a physical button on a control panel. started telling you about another button argument (there were many) but it’s so dull it’s unbelievable.
@casinobay green
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Yeah, this trend of ‘meetings’ at lunchtime for CPD purposes or whatever is getting worse and worse. Some are now 8-9am or 6-7pm. IT’S STILL ESSENTIALLY EXTRA WORK THAT I’M NOT BEING PAID FOR!
Ah man, you picked the wrong colour.
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Yeah we have a lot of extra “come and tell everyone about your job” meetings at lunchtime as well. Nah, I’m off to look at a reed warbler, sorry.
What makes it even worse of course is that everybody’s eating through them.
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pondfinch*
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Is this the latest thread?
They’ve just changed our break policy so when you work a 12-13 hour shift you get half an hour paid and MAYBE at the discretion of the person in charge you get another half hour unpaid. For The entire time I’ve worked here it’s been an hour paid. This is 12-13 hours physical work on your feet. I think this is awful. But think it’s also in line with the law. Why doesn’t anybody at work care about stuff like this??? There’s also some weird pride in people not taking breaks. Weird. Also I think this is entirely punitive because a few weeks ago I was asked to have a half hour break and I refused.
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I would just demand it back immediately
This isn’t an irk as it’s absolutely none of my business, just a strange observation.
There’s a woman I see on my floor at work who wears a Pokemon dress to work every single day. And I don’t mean she has one Pokemon dress that she wears every day. She has at least 3 different Pokemon dresses in rotation, but it’s always one of them, every single day. I have never seen her not wearing a Pokemon dress.
I’m certain she’s in the same age range as me, and I’m approaching 30.
People can wear whatever they like obviously, I just find it fascinating.
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Due to recent renovations, we now have two meeting rooms in the same building with the same name. Nobody else seems to see the problem with this.
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I once returned to my desk to find some people gathered round the area just having a chat. But someone had stolen my chair to join in with the chat!
And it was the CEO!
I deliberated for a few mins before saying “sorry you’re in my chair” and yanking it from him.
#keepitreal #staygrounded
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Colleague keeps sending emails round copying in our bosses if someone forgets to put the bins outside the office door at night. Of course she leaves early so never ever actually does it herself.
Have to admit, the day after I posted this I saw her in a non-Pokemon dress. Now paranoid that she reads DiS
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Has she moved on to Final Fantasy or what?
Our trailers all have an ID number and a name, so drivers don’t end up taking the wrong one out of the yard.
Whoever thinks of food to name them after has clearly run out of ideas and have started recycling them. We now have two trailers in our yard called Sole and two called Kidney, which defeats the whole purpose really.
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Despite a public sector pay cap because they apparently don’t have the budget to pay us more, our senior managers have decided to give each of us an expensive tablet that we don’t need. Can I just have the cash please mates?
Quite a lot of Toryball fans at work - which, as someone from Birmingham, is something that irks me no end anyway.
They’re bad enough during the normal football season but fuck me, all the rugby bore shit has been multiplied by a thousand for the World Cup. “Has he broke a nail?” HA HA HA.
Give it a fucking rest.
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Someone I worked with refused to participate in the World Cup sweepstake as ‘there will not be one for the rugby 7s world cup next month’
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even after reading this entire thread in one sitting, i have nothing to add
seemingly i am very un-irk-able in my current job
We are in open-plan hell. Not only does everyone talk constantly, but people from another team have decided that the perfect place to have their team meetings and phone calls is at the table right by my desk. Acoustics in here are fantastic too, so I’m right now listening to someone sitting on the other side of the room having a detailed and presumably intended to be private conversation.
Mate in this Aussie office people regularly just have radios on at their desks. What’s even weirder is they all have to take phone calls constantly so surely they would prefer not to have the maddening sound of radios drifting around. I am so glad of my headphones most days.
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