Roujin wrote:

Tempy wrote:

Oh they also asked me why, if I like writing so much, I am not already doing a job involving writing. I think that one I fucked.

Did you offer them to swap lives IF ITS SO FUCKING EASY YOU STUPID CUNT GIVE ME THE FUCKING JOB? What a fucking stupid, offensive question. You were right to hit him in the nutsack or whatever you did that made you think you fucked it.

I didn't think much at the time because I was kicking myself for answering it badly but it is an off question in retrospect

Tempy wrote:

A: Say I am sorry, but I am helping a customer and cannot take over the promotion.

Fuck you, Jon!

poprock wrote:

Our place (current job, where I’m working my notice) blew up today in a different way. Remember the server fire? Turns out the access permissions weren’t set back up properly after new kit was installed. Everyone was able to access everything on the RAID. Some bright spark read all the salary details for everyone at the company. Then shared them around. Today, two senior designers asked for pay rises and resigned when they were told “no way”.

Update: Instead of tackling the root problem of unequal pay, my bosses are currently engaged for around 75% of each working day in a witch hunt to uncover exactly who opened up and shared the pay details, so that they can begin disciplinary procedures against them. Because laying blame anywhere but at their own feet is the number one priority.

Meanwhile, the hurried resetting of server permissions by our IT contractors has left me unable to move or copy/paste any files at all.

I am so glad to be leaving.

Say it was you and hello garden leave

Diluted Dante wrote:

On your last day, tell them it was you.

bad_hair_day wrote:

Say it was you and hello garden leave

I could if they were still talking to me …

Never heard of Facebook Workplace. Sounds shite though, right enough.

So it’s an Intranet-based Facebook Messenger without the sticker gifs. Got it.

Go up to them and say "Hi poprock, I'm the creative director."

Tempy wrote:

Did he do that trick or forgetting the difference between "wrote the half page brief" and "did all the work"?

Very close. More accurately, she forgot the difference between ‘wrote the copy’ and ‘did everything else’.

I hope you guys don’t think I’ve put up with all this shit for 15 years. Things used to be a lot better. It’s been a gradual slide and it’s gone right over the cliff in the last 18 months or so.

Last couple of pages have been a fun and depressing read. I remember the regional manager of HMV popping down. Weasel of a man who never actually introduced himself to anyone and so I addressed him once as 'alright m8?' not knowing who he was.

Then we had the national managers down once who, although they did take the time to talk to us all individually, were patronising as fuck. Asked what I wanted to do. Film industry. 'Ah, pipe dreams, they're nice to have'. Couldn't fault her really, you're working in a dead end retail job. You don't exactly look like you're going anywhere. Still though, what a prick.

Remembering other annoyances - I was told off for not dressing up for Halloween. Told off by the manager who hadn't dressed up herself. Prick.

I worked as a chef in the Blackpool Pleasure Beach branch of Pizza Hut for one summer, in my student days. I remember the branch manager freaking out when I dyed my hair green. Breach of uniform policy, he said. The regional manager is due to visit tomorrow, you’re going to get us both fired, he said. 

Utter nonsense, of course. I’d been on the brand awareness training course. And the staff uniform included a fucking hat, so who gives a damn what colour your hair is? On top of which, I was kitchen staff – the public never saw me. 

Anyway, the regional manager arrived and complimented me because his daughter’s hair was dyed the same shade of green.

Latest dramarama at our place: We now have three people under investigation and threat of instant dismissal. All because one person opened and read a list of staff salaries which should have been locked and wasn’t.

What the management don’t know is that two of those people have already accepted jobs elsewhere.

This ship is sinking.

Maybe they should have paid people correctly they and they could have avoided this all. It's a stretch, I know.

Latest development. This is golden.

Mrs Poprock’s company has just received a CV and job application from one of our Design Directors. One of the two who aren’t company owners and aren’t currently being dicks.

Few months back, i went for an interview with a car park company, operations manager for their Glasgow cluster, with occasional support through in Edinburgh. Went well, was told I was going through to the next round with one other person. Then they went quiet, eventually found out they'd went through a restructure, similar to the way cineworld did, and were no longer recruiting. Fair enough.

Week ago, was contacted by the agency that was arranging it all. Turned out, what happened was they removed a layer of management and expanded the responsibilities of the job i had been applying for. Told the then area manager that he had to do it, he viewed it as a demotion, so decided to leave. So I now have another interview with them on Monday. Exact same job as the last time I saw them, just that the role now includes p&l responsibility, and a 2k salary increase (which overall would be about 6k up on what I'm earning now).

The guy who'll be interviewing me apparently wanted to punt me straight through to stage 2, as my first interview was strong enough. But the bird from the agency reckoned it would be better to start again at stage 1, which is what Monday is. Thoughts on that?