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Higgins

@Victor-Meldrew Reminds me of the book by Sir Bob Jones called Letters (or something like that) where he was never afraid to detail exactly what he thought about things in letters to various correspondents!

Kruse

@Higgins said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:

@Victor-Meldrew Reminds me of the book by Sir Bob Jones called Letters (or something like that) where he was never afraid to detail exactly what he thought about things in letters to various correspondents!

Yesterday, in my "6-month Check-In" (ie: bullshit not-quite-performance review):
I had the subject "What can your manager do to assist you in your job?"
One of my bullet points:
"They could confirm whether there is any future in a career at [company-name]"

with multiple bullet points as to possible methods they could do so (or rather - methods they'd proven the answer to be 'no'"
eg: are you going to pay me more? Are you going to give me any of the training/certifications that you promised, which would help me fuck off and get paid more elsewhere? would you at least "rank" me at my actual level, rather than alongside imbeciles?

I fucking love writing letters with no-fucks-given. And when a corporate-environment not only gives me the opportunity, but FORCES me to do so... by fuck, they are going to get some helpful info.

Bones

@Kruse sounds like I might work alongside you

Kruse

@Bones Shit - you work at [company-name] too?
What do you think of that rumour about [hot-new-marketing-girl] and [creepy-sales-manager] ?

voodoo

@Kruse said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:

@Bones Shit - you work at [company-name] too?
What do you think of that rumour about [hot-new-marketing-girl] and [creepy-sales-manager] ?

Which one are you?

Bones

@Kruse not sure, funnily enough I only just started in the marketing department.

Victor Meldrew

@Higgins said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:

@Victor-Meldrew Reminds me of the book by Sir Bob Jones called Letters (or something like that) where he was never afraid to detail exactly what he thought about things in letters to various correspondents!

I once worked with a retired Royal Marines WO who didn't pull his punches - he once summed up an interviewee with the immortal line "A village somewhere is missing its idiot"