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Someone said 'when do you leave?' and he said 'end of November' to which, almost like a wind-up jack in the box, the words 'It can't come fucking soon enough!' nearly burst out on the end of a spring from my mouth.
quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: ...oh and the only permanent position (which is double the money folks!) went to that nice soul Tommy who I work with. I've been chasing up a position at IBM that I'd shoot a man for, but I haven't been called back yet.
Maybe you could shoot Tommy. It might not get you the position at IBM, but it would almost definitely make you feel better.
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quote:Originally posted by Bandy: Well done Thorn. Does this mean you're moving to Oxford?
Yeah. I'm going to be in the London office until about mid-January, then move to Oxford. I'll be down in the big city about once a week, though.
Thorn - Oxford's full of Heroin addicts, but well done! You should visit the towns ride through history exhibit, it's like the lame inbred love child of the London Dungeon and Mdmme Toussards/the rock circus.
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quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: Maybe you could shoot Tommy. It might not get you the position at IBM, but it would almost definitely make you feel better.
Or, perhaps you could invite Tommy to post here. I suspect we're not getting the full story from you.
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Erk. In 15 minutes' time I've got to conduct my first-ever interview, for my underling. Yikes.
Tell you what. Be careful what you wish for. I wanted a job with status, where I was in charge, had responsibility, etc. Now I wake up in a sweat at 2.30am worrying about the five trillion things I have to do, the fact that my boss will see through my flimsy facade to the dismal shit-head that lurks beneath, how far I can push the deadlines, etc.
Is this feeling of inadequacy normal among today's middle managers?
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No. It's you. You're shit.
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quote:Originally posted by Benny the Ball: Thorn - Oxford's full of Heroin addicts,
Well, that should come as a relief. At the moment I live in Wimbledon, which is full of South Africans.
Herbs - I've been told that the paranoia about whether or not your boss is going to find out how inept and useless you are is actually a sign that you'er a decent employee. Apparently incompetent people don't realise they're incompetent. So if you do nothing, but are aware that that's a bad thing, you're already way ahead, apparently. Meanwhile, TMOers thinking they're OK at their jobs should maybe start to worry.
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quote:Originally posted by herbs: Is this feeling of inadequacy normal among today's middle managers?
I wake up in the middleof the night and write notes for myself. I once sent a work email at 3am, huddled over the laptop with weak tea. It is madness.
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Thank god it's just me. I even add to my early-hours frenzy by having half-dreams full of new, fictional, stuff I have to do. I got up last night at 3 to have some toast and peanut butter. It seemed to calm the nerves.
I suspect a lot of it is due to my 'troubles'. Like I've got a jar of stress and sad, and it only takes a couple of droplets of pressure for the whole lot to spill over, and cause crying at am dram, for example.
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Gold..... What is it good for? You can't eat it, you can't smoke it, yet everybody wants it.
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I do the waking-up-in-the-middle-of-the-night thing too and it's really fucking annoying. Especially if you know the kind of stuff I wake up for. I don't wake up because I've gone 10 grand over budget or because a key employee has resigned. I wake up because I think I've forgotten to sort out a coffee machine for our stand at a trade show. Or because I think I might have forgotten to add a remark to a press release. True, coffee at a trade show is important, but lying awake for 3 hours in the middle of the night is going a bit over the top. At moments like those, I curse my brain for working the way it does.
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Oh verily. My 3am sweats aren't over having libelled someone or done anything remotely bad, it's always trivial crap like... God I can't even remember any of them. They're so inconsequential
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No more waking-up-in-the-middle-of-the-night-worrying-about-work- related scenarios for me anymore. Yours truly has been made redundant (on Friday 13th...) and now works from the comfort of his own home. Risky business at present, but I've sufficient capital behind me to make a decent go at things. We shall see.
quote:Originally posted by Louche: Er. Didn't working from home go massively tits up for you last time you tried it, Zygote?
Yes, it did. However, it was a completely different scenario back then. Started with very little collateral and was 'over-trading' in order to pay for the extra bills (my son had just been born), mortgage etc... buying dodgy stocks, taking huge risks, not applying stringent selection criteria... the list goes on. It was a very unstable working environment, to say the least.
This time around, I've collateral aplenty (from selling my house last year), shedloads more stock market experience, low overheads, more freedom and am now trading in a mere handful of stocks (as opposed to anything that starts to tick up) which are performing strongly. It took a week of rigorous research and late nights to come up with my current investments - out of 1,000 stocks I analysed, only 7 came through the sieve.
As I say, we shall see. I'm confident I'll be far more successful this time around.
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quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: Good luck Zygote! I hope your compulsive gambling helps you in this instance.
Cheers, NWOD. It's less of a gamble than horses and one-frame snooker matches - at least when you get it wrong the loss is more gradual, as opposed to instantaneous..
Haven't suffered any major pigeon run-ins of late, so my fingers remain firmly crossed that I don't suffer another encounter in future. They will never enter my house again. I swear.
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quote:Originally posted by Ringo: The annoying thing is that nobody seems to share my passion for F1 so I never have anyone to talk to.
I've been feeling some of the old passion return after Schumacher's performances...
Well, I've no idea what other F1 fans are saying about yesterday, but to me that was a vintage drive from Schumacher which reminded me of why I loved watching him, and F1, for so many years. A more exciting drive, from start to finish, than all the rest of the field put together. The fact that, after all that fighting, he got nothing out of it was also old-style Schumacher. Top notch. IMHO.
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I got the impression that the 'final fight' may not have been all that satisfying for Schumacher. True, he fought hard all the way despite the qualifying and flat-tire problems, but I can't imagine him not being disappointed for not being able to pull off what would have been a tremendous win against all odds. After all, the podium finish from midfield is something we've seen him capable of on many occasions. Which has got me wondering today whether he will take the 07 season off and then decide he'll return to F1 after all?
Or perhaps he'll take the Hakkinen route and switch to another series? After all his retirement announcement seemed to very narrowly excuse himself from F1, but didn't seem to close the door on another racing series.
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quote:Originally posted by froopyscot: I got the impression that the 'final fight' may not have been all that satisfying for Schumacher.
Well, of course not. Nor for his fans. But I don't think there's any current driver who would have fought back like that in what was basically a futile gesture, which still could have panned out in the end.
About 1 1/2 laps from the end, when Jensen Button was right behind Alonso, the commentator on ITV said, "...if Button and Alonso collide now and both go off, then Massa will ease up and let Michael through..."
He may have been saying it subconsciously, I dunno, but it wasn't said sarcastically, and the other commentator didn't laugh. I think it was what a lot of people were praying would happen - although Massa winning his home GP, Alonso getting a second title when he's so young, Button being on the podium and Schumacher driving like he was possessed made for a pretty smart end to the whole thing.
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