Adults who pronounce Dr Seuss as Dr Zeus. Apparently this is a thing/Mandela effect because when I correct them, they have no idea that it is not and never has been fucking pronounced DR FUCKING ZEUS.
Well they are completely different letters and sounds so
For Mental Health Awareness Week, I’ve been given a badge with ‘GRUMPY’ written on it. Handed cheerfully to me by someone in HR, saying ‘here’s your mood badge, sadpunk’.
So irked, which only makes the badge more accurate, which irks me more. I’m in an irk-loop.
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That seems … really weird.
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Had to do a stress test earlier, came back as a high moderate which slightly irked me as I’m completely chilled at work.
Boss has followed me on Twitter. It’s not like I tweet about how much I hate my job or anything so there’s no issues with that, but I do feel like I can’t tweet during work hours now, and I’m wary of ever getting into a conversation with him about my Marxist memes or whatever.
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Yeah, my tweets were always pretty shit, but with my boss following me, they’re even shitter.
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It would be really easy to be massively offended, luckily I’m too busy in an irk loop.
ffs calm down!
This shouldn’t irk meat all…as it’s nothing to do with me. But it has to be mentioned.
Lad at work makes tea by putting 2/3 of a mug of hot water onto the tea bag. Waiting for about 5 seconds and then removing and topping up with milk. I mean there is weak…and there is this. It is virtually white.
It’s homeopathy tea. Homeoptea FFS.
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Weeks ago I contacted the manager arranging the induction of a new group of staff, offering to do a short standard presentation. Got nothing in response.
Yesterday got contacted by a junior in that manager’s team, asking me to do a long, custom presentation, this Friday. It’s already a super-busy time of the year, but I guess I’ll just be dropping everything else to take care of this.
Can you report HR to HR?
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colleague added me on fb about a day after I joined, he’s my boss’s henchman so reckon he was spying on me
jokes on him though cos i never post anything
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I used to do this but then literally everyone around me was FB friends and were chatting about Facebook stuff all the time so I had to change my rules. But these are people I get on with, I wouldn’t add just anybody.
Also found out accidentally that my boss and I had been following each other on Twitter for quite a while without realising; luckily I’m pretty vanilla on there
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Yeah was it this thread or another where people were talking about not wanting to socialise with work people? It’s the same with Social Media. I have a very clear line between work and not work. I am FB friends with a handful of people from past jobs, but only as they’ve become very good friends over a long time.
I am part of a group responsible for organising our work summer party. We were press-ganged into it. One of the mooted dates doesn’t work for me, and I am very tempted to just not go anyway whenever it happens. If ever there were a ‘sign’ that I don’t like socialising at work events…then not going to the thing I helped put together is probably it.
block the shit out of him
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nah - tell them to go fuck themselves
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The coffee machine has now been broken for over a week.
It’s only some shitty filter thing and the coffee’s always burnt unless you get to it immediately, but still. I didn’t riot over them taking away the Nespresso machine, but they’re pushing it now.
Would like to, but internal politics makes it difficult (long story short we’ve been trying for years to get more involved with this lot, can’t really turn down even a bad offer. The joys of being internal services).