Bobby Deluxe posted:

Reminds me of (if anyone's into tabletop streaming) the CEO of Wyrmwood's big meltdown last year because some of his staff voiced concerns about health & safety, HR issues and working hours. His 'solution' was to film himself having a big pissy rant on the shop floor:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3tYvIkVrTo

(This might not be the right video because I'm out with the dog so I can't watch it all, but if he starts shouting about the health and safety measures he's unwilling to put in place then that's it.)

There seems to be this huge transition issue when small businesses (especially 'punk'/rebel companies) who are used to treating people like poo poo get over a certain size and have to treat their employees with proper rights, and they just loving lose it because they cannot accept that they are the bad guys now.

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Fortunately the England team are safe because none of them were in close contact with him during the match.

Anyway the rules are already clear on this, the rest of the team will be PCR tested but not be required to isolate unless they test positive. Now the more important question is where did he pick it up, if they're all supposed to be in covid-secure bubbles?

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Aah, a few tweets last night suddenly make sense.

For those not up on political and journalistic drama and the twitter metadrama around it - last month, after Hartlepool, Tim Shipman, political editor of the Sunday Times, posted that it was interesting how intensely LOTO defended Chapman, an advisor to Starmer, then intriguingly mentioned that Chapman was banned from Starmer's home. Shipman then went completely silent for almost a week before quietly deleting that tweet (but *not* the ones about how intensely Chapman was being defended) and posting:

https://twitter.com/shippersunbound/status/1395045719187283971?lang=en

The Shitpost Left had a field day with this, and them offering their support and love to a Murdoch political journalist was one of the stranger political sights of the year. Anyway last night someone - I *think* @wariotifo - posted that he'd heard that Shipman had had his phone confiscated for 24 hours, and a couple of other people in the RP/TF blob posted allusions to a big story. No idea how a bunch of random podcasters seemed to be on top of the story 12 hours ago (or why they've now all deleted the tweets rather than going on a lap of honour) but there we go.

learnincurve posted:

GB News had a average viewership of 50k a day last week after promising advertisers and investors 150k

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

I have a kid on the way and I'm fully expecting to just put up with it

If I want complete silence in the afternoon I'll just have to fork out for sound proofing, rather than insist everyone around me forgos afternoon weekend parties lol

jiggerypokery posted:

The whole cocaine situation is damning enough of Gove and his ilk.

I've heard he was actually quite pleasant to work with as environment secretary though from a civil servant, which kind of makes him feel worse to me. He apparently actually listened and cared. It's like he has a genuinely decent inner child crushed by a loving odious, duplicitous self-serving ambition.

jiggerypokery posted:

Downing Street have said they know who leaked it but won't be having an investigation so you can read between the lines as to why not

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Depends on exactly what the docs were (and the protective marking on them) but my guess that it's actually just a printed handout or something that holds a lower classification. Then it could be anything from "Were in a laptop bag that got nicked, got dumped out on the way to Cash Converters" to "Very confused Porn Fairy".

If they *are* higher-classification documents they're a) generally individually numbered so the MoD will know exactly who had them last and b) not normally allowed outside of a secure facility, so finding them at a bus stop could well mean "Attempt at a dead drop for a leak or espionage".

Note that HMG abandoned the CONFIDENTIAL protective marking because a) they just couldn't stop people taking them home and even working on them on the train and b) the fact everyone loves slapping that word on poo poo and if it turns up in a government building with CONFIDENTIAL written on it they have to actually treat it as an important classified document. Everyone got told to either remove enough poo poo to get them down a level or reclassify them at a higher one so people realised not to just leave them at Starbucks.

Munin posted:

Who is the giant Edinburgh funder?

jabby posted:

Amazing. They've already regained the massive hubris they had before Corbyn was elected. They should definitely test this theory.

AFAIK this is bollocks. Tons of actual MPs are patrons of charities, do work for charities etc. There's definitely no rule that you can't even be a member of a party to work for a charity.

Julio Cruz posted:

so Keith's new idea is just to go on a country-wide pub crawl?

he really is an alcoholic isn't he

Gorn Myson posted:

I'm fairly certain that someone in this thread, or used to be in this thread, had a dilemma years ago where Reginald D Hunter was trying to hook up with his wife.

Private Speech posted:

The crowd is definitely very nationalist, in a way it hasn't been for the last couple matches.

Probably since it's past the qualifiers, before a single match wouldn't matter that much.

They're openly booing the Germans every time they touch the ball.

Julio Cruz posted:

it's impressive how much of the people claiming England played well weren't in TRP yesterday

because, uh, that was not what the people who actually watch a lot of football were saying

goddamnedtwisto posted:

I use credit cards (which I pay off at the end of the month) for online transactions because of the protection factor, but since lockdown I've shifted to just doing *everything* by credit card because ultimately if it gets skimmed or stolen and somebody goes mad with it it doesn't then leave me completely skint as it would if my debit card got misused.

The one thing that always concerns me is the fact that almost all of my cards have limits considerably higher than my monthly take-home pay (I'm one of those tedious pricks who goes deal-shopping for cashback offers) without me ever requesting even that much and my total limit, spread among those cards, is way higher than my salary. Someone with poorer urge-control than me (like, say, me ten years ago) could get into *really* bad trouble really quickly that way, and I think there needs to be controls similar to online gambling sites to try and stop that. Of course as the majority of our economy is now reliant on poor urge control and lack of understanding of finance I can't see that happening.

forkboy84 posted:

In part 570 of "Brexit's Going Well", my dad needed some concrete for one of his jobs, went to B&Q only to find out they are rationing it, they only get a couple of pallets in every week. So 4 bags per person limit, 8 if you've got one of their trade cards.

Seems healthy.

OzyMandrill posted:

Not just containers, ports are a nightmare now. 20-30% capacity lost to government containers (the dodgy ppe from dodgy contracts is basically still sitting there, and can't move due to costs). Road freight is brexit-hosed, so the cost to get a container out of the port is now £20k+ (used to be £1500 ish) . On clothing its an extra 10-15%, on wood its 200-300%, on aggregates its 10x the worth of the goods themselves so no one can import them any more. Shits hosed.

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

I once had a job that I hated in electronic sales. I ended up drawing a grid of squares every morning with the number of hours left til the end of one year (which I told myself I had to stick it out for - every morning, a brand new grid, colour in a square an hour). The job was absolutely NOT what I was told it would be. Then I got to the point of having to argue with myself every morning not to throw a sicky. I would wake up at night crying with distress. I quit long before the end of the year and with nothing to go to.
That said, back then, temping jobs were quite easy to get so I got a 'wolves from the door' job within a couple of days and ended up there 10 years (being made permanent, getting training & qualifying as a surveyor along the way - NOT a building surveyor one of the other sorts).

Write down all the things that are distressing you about the job, and anything you can think of that you enjoy about the job.
Things to consider: (not to answer here!)

Do you have enough money to last 6 months without a job (albeit living on lentils for 6 months)?

Do you have dependents?

Are you looking to do something in the near future that requires you to be in employment (eg rent a flat? remortgage?) - if so, don't quit til you've sorted those out.

You say that the firm thinks you're doing ok. So in all likelihood you are probably satisfying the technical aspects of the role more than adequately.

Do you need more training on something that your not getting (and maybe need to ask for - employers are often oblivious to the needs of staff who may be struggling and 'getting by' because they're working fk knows how many hours of unpaid overtime finding stuff out)?

Does your employer know how much extra time you're putting in?

If you really don't know what you might want to do instead, I highly recommend "What color is your parachute' books - they're released new every year but if you can get one that's a bit out of date cheap, it'll do just as well with all the various exercises in it.

(NB I just saw a review of that book that comments on 'christian rhetoric' - I have to say I never noticed it. But you can ignore that if it really is there - maybe it's in a newer edition than the last one I used - and do the exercises.)

jiggerypokery posted:

I'm sceptical of the housing crisis narrative. Is there really a significant lack of housing in this country or is it just that housing prices and thus rental costs the sacred cow that must never be slaughtered?

Xeno posted:

I'm renovating a house at the moment, and have learned that if you start from a position of "every tradesperson is a cheating rat" you will not be disappointed.

Decent tradespeople:
Plasterer #3.
Joiner #2 (he's great but mad expensive).

poo poo tradespeople:
Tiler. poo poo job and he was a dick head. Kicked off when I pointed out a few badly placed tiles. Went apeshit when I said "are you happy with them"?
All plasterers. Especially the ones who subcontract everything out.
All joiners except #2.
Builder (omg, the worst).
All roofers (didn't end up fixing it in the end so next time it rains it will leak). It's just the chimney flashing but quotes from £1200 (cash only from an Irish gentleman) to "you need a new roof mate, be about £30k".
Plumber.
Gas guy. The state of my flue. I think it might be illegal.

It also looks marginally impressive from the outside so immediately all quotes jump 50% as they don't understand you're just a cheapskate goon. The other annoying thing is they come round, take an hour of your time up looking at the job and then never reply to you again.

This, plus the fact materials have gone up 200% in the last year mean not much has been achieved. Feck paying £30 for a sheet of MDF.

JollyBoyJohn posted:

This is a picture of my velux window - https://imgur.com/gallery/ibzmvr0 - it doesn't look like much but the frame on the left hand side has warped and it won't close completely, in the winter I seal it around the edges with black bags, I am terrified that the entire window will need replacing and it will cost ££££'s,

dumb thing is its might be the most minor 10 minute job to straighten out the frame but i just don't know and other than a slight bit of damage on the wallpaper from when i left the window too far open on a rainy day it doesn't really cause any problems

Failed Imagineer posted:

I'll be building some decking out the back in a couple weeks, which will really be a trial of how bad my DIY skills are, given that it's going over uneven poo poo ground and will be in multiple sections, so framing it out to be a level plane and anchoring it to the garden wall will be an ordeal. Wood is something I can probably do without calling in The Man tho

goddamnedtwisto posted:

They're fine for simple box-with-door stuff. For anything more complex - particularly when they for some reason decide to save money by using the same manual for several different, but similar, products - they're loving *terrible*. They almost never give an indication of orientation changing, they make it very unclear which fasteners are which (seriously would it kill them to print them 1:1 in the parts inventory?), and never clarify relatively simple stuff like "make sure this hinge is open when you install it because otherwise it will never, ever fit together properly afterwards" (the cheap pot metal they always make their hinges from deforms a lot under the spring tension - securing them fully with the hinge closed stops them opening fully).

Guavanaut posted:

bessantj posted:

Saw an old work colleague today, I only worked with him a couple of times, he's a good lad and I liked working with him. He caught COVID and I didn't hear anything about him so I thought he'd been moved to a different contract which is pretty common in the rail maintenance business. Today he came to a site I was working at to visit a couple of friends. I was really shocked when I saw him, he's about 6' 3" and used to be built like a brick poo poo house only with a bit of a belly. But now, after COVID had really hosed him, he's stick thin, has difficulty speaking and needs a cane to walk. He's like a ghost of his former self. He's been told he will get better and will be able to return to work but it will take a couple of years to fully recover and he won't be nearly as strong and active as he once was. He seemed just happy to be alive, he thought he was going to die a couple of times. I see him and I think about how people are flippant over COVID and it blows my mind and makes me angry all in one.