Well, I'm going to assume that it's the apocalypse thing then, as you haven't categorically ruled that out, and I'm utterly unable to detect nuances in text. As a result I shall spend the next three hours as though they were my last. Grumbling at Nintendo fans on the internet.
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BritGAF |OT5| Superb Birds, Absurd Turds and Disturbed Nerds
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I am ready for your grumbles.
Nothing that you would of even heard of anyway.
Hi GAF, work is lame, moved seats, now back is to whole office, still gonna GAF though fuck those guys.
Worst thing of all that I have been split up from my team and like I'm pretty much on my own on this bank of desks.
It really is starting to fuck with me, I never knew I was such a social creature till now...
Ooh, I'd hate that. It was bad enough having my back to a frequently used door so I had to alt-tab whenever someone came through, I just wouldn't feel like I could do anything in privacy if my back wasn't against a wall.
I probably look like a right goody-two shoes now sitting right at the front of lecture theatres cause I can't hear the lecturers.
dapperbandit
Banned
I've progressively given less and less of a shit about who can see me gaffing as I've approached my departure date. It's gonna be a tough bastard if I can't secretly visit and post in the office of wherever I end up.
Hmm. I could, but I don't think my heart would be in it. Like BGBW, you're 'one of the good ones'. Don't tell anyone I said that though.
Musha_Soturi
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There's been a rank smell on our pod of desks all day and it's gotten progressively worse. We've told facilities, they reckon it's a dead mouse stuck somewhere.
It's so bad now it's making me gag and I keep having to leave my desk.
If it's still there tomorrow I'm gonna go straight home.
It's so bad now it's making me gag and I keep having to leave my desk.
If it's still there tomorrow I'm gonna go straight home.
You gagged when I farted in the car back from Newcastle meet. I think your gag reflex may be over sensitive.
Nerdkiller
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Well, looking at the features FFXV is going to have, I'm disappointed. I was actually looking forward to it, but now...looks like I only have Type 0 HD in my sights.
That is something else, where do you work that gets mice?
Who is coming London meet Saturday?
Musha_Soturi
Member
To be fair your farts were something else dude, eggybob nearly vomed as well
A really nice building right next to St Paul's. Who'd have thought it eh. Pesky critters get in everywhere.
Jeez, those must be some rich mice, must have had one hell of a big party and died.
I can just imagine now a bunch of mouse bankers having a heavy one and Steve the wildcard taking it a bit too far.
RIP Steve
JonathanEx
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Fucking hell, fucking hell.
So the thing I mentioned before, well, it's fucking up in ways I never thought of. Fucking hell. I'm absolutely seething at how people could make this that bad and her be in the middle of it all and the face people see as everything goes wrong. She's laughing it off but I'm ready to storm in to the office and start effing and blinding. You may notice from my tone. I don't know how she's so calm, it's incredible.
So the thing I mentioned before, well, it's fucking up in ways I never thought of. Fucking hell. I'm absolutely seething at how people could make this that bad and her be in the middle of it all and the face people see as everything goes wrong. She's laughing it off but I'm ready to storm in to the office and start effing and blinding. You may notice from my tone. I don't know how she's so calm, it's incredible.
Jackben
bitch I'm taking calls.
I know the feeling of getting mad on behalf of someone you care about being shafted. It sucks when people who don't deserve it become the scapegoat too. I've felt impotent like that because you really want to yell at someone but you aren't directly involved...but you really want to because how could they fuck over this person you care about like that?!
The positive take away is that she is keeping calm under pressure which is really impressive. That and your reaction means you really care about her, and that is really sweet.
The positive take away is that she is keeping calm under pressure which is really impressive. That and your reaction means you really care about her, and that is really sweet.
JonathanEx
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Haha ta both. I'm calmer now, needed to vent. My temper is WELL MANAGED. Honest. Still amazed they went ahead without any rehearsals etc. Phew.
I mean, I know not all jobs are good, but you hope for a minimum standard of competency...
I mean, I know not all jobs are good, but you hope for a minimum standard of competency...
I think this is literally the fist time I've ever known you to be in any way vexed.
You're usually a "sarcastically laugh it off" kind of a guy.
Hope all goes OK and your girlfriend becomes a mega star, catapulting you to living the Sheffield equivalent to a high life.
JonathanEx
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I tend to online, but that's as things aren't going wrong. It tends to be technical stuff that sets me off - when things aren't working, often big ambitious tech things, I can snap when I'm busy. I may have told a friend to fuck off on his birthday for bugging me when I was trying to get some pain in the arse broadcast gear going for a thing once.
Drinks were bought afterwards as an apology.
Drinks were bought afterwards as an apology.
show me your skeleton
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i feel like shit, really really low. creatively i'm going nowhere, both my writing and composition is lacking right now and career wise i am currently travelling 80 minutes round trip to get paid £6.75 and no idea how to progress or whether it's even worth progressing. i need to get out of retail but no idea how. looking at it support jobs at the moment, is there any point in applying if i have no qualifications in the field? any ideas gaf?
You can probably get a position doing first line support following an online test or something.
Do you have plenty of IT experience?
Screaming Meat
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I dunno about jobs, but can I listen to your stuff?
Musha_Soturi
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I do 8km in 30mins on my cross trainer. But apparently that's quite different to running. I walk a mile in 20mins so that sounds like a slow pace, but you have to start somewhere! Good on you for starting to exercise
show me your skeleton
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no work experience, though i currently work at maplin so there's some IT knowledge stuff there. day to day knowledge might get me through, maybe.
sure
http://www.soundcloud.com/showmeyourskeleton
What's your budget? You can get a fairly decent Android phone for sub £100 if you don't care about using a more obscure brand like ZTE.
Ehhh... I'm looking at the 50£ mark. At the moment, I'm trying Ebay for a Nexus 4 , Moto G, or I might just hope the Lumia 520 train. I might have to go offbrand but hopefully a good deal appears. The Lumia is 50-60 but I can't see myself using it after the problems I've heard from people on this particular one. And the 512MB RAM.
EDIT: seems like no Nexus 4 either.
How experienced are you with Windows XP and 7, Office 2003, 2007 & 2010, general troubleshooting, Active Directory, using things like Teamviewer, diagnosing networking issues, etc?
You don't have to be good at all these things, but decent experience with Windows and Office are going to be essential to getting past an interview & I'd say if any of the above is something you're not confident with (except maybe Active Directory, which a lot of first line guys probably don't have knowledge of until they start the job) then dive in and try to get some experience on your home PC and by fixing friends PCs before you start applying for jobs.
show me your skeleton
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i have plenty of experience with office and windows, i have never heard of the other two so i shall do some research. an entry position would be all that i need as it's a better career and pays better than anything right now. i think i could do it, so i shall get a CV together and apply.
cheers for the help!
Thanks, but I already checked.
EDIT: Hmm seems the secret to finding a good 50£ phone is not looking at two year models (since they;re still expensive used), but looking at Sony midrangers from even last year, I guess demand for a Sony handset is small.
No worries buddy. Good luck & let us know how it goes!
Nerdkiller
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So...
Does he love it or hate it?
Does he love it or hate it?
anonymous_abc
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So...
Does he love it or hate it?
This is cracking me up so much.
I could watch it for hours.
Never feel more depressed than when waking up for the 6am shift
I hear cancer can be a real bummer too.
Screaming Meat
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This is fucking killing me. I'm not equipped to deal with mild humour before 9.So...
Does he love it or hate it?
I was behind two student yesterday walking side be side in the middle of the pavement, thus blocking the ability to walk around them and every time they moved to the side to let someone coming towards them past they moved back to the middle. If you know you are in the way then stop doing that!? Jesus christ. Note to self, if you are ever in charge of hiring don't employ any student from the year 2014, they are all daft.
Hi there.
NinjaBoiX
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The leopard marmite gif reminds me of this:
I had one the other day, "don't know how to use the microwave, can someone come and show me?" For fuck's sake, there is like 10 buttons on there and not one of them will make it blow up I promise. Just have a fiddle man, where's your sense of adventure!
And that's besides the spoilt little daddy's girls complaining that their full length mirror is too small or that the shade of paint in their bedroom clashes with their nail polish or some other menial shit.
Richie has really long legs though, he had no excuse not to keep up the pace!
This is true. Some of the jobs we get called out to at the student village man, you just wonder how they got into uni in the first place.
I had one the other day, "don't know how to use the microwave, can someone come and show me?" For fuck's sake, there is like 10 buttons on there and not one of them will make it blow up I promise. Just have a fiddle man, where's your sense of adventure!
And that's besides the spoilt little daddy's girls complaining that their full length mirror is too small or that the shade of paint in their bedroom clashes with their nail polish or some other menial shit.
JonathanEx
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To be fair, many of them are away from home for what, only a few days properly for the first time?
And to be fair, many of them are also morons. Who refused to pay attention when their parents went "right, listen, you'll need to know..."
And to be fair, many of them are also morons. Who refused to pay attention when their parents went "right, listen, you'll need to know..."
NinjaBoiX
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Yeah I get that, I just hate this pathetic attitude of, "I can't do it, help" at the very first sign of trouble. Like, their parents must've wiped their arse for them.
That microwave one, I was like, "see the buttons with the time increments on? OK, now see that big button at the bottom that says START?" Jesus Christ, how do you not walk into things all the time?
That microwave one, I was like, "see the buttons with the time increments on? OK, now see that big button at the bottom that says START?" Jesus Christ, how do you not walk into things all the time?
dapperbandit
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Slow walking people are also the bane of my existence. Because I'm so tall and thin I can walk real fast and weave in and out of people on the street. But it's a major hassle when there's a group blocking the pavement and I have to walk artificially slow right behind them until there's a gap in the traffic and I swerve round them or they cotton on that I'm in a hurry and let me past.
I used to fly out a lot to my dads and my experience in terminals allowed me to perfect something I call the airport walk, which is just marching really fucking fast in proximity to people with those wheelie bags. Like, if I'm on my way to baggage reclaim, I can outpace someone in a hurry on a travelator without being on it myself. Intense stuff, makes me wonder what I could achieve if I did actual excercise.
Anyway. I have an interview today and I learnt on the weekend that the office I'll be working isn't the Walton I know, but another Walton that'll take an hour to get to on the train. Mega mad. The agency guy I've been speaking to has been a diamond though, very helpful, negotiated a better rate for me without me asking him too, so if I get this job I'll be paid double what I was at P&G. The only sticking point is the bloody commute, such a hassle. This has tipped me over the edge into learning to drive.
I used to fly out a lot to my dads and my experience in terminals allowed me to perfect something I call the airport walk, which is just marching really fucking fast in proximity to people with those wheelie bags. Like, if I'm on my way to baggage reclaim, I can outpace someone in a hurry on a travelator without being on it myself. Intense stuff, makes me wonder what I could achieve if I did actual excercise.
Anyway. I have an interview today and I learnt on the weekend that the office I'll be working isn't the Walton I know, but another Walton that'll take an hour to get to on the train. Mega mad. The agency guy I've been speaking to has been a diamond though, very helpful, negotiated a better rate for me without me asking him too, so if I get this job I'll be paid double what I was at P&G. The only sticking point is the bloody commute, such a hassle. This has tipped me over the edge into learning to drive.
JonathanEx
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Does anyone else suffer from slow-walking partners? I have a habit of walking a fair bit ahead without her before I realise or get called back. When say, in London, she'll pick up the pace because you have to, but anywhere else? NOPE.
It's in his best interest to get you the best rate possible as the more you get, the more he gets.
dapperbandit
Banned
NinjaBoiX
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Nah, she has pretty nimble to be fair. She's even shorter than me too. (IKR?)
Shorty girls are the best in a number of ways, not least so I don't look even more like a hobbit with alopecia.
Yeah, it took me a while to click on to why my agency was so eager to push for a better rate for me. It just kind of came out of nowhere.
Dat superficial phone patter.
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