How Happy Are You At Work?

seanoconn

Stevo 666 wrote:

pinarello001 wrote:

@ Nathancom - How come it's taken then so long to figure out that you are a loon?

Me self employed me. I do the accounts but not the audit, I arrange the logistics, I drive the van (once have arranged the logistics), I manage the loons...er, sorry - personnel, I fix the machinery (conveyors, generators, pumps), I do the PR and I am the creator of the recently installed unique personal hygiene system.

I used to love my job but now it is a grind. I am constantly knackered and I will be unemployed in about a year - yippee!

With a little bit of cash (finally) in my back pocket after the whole caboodle is wound up and sold off, I am taking a year or so out to pedal more, enjoy life and the kids. My OH is going to and can do more hours.
Cannot wait.

Sounds like you're a capitalist asset stripper - self employed, financially literate, built up and flogging off a business to live on the proceeds (which will be taxed at a very low rate )

You are my hero.

No I think you misunderstood Stevo, Pinarello does actually employ loons (his words not mine) for tax relief purposes. The learning impaired exploited to the max, without rest in a dangerous can crushing environment. And any disgruntled employees are escorted deep into the woods and dealt with in true 'waste management' style!

Come to think of it, he's probably even more of a hero to you now

arran77

seanoconn wrote:

Stevo 666 wrote:

pinarello001 wrote:

@ Nathancom - How come it's taken then so long to figure out that you are a loon?

Me self employed me. I do the accounts but not the audit, I arrange the logistics, I drive the van (once have arranged the logistics), I manage the loons...er, sorry - personnel, I fix the machinery (conveyors, generators, pumps), I do the PR and I am the creator of the recently installed unique personal hygiene system.

I used to love my job but now it is a grind. I am constantly knackered and I will be unemployed in about a year - yippee!

With a little bit of cash (finally) in my back pocket after the whole caboodle is wound up and sold off, I am taking a year or so out to pedal more, enjoy life and the kids. My OH is going to and can do more hours.
Cannot wait.

Sounds like you're a capitalist asset stripper - self employed, financially literate, built up and flogging off a business to live on the proceeds (which will be taxed at a very low rate )

You are my hero.

No I think you misunderstood Stevo, Pinarello does actually employ loons (his words not mine) for tax relief purposes. The learning impaired exploited to the max, without rest in a dangerous can crushing environment. And any disgruntled employees are escorted deep into the woods and dealt with in true 'waste management' style!

Come to think of it, he's probably even more of a hero to you now

It's true, Piña has even said on here before that he has to watch out for them licking the machinery :shock:

ballysmate

seanoconn wrote:

Stevo 666 wrote:

pinarello001 wrote:

@ Nathancom - How come it's taken then so long to figure out that you are a loon?

Me self employed me. I do the accounts but not the audit, I arrange the logistics, I drive the van (once have arranged the logistics), I manage the loons...er, sorry - personnel, I fix the machinery (conveyors, generators, pumps), I do the PR and I am the creator of the recently installed unique personal hygiene system.

I used to love my job but now it is a grind. I am constantly knackered and I will be unemployed in about a year - yippee!

With a little bit of cash (finally) in my back pocket after the whole caboodle is wound up and sold off, I am taking a year or so out to pedal more, enjoy life and the kids. My OH is going to and can do more hours.
Cannot wait.

Sounds like you're a capitalist asset stripper - self employed, financially literate, built up and flogging off a business to live on the proceeds (which will be taxed at a very low rate )

You are my hero.

No I think you misunderstood Stevo, Pinarello does actually employ loons (his words not mine) for tax relief purposes. The learning impaired exploited to the max, without rest in a dangerous can crushing environment. And any disgruntled employees are escorted deep into the woods and dealt with in true 'waste management' style!

Come to think of it, he's probably even more of a hero to you now

That would be Pina Walnuts Rello?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCpUct0DM_Y

Stevo_666

seanoconn wrote:

[No I think you misunderstood Stevo, Pinarello does actually employ loons (his words not mine) for tax relief purposes. The learning impaired exploited to the max, without rest in a dangerous can crushing environment. And any disgruntled employees are escorted deep into the woods and dealt with in true 'waste management' style!

Come to think of it, he's probably even more of a hero to you now

I bet Pinno's processing plant is like a Victorian mine, with him cracking a whip at hordes of chained up vulnerable adults. And he'll only get taxed at 10% when he sells it off and abandons his employees to their fate.

At this rate he's going to get the 'We are not worthy' salute, Waynes World stylee

VTech

You gotta love the 10% entrepreneurs tax. It's a pension fund wrapped up in gold paper. #tob

pinno

Another training video we refer to quite often:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40HPFGvZ4ro

Stevo_666

pinarello001 wrote:

Another training video we refer to quite often:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40HPFGvZ4ro

The Capitalist Messiah returns!

mosamahab

I'd like to be number 38, but I can't find a job that will help me get my HPC registration. Life after graduation sucks.

Therefore completely unhappy. :roll:

Pross

Mr Goo wrote:

arran77 wrote:

Mr Goo wrote:

arran77 wrote:

Mr Goo wrote:

Central buying policies and technology ie; Internet/email has made the role virtually redundant.

I would be inclined to agree with you on that front. I work as a mechanical estimator for an M & E contractor and the majority of interaction that I have with suppliers and sub-contractors is over the phone or via email, I very rarely have the need to see a rep face to face these days and when I do see them it's more just to catch up and for them to remind me of their existence, I've often thought what a sole destroying existence that must be!!

In terms of roles being redundant, I too can't really see myself being able to continue as I am now for another 30 or 35 years, the days of estimators sitting there taking off drawings are numbered, so too are the days of the M & E contractor not being part of a main contractor :roll:

If I had my time again I would not work in the construction industry and I will do all that I can to discourage my children from following me into this industry.

Glad you agree.
Interestingly some of the Architects and Consulting Engineers that are still willing to have a chat (never about products) are also seeing themselves becoming redundant. Increasingly manufacturers are willing to provide a full design service, as they do in Europe. With this service will be a full 'shopping list' of the products required for each part of the build. So you are right, estimating may well be reduced or redundant in the future.

I have never needed to tell my kids not to follow me. They have already seen what a miserable sod I have turned into over the last few years.

The architect / consultant thing is certainly true, I think in the future as BIM, or whatever it turns out to be, takes hold it will mean that there are far fewer individual parties involved in the built environment and there will be more of an emphasis on much larger organisations that offer a complete building solution.

Yeh. BIM is certainly going to herald a culture change in the construction industry. Could be the death of many professions.
As I am sure you will have noticed, the number of large contractors has gone down, with now super sized companies. None more so than Balfour Beatty. Down here they have bought up Dean & Dyball and Mansells. Then over a period of couple of years shut down lots of offices. D&D head office was in Ringwood but doesn't exist anymore. There are rumours that the old Mansells H/O in Totton, Southampton might be downsized. Balfour also bought out Parsons Brinckerhoff for the engineering design expertise and then started laying staff off. I lost all my contacts at the Godalming head office as they were either laid off or just left, because Balfour only wanted PB for an in road into the infrastructure business in the Middle East.

I bet now, that Balfour will be the Main Contractor for HS2, then will divide up elements of the project. They are such a powerful company with lobbying influence within government.

Fortunately BIM usage in highway design is likely to be fairly limited. The massive Contractor/Consultant conglomerates will ultimately make things more expensive as competition disappears. I've already seen it with a local authority where their term contractor rates were used to calculate a bond and ended up at twice the actual cost charged by the local contractor who won the job! I reckon there'll be a backlash eventually like in banking.

Strangely, I was unhappy in my job and started actively looking elsewhere. I got offered a promotion where I am and I've started enjoying life again - same schemes, same office, same colleagues and potentially more stress but I got my motivation back. I think I had felt overlooked and taken for granted.

ballysmate

Loretta Damage wrote:

Hate my job. Currently in the aviation industry, have been since leaving the RAF 18 months ago and am desperate to get out of it. No job satisfaction, constant frustration due to colleagues general ineptitude and reluctance to accept change and progress and general lack of need to use my skill set to the full. Making me ill tbh, wife keeps telling me to go and speak to the doc but not sure they would understand where my head is at.

If you are depressed,I implore you to go to the doctor. There is a world of difference between being pi55ed off with work and proper depression.
For reasons that don't matter, I suffered a bout of depression. The focus of my depression was work, but it was not the cause. I just focused all my feelings of dread on work.
My doctor and family were brilliant. There is no stigma in seeking help and to be honest, anyone who sneers or thinks less of you for it, isn't worth knowing.

arran77

Ballysmate wrote:

Loretta Damage wrote:

Hate my job. Currently in the aviation industry, have been since leaving the RAF 18 months ago and am desperate to get out of it. No job satisfaction, constant frustration due to colleagues general ineptitude and reluctance to accept change and progress and general lack of need to use my skill set to the full. Making me ill tbh, wife keeps telling me to go and speak to the doc but not sure they would understand where my head is at.

If you are depressed,I implore you to go to the doctor. There is a world of difference between being pi55ed off with work and proper depression.
For reasons that don't matter, I suffered a bout of depression. The focus of my depression was work, but it was not the cause. I just focused all my feelings of dread on work.
My doctor and family were brilliant. There is no stigma in seeking help and to be honest, anyone who sneers or thinks less of you for it, isn't worth knowing.

Spot on Bally.

I've got no problem in saying that I'm being treated for depression at the moment, have been since last summer, as Bally says go and get things sorted, it really will dramatically change things for the better, I put it off for years because I had some very outdated ideas about depression, the way it would be perceived and the way it's treated, all my views were entirely wrong and I now wish I'd gone to get it sorted much sooner.

VTech

Im just shocked some people are agreeing with me on here

ballysmate

VTech wrote:

Im just shocked some people are agreeing with me on here

God, agreeing with VTech, that's depressing.

arran77

Ballysmate wrote:

VTech wrote:

Im just shocked some people are agreeing with me on here

God, agreeing with VTech, that's depressing.

Get me more of those pills

florerider

VTech wrote:

Im just shocked some people are agreeing with me on here

I'm shocked too, this must stop, post something outrageous and end it now. You know it makes sense.

4kicks

even a monkey can write hamlet given enough bikeradar forum posts.

Ben6899

I'm at #55 and, apparently, earning above the mean.

I'm very happy at work, too.