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Random irritations.. 09:32 - Jun 10 with 482763 viewsDiscodroid

state funded schools in birmingham calling children to islamic prayer over the playground speakers, eschewing music lessons music, segregation... and the bbc doing a 'what are british values 'phone in this morning. cunnys.



evening standard , who seem to be phasing out their female genital mutilation wall to wall coverage , for a 'say no to rape in war' campaign. to be published in depth every night,, along with pictures of skinny london supermodels falling out of night clubson cocaine and articles on womens shoes and hanbags which cost £15,000 each.

and articles on 'suuuper property dahrling' that cost £25 million for a studio flat in barnes .tedious double page spreads on walthamstow village , sandwiches that are made by freegans for £50...and avante garde homosexual dance troops from slovienia .this paper says nothing at all to the average londoner.




musicals , and the cast's of musicals, especially amateur ones in church halls,romford, last saturday night.
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Random irritations.. on 07:57 - Jan 13 with 1481 viewsDorse

Being made late by my children, who seem to think that arrival and departure times are, mysteriously, the same fcking thing.

'What do we want? We don't know! When do we want it? Now!'

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Random irritations.. on 10:22 - Jan 13 with 1342 viewsBluce_Ree

Random irritations.. on 07:57 - Jan 13 by Dorse

Being made late by my children, who seem to think that arrival and departure times are, mysteriously, the same fcking thing.


My wife's much the same.

Stefan Moore, Stefan Moore running down the wing. Stefan Moore, Stefan Moore running down the wing. He runs like a cheetah, his crosses couldn't be sweeter. Stefan Moore. Stefan Moore. Stefan Moore.

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Random irritations.. on 10:15 - Jan 18 with 1020 viewsstevec

Cooking programmes
Celebrities
And worst of all, cooking programmes with celebrities.

Some daft woman been asked what’s your cooking hell? Cakes apparently. Nobody actually tells her that nobody cooks a fckin cake and no cakes have ever been cooked in the history of this entire programme even if you could cook cakes. So luv, what’s your cooking heaven? Everything apparently, literally everything. Just fck off and stop ruining my Saturday morning.
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Random irritations.. on 14:42 - Jan 20 with 767 viewsBrianMcCarthy

Teams/Zoom Meetings

Doing a lot of work with Continental Europeans at the moment. Their addiction to monster online meetings kills all speed and progress.

You phone someone, they don't answer, you leave a message, they don't answer, you email them telling them you want to talk to them on a phone, they email back suggesting a Teams Meeting with 18 other people which will last an hour.

You just wanted a 30-second chat.

How does anything get done?

"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
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Random irritations.. on 14:51 - Jan 20 with 738 viewsJuzzie

Random irritations.. on 14:42 - Jan 20 by BrianMcCarthy

Teams/Zoom Meetings

Doing a lot of work with Continental Europeans at the moment. Their addiction to monster online meetings kills all speed and progress.

You phone someone, they don't answer, you leave a message, they don't answer, you email them telling them you want to talk to them on a phone, they email back suggesting a Teams Meeting with 18 other people which will last an hour.

You just wanted a 30-second chat.

How does anything get done?


I have about half-a-dozen multiple attended zoom meetings each week (half of those with people in Germany, Czech Republic etc).

It's not that bad with the aforementioned countries as we're all a bit more disciplined in how the meeting flows, but it feels to me with the internal company calls these days everything (zooms calls, emails etc) is decision by committee (ten million people getting "looped in" on every fkin email) as no one wants to make a decision themselves about anything for fear of accountability even if it is in fact their job to actually make a fking decision.

Everything gets deferred to someone else who never responds and I'm forever following up with my people to find out if we have an answer on something.


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Random irritations.. on 15:17 - Jan 20 with 685 viewsBrianMcCarthy

Random irritations.. on 14:51 - Jan 20 by Juzzie

I have about half-a-dozen multiple attended zoom meetings each week (half of those with people in Germany, Czech Republic etc).

It's not that bad with the aforementioned countries as we're all a bit more disciplined in how the meeting flows, but it feels to me with the internal company calls these days everything (zooms calls, emails etc) is decision by committee (ten million people getting "looped in" on every fkin email) as no one wants to make a decision themselves about anything for fear of accountability even if it is in fact their job to actually make a fking decision.

Everything gets deferred to someone else who never responds and I'm forever following up with my people to find out if we have an answer on something.


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"...but it feels to me with the internal company calls these days everything (zooms calls, emails etc) is decision by committee (ten million people getting "looped in" on every fkin email) as no one wants to make a decision themselves about anything for fear of accountability even if it is in fact their job to actually make a fking decision."

Similar with me. It's unreal!

I also think that a lot of people are consultants hiring themselves out so an hour's zoom call with an hour's imaginary prep for the zoom call is two hours they can charge.

"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
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Random irritations.. on 15:22 - Jan 20 with 667 viewsWatford_Ranger

Random irritations.. on 14:42 - Jan 20 by BrianMcCarthy

Teams/Zoom Meetings

Doing a lot of work with Continental Europeans at the moment. Their addiction to monster online meetings kills all speed and progress.

You phone someone, they don't answer, you leave a message, they don't answer, you email them telling them you want to talk to them on a phone, they email back suggesting a Teams Meeting with 18 other people which will last an hour.

You just wanted a 30-second chat.

How does anything get done?


The absolute bain of my life. Some really minor things where I work now require approval at a really senior level rather than just trusting people to get on with it. Anything that requires working with other markets, particularly Spain, is absolutely done on their ambiguous timelines/whenever they fancy getting round to doing their bit of it. Nobody ever wanting to be accountable for anything when it just needs someone/anyone in a particular team to make a call on it and we’ll never know what would have happened if they’d made the other call anyway.

I do miss working in smaller businesses in some ways though that comes with its own challenge. Megalomaniac owners, zero cash flow, cutting corners often etc. but you do get to the end of the week usually feeling like you’ve actually achieved something.
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Random irritations.. on 15:27 - Jan 20 with 655 viewsBrianMcCarthy

Random irritations.. on 15:22 - Jan 20 by Watford_Ranger

The absolute bain of my life. Some really minor things where I work now require approval at a really senior level rather than just trusting people to get on with it. Anything that requires working with other markets, particularly Spain, is absolutely done on their ambiguous timelines/whenever they fancy getting round to doing their bit of it. Nobody ever wanting to be accountable for anything when it just needs someone/anyone in a particular team to make a call on it and we’ll never know what would have happened if they’d made the other call anyway.

I do miss working in smaller businesses in some ways though that comes with its own challenge. Megalomaniac owners, zero cash flow, cutting corners often etc. but you do get to the end of the week usually feeling like you’ve actually achieved something.


"I do miss working in smaller businesses in some ways though that comes with its own challenge. Megalomaniac owners, zero cash flow, cutting corners often etc. but you do get to the end of the week usually feeling like you’ve actually achieved something."

Me too, Watford, and I never thought I'd say that.

"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
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Random irritations.. on 16:30 - Jan 20 with 573 viewsWatford_Ranger

Random irritations.. on 15:27 - Jan 20 by BrianMcCarthy

"I do miss working in smaller businesses in some ways though that comes with its own challenge. Megalomaniac owners, zero cash flow, cutting corners often etc. but you do get to the end of the week usually feeling like you’ve actually achieved something."

Me too, Watford, and I never thought I'd say that.


On the flip side the benefits aren’t as good and I get much better coffee now. Life is far too short to take any business that isn’t yours too seriously. Die tomorrow and you’ll be forgotten in a month. Meh.
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Random irritations.. on 17:47 - Jan 20 with 490 viewsJuzzie

Random irritations.. on 15:22 - Jan 20 by Watford_Ranger

The absolute bain of my life. Some really minor things where I work now require approval at a really senior level rather than just trusting people to get on with it. Anything that requires working with other markets, particularly Spain, is absolutely done on their ambiguous timelines/whenever they fancy getting round to doing their bit of it. Nobody ever wanting to be accountable for anything when it just needs someone/anyone in a particular team to make a call on it and we’ll never know what would have happened if they’d made the other call anyway.

I do miss working in smaller businesses in some ways though that comes with its own challenge. Megalomaniac owners, zero cash flow, cutting corners often etc. but you do get to the end of the week usually feeling like you’ve actually achieved something.


Also same here! Micro-managing the schit out of everything because the seniors are schit scared of things going wrong (well, boo-hoo, that's what you get paid the big bucks for) so no one is allowed or trusted to just get on with it (although I have a feeling I am 'cos I've been there for years and can actually do the job but doesn't stop me from having to go along with the micro-managing).

Everything has to be logged and accounted for and put on sharepoint spreadsheets and the same duplicated on other systems/platforms. Such an utter waste of time and resource.

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Random irritations.. on 10:24 - Jan 21 with 267 viewsR_from_afar

Random irritations.. on 16:30 - Jan 20 by Watford_Ranger

On the flip side the benefits aren’t as good and I get much better coffee now. Life is far too short to take any business that isn’t yours too seriously. Die tomorrow and you’ll be forgotten in a month. Meh.


"Life is far too short to take any business that isn’t yours too seriously. Die tomorrow and you’ll be forgotten in a month. Meh".

This a million times over.

I am fortunate enough to be retired now - thank God - but even though I was always a very hard working, leave no stone unturned type of person during my working life, I still got made redundant five times. Brutal. The last time it happened, I was the only person in the whole company doing what I did, and that still didn't save me.

Going back to Brian's post, at my last company, there was a large number of middle managers who spent an inordinate amount of time in meetings together - meetings which seemed to have little useful output - and who all seemed to think they were gurus and really rather special.

I would e-mail one of them, with other middle managers copied, and the main recipient would usually ignore my mail until one of the other middle managers became involved grrrr

Thanks to a massive and expensive vanity project - a company split and rebrand - and choosing to spend three years ignoring advice from me and others to develop a key new product, the company has seen its previous expansion go into reverse, has had to pull out of markets it had put huge effort into entering, has seen its visibility drain away and has had to cut hundreds of staff. Clowns 🤡

"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."

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