Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

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  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    Do people really not understand the difference between a secretary and a PA/EA?

    Definition:
    A Secretary is a person who is employed to do office work, such as typing letters, answering phone calls, and arranging meetings.

    PA: a secretary or administrative assistant working exclusively for one particular person.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,640
    But that doesn't mean a seketary can't or doesn't work exclusively for one particular person.
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  • mully79
    mully79 Posts: 904
    seanoconn said:

    3 mobile have turned my adult filter on for reasons unknown and I can’t turn it off so now I have to call someone in India to tell them I’m a pervert.

    They usually block gambling sites as well as adult sites which is a slightly easier conversation.
    :p
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 22,093
    surrey_commuter said:

    Do people really not understand the difference between a secretary and a PA/EA?

    Definition:
    A Secretary is a person who is employed to do office work, such as typing letters, answering phone calls, and arranging meetings.

    PA: a secretary or administrative assistant working exclusively for one particular person.

    Don't a lot of teams have a shared PA now?
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,636
    edited March 2022
    What’s the difference between a PA and a secretary?
    About £5k.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    TheBigBean said:

    surrey_commuter said:

    Do people really not understand the difference between a secretary and a PA/EA?

    Definition:
    A Secretary is a person who is employed to do office work, such as typing letters, answering phone calls, and arranging meetings.

    PA: a secretary or administrative assistant working exclusively for one particular person.

    Don't a lot of teams have a shared PA now?
    EA innit
    _
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 22,093
    rick_chasey said:

    TheBigBean said:

    surrey_commuter said:

    Do people really not understand the difference between a secretary and a PA/EA?

    Definition:
    A Secretary is a person who is employed to do office work, such as typing letters, answering phone calls, and arranging meetings.

    PA: a secretary or administrative assistant working exclusively for one particular person.

    Don't a lot of teams have a shared PA now?
    EA innit
    No idea. I don't really get the point of them.
  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    TheBigBean said:

    rick_chasey said:

    TheBigBean said:

    surrey_commuter said:

    Do people really not understand the difference between a secretary and a PA/EA?

    Definition:
    A Secretary is a person who is employed to do office work, such as typing letters, answering phone calls, and arranging meetings.

    PA: a secretary or administrative assistant working exclusively for one particular person.

    Don't a lot of teams have a shared PA now?
    EA innit
    No idea. I don't really get the point of them.
    Then you have never met a good one
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 22,093
    surrey_commuter said:

    TheBigBean said:

    rick_chasey said:

    TheBigBean said:

    surrey_commuter said:

    Do people really not understand the difference between a secretary and a PA/EA?

    Definition:
    A Secretary is a person who is employed to do office work, such as typing letters, answering phone calls, and arranging meetings.

    PA: a secretary or administrative assistant working exclusively for one particular person.

    Don't a lot of teams have a shared PA now?
    EA innit
    No idea. I don't really get the point of them.
    Then you have never met a good one
    I'm not questioning competency. It's the role I don't get.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Oh man worth their weight in gold - can earn a lot if you’re really good in my world.
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  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    TheBigBean said:

    surrey_commuter said:

    TheBigBean said:

    rick_chasey said:

    TheBigBean said:

    surrey_commuter said:

    Do people really not understand the difference between a secretary and a PA/EA?

    Definition:
    A Secretary is a person who is employed to do office work, such as typing letters, answering phone calls, and arranging meetings.

    PA: a secretary or administrative assistant working exclusively for one particular person.

    Don't a lot of teams have a shared PA now?
    EA innit
    No idea. I don't really get the point of them.
    Then you have never met a good one
    I'm not questioning competency. It's the role I don't get.
    Freeing up time, the better they are the more time they free up.
    I have been asked why I want a meeting with the big boss and been told they won’t care and to just get on with it.

    It is not dictation and collecting the dry cleaning
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 22,093
    surrey_commuter said:

    TheBigBean said:

    surrey_commuter said:

    TheBigBean said:

    rick_chasey said:

    TheBigBean said:

    surrey_commuter said:

    Do people really not understand the difference between a secretary and a PA/EA?

    Definition:
    A Secretary is a person who is employed to do office work, such as typing letters, answering phone calls, and arranging meetings.

    PA: a secretary or administrative assistant working exclusively for one particular person.

    Don't a lot of teams have a shared PA now?
    EA innit
    No idea. I don't really get the point of them.
    Then you have never met a good one
    I'm not questioning competency. It's the role I don't get.
    Freeing up time, the better they are the more time they free up.
    I have been asked why I want a meeting with the big boss and been told they won’t care and to just get on with it.

    It is not dictation and collecting the dry cleaning
    Collecting the dry cleaning would free up time, but isn't allowed these days as it is not work related. Clearly if you are in demand having a gatekeeper can be helpful.
  • morstar
    morstar Posts: 6,190
    Presenteeism, the tool of the weak leader arrives in education.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-60875162
  • monkimark
    monkimark Posts: 1,974
    Can
    a pigeon be a colleague?
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    morstar said:

    Presenteeism, the tool of the weak leader arrives in education.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-60875162

    As someone who has been absent from schools for 15 years the system seems so alien to me.

    In my mind school’s basically have to roughly teach the same thing in the same way, but there seems to be a massive divergence of what and how things are taught under the guise of choice (assuming you can move house wherever you want) and a reduction in quality.

    No doubt it’s wrong and I’ll get familiar with it in the next few years.

    The idea that there is big divergence on hours taught seems very odd to me.
    _
  • morstar
    morstar Posts: 6,190
    Some organisations succeed on long hours, some organisations succeed on short hours.

    If a school is very successful on a short week, what is achieved by making the week longer?

    I do agree that some standardisation is not automatically a bad thing but it’s an easy thing to focus on that no evidence has been presented to support is causation of any issues.

    What I can tell you is that the shorter hours in many cases will be in high achieving schools.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Look I’m not pro longer hours at all, it’s more the fact there is material divergence which I find odd.
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  • morstar
    morstar Posts: 6,190
    If I assume a pupil does approx 4 hours of maths per week for 39 weeks per year for 11 years between the age of 5 and 16, that’s 1,700 hours of maths.

    If people can’t do basic maths after that level of input over many years from a plethora of different teachers, attendance is not the issue.
  • drhaggis
    drhaggis Posts: 1,150
    Also:
    "20 minutes a day means 2 years more of schooling***" = "no coffees or avocados in a year buys you a first home deposit"

    *** Implicitly hinting the listener more academic performance
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Back on topic - I dropped out of watching F1 during the merc dominance but am giving it another go with the new regulations.

    When did the coverage stop naming the engine supplier as part of the team name?

    Really annoying.
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  • JimD666
    JimD666 Posts: 2,293
    Just discovered that the 16yr old Plasma TV has Eurosport/GCN burned in on the top right.....Perhaps we ought to of changed channel more...
  • morstar
    morstar Posts: 6,190
    edited March 2022
    rick_chasey said:

    Back on topic -

    Trivially annoying. People saying back on topic in the trivially annoying thread.
  • masjer
    masjer Posts: 2,809
    Washing machine doors that refuse to open after the cycle has finished. If you try before it's clicked, it seems to make you wait even longer.
  • JimD666
    JimD666 Posts: 2,293
    edited March 2022
    masjer said:

    Washing machine doors that refuse to open after the cycle has finished. If you try before it's clicked, it seems to make you wait even longer.

    That's no longer even trivial in our house. The ruddy thing is flashing "end" for what seems like hours before the door will finally open.
  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    We just bought a new one that when you stop the cycle mid-wash - door unlocks straight away.

    Looking forward to accidentally flooding the house when I get it wrong.
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,989
    Can you have a prxy PA?
    shirley_basso said:

    We just bought a new one that when you stop the cycle mid-wash - door unlocks straight away.

    Looking forward to accidentally flooding the house when I get it wrong.


    This.

    Mind you, the old washing machine, which locked the door for all of eternity, also lasted 35 years (some of which was spent laughing at me for my impatience in wanting to open the door), so I'll let it off.
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  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,974
    The sight of a young lady called Hilde Osland makes me question my atheism.


    The older I get, the better I was.

  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,636
    capt_slog said:

    The sight of a young lady called Hilde Osland makes me question my atheism.

    The internet has been instantly improved.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,640
    capt_slog said:

    The sight of a young lady called Hilde Osland makes me question my atheism.

    Yeahbut - doesn't she resemble a Barbie doll?
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,515
    .
    She is very 1970s/1980s to my eye. Farrah Fawcet all over again. Goldie Hawn. etc.

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