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Camrath
Mar 19, 2004

The UKMT Fudge Baron


JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

Camrath is going to release a new, gold-flecked fudge

I already do one (gilded rose).

No idea if this will even apply to me or not- tbh I have no clue as to my tax situation, which is bizarrely complicated and handled entirely by a family member who’s a terrifyingly good accountant.

Should probably fix that, but every time I ask him to explain things my eyes cloud over and I start tasting blood.

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DesperateDan
Dec 10, 2005

Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.
I finally got my non shitpostin' twitter account automated to throw out some pictures so if you want some nature pics on your twitter feed twice daily then please follow and share it around

https://twitter.com/TheFiveAcres

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
smh that they could only get one half of Daphne and Celeste.

NotJustANumber99
Feb 15, 2012

somehow that last av was even worse than your posting

Camrath posted:

I already do one (gilded rose).

No idea if this will even apply to me or not- tbh I have no clue as to my tax situation, which is bizarrely complicated and handled entirely by a family member who’s a terrifyingly good accountant.

Should probably fix that, but every time I ask him to explain things my eyes cloud over and I start tasting blood.

Hmmm, you sure like your bank account isn't in your dog's name Harry redknapp style?

Jedit
Dec 10, 2011

Proudly supporting vanilla legends 1994-2014

Gonzo McFee posted:

That is an impressively chaotic line-up and I hope the Queen is forced to watch all of it Clockwork Orange style.

Edit: it's also a fake line-up :(

I would have thought that Morrissey was the clue, considering he made an album called The Queen is Dead.

TACD
Oct 27, 2000

Jedit posted:

I would have thought that Morrissey was the clue, considering he made an album called The Queen is Dead.
I couldn't remember if Morrissey himself was dead and I still had to check if it was real, being absurd is just not a reliable indicator of unreality any more.

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010

Jedit posted:

I would have thought that Morrissey was the clue, considering he made an album called The Queen is Dead.

All I know about Morrissey is he sucks and hates the Chinese.

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
And Muslims. I don't know what his thoughts are on Uyghurs and Chinese Muslims but I'm sure they're also trash.

Jedit
Dec 10, 2011

Proudly supporting vanilla legends 1994-2014

You have one bullet and you're in a room with Morrissey and Clapton - go!

Gyro Zeppeli
Jul 19, 2012

sure hope no-one throws me off a bridge

Jedit posted:

You have one bullet and you're in a room with Morrissey and Clapton - go!

Myself to leave that room quicker.

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


Jedit posted:

You have one bullet and you're in a room with Morrissey and Clapton - go!

Line them up one behind the other, obviously

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010

Jedit posted:

You have one bullet and you're in a room with Morrissey and Clapton - go!

Well I'd like a gun as well.

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

Die Satan!
Clapton always.

Morrisseys bigotry never seemed sincere, just smart arse devil's advocate nonsense. Clapton is a genuine 'send em all back' racist.

feedmegin
Jul 30, 2008

Hmm. One of the people on my team is 'no longer with the company'' as of this morning. Was with us normal as anything on yesterday's standup. We're still mostly virtual so it's not like he could have come in and taken a dump on the CEO's desk.

NGL curious what he did!

feedmegin
Jul 30, 2008


I mean I live in Ilford, broadly speaking, it's not exactly posh round here either ;p

Microplastics
Jul 6, 2007

:discourse:
It's what's for dinner.

Gonzo McFee posted:

Well I'd like a gun as well.

No. You have to push it into your target with your thumb

Only Kindness
Oct 12, 2016

#UnmissableSky

One for Trading Standards surely.

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

keep punching joe posted:

Clapton always.

Morrisseys bigotry never seemed sincere, just smart arse devil's advocate nonsense. Clapton is a genuine 'send em all back' racist.

he's also an anti-vaxxer who just had to cancel a bunch of shows because he has covid lmao

gently caress 'im, feed 'im to the viricons

Marmaduke!
May 19, 2009

Why would it do that!?
Who was saying about Plusnet before? I've been with them a while, this is the second time I've renewed my broadband contract and they've jacked the price up by mistake, exactly as they did a year back too. Three did it as well... why can't these companies just do this really simple thing without fooking it up?

TACD
Oct 27, 2000

Marmaduke! posted:

Who was saying about Plusnet before? I've been with them a while, this is the second time I've renewed my broadband contract and they've jacked the price up by mistake, exactly as they did a year back too. Three did it as well... why can't these companies just do this really simple thing without fooking it up?
Why wouldn't they chance their arm at overcharging when there's no penalty for being caught? Weird that they never drop the price by mistake

Mega Comrade
Apr 22, 2004

Listen buddy, we all got problems!

Marmaduke! posted:

Who was saying about Plusnet before? I've been with them a while, this is the second time I've renewed my broadband contract and they've jacked the price up by mistake, exactly as they did a year back too. Three did it as well... why can't these companies just do this really simple thing without fooking it up?

Plusnet actually used to be one of the really good ones, and then BT bought them. Was fine for a while until 5 or so years ago when they got brought into the BT consumer division.

Jaeluni Asjil
Apr 18, 2018

Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

TACD posted:

Why wouldn't they chance their arm at overcharging when there's no penalty for being caught? Weird that they never drop the price by mistake

You say that, but Three are crediting my account by £16 a month instead of debiting it £22 a month! Since I changed contract last October! And when the May price rise hit, they increased the credit to my account by the requisite %!

I will sort it out, but had other things to clear out the way first to make sure I have alternative internet facilities available and also make sure my mifi is fully cancelled before I do lest they cock it up (such is my faith in the ability of customer services of big organisations companies not to cock things up)

The Perfect Element
Dec 5, 2005
"This is a bit of a... a poof song"

feedmegin posted:

Hmm. One of the people on my team is 'no longer with the company'' as of this morning. Was with us normal as anything on yesterday's standup. We're still mostly virtual so it's not like he could have come in and taken a dump on the CEO's desk.

NGL curious what he did!

A 'Head of' at my work, who again was in meetings etc as normal this week, has just suddenly left with no notice and apparently is 'taking time to consider their future'.

I guess in all likelihood in both cases it could be some kind of mental health crisis, so we shouldn't speculate and gossip. Hard not to, though.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

Please be excited.



In my experience its usually because something's been noticed about their work and they've been quietly told they should consider jumping before they're pushed.

Spangly A
May 14, 2009

God help you if ever you're caught on these shores

A man's ambition must indeed be small
To write his name upon a shithouse wall

Jedit posted:

I would have thought that Morrissey was the clue, considering he made an album called The Queen is Dead.

I showed it to the halfwits bassist and theyre trying to work out if they know the artist or if they accidentally got famous enough to be an irish republicanism joke without realising it

above peppa pig too!

TACD
Oct 27, 2000

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

You say that, but Three are crediting my account by £16 a month instead of debiting it £22 a month! Since I changed contract last October! And when the May price rise hit, they increased the credit to my account by the requisite %!

I will sort it out, but had other things to clear out the way first to make sure I have alternative internet facilities available and also make sure my mifi is fully cancelled before I do lest they cock it up (such is my faith in the ability of customer services of big organisations companies not to cock things up)
If I were you I would want to get a few more things cleared away before tackling this. Not sure which things exactly, so probably better to do all of them just to be sure.

I bet there’s an absolutely horrific behind–the–scenes story to your scenario though. Like, I’m assuming you’re paying via Direct Debit, and so I’m also assuming that this is happening because somebody added a - to the front of your DD amount, which 1) I didn’t know you could credit accounts that way and 2) how did that happen? Did somebody fat-finger the amount (implying they’re all being done manually, oh god) or do you have a hyphenated name that got badly mangled at their end? gah

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

Die Satan!
Labour Party back in business :c00l:

https://twitter.com/BallotBoxScot/status/1527266049393033217?t=k4Vlpky9CxJc6Y-JUKdZAA

https://twitter.com/BallotBoxScot/status/1527254077335388162?t=RqS9BNMPSPJUVVlhwz-eDw

bessantj
Jul 27, 2004


Guavanaut posted:

Nothing but flags from here on out, bitch!

https://twitter.com/josephmdurso/status/919929409670434816

e: In 216CE, the prophet Mani of Manichaeism is supposedly born and this is either entirely good or entirely bad.

Amazing, looks like something from "The Day Today"

Dead Goon
Dec 13, 2002

No Obvious Flaws



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDKQliH1awY

Comrade Fakename
Feb 13, 2012


Can't believe the poster advertising the return of Wizbit for the Jubilee turned out to be fake...

Beefeater1980
Sep 12, 2008

My God, it's full of Horatios!






The Perfect Element posted:

A 'Head of' at my work, who again was in meetings etc as normal this week, has just suddenly left with no notice and apparently is 'taking time to consider their future'.

I guess in all likelihood in both cases it could be some kind of mental health crisis, so we shouldn't speculate and gossip. Hard not to, though.

Only time I’ve ever seen someone get pushed out the door unceremoniously like that was when a sales colleague who was already on thin ice for bad decisions got angry with a customer who was closing too slowly, and started yelling first at them and then at the department head. Otherwise it’s always been “congratulations, now you’re on a Performance Improvement Plan.”

Theoretically could also be something wild like getting caught stealing trade secrets / spending company money without authorisation / watching porn at work. But instant dismissal is pretty risky for the company and pretty rare. And anyone leaving voluntarily usually has to give notice so it’s not that sudden.

E: Oh I forgot one, the general counsel of a company was sacked effective immediately because (as he tells it) the CEO ordered him to falsify records and he said no.

Beefeater1980 fucked around with this message at 15:58 on May 19, 2022

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal

Comrade Fakename posted:

Can't believe the poster advertising the return of Wizbit for the Jubilee turned out to be fake...
Eric Clapton has a Wizbit costume in the false bottom of his wardrobe.

Bobby Deluxe
May 9, 2004

Beefeater1980 posted:

Otherwise it’s always been “congratulations, now you’re on a Performance Improvement Plan.”
One of the few times in the UK it's possible to get on PiP.

kecske
Feb 28, 2011

it's round, like always

Beefeater1980 posted:

Theoretically could also be something wild like getting caught stealing trade secrets / spending company money without authorisation / watching porn at work. But instant dismissal is pretty risky for the company and pretty rare. And anyone leaving voluntarily usually has to give notice so it’s not that sudden.

E: Oh I forgot one, the general counsel of a company was sacked effective immediately because (as he tells it) the CEO ordered him to falsify records and he said no.

We had 'married with kids Head of Department caught doing the horizontal monster mash with a direct report' who immediately left and put out a 'considering my future' email

thebardyspoon
Jun 30, 2005
People ghosting jobs is apparently becoming more common in the last few years, either after being there for awhile and so seeming entrenched but then just deciding to jack it in one day or if they've been very recently hired, 2-3 months in they just stop showing up.

big scary monsters
Sep 2, 2011

-~Skullwave~-
There was a guy at my work who just left his phone and ID card on his desk one Friday and vanished. His family called the company because they didn't know where he was, he hadn't been in contact with anyone, and frankly after a week or two we thought he'd probably offed himself. A couple months later the police tracked him down through his bank account withdrawing money from an ATM somewhere in France, and since he was apparently still alive and it is perfectly legal to leave your entire life behind and move abroad without telling anyone that was the last we heard of it. We only even heard that much because the family wanted his nearest colleagues to know.

Lady Gaza
Nov 20, 2008

Depending on the business, and how high up the employee is, if they found another job at a competitor they can be immediately placed on gardening leave to stop them gaining any more knowledge of the workings of the company. I’ve seen this happen several times in my company and with my clients.

Jedit
Dec 10, 2011

Proudly supporting vanilla legends 1994-2014

Comrade Fakename posted:

Can't believe the poster advertising the return of Wizbit for the Jubilee turned out to be fake...

Oddly though, advertising the return of N-Dubz wasn't.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup
Pillbug
Wizadora > Wizbit

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Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
T-Bag > Wizbit

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