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Tesseraction posted:Gaelgoons is this as accurate in terms of how funny it should sound I genuinely have no idea what they were going for if not "oval office on the punt."
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Nilbop posted:I genuinely have no idea what they were going for if not "oval office on the punt." The correct answer turned out to be sovereign on a sovereign, which 1) does not rhyme 2) that is the reason a sovereign is called a sovereign so it's not even a pun it's just... yeah, there's a sovereign on there
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Mebh posted:Anyone ever come across a good promotion/advancement scheme at work that isn't just a load of poo poo meant to cover up that it's all jobs for mates? I did enjoy doing a 360 review for my boss once. He couldn't work out who had given him the 'strange' comment (I figured it was my comment though he didn't specify - I guess he didn't want to say what it was in case he had the wrong person). He had a propensity to bully (heavily male dominated & unionized environment - he wouldn't have bullied office staff esp women in the same way). I six-sigma'd a group of people doing a very manual and intense task - not widget production - and demonstrated that far from the bunch of incompetents the PtB had labelled them, they were operating at a very high standard (over 3 sigmas anyway - which is very good for a human operated system with very little automation - but not as good as you would need to be as a brain surgeon or air traffic controller for example) when the complexity of the operation was taken into consideration. Anyway, I visited their locations and told them that they were actually good and they were delighted. The Board were pissed off though because they were using them as scapegoats for a decaying system. Gut feel ain't always right.
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Can you please stop spaffing your royals all over my newsfeeds its starting to get a bit tedious
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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jan/10/labour-mps-defend-taking-donations-from-little-known-companyquote:MPM Connect was revealed by Sky News and Tortoise on Monday to be one of two almost completely unknown companies to have donated large sums of money to MPs in recent years. LOL at "revealed". Just went through the register of members interests. Some snooping did happen though: an attempted gotcha at MPM's registered address. https://news.sky.com/video/you-look-confused-12782730
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:Can you please stop spaffing your royals all over my newsfeeds its starting to get a bit tedious Everyone is hoping that this is another Spanish austerity hunt/tanktop Thai harem moment I'm not, but only because neither of those monarchies got violently murdered
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Argh help me! I have got a new phone, and the forums are now in tiny text. I managed to change it to a larger size on my old phone, but when I review the options on the awful app I can't see it anywhere. Under 'font' I can change the...font... but not the size. Please can someone tell me how to change it? I glazed over at the accessibility derail last week but now I'm very sorry!!
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Welcome to tiny text world, Winston. Enjoy not being able to post on account of their being too small, you idiot! (use the app)
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The Perfect Element posted:Argh help me! I have got a new phone, and the forums are now in tiny text. I managed to change it to a larger size on my old phone, but when I review the options on the awful app I can't see it anywhere. Under 'font' I can change the...font... but not the size. are you holding the phone at arms length, best check first
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I didn't see that part on account of his text being too tiny  On the Android Awful app, under Settings/Posts is default post font size. Hope that works?
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Settings - > Posts - > Default post font size Unless you're on iOS, in which case you're on your own.
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Wes Streeting is going to Shampoo his Lightning Seeds all over the Ocean Colour Scene of the hard left  
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Guavanaut posted:Wes Streeting is going to Shampoo his Lightning Seeds all over the Ocean Colour Scene of the hard left I personally can’t wait for yet another rehash of all those 1960s guitar riffs
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domhal posted:https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jan/10/labour-mps-defend-taking-donations-from-little-known-company lol too that the mcshitter is one of those taking money from Bribery Ltd. because of course Guavanaut posted:Wes Streeting is going to Shampoo his Lightning Seeds all over the Ocean Colour Scene of the hard left this guy seems to both dislike 'identity politics' but also thinks a return to Marxism is a breath of fresh air compared to it
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HopperUK posted:Oh man it's going off at work. Somebody snapped and registered a throwaway email account to blast every branch, the CEO and every regulatory body even semi-relevant with a four-page email howling about all the dodgy behaviour of the middle management tiers at my company. It's gonna get spicy over the next few weeks. Good, it's about time people started doing this. Collapse the loving system and lets lop some loving heads off. It's why I quit my job except I knew trying to do anything about it was pointless because the cunts were so entrenched in nepotism. One person was literally there because the College couldn't be hosed putting together severance for 30+ years of service, so they bumped her to a health and safety role where she actively does nothing but gently caress anything and everything up. Also because the Graun can't be bothered doing it's basic function, it'll come to no surprise to you that MPM Connect was renamed from an offshore money channelling farce that was included in the Paradise papers, known as Oak Topco Ltd with the exact same Director. Someone with this many properties in London surely is a good egg no?  Those London addresses are all multi-million pound apartment addresses, pretty sure it's the same loving guy 
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Diet Crack posted:Good, it's about time people started doing this. Collapse the loving system and lets lop some loving heads off. Seems like a busy bee https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/E7eLmNw_88oJC-uYMU4PryzLDqY/appointments
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Mebh posted:Anyone ever come across a good promotion/advancement scheme at work that isn't just a load of poo poo meant to cover up that it's all jobs for mates? Does your employer recognise that working there for lomger makes you significantly better at your job? I'm in a civil service organisation where all the jobs are banded (so all band 1,2,3 etc jobs pay the same) but for a significant number of roles, you can be advanced up bands without changing jobs or work, because entry-level-experienced-senior of the same job have different bands. These roles have significant salary differences, so the fact it takes 2-3 years to move between bands does reflect growth in skills, and it's worth the investment to go for them. The actual process is treated the same as external recruitment - show through an application you meet the level of the next job up by having evidence against criteria, cover letter and interview time. It works, but mostly because the organisation invests money into making it work by having money set aside to promote people each year. And it does lead to some extent a top-heavy scale where long term staff are all at the top band. And if the company is small enough, I don't think you can avoid the jobs for mates aspect. Humans making decisions about other humans are alway going to be biased by their opinions and relationships, and in a small company you can't have the distance between applicants and reviewers to make it impersonal.
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I believe it was also revealed that MPM Connect was being used to offer NHS doctors and whatnot recruitment/advice toward private practice, of which Streeting was a direct benefactor of their donations. You know, just another clear peg in this board of loving the NHS and everyone over for a privatised US model so this fat chimp schoolboy looking toff oval office can make a quick £100,000. Diet Crack fucked around with this message at 11:13 on Jan 10, 2023 |
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Working at a company longer doesn't necessarily make you better at your job so much as makes you get better at doing the bare minimum to not get fired. Although I'm sure all of you are good at your jobs except *turns to the person reading this post* you
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'A historic space mission that took off from Cornwall has ended in bitter disappointment after a rocket carrying the first satellites launched from British soil failed to reach orbit and was lost.' We can only have stratospheric knobs on land. A truly British Outcome  e: I mean really it's a catch all phrase for Britain when you think about it, national slogan imo: 'A _______ that ____________ ended in bitter disappointment after a ____________________ from British soil failed ______________ .' Britain - Bitter Disappointment Diet Crack fucked around with this message at 10:53 on Jan 10, 2023 |
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Tesseraction posted:Working at a company longer doesn't necessarily make you better at your job so much as makes you get better at doing the bare minimum to not get fired. Listen the fact that I'm reading the thread instead of working is because I'm so good at my job that I've already finished all my work for the week
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One promotion path I've seen at some big American companies is measuring the "success velocity" of people - if everyone loves you you can get promoted to management, but otherwise you are stuck, with the idea that only a few people get to be management and this is a meritocratic way of doing it. I'm not sure it's really any good for a host of reasons, but it's one way of doing it.
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Tesseraction posted:Working at a company longer doesn't necessarily make you better at your job so much as makes you get better at doing the bare minimum to not get fired. That's probably why my old company has never called me back in again, a lot of the ones who left at same time as myself are back there. The way my life is now they would need to offer much, much more than i was previously earning, my quality of life now has a higher price attached to it than before.  The quality of my work would remain the same. 
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Guavanaut posted:Wes Streeting is going to Shampoo his Lightning Seeds all over the Ocean Colour Scene of the hard left Ah yes britpop 2, now with even fewer working class people because none of them have the spare time, money or connections to get anywhere in music
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Angepain posted:Ah yes britpop 2, now with even fewer working class people because none of them have the spare time, money or connections to get anywhere in music Every band will basically be Kula Shaker.
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domhal posted:https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jan/10/labour-mps-defend-taking-donations-from-little-known-company But MPM and MPM Connect have different names, so clearly they're entirely unrelated and the Shadow Health Secretary taking money from the latter is of no interest or concern to anyone. [Doffs hat with 'PRESS' on a card stuffed into its band]
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Just Another Lurker posted:
Thanks for the inflation, greedy worker 
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The Graun is on a roll You mean to say that devolving the NHS into a bunch of trusts, run by people with very little medical background, to funnel money through hands that don't need it while strangulating the service it's meant to surprise with more bureaucracy - hasn't worked? Thanks Blair. Self diagnosing idiots coming in and cluttering the broken system more will surely fix things! Also no, Wes Streeting is a dumb fuckwit who's sole purpose is to begin transitioning this from public to private. Olds are dumb 
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Honestly grunge was way better than britpop if we have to pick sides.
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The only good British music movement of the last 40 years is Rave.
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Angepain posted:Ah yes britpop 2, now with even fewer working class people because none of them have the spare time, money or connections to get anywhere in music
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Bucket Hats and wooden necklaces for All
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Chubby Henparty posted:I didn't see that part on account of his text being too tiny This did the trick, thank you!
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