Tim haven't you shagged one of your bosses once? Or am i thinking of someone else?Originally Posted by littlelolligagged
Tim haven't you shagged one of your bosses once? Or am i thinking of someone else?
Nooooo ...
My boss is a bald forty-one year old family man with a paunch and a squint. Not my type
I quite like the idea of sacrificing him to the volcano gods for good weather though. Oh the frivolity.
Last edited by Timbuk2; 04-15-2010 at 02:54 PM. Reason: I made a spelling mistake! Nooooooes!
Who was it on here then who had a fling with the boss? Am i going nuts?
Nothing wrong with boss-shagging. Nothing at all.Tim haven't you shagged one of your bosses once? Or am i thinking of someone else?
Just don't think socks are particularly sexy.
edit: I screwed my boss during my teenage waitressing experience, Lor - if that counts.
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
Timbuck slept with a slightly older lady, possibly from work, but that was ages ago. He's told the story a couple times. If that's what you're remembering.
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Lor - I used to be a bit of an office slag in my last company more than 10 years ago - and had a 15 month fling with an office manager 6 years my senior - but she wasn't my boss. Not that I'd have been able to stop myself if she were.
EDIT ding - as Ness said - posted while I was typing.
Ah, thats it! Aww hell, not the boss though.
-edit-
Ahh Tim, there you are for clarification.
What's wrong with project management?
Keep on keepin' the beat alive!
What's enjoyable about it?
There is no creativity. There is nothing to develop, to make, to design. Fuck, you don't actually do anything!
Just attend meetings and conference calls, delegate work here and there, fill out forms and spreadsheets, check budgets and schedules, wash and repeat ad infinitum. Who the hell enjoys that shit?
I used to love my old lead-development job which was shut down 8 months ago. I used to create, I used to make things, great big lovely lumps of code. Then the bank shuts down the entire division I was working for and I had little choice but move across the team into project management.
Bah!
Keep on applying elsewhere is all I can do. I don't even want to move within this bank. It's sucking the life out of me.
EDIT: and if anyone says you can be creative with spreadsheets I'm not going to talk to you anymore.
If I were sucking the life out of you it would be enjoyable.
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
It would have to be a daily life-suck in order for me to enjoy my life enough.
Only once daily?
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
Fair enough. No room for creativity as a manager by making important decisions and guiding the project in a certain direction?What's enjoyable about it?
There is no creativity. There is nothing to develop, to make, to design. Fuck, you don't actually do anything!
Just attend meetings and conference calls, delegate work here and there, fill out forms and spreadsheets, check budgets and schedules, wash and repeat ad infinitum. Who the hell enjoys that shit?
I used to love my old lead-development job which was shut down 8 months ago. I used to create, I used to make things, great big lovely lumps of code. Then the bank shuts down the entire division I was working for and I had little choice but move across the team into project management.
Bah!
Keep on applying elsewhere is all I can do. I don't even want to move within this bank. It's sucking the life out of me.
EDIT: and if anyone says you can be creative with spreadsheets I'm not going to talk to you anymore.
Keep on keepin' the beat alive!
Christ!Only once daily?
I'm not sure I have that much life in me.
Oh, I bet I can find much more life in you than you believe you have.
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
I'm largely just sounding off Flix. Don't mind me.
There are people who suit this work, and enjoy it. Some of my team do. And as you say I suppose the work has its implicit rewards, intangible though they may be.
I meant what I said with I don't have the requisite skills for this work - I don't.
I'm not organised enough, and I'm no good at pushing others, both of which are fairly essential skills for project management ...
Part of my not enjoying it is that I know I'm not terribly good at it. I am improving with time but I know it'll never be a natural fit ...
Last edited by Timbuk2; 04-15-2010 at 02:57 PM.
Why did my township make April 15 the deadline for paying spring property taxes? Isn't it enough that we have to file state and federal forms by this date?
That makes senseI'm largely just sounding off Flix. Don't mind me.
There are people who suit this work, and enjoy it. Some of my team do. And as you say I suppose the work has its implicit rewards, intangible though they may be.
I meant what I said with I don't have the requisite skills for this work - I don't.
I'm not organised enough, and I'm no good at pushing others, both of which are fairly essential skills for project management ...
Part of my not enjoying it is that I know I'm not terribly good at it. I am improving with time but I know it'll never be a natural fit ...I -think- it would be something for me (part of the reason I want to know why you dislike it
), though I've never done it professionally, only during study projects and the like. I have some meetings with recruiters next week so I should figure out what kind of job I think suits me before then.
Keep on keepin' the beat alive!
Well good luck to you dude.
We had a 25 year old fella join our team on a six month secondment as part of a graduate scheme with the bank. Really bright and likeable fella. Left us 3 weeks ago.
He excelled at this stuff. And you could tell he enjoyed it. I was overseeing his secondment - he joined me on my projects to learn while he was with us - and during calls and meetings I would let him take over. He did a fanstastic job in his short time here. You can tell the type that will go a loooooooong way up the career ladder.
A good project manager is that type of person, and it is the kind of position where networking (ugh I hate that word) is key; therefore where you are recognised by many for your talents. A great job to move on upwards with in other words ...
Good luck with the search either way Tim. The best thing i done was leave my last place of employment, i absolutely hated it. I had no chance of improving myself, no training ... nothing.
I've not been in my new job for 2 years yet and i'm already being lined up as manager.
Good luck Timbuk.
You need to find another job. I know that might be the easy answer, but harder to do.
I know what it's like to love making things and not having an outlet for it.
Worse, I know what it's like to dread going to a job that leaves you with no fulfilment.
No advice, but a pat on the back, and I'll buy you a beer.
Thanks fellas.
Nothing like a bit of a rant and a sympathetic ear.
Bitter, is your new venture part of your own new business (I wasn't around when you probably mentioned it)? The work you've shown us recently isn't what i remembered you doing, plus from the latest pics i have seen the pieces look magnificent.Worse, I know what it's like to dread going to a job that leaves you with no fulfilment.
No advice, but a pat on the back, and I'll buy you a beer.
Gurren Lagann: The Movie is coming out on DVD! Woo!
Wait, there's no English dub? FFFFFFFUUUU
I enjoy blank walls.
Dubs are awful, and you're awful
Gurren Lagann's dub rules, and I've seen the subbed version.
I just don't want to have to read at the bottom of the screen while holes are getting punched in the fabric of space-time.
I enjoy blank walls.
No, no, no.
Subtitles are our friends.
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
You're awful cocooned in a bag of despicable wrapped in a shroud of disgusting
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
My girlfriend was when we started going outTim haven't you shagged one of your bosses once? Or am i thinking of someone else?
Though now she's got the job I used to have, I've trained a replacement in the one I followed on to that for too, so at the moment I've made myself kind of redundant. Still got the job, without having any job essentially, so now I'm helping my girlfiend out until a job opens up for me in September, if that makes sense. So essentially you could say I am now, since she's the boss now.
Always was I'm coming to think too . . .
I think my router hates me.
I really do. It's too bad the stupid dsi can't just connect to the wii (that I wound up buying the adapter for because my router hates me).
It is entirely possible that the printout I have is from some previous configuration of my router that hates me.
But since the little device webpage isn't actually readable and usable, well...
My router hates me.
*sigh*
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote