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Skeletome posted:oh and rowan atkinson is trending today for rallying against 'cancel culture' because of course it's real and important this is the only response to it https://twitter.com/jelly_pack/status/1346029868153245696?s=20 https://twitter.com/HertsSid/status/1346406683417989121?s=20
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Jakabite posted:It really wouldn’t help. This thread is a fraction of where I get my political hit from, and one of the much better and more interesting ones. I’m doing plenty of other stuff too - working out, learning Spanish, but ultimately I just can’t see any way that society escapes from the downward spiral it’s in. If anyone can then please do say so. the UK aint getting any better in the next 10 years barring any weirdness, kier is the plug on the pressure valve preventing that kind of change, noteably nobody has plugged the far right valve (shut up its a metaphor i dont know what a valve is) but i'm sure thats fine mind you things have been very unpredictable lately so who loving knows what happens. its very clear what we need which is basically a new party or movement that can win a big election victory and attempt to turn the country into a democracy that could happen any year its just unlikely. the whole of history is a wave going up and down, we're on a downward trajectory now we just dont know when it goes back up again. maybe not in our lives, maybe this year. probably not this year.
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Jose posted:this is the only response to it Cuncel culture
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Jel Shaker posted:in lighter news, the royal mint gave four legs to the war of the worlds martians’ tripods on its new coin lol Hopefully they shall become irate and land once again to cleanse this foul world. 
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Private Speech posted:I have some doubts whether that's how it would be, in my experience the more "formally" agile a place is the more toxic the management is. In my experience most businesses that claim they're agile aren't at all- there's a real challenge in changing that. I've taken on agile coaching duties as a PM and honestly helping a team feels rewarding even when you might fail I mean at least it beats the cyclical arguments I'm having around strategy at the moment -.-
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Communist Thoughts posted:the whole of history is a wave going up and down, we're on a downward trajectory now we just dont know when it goes back up again. It goes back up again when the Boomers die OP
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Most companies you can cajole them to pay for this bullshit once you've ingratiated yourself enough Jel Shaker posted:in lighter news, the royal mint gave four legs to the war of the worlds martians’ tripods on its new coin lol That's the dick
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I assume you know about the bullshit surrounding the various scrum certificates? I got a CSM cert paid for by a previous job a few years ago, and even then they were talking about introducing a new, more expensive cert because that one was getting too common. Also you have to pay every year to keep it current. Whole thing's a scam (and that's from someone who really likes agile development).
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CancerCakes posted:Has anyone here managed to get any insulation through the Green Grant scheme? Every single installer I have contacted (around 15 of them now) has said they are not taking part. Unsurprising that a tory initiative is complete poo poo, but I would have thought the installers would want the work. My current progress is:
e: This is the site that shows you who is taking part, I assume you're ringing around based on this? https://www.simpleenergyadvice.org.uk/installer-search Loonytoad Quack fucked around with this message at 15:23 on Jan 5, 2021 |
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Brendan Rodgers posted:I dunno, that was true for every big problem humanity faced before, that there were better times ahead, if you just struggle through. In My Sadbrained Opinion climate change will mean things just keep getting worse every year for gently caress knows how many centuries. Generally in nature ecological collapses are eventually self correcting, the issue is that the "correction" means mass die offs, which it would be nice if we could avoid for humanity. But if you want to take an extremely cursed albeit I think technically accurate view, if most people die then there are fewer total humans suffering and thus less objective suffering in centuries than might be achieved in only a few decades at the moment. I advise against thinking about this though because you are liable to contract Philosophy if you do. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 15:13 on Jan 5, 2021 |
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JollyBoyJohn posted:What's Neil Oliver done that makes him a oval office he's anti lockdown and goes on talkradio and retweets Paul Watson think he also has very bad history opinions, and he supported David Starkey when he went on Darren Grimes show to complain about black people https://www.thenational.scot/news/18559384.nts-doubles-neil-oliver-defence-amid-david-starkey-row/ quote:As Oliver’s tweet resurfaced, it also emerged he had liked a tweet praising a member of a sports team for seemingly refusing to take a knee – a pose which has become synonymous with the anti-racism Black Lives Matter movement.
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feedmegin posted:It goes back up again when the Boomers die OP very optimistic imo
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Failed Imagineer posted:That's the dick it clearly has 4 legs as well as the dick
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Wolfsbane posted:I assume you know about the bullshit surrounding the various scrum certificates? I got a CSM cert paid for by a previous job a few years ago, and even then they were talking about introducing a new, more expensive cert because that one was getting too common. Also you have to pay every year to keep it current. Whole thing's a scam (and that's from someone who really likes agile development). Yeah I'm aware , and I know the whole cert is a money spinner ): Unfortunately it seems like a necessity to even get considered for roles!
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Tarnop posted:They brought in Agile consultants at the last place I worked. The end result was a 15 minute stand-up meeting every morning that everyone hated, 15 minutes less time to do the same amount of work every day, and another spreadsheet to fill in. Lmao I think every office is falling for this scam. We spent millions on a consultancy firm who was with us for a year and the end result was a 15 minute meeting each morning, which everyone abandoned as soon as the consultants had left. We at least got a nice whiteboard to meet next to rather than filling in a spreadsheet though.
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stev posted:Lmao I think every office is falling for this scam. We spent millions on a consultancy firm who was with us for a year and the end result was a 15 minute meeting each morning, which everyone abandoned as soon as the consultants had left. We had the whiteboard too. They updated it based on the spreadsheet.
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XMNN posted:he's anti lockdown and goes on talkradio and retweets Paul Watson Oh cool someone got me his book for christmas and thankfully I haven't cracked into it yet
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jiggerypokery posted:It's totally possible to change process for the better in a lot of organisations it just requires way more empathy than the average 'consultant' is capable of. OwlFancier posted:I would also suggest putting the people who work there at the front of that This is exactly what we're doing and it's working - yeah, we've had consultants to get the ball rolling in the first place but they're actually pretty hands off and just kind of gave us the push and guidance more than taking reins. Tarnop posted:They brought in Agile consultants at the last place I worked. The end result was a 15 minute stand-up meeting every morning that everyone hated, 15 minutes less time to do the same amount of work every day, and another spreadsheet to fill in. But this, this would be absolute hell, daily meetings are the death of productivity and team dynamics, they literally just make teams hate the meetings and get everyone demoralised right at the start of the day. On another note, I really want to see a U-turn on BTECs as well (ideally today), that they're still being expected to sit exams is just ugh. (I mean, the school situation in general during the pandemic just leads to endless internal screaming, fuckkkkkk).
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Wolfsbane posted:I assume you know about the bullshit surrounding the various scrum certificates? I got a CSM cert paid for by a previous job a few years ago, and even then they were talking about introducing a new, more expensive cert because that one was getting too common. Also you have to pay every year to keep it current. Whole thing's a scam (and that's from someone who really likes agile development). I was the member of an internationally recognized federation for my self-employed business for several years. Cost $150-$200 or so every year and got little from it other than badging my website. Worse, every year, the demands for proofs of certifications got more and more extensive and expensive. That which qualified me for full membership for several years and which had cost me in the region of £15000 to do, was suddenly was deemed insufficient (I'm not talking about CPD requirements here of which I do many hours) and I would have to submit the SAME evidence again and have them approve it at yet another $300 on top of the annual fees. I declined to renew in 2017 after concluding it was a certification money making scam. I haven't regretted it. The worst part about it is that there is no legal requirement to be registered, qualified or trained at all. My qualifications in this area are all recognized by NVQ, ILM and various other bodies and the training was in fact superb and I don't regret it, I got a lot out of it personally. But now I see 'get certified' for $7 ads popping up on facebook.
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stev posted:Lmao I think every office is falling for this scam. We spent millions on a consultancy firm who was with us for a year and the end result was a 15 minute meeting each morning, which everyone abandoned as soon as the consultants had left. I can do you one better. My boss a few jobs ago was upset we were behind on a project so he put us on two standups a day, one in the morning, one in the afternoon. Because that would make things go faster, see! Also in theory they were 15 minutes but could easily drag out to half an hour. Things did not go faster. And he kept the practice even after we delivered the project.
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One of these days when someone at work espouses some new agile gimmick I'm just going to respond "Individuals and interactions over processes and tools  " before smacking them with their scrum master cert.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-BOSpxYJ9M If only it really was dead 
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Tarnop posted:They brought in Agile consultants at the last place I worked. The end result was a 15 minute stand-up meeting every morning that everyone hated, 15 minutes less time to do the same amount of work every day, and another spreadsheet to fill in. I have an hour of stand up meetings + post-stand up meetings every morning from 9-10 that I've just about managed to shift on the rest of my team. Then regular meetings throughout the day to discuss progress on the work we can't do because we're in meetings discussing the work. It's madness.
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Julio Cruz posted:is there a bigger loving con in the huge con-filled world of business than loving "consultancy"
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Stand ups can be useful but the whole point is that they’re supposed to be brief - you stand up so that everyone is uncomfortable and people don’t drag stuff out, if there’s anything you need to talk out with a team member you do it afterwards so everyone else can get back to work It isn’t necessarily something suitable for every business and every project but I’m not surprised at management consultants selling it as such
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Me and my team are doing Agile/Scrum/whatever working as a kind of pilot for the rest of my organisation, and I have to say I vastly prefer one mandatory daily 10-15 minute meeting to numerous interminable meetings throughout the week. My organisation has pretty terrible meeting culture and I realise that lots of meeting invites are totally arbitrary, seen as overwhelmingly important vs actual day to day work, and invitees rarely have the confidence to refuse to attend. The idea that you have to pay consultants to learn how to do it is laughable though. We had someone come in to do 2 days of workshops and it was an absolute farce, because they tried to teach us dozens of different flavours at once, and our resident in-house Agile "expert" kept hijacking the workshops to push his own nightmarish Frankenstein waterfall methodology. Our small team just doing our own thing with a kanban board and 2 week sprints seems to work fine though
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Guavanaut posted:Kaizen, or NCIS:LA fanfic? Aha yes, I couldn't remember. I knew there was a K in it. That 'biker babe' trope though where someone clad in black leather on a motorbike, takes off the helmet and swings the head back to reveal... OMG... a GIRL (Kensi).... on a MOTORBIKE is so passe (how do I do the funny forin sign that will get me reported over the e?)
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I remember there was another one from around the time of all that stuff that supposedly came from Japan and was therefore super efficient, but mostly seemed to be about having a tidy workspace and also drawing up far too many matrices about how your workflow and space were tidy, but I can't remember the name.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I do not know why they do not qualify for Universal Credit though most of them only went 'self employed' mid-late 2019 It's probably because if your partner works more than 16 hours a week, you don't get UC / Jobseekers. Doesn't matter if they're doing 17 hours minimum wage or if you're struggling to pay the bills & mortgage - If your partner works more than 16 hours you get basic allowance which is something like £24 a month. BUT... If you want the benefits of welfare like free nhs stuff and registering for council tax / housing benefit, you need to be registered. Which means you need to jump through the loopholes of applying for a certain number of jobs a week, or going to atos panels, or getting sent to agricultural colleges for retraining in cyber, and getting sanctioned if you turn down whatever poo poo job they find you. You can get round this by registering as self enployed, which means at least that the jobcentre aren't hassling you any more. From the jobcentre's perspective it makes the unemployment stats look better and from the claimants perspective it means if they do make money cleaning or doing handy work for friends, they just report it at year end rather than get sanctioned for unreported income. It's fun being schrodinger's scrounger, simultaneously stealing hardworking taxpayers money and having my in-laws nodding at each other behind my back, and also being on zero income and unable to afford food or get the hole in my teeth fixed. The best thing about it is that I can't apply for the self employment covid relief because you have to demonstrate how covid has impacted your business, and given that I was working ftom home, it hasn't. I'm just poo poo at being self employed. Still though, everyone assumes I'm getting all this government money, but when I point out that I'm not the best advice they can give me is to apply for it. Even though I'm not eligible and that's literally what they've been having a go about behind my back.
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Guavanaut posted:but I can't remember the name.
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