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The least your children could do is spread the drama over a few days.
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Why Are You Pissed Off Today?
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One of my vendors just came to me saying we're renewing the contract with head office in Europe but locally we need someone to review some legal document. I find the person on the document and she's a no show on Friday. Then she shows up on Monday and tells me she's leaving tomorrow so go find someone else in legal.
I went from a 40,000 person firm to a 140,000 person firm so I would say it's higher. However, the subsidiary I work in was the result of two smaller Canadian companies merging and then being bought out by the German firm. They have issues coping with the whole global structure and chafe at not having autonomy so I have a local culture to deal with and of course the overall culture. My line of business in the broader organization is also more immature and a bit of the cowboy setup. It's like my former company a year or two before I showed up. There is no co-operation between the executives in other countries, no synergies, no talk of shared resources or initiatives.
I work 11-12 hours a day Mon-Thu. I've been managing to get out of here at 1445 on Fridays for the past two weeks. Most times I get home by 1700. If I leave Kitchener at 1630 I'm looking at 1930 to go home due to the traffic. Sometimes I forego that and take the 2140 train and spend an evening with my one and only mate in Waterloo for dinner. It was annoying the first two weeks because I wasn't in my travel rhythm (a la George Clooney in Up in the Air) but now I'm getting better at it. Every other weekend there's an issue or my boss asks me to do something. He rings my work mobile whenever and expects a response. I have mine on silent so I periodically check and ring him back.
The city is boring. I'm actually on the outskirts. There are plenty of massage parlours. At least I'm able to spot them from a block away. I have a home bar where everyone knows me but all the women got knocked up pretty young. I signed up to Meetup and barely anyone goes out during the week except for hikes. I only have suits and I don't fancy walking to nowhere. Most events are on Fridays or the weekend. The local symphony orchestra is a joke. I thought Toronto was bad.
I work 11-12 hours a day Mon-Thu. I've been managing to get out of here at 1445 on Fridays for the past two weeks. Most times I get home by 1700. If I leave Kitchener at 1630 I'm looking at 1930 to go home due to the traffic. Sometimes I forego that and take the 2140 train and spend an evening with my one and only mate in Waterloo for dinner. It was annoying the first two weeks because I wasn't in my travel rhythm (a la George Clooney in Up in the Air) but now I'm getting better at it. Every other weekend there's an issue or my boss asks me to do something. He rings my work mobile whenever and expects a response. I have mine on silent so I periodically check and ring him back.
The city is boring. I'm actually on the outskirts. There are plenty of massage parlours. At least I'm able to spot them from a block away. I have a home bar where everyone knows me but all the women got knocked up pretty young. I signed up to Meetup and barely anyone goes out during the week except for hikes. I only have suits and I don't fancy walking to nowhere. Most events are on Fridays or the weekend. The local symphony orchestra is a joke. I thought Toronto was bad.
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Better than getting knocked up later, at least they've a chance to get their figure back, unlike Kate Bush. But you don't want to get involved in raising other people's kids. Later, okay.
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So a slow witted colleague turned up to a meeting today with her lunch because 'I've locked in back to backs today, hope you don't mind'.
Had to endure her sitting next to me chomping on a rancid salad.
Thankfully it was an excellent meeting that finished 10 minutes early because nobody was talking for the sake of it.
Had to endure her sitting next to me chomping on a rancid salad.
Thankfully it was an excellent meeting that finished 10 minutes early because nobody was talking for the sake of it.
I once had a (high profile) boss who'd walk quietly up behind you and read your screen over your shoulder - then frighten the hell out of you when he spoke. I had been warned and after the first 2 times I turned the desk around. He'd also sit next to your desk and absent-mindedly pick at your salad!
What's this thing about having to have a water bottle in your hand all the time - even at interviews. Lost German tourists in shorts and Birkenstocks can survive a few days in the desert near Tennant Creek in summer without water why can't people in offices go 10 minutes?
What's this thing about having to have a water bottle in your hand all the time - even at interviews. Lost German tourists in shorts and Birkenstocks can survive a few days in the desert near Tennant Creek in summer without water why can't people in offices go 10 minutes?
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Your former (high profile) boss sounds like a creep of Geoffrey Rush proportions.
Got to be get that hydration.
I chug a gallon of water daily. No ifs/ buts. Just because one might survive some degree of dehydration doesn't mean one should.
The water bottle thing (particularly plastic disposable one) is an irritation though.
I chug a gallon of water daily. No ifs/ buts. Just because one might survive some degree of dehydration doesn't mean one should.
The water bottle thing (particularly plastic disposable one) is an irritation though.
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People who seek out leftovers from office buffets.
People who offer leftovers from office buffets to those outside the meeting.
People - usually Brits - who obsess about the biscuits at meetings.
Tea and coffee provided at meetings. You will always get better elsewhere. Why bother? Stick to water.
People who offer leftovers from office buffets to those outside the meeting.
People - usually Brits - who obsess about the biscuits at meetings.
Tea and coffee provided at meetings. You will always get better elsewhere. Why bother? Stick to water.
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Dear God. The range of horrors.
Rambo
doghouse
of course, not only likely, her family realized almost everything from tackynacci(rubinacci), hermes wallet(s), obscure interior design and a porsche with ppc features, which cost a premium e.g. 1.7k for changing the colour of the strip on the steering wheel from red to yellow. o-tone foo: red strip in a monza blue gt 3 is tragic, fwiw, car belongs to a member of the POC Dubai, go figure.
this is the current status ...,
... but I've been talking about 10 or 15 years when foo appeared on the scene of i-gent foras.
the time, when he was meandering between heavily brown nosing bantoni(manton) and pretending to be the smart guy from a middle-class background, who discovers the finer things in life.
... and then this happened on AAAC and not styfo, though.
a guy said. I have a budget of 1 k for my wedding incl. everything from clothes to ceremony, wedding bands and party. foo replied enthusiastically: oh, I know exactly, what you're talking about. I'm in the same boat selling my first real watch ..., the rest is history
ich habe fertig, statement by Giovanni Trappatoni
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Elaborate please
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What more can I say?
UK meetings often have tea coffee and biscuits provided. I don’t understand the interest in biscuits. It may be an indication of a particularly pointless meeting, a particularly useless individual or maybe it is a British thing. Bill Bryson goes on about biscuits:-
“And the British are so easy to please. They actually like their pleasures small. That is why, I suppose, so many of their treats — teacakes, scones, crumpets, rock cakes, rich tea biscuits, fruit Shrewsburys — are so cautiously flavourful.
They are the only people in the world who think of jam and currants as thrilling constituents of a pudding or cake. ”
The leftover crowd may just be tight fisted or not overly concerned about food hygiene.
UK meetings often have tea coffee and biscuits provided. I don’t understand the interest in biscuits. It may be an indication of a particularly pointless meeting, a particularly useless individual or maybe it is a British thing. Bill Bryson goes on about biscuits:-
“And the British are so easy to please. They actually like their pleasures small. That is why, I suppose, so many of their treats — teacakes, scones, crumpets, rock cakes, rich tea biscuits, fruit Shrewsburys — are so cautiously flavourful.
They are the only people in the world who think of jam and currants as thrilling constituents of a pudding or cake. ”
The leftover crowd may just be tight fisted or not overly concerned about food hygiene.
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Flavourful?
To me, all British biscuits taste like shortbread, best to be enjoyed with a hot drink. Java cakes....different story, same goes for the half-covered Chocolate digestives.
To me, all British biscuits taste like shortbread, best to be enjoyed with a hot drink. Java cakes....different story, same goes for the half-covered Chocolate digestives.
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English high tea is something that foreigners quite like. There's several places here that advertise English High Tea's. It has to be said that a lot of these cakes and biscuits taste great with tea. So too smoked kippers.
I often forget when I am in the UK that in many offices coffee means some dreadful powdered Nescafé.
I often forget when I am in the UK that in many offices coffee means some dreadful powdered Nescafé.
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Foreigners may like the idea of a fancy setting with best China and crusts cut off the cucumber sandwiches. That is very different to tea in meetings. Hotels love high tea because it is probably a high mark up.
Biscuits at meetings are dispensed with from time to time in budget cut backs but usually return for some reason.
Biscuits at meetings are dispensed with from time to time in budget cut backs but usually return for some reason.
Apparently I'm ESFJ in Myers-Briggs.
https://www.16personalities.com/esfj-personality
"Unfortunately, less mature ESFJs may lack the inner strength and wisdom to attract this in healthy ways. They can be very needy, compromising their own principles and values in exchange for their partners’ approval. This is a terrible trap – not only is it unattractive, it can too easily lead to emotionally abusive relationships, which reduce ESFJs’ self-esteem further. Another snare is their fixation on social status and approval – it’s not uncommon for ESFJs’ social circles and relatives to play a bigger part in their choice of dating partners than even their own values."
https://www.16personalities.com/esfj-personality
"Unfortunately, less mature ESFJs may lack the inner strength and wisdom to attract this in healthy ways. They can be very needy, compromising their own principles and values in exchange for their partners’ approval. This is a terrible trap – not only is it unattractive, it can too easily lead to emotionally abusive relationships, which reduce ESFJs’ self-esteem further. Another snare is their fixation on social status and approval – it’s not uncommon for ESFJs’ social circles and relatives to play a bigger part in their choice of dating partners than even their own values."