Seemingly trivial things that annoy you
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Repeated to emphasise my point. How it looks.pblakeney said:MPs total inability to read the room.
I suppose the real question is why standard practice is in the news.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.0 -
We always had to pay our own way when I was working in the public sector and that's how it should be. If a private sector company wants to use some of its revenue treating its staff to a meal and drinks that's a different story (I had excellent ones at the first private company I worked at, often involving a long weekend in a European city - it stopped in 2010 unsurprisingly).rick_chasey said:
Yes, of course, if it's the xmas christmas party.Tashman said:
If you want to go on the p*ss, pay for it yourself. Are you happy for all schools, hospitals, councils etc to also spend public money for a night out?rick_chasey said:What's wrong with the office xmas party being on expenses?
Can f*ck off if they expect me to pay for drinks.
If the office party was pay-for-yourself it's not different to any after-works drinks and you'd have to allow people not to turn up in case they don't want to spend the money.
Entirely defeats the point of it.
What kind of miserly penny pinching lot are you. Office xmas party is part of work and if they're not paying for it, don't go, arrange your own with the people you actually like in the office.0 -
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Why? It was an excuse to take an afternoon off and have a meal / get hammered with your colleagues. I don't remember anyone having an issue with paying for it themselves. Always a few talking points the next day as well considering it was the less PC days of the late 80s / early 90s. There'd be a few miserable ones who would rush their meal to get back to the office for the afternoon so they didn't have to take leave or lose any flexi time though.0
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Trivially annoying things - picking up a job that someone else originally designed and that is apparently close to being approved so stopping me being able to start from scratch. In this case done by an external contractor before I started.0
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Maybe I’m not used to very strict working hours culture but if you want lunch with your colleagues just go for lunch?
Public sector pay is so dire and is getting worse by the year - let em blow off some steam ffs
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We used to have a subsidised staff canteen on site so generally went for lunch on Wednesdays that were curry day and even had a drink in the NALGO club to follow (less than £1 per pint in the early 90s).
To give an idea of the opposite end of the entitlement spectrum, when we had our Christmas trips abroad with the one company we had a young lad who joined us straight from school who was complaining to the MDs wife on the flight home that the food had been 'rubbish' (i.e. it wasn't burger and chips and too posh for his limited palate). He hadn't had to spend a penny of his own money for a 3 day trip - think it was Munich that year - and had even been allowed to take a mate with him as he didn't have a partner.0 -
I see the rail workers are intent on screwing up everyone's xmas paryt on that note.
Blown up our team lunch which is the main event.
four 48 hr strikes, 13-14th and 16th-17th December (so whole week more or less) and again 3-4th and 6-7th, of Jan so that weeek too.0 -
Sounds worse to me. You're slacking off work and being paid by the tax payer. I'm not completely serious, but I can't understand why the tax payer buying a few drinks is worse than paying employees not to work.Pross said:Why? It was an excuse to take an afternoon off and have a meal / get hammered with your colleagues. I don't remember anyone having an issue with paying for it themselves. Always a few talking points the next day as well considering it was the less PC days of the late 80s / early 90s. There'd be a few miserable ones who would rush their meal to get back to the office for the afternoon so they didn't have to take leave or lose any flexi time though.
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maybe we should have a referendum of taxpayers to decide how much of their tax should be spent on staff jollies.TheBigBean said:
Sounds worse to me. You're slacking off work and being paid by the tax payer. I'm not completely serious, but I can't understand why the tax payer buying a few drinks is worse than paying employees not to work.Pross said:Why? It was an excuse to take an afternoon off and have a meal / get hammered with your colleagues. I don't remember anyone having an issue with paying for it themselves. Always a few talking points the next day as well considering it was the less PC days of the late 80s / early 90s. There'd be a few miserable ones who would rush their meal to get back to the office for the afternoon so they didn't have to take leave or lose any flexi time though.
If we assume £50 a head that is £300m just for Xmas, if we assume we will also be chipping in for babies, birthdays, weddings and leaving parties then it could easily be £0.5bn.
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Why would you assume chipping in for birthdays etc?surrey_commuter said:
maybe we should have a referendum of taxpayers to decide how much of their tax should be spent on staff jollies.TheBigBean said:
Sounds worse to me. You're slacking off work and being paid by the tax payer. I'm not completely serious, but I can't understand why the tax payer buying a few drinks is worse than paying employees not to work.Pross said:Why? It was an excuse to take an afternoon off and have a meal / get hammered with your colleagues. I don't remember anyone having an issue with paying for it themselves. Always a few talking points the next day as well considering it was the less PC days of the late 80s / early 90s. There'd be a few miserable ones who would rush their meal to get back to the office for the afternoon so they didn't have to take leave or lose any flexi time though.
If we assume £50 a head that is £300m just for Xmas, if we assume we will also be chipping in for babies, birthdays, weddings and leaving parties then it could easily be £0.5bn.
And not forgetting the subsidised canteens
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No-one was paying us, we had to take it as annual leave or from accrued flexi time.TheBigBean said:
Sounds worse to me. You're slacking off work and being paid by the tax payer. I'm not completely serious, but I can't understand why the tax payer buying a few drinks is worse than paying employees not to work.Pross said:Why? It was an excuse to take an afternoon off and have a meal / get hammered with your colleagues. I don't remember anyone having an issue with paying for it themselves. Always a few talking points the next day as well considering it was the less PC days of the late 80s / early 90s. There'd be a few miserable ones who would rush their meal to get back to the office for the afternoon so they didn't have to take leave or lose any flexi time though.
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Govt and franchise owners are going to wait them out I reckon, and keep offering more or less what they are offering now. The public aren't using the train as much these days, and it is hard anyway to tell the difference between a shit service caused by strikes and the normal shit service.rick_chasey said:I see the rail workers are intent on screwing up everyone's xmas paryt on that note.
Blown up our team lunch which is the main event.
four 48 hr strikes, 13-14th and 16th-17th December (so whole week more or less) and again 3-4th and 6-7th, of Jan so that weeek too.0 -
an ex-girlfriend used to work in HR in a hospital and as the junior would be sent to a finance function to get funding for such things. I will admit this was a long time ago.kingstongraham said:
Why would you assume chipping in for birthdays etc?surrey_commuter said:
maybe we should have a referendum of taxpayers to decide how much of their tax should be spent on staff jollies.TheBigBean said:
Sounds worse to me. You're slacking off work and being paid by the tax payer. I'm not completely serious, but I can't understand why the tax payer buying a few drinks is worse than paying employees not to work.Pross said:Why? It was an excuse to take an afternoon off and have a meal / get hammered with your colleagues. I don't remember anyone having an issue with paying for it themselves. Always a few talking points the next day as well considering it was the less PC days of the late 80s / early 90s. There'd be a few miserable ones who would rush their meal to get back to the office for the afternoon so they didn't have to take leave or lose any flexi time though.
If we assume £50 a head that is £300m just for Xmas, if we assume we will also be chipping in for babies, birthdays, weddings and leaving parties then it could easily be £0.5bn.
And not forgetting the subsidised canteens
when i worked places where Xmas lunches were expensed all of those things were as well.
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They really are a cunch of bunts. I shall beat them by cycling in.rick_chasey said:I see the rail workers are intent on screwing up everyone's xmas paryt on that note.
Blown up our team lunch which is the main event.
four 48 hr strikes, 13-14th and 16th-17th December (so whole week more or less) and again 3-4th and 6-7th, of Jan so that weeek too."I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
They've annoyed me now. I'd arranged to visit someone on Saturday.0
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TheBigBean said:
They've annoyed me now. I'd arranged to visit someone on Saturday.
I think that's the idea.
Well, maybe not to annoy you personally, but to get noticed by the public generally, so there's public pressure to get the dispute sorted.0 -
Stevo_666 said:
They really are a cunch of bunts. I shall beat them by cycling in.rick_chasey said:I see the rail workers are intent on screwing up everyone's xmas paryt on that note.
Blown up our team lunch which is the main event.
four 48 hr strikes, 13-14th and 16th-17th December (so whole week more or less) and again 3-4th and 6-7th, of Jan so that weeek too.
Don't forget to use the winter bike.0 -
Looks like the MPs got the jist of my post. 🤣🤣🤣
"MPs reject Christmas parties on expenses."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.0 -
It's also my spring, summer and autumn bike. But I'll call it my '**** the strikers bike' for that week.briantrumpet said:Stevo_666 said:
They really are a cunch of bunts. I shall beat them by cycling in.rick_chasey said:I see the rail workers are intent on screwing up everyone's xmas paryt on that note.
Blown up our team lunch which is the main event.
four 48 hr strikes, 13-14th and 16th-17th December (so whole week more or less) and again 3-4th and 6-7th, of Jan so that weeek too.
Don't forget to use the winter bike."I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]1 -
FTFY.briantrumpet said:TheBigBean said:They've annoyed me now. I'd arranged to visit someone on Saturday.
I think that's the idea.
Well, maybe not to annoy you personally, but to get noticed by the public generally, so there's public pressure to get driverless trains rolled out and sack the b***ards."I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
They probably decided that they could just about stretch to a meal in the Members’ restaurant where a 3 course meal will set them back less than £15. Not sure what the bar prices are like.pblakeney said:Looks like the MPs got the jist of my post. 🤣🤣🤣
"MPs reject Christmas parties on expenses."
Edit - less than £4 a pint and less than £3 for a glass of wine or single malt by the look of it.0 -
One of the solutions to the current problem is to encourage people to use trains. Obviously not the solution they are going forbriantrumpet said:TheBigBean said:They've annoyed me now. I'd arranged to visit someone on Saturday.
I think that's the idea.
Well, maybe not to annoy you personally, but to get noticed by the public generally, so there's public pressure to get the dispute sorted.0 -
Stevo_666 said:
It's also my spring, summer and autumn bike. But I'll call it my '**** the strikers bike' for that week.briantrumpet said:Stevo_666 said:
They really are a cunch of bunts. I shall beat them by cycling in.rick_chasey said:I see the rail workers are intent on screwing up everyone's xmas paryt on that note.
Blown up our team lunch which is the main event.
four 48 hr strikes, 13-14th and 16th-17th December (so whole week more or less) and again 3-4th and 6-7th, of Jan so that weeek too.
Don't forget to use the winter bike.
Have you thought about entering a raffle for a nice new bike?0 -
Who's got that as a prize?briantrumpet said:Stevo_666 said:
It's also my spring, summer and autumn bike. But I'll call it my '**** the strikers bike' for that week.briantrumpet said:Stevo_666 said:
They really are a cunch of bunts. I shall beat them by cycling in.rick_chasey said:I see the rail workers are intent on screwing up everyone's xmas paryt on that note.
Blown up our team lunch which is the main event.
four 48 hr strikes, 13-14th and 16th-17th December (so whole week more or less) and again 3-4th and 6-7th, of Jan so that weeek too.
Don't forget to use the winter bike.
Have you thought about entering a raffle for a nice new bike?"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Stevo_666 said:
Who's got that as a prize?briantrumpet said:Stevo_666 said:
It's also my spring, summer and autumn bike. But I'll call it my '**** the strikers bike' for that week.briantrumpet said:Stevo_666 said:
They really are a cunch of bunts. I shall beat them by cycling in.rick_chasey said:I see the rail workers are intent on screwing up everyone's xmas paryt on that note.
Blown up our team lunch which is the main event.
four 48 hr strikes, 13-14th and 16th-17th December (so whole week more or less) and again 3-4th and 6-7th, of Jan so that weeek too.
Don't forget to use the winter bike.
Have you thought about entering a raffle for a nice new bike?
One of my best friends won a £2.5k bike on a raffle, sold it via eBay to a cash buyer from London who travelled down the next day to pick it up, and my friend bought a mega lens for his fancy camera and went on a safari holiday with his wife on the proceeds. I suppose you could say it was as good as a 'cash prize'.0 -
ITV 4 usually during the Tour. I think they might have one per week up for grabs.Stevo_666 said:
Who's got that as a prize?briantrumpet said:Stevo_666 said:
It's also my spring, summer and autumn bike. But I'll call it my '**** the strikers bike' for that week.briantrumpet said:Stevo_666 said:
They really are a cunch of bunts. I shall beat them by cycling in.rick_chasey said:I see the rail workers are intent on screwing up everyone's xmas paryt on that note.
Blown up our team lunch which is the main event.
four 48 hr strikes, 13-14th and 16th-17th December (so whole week more or less) and again 3-4th and 6-7th, of Jan so that weeek too.
Don't forget to use the winter bike.
Have you thought about entering a raffle for a nice new bike?0
