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This is what I saw when I walked into the office today. My birthday's on Saturday but I'm on leave from tomorrow until Tuesday.

In almost 3 years at my last company, I never received a card, present, cake or any other form of recognition by anyone outside my team and only from a few within it..

I'm still struggling to come to grips with the difference between a *good* workplace and a *bad* workplace :)

Maybe it's the glasses?

that's my boss :)

Awwww, how cute. Did you cry?

And you work across from your boss?? Ewwww

meh, i spose its nice to have work mates that care;

i knew i was going to love my job and work place, when at the end of the second week, we went into the cs area and played q2 on all the pcs instead of working

ive put up with (relatively) low pay for years, because ive always enjoyed my job and where i work

its just nice that recently ive started getting paid

i like our people, our relaxed attitude towards drinking during work hours, the fact that our office is fun, relaxed working periods (no one cares if i go for a haircut, a long lunch, come in late coz of doctors appointments)

even with our company getting more serious (floated), its still fun, i woudlnt want to risk getting a job elsewhere for more money, if it meant giving up the conditions i have now


ooh, i should have mentioned i LOVE the relaxed email and web usage monitoring as well

ive been abusing email for years, and no ones ever said anything

unlike retarted governemnt jobs, where i have to continually spell words with numbers, just to have a normal conversation with my mates

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Looks like some serious workplace health and safety issues in that picture ... It won't be that awesome a place to work when your employers obvious neglect causes you major injury.

Actually, working across from my boss isn't that bad.. at least he can't sneak up behind me when I'm playing WoW or trolling forums :)

I know what you mean about the conditions vs pay argument.. I'm slowly coming to realise that there is more to a satisfying job than a fat paycheque.. (although, they certainly help!)

Also, Stinky, your post about OH&S confuses and enrages Morbo! (NFI whether you're being serious or not :()

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haha stinky

unlike retarted governemnt jobs, where i have to continually spell words with numbers, just to have a normal conversation with my mates

Different government departments have different policies. The one where i work only blocks about a dozen norty words. They haven't picked up on my forum trolling yet either, 18 months and counting.

yer, ato are the main offenders

not only do they block bad words, but they also use smarts to dermine if your email is a chain letter or an ad

so half the time, i dont even know whats been blocked, so ill just retype the whole message, using numbers to get it through

and theres no surfing at the ato at all (they get 1 internets computar per department or something)

how anyone gets and work done without the internets, i have no idea;

lolollol

and theres no surfing at the ato at all (they get 1 internets computar per department or something)

They had something simular to this at my old work, even tho we needed it to do our job.

a USB Network adapter and a proxy on a "misplaced" pc fixed that pretty quickly :D

i will determine what websites are surfed at my work and the circumstances they are surfed on!

Also, Stinky, your post about OH&S confuses and enrages Morbo! (NFI whether you're being serious or not :()

I don't think that requesting a safe working environment is something to get enraged about. I would guess that you work for a small company that doesn't have it's own WHSO nor engages an external one. I wonder even if they bother to pay their WorkCover insurance ...

I guess that's the price you pay for a 'fun' workplace though, and you'll feel it was worth it when you're off work with 12 months injured with no compensation.

C'mon now. WorkCover insurance is mandatory for every workplace and it is unavoidable.

Even if the employer does not pay their WorkCover premium (which is an offense mind you), the injured worker is still entitled to the benefits of WorkCover as it is a universal insurance scheme.

It's the employer who will be in a world of pain.

you guys need to harden up.

Where I work all we get is Nescafe Blend 33 in a plastic cup with a paddle pop stick and even that 'luxury' is in jeopardy.

oh, and since when are baloons considered a work place health and saftey risk?

Unless your talking about the beer drinking?

either or. neither are a work place health and saftey risk.

either or. neither are a work place health and saftey risk.

.....Drinking on the job is a risk you dumb s***. Geez!

They had something simular to this at my old work, even tho we needed it to do our job.

a USB Network adapter and a proxy on a "misplaced" pc fixed that pretty quickly :D

heh.. You should've seen the looks I got when I pulled them out.. (hell.. it was still my gear, and I wasn't feeling kind enough to leave it there..)

It was seriously like I'd kicked a puppy..





That'll teach them to hire s*** manangers (actually, it probably won't).

I don't think that requesting a safe working environment is something to get enraged about. I would guess that you work for a small company that doesn't have it's own WHSO nor engages an external one. I wonder even if they bother to pay their WorkCover insurance ...

I guess that's the price you pay for a 'fun' workplace though, and you'll feel it was worth it when you're off work with 12 months injured with no compensation.

Still don't get what you're referring to.. Where's the hazard(s)? They covered my desk in balloons and wrapped streamers around my chair..

You're right, it is a small company, but for all that, they really have their s*** sorted out well, and TBH, they're more organised and actually give a s*** about employee welfare/happiness and safety than almost any other company I've worked for.

Eds can tell you some of the s*** that went on at our last place..

...mispost, deleted. this is just here to fill a gap in a blank 2nd page so ppl dont get confused. cheers.

Still don't get what you're referring to.. Where's the hazard(s)? They covered my desk in balloons and wrapped streamers around my chair..

Hazards :

1) Laptop sitting half off desk with ribbon under it attached to chair.
2) laptop bag on floor behind chair - tripping hazard
3) oversized rubbish in bins
4) exposed power boards, no tags visible on power cables
5) streamer from chair wrapped around keyboard
6) potplant besides desk, tripping hazard
7) guy sitting down is sitting too high up for height of monitor
8) boxes under desk in foot space

Need I go on?

LAAAAAAAAAAAME.

You would be the worst boss ever, I thought my IGA manager was a bitch because she said I couldn't parkour instore.

Pot plant? Grow a dick, that's so lame.

your gay

What's the new company? Did you get the job from that job ad I sent you?

your gay

"you're gay" as in "you+are gay" not as in a gay belonging to you.

Ahh.. you're talking about pansy s***.. :) I thought there may have been some exposed and sparking electrical wiring or something that I'd missed :P.

As far as I'm concerned, if I trip over a potplant, pull the laptop off the desk (which I actually just put there to take the photo :P) etc, then it's my own damned fault, and my own D/TPD/T insurance can pay for it, if I'm wimpy enough to need time off :)

What's the new company? Did you get the job from that job ad I sent you?

Yep :) I sent you an email (to your gmail account) to say thank you, but I never got a reply, so I didn't know if you'd received it :)

They're a really great mob :) I owe you a beer/bottle of wine/scotch/champagne/something :)

dont be a faget kat

your gay
"you're gay" as in "you+are gay" not as in a gay belonging to you.

http://www.yourallgay.com

haha those things sure sound hazardous! ... if you allow toddlers in the workplace or suhn :P

zomg who knew that your workplace was so f***ING HORRIBLY DANGEROUS!?!!?

yes, stinky most people have worked in large companies with lame EH&S standards. and before you blabber on about how important it all is and s***... we know. seriously.

f*** you bite hard CHUB,

go parkour off a cliff

Yep :) I sent you an email

Oh yea I thought the email was thanking me 'cos you got an interview not the actual job. Anyways well done mate.

f*** you bite hard CHUB,

go parkour off a cliff

I parkoured your mum

f*** you bite hard CHUB,

go parkour off a cliff
I parkoured your mum

By that you mean stabbed with your array of knifes or parkoured as in raided her like the cops raided your house eleventy billion times....

Na I mean his mum is a fat obstacle and I had to vault over her.

Morgan's momma's so fat, chub tried to parkour her and tripped and fell onto his knife and made himself a c***.

lolwhut?

Are you three tag-teaming Chub over there?

Na I mean his mum is a fat obstacle and I had to vault over her.

To get to the cock on the otherside?!

IGA

sums up the next 20 years of your life huh?

small desk. we have f*** loads of beers on the boss + quite good gifts (£100 or so) on a bday.

sums up the next 20 years of your life huh?

Nice one noob, it's called a part time job years ago.

My Office is right outside the girls toilets :).

I thought my IGA manager was a bitch because she said I couldn't parkour instore.

f***ing lol.
i dont get what all the hate is about, chub is hilarious.

gg Gesthemene

having a boss who's as human as the rest of us doesn't happen nearly enough