#16

i can use excel macros and outlook reminders so am widely regarded as a God.

Can’t reply properly on here though.

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#17

^ This

#18

banter decanter!

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#19

I would love to know what they all think of me. I think that there are two: friend and helpful, useless and depressed

#20

I know I got a bad reputation
Walking round always mad reputation
Leave a pretty girl sad reputation
Start a Fight Club, Brad reputation

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#21

Never really had a bad appraisal at work tbh. Every one I’ve had yielded similar comments - laid back, calm and does techy things that no one else understands (love google).

#22

I once got an appraisal comment ‘your personality impacts other members of the team’ the world has little tolerance for quiet people

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#23

My reputation’s sky high here. Recently our Executive Group did an attitudes survey internally about which teams are perceived to be high performing and which are perceived to be failing. The team I manage came top out of our entire Directorate so… yeah basically untouchable.

This is mostly because everyone else is seethingly incompetent though not because I’m brilliant.

#25

I’m seen as very hardworking but probably a push over. Really rubbish at delegating.
I get really internally angry at people who doss about and don’t work hard but then I try to remember that you don’t have to break your back to do a good job.

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#26

it is so weird how little excel ability people have, my first job after uni I realised my rudimentary excel skills made people think I was some kind of computer hotshot, I assumed it would be temporary as younger people filtered through who would of done it a lot more at school it would just be standard, but all these years later the situation is exactly the same, a little bit of knowledge that can be googled in seconds seems to really impress people. I do a lot of stuff in tableau and its the same, people think it is really complicated but it is literally just drag and drop.

#27

the what now

#28

the derek bird killing spree

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#29
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#30

I have a similar experience. Moved from being in a really busy environment to a really quiet environment and the boss was amazed at how quickly I did things.

Slowed down a shit ton since then and would find it hard to go back, but my reputation is still there :stuck_out_tongue:

#31

the derek bird killing spree

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#32

exactly this, except my previous role meant i had to know a little bit about loads of different things, so now i chip in stuff that my manager (whos been here for 10 years but in the same dept) has no idea about and hes like omg u so wise

#34

One of the questions in our pub quiz on Sunday night was where did Derrick Bird do his murdering.

@andyvine would have been no help whatsoever. I wasn’t much use to be honest, I knew it was near Carlisle but that was it.

#36

sorry to let you down, i was hoping @ttf was going to tell us a story about one of his colleagues (derek) killing lots of birds

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#37

I once tried to start the nickname “Big Dog” being used for me in the office but it only caught on with one person so it was just a bit wierd.

#38

All very admirable qualities.

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