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In Topic: Reading at t'moment?
23 October 2025 - 09:11 AM
Finished Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi last night. I enjoyed it - it's a very quiet read and quite slow, though not in a bad way. Little oddities noticeable that I assume arise from translation. We've got the sequel which I definitely look forward to reading, I think it's just the sort of slow I need to be in the mood for.
Moving on to To Kill a Mockingbird which I've somehow got to just shy of 36 having not read. It's Mr NAB's favourite book, and I read the first 20 pages or so last night and was instantly charmed by the writing. -
In Topic: What's messing with your groove?
23 October 2025 - 08:25 AM
Tiste Simeon, on 22 October 2025 - 05:49 PM, said:I don't think there's anything you can say QT. I think these people are too far gone.
I agree, though it's still horrible to see it when it's someone you knew to be so different from that.
I worry about just how many people are too far gone at this point. -
In Topic: Ye Big Politics Thread
10 October 2025 - 07:17 AM
Maark Abbott, on 09 October 2025 - 04:28 PM, said:One time I saw my doctor about something. And they asked me what I reckoned to a potential treatment option. She was very surprised when I said "you're the doctor, we'll try your idea first" because she'd gotten that used to people just not paying attention to her expertise any more. Feels like a microcosm of how stuff is lately.
This is something I've noticed as well - the expectation they won't be trusted/argued with.
I can only back Maark's points, because my dad is an exhaustingly textbook example of this. Doesn't want to hear about an "expert" unless they agree with whatever previously established prejudice he's holding - but anyone who agrees with him, ah well, we don't need to question their expertise at all. -
In Topic: What's messing with your groove?
09 October 2025 - 08:21 AM
All very good advice - thanks all.
It wasn't what I expected, but I'm happy I said what I needed to in a constructive way and they'd have to work hard to get me for any of it. We shall see what comes of it. Sounds like they heard much the same from everyone they spoke to as well. -
In Topic: What's messing with your groove?
07 October 2025 - 09:49 AM
Tiste Simeon, on 07 October 2025 - 09:01 AM, said:TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 07 October 2025 - 07:32 AM, said:We've got a crisis meeting at work tomorrow. They seem to have finally accepted that morale in my office in particular is terrible and have spoken to staff individually about what the concerns are (the biggest one being we've got very unprofessional members of senior management causing a lot of misery), now the Chief of Ops is coming up and asking for meetings with everyone (I have no idea what repeating what we've already said to another manager will do, but that's what they've asked for). I'll be very glad when this week is over.
Forgive me for being very cynical but I suspect that what it will do is give the people at the top a tick in the box to say "we listened" without action to back it up.
I hope this grumpy old so and so is wrong though and it results in things becoming better at work!
Oh I don't disagree with you at all - the fact this has all been said to a member of senior management already makes me feel it's a tick box that Chief of Ops has met with everyone and "listened" so that they can say in future that they did.
I'm leaving when I find another job anyway, and I think even if they acted on concerns it's too late for a handful of other people also. I'd still like things to be better for my colleagues though, hence agreeing to participate on the slim hope it results in change. In reality though, one of the main problems is my direct line manager and because of all the functions that sit with her, they have absolutely no backup plan for if she left/was demoted, so I don't believe for a second they will act on anything to do with her. Most of the other problems are structural and will be the work of months not weeks to solve, hence me feeling it's too late.
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Tsundoku
01 Nov 2024 - 21:01Hope you have a great one and you get all the good things :)
Tsundoku
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17 May 2013 - 06:41How are you? :)
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