Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

SingleSue

Crikey, all bar one of my departures from companies were on good terms.....and the one that wasn't I merely offered the point of view to the under manager that moving companies to somewhere that was going to be paying me double, more holiday, a pension, healthcare and a free 3 course meal every day was of course very silly in a very sarcastic voice.

She had spoken to another member of staff in the week or so leading up to my notice period being up (the main boss had been too scared to tell her I had handed my notice in), saying that she hoped I wouldn't do anything silly in response to her cancelling my holiday with weeks to go so that she could go away instead on a special deal. My holiday had been booked since the 2nd January for a July holiday and all holidays (including for the bosses), were supposed to be on a first come, first served basis to make it fair, mine had been the first request received for holiday.

She did me a favour in a roundabout way, if she had not decided she wanted my holiday weeks, I would never have entered the corporate world and would have stayed on a tiny salary. As it was, within a few short years, I was earning almost ten times what I had been there.

michaels

PasturesNew wrote: »

I was pondering posting a suggestion for a whip round to buy me an annual subscription .....

I thought you'd appreciate me being quiet/er.

I would offer you the money but you would assume it was just offered in expectation of some sort of favour in return and turn it down....

Nikkster

Damn, should have put that on my calendar.

Happy belated birthday PN!
:j:T_party_
:bdaycake:

bugslet

Sorry to hear your sad news Yorkie. i hope things go smoothly for the funeral.

vivatifosi wrote: »

When someone with a grudge left a company I worked for in the early eighties, they stapled the floppy disks together corner to corner and made a daisy chain across the ceiling.

That just made me literally LOL.

kabayiri wrote: »

My leaving do was also the Xmas works party on one occasion.

I sat at the opposite end of a long table to the boss who I didn't particularly care for.

Luckily, I had a motorised water pistol under the table. It was remarkably accurate at firing water jets into his crotch.

He was too drunk to work out where this moisture was coming from. :rotfl:

Youtube link please:p

I got fired once from a job - so did everyone - other than that, I've always left with the door open so to speak.

Floor is going down in my kitchen tomorrow - I feel as if there is light at the end of the tunnel. M&S ready meals are all very well, but since I don't eat meat if I can avoid it, there is a limited choice.

michaels

vivatifosi wrote: »

When someone with a grudge left a company I worked for in the early eighties, they stapled the floppy disks together corner to corner and made a daisy chain across the ceiling.

So I'm thinking you probably couldn't staple two 2.5 inch floppies together so these must have been the 5.25" ones - and I seem to remeber they were round disks in a square sleeve - hence you probably could staple two together by the corners and having removed the staples still use the disks.....unless of course you had also ran a magnet over them

kabayiri

bugslet wrote: »

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Youtube link please:p
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Sadly, this was before t'internet - probably just a piece of wet string running across Tim Berners-Lee's office...

I did tell one lady not to try and move her desktop PC from one side of the desk to the other.

The reason? Well, as she admitted, it was full of data, and boy does that stuff weigh a ton ! :rotfl:

The guys on help desk enjoyed it when she logged the call.

bugslet

Try telling how much forum posts weigh - requires a strengthened desktop at Bugs HQ:p

Question, any thoughts on kitchen worktops. I was thinking of Caeserstone, but seen a few reviews that say they stain very easily.

Spirit_2

PN HAPPY belated BIRTHDAY

Spirit_2

bugslet wrote: »

Try telling how much forum posts weigh - requires a strengthened desktop at Bugs HQ:p

Question, any thoughts on kitchen worktops. I was thinking of Caeserstone, but seen a few reviews that say they stain very easily.

Not beech. Ours are old now, been replaced over the years as they look shabby quickly.

kabayiri

bugslet wrote: »

Try telling how much forum posts weigh - requires a strengthened desktop at Bugs HQ:p

Question, any thoughts on kitchen worktops. I was thinking of Caeserstone, but seen a few reviews that say they stain very easily.

We have Compac quartz worktops (American brand, but of course others are available).

They seem very durable so far, but we don't have cupboards with tins above which could fall on the worktop.

The equivalent in Caesarstone would be the Nougat colour (ours is blizzard white).

Downsides? Expensive and heavy - very heavy.