More often than not, I'd agree with you - though it is quite handy for catching up on what's been happening while I've been elsewhere or asleep before a nightshift.
It is entertaining to see what rumours are going around though, finding out who's made a real James Hunt of a ticket so nobody makes the same colossal clusterfuck of a job twice, and hearing who's moving where in the organisation though.
If they stopped doing them tomorrow though, I wouldn't miss them.
I enjoyed that game. Not sure how it was ever pushed out as a full release rather than a Net Yaroze style special, but fair play to them.
Kurushi (as it was known in the UK and Europe) is like rocking horse shit now. A nice little treasure if you find one in your collection.
Our unit has a conference call every twelve hours where each senior rep from every division globally has to attend, provide an update, and pick up what's happened since the last meeting.
Previously, we went through nearly twenty people across the organisation giving the same bullshit numbers and stats, with the odd bit of news or gossip. It took fucking ages.
Now, some bright spark has knocked together a form and a Power BI automation tool, so the stats are forwarded before the call has even began, and people only pipe up in the meeting if anything has changed or if something out of the ordinary has happened. It has turned a 30min call into a five minute call tops.
A rare W for common sense.
I suppose the TV licence in the UK is a sort of paywall, even if it is made of swiss cheese and enforced by folk with all the legal standing of Larry the Head Mouser or whatever moggy it is now.
I pay it, but I'm loathed to now. Not because I watch any live TV or BBC programming, but because I use the BBC News site a metric fucktonne and I suppose I justify it to myself as funding the BBC News department rather than Graham Norton's salary.
Maybe I'll fuck it off though. I do fancy a letter war with Capita or whoever managed the enforcement these days.
Absolute banger of a game.
"why can't we get a mortgage?"
"Well I bought a hot dog on a payment plan for a laugh, and I defaulted on a 38 cent payment"
"oh no"
It's highly unusual to have a Sony PSP as an in-car navigation aid.
Invariably I'd have drawn a comedy penis in there somewhere, and some poor lad somewhere would likely find his plonker refusing to work one night, or died with his old chap at full mast for maximum embarrassment.
Good ol' Comical Ali, haven't seen these memes wheeled out since the last time the west started fucking about with the Middle East.
Which weirdly, wasn't all that long ago.
Tough line to draw really.
The legal system is built on "innocent until proven guilty", so it's understandable why entire careers aren't brought to a halt because of one or more allegations of misconduct.
Problem is, how do we let that continue while listening to complainants, making them feel heard, and safeguarding future potential victims?
I'm not asking you in particular, you're just the comment I've replied to - it's one of those impossible situations to draw a line in the sand without fucking over one of the sides.
yeah alright cheers fella.
I've not long got my diploma in computing, halfway through the extra credits needed to bump it up to a degree and fuck me, I can't wait until this time next year... all being well, of course.
Enjoy your evening bro.
An old boss of mine started most group conversations with "right then you cunts..." and it was set the tone straight away. No bullshit, no egos, and no dragging on the conversation. Top fella actually, one of the best leaders I've had. We were his cunts, and he was our better-paid cunt.
We had another bloke who was a proper cockney boy. If you were in his good books, you were a "geezer", and if you'd ruined his day then you were a "slaaaaag".
I'm guilty of addressing my squad from my very junior managerial position as "alright my dudes", which on the surface of it sounds very male-leaning, but I think since the 90s "dude" has become as gender-neutral as they come.
That, or you could go full Karl Jobst and kick off with "hello you absolute legends .."