How’s the church renovation going cocko?

Slowly but surely, thank you. Got the office mostly up and running, just need to work out the wiring for the desk so I can make it do the standing, sitting thing. Front room is getting there slowly, needs surround next, unsure whether to go sound bar or receiver, I think receiver will be more flexible, plus floorstanders are cooler when playing music. Next month is pull up bar, heavy bag, and ropes for the courtyard, and more kitchenware as now my fridge finally works I can start cooking again

Technically on topic, here's the office as at Friday evening, working and playing at the same time. Not my choice of whisky, gift from a mate I let stay a couple of months while he was between places

Cheers man, appreciated

Hospitality and sick/holiday pay. I think a lot of places are loathe to implement it because they claim that they don't know what your rota will be. So they wouldn't know whether to pay you 6 or 26 hours for the week you aren't there. However under legislation (that may no longer be valid since brexit, dunno) your contract (even if zero hours) would be implied by a rolling 13 week period up to the most recent pay cycle. So with a contract saying 6 hours, if you averaged 20 hours over the last 3 months you would have a 20 hr contract. However few people stay with a single hospitality employer for the two years required to try and get away with trying that in an dismissal/greivance case. Those that do, are by that time more protected by contracts having been promoted etc

hahahaha, took me a moment. Would be nice though, just not quite big enough to go full on bar, bbq, and jacuzzi unfortunately

Exam results came out yesterday. Don't want to toot our own school's horn but ours emwere outstanding and particularly with the lowest SIMD. And these were real exams. I suspect we are about to rise in the rankings in Edinburgh to top 3 at least.

I've been having fun in my new job, managed to Google how to use Power Automate, to make a feedback survey on forms which then links to a table in an excel sheet that updates automatically when a survey is filled in. Felt like a l33t hacker tbh. Can't seem to turn the table into decent graphs though? Will also be using Publisher to be making some kind of internal promo material to promote our project!

GooberTheHat wrote:

Do you have access to powerBI? If so you will be able to make so really nice presentations with the data.

If not pivot charts would probably do the trick for you in Excel.

ZMM wrote:

I've been having fun in my new job, managed to Google how to use Power Automate, to make a feedback survey on forms which then links to a table in an excel sheet that updates automatically when a survey is filled in. Felt like a l33t hacker tbh. Can't seem to turn the table into decent graphs though? Will also be using Publisher to be making some kind of internal promo material to promote our project!

I need to learn how to do this.
I'm rubbish at data

Back to work after 6 weeks off and it's never as bad as I fear. Kids aren't in till Wednesday but hey we did it.

Pro tip: Don't go to work.

Dante just chills on his bed in his Wonder Woman PJs answering pure calls innit

I've just finally got around to looking at my pension and I am quietly pleased. However, the default assumption was that I would be working until I was 68. 68!? Fuck that noise.

poprock wrote:

Fuck the schools being back (Sorry Reg). Instantly doubles the traffic and the time it takes me to get to work.

It doubles it for me too ffs

If you're going to chunter on in the background of a phone call, how about you make the fucking call instead?

Put my expenses in for last week. Got an email back saying “We don’t give expenses for journeys from home, only ones to and from the office.”

Fucksake. Stop organising meetings with clients on work-from-home days then.

Aye, not on that.