Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

chewmylegoff

Generali wrote: »

Our help desk is fine. Not good, not bad, just fine.

It's when we need to make strategic decisions that they become active blockers of our ability to run a business properly. It's not that they make mistakes, they genuinely prevent us from doing things better, often just because they can.

Our IT is outsourced. They charge us by the hour.

This means that it takes ages for anything to get done. Having your password reset if you forget it can take half a day and require 3 different "engineers" to assist you.

It often takes a month or so for new joiners to get access to all the systems they need due to the ludicrously convoluted processes the IT dept have put in place.

Last year it took me 6 months to get a new codec for windows media players installed so I could listed to one recorded telephone call. IT spent a month testing it to make sure it wouldn't destroy windows... We got a five figure bill for that when all they really needed to do was spend about thirty seconds updating my machine.

It is an utter scandal but our senior management are either incompetent or taking a back hander because despite pretty much every employee formally complaining about it to management it just gets worse not better. I suspect the director in charge doesn't want to change it because their budget will be reduced if they save money and then they will appear less important...

lostinrates

Doozergirl wrote: »

The wrong colour was bright plastic baby blue. My leaat favourite colours would be baby blue and baby pink. It was not my intention. I was supposed to be more of a duck egg, but there is no green tone to it at all. I knew it wasn't the colour I wanted but I happened to be in a builder's merchant that didn't do Dulux mixing and I forgot we had a new Homebase in town. I thought it couldn't be that bad, but it really is.

It's now going to be Sea Urchin 2
https://www.dulux.co.uk/colour/sea_urchin_2

Or Inky Pool 3
https://www.dulux.co.uk/colour/inky_pool_3

The boys like Sea Urchin, I prefer Inky Pool but I have been stung by the current blueness and am not feeling that confident. Inky Pool would relate to the house a bit more.

Definitely prefer inky pool on my screen.

Sea urchin looks a bit drab not in a good way on my screen and you know how I like grubby colours. So if I see it as drab I'm concerned.


Eta, having read on and read its for block work I feel this more strongly. As you know, we've painted a fair bit of block work a grey/green/blue cusp and it works here because its merging the boundries of agricultural and domestic. The block work looks like... Fantasy or colouring book block work. ( apart from where its already going mouldy, grrrr, but in most areas I don't mind that, would have liked 'stable barn' to look clean for longer)

You need to choose the chafe to be 'clean' not drab in a modern domestic environment I think.

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

There's no fun holidaying alone, you can't point at things and say "look at that".

There ought to be an app for that.

PasturesNew

This house has some big shiny metal numbers on the gate, but not the rear/parking area gate. In time I'll get something put out back so visitors/deliveries know it's the right one. When I get bolts etc on I'll also fit a wireless doorbell front and back ... with different chimes.

Spirit_2

lemonjelly wrote: »

Some eyelet curtains - over the door. Nowhere else though.
Pole above the patio doors has, as does the living room. Not a fan of the middle bracket.
I don't like most of the curtain poles here.

We have poles in the back room that were made by a local blacksmith. They are just poles, but I liked the making/buying process..we went to a really tatty workshop/hovel and an old guy said yeah he would make some, and did we fancy buying his business as he wanted to retire. His business was his skill of which we have none.

PasturesNew

Doozergirl wrote: »

Everything I've already done looks awful. What happens when you renovate the inside of a house in a matter of weeks and in a dreadful depression. Totally uninspired.

I need plants now. Cheap ones big enough to make some kind of impact.

That's how I feel about things I do. That's why I don't try to be "creative, inspired, innovative". Like the curtains - I'd rather spend the least and be disappointed, than spend a lot for the same outcome I get pleasure from not having "wasted" the money by trying to be clever

Lidl have gardening offers on from next Thursday - not got a lot there, but they will have Pansies (10 for £1.89), cyclamen at £1.79 each and some cheery Autumn Heather at 50p each

PasturesNew

Spirit wrote: »

His business was his skill of which we have none.

No, but for the right person, with the desire, it could have been a good deal if it'd also come with a year's handover/training....tapering off.

PasturesNew

Nikkster wrote: »

When (yes, when) you visit here - I'll show you my stash. Unless I've actually used any of it by then :rotfl:

I always dreamed of a small larder.... open a door to show a shelved space, with long/continuous shelves going round - about three of them ... and floor space for sacks or trays of tins.... *dreams*. Want food? Walk in and see everything you've got ... none of this opening/closing multiple cupboards, trying to get your head round what you've got. I do despise kitchen cupboards .... somebody's "designed" all kitchens entirely wrong.

If I'd had a large utility room I'd have got a big/double, ceiling to floor, cupboard in there for it.

PasturesNew

Doozergirl wrote: »

The dulux mixing things say 'warm' 'fresh' etc on them so if you want a warm blue, then those paper strips might provide a guide for you.

I won't be painting... I'll buy a rug, or throw, or cushion

lostinrates

Btw doozer, I bet it doesn't all look awful. But if you want to chat via email about anything I'm always happy to. Stuck in my own decorating stasis, seeing someone finish is fun. .


This winter I would like to: Get a second coat on our bedroom ( started a couple of years a go, things removed from wall since then so some poly filler-ing to do too)

Get a coat of anything on new corridor. This will all need redecorating when we extend so doesn't need to be flash. Might used up some paints we have but do not want as under coats.

Get tap in and delivered.

Get down stairs loo ceiling finished. Choose downstairs loo sink hopefully.


Blinds for study are chosen ( fabric) but I have decided I don't want to make them. So I have to decide who I want to make them. I can't decide how I want them made which is real problem. I wish roller blinds didn't have cords. I love the fabric so much I don't want seams in it for Romans, but I dislike cords for rollers.