pip1968 2,490 Posted April 9, 2014 Report Share Posted April 9, 2014 That's not really work is it tbo most of the lads who have joined in on this are proper grafters, steel erectors, the sheeting lads sparkys bricklayers we all hands on true grafters blood sweat and tears, it's not that hard pushing keys on a laptop is it Oh I dunno, you've got to push them in the right order and somedays you've got to push two at a time quite often. We should get paid overtime for that, might have to speak with the union. One of the reasons I hate going into the office is most of the time some git has been fiddling with the air con so you've got to wait 5mins for the office to get to a reasonable working environment temperature. Some days when you first get in it can be 24c and you're sweating your crack off just saying "hello" to folk. Then you've got to stand around waiting for the temp to drop to 22c. I usually with go to the in-house Costa for a brew or a few of us head up for a game or two of pool. I tell you, people shouldn't mess with things they don't understand as it causes mayhem. Once, somebody had been hot desking in my chair. It's a bit like having universal toolboxes but nobody puts stuff back or puts it back the wrong way round because they're left handed and you're right handed, nightmare!! Anyway, whilst they'd been messing up my desk and moving cables about they'd also been altering my ergonomic DSE (display screen equipment) assessed chair. Well I was furious. It could have put my back right out or given my DVT over a long period. Had to in Health & Safety didn't I. After a 30min consultation and readjustment they had it all sorted again. It was an accident waiting to happen. Then, we find out the b*****d must have been shorter than me as my natural seating position didn't put my eyes inline with the top of the monitor. Talk about where there's a blame. Almost had to go to the in-house bar for an early beer. I must admit though, the absolute worst bit about the type of environment I work in is the blatant flaunting that goes on. I don't know why the young professional women feel the need to wear skintight jeans and vest tops in the office all year round just because the office is a constant mild temperature and then feel the need to ask you if you "want to grab a coffee/go to lunch" or "to the bar" when theres clearly email after email coming in, some of them have red exclamation marks next to them to mark them as a priority as well. Come on!! Some of us want to finish early for the weekend mid Thursday afternoon!! Do you know what I mean? It gets a bit rowdy in the office though making it hard to remember which key to press next. This is especially true when there is a major event happening like the World Cup, the ashes, Olympics, Wimbledon, horse racing or any other sporting event on a week day as everyone comes into our little space due to us having out own testing environment of sky boxes, three 50" plasmas, 24" mac and loads of wifi connections. Some times you're elbow to elbow with the sport loving boys and girls with pizzas being shoved in front of you and beer getting spilt on your new mouse mat. If there's no sport on though we have to make do with sky movies or Wii fit contests. You think you've got it bad, you don't even know you're born!! sounds like the wolf of wall street lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Waz 4,266 Posted April 9, 2014 Report Share Posted April 9, 2014 Think we should have an all out strike for you Hutch... lol 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RubyTex 1,957 Posted April 9, 2014 Report Share Posted April 9, 2014 Why the hell can't I get a job loosening bolts for £2k every fortnight?!?!? Un-f***ing-believable some of the jobs out there... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hutch6 550 Posted April 10, 2014 Report Share Posted April 10, 2014 Think we should have an all out strike for you Hutch... lol If you could that's help the situation somewhat but I know the true grafters just couldn't face a day off. Working is what they live for, it's their life force and so without the full numbers I just don't think it'd get the point the across. Here's one for you Ruby. I was out for a meal last night just before I posted, got talking to one guy (been out for meals and he's been there a few times) and his rather quiet lad. His lad was at Uni studying computer science so we started talking when all of a sudden hid dad interrupted and said "He's right humble about it but he started putting video game footage on YouTube when he was about 11. Whe he got to 14 he brought me a contract and asked me to sign it. It was asking for bank details to pay into but I didn't trust it so I set him up a PayPal account. Anyway, six month later sure enough, £600 landed in the PayPal account. Next thing we know he's created this network where folk are using his channel to link to their videos and what not. Well, it shot up to £1k per month so we called in the accountants and got him set up proper with the taxman. Next thing he's flown out to America to meet with some guys in L.A from Google, comes back, gets a few more of these "recruits" and after two month he's getting sent £10k a month. I wanted him to get his degree but he's already been lined up to work for some Canadian gaming company when he's finished." Not bad work if you can get it as that'll just keep ticking over during your life with the odd update every now and again. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mhopton 807 Posted April 10, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 10, 2014 My cousin flys all over the world righting computer games and he's only in his twentys Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hutch6 550 Posted April 10, 2014 Report Share Posted April 10, 2014 Not exactly a "grafter" then is he? Globe trotting. Pushing keys. Work fit for chimps is that, it's not proper work at all. I take it you've had words and told him to get a proper job, too right as well. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
clipo 871 Posted April 10, 2014 Report Share Posted April 10, 2014 (edited) Not exactly a "grafter" then is he? Globe trotting. Pushing keys. Work fit for chimps is that, it's not proper work at all. I take it you've had words and told him to get a proper job, too right as well.bill gates never did "proper graft" then by your logic......still not done bad tho..... Edited April 10, 2014 by clipo 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RubyTex 1,957 Posted April 10, 2014 Report Share Posted April 10, 2014 Nothing to do with working away but here's my situation, i'm disillusioned already! I feel like i'm married to the company the amount of time spent there, and in the last two weeks all I've done is get up, go to work, come home, give the dogs a quick run, have tea then bed. Some days I've finished at 7:30pm and been back in for 7 the next morning. Just done 14 days solid and it's payday today (get paid every 2 weeks)....£386 quid.... Worked my bollocks off and haven't even cleared £200 a week If I didn't laugh i'd cry! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hutch6 550 Posted April 10, 2014 Report Share Posted April 10, 2014 Not exactly a "grafter" then is he? Globe trotting. Pushing keys. Work fit for chimps is that, it's not proper work at all. I take it you've had words and told him to get a proper job, too right as well.bill gates never did "proper graft" then by your logic......still not done bad tho..... I never said "key pushers" weren't "grafters" though or didn't do "proper" jobs. Whistle, whistle. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
the_stig 6,614 Posted April 10, 2014 Report Share Posted April 10, 2014 Nothing to do with working away but here's my situation, i'm disillusioned already! I feel like i'm married to the company the amount of time spent there, and in the last two weeks all I've done is get up, go to work, come home, give the dogs a quick run, have tea then bed. Some days I've finished at 7:30pm and been back in for 7 the next morning. Just done 14 days solid and it's payday today (get paid every 2 weeks)....£386 quid.... Worked my bollocks off and haven't even cleared £200 a week If I didn't laugh i'd cry! your 386 better off mate ------ get your self round the car boots with 100 of it stick a few bits on ebay .. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hutch6 550 Posted April 10, 2014 Report Share Posted April 10, 2014 Nothing to do with working away but here's my situation, i'm disillusioned already! I feel like i'm married to the company the amount of time spent there, and in the last two weeks all I've done is get up, go to work, come home, give the dogs a quick run, have tea then bed. Some days I've finished at 7:30pm and been back in for 7 the next morning. Just done 14 days solid and it's payday today (get paid every 2 weeks)....£386 quid.... Worked my bollocks off and haven't even cleared £200 a week If I didn't laugh i'd cry! What are you doing about it? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WILF 47,547 Posted April 10, 2014 Report Share Posted April 10, 2014 That's not really work is it tbo most of the lads who have joined in on this are proper grafters, steel erectors, the sheeting lads sparkys bricklayers we all hands on true grafters blood sweat and tears, it's not that hard pushing keys on a laptop is it Oh I dunno, you've got to push them in the right order and somedays you've got to push two at a time quite often. We should get paid overtime for that, might have to speak with the union. One of the reasons I hate going into the office is most of the time some git has been fiddling with the air con so you've got to wait 5mins for the office to get to a reasonable working environment temperature. Some days when you first get in it can be 24c and you're sweating your crack off just saying "hello" to folk. Then you've got to stand around waiting for the temp to drop to 22c. I usually with go to the in-house Costa for a brew or a few of us head up for a game or two of pool. I tell you, people shouldn't mess with things they don't understand as it causes mayhem. Once, somebody had been hot desking in my chair. It's a bit like having universal toolboxes but nobody puts stuff back or puts it back the wrong way round because they're left handed and you're right handed, nightmare!! Anyway, whilst they'd been messing up my desk and moving cables about they'd also been altering my ergonomic DSE (display screen equipment) assessed chair. Well I was furious. It could have put my back right out or given my DVT over a long period. Had to in Health & Safety didn't I. After a 30min consultation and readjustment they had it all sorted again. It was an accident waiting to happen. Then, we find out the b*****d must have been shorter than me as my natural seating position didn't put my eyes inline with the top of the monitor. Talk about where there's a blame. Almost had to go to the in-house bar for an early beer. I must admit though, the absolute worst bit about the type of environment I work in is the blatant flaunting that goes on. I don't know why the young professional women feel the need to wear skintight jeans and vest tops in the office all year round just because the office is a constant mild temperature and then feel the need to ask you if you "want to grab a coffee/go to lunch" or "to the bar" when theres clearly email after email coming in, some of them have red exclamation marks next to them to mark them as a priority as well. Come on!! Some of us want to finish early for the weekend mid Thursday afternoon!! Do you know what I mean? It gets a bit rowdy in the office though making it hard to remember which key to press next. This is especially true when there is a major event happening like the World Cup, the ashes, Olympics, Wimbledon, horse racing or any other sporting event on a week day as everyone comes into our little space due to us having out own testing environment of sky boxes, three 50" plasmas, 24" mac and loads of wifi connections. Some times you're elbow to elbow with the sport loving boys and girls with pizzas being shoved in front of you and beer getting spilt on your new mouse mat. If there's no sport on though we have to make do with sky movies or Wii fit contests. You think you've got it bad, you don't even know you're born!! Pish, I bet you stack shelves at Aldi ya melt ! Lol 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gnasher16 30,441 Posted April 10, 2014 Report Share Posted April 10, 2014 Working away from home is a young mans thing if you ask me,later on in life you dont have the carefree attitude and courage to take a chance like you do as a youngster......i spent a year travelling round America in my 20,s i had the time of my life.....ok getting punched in the face for a living isnt much fun but the experience of meeting different people through working away is much better than meeting different people travelling as a tourist as you compare similar lives giving you ideas to come back with......The hardworking hero attitude some folk have is complete nonsense not everyone has that work ethic it doesnt make them any less worthy of having money......if you can use your filbert to work a pound note then why slog your bollocks off for the same money thats just daft.......seems like a lot of peoples attitude is if you dont spend your days with a f****d up back and dirt under your nails you havent worked hard......all things being equal working away from home as a young man with no responsibilities to anyone is a totally different thing to doing the same thing later in life. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Born Hunter 17,798 Posted April 10, 2014 Report Share Posted April 10, 2014 LOL, 'graft'.......... I've found mentally challenging work is just as tiring as physical labour. If you've never sat at a desk for literally weeks solidly working on one problem you'll not understand. It cooks your brain, you get home and literally need to just mong out and be a vegetable for an hour. Bashing keys is depressingly easy....... figuring out which keys to bash and in what order is the graft. LOL, I'd rather shift 10 ton of kerb stones by hand than sit down and have to figure out how to make all those numbers behave the way they're supposed to! ......."graft" 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hutch6 550 Posted April 10, 2014 Report Share Posted April 10, 2014 Pish, I bet you stack shelves at Aldi ya melt ! Lol I wish I could but the thought of having to lift packs of stuff from a low position to a high position tires me out let alone having to do it. I'd be useless at that physical stuff. It'd be one yoghurt at a time and that wouldn't be good for business due to the overtime I'd have to submit. Someone has to do it though or there wouldn't be any produce for people to buy with the money they've "grafted" for to then go eat the produce to fuel them and their family and friends to keep them alive and give them the energy and life to go out and "graft" for the money to pay tax and N.I to support the system and put as roof over their heads, food on the table and the odd luxury here and there. What does it matter what job you do? Everybody has to earn a crust to get where they want to be in life. Just because your job entails certain aspects doesn't make it any more worthwhile or less worthwhile than others, it all plays a part in the bigger picture. Everybody is a hero as everybody has to make sacrifices in order to have a job, otherwise we'd get nowhere fast. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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