Work colleagues

[Boghead ranter]

19 minutes ago, mizfit said:

We get free tea and coffee from the machines. Only thing is you need to bring your own mug as our office is now a “plastic free environment”

No Sellic fans?  Half way there mate.

[ayrshire_nomad]

We get free tea and coffee from the machines. Only thing is you need to bring your own mug as our office is now a “plastic free environment”

Can't you go through every item in great detail finding plastic or derivatives of plastic, just to be a dick

[Jacksgranda]

13 hours ago, D.A.F.C said:

First place I worked you paid £2 a month tea money. When I realised it was optional I jacked it. 2000 workers paying 50k a year!!

 

11 hours ago, Cerberus said:

 

Seems a good deal to be honest.

Unless you don’t drink tea.

 

Depends how long ago it was, but you're getting 60 cups of tea for £2.00/month, seems o.k.

(3 cups/day x 5 days/week x 4weeks/month in case IainMorton is lurking...)

[Jacksgranda]

5 hours ago, Crawford Bridge said:

Working in an office sounds fucking awful.

It had its moments, but I can't say I miss it. Preferable to getting soaked/frozen on a building site or shipyard IMHO.

[GordonD]

5 minutes ago, Jacksgranda said:

It had its moments, but I can't say I miss it. Preferable to getting soaked/frozen on a building site or shipyard IMHO.

I'm having a pleasant mental image of some of the dickheads who've been described here, trying to pull the same sort of shite on a building site. Five minutes in and they'd be headfirst in the cement mixer.

[Cardinal Richelieu]

6 hours ago, Crawford Bridge said:

Working in an office sounds fucking awful.

Am I missing something here? Obviously you get absolute bangers and petty squabbling in an office, but it's not like you get them elsewhere. Working in an office, I sit in a comfy seat in a warm / cool and safe environment , listen to tunes and do work stuff that doesn't tax the mind or body too much. And if it does get too much, I can sit and have a wee read of the internet or watch a funny Youtube video. Most of the folk in work are my friends so you can have a laugh as well. Oh, and as much free tea and coffee as you want. Lovely stuff. 

Edited November 24, 2018 by Cardinal Richelieu

[Bairnardo]

Am I missing something here? Obviously you get absolute bangers and petty squabbling in an office, but it's not like you get them elsewhere. Working in an office, I sit in a comfy seat in a warm / cool and safe environment , listen to tunes and do work stuff that doesn't tax the mind or body too much. And if it does get too much, I can sit and have a wee read of the internet or watch a funny Youtube video. Most of the folk in work are my friends so you can have a laugh as well. Oh, and as much free tea and coffee as you want. Lovely stuff. 

I have worked in the same industry since leaving school at 16. In that time I have spent 1 year in the office. It was a fucking harrowing experience despite being surrounded by like minded people, merely seconded to an office enviroment for a short duration. 9 to 5, 5 days a week in an office is an atrocious existence.

[DA Baracus]

Aye office work is horrible

[Adam]

I think office work is great. I’m a lazy b*****d so the thought of doing anything other than sitting at a desk for seven hours a day looking at a screen gives me the fear. Manual work can GTF.

[Brother Blades]

I do both, and office work is horrendous compared to “hands on”















Tbf, I’m a stripper inspector by trade.

[Bairnardo]

Just out of idle interest what sort of things do you non office guys do?

My work is probably 80/20 office/elsewhere and I do find it a pain sometimes but on the whole it is OK as long as you ignore politics.

I currently sit on my arse, basically chained to a desk for 12 hours at a time staring at screens.

[Kejan]

Now to sound like a horrible misogynist, but my experience with women bosses has been shite. Both micromanaging, nitpicking, condescending pains. Hoping it's not three strikes and I'm out to incel forum to live out my days.

Also, how the feck can't folk just get on at work. You're paid a measly pittince to work. Just smile, say some banal polite stuff and get along with each other even if you have nothing in common. 

Then go home and relax.

Edited November 24, 2018 by Kejan

[JamesP_81]

I currently sit on my arse, basically chained to a desk for 12 hours at a time staring at screens.

Yeah but what do you do when you're at work?

[Honest_Man#1]

31 minutes ago, Bairnardo said:

33 minutes ago, MixuFixit said:

Just out of idle interest what sort of things do you non office guys do?

My work is probably 80/20 office/elsewhere and I do find it a pain sometimes but on the whole it is OK as long as you ignore politics.

I currently sit on my arse, basically chained to a desk for 12 hours at a time staring at screens.

I’m not really seeing how this is different to an office based role? Sounds very similar.

[Bairnardo]

I’m not really seeing how this is different to an office based role? Sounds very similar.

I know. I phrased it so.

I work on a f**k off big gas plant though. Not in an office.

[Honest_Man#1]

On the office vs non-office debate, I definitely prefer being management and sitting on my arse dealing with the mentally difficult/stressful side of things as opposed to the physically demanding day to day stuff. One of the engineers was off a while ago so helped out as it was busy. It was mind-numbing stuff.

[welshbairn]

2 hours ago, Bairnardo said:

I know. I phrased it so.

I work on a f**k off big gas plant though. Not in an office.

[Bairnardo]

Yes.

Easily the closest comparison for those outwith the industry.

[Jacksgranda]

 

2 hours ago, JamesP_81 said:

2 hours ago, Bairnardo said:

I currently sit on my arse, basically chained to a desk for 12 hours at a time staring at screens.

Yeah but what do you do when you're at work?

He tests chains.

[welshbairn]

Just now, Bairnardo said:

Yes.

Easily the closest comparison for those outwith the industry.

Have you ever seriously fucked up and had to evacuate the plant?