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When you move into a place you can just phone up whatever provider you want, say ' I'm new in address XYZ, meter no. 123, and the reading is 4567, I want an account with you, I dunno who the last lot were with' and they should just sort it all out for you. Make them do the legwork to get your cash, cos they will if you ask them to. Just sound apologetic, dumb, and that you want to give them money and they'll do what they can to fix poo poo. Don't deal with old people, you want to stop giving them money so of course they're like 'Nah, you don't wanna do that, maybe try, er, this number?' E: lovely snipe: from 80 interesting facts about the UK: 58-Sausages are famous in the U.K. Romans introduced sausages around 400AD. Approximately 470 recipes are made using sausages. Well I never. OzyMandrill fucked around with this message at 23:39 on Mar 20, 2022 |
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WhatEvil posted:Figure this might be a good place to ask. Re being a line manager. I've done this several times in my work history. So here's my 2p. It's great when you've got good people. When you've got people who take the p or people having some personal life trauma such as divorce or being hounded by debt collection agencies or having a complete mental breakdown leading to being sectioned during work hours, it's not so much fun. Also, if you have a team member who turns out to be dangerously incompetent (my experience of that was someone who continually made mistakes and the biggy was a mistake leading to the ripping out of a fire alarm private line from a very large warehouse to the brigade) but you get no support from HR as you are accused of racism. Check out all the HR policies, check out what support you will get from HR if things are going wrong. Each team member is different and needs different levels of support. Some need close supervision, others will freeze if you're looking over their shoulder all the time. Obviously depending on the work being done, try and give your team a break from time to time to explore new ways of doing things. In my last team, we were tied to a formal sequence of 4 weekly reporting that had to be done but in the 3rd week of the 4 weekly cycle, there were fewer fixed demands so I encouraged that as 'exploration' week and a couple of them came up with some really innovative stuff. I found it quite useful to do a Belbins type exercise. https://www.belbin.com/about/belbin-team-roles to identify the strengths of the team and where it needs beefing up a bit either by deliberately targeted training or, if looking for a new team member, recruitment for the missing bits. Eg I had a couple of 'brilliant' prima donnas in my team and I needed someone who was happy to do the process work - come in, do your job, don't try to innovate, just do it, go home. So I specifically recruited someone with those attributes "my rock" I called her! After all this, I decided that if I should reenter the formal workplace (which I did about a year ago now), I would prefer a technical role where I'm judged solely on my performance and no line management / supervisor roles whatsoever. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 23:50 on Mar 20, 2022 |
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jiggerypokery posted:He said that caroles tweet was "just not true" when it objectively is true that RT pushed and paid farage. It could be down to the way Twitter shows nested tweets, but Carole's point was that RT was what made Farage so mainstream as to be dangerous. Bastani was pointing out that that was bollocks as nobody watched RT while Farage has been on QT more times than any other guest this century, had an LBC show, was on HIGNFY repeatedly etc etc etc. Pointing out that Carole missed the wood for the trees isn't defending Farage.
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crispix posted:the overall result of my surveys of the supermarket of late is stuff is stupid fuckin dear Ditto, I'm far too disorganised to actually notice price rises in my shopping because I tend to just buy stuff as I remember I need it (rather spoiled by having an Asda, M&S, Waitrose, and Lidl in easy walking distance, plus my local supermarket has most stuff covered anyway). I have been going "What, really?" a lot more often at the till when I see the price for the three random items I happened to remember that time though. I *can* say that my specialist cat food order has jumped from £49 to £54 for 6 weeks, a near as dammit 10% increase. What kind of idiot creature needs special food to make them piss, anyway? Ii this keeps up I'm going to just chuck some Special Brew over bog-standard Whiskas instead.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I *can* say that my specialist cat food order has jumped from £49 to £54 for 6 weeks, a near as dammit 10% increase. What kind of idiot creature needs special food to make them piss, anyway? Ii this keeps up I'm going to just chuck some Special Brew over bog-standard Whiskas instead. Yeah the stuff I feed my cats has gone up something like 30% between my most recent shop and the one before it, made me wonder if it was all being made in Ukraine or something. I just bought it without registering until I actually paid and was like wtf is going on. It'll be the Go-Kat soon for them, I think.
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I've my first annual review tomorrow with my boss. Just going through the paperwork. Q5 - how do you see your career developing in next 12 months, next 5 years. hm. I'm nearly 62. I'm on another 1 year contract that expires end of December (so no guarantee I'll even be there for another 12 months!). I have no career aspirations anymore.
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i'd probably finesse/bullshit it a bit more than that
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or call them a whippersnapper
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ThomasPaine posted:It's kind of wild to me that some post-soviet states genuinely draw a formal equivalence between communism and fascism when there are still people alive who lived through both. They lived through two flavours of fascism, and one of them called itself communism.
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Jollity Farm posted:Decided to look up all these parties on Wikipedia. One thing to note that Ukraine still has a bunch of leftist/socialist/socdem parties, they only banned the ones which are funded by Russia. ThomasPaine posted:Are any of the formerly socialist countries not? Seems almost inevitable when you have gangster capitalists running the state. Off the top of my head, I think maybe Slovenia is pretty cool? Possibly the Czech Republic as well? Estonia? I can only really speak for Czech Republic myself so YMMV, but what corruption there is has a very different character - more something rich businessmen and politicians do than what a normal person might come across. I've never actually seen/been asked for/heard about anyone I know taking a bribe and trying to bribe police or officials would be a great way to get in serious trouble (being a foreigner you might just get a warning as a "misconception" but I still wouldn't try it). All that said there's definitely the occasional story in media about politicians taking bribes. I don't think it's everyone or commonplace but there's certainly people willing to take bribes in politics. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 02:02 on Mar 21, 2022 |
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Dabir posted:They lived through two flavours of fascism, and one of them called itself communism. Shakespearean Beef posted:Maybe that is why they draw the equivalence. Lol alright lads simmer down
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Almost all cat food, cat toys and most cat meds are manufactured in Germany btw.
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Dabir posted:They lived through two flavours of fascism, and one of them called itself communism. Wasn't it socialism?
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I've my first annual review tomorrow with my boss. Just going through the paperwork. Reminder again for the young folks that yes, the one undeniably great thing about getting older is that you don't have to give a bugger what people think of you. (But for now, younguns, look after yourself. poo poo rolls downhill.) On a similar note: I did 30ish years at BigCompany Inc. and naturally there were regular rounds of employee surveys. Anonymous, naturally. Random, naturally. Never bothered to respond to them because, of course, nothing would change, plus "anonymous" my arse. Not to mention that if I actually did take advantage of the "anonymity" and answer honestly, I would not just be fired, I would be arrested. I can assure you though that everyone would have stood up and clapped. Working out my gardening leave before I finished up, I did actually respond to one (wow, how random), as a treat. It wasn't long before my manager referred to something very specific I'd mentioned, so yeah. AnOnYmOuS. Manager was made redundant a year later, for actual unrelated reasons. I should have a look and see if I have anything purple to wear.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Ditto, I'm far too disorganised to actually notice price rises in my shopping because I tend to just buy stuff as I remember I need it (rather spoiled by having an Asda, M&S, Waitrose, and Lidl in easy walking distance, plus my local supermarket has most stuff covered anyway). I have been going "What, really?" a lot more often at the till when I see the price for the three random items I happened to remember that time though. Hey our youngest kitty was in the vet recently for piddle problems and has been put on special food to ensure he doesn't develop future difficulties! For life! Yay!
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Ms Adequate posted:Hey our youngest kitty was in the vet recently for piddle problems and has been put on special food to ensure he doesn't develop future difficulties! For life! Yay! Well I can report Royal Canin Urinary S/O does the trick, to the point that I thought my dog was having some issues because she suddenly started pissing on the floor while I was at work. Put two and two together when it also appeared that the cat wasn't making GBS threads, turns out it keeps its potency even when it's in a turd, and the dog was having a lovely mid-morning snack from the litter tray while I was out.
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I really want to know what evolutionary or human selection pressure produced an animal that just eats anything they can get into their gob and apparently enjoys it. My mother's dog eats lumps of concrete if you don't stop him.
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OwlFancier posted:I really want to know what evolutionary or human selection pressure produced an animal that just eats anything they can get into their gob and apparently enjoys it. The Berlin club scene
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Some dogs are just dumb as rocks. My cat eats pringles and doritos if either are left unattended around here. She's also tiny so the salt would probably kill her if she actually managed more than a nibble.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Well I can report Royal Canin Urinary S/O does the trick, to the point that I thought my dog was having some issues because she suddenly started pissing on the floor while I was at work. Put two and two together when it also appeared that the cat wasn't making GBS threads, turns out it keeps its potency even when it's in a turd, and the dog was having a lovely mid-morning snack from the litter tray while I was out. Yep can second this, my oldest cat struggles with kidney stones occasionally. Give him a few bowls of this and he's right as rain again (for a bit at least, he is extremely stupid so forgets to drink water).
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OwlFancier posted:I really want to know what evolutionary or human selection pressure produced an animal that just eats anything they can get into their gob and apparently enjoys it. My sister's old dog would try and eat random stones, spit them out when it turned out they weren't edible, then come back 30 seconds later to see if they'd suddenly turned edible again. More generally, one of the proposed routes for the domestication of the dog was that in winter, when food was short, wolves would eat waste (in both senses of the term) from human settlements. It would make sense that the dogs that evolved from those wolves would have evolved a pretty iron stomach.
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I also once had a golden retriever who was lovely and sweet, but also loved eating cow poo poo and also rolling around in cow poo poo.
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I had a springer who loved to drink seawater, so every time we went to the beach he'd drink loads and spend the next half hour running around while squirting it out of his arse like a disgusting bottle rocket
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keep punching joe posted:I also once had a golden retriever who was lovely and sweet, but also loved eating cow poo poo and also rolling around in cow poo poo. Are you me
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goddamnedtwisto posted:My sister's old dog would try and eat random stones, spit them out when it turned out they weren't edible, then come back 30 seconds later to see if they'd suddenly turned edible again. He sits and chews on them, which I think might partially be because that annoys my mum and she gives him treats to make him drop them, which I have told her is just teaching him to do it more because he gets treats when he does it, but she doesn't seem to understand how pavlovian conditioning works. keep punching joe posted:I also once had a golden retriever who was lovely and sweet, but also loved eating cow poo poo and also rolling around in cow poo poo. Mum's will make a beeline for anything dead it finds and then roll around it in and attempt to eat it. Very strange animals.
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I also caught her eating from a tub of swarfega once. A very stupid beast.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Well I can report Royal Canin Urinary S/O does the trick, to the point that I thought my dog was having some issues because she suddenly started pissing on the floor while I was at work. Put two and two together when it also appeared that the cat wasn't making GBS threads, turns out it keeps its potency even when it's in a turd, and the dog was having a lovely mid-morning snack from the litter tray while I was out. We use this for our cats, and can also report it resolved the per issues with our cat. Also handily comes in a 'moderate calorie' version to help our cats not be fat. They also all really like it, which is good since they're fussy wee shits.
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Hooray, I've got covid. Felt a bit rough and sweaty on Sunday but tested negative, actually feel a bit better today apart from a tickly cough. Praying I wasn't contagious on Saturday because I visited some family, although they're all jabbed up and most of them have had it anyway. Just feeling so *unfashionable* to have caught it after almost everyone else, it's like I've suddenly really got into dubstep or something.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Hooray, I've got covid. Felt a bit rough and sweaty on Sunday but tested negative, actually feel a bit better today apart from a tickly cough. Praying I wasn't contagious on Saturday because I visited some family, although they're all jabbed up and most of them have had it anyway. Covid, like fashion, is cyclical. It even has waves like Ska, the coolest musical genre.
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And in a few years time all that most people will remember is madness and the one about the pubs all being closed.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Hooray, I've got covid. Felt a bit rough and sweaty on Sunday but tested negative, actually feel a bit better today apart from a tickly cough. Praying I wasn't contagious on Saturday because I visited some family, although they're all jabbed up and most of them have had it anyway. I like the absurdity of the app saying it’s “helping to protect you and others” and then when you do get pinged it’s just “anyway thought you might want to know, carry on about your business“
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Hooray, I've got covid. Felt a bit rough and sweaty on Sunday but tested negative, actually feel a bit better today apart from a tickly cough. Praying I wasn't contagious on Saturday because I visited some family, although they're all jabbed up and most of them have had it anyway. Na, world+dog is catching it right now, I know several people who have. Turns out opening 'er up when Omicron is still a thing means lots of (hopefully mostly mild) cases!
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I was in a church on Sunday so rip me
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Marmaduke! posted:I was in a church on Sunday so rip me At lest your eternal soul has been saved. I know a few people with it. It's still rampant.
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Private Speech posted:All that said there's definitely the occasional story in media about politicians taking bribes. I don't think it's everyone or commonplace but there's certainly people willing to take bribes in politics. So unlike our own dear polity ;p That's a description of, like, everywhere.
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Got what feels like the start of a cold coming on. Was inside a pub on Saturday for like 10 mins.
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Two of my team of four people have picked it up over the weekend!
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feedmegin posted:So unlike our own dear polity ;p That's a description of, like, everywhere. (sometimes they lobby for businesses which have instead given them generous gifts, but it's all above board because they're just gifts and are recorded in the register of interests, unless they don't record them in the register of interests in which case it would be completely unfair to accuse someone of corruption for a mere administrative omission that would otherwise have been completely lawful)
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