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[Alex 34717]

Problem is that in almost everywhere I’ve worked people move up the ladder and usually manage people as a result. But seemingly irrespective of whether they’re good at managing people. 

[wykikitoon 19801]

40 minutes ago, Alex said:

Problem is that in almost everywhere I’ve worked people move up the ladder and usually manage people as a result. But seemingly irrespective of whether they’re good at managing people. 

Nailed it.  Plus they don't get the support or training at managing people,

[Alex 34717]

15 minutes ago, wykikitoon said:

Nailed it.  Plus they don't get the support or training at managing people,

Yep. That’s the other thing. Sone people are naturally better than others but a lot of it can be learnt too. Hoying people in at the deep end is mental really. When you think about the impact on staff productivity (good and bad) that a manager can have. 

[Tdansmith 3201]

My fridge has broke, two days after i went shopping. What a bugger all that food wasted.

Now, what's the cheapest / safest way to get rid of the fridge ? 

[Monkeys Fist 41888]

1 hour ago, Tdansmith said:

My fridge has broke, two days after i went shopping. What a bugger all that food wasted.

Now, what's the cheapest / safest way to get rid of the fridge ? 

Sell it to CT as a “garden curio cabinet”. 

[Alex 34717]

1 hour ago, Tdansmith said:

My fridge has broke, two days after i went shopping. What a bugger all that food wasted.

Now, what's the cheapest / safest way to get rid of the fridge ? 

Council will collect it for a small charge. Scrap men probably won’t take it 

[Renton 21032]

Aye, needs proper disposal due to release of the refrigerant completely fucking the biosphere. 

 

I was trying to crowbar some joke about "dripping like a broken fridge" here without success. Even resorted to Google for inspiration and somehow came across this filth from @PaddockLad. Disgusting, difficult to tell who's worse, him or his mate MF. 

 

 

 

[wykikitoon 19801]

My council took mine for nowt but had to book in and wait 2 weeks. 

[RobinRobin 11073]

👍 

[Gemmill 44090]

Cast have joined Richard Ashcroft as Oasis support.

 

[Monkeys Fist 41888]

7 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

Cast have joined Richard Ashcroft as Oasis support.

 

 

Third on the bill? 
 

 

I guess it’s alright…

[Blastronaut 1333]

On 25/10/2024 at 11:17, Alex said:

Problem is that in almost everywhere I’ve worked people move up the ladder and usually manage people as a result. But seemingly irrespective of whether they’re good at managing people. 

 

I think that's called the Peter Principle. Competent people that have been in an organisation long enough to manage to climb the ladder until they plateau in a position where they're completely incompetent but almost impossible to sack.

 

So if it's any reassurance at all, it's not just been bad luck that you've seen it everywhere you've work. Seems to be pretty common in almost every workplace.

 

For my money, the hiring process that enables this is a similar phenomenon to when I'm walking home from the pub but instead of taking the most trouble-free route home I often inexplicably end up taking a much longer walk that coincidentally features a few other pubs and other very real dangers like the threat of divorce.

[Tdansmith 3201]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c05zpdq0lzgo

 

 

The teenager accused of murdering three young girls in Southport has been charged with producing the poison ricin and possessing a military study of an al-Qaeda training manual.

Axel Rudakubana, 18, has been charged with production of a biological toxin contrary to Section 1 of the Biological Weapons Act 1974.

He has also been charged with possessing a PDF document of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing to or preparing an act of terrorism, contrary to Section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000.

[Christmas Tree 4669]

Busy morning at CT towers making mugs. Work hard, play hard playing in the background and me standing at my bench slapping labels on boxes in my Jim jams thinking I’m David Guetta  

[Alex 34717]

Even at your worst you’ve never been anywhere near as much of a cunt as David Guetta. 

[RobinRobin 11073]

2 hours ago, Alex said:

Even at your worst you’ve never been anywhere near as much of a cunt as David Guetta. 

Is this when CT finally.... 

Nah

[wykikitoon 19801]

Bin dipper was saying he can't understand why he's got a headache as he hasn't had that much to drink last night.  Turns out he had two bottles of wine and a G&T  Yet he doesn't think that's much.  Oh and that's by himself!

[Monkeys Fist 41888]

I thought he’d been peddled? 
 

Or is that some other freak at your gaff? 
 

[wykikitoon 19801]

14 minutes ago, Monkeys Fist said:

I thought he’d been peddled? 
 

Or is that some other freak at your gaff? 
 

Some other lad.

Dipper was about to hand his notice in a few weeks back but changed his mind last minute.  Then refused to answer calls from the agent or person who interviewed him  

[Alex 34717]

If I’d had two bottles of red I’d expect to wake up feeling like at least one of them had been stotted off my head 

[Renton 21032]

Feckin Halloween and trick or treaters. Doing some work but have to get up every 5 minutes to give some snotty nosed kids some sweets, earned and paid for by my hard work. Ahem.

 

Anyway, successfully made a little girl cry by leaping out of the door howling.

Fecking parents should teach their brats to be more brave, no? Very trmpted to go to the pub tbh. 

 

[Gemmill 44090]

Did you get that for when you dropped your stool sample in the street? 

 

I've just hoyed a load of small bags of Haribo in a bowl and left it outside. The little cunts must have been grabbing handfuls cos I bought 100 minibags, 1.6kg, and they've nearly all gone in an hour. 

[Gemmill 44090]

That's them all gone. The bowl is back inside. I'm gonna change the sign to "None left. Take if up with your greedy cunt mates" and put it back out there empty. 

[Renton 21032]

I've got a box of 50 haribo and probably another 50 assorted sweets. Nice kids around here and only one piss taker took more than one bag. 

 

"Hoy, cuntface, I'd put that back if I were you you little piece of shit or I'll give you rabies you doss cunt". 

[Christmas Tree 4669]

At the pub