sbcmfc Posted January 27, 2017 Share Posted January 27, 2017 6 minutes ago, Marky said: Good enough for me too, but was just sayin... The acid test would be whether an American who was off work on "annual leave", but was just at home would say he was on holiday or on vacation. If he said holiday my point would be valid. If he said vacation then he can gtf. I don't think Americans get "annual leave", just public holidays. To throw a further spanner in the works, they have "the holidays" which appears to cover Thanksgiving-Christmas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debian Posted January 27, 2017 Share Posted January 27, 2017 I've lassies either side of me, and 3 across my bank of desks. Â We are all part of one 'oversight team', but all deal with different entities, so don't have any cause to interact. 75% of my days are spent on calls with our 3rd parties, Risk and Compliance or Project calls. Â Also have the added bonus of working from home, which I am currently doing. There are the few whanks about, but I avoid them like the plague. Â For some reason though, folk are always wanting nights out, and for me to be in attendance. Â Weirdos! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marky Posted January 27, 2017 Share Posted January 27, 2017 1 hour ago, sbcmfc said: I don't think Americans get "annual leave", just public holidays. To throw a further spanner in the works, they have "the holidays" which appears to cover Thanksgiving-Christmas. I'm pretty sure they do get annual leave but it's something ridiculous like 2 weeks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Return of Yermaw Posted January 27, 2017 Share Posted January 27, 2017 4 hours ago, Debian said:  We are all part of one 'oversight team', but all deal with different entities, so don't have any cause to interact. 75% of my days are spent on calls with our 3rd parties, Risk and Compliance or Project calls.  Also have the added bonus of working from home, which I am currently doing.  thanks for the overview of your job. of interest to all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindimoo Posted January 27, 2017 Share Posted January 27, 2017 On 26 January 2017 at 5:56 PM, giblet said: Nothing worse than being on a teleconference where people are in about 4 or 5 different locations and more than one person at each location.  Have one every Tuesday and it gets on my Thruppennys. Oh and my new boss said the other day that he wanted to get into the "archaeology of the process".  I tried the archaeology one today at a manager's meeting just to see the reaction, the savvy ones were sniggering but a few of the others were well impressed.  I look forward to hearing them make an arse of themselves using it in the future! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fringo Posted January 27, 2017 Share Posted January 27, 2017 1 hour ago, Mindimoo said: I tried the archaeology one today at a manager's meeting just to see the reaction, the savvy ones were sniggering but a few of the others were well impressed. Â I look forward to hearing them make an arse of themselves using it in the future! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RenfrewBlue Posted January 27, 2017 Share Posted January 27, 2017 2 hours ago, Mindimoo said: I tried the archaeology one today at a manager's meeting just to see the reaction, the savvy ones were sniggering but a few of the others were well impressed.  I look forward to hearing them make an arse of themselves using it in the future! I work in IT so phrases like this come up all the fecking time. Drives me mental. I used to have a buzzword bingo sheet to use at meetings with some of my colleagues of a similar mindset but haven't used it in ages. Personally I'd throttle anyone using that archeology line there and then,  but I have anger issues. ? We have outsourced some stuff to TCS (an Indian company)  and although the vast majority of their guys are decent there is one guy that thinks snorting his snotters back up his nose incredibly loudly is acceptable behaviour in the office. He will either be sacked or murdered at his desk by the end of next week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindimoo Posted January 27, 2017 Share Posted January 27, 2017 51 minutes ago, RenfrewBlue said: I work in IT so phrases like this come up all the fecking time. Drives me mental. I used to have a buzzword bingo sheet to use at meetings with some of my colleagues of a similar mindset but haven't used it in ages. Personally I'd throttle anyone using that archeology line there and then,  but I have anger issues. ? We have outsourced some stuff to TCS (an Indian company)  and although the vast majority of their guys are decent there is one guy that thinks snorting his snotters back up his nose incredibly loudly is acceptable behaviour in the office. He will either be sacked or murdered at his desk by the end of next week. Snotter howking is the most offensive office offence.  It's disgusting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RenfrewBlue Posted January 27, 2017 Share Posted January 27, 2017 42 minutes ago, Mindimoo said: Snotter howking is the most offensive office offence.  It's disgusting. I know I have an anger management issue but I feel my rage is justified in this particular case. Normally I'm just raging at stupidity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindimoo Posted January 27, 2017 Share Posted January 27, 2017 10 minutes ago, RenfrewBlue said: I know I have an anger management issue but I feel my rage is justified in this particular case. Normally I'm just raging at stupidity. I'm with you 100% Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotlad Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 On 27 January 2017 at 10:39 PM, Mindimoo said: Snotter howking is the most offensive office offence.  It's disgusting. I once sat next to a guy on a coach from Glasgow to Carlisle who kept doing that. The coach was packed too so I couldn't even move seat. And he looked like Craig Levein, just to compound things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormond Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 On 1/27/2017 at 8:13 AM, Marky said: I'm pretty sure they do get annual leave but it's something ridiculous like 2 weeks. They get nothing like the entitlement that we get. My Wife gets more than most here(length of time at the same employer) but she still gets less than what we get in Scotland. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phart Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 These guys seem to have a complaint about a colleague   Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killiefaetheferry Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 8 hours ago, Ormond said: They get nothing like the entitlement that we get. My Wife gets more than most here(length of time at the same employer) but she still gets less than what we get in Scotland. Was getting a lift to the airport in Toronto from the Dad of my Canadian friend and his flabber was gasted at the amount of holidays I got - at the time 25 days (5 weeks paid) and 9 public holidays paid - he reckoned most Canadians were lucky to get 2 weeks and maybe 2 for Christmas/Canada day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parklife Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 1 hour ago, killiefaetheferry said: Was getting a lift to the airport in Toronto from the Dad of my Canadian friend and his flabber was gasted at the amount of holidays I got - at the time 25 days (5 weeks paid) and 9 public holidays paid - he reckoned most Canadians were lucky to get 2 weeks and maybe 2 for Christmas/Canada day. That's what they get for being selfish capitalists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killiefaetheferry Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 1 hour ago, Parklife said: That's what they get for being selfish capitalists. I was  up to full whack when I left my old job last year - 6 weeks and 9 public holidays. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormond Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 (edited) 7 hours ago, killiefaetheferry said: Was getting a lift to the airport in Toronto from the Dad of my Canadian friend and his flabber was gasted at the amount of holidays I got - at the time 25 days (5 weeks paid) and 9 public holidays paid - he reckoned most Canadians were lucky to get 2 weeks and maybe 2 for Christmas/Canada day. My Wife gets 4 weeks to take and gets 4 days. Thanksgiving day, Christmas Day, 4th of July and Labour(Labor) Day I think. She has been there since she was 18 and is now 44. I'm pretty sure that for the first decade of her time there she only had 2 weeks plus those days. I seem to remember her saying that she should only get 3 weeks now but the 4th one she gets is because she's a director now. Some pish like that. Edited February 1, 2017 by Ormond Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boynze Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 where abouts is this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormond Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 23 minutes ago, Boynze said: where abouts is this? I'll let Orraloon or Redz answer that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindimoo Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 I get 31 free days and 11 set Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killiefaetheferry Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 39 minutes ago, Mindimoo said: I get 31 free days and 11 set That's pretty good ! Is 'free days' like annual leave ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindimoo Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 28 minutes ago, killiefaetheferry said: That's pretty good ! Is 'free days' like annual leave ? Yes, that's what they're called.  I was just distinguishing them from set days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TDYER63 Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 I get 28 'free days' and 9 public holidays. Thats still no enough so I buy an extra 10 days holiday every year. No wonder the Americans voted for Trump. They must be mentally deranged through exhaustion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donaldo87 Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 Today its everyone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewelk Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 I get 53 days. France innit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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