What have you done today thread?

[Mr. Dazzle]

Maybe the lack of bums of seats is related to the esteem in which they apparently hold their employees.

[gremlin]

Maybe the lack of bums of seats is related to the esteem in which they apparently hold their employees.

I did feed my opinion up the food chain, that perhaps a mediocre (at best) breakfast bap doesn't really compensate for people spending a couple of hours of their day and a good £20-30 in return train fares.

[636mick]

My employer is on a drive to get more bums on seats in the office. To this end, they are offering a free breakfast to staff on Friday.

Well I'm usually in so I thought I'd take advantage.

Now I hate to appear churlish or ungrateful, but...
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(Pen and sachet to illustrate size of stodgy muffin and > half a sausage)

I hope they are suitably embarrassed to offer that,
Mick

[Mr. Dazzle]

If it is any consolation Gremlin (I'm sure it's not) I often miss out of the freebie food at work.

They put on "just because" nose-bag at work reasonably often....wood fired pizza, gelato, street foody kinda stuff, that sort of thing. It's always on a Wednesday though and I'm never in the office on Weds

[gremlin]

My employer is on a drive to get more bums on seats in the office. To this end, they are offering a free breakfast to staff on Friday.

Well I'm usually in so I thought I'd take advantage.

Now I hate to appear churlish or ungrateful, but...
20240503_091218_copy_907x1612.jpg
(Pen and sachet to illustrate size of stodgy muffin and > half a sausage)

I hope they are suitably embarrassed to offer that,
Mick

Let me tell a story my employer is very proud of, as it gets trotted out to evidence our frugal and conservative culture:

Back in the 1960's a famed Swedish artist designed a scotty-dog money box to encourage children to save money. A while after the Riksbank issued a new 1 kroner coin which was too big for the slot. Much panic about having to melt all the stock down and recast them with a bigger slot, until one branch manager in Skåne (an area renown for being careful with money -think Yorkshire with better looking women )looked in his shed and found a file that fitted the slot perfectly. He took it his branch and instructed all the staff to file out a bigger slot in all of their stock of scotty-dogs and spread the news to head office. At once, the frugal management realised the cost savings and sent the same model of file to every branch in Sweden with instructions on what to do.

They are very, very proud of this story. It's spouted as an example of our culture.

Now I kinda get it and I like that waste is minimised, costs saved for customers and shareholders, etc., but sometimes it gets taken to extremes, especially by managers who want to show how ingrained the corporate culture is in their bones.

And when that manifests itself as a small, stodgy muffin with a third of a sausage, it boils my piss.

[Mr. Dazzle]

A manager once complained to me that payroll was enormous and the company's biggest expense.

They didn't seem to clock that the Employees are also the most useful part of any business Try working without them.

[gremlin]

Today I have lost about $50k and cultivated a huge zit on the side of my nose.

[636mick]

Genuinely laughed at that story, and the zit!!

[Count Steer]

And when that manifests itself as a small, stodgy muffin with a third of a sausage, it boils my piss.

Tell 'em if they think you're worth so little you're going to hand back your bonus in protest. That'll learn 'em.

[gremlin]

And when that manifests itself as a small, stodgy muffin with a third of a sausage, it boils my piss.

Tell 'em if they think you're worth so little you're going to hand back your bonus in protest. That'll learn 'em.

Do you think a company that skimps on breakfast would pay a bonus?

https://fortune.com/europe/2023/12/19/h ... e-economy/

[cheb]

Driven to Oban and am now on a beautiful sunlight cruise in the Hebrides. Another three or so hours until we dock.

[ZRX61]

Bought some plywood to build a bookshelf that will fit on my gun/ammo cabinet That will house all my workshop manuals. Cabinet is 32in wide, F350 manuals & parts book etc will take up at least half that (just measured the stack, it's 16in tall) I *think* all my other manuals will fit in the space left.

[ZRX61]

Almost 4 hours later:

Realized just how much I miss having a shop/garage big enough to do this shit without having to compromise. I could have done it in one place, but had to use four areas of the garage & misplaced several tools multiple times (pencil, drill, screwdriver, tape). FFS
The base is done
The front panel is done
The back panel is done
The design for the end panel is sketched on one of the two pieces, but no cutting/shaping yet.

* when I say *done*, I mean cut to size, but yet to be sanded/varnished etc...

[Noggin]

So far. A quick little run down to town (from cat sit house, so not the 21 hairpins!!) and back. Not quite sure why, but the registration has changed so he needed the new plate to be fitted. Special tool etc etc.

Apparently a neighbour has the tool, but I’m too much of a wuss to knock on a random door to ask a strange man if I can use his tool

So I rode down to town to go to the local garage and they did it for me for 7€

Had a chat about the new mot coming in for bikes. Not sure if the guy was anti or not but I just said, not my bike, my mate wants me to get one for it, and - we have them every year on bikes back in the uk, so it’s normal to me

Off to my place in a bit to move stuff around and especially chop up an old mattress and take it off the bed to store in a garage till the tip is open at a time I have access to a car!! Then put the new mattress in the bed ready for tomorrow night and being home

[Count Steer]

Had the chance to run over Jeremy Hunt. He was standing in the local car park about 6ft from where I've parked. (He's looking v relaxed in jeans and (non-descript) trainers, poss. Asics.

He looks older and more weaselly faced IRL.

[Bustaspoke]

Washed the salt water & Mersey grit from 'Gravel bike' after yesterdays spin to the beach

[MingtheMerciless]

Cleaned the conservatory which involves wobbling on the top of a step ladder, taking down various blinds and washing spider/fly poo off them and putting them in the garden to dry, washing the plastics and windows before refitting after evicting a load of spiders.

I really should pay someone to do this.

[Noggin]

Had the chance to run over Jeremy Hunt. He was standing in the local car park about 6ft from where I've parked. (He's looking v relaxed in jeans and (non-descript) trainers, poss. Asics.

He looks older and more weaselly faced IRL.

Given that you wrote "had the chance to" and there's nothing in the todays news thread, all I have to say is

[Noggin]

I've removed my old mattress - whole Didn't have an implement sharp/big enough to cut it. Well, my usual chef's knife might have, but I love that knife and wasn't willing to test it! The bigger older chef's knife has blunted with age (can't be lack of use cos surely they don't get blunt from lack of use! But FFS it's blunt!!) and was rubbish Had to 'fold' it in half with the aid of gaffa tape and haul it down the stairs into the car I'm using

So, mattress and some boxes in the garage I use in the summer. Part waiting for a mate to get back with his truck so we can do a tip run, and part waiting for me to sort through and add to the tip pile!

Brought the new mattress up (it arrived rolled up and vacpacked, so wasn't so hard!!). That's now on the bed and bed is remade ready to use tomorrow. Bloody hope it's comfy!! Sure it will be different, but it's an almost 500€ mattress discounted to 150€ through a major chain shop. I know it's not really that much discount, but I still hope its comfy!

All the moving of mattresses from/to a bed that's 4 foot up in the air has put me off doing as much as I'd planned - really shouldn't do this shit by myself I have to drive for 5-6 hours tomorrow then ride a bike home, so I'm going to chill for a bit (waiting for the washing machine to finish so I can hang up the bedding to dry) and then go for a cuppa with some mates before going back to cat house.

Might even venture into the bath this evening just to see if I can prevent too much aching and pain tomorrow!!

[Count Steer]

Had the chance to run over Jeremy Hunt. He was standing in the local car park about 6ft from where I've parked. (He's looking v relaxed in jeans and (non-descript) trainers, poss. Asics.

He looks older and more weaselly faced IRL.

Given that you wrote "had the chance to" and there's nothing in the todays news thread, all I have to say is

Then I'd miss the chance to see his 'Portillo face' at the next election.

When I got back to the car he'd gone but I realised my MP was there trying to look invisible (baseball cap pulled down and looking at the ground). I was going to say 'Boo!' and ask what she was going to do next year after her single term as an MP. (I know/knew her reasonably well - she's a neighbour - but we haven't seen her locally since she got elected. The house looks mothballed. Expect she'll be around when votes are wanted).

I imagine they were there to say cheerio to the Crime Commissioner.

Edit: Nope, they were there to ask her how to win, because she got in again.