Anyone doing well at work?

A real pinnacle for me was recently having a dump in works time that was so precision the toilet paper was clean post wipe. Its gonna be difficult to transcend this.

It would of been the perfect storm if it went straight around the bend and no flush required 🙂

Done some stuff well above my perception of my level of competence and not looked a complete twit doing it or at least nobody let on that I did. Made my employers suffient money that they have stopped complaining when I nick a spot in the firms car park despite not being allocated one and being told my wage is calculated on paying for my own parking .

5 months into a contract.
Hellish 3hr+ commuting everyday
An organisation in flux
A mix of colleagues that range from the sublime to the dysfunctional
BUT the directors that matter appear to like my work and I’m very happy with how it’s working out, despite just having to carry out a review on quality processes 😯

Just completed my second week back after nearly totalling myself in October. Seems to work ok. Another few weeks like this and I should be able to pay my professional fees and insurance 🙂

Just completed my second week back after nearly totalling myself in October. Seems to work ok. Another few weeks like this and I should be able to pay my professional fees and insurance

You’ve just reminded me about my RICS subs…bit steep 🙁

Something like a 60% increase over two years ago, just like my pay…..oh, hang on.

Still, honestly not complaining. I’m walking and talking and working!

It would of been the perfect storm if it went straight around the bend and no flush required

And the bars been moved up a notch…. i’ll report back on my career progress.

Coastin…….jus coastin 😉

@lol Qwerty

Good Man!

It’s Friday and I’m one day closer to getting access to my pension fund. Life is good and gets closer to better every day. Work to live chaps.

So far this year:
Fixed nothing as they keep making me work on kit I’m not trained on.
Turned on a piece of equipment my inept colleagues couldn’t ( I read the short cold start paragraph in the manual next to the equipment)
Attended a 4 day course where the manufacturer has made me realise we are playing at running a mobile network.
“******* ****, run by *unts” to quote one of my colleagues, never a truer phrase uttered.

Made the jump from permie to contractor. First client went fine, but didn’t pan out beyond the initial engagement. Second contract was signed on the last day of the first. No break in between.

Now two weeks in. The renewal word has been mentioned already. I’m cautiously optimistic.

Made a third of my salary in bonus at Christmas. Must be doing something reasonable 8)

After 20 years of being self employed in the frustrating building industry as a carpenter, supervisor & then site manager I’ve finally packed it in and started again at the bottom of a new industry.

showing an MP around a new electric motor test facility.

What car manufacturers are interested in electric motors then? Interested to hear what’s happening.

“Look East – West?”

Is confused.

Tennis coverage innit.

molgrips
What car manufacturers are interested in electric motors then? Interested to hear what’s happening.

It’s easier to say which OEMs aren’t developing Emachines for passenger cars……..

A young gentleman who I spent around an hour on scene with by myself following a nasty RTC, that ‘I didn’t expect to survive has started to learn to walk again and regaining his sight just over a year later.

I’ve stayed at it another year

increasingly struggling to see that as a positive

Drac. That’s real stuff unlike the rest of the ego massaging on this thread ( excepting the very humorous). That’s a real feel good. Good on you.

Thanks it’s an amazing feeling and made me immensely proud but it’s my job.

qwerty – Member
A real pinnacle for me was recently having a dump in works time that was so precision the toilet paper was clean post wipe. Its gonna be difficult to transcend this.

No Shit Qwerty 😀

My wife is.

This year she has completed her Masters, finished a Post Grad Certificate in Clinical Examinations and got a huge promotion at work.

Me – mleh.

I ain’t half proud of her – ten times the savvy I have.

I’m bored shitless. I like the company, I like my boss and some of the work is interesting….but not enough. Any internal move would effectively be a step down. My skills are quite niche so finding a suitable alternative job is tricky.
😐

Ditched a life in the Basque country to return to UK. Work 3 days cutting and pasting email addresses and avoiding conversation with the OCD boss. Spend the other 2 days learning how to make Android apps – going well, just wish I had the money to do it 5 days a week and get my new app finished off.

We have had the best year ever, three years running, staff all seem happy at the moment and so do the customers (mostly). And we were on telly tonight which, was nice.

Indeed, hats off to Drac and all the people who work for the common good.

Although in my defence, I’d like to point out that most of you have used my code several times to day, and that of my colleagues. I have done some fairly important stuff* in this job unlike the previous 10 years of my career which was worthless.

* although nothing comparable to saving lives

Nope! Just earning enough not to beg.

😯

A client texted to say my floor had brought really brought her house to life. I shit you not. I thought of the wheel size threads straight away. 😀

Fed up being taken advantage of by large clients who seem to expect to pay peanuts for weeks of work (engineering). Especially when you are the only people willing to take on the work as it’s beyond what anyone else will attempt. Got the point of saying “if we go any lower we are not making any profit we wish you luck finding another company”

It’s not too bad. Being one of the few people who likes to be collaborative and is reasonably capable – I have got a lot on and not all in my specific area…

Self employment plasterer. Never been busier. Life is good

I really do enjoy my job (most of the time) and I’m lucky to be doing it, but I cherish the time with my kids more these days.

Jimob, don’t cover Milton Keynes do you ? Need some plastering done !

Sorry Kimbers. Stockton on Tees based but most of my work is North Yorkshire

By coincidence, at half past three this afternoon I got promoted from “supervisor” to “senior manager”

Sipping bubbly as I type….. 🙂

Teacher.

Following on from the most recent departmental meeting- all my future targets have already been met, all my required tasks are now done too.

Happy days. I’m off to mark some books.

more books

even more books

I hate marking books, it is not even slightly rewarding, at all 🙁

Slow year for custom wheel builds and repairs for me cleared 15,000 after tax but considering the hours I’ve put in and done some offshore work its pretty poor year so will be learning how to advertise for 2016 as most people still don’t realise my shop exists 😥

No single big “project with my name on” or anything but got top marks at my last appraisal, a lot of my core job can be pretty dull so I’ve hammered away at making it more efficient and taken on a lot of more interesting stuff outwith my immediate field, which has got some attention. And day to day, the student/applicant/outreach work I do can be awesome. Still don’t get paid enough mind but the wider experience should pay off some time. And it’s a great team I work with and very collaborative, couldn’t be better really from that point of view. At its best it’s bloody fantastic tbf. And pretty regular hours, 1 weekend a year… So yeah, pretty good.

Currently living in Singapore managing one of our biggest clients to date, locals attention to detail is debilitating, we have no staff and regular management jollies over for weeks at a time trying to sign up other large contracts for us to manage out of a third floor laboratory. (boss agreed to manage aircraft weighing platforms to Singlas which means we have to manage 60klbs of weights. Max lift capacity is 1500kg) Currently looking for other premises around either Changi or Seletar.

Coupled with loads of distractions back home with ill close family for both my partner and I, it’s a bit of a hoohar all round.

Still, I have tea and Tim Tams so I’m fairly happy.