Got myself in trouble….

[BlasterBates]

Bollocks | Define Bollocks at Dictionary.com

note the term Vulgar, designed to insult. As in "You're talking f**ing bollocks"

[Pondlife]

I used wonder how it was actually possible to get yourself fired from a modern corporation, short of dishonesty or gross stupidity.


I think this will go in the stupidity pile.

[Mich the Tester]

Simply bitching to him is fine, but sending a snotty email around the office is unprofessional/unacceptable and he should call her on it one way or another or she knows she can bully him.

true; I hate bullies and the way I deal with them is to call their bluff. (best to have a warchest first though)

[Mich the Tester]

I used wonder how it was actually possible to get yourself fired from a modern corporation, short of dishonesty or gross stupidity.


I think this will go in the stupidity pile.

You get fired when someone presses the redundancy randomiser button and your number comes up. Otherwise, I've never seen it happen.

[alreadypacked]

You get fired when someone presses the redundancy randomiser button and your number comes up. Otherwise, I've never seen it happen.

I saw a guy who kept falling asleep at meetings get canned, he was a contractor

[Mich the Tester]

I saw a guy who kept falling asleep at meetings get canned, he was a contractor

Big bank in Holland, december 2008?

Fook me those three and half hour thursday morning meetings were sad, especially when management patted themselves on the backs for their top score on corporate social responsibility just after they'd scrounged 30 billion euros from the taxpayer, sacked 2500 people and frozen the pensions of their ex-employees.

Oh no, I didn't get canned for sleeping, I got canned for what I said in one of the rare moments I was awake.

Oh yes and they'd just demanded 20% rate cuts form all contractors. I suggested in a not very diplomatic fashion that if they included measurements on burdening the taxpayer, maintaining good supplier relations and not overly burdening the social security system they might have to downgrade their 'corporate social responsibility' rating a notch or two.

[b0redom]

In all seriousness, you're a nob. You're working in a corp environment, not the pub. If you don't know how the person will react, don't use language which may offend.

[OwlHoot]

"Knackered" would have meant the same, and isn't as crude and jarring as "bolloxed".

[MarillionFan]

Big bank in Holland, december 2008?

Fook me those three and half hour thursday morning meetings were sad, especially when management patted themselves on the backs for their top score on corporate social responsibility just after they'd scrounged 30 billion euros from the taxpayer, sacked 2500 people and frozen the pensions of their ex-employees.

Oh no, I didn't get canned for sleeping, I got canned for what I said in one of the rare moments I was awake.

Oh yes and they'd just demanded 20% rate cuts form all contractors. I suggested in a not very diplomatic fashion that if they included measurements on burdening the taxpayer, maintaining good supplier relations and not overly burdening the social security system they might have to downgrade their 'corporate social responsibility' rating a notch or two.

Gives me an idea for a poll.

[d000hg]

d000hg, your .sig is very conspicuous for people reading threads at clientco.

Could you consider replacing it with a full screen Excel spreadsheet, so no one will wonder what we are reading?

TIA

Is it better now?