Nice people thread part 7 - a thread in its prime

Generali

fc123 wrote: »

Bear with it....it will get better. I will bet you a bag of chips that it will.

Just don't lose confidence plus ask the person who took you on if you are unsure of anything. As an employer (albeit a small one) I would always expect lots of questions on someones 1st few days and would never think that they 'should' know something.

I agree with this. When I have someone new in it worries me if they're not asking questions as it usually means delusions of competency. With a technical job it's even more important: if they're replacing a non-techie with a techie them perhaps they want the job doing 'properly'.

fc123

PN I just thought if you have been taken on to replace person who hasn't left yet......just a matter of time before you can take charge of the role and do it as it should be done.

chewmylegoff

michaels wrote: »

Infamy, infamy...they've all got it in for me.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19957138

Check out the lowest rated 'have your say' comment

stop trolling on the bbc!

i do think it was a strange decision though, why can't the court decide whether or not someone is well enough to be extradited or not? why is the home secretary's intervention needed?

i am always very suspicious of any claim that a person shouldn't be tried because they are too ill to stand trial. this is because that in almost every investigation that i have been involved in, the target has put far more effort into proving that they are too ill to be held to account than in proving that they are innocent. (to be fair in this case he is not really denying he did what he did, only that he shouldn't be extradited, which is a bit different i suppose).

either innocent people who are ill are unusually susceptible to being investigated for committing misconduct, or people who commit misconduct are unusually susceptible to lying about their health to try to escape sanction.

i wonder which it is...

also, most mitigation pleas from men with a wife between 20 and 40 seem to contain "my wife had just had a miscarriage, it was a terrible time for us". again, either people whose wife has had a miscarriage are more likely to commit brazen misconduct, or people who have committed brazen misconduct are more likely to claim their wife had a miscarriage because they think it might get them off the hook.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

If any one can make processes comprehensible and logical I would have thought it was pn.

Yeah, first task I've given myself is writing full Procedures Manuals. Already started with what I've got, but they need reworking/tidying once I've not got the outgoing person at my elbow. For now they're just outline with screenies.

PasturesNew

Yeah, "properly" is something that's rearing its head ... but too long/dull to discuss here. But, the message is coming over strong that I'm to do it properly .... at last.

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

Yeah, "properly" is something that's rearing its head ... but too long/dull to discuss here. But, the message is coming over strong that I'm to do it properly .... at last.

Well done with the job there PN:beer:

As regards Gary McKinnon, as a dad of a young man with Aspergers I've joined several campaigns (and posted my opinion on older threads ) to get the vulnerable guy to stay out of the clutches of a country with such a dodgy take on justice.

I'm in the awkward situation of having seen a politician making a competent decision for a change. That worries me a bit. What if there's other competent ones out there. Stuff might get done!:eek:

lostinrates

On aspergers...
I have heard today it being pronounced like...donkey burger, whereas I had assumed it was pronounced like Donkey thene English pronouncing French sheperdess iyswim.

Which is correct, soft or hard 'g'?

zagubov

lostinrates wrote: »

On aspergers...
I have heard today it being pronounced like...donkey burger, whereas I had assumed it was pronounced like Donkey thene English pronouncing French sheperdess iyswim.

Which is correct, soft or hard 'g'?

Soft 'g' I'd believed.

Mind you I've got a biology degree and don't know if fungi is pronounced fungeye or fungee or funjeye or funjee. Well I think it's the last but I'll bet I'm wrong.:D

chewmylegoff

zagubov wrote: »

Soft 'g' I'd believed.

Mind you I've got a biology degree and don't know if fungi is pronounced fungeye or fungee or funjeye or funjee. Well I think it's the last but I'll bet I'm wrong.:D

It's pronounced "mushrooms" or "yum yum".

vivatifosi

Doozergirl wrote: »

That is an achievement!

It's purely because I don't have any kids. If I had to juggle those, rather than accepting and very fair husband, it would be much harder.

chewmylegoff wrote: »

It's pronounced "mushrooms" or "yum yum".

There appears to be a typo there chewy, I think you mean yuk yuk.