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Friday 190: Is anyone aside from the same 3 people ever gonna start a Friday thread?? (pg. 2)
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| planetaryplayer |
well i wanted to shake up my life, so i quit my job spent all my money and went back to school LOL. now i have two jobs and class and i just have no time or disposable income. i am now in a position where this choice is leading to a useless degree and Im probably going to go back to school for the third time after this graduation or move to nunavut and colonize the natives
edit: i think I'm going to have to go regardless to bone |
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| Trance-M |
We had Christmas lunch at work today, well not at work but in the bar of the nearby indoor Snowworld ski paradise here, which has more space as with the factory people we're now at 160.
Had some drinks afterwards and some, especially some who work at the factory, had some too many, but that's nothing compared to UK habits.
Tomorrow the kids have lunch at the football club and will play a little afterwards. |
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| DJ RANN |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Getting enormously drunk and publicly debasing oneself? Yeah, that's a UK thing. |
Can confirm.
Every company party I've been at in the USA is incredibly tame and managers/senior staff in many instances aren't allowed to drink/fraternize with underlings for fear of a drunken fling resulting in #metoo. One of my mates works for a massive high end furniture supplier and if someone he manages even happens to walk in to the same bar as he's in, he's not allowed to chat or drink with them and HR's advice is actually to leave the premises.
I remember my last job in the UK, one friday when the boss went at about 3pm, " it, everyone to the pub on the corner right now" - 12 of got so steaming we us had to leave our cars overnight at work, our SO's called and be poured in to cabs home. |
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| Lira |
Can't say I've had the most exciting of Fridays.
I downloaded a bunch of music production tutorials so I could watch them at Kaoru's farm. And, here I am, watching the Denver Nuggets play because they remind me of McDonald's. I'm a simple man.
| quote: | Originally posted by Vector A
Lol, what? Is this a UK thing?
Maybe I just work at tame companies. |
I'm convinced tame companies are a Midwest thing. Both in the US and here in Brazil. We're in the middle of nowhere, living in the frontiers of civilisation, so we have to stay vigilant and watchful and polite at all times. We can't be intoxicated in case a puma shows up. We have to be ready to offer them tea. Or something.
I, for one, don't think I've ever seen a tipsy colleague, let alone an impaired drunkard with enough alcohol to have inflammable veins who I'd have to face again at work the following week. I have a feeling it would be frowned upon in most workplaces around here. Or maybe it's just academia :p
| quote: | Originally posted by Trance-M
We had Christmas lunch at work today, well not at work but in the bar of the nearby indoor Snowworld ski paradise here, which has more space as with the factory people we're now at 160. |
I wish we had one around here :( |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
i never go to work christmas functions. i hate small talk with people i don't care for but mostly it's because these functions are a disaster waiting to happen. i have a reputation for being the most poorly-behaved person in my various groups of friends and workplaces can be so uptight these days. i would almost certainly offend someone and i don't want to deal with the fallout at work.
my best mate is quite senior in his workplace and he's had to stop going to any work events where they serve alcohol. he too knows someone will get offended and it could cost him his job. we don't mean any harm we just have a different scale re what's offensive; a few years ago at his wife's work christmas function she had to stop him from undoing his fly so he could do the helicopter on the dancefloor. |
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| Lews |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ RANN
Every company party I've been at in the USA is incredibly tame and managers/senior staff in many instances aren't allowed to drink/fraternize with underlings for fear of a drunken fling resulting in #metoo. One of my mates works for a massive high end furniture supplier and if someone he manages even happens to walk in to the same bar as he's in, he's not allowed to chat or drink with them and HR's advice is actually to leave the premises. |
It's interesting how these well-intentioned policies end up back-firing. My partner's boss is afraid to have drinks with her, or other women, one-on-one after work for fear of HR problems, but really that just puts them at a disadvantage compared to the men with whom he will readily drink and discuss career/etc in a more relaxed environment. It probably is more fair to simply have a policy where one can't fraternise with any employees in a situation like that, but then no one gets those incredibly helpful discussions - let alone the chance to teambuild, etc. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| quote: | Originally posted by planetaryplayer
well i wanted to shake up my life, so i quit my job spent all my money and went back to school LOL. now i have two jobs and class and i just have no time or disposable income. i am now in a position where this choice is leading to a useless degree and Im probably going to go back to school for the third time after this graduation or move to nunavut and colonize the natives |
Without wanting to on your life decisions too much, I've always thought that "going back to school" is a bit of a fairytale. People seem to think it will solve all their work/life dissatisfaction but all it does for most people is put them right back at the bottom of the career ladder in a different field after having accrued debt and wasted a lot of free time.
I'm not saying you should never study further qualifications, especially if you're very clear on your goals, but I know a few people who've treated further study as a panacea to their unhappiness, and it never seems to work out. |
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
i never go to work christmas functions. i hate small talk with people i don't care for but mostly it's because these functions are a disaster waiting to happen. i have a reputation for being the most poorly-behaved person in my various groups of friends and workplaces can be so uptight these days. i would almost certainly offend someone and i don't want to deal with the fallout at work.
my best mate is quite senior in his workplace and he's had to stop going to any work events where they serve alcohol. he too knows someone will get offended and it could cost him his job. we don't mean any harm we just have a different scale re what's offensive; a few years ago at his wife's work christmas function she had to stop him from undoing his fly so he could do the helicopter on the dancefloor. |
So, not just a UK thing :stongue: |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Without wanting to on your life decisions too much, I've always thought that "going back to school" is a bit of a fairytale. People seem to think it will solve all their work/life dissatisfaction but all it does for most people is put them right back at the bottom of the career ladder in a different field after having accrued debt and wasted a lot of free time.
I'm not saying you should never study further qualifications, especially if you're very clear on your goals, but I know a few people who've treated further study as a panacea to their unhappiness, and it never seems to work out. |
agree generally, especially with the bolded. if you're lucky though you can get your employer to pony up for it. though the private sector is definitely more jewish in that regard.
| quote: | Originally posted by Sushipunk
So, not just a UK thing :stongue: |
haha, you knew this already though!
same guy was at a wedding several years ago and got picked up on a video microphone saying "oh, and here comes one-breasted grandma" about his nan who had had a mastectomy. it was a family video that was distributed far and wide in a very religious community. and i found out this week on holiday that his family blames me for his general poor behaviour over the last 2 decades :stongue: |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| Brits and Aussies are basically the same though, except you have a slightly more happy-go-lucky bent that comes from not being rained on for two thirds of the year. |
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| LoveHate |
starting my new job in about 2 hours,
its less then what i was making before, but atleast i wont have to wear a stupid security uniform anymore, and i can wear my piercings again...
i texted the fella early last morning, met up for an interview later that day, and now im starting today.. full time schedule 630am- to 3 ish depending on traffic ( i get picked up and dropped off )
i will be paid cash daily, and i had my doubts about that but it should work for me considering im in need of moolah asap ..plus its a non profit org and hes a church fella , so what can possibly go wrong
collecting and delivering empty bottles and cans ...its whatever but fine until i learn coding ....i will not fail this time world |
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| Vector A |
| People at my work go out for beers pretty regularly (helps that there is a brewery within walking distance), and there is sometimes alcohol at official company events. I've heard of people getting a bit loud or goofy but never anywhere near the level of "puke and forget most of the night." |
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