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Post by Jambowayoh on May 30, 2024 14:47:10 GMT
Maybe it was the same guy Geefe worked with.
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Post by motti82 on May 30, 2024 16:32:27 GMT
Totally! And the best one is where they mention the manager. "You think the manager knows anything? Haven't you ever worked anywhere before?" On the flip side I was in a Next (Yes I am a basic middle aged man) last week buying some stuff for summer and hols. I had been in the previous week and tried on quite a fetching "shacket" but hadn't bought it. It was no longer out and I assumed most likely sold out but said it to the very nice lady and after having a look out on the floor she went in the back and found it in multiple sizes. In so doing she has helped to maintain the myth and legend of "the back" for a few years more. Always be kind and gracious to people who help you in shops or serve you food. A bit of manners and treating them properly will get you no end of extra service. Same works on the phone, by not raising your voice and generally sane, you will get your issue sorted a lot more quickly. |
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Post by quadfather on May 30, 2024 16:45:57 GMT
Yeah definitely. If a customer treats me as a human, they'll get my best service.
If not, it's back to staring out the window.
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Post by blankoblank on May 30, 2024 17:45:31 GMT
Thanks man, should be okay, especially as one of my immediate colleagues seems desperate for redundancy, and two others are permanently remote. What worries me is that our roles are quite unusual, and upper management and their bullshit patsy cunts Deloitte might go 'no idea what the fuck these people do, get rid'. Oh well, not a lot I can do at the moment other than wait... What, would you say, y'do here? |
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Post by Jambowayoh on May 30, 2024 18:18:42 GMT
Yeah definitely. If a customer treats me as a human, they'll get my best service. If not, it's back to staring out the window. Remember not so long ago when service workers were applauded for keeping the economy going, well largely because they had no fucking choice? It's funny that it barely lasted 5 minutes when people were allowed to leave their homes. |
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Post by Blue_Mike on May 30, 2024 18:31:59 GMT
During Covid lockdown, when a skeleton crew of us were asked to come in so we could run the click and collect service and people could drive up to our door and collect things that were classed as essentials, like cleaning products, the company "forgot" to restrict what products could be purchased from the website, and in one of the more memorable incidents, a woman drove more than ten miles to collect a single egg cup. This, to her, was essential travel.
The number of people who threw a tantrum because we wouldn't allow anyone without a face mask to come near the person handing over the goods was depressingly predictable.
Numerous people kicked off because we wouldn't allow them through the door to browse.
Another one complained that our car park wasn't warm enough.
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Post by Jambowayoh on May 30, 2024 19:31:51 GMT
Petty shit like that makes me laugh at all those thinkpieces that tried to convince you that we were all in it together and how the pandemic showed the best of humanity. The fuck it did. It just proved to me how humanity would eat itself just because they weren't allowed to get a haircut.
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Post by wunty on May 31, 2024 11:38:08 GMT
It just proved to me how humanity would eat itself just because there was no toilet roll left. |
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Post by drhickman1983 on May 31, 2024 11:43:35 GMT
It's like Alfred Henry Lewis stated in 1906, “There are only nine wipes with double-ply bogroll between mankind and anarchy.”
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Post by wunty on May 31, 2024 11:55:15 GMT
Being customer centric in a job role does serve to highlight what is in fact a universal truth: Everyone is ultimately a bit of a cunt. You can dress it up all you want but people who are no doubt perfectly pleasant in their interactions with friends and family will still be a fucking wanker to someone they don't know at the drop of a hat.
Now I'm aware that isn't the most uplifting post but I'm just stating the obvious really.
As far as my own gripes go, if I get one more person on the other end of my email sending me files they've done themselves in canva I'll break something. What makes it worse is they then go "can you fix it for me so it'll print okay". No. You can pay me to design your job because I know what the fuck I'm doing, or you can go and fuck yourself because I'm not using that wysiwyg shit designed for cunts. Canva is a fucking plague.
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Post by wunty on May 31, 2024 11:55:56 GMT
Huh, I feel better after that.
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Post by Reviewer on May 31, 2024 14:41:42 GMT
I really need to learn how to make things I find easy sound really hard. On our team calls those that are struggling with things always get praise for doing 10% of what I do because they make it sound difficult and I just solve the problems myself, which means doing most of the work of the department myself and needing no guidance.
My boss has made it clear there’s no reward for doing things better or doing a massive amount more so my motivation is now close to zero. Recruiting for my work is virtually impossible but he seems to ignore that and that I’m making him look good.
He can’t even handle the basic management part of deciding who works on what, I do that because he’s shit.
I’ve done the bare minimum I can make myself do for the last two weeks and it’s still more than the other three people combined.
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Post by Blue_Mike on May 31, 2024 15:58:42 GMT
I can always tell when a bloke's wife has had enough and chucked him out, because all of a sudden we get a click and collect order for all the absolute cheapest basic items you'd need to furnish a one bedroom flat, which is then collected by some red faced old gammon who looks at his brand new iron with the same mixture of anger and confusion you'd see on the face of a man who's found a bag of flaming shit on his doorstep, and talks to the till girls like crap because he suddenly hates all women.
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Post by simple on May 31, 2024 18:45:09 GMT
Preparing for some awkward conversations on Monday.
Spent all week turning a pile of 70+ documents into a 6000 word paper that was meant to be issued alongside something a colleague had done for an external partner. Their half is already with the partner because its based on an earlier piece of work that covered a smaller sample. In my larger sample I’ve discovered some mistakes that basically mean the true outcome is wildly divergent of the first study and seems to point the finger at my colleague for getting it wrong.
We’re obliged to share the outcomes so had no option but to send it today. Tried to sugarcoat it a little but its not really something I could fully disguise.
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Post by Youthist on May 31, 2024 19:17:12 GMT
Being customer centric in a job role does serve to highlight what is in fact a universal truth: Everyone is ultimately a bit of a cunt. You can dress it up all you want but people who are no doubt perfectly pleasant in their interactions with friends and family will still be a fucking wanker to someone they don't know at the drop of a hat. Now I'm aware that isn't the most uplifting post but I'm just stating the obvious really. As far as my own gripes go, if I get one more person on the other end of my email sending me files they've done themselves in canva I'll break something. What makes it worse is they then go "can you fix it for me so it'll print okay". No. You can pay me to design your job because I know what the fuck I'm doing, or you can go and fuck yourself because I'm not using that wysiwyg shit designed for cunts. Canva is a fucking plague. |
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Post by simple on May 31, 2024 19:24:05 GMT
I was expecting this one
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Post by Jambowayoh on May 31, 2024 19:27:15 GMT
Ahh man, Jam was fucking great and this sketch cemented how great it was.
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Post by stuz359 on May 31, 2024 20:15:18 GMT
I just spent the week away visiting a site. I wrote a poem. It's called, 'The Premier Inn.'
'The walls in the Premier Inn,
are really quite thin.
After much consternation and groaning,
I heard a phrase that would stun.
The phrase in question?
Eww, it's in my belly button!'
I didn't get a lot of sleep that night.
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Post by Reviewer on May 31, 2024 20:53:41 GMT
Premier Inns are so expensive these days. The one right next to one of our sites is almost £200 a night, not in a major city.
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Post by nexus6 on May 31, 2024 21:07:39 GMT
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Post by apollo on Jun 1, 2024 9:20:19 GMT
Have not seen the graphic designer vs client video for a while, its so funny and sadly spot on. I use to be graphic designer but finding good clients was so hard as you get parasite scum thinking they can pay you piss all for a lot of work then have the nerve to say its "easy and should only take a few hours and send me 50 versions of the same logo/advert/poster with different fonts" Glad I don't work in design, I do miss it but midjourney has really killed the designer field of artwork. A friend use to do artwork for books but anyone can create a front cover (but don't look too closely at the fingers, although its getting better at doing them)
another one
My job right now is partly customer service but thankfully 99% of the time is via email, I don't want to say what profession these people are but fuck me - a LOT are so crap at using computers, websites and MS office
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Post by Blue_Mike on Jun 3, 2024 12:59:59 GMT
"I'm never coming here again, I've been made to feel like a criminal!"
Well we did catch you in an attempted sleight of hand with banknotes at the till, so... yeah?
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Post by quadfather on Jun 3, 2024 18:08:09 GMT
I had another woman on tbe verge of a breakdown today that had just enquired about storage. So that was nice. And she wasn't up for talking so that ended.
And then she puts another enquiry in, which we have to then chase up.
Sigh.
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Post by salaman on Jun 3, 2024 18:58:15 GMT
Man, sounds rough Quaddie. Good luck finding something else that's a bit less... you know... *gestures broadly*.
I hopefully won't be back in this thread anytime soon (to post complaints about work at least). Had my first day today. All seems well so far.
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Post by retro74 on Jun 3, 2024 22:18:47 GMT
My first day was interesting. Considering I only have a 15 minute commute
Left the house at 8am, returned home at 7pm
Didn’t have a minute’s rest from walking in the door to going home, no breaks or lunch, met over 50 new people who I’m struggling to remember their names
Had a 45 minute “induction” for an incredibly complex role in an industry I’ve never worked in before and then went straight into an IT meeting to review the project work stack in detail
Steep learning curve indeed 😬
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jun 4, 2024 3:58:54 GMT
Eeesh!
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Post by Lizard on Jun 4, 2024 4:06:09 GMT
Lunch is for wimps!
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jun 4, 2024 4:36:44 GMT
First interview for job in Jakarta done at the god awful time of 5am. I thought it went pretty well really, but you never know. 2nd interview with Korea next week at the god awful time of 4am and work would like me to (optionally) attend the final English night/party for the academic year for students on the same day as the interview at 8.45pm to about 11pm. Fuck no to that nonsense.
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Post by salaman on Jun 4, 2024 4:44:25 GMT
My first day was interesting. Considering I only have a 15 minute commute Left the house at 8am, returned home at 7pm Didn’t have a minute’s rest from walking in the door to going home, no breaks or lunch, met over 50 new people who I’m struggling to remember their names Had a 45 minute “induction” for an incredibly complex role in an industry I’ve never worked in before and then went straight into an IT meeting to review the project work stack in detail Steep learning curve indeed 😬 Wow. I got off light then. Arrived at 8.30, had a tour of the building, short generic onboarding presentation by HR then faffed about setting up my laptop and customizing Outlook, installing and customizing a browser. Drafted a press release. Went home around 17.45. I hope tomorrow and the rest of the week settles down a bit Retro. Pack a lunch. |
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Post by quadfather on Jun 4, 2024 7:44:16 GMT
Man, sounds rough Quaddie. Good luck finding something else that's a bit less... you know... *gestures broadly*. I hopefully won't be back in this thread anytime soon (to post complaints about work at least). Had my first day today. All seems well so far. Yeah I'm just trying to think of something I can do that doesn't involve a lot of people tbh. I think that might work if I can work out what it is. |
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