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hoochalobster (Sarah) Super Moderator wrote:
Posted on Mon, 4 September 2006 at 22:30
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deadsetgav wrote:
mr self destruct wrote:
Gav - what was Malta like?
Bit of a shit-hole mainly but I do like the place - it has a certain charm… but St Julians was nice, worked hard and had some rather nice meals paid for on expenses so on the whole, it was quite good.
Got delayed by 10 hours on the outward flight which was shit-house :(
Posted on Mon, 4 September 2006 at 22:34
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mr self destruct wrote:
Were you acting suspiciously?
Posted on Tue, 5 September 2006 at 06:36
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Hooch's mum (mrs h the 1st) wrote:
Hooray! Nearly everyone is back together just like the old days :)
*hugs Gav*
*taps foot and looks at watch, waiting for Tinne*
Posted on Tue, 5 September 2006 at 09:16
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Divers (Simon) wrote:
Morning I’m off to London for the day for meeting, wont see you all till tomorrow.
Have a good one:)
Posted on Tue, 5 September 2006 at 09:36
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Hooch's mum (mrs h the 1st) wrote:
*clings to Divers leg to stop him from breaking up the group*
Nooooooo!!!
Oh ok then! Bring me back some rock? :)
Posted on Tue, 5 September 2006 at 09:46
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Divers (Simon) wrote:
Crack? or the sweet stuff?
but will do;)
i just need to keep calm about this meeting, i was alright till i got some email this morning and now i’m all over the place.
Posted on Tue, 5 September 2006 at 09:50
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marja (sinner) wrote:
hello all, been busy this morning. digging through the mess our sales assistant left. I was a bit down when he told me he was leaving the company, but now I’m glad he’s gone. Why is it so hard to find good help?
Posted on Tue, 5 September 2006 at 09:53
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Hooch's mum (mrs h the 1st) wrote:
Divers wrote:
Crack? or the sweet stuff?
but will do;)
i just need to keep calm about this meeting, i was alright till i got some email this morning and now i’m all over the place.
What is the meeting? Don’t be all over the place, take deep breaths in through your mouth and then breathe really slowly out through your nose. It should calm you down, but if it doesn’t at least you won’t suffocate! :)
Tinne - you are so fickle! :p
Posted on Tue, 5 September 2006 at 10:03
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Divers (Simon) wrote:
It’s with that old radio 1 DJ Mark Goodier, he called me and wanted me to pop up for a chat about possible work. The main problem was i got a mail from Oz and it’s just thrown me a bit so i just have too much going on in my mind. I have to try and not think about it till after the meeting but it isn’t easy.
Anyway I best get ready to catch my train.
Posted on Tue, 5 September 2006 at 10:08
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marja (sinner) wrote:
so I had to look up what fickle means, and I admit it, it’s a bit of a u-turn, but if you see what he left us with… And the fact that he pretended to have doen a great job makes it even worse
Posted on Tue, 5 September 2006 at 10:11
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mr self destruct wrote:
Posted on Tue, 5 September 2006 at 10:15
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Hooch's mum (mrs h the 1st) wrote:
marja wrote:
so I had to look up what fickle means, and I admit it, it’s a bit of a u-turn, but if you see what he left us with… And the fact that he pretended to have doen a great job makes it even worse
Fair enough :) Did he get a good reference?
@ Divers - well I hope you get some local work doing sound stuff, and it doesn’t have anything to do with your reputation as a gay butler :) *crosses fingers*
@ Sam - is that Mark Goodier? I don’t know the first thing about anything to do with radio 1 …
Posted on Tue, 5 September 2006 at 10:20
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mr self destruct wrote:
Yup! I only know him because he’s in a Day Today clip:
TEUPORT: When he goes to England later this month, one of the people Fur Q will be doing the killing to is Radio 1 disc jockey Mark Goodier.
[Shot of Goodier in his studio, giving us a thumbs-up.]
Posted on Tue, 5 September 2006 at 10:24
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Hooch's mum (mrs h the 1st) wrote:
Posted on Tue, 5 September 2006 at 10:25
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marja (sinner) wrote:
Hooch’s mum wrote:
Fair enough :) Did he get a good reference?
hell no, we still have to give a report to the temp agency, and it will not be pretty.
Posted on Tue, 5 September 2006 at 10:33
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mr self destruct wrote:
Give the poor guy a good report, you evil cow!
Posted on Tue, 5 September 2006 at 10:37
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Hooch's mum (mrs h the 1st) wrote:
I think you are secretly enjoying this!
Posted on Tue, 5 September 2006 at 10:37
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marja (sinner) wrote:
why should we do that? He lied to us, and caused serious problems that will cost us lots of money. I don’t see any reason to cut him some slack. He didn’t ask for more explenation either.
Posted on Tue, 5 September 2006 at 10:38
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mr self destruct wrote:
Posted on Tue, 5 September 2006 at 10:41
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marja (sinner) wrote:
-he sent wrong invoices to the wrong clients (one in canada got an invoice for a client in japan).
-The shipping documents never arrived on time —> the client can’t collect his goods from the boat—> prudction loss for this customer —> we will have to pay for this loss.
-completly wrong documents for things that we didn’t even sell
-he gave timings we know we can’t respect —> damage claim again
It could come to a few thousand euros, even a few tens of thousand euros if we can’t solve the major problems
Posted on Tue, 5 September 2006 at 10:44
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mr self destruct wrote:
Maybe his training was poor? Having done loads of temp jobs I can vouch for the fact that you’re often just chucked into roles without really knowing what you’re doing…
Though if that’s not the case then I guess you have good reason to complain.
Posted on Tue, 5 September 2006 at 10:48
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marja (sinner) wrote:
He got one week of training and he could always ask the lady the gave him the training, which he did very often, but that was just not enough for him, I guess. He said when he was leaving that numbers are not really his thing. Well, I’ve noticed that :)
Posted on Tue, 5 September 2006 at 10:51
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mr self destruct wrote:
Did he claim he was good with numbers, before he started the job?
Posted on Tue, 5 September 2006 at 10:53
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marja (sinner) wrote:
I don’t know that, I didn’t hire him, it was our director that did the interview. but I guess he must have claimed he could do the job
Posted on Tue, 5 September 2006 at 10:58
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mr self destruct wrote:
So you don’t know whether he said he could do the job and your company didn’t give him very much training…but you’re going to complain anyway :D
I’m only playing devil’s advocate ;) I empathise with temps because I’ve been one several times…it’s a shit situation to be in, and agencies and companies generally treat you really badly.
Posted on Tue, 5 September 2006 at 11:03
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marja (sinner) wrote:
I’ve been there too. I started in this company as a temp. I got 2!!! days of training. And even in this job I do now there was no job description. I got my description from job ads on the internet :rolleyes:. Sad isn’t it.
Once a temp agency got me an interview to be the intermediate between a belgian and a german company branch.I did rather well on their german language computer test, because I just thicked the boxes of the answers I thought sounded OK. I had no idea what it all meant. I also told her several times that I dodn’t speak german, but she decides to send me anyway. i got there, the lady of the company starts talking to me in german. I replied in my best Jean-marie Pfaff-german that I can’t speak the language, and the interview was over.
Posted on Tue, 5 September 2006 at 11:09
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mr self destruct wrote:
I think I’ve worked for 7 or 8 different agencies and been sacked from 5 of them :)
Posted on Tue, 5 September 2006 at 11:13
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marja (sinner) wrote:
when my brother just got back from finland he needed a job, and the easiest way is to go via a temp agency. The things they made him do, horrible:
*high pitch irritatingly happy voice*
hey jan, great news, i found you a great position in a meat factory. They need someone to clean out the meatbuckets, and I think you’re the perfect match for this job. Don’t you think, Jan.”
Posted on Tue, 5 September 2006 at 11:17
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mr self destruct wrote:
Posted on Tue, 5 September 2006 at 11:21
