Off Topic The Burly Arms

if the boss aint griping you're not doing it right .
anyway serves him right for being so stupid as to put you in charge - none of my bosses made that mistake

 

Any manager who thinks a scheduled weekly team quiz that has no relevance to the actual business is a great piece of fun team building, should be fired out of a ****ing cannon.

 

Our lot had a team building exercise but decided not to "invite" me .
I'm still quite proud about that

 

Hahaha, I’ve seen discrimination cases built on less than that

 

My team consists of about 12 women including my boss and 4 blokes and one of them doesn't like football so he doesn't count.

There's a serious lack of humour and I don't like many of them I'm quite blunt about that. They hate it when the boss is on leave and I'm in charge.

 

Were you in a wheelchair at that point?

 

my boss at the time knew me and decided it was best all round
tbf she was a Rat Biker - though not sure if anyone else in the team knew that .

 

been in a chair since the 70's so all my working life .

 

I’d wager that if your boss offered the team the choice of a weekly quiz on a Thursday or knocking off half an hour earlier, they’d take the latter.

Team building in such a faux, forced type of effort like that, is like something out a ‘90’s American textbook on management. Pure cringe.

 

Ah right didn't know that, you could really have taken then to the cleaners for doing that in the modern world and got yourself some nice alloys.

 

Completely agree.

 

It’s easy for people like me to poke at managers who do ****e like that, but in fairness, the lack of managerial training these days in most organisations is shocking imo. People are promoted off the shop floor, given an office and a bigger chair and told to crack on. Not surprisingly, most don’t have a ****ing clue about people Management and motivation, together with the numerous other aspects of management, notably change management imo, but that’s not their fault, as they've not been adequately trained.

 

on the nice wheels front
Due to the access to work scheme i could get new lightweight chairs from them and my boss had greenlighted me to get a replacement . Couple of weeks later she was visiting me ( i was the only person in our job working from that site ) and as she entered my office she enquired if i had chosen one yet . I while sitting staring at my screen replied "well the Quickie Xenon sounds good but i'm scared to google it in case i get the website of some Lithuanian lapdancer " .
To this day i think why the **** she didn't warn me she was bringing her boss with her .

 

I'm a ****ing dinosaur now when it comes to management, it's a matter of do it because I ****ing said so.

 

Brilliant.

 

There’s always a place for the JFDI approach, but it’s best not used as your default style.

 

Its American which is virtually a foreign language

 

I don't really like managers, as 9 out of 10 are ****wits,

 

I like and appreciate your style Luv.