Work

[luka]

did i tell you i went down there? really low energy place considering what a vital bit of infrastructure it is. they just shuffled around in hi vis tabarbs. smoke a lot. our dry dock is there.

 

[luka]

have to start at 4.45am tomorrow its obscene.

 

[wild greens]

Christ that's early

 

[luka]

got 3 days off after. just have to get through this shift.

 

[wild greens]

I do think the working man's start time has got a lot earlier to be fair, 10-15 years ago it was probably 8-9 that was mad on the roads, now i think its more a case of 7 or even 6 these days

It is the contractor life, I know, but i think the time on site is changing a lot. Motorways are a lot clearer leaving at 5 than if you leave at 4 etc

 

[wild greens]

Fridays are so dead on the roads

 

[Leo]

Fridays are so dead on the roads

posted this previously, from The Economist

The post-pandemic company has seen a rise in TWaTs, people who work in the office on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Data from WFM Research show that the new normal for working patterns is costing Manhattan $12.4bn a year in lost income, as the average worker spends $4,661 less on meals, shopping and entertainment near the office. Sales growth in Manhattan now lags behind other parts of New York City.

 

[Leo]

Average bonuses on Wall Street last year suffered their steepest fall since 2008's market bloodbath, Axios Markets co-author Matt Phillips writes. Wall Street's 2022 bonuses dropped 26% from the year before to an average of $176,700, according to the New York State Comptroller's Office. The average Wall Street bonus is still more than twice as much as the median U.S. household was earning in 2021 ($70,784), the last year of available data.

 

[IdleRich]

...all of that stuff has a consequence for what you're like outside of work. there's definitely something about drivers where they've clearly had a lot of time to think the world through. whereas a defining thing about office people is that they don't have that worldliness, they're / we're locked into an information matrix so tightly that there's no room for the mind to wander.

I agree that what you do at work - or actually something different from that, what you said in fact; how you spend the eight or so hours when you are officially being paid to work for someone or something else cannot help but have an effect on the rest of your life. It must do cos someone getting the ideal magic 8 hours of sleep every night is therefore spending half your waking weekday life there...

But I don't agree with what you say about offices. The last office I worked in was a really good mix of people and I ended up spending a lot of time with people I would not normally hang around with from totally different backgrounds and much older than me. Not just in the office but in pubs and so on too. Of course not all offices are like that but they can be. Plus I learned a LOT cos I spent loads of time on internet, joined Dissensus etc

 

[IdleRich]

our kabul office had a load of stressed people doing stressful office work, crammed in, people shouting into phones, i was whirling about walking up and down the stairs, in and out of rooms, talking to people, conveying information, trying to figure out how to do things in the chaos, sending emails, making calculations, writing documents against deadlines, buckets of nescafe, jumping into cars and grinding through traffic to go to meetings, sending emails from a laptop in the car, tucking in my shirt and then shaking hands

I forget what job you do... did you say you work in a sweet shop?

 

[woops]

best thread for a while and the most interesting

 

[Mr. Tea]

*you may have noticed I'm making a one man effort to rehabilitate the more traditional meaning of this word. No noticeable change yet but it's early days.

 

[wild greens]

We had a long discussion and census about this topic a few months ago but could only find one person who would own upto it

A Lot Of People Are Masturbating During Work And This Is The Reason Why

Would you get off during work hours?

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

I haven't personally but i have saw offices with a lot of tension so kind of get it. Saw plenty of affairs in the 2010s tbh

 

[luka]

barty often has a work wank. he was talking about one he had the other day where the man in the next cubicle was having a really rough shit lots of strange gaseous noises and groaning

 

[wild greens]

Whatever gets you off eh

 

[martin]

Used to work in an office haunted by 'The Phantom Wanker' - exposed, after a months-long reign of terror, as a small, quiet bloke who everyone called 'Penfold' (behind his back). Management protected him, for some reason - I got hauled into HR and told off for just mentioning 'The Phantom Wanker' to a co-worker down the pub. Though he was prohibited from approaching or interacting with any women in the office as he'd tried to grope one years before, apparently.
Just shows, if you know how Excel works, you can get away with all sorts.

 

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[wild greens]

Used to work in an office haunted by 'The Phantom Wanker' - exposed, after a months-long reign of terror, as a small, quiet bloke who everyone called 'Penfold' (behind his back). Management protected him, for some reason - I got hauled into HR and told off for just mentioning 'The Phantom Wanker' to a co-worker down the pub. Though he was prohibited from approaching or interacting with any women in the office as he'd tried to grope one years before, apparently.
Just shows, if you know how Excel works, you can get away with all sorts.

This is an incredible nickname. What did he do to be called the phantom wanker? Did people come in and find a bit load of cum on their keyboard?

 

[william_kent]

I once worked in one of those multi-occupancy office buildings where we had a "phantom shitter" - the poor cleaners had to stick a notice up about cleaning up after yourself - proper explosive splatter business, grim

 

[martin]

This is an incredible nickname. What did he do to be called the phantom wanker? Did people come in and find a bit load of cum on their keyboard?

He used to noisily masturbate, THUMP THUMP THUMP, in one of the toilet cubicles (once when I was 'next door' ☹️) - and yeah, he left cum behind on several occasions. Once a few people had heard him doing it, someone had the idea of printing an A4 sheet with I WILL STRIKE AGAIN...THE PHANTOM WANKER and putting it up in the toilet for a joke, and the name stuck.

There was a 'shit' incident too where a girl who worked there got drunk in the pub opposite one Friday night, then decided to nip back to the office because "the toilets there are cleaner". Monday morning, the cleaner came in and had to remove a discarded pair of poo-filled knickers from the sanitary bin.