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Post by coffers on May 16, 2012 12:17:21 GMT
Don't you just love days like that?
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on May 16, 2012 12:27:17 GMT
Because of an event I'm doing at the moment I had about 25 $5 Dunkin Donut gift cards in my car and I'm wondering, if I give a donut card to a cop as a thank you for the restart, is he going to think I'm taking the piss?
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Post by floplexter on May 16, 2012 12:27:45 GMT
Could have been worse- you could have been wearing a dress and calling yourself Maybeline.
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Post by floplexter on May 16, 2012 12:28:38 GMT
Because of an event I'm doing at the moment I had about 25 $5 Dunkin Donut gift cards in my car and I'm wondering, if I give a donut card to a cop as a thank you for the restart, is he going to think I'm taking the piss? He probably would have popped a cap in your bulbous ass.
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Post by Moo on May 16, 2012 12:44:50 GMT
Tru dat.
Also...lucky Yachtsmith...
I giggled a little.
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Post by floplexter on May 16, 2012 12:57:17 GMT
There's always one, moo. And it's always you.
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Post by Moo on May 16, 2012 14:09:35 GMT
I should have been an actor in Carry On films, Pops. My character in Carry On Nurse would have been Dr Seymour Clacker.
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Post by floplexter on May 16, 2012 14:19:46 GMT
Professor Hugh Janus would be better.
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Post by DC on May 16, 2012 14:38:24 GMT
I'd be Dr Caeser Labeya, gynecologist.
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Post by floplexter on May 16, 2012 15:14:18 GMT
Specialist in episiotomies.
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Post by Moo on May 18, 2012 12:51:54 GMT
Speaking of special names, if anyone wants their custom status changed give me a shout.
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on May 18, 2012 12:54:27 GMT
Did 800 finally make you an admin?
Lzy fook.
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Post by Moo on May 18, 2012 12:56:47 GMT
I sent him a message on Facebook asking if he was going to come back and shoot the breeze with us again. He decided to make someone else an admin. I'm sure those two things aren't connected.
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Post by coffers on May 29, 2012 16:29:47 GMT
Someone at work has nominated me for a large award, which is nice. Unfortunately he's nominated a large number of people for awards and has been flagged as too open handed. Apparently the one he nominated me for is so big it requires 7 managers to approve it. I'm not holding my breath.
If it doesn't get approved all the way up, I think he gets the chance to negotiate downward sor something.
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Post by DC on May 29, 2012 17:10:53 GMT
Nice one Coffs.
My mate works for the DWP. They have an unofficial policy in place at the moment that nobody gets any bonuses or award commendations etc regardless of if they deserve or warrant them. Unless you are a manager.
So my mate, who has exceeded all his goals and is now effectively the leader in his field (on the bottom rung however) cannot get a sausage. This also means any positions he applies for he'll never get more than an 'average' report.
It's a silly situation where he's better quitting then applying as an external applicant.
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Post by coffers on May 30, 2012 8:21:26 GMT
The guy that put me forward for the award is on the lowest grade in the company. Well I can't have a pay rise even though there is buget for one and I got an "exceeds expectations" rating. The reason? We were taken over by another company and the grade I've been classified at has a top of range pay level below what I'm on. It's like being back in the civil service. So my manager is looking for ways to get me promoted so I can get pay rises. mental. Seems that people on top of band or over top of band cannot have pay rises even though the buet has to be spent, so the 3 people who are below the top of band copped for the full pay rise budget with rises of between 10% and 35%. Even though two of those only met the normal expectations of the job. Don't you just love the big corporates with rigid structures who can't see beyond the ends of their noses. Farking Dilberts.........
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Post by DC on May 30, 2012 16:25:28 GMT
More common than you'd think. I've quit two jobs for their shennanigans. Both rather large corporations that became bizarrely inflexible when taken over.
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Post by coffers on May 30, 2012 22:10:54 GMT
The worse thing of all is going to be the removal of company mobiles, we are expected to povide our own for on call support porposes and claim back anything it costs us. How does that work on the contact plans you get these days.For fook's sake I pay for teh plan and they get the free fooking calls?
Bollox to that. I didn't have/need a mobile befor ethe company provided one, if they take it off me they will have to reach me by telepathy, after all thta's how management operates isn't it?.
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Post by floplexter on May 30, 2012 23:47:15 GMT
I love support porposes. They're not as judgemental as those snooty support dolphins.
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Post by DC on May 31, 2012 7:31:01 GMT
Probably the best way to work it Coffs. I've never heard of an organisation not subbing mobile plans. They usually get the best offers. We could do them a corporate at cost deal for starters.
Otherwise get a pay as you go with no inclusive minutes or data and tell them you're not putting any funds onto it unless they're paying you out of petty cash. I did that in my first job as managers of stores were not seen to need one (even if they were required to be contactable 24/7).
Pay as you go meant they could call me, but I couldn't call out. They soon sorted that out.
At the time I was working for the 2nd biggest mobile firm in Europe.
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Post by coffers on May 31, 2012 8:15:20 GMT
Company plan is what we had, the new lot are scrapping it saying they do not provide mobiles. Well fook them Nor do I. Trouble is petty cash isn't an option. I'm oop north on my own, they are down south a long way away.
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Post by DC on May 31, 2012 16:45:30 GMT
I can almost understand the logic, corporations waste millions of texts and minutes each year with duplicate coverage. But that doesn't change that they are expecting you to incur a cost against which you will be taxed as income when reimbursed and they will claim relief.
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Post by elth on Jun 1, 2012 5:56:36 GMT
*shakes head sadly*
This economy, man. This economy.
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Post by coffers on Jun 1, 2012 8:12:45 GMT
DC, I think you may misunderstand what I'm saying, I'll be paying the bill, but will only be able to claim for business calls made on the mobile. However as most mobiles come as a package, some of teh business calls will obviously fall into teh free minutes part, I won't be able to claim for the free call that I'm paying for. That said, they haven't told us yet what we can actually claim for, so may have got hold of the wrong end of the stick. Also as I'm the guy out on a limb, I tend to get forgotten about and get the news from every source but the official one. It's a crazy situation, we have offices in the UK, I'm classed as UK staff, but I don't deal with anyone in the UK, my manager is in Belgium, so though I'm upto date from a Belgium point of view I'm not from a UK viewpoint. I think I'm an honarary imaginary person.
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Post by DC on Jun 1, 2012 14:16:57 GMT
No I get it Coffs. What I'm saying is that they get the best of both worlds. They neither comitt to call spend or packages as they utilise you capacity, and only refund your costs when it applies to them. At which point they will offset that as a loss on the balance sheet and likely credit you back on your pay cheque as another write off
meanwhile you'll pay VAT on your business calls, then likely be taxed on any reimbursement too.
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