Minor Rant Thread part 6

[zazen999]

Perhaps they aren't going to resign but use it as a bargaining tool for more wages?

Who knows...

[julesapple]

Someone has had a whale of a time. The vacuum is broken, the cafetiere is shattered and so is a pyrex dish. No one knows anything about anything.

Bleddy faeries......

[cptncrackoff]

Snow, gridlock, very little gritter action - my 8 mile journey to work taking 2 hours and 45 mins! we only had half an inch!!

[Glutton4...]

Same here Captain! Mental!

Ever mucked-out your wallet/purse/whatever and discovered all those unused vouchers. When you're skint. Aaaaaaarrrrrggggghhhhh!

[Florence Fennel]

You're right. I'm calming down a bit now and thinking a little more clearly - I was just furious that the first I heard of it was via the request for a verbal reference with the implication that the person would be starting there before completing their notice period.

I flipped out a bit...better here than to the staff member in question though. Sigh!

I'd be miffed if the member of staff in question hadn't asked me previously about being a referee for them, so if that was the case, rant away.

My rant? Harbingers of gloom who tell me it's going to snow while I'm at work and that I'll have to stay overnight.

[Andromeda]

I'd be miffed if the member of staff in question hadn't asked me previously about being a referee for them, so if that was the case, rant away.

My rant? Harbingers of gloom who tell me it's going to snow while I'm at work and that I'll have to stay overnight.

No previous mention of being a referee has ever been made!

[Feral007]

My rant is the other side of the reference problem. I want to make some enquiries about another job, but if I mention it to my 'manager' who I see rarely so will need to track her down, and then once I mention it to her reports of my leaving will be round the hospital in 5 mins. I'd just like to make some enquiries. But I know that the new place will want a reference - and I could provide several other people I work with and have for years, but they will want the manager - or the reason why not!

My plan atm is to make some tentative enquiries, and if they decide they want to talk to the manager then, because it's likely to lead to a job, then I'll phone the manager and ask her if she's happy to give one then, or would like them to phone her back later - thus giving her the heads up at least! I only have to give 2 weeks notice, but would try and give 4 or so because it gives them time to organise themselves.

But I really dislike the fact that I have to put all my cards on the table before I even get a toe in the front door somewhere else!

[MartinRSharpe]

My rant is "stupid useless fake lawyers". I should have been moving into my house (and new huge garden) in October and the legal rubbish still isn't sorted.

[OverWyreGrower]

Bladdy finance systems imposed by Group in Europe before they've been fully tested with UK tax/finance etc....

9 months worth of Purchase Orders (for off-shore contractors) which ALL have to be re-done because the ledger code has got the wrong tax on it for off-short staff.

Oh, and by the way, they all have to be done in 4 working days because we're closing the system for finance year end on 12th December...

Thanks. Thanks very much.

[julesapple]

Just been informed that it is Parent's Evening this evening. Two hour's notice and the BH has gone out.

Not that Parent's Evening is unpleasant. Sometimes I wish #3 were more of a rebel - it would be a change from being told how intelligent, sweet and helpful he is...a joy to teach. I guess I shouldn't complain about that bit

I've just done the annual dusting. I am filthy and there is no water.I just can't be arrised. Call me a bad Mum......

[Aberdeenplotter]

OK, you're a bad mum. but you know as well as we do that you're not, you've had a bad day with no water, just got a couple of hours notice that it's parent's evening at school and this after you've had a hard day. Nae wonder you cannie be arrised missus.

Have a nice cuppa, brush the hair, floss the teeth, feed the offspring and then do what ya gorra do and then enjoy the GR

oh my rant, ermhhh hard done folks being hard done by

[julesapple]

I've been told it's just the one teacher we need tae see. That's no too bad..

I've got a naked tree........it looks dark and foreboding.

[Lisamcflisa]

hell of a day
parents evening, which went sh**e, sixth form pressure not going down well with my 16 yr old, grrrrr...
we are now camping in the living room as the dirty skanks next door and their vileness have now given us a rat under our bedroom floor thats trying to eat its way into our room, after their rottenness has got too much for them arghhhhhhhhhhhhhh..
found me guinea pig dead this morning too .... tears and upset on all parts, *sigh*
roll on new day

[Feral007]

Oh sorry about the guinea pig.

I think we have another rat in our ceiling, but since snakes don't chew and scratch (that I know of) then it's almost a relief. Unless snakes eat rats as well as mice. That wouldn't be good.

[Aberdeenplotter]

I'm sure I saw a programme on telly that showed that snakes were being encouraged in some parts of Australia in order to control vermin and yes they do eat rats. I'm sure I saw a photo the other day of a snake eating a wildebeast whole.

my rant, cough now developed into a chest infection. Brilliant not.