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scilly Oct 23rd 2019 8:09 am

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 
How could I have forgotten The Prisoner, Man from Uncle, The Avengers (Steed) or MASH :rofl: :nod:

scrubbedexpat091 Oct 23rd 2019 8:35 am

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 
These words are so true. If only managers actually realized this....lol People tend to quit bosses/managers and not jobs. Looking back I would say about 90% of the jobs I left were due to bad bosses and not the job itself.

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/british...f2877b7b29.jpg

magnumpi Oct 23rd 2019 9:20 am

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 
39 found dead in truck in Uk

Why !!! Smugglers need dealing with harshly

scrubbedexpat091 Oct 23rd 2019 10:25 am

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 
Some criminals make it far too easy for police.

https://windsor.ctvnews.ca/alleged-w...-car-1.4652141

"Police say a shoplifter at a Windsor-area mall climbed into an unmarked police cruiser, mistaking it for a getaway car."

BEVS Oct 23rd 2019 10:40 am

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 
I wish the digger and impactor next door would STFU at 7am in the morning.

BuckinghamshireBoy Oct 23rd 2019 10:46 am

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 

Originally Posted by BEVS (Post 12753122)
I wish the digger and impactor next door would STFU at 7am in the morning.

7am sounds a tad early. : ours tend to kick off at 8am. But I reserve the right to growl :unsure:

scilly Oct 23rd 2019 10:48 am

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 

Originally Posted by Jsmth321 (Post 12753084)
These words are so true. If only managers actually realized this....lol People tend to quit bosses/managers and not jobs. Looking back I would say about 90% of the jobs I left were due to bad bosses and not the job itself.

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/british...f2877b7b29.jpg


Had a couple of those in my life.

Fortunately OH proposed and that gave me the ideal way out from the first one. But half the teaching staff left as well.

The second one moved on after a year as the funding for him ran out while I was still being funded so I stayed.


scrubbedexpat091 Oct 23rd 2019 11:09 am

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 
It's even more annoying when management does a survey to see why turn over is so high and employees respond because this manager or managers are poor, treat us like dirt, show no respect, and then nothing but crickets and the cycle continues. Companies have high turn over for a reason, and work environment and management can play a bigger role than wages.


Originally Posted by scilly (Post 12753124)
Had a couple of those in my life.

Fortunately OH proposed and that gave me the ideal way out from the first one. But half the teaching staff left as well.

The second one moved on after a year as the funding for him ran out while I was still being funded so I stayed.


BuckinghamshireBoy Oct 23rd 2019 11:20 am

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 

Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 12752913)
... My Favourite Martian ... TISWAS ...There are bound to be some OMG how did I forget thats. :nod:

I'll never forget those two. :starsmile:

scrubbedexpat091 Oct 23rd 2019 12:02 pm

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 
That is the pits.

Wasn't a digger but when the dollar store went in downstairs below our unit, it was drilling, hammering Mon-F from 7:30am to 5:30pm, and man do they start right on the dot at 7:30am...lol There were days it seemed like a jackhammer was coming through the floor.




Originally Posted by BEVS (Post 12753122)
I wish the digger and impactor next door would STFU at 7am in the morning.


BristolUK Oct 23rd 2019 12:13 pm

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 

Originally Posted by Jsmth321 (Post 12753144)
...it was drilling, hammering Mon-F from 7:30am to 5:30pm, and man do they start right on the dot at 7:30am...lol ...

It's good if you forget to set your alarm. ;)


spouse of scouse Oct 23rd 2019 12:27 pm

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 

Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 12752992)
Flu jab today :thumbup:
(had the pneumo one too)

Good lad.

spouse of scouse Oct 23rd 2019 12:29 pm

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 

Originally Posted by magnumpi (Post 12753094)
39 found dead in truck in Uk

Why !!! Smugglers need dealing with harshly

They sure do. The driver's been charged on suspicion of murder, I wonder how that will pan out. Those poor souls :(

scrubbedexpat091 Oct 23rd 2019 12:43 pm

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 
Only if you need to be up that early..... At the time I was working until 3am, so I was not wanting to be awake at 7:30am...ha ha


Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 12753150)
It's good if you forget to set your alarm. ;)


spouse of scouse Oct 23rd 2019 1:00 pm

Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
 

Originally Posted by Jsmth321 (Post 12753161)
Only if you need to be up that early..... At the time I was working until 3am, so I was not wanting to be awake at 7:30am...ha ha

My husband's niece in Liverpool is a nurse and works lots of night shifts. She's a bit of a character and not someone you'd want to cross. She puts a 'Shift worker sleeping, please don't ring the doorbell' sign on her front door before she goes to bed. She was very cranky one morning when someone rang the bell after she'd only had 2 hours sleep, so she opened her (upstairs) bedroom window and yelled 'can't you f***ing read?!'. :lol:


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