Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

chewmylegoff

Anyway, Bruges was ok, I enjoyed my trip but don't think I would go back there. Did a WW1 battlefield tour which was pretty good, although no need to use Bruges as a base for that I think. Found WW1 cemetaries really interesting, used the phone to google a few of the names on the tombstones was pretty interesting to read about some of them - interactive experience! Bruges itself was a bit of a tourist trap, very pretty buildings but not much substance to it, and nothing to make you want to return. It was also very difficult to find anywhere decent to have dinner, although the hotel did book us somewhere good on the second night, they failed to make a booking on the third night and we ended up having a really disappointing meal. Did remind me that I do actually quite like London, and the grass isn't always greener! Also, for all the moaning about our trains, the Belgian ones were a good deal worse and Brussels train station is a right dump! Also Belgians are worse at queueing than Germans, I don't understand how someone can not understand what a queue is.

My favourite experience was the archaeology museum. Perhaps the most pathetic attempt at a museum I have ever seen, was hilarious (although wouldn't have been so funny if it had cost any more than the €2 that it did!

lostinrates

misskool wrote: »

I don't know how people work in an office by themselves. I'd get bored

DH is being a fool. He's not going to have share where he is now. I haven't been to this office, but at the last one I told him he belonged on a show about nutty lawyers...he had enough stuff to live there, food, cereal etc, a first aid kit, changes of clothes for all conceivable possibilities...and he likes not to have to debate things like temperature/window opening.

He won't have to share because of things like conference calls etc:

Other deciding factor in office choice was being further away from nearest work chums....they talk more than he does, but then he gets easily distracted and so wanted to be out of the ''just dropping in'' route. That way they can arange to go for a coffee/lunch if they have the time, but they don't get too used to mid day chats.



Enjoy your book

edit: I can go monday morning to friday evening not seeing a soul sometimes.

chewmylegoff

lostinrates wrote: »

do they keep moving you because you keep getting promoted?

DH chose a tiny office when he got to choose his own...on the basis that the more junior you are the more likely it is you'd have to share if they get too big. He got moved into a larger office not too long after on the basis that he isn't going to have to share and they wanted to use the office he'd chosen to store stuff in. Other than that all he cared about was it faced the right way to put seedlings on his windowsill.

no, they just love to move us around. in the past 3 years our whole division has moved floors twice, and then they restructured and moved my team to a different part of the same floor. the next move isn't really a promotion, but i am changing jobs to do something a bit different with a bit more prestige (internally at least).

no offices at mine, everything is open plan. i don't think that the CEO has his own office, none of the other directors do.

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

pffft the tube often takes more than 16 minutes on its own. it normally takes about 25 minutes to actually get from my desk to the seat in the front carriage of the train.

i reckon i will be awarded some kind of medal.

PN - can you create an app whereby highly skilled commuters like me can compare their record times for travelling across london. i reckon it will really catch you, you'll sell 1, maybe 2 copies of that app, at 59p a pop you're on to a winner!

I think I'll stick with my original app.... it's probably got a UK userbase potential of about 5,000,000 people ... 1% of that at 59p is £29,500... and it's an app that could be used across the world in big cities.

It's genius... but it won't get written

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

no, they just love to move us around. in the past 3 years our whole division has moved floors twice, and then they restructured and moved my team to a different part of the same floor. the next move isn't really a promotion, but i am changing jobs to do something a bit different with a bit more prestige (internally at least).

no offices at mine, everything is open plan. i don't think that the CEO has his own office, none of the other directors do.

My mum always said "if they move you to be near the door, you're next out".

chewmylegoff

PasturesNew wrote: »

I think I'll stick with my original app.... it's probably got a UK userbase potential of about 5,000,000 people ... 1% of that at 59p is £29,500... and it's an app that could be used across the world in big cities.

It's genius... but it won't get written

what does it do? will it allow me to remotely shut down other people's phones when they use them to play music that annoys me? i'd pay for that, especially if it made a rude alert pop up on their screen, and then reformatted the memory of their phone, deleting everything including the music. i might even pay 60p for that one.

misskool

lostinrates wrote: »

DH is being a fool. He's not going to have share where he is now. I haven't been to this office, but at the last one I told him he belonged on a show about nutty lawyers...he had enough stuff to live there, food, cereal etc, a first aid kit, changes of clothes for all conceivable possibilities...and he likes not to have to debate things like temperature/window opening.

edit: I can go monday morning to friday evening not seeing a soul sometimes.

The not seeing anyone would drive me nuts. It really would. I didn't start my job for 3 months and moved somewhere without friends. I went out to the shops everyday to have a chat with a human person.

And we have everything in our office too. I always have spare clothes and spare shoes in case someone forgets to brief me a VIP is arriving and I need to not be in a T-shirt and linen trousers. Food, tea, kettle, microwave, shower room, we just need an office with a bed and we're good.

michaels

I wonder if the anti-noise headphone magic could be used with a phone speaker or alternatively whether typical speakers support 'mosquito' ultrasonic (to anyone over 20) output?

I used to be able to get home from South Quay in 16 minutes but only when I was slumming it at GFs in New Cross. For my proper house I could be on my train in less than 15 at London Bridge but that is the far away train station taking 40 minutes - normally it was quicker if you could face it to do DLR, and a couple of tubes to Farringdon (after they closed Moorgate). Even thinking of those journeys reminds me how much I hated them.

LydiaJ

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Kids playing music from any device in an enclosed space such as on public transport are just anti social oiks. In the same way as having a loud telephone conversation for ages on a train is rude, so is playing music on a phone. It's not like they can fail to understand their music will annoy others. There's nothing deeper to it than them being selfish and not caring about other people.

Plenty of kids manage to use public transport in a reasonable manner. If you want to listen to music, get earphones and keep the volume reasonable. It's not difficult to have a modicum of respect for other people.

I was taking it as read that they shouldn't do it on public transport or anywhere else where it causes an annoyance to other people. I was just disagreeing with the article's conclusions as to why they do it in the first place.

My builder has texted to say he wants to come on Thursday instead of tomorrow. This would be fine except that we have to leave for school earlier on Thursdays and I want to talk to him before he starts. Will have to call him tomorrow and see if he can start with the stuff that doesn't need any discussing.

chewmylegoff

michaels wrote: »

I wonder if the anti-noise headphone magic could be used with a phone speaker or alternatively whether typical speakers support 'mosquito' ultrasonic (to anyone over 20) output?

I used to be able to get home from South Quay in 16 minutes but only when I was slumming it at GFs in New Cross. For my proper house I could be on my train in less than 15 at London Bridge but that is the far away train station taking 40 minutes - normally it was quicker if you could face it to do DLR, and a couple of tubes to Farringdon (after they closed Moorgate). Even thinking of those journeys reminds me how much I hated them.

i hate the DLR, but i did enjoy it once, and once only, when a smart looking chap in a suit just lost it completely, after tolerating about 40 minutes sat on a DLR lurching towards bank about 5 metres at a time before packing up again. he just started shouting "f%^&ing toy trains" and kicking one of the doors repeatedly. cheered me right up.