nexus6
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Post by nexus6 on Feb 2, 2023 13:42:46 GMT
I feel my complaint today is valid and it may have been covered already but there is a certain group of people who I wish all the bad things in life happen to them and only them. We all know who I'm talking about... The ones who decide to dip their tea spoon back in the sugar after they've dunked it into their hot beverage of choice. Savages. Putting a damp spoon back in the bowl is the tea-drinking equivalent of sharing a needle. And I did not want to end up with the tea-drinking equivalent of AIDS
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Post by RumMonkey on Feb 2, 2023 13:43:27 GMT
It the people that use the same knife for marmite and butter for their toast. 1 for marmite 1 for the butter you savages.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Feb 2, 2023 13:46:47 GMT
Two knives??!! What are you, an Earl??
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Post by DJCopa on Feb 2, 2023 13:48:37 GMT
Just use one hand for butter, the other for marmite
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Post by Bill in the rain on Feb 2, 2023 13:49:11 GMT
Last Tango in Paris style...
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Blue_Mike
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Post by Blue_Mike on Feb 2, 2023 13:50:03 GMT
What about toe-knives? Fine to use for other things?
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Post by Bill in the rain on Feb 2, 2023 13:50:47 GMT
Is that a Toe-jam and Earl joke?
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EMarkM
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Post by EMarkM on Feb 2, 2023 14:07:43 GMT
I feel my complaint today is valid and it may have been covered already but there is a certain group of people who I wish all the bad things in life happen to them and only them. We all know who I'm talking about... The ones who decide to dip their tea spoon back in the sugar after they've dunked it into their hot beverage of choice. Savages. That’s completely unrealistic: no one would ever do that. . . . Would they..?
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Post by Buu on Feb 2, 2023 14:22:21 GMT
I feel my complaint today is valid and it may have been covered already but there is a certain group of people who I wish all the bad things in life happen to them and only them. We all know who I'm talking about... The ones who decide to dip their tea spoon back in the sugar after they've dunked it into their hot beverage of choice. Savages. That’s completely unrealistic: no one would ever do that. . . . Would they..? Only the real scumbags.
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Post by mrpon on Feb 2, 2023 14:23:26 GMT
It the people that use the same knife for marmite and butter for their toast. 1 for marmite 1 for the butter you savages. What if I lick it after?
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Post by RumMonkey on Feb 2, 2023 14:24:02 GMT
Special place in hell for the likes of you.
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Post by 😎 on Feb 2, 2023 14:30:01 GMT
Isn't there already a Busy option if you want to indicate you are super busy (important) and dont want to be disturbed? I've seen some people use the status option to specifically note they're on lunch, but, bth, I just let it time out to away and let people figure it out. Maybe I'm the bad one. Busy/DND is for when you’re actually doing heads down work. Most of it probably depends on your org. If you’re a large 24/7 shop that works across time zones, or has a lot of shift workers, the idea of everyone on a 9-5 calendar is irrelevant. So the general working methodology here is free = schedule away, busy = if it’s a priority need you can ask, OOO = don’t bother scheduling. With that in mind, OOO is basically the only guarantee you can get of not ending up with 8 hours of back to back meetings or random out of hours stuff. I still have ‘nam flashbacks to the day someone thought 6pm on a Friday was the perfect time for a two hour working session. I can see that being less important if you’re 15 people in the same village though.
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Post by deekyfun on Feb 2, 2023 16:01:12 GMT
Yeah, I think the way a company uses Teams can heavily influence things. Generally, the issue is down to miscommunication as people interpret statuses differently.
Where I am, Teams just kind of appeared and there wasn't much defined in terms of rules/guidance for using it. So best practice just kind of evolved out in nature, with everyone just doing their own thing, creating whatever Teams and not really understanding the back-end of it. Its probably not that much fun to sit down and try and police something like that, but it probably would help a bit.
That ! on emails is annoying though. And my personal bug-bear was someone sending an email asking for something, a msg on teams a minute later checking I'd seen it, and a call after that to make double sure I was on it. There's no cure for that kind of behaviour.
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Post by drhickman1983 on Feb 2, 2023 16:20:57 GMT
My personal office bugbear is when somebody has a request, so will ask somebody in our team, then after being told we don't have capacity to do that immediately they will go to another team member. Then another.
And it's always a request for data or MI or something that they need for a meeting tomorrow. They've known about this meeting for over a week, but only contacting us now.
For fucks sake, Emily.
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Post by wunty on Feb 3, 2023 9:46:47 GMT
There's not a "Negative Things Just Happened" thread so this will have to do. I'm in a right bummed out mood now. The local music venue, that's only been there about 20 years, is closing this week. Why? To make room for a hotel of course. We've only had two hotels built here in the past year, so we definitely need more. I can't wait until it's nothing but hotels up here. Hotels everywhere. MOAR HOTELS. This is the biggest dedicated music venue in a 100 mile radius. It's hosted everything from the smallest of local acts to international headliners. There is nowehre else save for one off event places to have these concerts, and nowhere nearby for local acts to aspire to play at. There are only two other venues here that put on original music instead of shitty cover bands so there's really now next to nowhere. What really bummed me out though was seeing the photos appearing online of the stairwell that links the green rooms to the stage. It's traditional for every act that plays there to write their name on the wall, the ceiling, the door, wherever they can fit it. Loads of recognisable names amongst the slew of smaller ones, all sharing the same space at different points in time. I spotted two of my own bands there and it's just made me go all nostalgic and, as I say, just left me really fucking flat. It's all going. All that history. All that shared experience. Lost to time, like tears in rain
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nexus6
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Post by nexus6 on Feb 3, 2023 9:54:20 GMT
They have to build the hotels to accommodate all the people coming to the area for gigs....
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Post by wunty on Feb 3, 2023 10:05:51 GMT
It's fucking pish.
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Post by dfunked on Feb 3, 2023 10:09:37 GMT
What a load of shit! Guarantee a few people have had their palms nicely greased to let that go ahead.
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Post by Aunt Alison on Feb 3, 2023 10:15:31 GMT
Sounds like there's a burgeoning lounge music scene in your area. Time to take your band in a new direction
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Post by wunty on Feb 3, 2023 10:21:17 GMT
What a load of shit! Guarantee a few people have had their palms nicely greased to let that go ahead. Indeed. This should have been put to the public. Everyone is firmly against this but there's nothing that can be done.
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Post by rhaegyr on Feb 3, 2023 10:24:28 GMT
Same happening to The Leadmill near me sometime this year.
Quite heartbreaking - spent some of my formative years there and saw some great bands.
Everything will end up as a shitty O2 Academy with zero character.
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Post by sport✅ on Feb 3, 2023 10:30:25 GMT
Bring on the MSG Sphere!!!!
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Post by wunty on Feb 3, 2023 10:43:02 GMT
Fucking hell, how big IS he?
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Post by wunty on Feb 3, 2023 10:44:05 GMT
Same happening to The Leadmill near me sometime this year. Quite heartbreaking - spent some of my formative years there and saw some great bands. Everything will end up as a shitty O2 Academy with zero character. Yeah man it's happening everywhere and I know this isn't new. Always hits harder when it's your local though doesn't it.
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Post by drhickman1983 on Feb 3, 2023 10:45:09 GMT
Venues closing is always shit.
Sometimes it's inevitable, if they have declining audiences but by the sound of that place near Wunts was still thriving.
There have been long standing venues closed in Bristol because some property twats built flats near the venues, knowing they play music, then complaints about the music and venue end up shutting them down.
Great.
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Post by wunty on Feb 3, 2023 10:48:54 GMT
Properly thriving. Selling out on a regular basis and still getting decent acts up as well as showcases for smaller acts. it's all - as was said earlier - money under the counter shit.
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Post by Danno on Feb 3, 2023 11:02:56 GMT
Ugh that's bullshit wunty
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Post by Dougs on Feb 3, 2023 11:17:19 GMT
It's like it up and down the country. About 10 years ago, my local town hall, which was used for gigs, needed investment for repairs to its roof - local council couldn't/didn't want to and sold it on to a private investor. It's sat empty ever since, slowly rotting. The town council have managed to buy it back, but don't have the funds to do it up. It's a proper, 19c building with loads of character that is just being left to die. When I win the lottery tonight, that's the first thing I'm buying.
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Post by JonFE on Feb 3, 2023 13:13:30 GMT
wunty I feel for you mate! Back in 2005 "Rodon" (Greek for "rose"), an Athens venue that was hosting gigs since the late 80's, closed doors, was demolished and turned into a supermarket. It was the first gigs dedicated venue and everybody who has played in Athens has probably visited it. My own band at the time played there twice, supporting Grave Digger and Rage; properly gutting...
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Post by wunty on Feb 3, 2023 13:17:04 GMT
wunty I feel for you mate! Back in 2005 "Rodon" (Greek for "rose"), an Athens venue that was hosting gigs since the late 80's, closed doors, was demolished and turned into a supermarket. It was the first gigs dedicated venue and everybody who has played in Athens has probably visited it. My own band at the time played there twice, supporting Grave Digger and Rage; properly gutting... It's rubbish! It was seeing our band names scrawled on the wall that properly hit it home. Proper bollocks.
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