I’d call him a cunt but he lacks the warmth and the depth.

On today’s episode of Bullshit That Never Happened…

Let it on me bedroom

• Escort Section where the person you’re escorting moves at a slower pace than you do, forcing you to jog, walk, jog all the time.

• Want to quit the game? Sure go into the menu, click Quit Session -> Are you sure? -> click Yes -> Loading Screen -> Game menu -> click Quit Game -> Are you sure? -> click Yes -> Loading Screen -> Unskippable game title intro -> sub menu with Quit Game, Continue Game, New Game -> click Quit Game -> Are you sure? -> click Yes -> Loading Screen -> Desktop

It’s been, what, 6 months? Out of a four year run? At least give them some time before deciding they’ve failed.

We had to literally take our stairs apart to get our bed upstairs. Convenient!

Yes, because in a country where wildlife is declining rapidly, a country that has one of the lowest biodiversity levels in the world, the solution is to allow developers to just build over the remaining habitats whilst making vauge hand-waving promises about protection.

I get the need to build more, but unless the government is going to take biodiversity loss seriously, you’re just destroying more of what we have the most little of.

The problem is with sourcing the materials used to treat water. The labs that have closed are not the ones testing water - our tap water will continue to be DWI compliant and some of the best in the world. The labs that closed are the ones testing the materials used in water treatment. Not an ideal situation, but not a massive problem currently either:

A DWI spokesperson said: “While there are difficulties at present with laboratory capacity within the UK for regulation 31 testing, this has no impact on consumers, and no products will bypass the system. Rather, this is an operational difficulty within the water company and supply chain system. The industry, regulators and government are working towards increasing capacity in the system.”

As usual, it’s a doom-laden panic piece made to get people worked up over Brexit.

It’s not real

I’d bet on Tiny Glade being at least a runner up for the Sit Back & Relax category.

As if that wank clown would even bother to turn up…

Have you ever fired two guns whilst jumping through the air?

I mean it doesn’t sound like they’re seeking ‘extra’ work, because Anon is not doing any work at all. I’d argue there’s a difference between ‘extra work’ and ‘any work’.

They’re not meeting expectations either because the expectation for their role is unlikely to be ‘doing fuck all’, the expectation is doing whatever job is outlined in their JD, which they’re demonstrably not.

Again, I don’t really care either way. Do what you can get away with, but be cognisant of the risks, and how that might affect your future employability otherwise you may find yourself doing nothing because you don’t have a job at all.

Duh, they’re butthurt they fucked up, but also who cares if they’re sympathetic?

If you want to keep the job, you should.

Look, if this works for OP and others, great. More power to them. But the reality is that, in most situations this isn’t going to end up with the whole office applauding you for gaming the system and ‘sticking it to the man’ all whilst your manager looks on dispondantly from the background. It’s going to result in a lot of uncomfortable discussions with HR and you potentially losing your job, or at the very least be given a written warning. If that’s not a problem then great.

If your employee can go months doing nothing then you’re a shite boss who’s even worse than that employee, frankly

Sure, but that doesn’t mean that the employee is not culpable as well. They have a responsibility to inform their line manager that they have no work to do. If the manager still does nothing, then great, enjoy the free time. But they should at least try. Your company expects you to be working in exchange for payment. I’ve seen situations where someone taking money for work they were knowingly not doing was accused of fraud. Maybe that sticks in court, maybe it doesn’t, but is it worth the hassle to find out?

I’m from the UK. In most working environments there is an expectation of maturity and responsibility. If you don’t have enough work to do there is an expectation that you, as an employee, are responsible and mature enough to ask your manager for more as ultimately that is what you’re being paid to do - work, whether you like that or not. If you have nothing to do, and deliberately do nothing about that then your employer has reasonable grounds to at least raise this as an issue. If you’re not seen as a someone who takes their job seriously, then you may find yourself looking for a new one if your department needs to downsize, for example.

Also, regardless of whether your manager should’ve known or not, that doesn’t mean your not also at fault for not telling them. If you tell them, and nothing changes, then that’s a different story entirely.

Let me put it this way: if your manager turned around and asked what you’ve been doing for the last X months and your response was ‘nothing’ and then tried to pass that off as their fault, I wouldn’t imagine many employers would be too sympathetic to your arguments.

Problem with that approach is that they will argue that if you didn’t have enough work to do, you should have asked for more. OP knowingly slipped through the cracks to, so the argument of ‘I don’t have a line manager to give me any’ probably isn’t going to cut it as their work will argue that OP should’ve gone to HR to sort their responsibilities as soon as they were aware.

Even a cursory search online provides evidence that that isn’t the case: https://www.givedirectly.org/2023-ubi-results/#design

Luckily we can do both. Push for better air quality, but don’t dismiss achievements that happen in other areas at the same time.

Maybe some do, but mine just looks like this:

They are, but their stems and centre piece are plastic, which just ends up in landfill or litter. A reusable brooch is more environmentally friendly, but at least now they have paper stems and (im assuming) paper centre pieces so when they get thrown away they’re not so bad.