| Random irritations.. 09:32 - Jun 10 with 493064 views | Discodroid |
state funded schools in birmingham calling children to islamic prayer over the playground speakers, eschewing music lessons music, segregation... and the bbc doing a 'what are british values 'phone in this morning. cunnys.
evening standard , who seem to be phasing out their female genital mutilation wall to wall coverage , for a 'say no to rape in war' campaign. to be published in depth every night,, along with pictures of skinny london supermodels falling out of night clubson cocaine and articles on womens shoes and hanbags which cost £15,000 each.
and articles on 'suuuper property dahrling' that cost £25 million for a studio flat in barnes .tedious double page spreads on walthamstow village , sandwiches that are made by freegans for £50...and avante garde homosexual dance troops from slovienia .this paper says nothing at all to the average londoner.
musicals , and the cast's of musicals, especially amateur ones in church halls,romford, last saturday night.
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| Random irritations.. on 20:25 - Dec 26 with 1150 views | Watford_Ranger |
People who can’t just leave your house when it’s time to go. Endless faffing about, having a little chat with everyone and generally hovering so you can’t just clear up and relax. |  | | |
| Random irritations.. on 22:36 - Dec 26 with 1052 views | R_from_afar |
| Random irritations.. on 13:42 - Dec 16 by R_from_afar |
A company which services my solar installation has a really irritating and time-consuming booking system.
Here's what happened recently:
- They told me my contract had been renewed and *they told me* to contact them, to arrange the annual inspection
- I duly did, but...it soon became clear that that first contact is only designed to enable them to open a service ticket, time slots cannot be discussed.
- Instead, they ring you back, at any old time. Not surprisingly, I missed their call.
- They left a message, great, except that they informed me that they had selected a slot of their choosing and simply booked me in.
- Surprise surprise, I couldn't make that time. So, I have to ring them back. As you can imagine, I was far from happy by this point. What a charade the whole process is!
- They informed me that they would get back in touch about an alternative slot. Days later, it's still radio silence.
- What was particularly rich was that they said that this is a busy time of year for them. Fair enough, but if that's the case, why did *they* ask me to book an inspection. Instead, ask the customer to book one in the spring or at some other, more convenient time.
- Net net: Nothing has been achieved grrrrrr  |
There is a postscript to this: On 23rd December, I was on Loftforwords when I saw a notification of a voice mail appear on my 'phone. My mobile didn't even ring.
I duly checked the voice mail and discovered that it was from a service engineer, saying he was on his way and he'd be with me within 45 minutes.
All well and good except: No one had let me know about the appointment. No text, mail, call, nada  .
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| "Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1." |
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| Random irritations.. on 12:18 - Dec 28 with 899 views | 81A |
Radio advert for some nonsense Directory Enquiry type service called "Maureen 118212". Putting on a silly voice for a radio ad is just lame and, more to the point, who even needs your poxy service ("£2.50 plus call charge") in the era when even my Nan's got a smartphone?
And you can do one too, 118118 weirdo runners. | | | |
| Random irritations.. on 12:54 - Dec 28 with 843 views | Watford_Ranger |
Big communal recycling bins on my road overflowing with all sorts of random crap people have chucked out. Furniture, clothes (clothes donation thing is 2 mins away), books, unbroken boxes. | | | |
| Random irritations.. on 07:57 - Jan 13 with 1970 views | Dorse |
Being made late by my children, who seem to think that arrival and departure times are, mysteriously, the same fcking thing. |  |
| 'What do we want? We don't know! When do we want it? Now!' |
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| Random irritations.. on 10:22 - Jan 13 with 1831 views | Bluce_Ree |
| Random irritations.. on 07:57 - Jan 13 by Dorse |
Being made late by my children, who seem to think that arrival and departure times are, mysteriously, the same fcking thing. |
My wife's much the same. |  |
| Stefan Moore, Stefan Moore running down the wing. Stefan Moore, Stefan Moore running down the wing. He runs like a cheetah, his crosses couldn't be sweeter. Stefan Moore. Stefan Moore. Stefan Moore. |
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| Random irritations.. on 10:15 - Jan 18 with 1509 views | stevec |
Cooking programmes
Celebrities
And worst of all, cooking programmes with celebrities.
Some daft woman been asked what’s your cooking hell? Cakes apparently. Nobody actually tells her that nobody cooks a fckin cake and no cakes have ever been cooked in the history of this entire programme even if you could cook cakes. So luv, what’s your cooking heaven? Everything apparently, literally everything. Just fck off and stop ruining my Saturday morning. |  | | |
| Random irritations.. on 14:42 - Jan 20 with 1255 views | BrianMcCarthy |
Teams/Zoom Meetings
Doing a lot of work with Continental Europeans at the moment. Their addiction to monster online meetings kills all speed and progress.
You phone someone, they don't answer, you leave a message, they don't answer, you email them telling them you want to talk to them on a phone, they email back suggesting a Teams Meeting with 18 other people which will last an hour.
You just wanted a 30-second chat.
How does anything get done? |  |
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| Random irritations.. on 14:51 - Jan 20 with 1227 views | Juzzie |
| Random irritations.. on 14:42 - Jan 20 by BrianMcCarthy |
Teams/Zoom Meetings
Doing a lot of work with Continental Europeans at the moment. Their addiction to monster online meetings kills all speed and progress.
You phone someone, they don't answer, you leave a message, they don't answer, you email them telling them you want to talk to them on a phone, they email back suggesting a Teams Meeting with 18 other people which will last an hour.
You just wanted a 30-second chat.
How does anything get done? |
I have about half-a-dozen multiple attended zoom meetings each week (half of those with people in Germany, Czech Republic etc).
It's not that bad with the aforementioned countries as we're all a bit more disciplined in how the meeting flows, but it feels to me with the internal company calls these days everything (zooms calls, emails etc) is decision by committee (ten million people getting "looped in" on every fkin email) as no one wants to make a decision themselves about anything for fear of accountability even if it is in fact their job to actually make a fking decision.
Everything gets deferred to someone else who never responds and I'm forever following up with my people to find out if we have an answer on something.
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| Random irritations.. on 15:17 - Jan 20 with 1173 views | BrianMcCarthy |
| Random irritations.. on 14:51 - Jan 20 by Juzzie |
I have about half-a-dozen multiple attended zoom meetings each week (half of those with people in Germany, Czech Republic etc).
It's not that bad with the aforementioned countries as we're all a bit more disciplined in how the meeting flows, but it feels to me with the internal company calls these days everything (zooms calls, emails etc) is decision by committee (ten million people getting "looped in" on every fkin email) as no one wants to make a decision themselves about anything for fear of accountability even if it is in fact their job to actually make a fking decision.
Everything gets deferred to someone else who never responds and I'm forever following up with my people to find out if we have an answer on something.
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"...but it feels to me with the internal company calls these days everything (zooms calls, emails etc) is decision by committee (ten million people getting "looped in" on every fkin email) as no one wants to make a decision themselves about anything for fear of accountability even if it is in fact their job to actually make a fking decision."
Similar with me. It's unreal!
I also think that a lot of people are consultants hiring themselves out so an hour's zoom call with an hour's imaginary prep for the zoom call is two hours they can charge. | |
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| Random irritations.. on 15:22 - Jan 20 with 1156 views | Watford_Ranger |
| Random irritations.. on 14:42 - Jan 20 by BrianMcCarthy |
Teams/Zoom Meetings
Doing a lot of work with Continental Europeans at the moment. Their addiction to monster online meetings kills all speed and progress.
You phone someone, they don't answer, you leave a message, they don't answer, you email them telling them you want to talk to them on a phone, they email back suggesting a Teams Meeting with 18 other people which will last an hour.
You just wanted a 30-second chat.
How does anything get done? |
The absolute bain of my life. Some really minor things where I work now require approval at a really senior level rather than just trusting people to get on with it. Anything that requires working with other markets, particularly Spain, is absolutely done on their ambiguous timelines/whenever they fancy getting round to doing their bit of it. Nobody ever wanting to be accountable for anything when it just needs someone/anyone in a particular team to make a call on it and we’ll never know what would have happened if they’d made the other call anyway.
I do miss working in smaller businesses in some ways though that comes with its own challenge. Megalomaniac owners, zero cash flow, cutting corners often etc. but you do get to the end of the week usually feeling like you’ve actually achieved something. | | | |
| Random irritations.. on 15:27 - Jan 20 with 1143 views | BrianMcCarthy |
| Random irritations.. on 15:22 - Jan 20 by Watford_Ranger |
The absolute bain of my life. Some really minor things where I work now require approval at a really senior level rather than just trusting people to get on with it. Anything that requires working with other markets, particularly Spain, is absolutely done on their ambiguous timelines/whenever they fancy getting round to doing their bit of it. Nobody ever wanting to be accountable for anything when it just needs someone/anyone in a particular team to make a call on it and we’ll never know what would have happened if they’d made the other call anyway.
I do miss working in smaller businesses in some ways though that comes with its own challenge. Megalomaniac owners, zero cash flow, cutting corners often etc. but you do get to the end of the week usually feeling like you’ve actually achieved something. |
"I do miss working in smaller businesses in some ways though that comes with its own challenge. Megalomaniac owners, zero cash flow, cutting corners often etc. but you do get to the end of the week usually feeling like you’ve actually achieved something."
Me too, Watford, and I never thought I'd say that. | |
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| Random irritations.. on 16:30 - Jan 20 with 1062 views | Watford_Ranger |
| Random irritations.. on 15:27 - Jan 20 by BrianMcCarthy |
"I do miss working in smaller businesses in some ways though that comes with its own challenge. Megalomaniac owners, zero cash flow, cutting corners often etc. but you do get to the end of the week usually feeling like you’ve actually achieved something."
Me too, Watford, and I never thought I'd say that. |
On the flip side the benefits aren’t as good and I get much better coffee now. Life is far too short to take any business that isn’t yours too seriously. Die tomorrow and you’ll be forgotten in a month. Meh. | | | |
| Random irritations.. on 17:47 - Jan 20 with 979 views | Juzzie |
| Random irritations.. on 15:22 - Jan 20 by Watford_Ranger |
The absolute bain of my life. Some really minor things where I work now require approval at a really senior level rather than just trusting people to get on with it. Anything that requires working with other markets, particularly Spain, is absolutely done on their ambiguous timelines/whenever they fancy getting round to doing their bit of it. Nobody ever wanting to be accountable for anything when it just needs someone/anyone in a particular team to make a call on it and we’ll never know what would have happened if they’d made the other call anyway.
I do miss working in smaller businesses in some ways though that comes with its own challenge. Megalomaniac owners, zero cash flow, cutting corners often etc. but you do get to the end of the week usually feeling like you’ve actually achieved something. |
Also same here! Micro-managing the schit out of everything because the seniors are schit scared of things going wrong (well, boo-hoo, that's what you get paid the big bucks for) so no one is allowed or trusted to just get on with it (although I have a feeling I am 'cos I've been there for years and can actually do the job but doesn't stop me from having to go along with the micro-managing).
Everything has to be logged and accounted for and put on sharepoint spreadsheets and the same duplicated on other systems/platforms. Such an utter waste of time and resource.
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| Random irritations.. on 10:24 - Jan 21 with 756 views | R_from_afar |
| Random irritations.. on 16:30 - Jan 20 by Watford_Ranger |
On the flip side the benefits aren’t as good and I get much better coffee now. Life is far too short to take any business that isn’t yours too seriously. Die tomorrow and you’ll be forgotten in a month. Meh. |
"Life is far too short to take any business that isn’t yours too seriously. Die tomorrow and you’ll be forgotten in a month. Meh".
This a million times over.
I am fortunate enough to be retired now - thank God - but even though I was always a very hard working, leave no stone unturned type of person during my working life, I still got made redundant five times. Brutal. The last time it happened, I was the only person in the whole company doing what I did, and that still didn't save me.
Going back to Brian's post, at my last company, there was a large number of middle managers who spent an inordinate amount of time in meetings together - meetings which seemed to have little useful output - and who all seemed to think they were gurus and really rather special.
I would e-mail one of them, with other middle managers copied, and the main recipient would usually ignore my mail until one of the other middle managers became involved grrrr
Thanks to a massive and expensive vanity project - a company split and rebrand - and choosing to spend three years ignoring advice from me and others to develop a key new product, the company has seen its previous expansion go into reverse, has had to pull out of markets it had put huge effort into entering, has seen its visibility drain away and has had to cut hundreds of staff. Clowns 🤡 | |
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| Random irritations.. on 14:05 - Feb 12 with 330 views | johann28 |
Took an elderly neighbour who'd had a bad fall on Monday night to Chelsea and Westminster hospital. After a few hours in A&E, he was admitted to the AAU unit on the 4th floor with a fractured spine and various other issues.
A spotless ward, excellent staff, and a quite excellent view of .... Stamford Bridge.
I imagined my last moments here. Can I request to to be taken to Hammersmith when the time comes?
All was not lost, however. The guy in the next bed took one look at my Qpr raincoat, Qpr bag and Qpr shirt and starts scoffing. 'Well, sorry,' he says sneeringly, ' I'll be watching my team (Man City apparently - I didn't ask) against Real Madrid tonight'.
Scoff ye not, I'm thinking, this morning. Bad karma. |  | | |
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