - the game I'm referring to is effectively similar to squash but with a football, everyone will know it under various different names.

Unless there is some joke or backstory this is the most twat post I have ever read.

I worked my way up to ad manager, then got head hunted by a small independent publishing house....they were not good, left after several months.

That is annoying, but the idea of a Covid memorial project (which I wasn't previously aware of) in itself is even annoyinger.

Speaking of such things - that £2 million fake tiny "hill" at Marble Arch that costs £8 to walk up. What a load of old c~nt. Everyone involved should be shot.

Obviously you've never had to work with the general public

Obviously you ask people to tap. :jerkit:

Well, it's annoying....

You would be surprised at the amount of people who just stand and stare at the machine like they had never seen one before and if you don't say they can tap now you would be there forever also the amount of people who put their pin in and then just pull their card out:jerkit:

That's fine but at least wait until you realise they're a dopey c*nt before asking, as it's not even ready to tap if you ask instantly. Also I have dealt with the general public and currently still do so I sympathise with your frustration even if I still hate you for your premature tap now requesting.

As a bit of a racer in my day I find most reaction times on green lights desperately slow. Can only assume people are finishing off their texts :hmph:

Watching the hundred batsmen being called batters. I know it’s a unisex thing but still annoying. How about bats ladies for the girls!!

Just pay cash. Solves it in one :D

Do shops still print cheques for you?

To be honest I don't normally ask before they can tap it but sometimes when I'm just going through the motions towards the end of the day I probably do.

This has been going on for ages so it's not something that can be blamed on The Hundred.

I always wait for permission before I tap it

Are you saying they should be called “lezzos”? :grrr:

Jeanette Winterson

The Aussies, one of the more enlightened and forward-thinking nations, have used the term 'batters' since almost for ever.

I have had O.A. for about 9 years now and have needed a wheelchair for the last 4. I deal with it. life goes on.

Should we close the thread?

I suspect that we 'deal with' all of these annoyances, doesn't make them any less irritating at times.

Point taken. I apologize for my comment.

What about the fielding position now known as "Third"?

Getting to sound a lot like baseball to me...

That somehow in today's world completely bonkers conspiracy theories are taken so seriously and are seemingly gaining such traction. It feels as if some kid in a bedroom can fan the flames or even start these things. The more ridiculous or bizarre the better. Does it work because so many people want to believe 'that everything must be being done to them' because it is the only explanation for why their lives aren't perfect.

You have to wonder where it all ends. Kind of hoping I am not around when it does somehow.

There have always been conspiracy theories (look at Nero fiddling whilst Rome burned) ; it's in human nature to believe that there must be a reason that bad things happen. And it's always the fault of an elite.


The only difference is the speed at which they now spread.

Knowing you had arrived at 7:45, maybe he was clocking that you had done more than your contracted hours and were leaving well after you could have?

Never been impressed by early-bird office martyrs. Go knock yourself out. If your hours are contracted, time-keeping heroics at any part of the day don't earn you the right to impose your own self-regulated flexi-time.
And boy, do early arrivals like to mention it all day long.
Up the management.

Good lord.

I think you're allowed to deal with it and be annoyed by it at the same time.

At least until they're old enough to leave home.

Bowler has always been suitably gender neutral.

Soon to be known as the pitcher…

Deal.with it.



;)

It’s really not Tokyo 2020.

A new fad creeping in about saying when someone has a birthday having "Another trip around the sun".

Way too pretentious.

I think you can be excused some grumpiness, but nevertheless I feel it prudent to put everyone's mind at ease by assuring them that I'm not surrounded by a milieu of random objects scattered forlornly on the floor around me.

Considering his contract very clearly states he should finish work at 5pm, I make his manager right. Joe even explicitly stated he was breaking the rules of his work contract at both ends and then moaned that others saw him as a wrongdoer. Not sure what sympathy he expects just because he wants to beat the commuter rush. He should feel shitty for the weekend - come in next week at 8.50am and not try skiving off early.

His contract doesn't state that if he is stupid enough to give the company a free hour before 9am, he can start making up his own rules, and work to a flexi-time arrangement that doesn't apply to other people.

If you want to do that, work for yourself. See how skiving off works when others aren't supplementing your relaxed start to the weekend.

Seems that the nearly post pandemic workforce of the UK have some kind of issue late afternoon. I would call it the 'cake and eat it syndrome'.

PeterH, when a poster has to try...too hard.

Paper straws.

You are probably too young to remember when Maccie D's used paper straws before they decided to pollute the planet with their plastic ones.

agreed, I get the environmental angle, but when you can't get your last quarter of Capri Sun out of the pouch because the straw has disintegrated it's most annoying.

That was half the fun with a tripple milk shake to see if you could consume it before the straw disintegrated or you slurpem that little bit too hard and it simply collapsed on itself.

It was an attempt at humour. Or have I just been whoosed back? Hey ho! :D

Aaaah - Capri Sun. Now I see the problem. You need a vacuum pump to get the liquid out of one of their sachets.

Not mention some people seem to think we have quarterback's in football these days

I am not wrong though.

Poster says himself he has an explicitly written contract that says his working hours are 9 to 5. Then complains about his manager giving him the beady eye when he leaves at 4.30pm.

At performance review time said manager will not recall all the times said poster went above and beyond by getting a good headstart on every day.

That the poster felt his start to the weekend was uncomfortable suggests he knew he dropped the ball in that regard.

I have had whole semesters ruined by a boss pointing out a flaw in my work on the last day before summer holidays. Not very nice at all, especially when you start the semester with a token prize and get another one at the beginning of the next semester - from the same boss.

Some things you have to just suck up.

Yeah, I was looking for a reaction. But the BBS is again failing. It shouldn't be up to me, hours and hours after the event, to point out the obvious flaw in the posters argument - especially when the poster prints it out himself.

Maybe we need to reclassify wingers as wide receivers?

Oh and this is the second time in about as many weeks that posters have complained about how tiresome it is to e expected to work a little extra in the late afternoon in their office jobs.

Either said jobs are as boring as feck or furloughing and the pandemic has made people a little bit precious about working a little over their 35 hrs a week. Supposedly, in a fecked economy where jobs of some quality are hard to come by and even harder to stay in.

Diddums, springs to mind.

Clock watchers and presenteeism

Still trying too hard.

I see increasing use of the phrase 'war for talent' - used in the context of there being more jobs of quality than there are applicants, and the consequent need for recruiters to act quickly when they get a chance to employ someone good.

Does "pretentious" now mean "shit" in CA, Hedgers?

To paraphrase Maidstoned, I guess I was trying to hard.

But yes, pretentious and shit are interchangeable in this case.

Also, I think California surfers invented the use of "shit" as a word with many meanings - dude.

I think if you can only afford a packed lunch for work, you should be allowed home a little early if you get hungry and need to get home for some dinner

BBS threads which stay on topic.......

:D

I know that is a dig.

But I would suggest that the poster that bunking of at 4.30pm was working out what he could get away with from 3.30pm onwards. I doubt any work of substance was done after 4pm.

Presenteeism is turning up for work when you are unfit to do so, and also applies to those of a mediocre status that make sure they are seen at their desks before the boss(es) get in and don't leave until the boss(es) clock off. This extends to sending work emails after hours and at the weekend, and copying them in to all and sundry.

A clockwatcher, by a definition, is someone who points out they started early and therefore has the 'right' to 'clock' off earlier.

Indeed. Especially if the packed lunch is of the gourmet variety that requires planning and preparing supplies in little jars. Chorizo bakes don't prepare themselves.

efa

fiend not fwend stop spilling mayo on your keyboard.

Ultimately, you will always be the one that sent me a warning PM that we will no longer be friends if I persisted in ribbing you, and you mate Sidekick Pete, over packed lunches.

You have to live with that temporarily falling of your placcid veil.

The hero the BBS doesn't deserve. Or need...or want.

Fair point. I learnt that with the Olise thread. Which is why I now prefer to bounce from thrad to thread picking on other posters flaws.

Much better than posting up useful or insightful stuff that peeps might find useful or interesting.

Bless your little heart.