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Post by aitch on Aug 24, 2024 10:56:40 GMT
I always found leaving a job (for whatever reason) an intensely liberating experience. Now, a generous government pays me to please myself... Funny when I left on my last day, early retirement after 25 years, it felt unreal. I kept expecting someone to come up to me and say, "Fooled you! See you on Monday."
Took a while to settle into retirement.
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Post by MJB on Aug 24, 2024 11:35:12 GMT
I reckon I'd be stuffed if I was to work in a corporate situation.
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Post by zou on Aug 24, 2024 12:33:35 GMT
I reckon I'd be stuffed if I was to work in a corporate situation. Look, that line of work is honest and you could be self-employed. |
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Post by spinno on Aug 24, 2024 13:46:46 GMT
I reckon I'd be stuffed if I was to work in a corporate situation. Look, that line of work is honest and you could be self-employed. One potato two potato three potato four... |
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Post by gray1720 on Aug 24, 2024 14:23:23 GMT
I reckon I'd be stuffed if I was to work in a corporate situation. HT would suddenly be very interested indeed if you started squeezing udders... |
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Post by kate on Aug 24, 2024 15:59:47 GMT
Try working in a local authority (Council).
It's so awful, the whole nightmare is one of:
keep your mouth shut;
turn a blind eye;
appraisal time was a joke;
head down and wish for death if retirement is too far away.
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Post by MJB on Aug 24, 2024 16:49:03 GMT
My annual reviews at work are along the lines of...
Me: I've been here 29 years, but I'm not sure if I'm staying yet.
My boss: That's okay, we haven't decided if you've passed your probation period.
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Post by Ivor E Tower on Aug 24, 2024 19:58:27 GMT
(snip) Clarkeâs Law: âAny sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magicâ (Donât fear failure, be ambitious) I believe that this is a real quote from Arthur C Clarke www.brainyquote.com/authors/arthur-c-clarke-quotesI worked for QinetiQ (formerly part of the RAE at Farnborough) some years back and one of the buildings on the site was named after him; this quote was on display somewhere. (Brings back happy memories of Terry Wogan and references to Arthur C Mullard.....) |
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Post by lesleysm2 on Aug 24, 2024 22:49:32 GMT
I believe that this is a real quote from Arthur C Clarke Yes it is |
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Post by lesleysm2 on Aug 24, 2024 23:02:08 GMT
Once went on a management course where we had to be either the villain (manager) or victim (jobholder)...I played the victim and absolutely wiped the floor with the manager in our "appraisal" ... I was once sent on a course in customer service skills. As part of the course there was an exercise where we split into groups, one group made widgets, one group took the orders for widgets and my group were the sales people who went all around the country getting orders for said widgets and there were all sorts of problems in the supply chain. The idea being at the end each group had a message to the other groups Remember I do role playing for the fun of it! I had my group nicely in character one of them was grumbling about getting up early, driving miles, dealing with someone they didn't like to get an order that was then lost because the widget makers weren't making enough widgets . And another moaning about their lost commission etc So when it came to what our group wanted to say to the other groups our appointed leader (not me) stood up and said "We want you lazy bastards to get your effing finger out!" Shortly after that my performance in a telephone skills course when I went back to the training center they removed any role playing options from the course! |
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Post by lesleysm2 on Aug 24, 2024 23:06:34 GMT
I remember very well my first appraisal the day before I spotted my line manager looking round the bookshop I was running and looking worried.
I said "Can I help you?"
And her reply was "You've got an appraisal with Ian tomorrow and I am just looking for something he can pull you up on"
Best ever appraisal I had (apart from one in a bar) when my manager asked me my targets for the next year I told him I wanted to go up a band (which would mean getting a new job) and he put it down as a valid target and agreed with me!
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Post by John Farrell on Aug 25, 2024 0:26:24 GMT
I reckon I'd be stuffed if I was to work in a corporate situation. The only corporate (if you could call it that) situation I have worked in was when I was a telephone technician with the NZ post office. The rest of my experience was in small businesses. |
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Post by mick on Aug 25, 2024 10:39:48 GMT
Many years ago, I was forced to act as a mentor at the company's management training school. In introducing the first 'game' to my group I was instructed to tell the trainees that I would mislead them. Next day it was obvious that the relationship between me and 'my' trainees was poor, so I tackled it. They didn't trust me, they said, because I had told them that I would mislead them. Apparently I failed to make it clear that the misleading bit applied to only the first 'game' and didn't apply to the whole course. Luckily no lasting harm done.
Later in my career, I worked for a major US corporation and was summoned to HQ to hear what they had planned for Europe. I won't go into detail, but I made myself VERY unpopular indeed by asking if they realized that Europe was a collection of countries with different laws, different cultures and different languages.
Mick |
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Post by geoffr on Aug 25, 2024 11:03:32 GMT
...I worked for a major US corporation and was summoned to HQ to hear what they had planned for Europe. I won't go into detail, but I made myself VERY unpopular indeed by asking if they realized that Europe was a collection of countries with different laws, different cultures and different languages.
Mick To which I suspect the answer was a very veiled NO. |
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Post by spinno on Aug 25, 2024 11:19:10 GMT
Many years ago, I was forced to act as a mentor at the company's management training school. In introducing the first 'game' to my group I was instructed to tell the trainees that I would mislead them. Next day it was obvious that the relationship between me and 'my' trainees was poor, so I tackled it. They didn't trust me, they said, because I had told them that I would mislead them. Apparently I failed to make it clear that the misleading bit applied to only the first 'game' and didn't apply to the whole course. Luckily no lasting harm done.
Later in my career, I worked for a major US corporation and was summoned to HQ to hear what they had planned for Europe. I won't go into detail, but I made myself VERY unpopular indeed by asking if they realized that Europe was a collection of countries with different laws, different cultures and different languages.
Mick Unless you're using the universal language of ENGLISH SHOUTS |
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