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PostRe: The Work Thread
by Green Gecko » Mon Mar 05, 2018 11:32 pm

Blue Eyes wrote:
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Blue Eyes wrote:My company have sent us a work station risk assessment survey to complete. One of the questions is "do you consider the noise level to be acceptable". I want to be truthful but I wonder if it will come across as being a miserable sod. My answer is:

"Most of the time it’s OK but we do get very loud wailing occasionally coming from the other side of the office. Also, people like to walk over to our desk area talking very loudly on the phone which can be distracting."

That wailing is people very loudly laughing in a high pitch right by people who are often on the phone. It's quite annoying. Should I keep it?


If you want it addressed keep it.

I'd probably change the wording from wailing to just noise though.

I like the specificity of "wailing", though. It describes the irritating noise well. I do take your point, though.

One of my favourite facts is that the recommended level for noise that isn't considered a workplace hazard for day to day working is is only a little above talking volume. So that technically means that talking loudly and shouting is a health & safety risk so feel free to use that if it cheeses you off enough. :)

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PostRe: The Work Thread
by Tragic Magic » Tue Mar 06, 2018 8:31 am

How do I tell my old work colleague that I don't want to play D&D with him anymore, when I know for sure that he's written a huge chunk of the campaign around my character's backstory? So awkward.

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by Moggy » Tue Mar 06, 2018 8:52 am

Tragic Magic wrote:How do I tell my old work colleague that I don't want to play D&D with him anymore, when I know for sure that he's written a huge chunk of the campaign around my character's backstory? So awkward.


Tell him you risk summoning a demogorgon and that will make Winona Ryder cry.

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PostRe: The Work Thread
by Tragic Magic » Tue Mar 06, 2018 11:15 am

Thanks for the advice. But sorry for posting it in here, I thought I was in the board game thread.

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by Preezy » Tue Mar 06, 2018 12:18 pm

Tragic Magic wrote:How do I tell my old work colleague that I don't want to play D&D with him anymore, when I know for sure that he's written a huge chunk of the campaign around my character's backstory? So awkward.

Depends on the reason you no longer want to play with him. If it's because of a change in your circumstances (reduced social time, travelling costs etc) then just be honest and let him down gently. If it's because he's a smelly bumlick and you don't like him them you shouldn't worry about hurting his feelings so much and just make up some excuse.

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by Errkal » Tue Mar 06, 2018 12:40 pm

Tragic Magic wrote:How do I tell my old work colleague that I don't want to play D&D with him anymore, when I know for sure that he's written a huge chunk of the campaign around my character's backstory? So awkward.

Just shout "strawberry float off nerd" and walk away ?

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by Death's Head » Tue Mar 06, 2018 12:58 pm

Tragic Magic wrote:How do I tell my old work colleague that I don't want to play D&D with him anymore, when I know for sure that he's written a huge chunk of the campaign around my character's backstory? So awkward.
Start an argument with him and end it with "I am never talking to you again". Job done.

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by Hexx » Tue Mar 06, 2018 1:07 pm

Errkal wrote:
Tragic Magic wrote:How do I tell my old work colleague that I don't want to play D&D with him anymore, when I know for sure that he's written a huge chunk of the campaign around my character's backstory? So awkward.

Just shout "strawberry float off nerd" and walk away ?


Hey!

DnD is pretty cool played by pretty cool people

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by Errkal » Tue Mar 06, 2018 1:13 pm

Hexx wrote:
Errkal wrote:
Tragic Magic wrote:How do I tell my old work colleague that I don't want to play D&D with him anymore, when I know for sure that he's written a huge chunk of the campaign around my character's backstory? So awkward.

Just shout "strawberry float off nerd" and walk away ?


Hey!

DnD is pretty cool played by pretty cool people


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PostRe: The Work Thread
by Moggy » Tue Mar 06, 2018 2:03 pm

Preezy wrote:bumlick


You really did love Derek’s insult. :lol:

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PostRe: The Work Thread
by Preezy » Tue Mar 06, 2018 2:04 pm

Moggy wrote:
Preezy wrote:bumlick


You really did love Derek’s insult. :lol:

I'm re-appropriating it :lol: :toot:

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PostRe: The Work Thread
by Moggy » Tue Mar 06, 2018 2:07 pm

Preezy wrote:
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Preezy wrote:bumlick


You really did love Derek’s insult. :lol:

I'm re-appropriating it :lol: :toot:


Are you saying that only one type of person can use it and nobody else can?

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PostRe: The Work Thread
by Preezy » Tue Mar 06, 2018 2:08 pm

Moggy wrote:
Preezy wrote:
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Preezy wrote:bumlick


You really did love Derek’s insult. :lol:

I'm re-appropriating it :lol: :toot:


Are you saying that only one type of person can use it and nobody else can?

Yep, only people that have been labelled a bumlick by an insane conspiracy theorist mentalist can use it. Justice will prevail.

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PostRe: The Work Thread
by That » Tue Mar 06, 2018 2:14 pm

We're here, we're bumlicks, get used to it.

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PostRe: The Work Thread
by Tragic Magic » Wed Mar 07, 2018 11:44 am

I don't know what's wrong with me. I really need a job but I feel relief that I missed a call this morning from what I suspect is a job I applied for but don't really want. At this point I just need anything so I really shouldn't feel like that. :?

Edit - Received an email from them anyway and I have an interview next Wednesday.

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PostRe: The Work Thread
by Squinty » Wed Mar 07, 2018 4:52 pm

You gotta love whenever work scanners aren't working properly but nobody tells anyone this, or leaves a note. I spent about 2 hours getting record documents scanned into a scanned images folder for others to sort, only to be told that the top loader scanner doesn't actually work and hasn't worked for the last few days. It has scanned the documents as blank PDFs. Seeing as I didn't have security access for the scanned images folder, I couldn't see this.

strawberry floating pissed off that I have to do this again because no one could be arsed writing a strawberry floating note.

Where's the armless bloke from Arrested Development when you need him.

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PostRe: The Work Thread
by Robbo-92 » Thu Mar 08, 2018 10:40 am

Nothing like a short telephone interview out of the blue to start your day, started off terribly as they caught me off guard but ended half decently (I think so anyway). Would be nice if I'd done well enough to get a face to face interview but it's not the end of the world if I haven't.

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PostRe: The Work Thread
by Kezzer » Thu Mar 08, 2018 11:35 am

I have only ever had one telephone interview. Phone woke me up at 8:45 and I was greeted with the worst hangover ever.

Still managed to ace it 8-)

This post is exempt from the No Context Thread.

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PostRe: The Work Thread
by Errkal » Thu Mar 08, 2018 12:57 pm

Never done a phone interview, I detest phones so I don't imagine it would go well.

Not really had many "proper" interviews either. The one for my current job was interesting as when we got to the room someone had stolen it for a meeting so we ended up sitting on picnic benches outside doing it, was much more relaxed and pleasent.

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PostRe: The Work Thread
by Robbo-92 » Thu Mar 08, 2018 1:15 pm

I would have felt a lot better about it had they said the next stage would have been a telephone interview, they didn't. They said they'd be in touch via email so a phone call really caught be off guard and I tend to suffer from nerves quite badly in situations such as these so I probably came across terribly to start with. I generally hate talking on the phone as well to make matters worse.

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