The MD is in today
GhallTN6
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Our MD has graced us with his presence this week, now while he is very good at his job.. he's a bit of a loner, technophobe, works 7 days a week, no friends or partner.. never introduces himself to new staff (or thanks anyone who leaves).. and would rather wait an hour to get someone to print a doc for him than print it himself.. and never ever would he come to the pub for a drink with the minions.. I don't even think he likes bacon!
So, what's your MD/Boss like!
So, what's your MD/Boss like!
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Our MD is a great bloke who seems to remember almost everybody, that's despite the company having 3000+ employees.
Not sure he likes bikes, but he likes bacon and beer.Visit Clacton during the School holidays - it's like a never ending freak show.
Who are you calling inbred?0 -
But does he have a huge monobrow also ?0
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The work experience guy the other week summed our MD up: 'he would be more at home on Bilston market'0
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Welllll...........
At work work my boss is pretty lenient, very good at her job and for the most part a good boss, although she does have a firey temper sometimes. But she allows me to abuse the internet and go get bacons on work time so all in all not bad!
From September I shall be my own boss, which means I shall allow myself to eat bacons on work time, although I think I will actually work then rather than spending all my time procrastinating, might need to work to make £££££££££££££££££!
Never see my boss at either the dryslope or the fridge......Ride it like you stole it!0 -
My MD skates around the office in his inline skates and drives a real fast car.
The other director also has a real fast car and a owns few superbikes
Our directors encourage office banter and also bought us a Sega Rally Challenge arcade console and table tennis table to keep us entertained during lunchtime and after work
They also bought all the equipment from a bankrupt gym. It's all been delivered and they're having an area built upstairs for our own gym + showers
They encourage me to bring in my [electric] RC cars and helicopters on a Friday
Every desk at work is equipped with a Nerf Gun (those things that shoot those foam rubber dart efforts) which we use to wage urban warfare and also go get someone's attention..
They also encourage us to work from home
All this and a company car and very competitive salary makes my directors gentlemen0 -
Raymondavalon wrote:My MD skates around the office in his inline skates and drives a real fast car.
The other director also has a real fast car and a owns few superbikes
Our directors encourage office banter and also bought us a Sega Rally Challenge arcade console and table tennis table to keep us entertained during lunchtime and after work
They also bought all the equipment from a bankrupt gym. It's all been delivered and they're having an area built upstairs for our own gym + showers
They encourage me to bring in my [electric] RC cars and helicopters on a Friday
Every desk at work is equipped with a Nerf Gun (those things that shoot those foam rubber dart efforts) which we use to wage urban warfare and also go get someone's attention..
They also encourage us to work from home
All this and a company car and very competitive salary makes my directors gentlemen
They don't need somebody with experience of managing property and contracts worth more than £15 million?Visit Clacton during the School holidays - it's like a never ending freak show.
Who are you calling inbred?0 -
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GhallTN6 wrote:Shhh.. nobody talk, he's walking round the office..!
OI YOU! NUMB NUTS! LEARNED TO USE THE PRINTER YET?Visit Clacton during the School holidays - it's like a never ending freak show.
Who are you calling inbred?0 -
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Raymondavalon wrote:My MD skates around the office in his inline skates and drives a real fast car.
The other director also has a real fast car and a owns few superbikes
Our directors encourage office banter and also bought us a Sega Rally Challenge arcade console and table tennis table to keep us entertained during lunchtime and after work
They also bought all the equipment from a bankrupt gym. It's all been delivered and they're having an area built upstairs for our own gym + showers
They encourage me to bring in my [electric] RC cars and helicopters on a Friday
Every desk at work is equipped with a Nerf Gun (those things that shoot those foam rubber dart efforts) which we use to wage urban warfare and also go get someone's attention..
They also encourage us to work from home
All this and a company car and very competitive salary makes my directors gentlemen
any chance they need an electrical engineer with 10 years defnece and civil aviation experience and SC clearance?0 -
Our MD is a real gentleman, speaks poshly, dresses smartly, and joined a sinking ship with his own job on the line. He's brought the company back up from the verge of bancruptcy, has had arguements with funding companies (which was seen as suicidal) and got twice as much out of them.
He also says hello to everyone, he can't remember all our names, but at least recognises us to say hello and ask how things are going.
He even knows what a reverb unit is, and a compressor! Turns out he's done quite a bit of recordings in the past, and has quite some experience with a soldering iron.
He really is a great man, worthy of being the MD.It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
Join us on UK-MTB we won't bite, but bring cake!
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Current one is American
Previous - Kuwaiti
Previous - Welsh
The American is clever, funny and lets me get on with it and never finds out! He actually likes and cares for the people who work for him - and gives us expensive booze for Xmas!
At work we have a free canteen too.
The others were Kuwaiti / Welsh and they were not so good.0 -
Our MDs are both pretty cool guys.
Both billionaires, but both come in the office 5 days a week, sit with the minions for lunch, come to the pub, just regular guys.
They're happy to sign off on a load of staff events each year, including a summer party, with bouncy castles, clowns, face painting, pony rodes etc for the kids, winter parties with santa and stuff, TT partys, VIP events and so on, all with free bars (of course).
The company as a whole seems very into this "a happy worker is a productive worker" kind of mindset, which suits me just fine.
I think a lot of it comes from the kind of industry you work in too.0 -
My boss is terrific, top bloke and a pleasure to work for, his is the guy that admitted to haveing his wallet and company laptop stolen by a slovakian hooker!
MD I've not had the pleasure of meeting, although I have met some of the board and 80% of them I'd say were absolute tools!0 -
Cat With No Tail wrote:Our MDs are both pretty cool guys.
Haven't you just got a new job though? Hope your new MD is as good!Out with the old, in with the new here.0 -
Don't really see the MD much as he's in another building so that's fine. Mind you he's a decent bloke and good at his job. My immediate boss is very good (not just because he's abroad this week
. I have learnt loads from him; he has backed me up when I needed it and even though I'm leaving next month in the middle of a busy time he is happy to give me a glowing reference and has even asked if I want to come back and do some consultancy work if I want it. Thumbs up. "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
crazy88 wrote:Cat With No Tail wrote:Our MDs are both pretty cool guys.
Haven't you just got a new job though? Hope your new MD is as good!
Same company, promotion to a different dept.
Besides, up until under a year ago, I was my own MD, consulting for this company. I was a cnut to work for though, that's why I quit.0 -
My boss is a selfish knob. And the company as a whole is going tits up. I work for Southern Crap Healthcare!!!
No wonder its going out of business, its managed by idiots, understaffed and staff are made to feel guilty if they dare become ill due to being overworked. Crap money.0 -
Our old MD was great he was a middle weight boxer in his younger days, if we fancied a night out at a sportsman dinner we'd just drop it into conversations knowing he'd tell us to sort out a couple of tables on the books. He'd then put us on free ale and challenge us to beat the other table in drinking contests, he came down one day and gave me an envelope with 10 passes for Manchester united vs liverpool with executive seats. Our new MD is ok gone are the freebies apart from the company pass at Worsley Marriott golf course that saves me a fortune in green fees, as for around the work place he's happy to just let us get on with it in the warehouse as he knows who are the workers and who are the lazy b@stards just wish he'd give us better payWhat if your dreams and fears existed in the same place? What if to get to heaven, you had to brave hell? What if everything you've ever wanted cost you everything you've ever achieved? Would you still go there?0
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Mine looks like Penfold from Danger Mouse and drives a Prius. 'nuff said.0
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My boss is cool - one of the guys. Lets us get on with our s**t, we let him get on with his, and it all kinda works. Very good at bringing in new clients and projects. Tolerates some amount of crap from the minions.
He's also in our paintball team as one of the sneaky bush-creepers.
Terrible, terrible taste in cars.
How would I write my own epitaph? With a crayon - I'm not allowed anything I can sharpen to a sustainable point.
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bwfc4eva868 wrote:My boss is a selfish knob. And the company as a whole is going tits up. I work for Southern Crap Healthcare!!!
No wonder its going out of business, its managed by idiots, understaffed and staff are made to feel guilty if they dare become ill due to being overworked. Crap money.
Thank fcuk that someone else has a crap boss.. I was beginning to get depressed and think that I should just jump out the window (although my MD doesn't believe in healthcare so I woudn't get anywhere with that either).0 -
The France benelux MD turned up last thursday to moan about how much we cost,how our production needs to increase and generally to make a nuisance of himself.
Needless to say he is hated
The boss on the other hand is brilliantI assume this is French petrol - be careful in reverse - the car will retreat rapidly at the least provocation.0 -
GhallTN6 wrote:bwfc4eva868 wrote:My boss is a selfish knob. And the company as a whole is going tits up. I work for Southern Crap Healthcare!!!
No wonder its going out of business, its managed by idiots, understaffed and staff are made to feel guilty if they dare become ill due to being overworked. Crap money.
Thank fcuk that someone else has a crap boss.. I was beginning to get depressed and think that I should just jump out the window (although my MD doesn't believe in healthcare so I woudn't get anywhere with that either).
Its a shame because i enjoy the job! I enjoy looking after the residents on my unit. However, i do not appreciate having split shifts and then when i do get a day off after doing 5 nights in a row, i get my sleep interrupted because the person who does the rota, has now realized she has put someone down to work who is on annual leave.
I'll be glad when a suitable role comes up again in the NHS! I'm waiting for opportunities to come up and Christies Hospital or Royal Bolton Hospital.0 -
I'm awesome!Advocate of disc brakes.0
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i thkn my MD would be the queen, she strikes me as a decent sort.
my bosses at work are all good though, but i wouldnt tell them that. the top quality management at my place make this the best job ive ever had so someone must be doing summat right.0 -
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sheepsteeth wrote:mrfmilo wrote:What's an MD?
meaty dick
thats what i call my dickThe dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns
momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.0 -
.blitz wrote:The work experience guy the other week summed our MD up: 'he would be more at home on Bilston market'
Oi fark off theres no need for that I was born around the corner from there !
Our MD is alright, a rather friendly northern bloke who was quick to make acquaintances with the ex PM during last years election run-up, he also was rumoured to be on youtube pole dancing with some strippers too so at least he knows how to spend his money !0
