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I finish work and am home by 11am, ready to play for the day and enjoy this game.
Only to find myself repeatedly disconnected or, on occasion, lagged beyond belief to the extent it's unplayable.
Poxy idiotic NTL and their call-centre monkeys that can't offer a time-frame on the problem, nor can they explain why it's been like this since Xmas.
Another 30 mins and then I'm phoning again.
We can't seem to keep our Managers in this sector. It's not that they leave, it's that my Boss (DSM) loans them out to other sectors before realising we actually needed them!
The next week is going to be extremely busy over here - thankfully I'm only in on Tuesday and Wednesday :)
It appears that whoever can correctly do a tie-knot gets to be line-manager for that week, there's no thinking or intelligence behind the shirt.
I get put on flats (A4/magazines) and there's no overhead to tell you what number box for what street.
Goatboy "Ah...I'll give it a go but there's no overhead here, it's going to take me a long time"
"The best way to do it is to learn"
"No, the best way to do it is to put an overhead there"
"When I did it there was no overhead"
"That's not an answer is it? How is that going to remedy a problem situation?"
"Nevermind, soon be Xmas!"
"So your answer as line-manager is it will soon be xmas?"
"Well what can I do?"
"Your job? Because at the moment it's a pure waste of resource and ineffective time-management"
"...want to be manager then?"
"Sure, done it before. Let me just starve my brain of oxygen for 20 minutes"
And sure enough, 4 minutes later I'm taken off flats and put back doing primary sort.
Halifax really suffered because of that. A massive failure while trying to implement a massive change = not good!
> I swear they used to come about 7-ish - hey wha' happened?
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Used to be 2 deliveries.
Get in at 4am, prep and out the door by 6. You'd be back at the depot by 8, have some breakfast and take 2nd delivery out around 9, finish by 11.
Then management wherever decided they could save money by doing one massive delivery per day.
So get in at 5am (but most still arrive earlier) and spend 3hrs prepping it all, out the door by 8-8:30am.
It's frustrating for us as well as you, we want to be finished earlier than we do.
Start at 8, finish 11-11:30, nobody gets their post before they go to work and we dont get done much before 11am, and have heavy-ass bags to lug round so we go slower.
Management - whatever profession they're idiotic
Anyway that was meant, it suxxored.
PWNED n00b.
etc
I swear they used to come about 7-ish - hey wha' happened?
Cursed NTL, I can only play in the evenings. And now I go to bed, getting up in 4hrs for work.
Damn
(Note, this may sound like fawning, but I get the SECHS!)
All you have to do is smoke a lot of Marlboro Lights, have a couple of beers, be incredibly sneery and sarcastic at most of the people you see in the streets and then do sex to my gf.
I'll spend Friday-Mon playing Wow.
Excellent.
I'll lend you my clothes (although they can be purchased for next to nothing from any outlet that does jeans & t-shirts), draw a goatee on and shave your head.
Don't forget to swear a lot and when replying to "Morning sexy x" txt on yr phone, send "wotcha jugs!" in response.
Yay! I dont have to do boyfriend stuff this weekend!