AliMc
Well-known member
This for me too, I had 18 staff reporting to me directly at one time in the PO, by far and away the worst aspect of the job
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Slab
Occasional Tour Caddy
They are the most frustrating and rewarding part of my job, just seems like since covid its now way more of the former and much less of the latter
Sorry, maybe I worded that badly. Did you agree to her request to take 3 as holiday or did you refuse / withdraw the Saturday options?
Orikoru
Tour Winner
I don't answer unknown numbers, and if I did, I wouldn't trust that it wasn't a scam. If I log into my Lotto account and see it, then I'd believe it.To stop you getting your hopes up… if you have won the jackpot then they phone you. No I haven’t won - but the winning process features in magazine and Sunday paper articles occasionally.
irip
Head Pro
I said she can’t take them as holiday as they are extra and not part of her normal shift.
Holiday can only be taken as part of your normal hours or I would have people ask to work all weekend then have a weeks holiday and get paid for 7 days
Mudball
Assistant Pro
.. esp when the caller says... pl transfer 10k this morning, so I can transfer your 200m in the afternoon .... i would running downstairs to find my cheque book.. notI don't answer unknown numbers, and if I did, I wouldn't trust that it wasn't a scam. If I log into my Lotto account and see it, then I'd believe it.
Robster59
Tour Rookie
I must have been lucky.They didn’t give me enough when having the snip
Now that really hurt .
They had to top me up.
I had my snip done about 30 years ago and the blade to carry out the work appeared about 10 seconds after the injection went in. I was praying for it to work and it did. I never felt a thing. Again a bit sore afterwards, but nothing excruciating.
I also had a carcinoma about the size of a 50p piece removed from underneath my right eye under anaesthetic. Again, never felt a think and it looked like a great job when I saw it in a mirror straight after the op. The following morning I looked like I had done 10 rounds with Mike Tyson.
But..
I had a kidney stone and cripes that hurt. Even my missus said, when we went to see the doctor and he asked about the pain said "you're talking about a man here with a high pain threshold". I've even heard some women and nurses say that pain is up there with childbirth.
Robster59
Tour Rookie
One of our suppliers called me this morning and told me they had sold their business and all future orders must go to the new company.
Err, no. We don't have them as a registered supplier and, as a large company, we go through a fairly torturous route to get a new supplier approved.
Cue a few weeks of hassle.
Err, no. We don't have them as a registered supplier and, as a large company, we go through a fairly torturous route to get a new supplier approved.
Cue a few weeks of hassle.
jim8flog
Journeyman Pro
Our cat deciding to bring in not 1, not 2, but 3 presents today!
So far today I’ve had to clear up a bird and mouse from the hallway, and just minutes ago catch a mouse it brought in alive in the dining room that he was literally playing Cat and Mouse with! Where were my kids when this went on! Filming him playing thinking it was funny
My inlaws cat was like that , they lived next to a barn and my FiL took to putting little blobs of paint on the mice heads to see if it was bringing the same one in every time.
I once had a nearby neighbours pet rabbit brought in to me.
Lucifer MorningStar
Well-known member
Little gits been at it again today. Rarely does it when Mrs M is at home as he’s her baby and plays on it. With me it’s like he’s stamping authority to show who’s the Alpha
Genuinely looks at me for approval like I’m gonna say well done fur ball you’ve decorated the house in carcasses
Can you not write an exception request for approval by your quality assurance team, pending formal approval? At least that way you’ll continue to receive product. I would assume the “new” supplier would adopt all the processes of the old supplier as a turn key purchase until they look to merge their processes - that’s when it gets messy.
Oh how I don’t miss preferred supplier registration reviews.
Oh the joys of being a small company and just making decisions about who to buy from within seconds and without issues. Is it best for us? Yes, then get on with it.
Spot on!
Suppliers wouldn’t survive if they produced rubbish, which makes most industries self-policing. Quality Managers have made little kingdoms, and companies providing quality assurance and process advice have scammed thousands out of businesses. Whatever happened to buyers either visiting a new supplier or buying in one item to check the quality?
Something sank its fangs into my ankle a couple of evenings back. I tend not to react to mossie bites but this one was damn painful right from the outset. There was no swelling at first, no raised spot.
Yesterday my foot swelled up, but not massively. Today I have two red dots a bit bigger than pin head size about a quarter inch apart.
I doubt a snake has made its way into our lounge, nor a spider - the dots are too far apart. Probably a mossie - the town hall were spraying again this week as West Nile fever has been diagnosed locally…
Yesterday my foot swelled up, but not massively. Today I have two red dots a bit bigger than pin head size about a quarter inch apart.
I doubt a snake has made its way into our lounge, nor a spider - the dots are too far apart. Probably a mossie - the town hall were spraying again this week as West Nile fever has been diagnosed locally…
AliMc
Well-known member
Yip I can agree, kidney stones and gall bladder pain is horrendous but I can raise you to another level with - pancreatitis, you don't want that, believe me you don't !
Bazz
Q-School Graduate
I work for an energy supplier and found a company I wanted to use to help us write our standard operating procedures, basically AI watches what you're pressing on screen and spits it out in seconds, rather than taking screenshots and typing it which can take days...anyway, took this to procurement and got a boll..telling off for "maverick activity", when I should've asked them to find 3 companies who could do the same and go through the whole process in case I was getting a backhander.
Bazz
Q-School Graduate
Loads of us have had the snip haven't we? More like Horndog Monthly.
clubchamp98
Journeyman Pro
Top trumps of diseases
Reminds me of Not the nine o’clock news auction for an empty hospital bed !
GreiginFife
Money List Winner
Capital One. Horrible, dishonest organisation that deals purely in obfuscation to confuse vulnerable people.
Really hope they suffer a sharp downturn that sinks them. Unlikely but one can wish.
Really hope they suffer a sharp downturn that sinks them. Unlikely but one can wish.
Crazy thing that happens quite regularly. We produce a niche product that is tricky to find elsewhere. We often get contacted by an end user who wants the product but tells me that another company on their approved list will contact me to buy it. So, instead of buying the product at price X they buy it at price X plus the margin added by the approved supplier. Happens time and time again. Crackers.
Multiply this across all of their purchasing, how much money wasted?
