Roast Grumpy Old Thread II - the grumpiness continues

[hilly]

Linkedin.

When someone says a contact's promotion is well deserved, how do they actually know this unless they've worked together?!

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[Massive Unit]

Linkedin.

When someone says a contact's promotion is well deserved, how do they actually know this unless they've worked together?!

On SM-S901E using BigFooty.com mobile app

It's increasingly becoming Facebook for business. I get the notion of broadening your networks, but some people go over the top with stuff like you've mentioned. Although a supplier/customer would also have insights on how that individual operates.

Once a year, I go through my contacts on LinkedIn and if I wouldn't be prepared to catch up with that person for a coffee, they get the boot

 

[Samsquanch]

Linkedin.

When someone says a contact's promotion is well deserved, how do they actually know this unless they've worked together?!

On SM-S901E using BigFooty.com mobile app

What's your linked in ID. I'll endorse you.

 

[ferball]

Actually never knew Karl Wallinger was briefly a Waterboy as well,




how goods the Bridge! [Bridge] Dm7 Em7/D Dm7 Dm7 Em7/D Dm7 You will pay tomorrow

Yep.

Both great Musicians (Waterboys is mostly Mike Scott.) Wallinger left when they went a bit Irish folky.

Waterboys still releasing great music. This is about three years old.

 

[ferball]

And while we're at it, this cover is pretty damn good.

 

[Chewy Chewman]

When you realise your zoom camera is still on.

 

[Samsquanch]

It's increasingly becoming Facebook for business. I get the notion of broadening your networks, but some people go over the top with stuff like you've mentioned. Although a supplier/customer would also have insights on how that individual operates.

Once a year, I go through my contacts on LinkedIn and if I wouldn't be prepared to catch up with that person for a coffee, they get the boot

I look at the bullshit, lies and complete garbage my contacts post about and think how well deserved the companies were of the multi-million dollar fines each of them (apart from one) have copped in the last few months.

A senior manager in the last place I worked as a permanent at began conducting leadership seminars and she asked her staff to endorse her as a leader - that was enough to make me feel sick (and I've worked with plenty of blowhards over the years). When I resigned, another member of the team called me to tell me he had also handed in his resignation 5 minutes before it was announced that I'd packed it in. Two more resigned the following week and another walked out before my notice was served. I was the fifth to resign from the team in just a few months, and when the others left it was nine from a team of 14 in a period of three months. In the year prior another four or five had resigned or transferred out.

And the person is still actively posting on LinkedIn about their mindfullness seminars and leadership training.

By the way, don't get me started on mindfullness. That is a scam alert key-word in my books.

 

[SpiderBurton22]

I look at the bullshit, lies and complete garbage my contacts post about and think how well deserved the companies were of the multi-million dollar fines each of them (apart from one) have copped in the last few months.

A senior manager in the last place I worked as a permanent at began conducting leadership seminars and she asked her staff to endorse her as a leader - that was enough to make me feel sick (and I've worked with plenty of blowhards over the years). When I resigned, another member of the team called me to tell me he had also handed in his resignation 5 minutes before it was announced that I'd packed it in. Two more resigned the following week and another walked out before my notice was served. I was the fifth to resign from the team in just a few months, and when the others left it was nine from a team of 14 in a period of three months. In the year prior another four or five had resigned or transferred out.

And the person is still actively posting on LinkedIn about their mindfullness seminars and leadership training.

By the way, don't get me started on mindfullness. That is a scam alert key-word in my books.

Got a friend who is a clinical Pyschologist who just hosted a mindfullness retreat for 13 people for 4 days up in Port Douglass. Charged an ridiculous amount of money to sit around and eat overpriced food and talk about their feelings.

It was attended by the well off, bored, middle aged women who needed to get away from their stressful lives of looking beautiful and keeping up appearances.

My wife just laughed when she got invited.

 

[Samsquanch]

Got a friend who is a clinical Pyschologist who just hosted a mindfullness retreat for 13 people for 4 days up in Port Douglass. Charged an ridiculous amount of money to sit around and eat overpriced food and talk about their feelings.

It was attended by the well off, bored, middle aged women who needed to get away from their stressful lives of looking beautiful and keeping up appearances.

My wife just laughed when she got invited.

I worked at a place where there was a shit-load of tension and they were spending fist-fulls of cash for no return due to failing application development teams. I was brought in to fix one major incident that had been going for over a week. I was seconded from my real job for "a few days until that incident is fixed."

I got in to the war room and sat with the Devops guys - only to discover that they had fixed this incident and were ready to deploy the solution. That got done, and I informed the lady who'd seconded me that I the fix was done on the same day. She was rapt, but somehow believed I was involved - which I denied. Anyway, she got me to write an "independent" PIR which I did. Bugger me if she pulled strings and got me seconded for another 8 months. We detected and resolved 433 incidents over that period. Tensions were extreme, so she brought in a mindfullness consultant and they had the entire DevOps team, Testing team and others all sitting in circles telling each other what they appreciated about waking up that day, how the light coming through the office windows was a gift of nature and all sorts of bat-shit crazy stuff.

When the project wound up my old job had been backfilled so instead of sticking around I moved on to another company.

About three years later - guess who started in my new place - the mindfullness lady. She was climbing the corporate ladder based on her being able to motivate teams with mindfullness and she had the company mandate that every employee in the office had to attend a one hour session once every week for bloody yonks. They took names and made those who missed attend catch-ups.

And the weird thing was, most of the office people lapped it up. At the end of the session they'd be walking out saying how much energy they now had and how motivated they were to work on their projects.

And being the major incident manager, I got to see first hand the shit quality work that the highly motivated mindfull staff created.

 

[ferball]

I look at the bullshit, lies and complete garbage my contacts post about and think how well deserved the companies were of the multi-million dollar fines each of them (apart from one) have copped in the last few months.

A senior manager in the last place I worked as a permanent at began conducting leadership seminars and she asked her staff to endorse her as a leader - that was enough to make me feel sick (and I've worked with plenty of blowhards over the years). When I resigned, another member of the team called me to tell me he had also handed in his resignation 5 minutes before it was announced that I'd packed it in. Two more resigned the following week and another walked out before my notice was served. I was the fifth to resign from the team in just a few months, and when the others left it was nine from a team of 14 in a period of three months. In the year prior another four or five had resigned or transferred out.

And the person is still actively posting on LinkedIn about their mindfullness seminars and leadership training.

By the way, don't get me started on mindfullness. That is a scam alert key-word in my books.

If they were serious about mindfulness the people who got it would walk out and do something fulfilling with their lives.

 

[Samsquanch]

If they were serious about mindfulness the people who got it would walk out and do something fulfilling with their lives.

I did. I quit.

 

[koshari]

I worked at a place where there was a s**t-load of tension and they were spending fist-fulls of cash for no return due to failing application development teams. I was brought in to fix one major incident that had been going for over a week. I was seconded from my real job for "a few days until that incident is fixed."

I got in to the war room and sat with the Devops guys - only to discover that they had fixed this incident and were ready to deploy the solution. That got done, and I informed the lady who'd seconded me that I the fix was done on the same day. She was rapt, but somehow believed I was involved - which I denied. Anyway, she got me to write an "independent" PIR which I did. Bugger me if she pulled strings and got me seconded for another 8 months. We detected and resolved 433 incidents over that period. Tensions were extreme, so she brought in a mindfullness consultant and they had the entire DevOps team, Testing team and others all sitting in circles telling each other what they appreciated about waking up that day, how the light coming through the office windows was a gift of nature and all sorts of bat-s**t crazy stuff.

When the project wound up my old job had been backfilled so instead of sticking around I moved on to another company.

About three years later - guess who started in my new place - the mindfullness lady. She was climbing the corporate ladder based on her being able to motivate teams with mindfullness and she had the company mandate that every employee in the office had to attend a one hour session once every week for bloody yonks. They took names and made those who missed attend catch-ups.

And the weird thing was, most of the office people lapped it up. At the end of the session they'd be walking out saying how much energy they now had and how motivated they were to work on their projects.

And being the major incident manager, I got to see first hand the s**t quality work that the highly motivated mindfull staff created.

More i see of the "corporate machine" the more ot look like smoke and mirrors, its pretty much a charade for lack of a better term.

 

[koshari]

Got a friend who is a clinical Pyschologist who just hosted a mindfullness retreat for 13 people for 4 days up in Port Douglass. Charged an ridiculous amount of money to sit around and eat overpriced food and talk about their feelings.

amazing the people who authorize the spending on such junkets always manage to skate under the radar and are never held to account for the spending.

 

[Samsquanch]

amazing the people who authorize the spending on such junkets always manage to skate under the radar and are never held to account for the spending.

Companies have to spend X dollar on training so they waste it on stuff like this. They then go on LinkedIn and promte themselves as the leading companies who look after the mental health of their employees.

The training organisations are set up to take fist-fulls of government and corporate dollars.

 

[koshari]

Companies have to spend X dollar on training so they waste it on stuff like this. They then go on LinkedIn and promte themselves as the leading companies who look after the mental health of their employees.

The training organisations are set up to take fist-fulls of government and corporate dollars.

meanwhile the legitimate training on technical matters gets conveniently ignored. the lengths the mob i work for tried to avoid providing the relevant and mandatory training for people to work on the gas systems was extraordinary. same with hazardous wiring systems.

 

[ferball]

Got a friend who is a clinical Pyschologist who just hosted a mindfullness retreat for 13 people for 4 days up in Port Douglass. Charged an ridiculous amount of money to sit around and eat overpriced food and talk about their feelings.

It was attended by the well off, bored, middle aged women who needed to get away from their stressful lives of looking beautiful and keeping up appearances.

My wife just laughed when she got invited.

See that seems like the opposite of mindfulness to me. Unless they were pissing themselves laughing all the time. And saying shit like "Can you believe we're blowing those pricks money on this sort of this luxurious bullshit?" to each other every 30 seconds.

 

[Samsquanch]

See that seems like the opposite of mindfulness to me. Unless they were pissing themselves laughing all the time. And saying s**t like "Can you believe we're blowing those pricks money on this sort of this luxurious bullshit?" to each other every 30 seconds.

Place where I worked decided to plan a re-organisation so the director booked out a resort in Portsea to take us off-site for the planning - three nights away. Then a bomb-shell dropped, causing our entire group to be disbandoned - effective immediately (new bosses from America got in before the local bosses could get their shit together).

Our director basically knew he was getting the bullet so he said that the Portsea trip would still go ahead. We did do a bit of planning but it was mostly about job preservation. I don't have a clue what it cost but the bar bill was over the amount that the company credit card allowed for so one of the consulting firms chipped in a grand to keep the bar toll below threshold.

I don't have a lot memories from the event apart from having to throw out clothes because when the bar ran out of decent drinks we bought a bottle of blackberry nip and had cocktail fights with it. And that poison doesn't come out in the wash.

 

[koshari]

Place where I worked decided to plan a re-organisation so the director booked out a resort in Portsea to take us off-site for the planning - three nights away. Then a bomb-shell dropped, causing our entire group to be disbandoned - effective immediately (new bosses from America got in before the local bosses could get their s**t together).

Our director basically knew he was getting the bullet so he said that the Portsea trip would still go ahead. We did do a bit of planning but it was mostly about job preservation. I don't have a clue what it cost but the bar bill was over the amount that the company credit card allowed for so one of the consulting firms chipped in a grand to keep the bar toll below threshold.

I don't have a lot memories from the event apart from having to throw out clothes because when the bar ran out of decent drinks we bought a bottle of blackberry nip and had cocktail fights with it. And that poison doesn't come out in the wash.

Marginally more than 2 standard drinks the surgeon general recommends?

 

[Samsquanch]

Marginally more than 2 standard drinks the surgeon general recommends?

I wore my T-shirt that was autographed by Mr Lifto, The Enigma and Jim Rose. It was destroyed. Even the midnight dip in the pool couldn't save it.

Come to think of it, the resort people weren't very happy about that - they had an alarm on the pool.

 

[SpiderBurton22]

I wore my T-shirt that was autographed by Mr Lifto, The Enigma and Jim Rose. It was destroyed. Even the midnight dip in the pool couldn't save it.

Come to think of it, the resort people weren't very happy about that - they had an alarm on the pool.

Hahaha, Mr Lifto.

Hadnt heard that name for a long time.

 

[Passmore]

Using nicknames for opposition players. That makes me grumpy.

 

[Samsquanch]

Hahaha, Mr Lifto.

Hadnt heard that name for a long time.

He had a pretty good act. He was a really quiet and polite guy to speak with - unlike the Enigma, although he was a talented musician.

 

[Samsquanch]

Gumtree.

Well, I logged on last week for the first time ever. Saw a coffee machine with a built in grinder. My own grinder was playing up and needed a repair, and this machine was being sold at a good price by a local person. So - I bought it. All good.

Now I have a collection of coffee machines that I don't need - a couple have come to me as broken items from others and I've fixed them, and one has been sitting in a cupboard for a while even though I bought it new. So, I figure, why not flog 'em on gumtree.

My freaking whatsapp is getting hammered by all these messages from ppl saying they will send me a payment link and then a courier will pick up the machine - all I have to do is click the link.

Are these people brainless?

They are scammers and I'm getting annoyed.

Piss off gumtree scammers - I will bloody keep the coffee machines in my garage if I have to you dicks.

 

[Samsquanch]

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[koshari]

Gumtree.

Well, I logged on last week for the first time ever. Saw a coffee machine with a built in grinder. My own grinder was playing up and needed a repair, and this machine was being sold at a good price by a local person. So - I bought it. All good.

Now I have a collection of coffee machines that I don't need - a couple have come to me as broken items from others and I've fixed them, and one has been sitting in a cupboard for a while even though I bought it new. So, I figure, why not flog 'em on gumtree.

My freaking whatsapp is getting hammered by all these messages from ppl saying they will send me a payment link and then a courier will pick up the machine - all I have to do is click the link.

Are these people brainless?

They are scammers and I'm getting annoyed.

Piss off gumtree scammers - I will bloody keep the coffee machines in my garage if I have to you dicks.

The worlds moved on from gumtree. Everything is bought and sold through facebook market place now like it or not. I dont even bother browsing Gumtree anymore.