Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

chewmylegoff

lemonjelly wrote: »

656th most common surname in the world.
10th most common name in the uk.

740th and 38th. You are still winning!

Tbh I am surprised mine didn't rank more highly in the UK.

chewmylegoff

lostinrates wrote: »

Fir had to go in yesterday for um...forgotten the word......dammit. When you get shown around and shown the ropes. not acclimatisation. Dammit.....

Anyway, had to do that yesterday, not a contracted day. His dept are furious that HR did that because they are all very protective of their work hours and schedules. He only did a half day yesterday, but when he got in this morning they said he would be having a half day in lieu when he wanted it to make up for it. He almost started to laugh.

There is a problem though. There is no laptop with the job and he is expected to work from home occasionally ( totally fair enough). Previously employer has provided laptop. When he asked how this would work they said they just patch him in on his laptop.


Well, that's really not feasible. His music laptop is not really that functional ( not needed his own for other stuff for years and years) and not convinced its perfectly clean ( it took three hours to upload a cd on Sunday) so not suitable for working at home.

I find it shocking a big company with important data would let people log on on own machines and risk corruption problems? Is that because I am such a Luddite?

That is very surprising - I think if they expect someone to work remotely as opposed to allowing it as a sort of perk, they should really provide all the kit (including an appropriate Internet connection).

It is not that surprising that they have an online platform which can be logged into from personal machines though - that is fairly common and you can set them up so that data cannot be moved out of the "bubble" onto the local hard drive etc. OH has something like that and occasionally uses our laptop to work from home.

GDB2222

lemonjelly wrote: »

656th most common surname in the world.
10th most common name in the uk.

It's easy enough to work out what your surname is. Mr E.... The question is whether that is a problem at all?

Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

When you get shown around and shown the ropes. not acclimatisation. Dammit.....
I find it shocking a big company with important data would let people log on on own machines and risk corruption problems? Is that because I am such a Luddite?

Induction?


There is a bit of a trend towards 'bring your own' technology, but usually I think this is more phones (e.g. so can check emails on the move). You'd think they could get hold of a laptop...!

lostinrates

Nikkster wrote: »

Induction?


There is a bit of a trend towards 'bring your own' technology, but usually I think this is more phones (e.g. so can check emails on the move). You'd think they could get hold of a laptop...!

INDUCTION. :j:j:j. They are giving a smartphone because has to be contactable like before, ( but feels like it will be a lot less) but no point being contactable if he cannot realistically read or action much.

GDB2222

chewmylegoff wrote: »

740th and 38th. You are still winning!

Tbh I am surprised mine didn't rank more highly in the UK.

And yours, Mr B....

GDB2222

Nikkster wrote: »

Induction?

Onboarding seems to be the latest buzzword.

GDB2222

lostinrates wrote: »

INDUCTION. :j:j:j. They are giving a smartphone because has to be contactable like before, ( but feels like it will be a lot less) but no point being contactable if he cannot realistically read or action much.

FIR can get a laptop that will do the biz for under £200. Is it worth making waves?

chewmylegoff

GDB2222 wrote: »

And yours, Mr B....

There are 700,000 of us in the world, I feel safe in the crowd.

silvercar

nearly nine thousandth most commonest surname in the world, over 600 of us in the UK- over 60k in the world.

Maiden name: over a hundred thousandth most common surname in the world, but still about 600 of us in the UK - only 3.5k in the world.