#2744

Yikes!

Well, I hope it’s one of our nicer venues. The airport is a fair way out of town, so bad luck there (sorry).

#2745

I hate gossip culture. It is so toxic and draining.

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#2746

Just came out of a meeting, someone was sat in my desk. It is hot desking BUT all my stuff is there, it’s clearly in use, she said ‘oh, am I sat in your chair?’ and I said yes and she said ‘I’ll only be 5 minutes’. There were no other free seats so I stood there, she just sat there gossiping with the woman next to her. I took a phone call, came back, 15 minutes have passed now and she’s still there and still gossiping. I’m sat in someone else’s seat now who is bound to back in a minute. SHE’S JUST TALKING ABOUT SAUSAGES. Get out of my seat. IRKED (also, realising how terrible I am with change - hot desking does not work for me, but also it’s not hot desking if all my fucking stuff is there and I’m still using it)

#2747

It doesn’t work for anyone apart from the organisations who don’t have to pay for desks for all their staff.

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#2748

What you’ve described there isn’t hot desking. That’s some arsehole sat in your seat who shouldn’t be

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#2749

just been told about an all day planning workshop thing on the 9th of dec in london which three of us hadnt been invited to (coz we’re doing one at the end of dec) and i (stupidly) mentioned that this was the first ive heard of it, and now we’ve been invited to it but none of us want to go. my boss’ boss said oh you dont have to come of course but we’re staying overnight, we’re trying to think of something nice to do in the evening, it’ll be nice, and it prob will be ok in the evening but id have to get a train at the very latest at 7:15 and then spend the day in stinking london doing boring as af business planning stuff and then socialise and stay in a hotel and then go into work the next day in the weird london office that i cba with, rather than not do all that and just stay at home and have a normal two days with a wfh day on tuesday like i normally do. i wouldnt mind quite so much but we’ve got another one of these things planned the week after, like i said, and thats in manchester and we’re going to have a long lunch and it’ll just be our team so we won’t have to do anything with other teams, and ive got a day full of meetings on the wed and our xmas do on the fri… really cba. dont think im going to go, dont think either of the other two who just got invited are going to go. appreciate being asked to be involved but i dont think im going to have anything to add or going to get anything out of it apart from a night in a hotel

#2750

That woman is bloody rude.

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#2751

We have just started hot desking- there are only 6 desks per 10 people, we are only guaranteed a desk 3 days a week, but they won’t admit they are forcing us to work from home so won’t pay for extra equipment at home etc (we need two big monitors can’t work away from proper desks).

I have had reasonable adjustments previously due to visual impairment (my own allocated desk with speciall monitor arms) but they are putting me under big pressure to give these up to show I am ‘flexible’ and won’t guarantee I can have them over the whole week.

I am so stressed and angry about it and have had to go to occupational health to force them to do something , and ‘prove’ all over again why I need the adjustments.

#2752

You shouldn’t have to do any of that but keep at it - they’d be in breach of the last version of the DDA I was familiar with if they won’t make reasonable adjustments for you to work.

And you can probably apply for some kind of tax adjustment if they’re making it impossible for you not to work at home, but I don’t know how that works.

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#2754

We have a new young team (All early 20s) in the office who are contracted via another company. Last week, all of them came in with either a really bad cold or stomach bugs. I said to one who was looking particularly ill that she should go home and she told me that they get £100 deducted from their wages for every sick day!
On one hand that’s fucking disgusting!
On the other hand, I’m now fucking ill cause of them!

IRKED!

#2755

Is this even legal?

#2757

Yeah me too. £100 a day just sounds like a lot more than I ever earned temping!

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#2759

She said they get £100 for every sick day unless you take more than 4 days off? So surely, wouldn’t you just take 4 days off??
but then that’s probably not gonna go down too well.

#2760

I’d always take an extra sick day for purposes of ‘realism’ anyway.

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#2761

There’s a new notice up in the kitchen - this one is NOT about doing your washing up!

However, it does say we’re having a Christmas jumper day every Wednesday and every Friday until actual Christmas.

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#2762

The Wish.com thread got your back on this…

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#2763

It’s my work mates 30th so i’m doing a little collection for him (he’s a popular guy)

someone put a 10 euro note in! Wtf am i gonna do with that?

#2764

It’s probably worth more than a tenner…

Stick it in a card?

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#2765

Buy a lonely planet guide to Europe then change the rest of the money to euros and tell him it’s for a city break.

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#2766

I agreed to do a presentation skills course at a fancy lawyer’s office, because my (American) boss suggested it. Great idea, boss!

Having agreed to it, he’s said “great! Should be pretty good, the presenter has had shows on the BBC!” and now isn’t responding to my increasingly strained requests about who it might be.

Clarkson? Palin? Harriott?!