Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

mystic_trev

PasturesNew wrote: »

And they even managed to c0ck that up, with the first 2-4 words being unintelligible as the mic level wasn't right.

I missed the whole thing as I went and watched this at the Proms instead.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/whats-on/2014/july-23/14936

Far more interesting.

Generali

I was sleeping. They were going on here about how great the ceremony was. They like an opening ceremony in Aus.

PasturesNew

Generali wrote: »

They were going on here about how great the ceremony was. They like an opening ceremony in Aus.

They must have been sleeping too then .... nobody saw it, but they don't want to admit that that; they want to appear cosmopolitan, interesting, up to date, switched on, happening people .... but, secretly, you now know they can't have seen it

tomterm8

Washing machine isn't permanently broken, but will need to be fixed by someone who knows what they're doing.

PasturesNew wrote: »

Don't you hate it when you "invent" a nifty gadget that could sell based purely on price/convenience/ease .... yet you won't as you can't protect it/afford to patent it in the vague hope that, in time, it would provide an income?

License the idea to someone else?

michaels

PasturesNew wrote: »

They must have been sleeping too then .... nobody saw it, but they don't want to admit that that; they want to appear cosmopolitan, interesting, up to date, switched on, happening people .... but, secretly, you now know they can't have seen it

I think it was a nationalist trap, deliberately do an amateur clich!d ceremony and then when the press criticise use that as an example of the patronising English yoke that independence will end...resulting in a bizarre emporers new clothes situation where all sides are competing to heap praise on the excrement (disclaimer I didn't watch any of it)

Today started well with 45 minutes on a broken down train that was half way I to the destination station but they were not allowed to let us off. Luckily it is getting 'better', I am at my desk and trying to log in but the PC is throwing up all sorts of error messages about broken profiles etc.

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

Today started well with 45 minutes on a broken down train that was half way I to the destination station but they were not allowed to let us off. Luckily it is getting 'better', I am at my desk and trying to log in but the PC is throwing up all sorts of error messages about broken profiles etc.

Don't you get disciplined/sacked for being late? In my experience you can't be late ... once, in exceptional circumstances, if you explain it, is OK.... but people being late to work as a matter of random routine wouldn't be tolerated in most workplaces.

If you made a post on these boards saying "Sacked for being late...." they'd lay into you and tell you you need to leave the house at 3am and walk to work to ensure you get there on time, no excuses....

Generali

PasturesNew wrote: »

Don't you get disciplined/sacked for being late? In my experience you can't be late ... once, in exceptional circumstances, if you explain it, is OK.... but people being late to work as a matter of random routine wouldn't be tolerated in most workplaces.

If you made a post on these boards saying "Sacked for being late...." they'd lay into you and tell you you need to leave the house at 3am and walk to work to ensure you get there on time, no excuses....

It's different in London. The rush hour trains are so unreliable that you simply couldn't sack people for being late.

I once got a call from a colleague at 2pm as his train had finally gotten out of the tunnel it had been in since 10:30am. From 7:30-10:30 he'd been on the platform.

In a large office you can tell who is lying about the trains because there are only so many routes in. Why is X late when Y gets the same train?

Grads and newbies on the other hand need to be in on time regardless, even if that means leaving at 3am etc. You need to build a reputation of being on time at all costs before you can be late.

tomterm8

Hm... it does depend on the workplace.

I basically think that being late ought to be a hung, drawn and quartering offence myself, but that might be too lenient for some people.

Can you tell I'm installing software at the moment and bored? Funny how all these years later it still sounds like a plane is taking off when you install software...

EDIT: can't you just take the wheel off? Rather than take the entire bike.

FURTHER EDIT: Got to restart the OS. ***"&!! windows software installation.

neverdespairgirl

Generali wrote: »

In a large office you can tell who is lying about the trains because there are only so many routes in. Why is X late when Y gets the same train?

Being in court's like that.

At, say, the Immigration tribunal in Feltham, there are 30-odd courtrooms. So if one of the trains that arrive in proper time from Waterloo gets stuck, half the courts will be minus a lawyer. So you have an alibi.

Being late without a VERY good reason is practically a hanging offence, though. Judges get quite cross.

In my 3 month trial last year, the Defendants (travelling together) were 20 minutes late one morning, after having arrived half an hour before court started at the latest every day up to then. It had been snowing hard.


The judge told the Defendants if they were late again, for any reason, he'd remand them all in custody for the rest of the trial.

michaels

Finally logged in but lost all settings so each time I start an office app it runs loads of setup stuff. There also seems to be a new AV icon in the task bar, on a PC with only 512k of ram that has got to be bad news. Only in the govt sector would they waste 100ks or low productivity to save a few hundred on decent PCs.....