State of the Market

[jamesbrown]

As bad as things are now, they could get even worse, we could get a hung parliament and no interest rate cuts this year either..

Well, yes, or nuclear war. However, a hung parliament is exceptionally unlikely and no interest rate cuts is relatively unlikely, but obviously not impossible.

[edison]

Well, yes, or nuclear war. However, a hung parliament is exceptionally unlikely and no interest rate cuts is relatively unlikely, but obviously not impossible.

With the current polls, it seems nuclear war is more likely than a hung parliament!

[brightondeveloper]

Read somewhere years ago that open plan offices are pretty rubbish for productivity even though they were adopted to aid communication\collaboration and maybe you can see why, because when I started work in 1989 the office looked like this. I was hoping the pendulum would swing back to between this and what we have now.



As to Architects not concentrating as hard as a developer, I wouldn't know; but I do know I need to concentrate hard and wfh allows me to do that.

Isn't that a still from the film Office Space?!

[gables]

Isn't that a still from the film Office Space?!

Don't know tbh, I just googled for office spaces with cubicles and that picture reminded of my first office in IT

[Fraidycat]

Isn't that a still from the film Office Space?!

Probably not, I dont recall any east asians or playstations in Office space, but it is pretty similar to the office in the film.

A playstation would have been out place as the film was was aiming to portray Monotony and Boredom.

Even though back in the early 2000s i worked at a few places that had playstations but never saw anyone ever using them.

Unlike pool tables which actually get used everyday, however management is always keeping an eye on how long people are using them, or more likely its workers complaining (grassing up) other workers when they are jealous of them spending too long on the pool table, saw that happen a couple of times.

[SussexSeagull]

Been on the bench since Monday. All a little quiet but early days.

[eek]

Been on the bench since Monday. All a little quiet but early days.

Suspect it will be quiet until the election is finished

[Fraidycat]

Suspect it will be quiet until the election is finished

But more likely quiet until the US election is finished ie. January.

Not sure why Sunak went for it before the rate cuts. He must know something: Either no rate cuts this year, or at most just one rate cut this year, and/or the economy is set to worsen in the second half. If the projections were positive then he would have waited..

[eek]

But more likely quiet until the US election is finished ie. January.

Not sure why Sunak went for it before the rate cuts. He must know something: Either no rate cuts this year, or at most just one rate cut this year, and/or the economy is set to worsen in the second half. If the projections were positive then he would have waited..

1 story I heard is that there could well be 1 if not 2 state funerals later this year - so it’s gone early because there may not be a suitable time later…

[PCTNN]

Suspect it will be quiet until the election is finished

First it's the elections, then it's going to be the summer holidays, then it's going to be the already Q4/end of the year...

There is always a justification to why the market is slow but the real reason is that the market just sucks baws and it's been like this for years