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Post by jellybean on Aug 11, 2010 23:09:40 GMT
I probably did way over 10gb a week easily whilst in uni halls - bloody quick internet, you tend to just go nuts!
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Post by Stacey on Aug 12, 2010 10:23:00 GMT
Well, today is the shittest day i've had for a long time.
I crawled into work this morning after having no sleep so was in a bad mood to start with and it's just got worse and worse.
I'm sick to death of being blamed for stuff that isn't my fault.
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Post by Ath on Aug 31, 2010 18:51:54 GMT
The people I work for are so incompetent it is untrue.
10% pay cut then redundancies. That's the reward we get for continually slogging out guts out to keep the company afloat this year.
That's it. *off to hunt for another job*
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Post by xstaceyx on Aug 31, 2010 20:08:08 GMT
Today was annoying. Firstly I woke up with a big spider near my pillows - i'm terrified of spiders. next, I get harassed when i go out, by loads of blokes 'cos I wore a mini skirt - I get treated like a piece of meat they can look, eurgh. Piss off! i'm minding my own business just leave me alone! Lastly, waiting forever in a post office queue - my local post office got cut down into a tiny whsmith one and its never empty in there!! big mistake by the post office there! they only ever have a tiny amount of staff on as well.
*rant over*
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Post by Ben on Sept 5, 2010 11:15:51 GMT
Why are footballers more or less all absolute c****?
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Post by Ogalosh on Sept 5, 2010 18:58:18 GMT
Why are footballers more or less all absolute c****? Because their footballers.
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Post by xstaceyx on Sept 6, 2010 0:37:07 GMT
Most of them: more money than sense, have lovely looking partners but seem to feel the need to cheat on them!? what stupid stupid idiots! (that bit annoys me the most!!), oh and they are over-paid pussies, my uncle is a firefighter and doesn't get anything compared to a footballer - my uncle saves lives and gets paid peanuts, they piss money up the wall, cheat on beautiful women, do a few training sessions, go to some matches and get paid silly amounts of money......*head desk*
not including all footballers in this though, i presume there are decent ones, i hope.
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Post by jellybean on Sept 6, 2010 19:39:14 GMT
and therein lies the problem with open markets i know exactly what i am yelling about. the combination of the student loans company being absolute fucking c**** yet again "sorry we're only giving you x. please ask your parents for more" yeah sure... i'll ask them to give me a couple grand they can't afford because they're paying for my sister to go to uni and oh yes according to YOUR OWN RULES i have been independant for longer than three years and so do not need to provide you with my parents details and you should not take them in to consideration. basically give me more fucking money you twats. and also ridiculous job interviews which turn out to be "auditions". I understand you want people behind the bar with a good personality, but my four years of experience - plus a good chunk of a time as a bar manager (AT THE AGE OF 20 FOR FUCKS SAKE) should not be overlooked just because i find it hard to improvise a three minute sketch involving a baloon, an england flag and a puppet of the fucking grim reaper. i need a fucking job.
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Post by [Ghost] on Sept 7, 2010 9:07:02 GMT
Most of them: more money than sense, have lovely looking partners but seem to feel the need to cheat on them!? what stupid stupid idiots! (that bit annoys me the most!!), oh and they are over-paid pussies, my uncle is a firefighter and doesn't get anything compared to a footballer - my uncle saves lives and gets paid peanuts, they piss money up the wall, cheat on beautiful women, do a few training sessions, go to some matches and get paid silly amounts of money......*head desk* not including all footballers in this though, i presume there are decent ones, i hope. Thing is though I can understand why they are paid so much. It is disgusting that they get paid so much more then firefighters, nurses etc...but when you consider the amount of money they bring into a club, it makes business sense. Yet it seems that having the amount of money and fame they have at such an early age makes them twats.
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Post by Chloe on Sept 8, 2010 10:00:46 GMT
makes even more of a joke of the whole assigning the england captaincy on "morality" thing. (for whats its worth, wayne bridges ex has denied ever sleeping with terry. not that the papers would let that stand in the way of a good story)
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Post by [Ghost] on Sept 8, 2010 13:31:03 GMT
makes even more of a joke of the whole assigning the england captaincy on "morality" thing. (for whats its worth, wayne bridges ex has denied ever sleeping with terry. not that the papers would let that stand in the way of a good story) To be fair didn't Terry admit it? Anyways the England captaincy being chosen on moarlity is a joke anyway, all you have to do is type "Gerrard Kris Commons" into google and you'll see what he's been up to, let alone that fact he was in court for assault. Oh and Ferdinand was banned for 8 months 'cos he missed a drugs test. I do prefer Gerrard as a captain anyway, but that's a different story.
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Post by Chloe on Sept 8, 2010 13:48:45 GMT
makes even more of a joke of the whole assigning the england captaincy on "morality" thing. (for whats its worth, wayne bridges ex has denied ever sleeping with terry. not that the papers would let that stand in the way of a good story) To be fair didn't Terry admit it? nope - he never commented on it. i think he apologised for the fuss. it mainly came from papers being pissed off that he'd tried to get the injunction against them exactly, they're all as bad as each other, hence the point using 'morals' for and against any of them is crazy.
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Post by Stacey on Sept 9, 2010 13:00:20 GMT
Argh!
I'm in the office by myself and an alarms company is setting up a new alarm system at one of our sites. They're testing the alarms to make sure they come through straight to our office. But is it really necessary to do this 30 fooking times? Everytime i try to dial out or someone rings in, the phone is off and i have to respond to it.
It's annoying. It worked the first bloody time.
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Post by Ben on Sept 18, 2010 8:49:07 GMT
"Today I tried to play a DVD and it wouldn't work. Can you fix it by Friday please"
What. The. Fuck.
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Post by bigospedros on Sept 20, 2010 10:31:44 GMT
"Today I tried to play a DVD and it wouldn't work. Can you fix it by Friday please" What. The. Fuck. I saw this whinge on twitter ... seriously ... what is wrong with this request ? Surely you just answer, "ok, bring it in and I'll have a look at it. Please can you also describe what you were doing when you realised it didn't work". No point getting pissed off by a technophobe not describing a problem or understanding what you might need to know / do to fix it very well, eh?
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Post by Ben on Sept 20, 2010 12:52:34 GMT
It's the general attitude that repeatedly comes up. "This doesn't work, I don't care what's going on or whether you're busy, I'm going to tell you nothing about the problem and I want it fixed on my time".
There's so much going on right now that the least of my worries is "a DVD won't work". I don't know whether she was using a school computer, her own laptop, a portable DVD player, a DVD player attached to a TV, a projector... I could go on. The fact that we've explicitly asked for details of problems to be included does nothing...
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Post by bigospedros on Sept 20, 2010 12:58:03 GMT
It's the general attitude that repeatedly comes up. "This doesn't work, I don't care what's going on or whether you're busy, I'm going to tell you nothing about the problem and I want it fixed on my time". There's so much going on right now that the least of my worries is "a DVD won't work". I don't know whether she was using a school computer, her own laptop, a portable DVD player, a DVD player attached to a TV, a projector... I could go on. The fact that we've explicitly asked for details of problems to be included does nothing... I think the thing you have to remind yourself is that to the person reporting the problem, this is their number 1 priority. They don't consider your priorities or workload. This is same for anyone in a support role. You've done the same to people on helplines for banks / utilities etc. We all have ... What you should do is calmly explain your workload and your priorities and ask them where they think their problem should fit and it's above other priorities then suggest to them that they'd like to arrange that with the requestor of the other jobs. Also, if you're not provided with the right details, just say "no" and ask them to fill in a form that gives you everything you need to work with or offer them a time slot when you and they can sit down and talk it out. Perhaps you should also introduce a severity ticket level for each item and establish agreed turnaround times for each one. I would suggest not being able to play a DVD is a low priority. Simples ... saves aggro on your part and theirs.
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Post by Ben on Sept 20, 2010 13:28:15 GMT
Thing is, all the staff are well aware of the amount of work we have on (We've just moved to an entirely new building in order to create an entirely new network, and were let in 4 weeks late, so we're theoretically 4 weeks behind where everyone expects us to be). We've explained it to them, the head of the school has explained it to them, everyone knows full well what's going on... If we try and explain our workload we essentially get a wall of noise because their problems aren't being dealt with first...
The ticket system we use is more than adequate, and we work to it as best we can. It's just that the staff don't seem to realise it.
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Post by bigospedros on Sept 20, 2010 13:32:48 GMT
it's all about communication ... if the staff don't get it, then you have to repeat the message and tell them if they have an issue, take it to the head ...
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Post by Ben on Sept 20, 2010 13:54:41 GMT
The head's repeated the message for us several times now... It's just a select few people going over old ground again and again...
Still, it's not as bad as "I moved my desk around and now my computer won't work". They'd unplugged the entire thing from the wall. >_<
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