Work colleagues

[TheScarf]

19 minutes ago, thistledo said:

Curious to know, why the change of career? I might need a retaining wall in the near future tbh. At least 5 houses on my estate are currently getting some sort of house modification or building work at the moment (the constant banging and grinding (yes yes Kenneth Williams gif) is really adding to my day) and about another 5 houses have already had this type of work done already in lockdown. Seems this kind of building trade stuff is absolutely booming. 

He put me off the trade so much that I rage quite and basically blocked his and another couple of boys in the trade that I knows numbers.  I had to remove myself completely from it as I was edging towards doing something I would regret down the line.  I'm not prepared to put myself back into a scenario where I end up working for a different cunt.  A lot of tradesmen are the worst of people.

I've got back into an office based job that I did for a few years about 5/6 years ago and I'm comfortable doing it but it's really boring. The guys I work with are brand new however.

Edited August 23, 2021 by TheScarf

[EvilScotsman]

21 minutes ago, scottsdad said:

No academic enjoys the administration side of things.

Remember to love your 'Professional Services' staff; we'll keep you right.

Spoiler

No, not like *that*. It's not 1973.

 

[scottsdad]

1 minute ago, EvilScotsman said:

Remember to love your 'Professional Services' staff; we'll keep you right.

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No, not like *that*. It's not 1973.

 

Trust me, the machine would grind to a stop without them! My wife is one, and so I hear first hand how things go. 

[oneteaminglasgow]

24 minutes ago, thistledo said:

See this is where I am, maybe, I don't hate it... I just cant get over the fact that, really, it's fucking boring and it all just feels a bit pointless. I literally only do it for the money, which is good.

Aye, don’t get me wrong I’m only here for the money. My jobs not dreadful or anything, bits of it are quite enjoyable, but if I didn’t need to work there’s absolutely no chance I’d continue to do so.

A big thing for me I’ve found is working in the public sector, which I do now, is massively less shit, despite everything. It used to really get to me knowing that I’d go to work for 9 hours a day, and the only reason I was there was so that a guy I fucking hated could become richer. 

[scottsdad]

I had a great summer job for two summers when I was a student. I was employed as a roads surveyor for Stirling council earning a massive £150 per week. The first year was me and one friend of mine, along with half a dozen other students. Show up at 8, into the vans, stop for coffee/newspapers/bacon rolls and then a nice drive up north. We surveyed the trunk roads and motorways in Stirling and Perth & Kinross. Great scenery, a few nice folk, a couple of bell ends. The second year a few more of my mates joined the group, and the bell ends never came back. 

Our boss, Neil (a middle aged guy heavily into Acid Croft music) was a great guy. Early on in the summer though he had some sort of blow-out with his boss and he was removed from being in charge of us. We were in charge of ourselves. It was a fantastic summer. Me and my mates going all over, having lunch in places like Strathyre and Crianlarich. The work was easy and we couldn't work in the rain. SO on rainy days we would drive up north and sit in the van reading the paper and listening to the radio. 

I remained friends with a lot of these people for a long time afterwards. Probably the best time and work colleagues I ever had. 

[Fullerene]

57 minutes ago, thistledo said:

Does anyone actually enjoy what they do, if so what do you do please? No bullshit either, genuinely look forward to going to work, nothing less. 

I have been self employed for 20 years and it's great. 

Naturally I have a wonderful boss who let's me work whatever hours I like as long as the work gets done.  The work often requires me to travel about, stay in nice hotels if I want to, go to whatever restaurants I please.  I can schedule the trips myself and I seldom have to travel for so long that I get homesick.  I have been all over the world often with somebody else paying for it.

[TheScarf]

19 minutes ago, oneteaminglasgow said:

Aye, don’t get me wrong I’m only here for the money. My jobs not dreadful or anything, bits of it are quite enjoyable, but if I didn’t need to work there’s absolutely no chance I’d continue to do so.

A big thing for me I’ve found is working in the public sector, which I do now, is massively less shit, despite everything. It used to really get to me knowing that I’d go to work for 9 hours a day, and the only reason I was there was so that a guy I fucking hated could become richer. 

Ooft that's a great shout. That's exactly how I felt.

 

[GordonD]

Worst job I can imagine is a waiter.

Please be aware I'm not knocking them; quite the opposite. They're on their feet all day, having to take all sorts of crap from customers who whine like little girls if their soup is too hot/too cold/taking too long to be served. I'd probably last about half an hour before tipping it over somebody's head.

[thistledo]

1 hour ago, Fullerene said:

I have been self employed for 20 years and it's great. 

Naturally I have a wonderful boss who let's me work whatever hours I like as long as the work gets done.  The work often requires me to travel about, stay in nice hotels if I want to, go to whatever restaurants I please.  I can schedule the trips myself and I seldom have to travel for so long that I get homesick.  I have been all over the world often with somebody else paying for it.

Drug trafficking? 

[Boghead ranter]

2 hours ago, thistledo said:

 

Does anyone actually enjoy what they do, if so what do you do please? No bullshit either, genuinely look forward to going to work, nothing less. 

I do.

Self employed dog walker, so like a lot of you, I work with puddle drinkers all day. I work hours that suit me, and now that my business is built up, I have the ability to turn down work I don't fancy doing.

[Derry Alli]

1 hour ago, Boghead ranter said:

I do.

Self employed dog walker, so like a lot of you, I work with puddle drinkers all day. I work hours that suit me, and now that my business is built up, I have the ability to turn down work I don't fancy doing.

Did you just wake up one morning and go "right, I'm walking dogs for a living". 

It's something I've thought about but no idea where to start. 

[Left Back]

33 minutes ago, Mr. Alli said:

Did you just wake up one morning and go "right, I'm walking dogs for a living". 

It's something I've thought about but no idea where to start. 

There’s another boy on the show us your dogs thread that does this for a job.  Pair of spawny b*****ds.  Genuinely the only job I think I’d look forward to in the morning.  That or being a dog trainer.

ETA there’s more to it than just buying a few leads and declaring yourself ready to walk.

A trainer I used to know in Edinburgh put together a list of things for Edinburgh council a client should ask a potential dog walker.  Covered all sorts from insurance, to breaking up dog fights, to dog first aid.  Was all part of a regulation scheme they were thinking about introducing.

Edited August 23, 2021 by Left Back

[Jacksgranda]

38 minutes ago, Mr. Alli said:

Did you just wake up one morning and go "right, I'm walking dogs for a living". 

It's something I've thought about but no idea where to start. 

With a dog...

[Boghead ranter]

31 minutes ago, Mr. Alli said:

Did you just wake up one morning and go "right, I'm walking dogs for a living". 

It's something I've thought about but no idea where to start. 

Kinda - few factors - I was at the same employer for nearly 20 years, despite job being 'ok', I'm now in my 50s, and I knew thaty employer wasn't doing well (they went bust altogether a couple of years back. I went to a gig in Glasgow with an old schoolmate who is an established dogwalker, and after listening to him talk about his job pre-gig, I was sitting on the train home, a bit jaked, saying "I'm gonna do that". I woke up next morning an decided that, rather than say "I was half gassed, what was I thinking", I was going to make it happen, and I did. 

Relatively easy to set up, if you want to know more, DM me, rather than me boring everyone (any more than I normally do anyway)

2 minutes ago, Left Back said:

There’s another boy on the show us your dogs thread that does this for a job.  Pair of spawny b*****ds.  Genuinely the only job I think I’d look forward to in the morning.  That or being a dog trainer.

StevieKTID, I'd imagine.

It's not all grand, picking up a lot of shit ain't great, and walking in the winter rain being blown sideways at high speed sucks. But you're right, it's my best ever job.

[Sergeant Wilson]

3 hours ago, Boghead ranter said:

I do.

Self employed dog walker, so like a lot of you, I work with puddle drinkers all day. I work hours that suit me, and now that my business is built up, I have the ability to turn down work I don't fancy doing.

What else do they ask you to  do?

[Boghead ranter]

Just now, Sergeant Wilson said:

What else do they ask you to  do?

Walk their dog at times I don't want to work on, walk their dog on weekends which, for the first time in my working life, I don't have to work. I basically now work 10.30 to 2.30, Monday to Friday, and it's fucking magic.

Or, if I get a dog that's an absolute untrained nightmare, and the owners don't do anything to train it, I can decide that I don't want to walk it any more (which I've only had to do once, to be fair).

[Sergeant Wilson]

Just now, Boghead ranter said:

Walk their dog at times I don't want to work on, walk their dog on weekends which, for the first time in my working life, I don't have to work. I basically now work 10.30 to 2.30, Monday to Friday, and it's fucking magic.

Or, if I get a dog that's an absolute untrained nightmare, and the owners don't do anything to train it, I can decide that I don't want to walk it any more (which I've only had to do once, to be fair).

I see, that's a relief. 

[Theroadlesstravelled]

7 hours ago, Boghead ranter said:

Walk their dog at times I don't want to work on, walk their dog on weekends which, for the first time in my working life, I don't have to work. I basically now work 10.30 to 2.30, Monday to Friday, and it's fucking magic.

Or, if I get a dog that's an absolute untrained nightmare, and the owners don't do anything to train it, I can decide that I don't want to walk it any more (which I've only had to do once, to be fair).

It’s constantly pishing with rain man.

 

[Newbornbairn]

Worked for a financial services company for a year and hated every minute (payday loans kind of thing). Based in Dewsbury, they had a Xmas do where partners were invited. As I was a salesman and based in Scotland and only having been with the company for a couple of months, I had no idea of the office politics though I'd noticed the office staff were from a very diverse background. In fact, the office was in the same building as the lawyers who handled the case of the teacher in Dewsbury that refused to take off her Burka mask whilst teaching and there were always about a dozen of these women in Burkas hanging around the front door. 

When I reached the hotel for the do with my wife, I discovered that none of the salesmen had turned up and I only knew one of the middle managers there. To say there was an "atmosphere" would be putting it mildly. I got the full story from the guy during a fairly short evening.

The company were very traditional and hosted a Xmas dinner each year with turkey, trifle etc. Then one of the directors, noticing how diverse the workplace was becoming, suggested they have a curry night instead of turkey. The first one went fine, but after the second and third ones, some of the older staff started not coming citing "spicy food" not agreeing with them. So it was agreed to alternate between a curry night and traditional turkey. At the first Xmas when they returned to a traditional turkey dinner, NONE of the Muslim staff turned up and complaints were made about their cultural needs not being met. So the company reverted to a curry night and this was me experiencing it - only a couple of middle managers, the directors and me were there from the white staff as all the rest boycotted it. 

Was really glad to leave that company as the atmosphere was poisonous. 

 

[Fullerene]

"Sorry I missed the Christmas Party but it really is not the sort of food that I would ever eat".

"I don't blame you.  Whose stupid idea was it to make it a Sushi night?"

"Actually it was mine."