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  7. Posted

    Just to point out a few things to anyone who cares:

     

    The forums have gone on for a long, long time. I've literally spent half my life on these boards. Sometimes moderation uses a bit more of the stick, sometimes less.

     

    Please refresh yourself with the rules if you like. 13 amazing rules to live by. You won't BELIEVE number 12 - SHOCKING!!

  8. Posted

    So I've just been sorting out some travel insurance.

     

    When I went to Oz for a year I didn't bother getting any at all, and my girlfriend was just appalled at the concept. So I thought I'd be sensible for my next shorter trip.

     

    Started off looking at Lloyds, whom I bank with... and they basically quoted me £122 for a single-trip insurance. Which sounded fucking insane. If they had said it was, like, £70 then I probably would've just assumed that was a normal price and paid for it. But £122? fuck that. Comparison site time.

     

    Basically, I have never had any kind of insurance for anything ever. I went to Oz with basically zero possessions, and they have this reciprocal health care system, and I was staying with family, so I figured I'd be fine.

     

    And I work with regards to insurance, so I know it's important to make sure I actually understand what I'm paying for, and to be open and honest during application etc, etc.

     

    Do you guys have insurance for stuff? House insurance? Contents? Do you know what your insurance doesn't cover, and if so - why did you think it would be ok not to have that cover?

     

    /grownupthread

  13. Posted

    Not seen Rocky Balboa yet. Loved the first 5 films in an "I know they're not really all great movies" way, but I can't see how this film is doing much new :/

  14. Posted

    Just went off to read that Unity, patchiness aside, is just flawed game-wise.

     

    What's the deal with the story now? The AC:2 games (and AC:3) had some mind-blowing epic bits to do with the 'modern day' storyline, but what with desmond's situation, I don't know how the newer games addressed this?

  18. Posted

    Comic book readers: How far ahead would you say the comic is? If you could estimate, that is. Would you say that the comic probably has 2 or 3 seasons more content than the show?

     

    Think back to when TWD started airing and where the comic was back then. Did we catch up to that yet, or is that still to come?

  20. Posted

    Today was stupid. basically we had a meeting this morning for a new deadline of weds end-of-day. I was the only one able to do most of the work, but SHE said she'd do x and y, even though a and b would've been do-able without me.

     

    Turns out management had an adjustment on the deadline at midday, and told HER to let me know,

     

    She told me at 5pm. She also requested that I email her a and b.

     

    She went home.

     

    So I spoke with mangement all "wtf" and, thankfully, they believed me. I gave them a and b an a shitty version of x and y by 6:20, but the other stuff they wanted was just not possible (due to previously mentioned shit data).

     

    Turns out they were sitting on this deadline for 3 weeks before telling me

     

    I could've done half this shit --- or all this shit if they had given me proper disclosure or warning. Instead it got to the point where I could do nothing but tell them about how they should've told me sooner!

     

    We've got an extension though.. for 9:30am...!! Which will make zero difference.

     

    But get this. I've basically been forced to give inaccurate data even though I've previously said it's inaccurate data. I've been stitched up. Can't explain it well, but what I said i'd do requires someone in IT giving stats that we don't have publically available (because it's not ready) but because the guy in IT is too busy with x and y I can't get him to deliver a and b, so no matter what I do I can't deliver everything even though SHE said she'd deliver half of it. She's just royally stitched me up.

     

    Bleh.

  21. Posted

    Harsh, man.

     

    I wait on other people completing simple, 5-minute jobs a lot. One person in particular is an expert at wasting time with spreadsheets.

     

    So basically I've been planning and mapping out this shift in how we log things at work. The idea was that we would make it so that we could 100% accurately see what stage of the 'lifecycle' is, and see how long it took from one stage to the next, and see which member of staff needed work in which area -- and be able to quantify the value of work yet to be done.

     

    From the start, I said that there would be no way that any status prior to the moment we 'switch' would ever be 100% accurate, simply because for the last 4 years there are no logs of particular things. No timestamps, etc. But I put forward a pretty nifty way to ensure that the transitional stuff would be accurate, blah blah blah.

     

    Anyway, the developer I work closely with had done a lot of this stuff except for one thing. New priorities were given, with a short deadline and a huge list of things to do. In order for more than half the things on that list to work we really needed to go live with what had been developed so far. So we informed management of the current status and what wouldn't be accurate. They ok-d it and said it was just how it was.

     

    So now this colleague of mine, who still hasn't replied to several emails, has prevented me from training her staff on various new developments relating to our deadline, and has pretty much undermined previous training at any opportunity simply because she doesn't take it upon herself to understand the developments.

     

    And her workload to do for this deadline? She hasn't done it. She has instead waited a week for the manager to get back and now said (cc'd me into the email): "x y and z are not accurate enough so i can't get you the numbers."

     

    The numbers she wants are 99.7% accurate. And now?

     

    The one thing that wasn't ready, that everyone knew wasn't ready. Now they want numbers for this. Which is fine - we can jump it above the other priorities (half of which have been done anyway), but now they've forgotten the limitations I previously explained -- that due to there being no logging of timestamps etc until the Big Change came in the older stuff would never be 100% (which is why 99.7% for that other thing is so good!).

     

    So I've sat and watched her waste her entire day on one stupid spreadsheet trying to figure something out. I've done it myself anyway and seen that the figure is currently 5.22% for the time period of Big Change until Now, but this definitely includes three other things that probably don't count. We want to be less than 10%, so we are definitely Doing Good. And you can compare this figure versus the old method and see a) even though the old method wasn't accurate, it gives a sense of where we are LIKELY to be at right now, so you then know that we are probably between 2.7% and 5.22%. Even if you combine the OVERALL average of ALL OF THE THINGS EVER INCLUDING THIS INACCURATE TWO WEEK PERIOD you are still going to be under 3%... which is FINE. COMPLETELY FINE.

     

    Instead I see her spend all day moaning that she can't do any work because of this one thing she can't figure out. Literally not giving the manager any context of basis for why she can't do it other than "jayseven needs to fix this." No understanding. And she's taken up loads of the manager's time clearly moaning about this. I'm waiting on the manager to simply say "ok" to this one thing that takes up like a quarter of my list of Shit Left To Do Before Deadline... and as I was sat at my desk logging out the manager arranges a 9:30am meeting between me and the girl tomorrow. No context.

     

    She even emailed me earlier in the day saying "it has come to my attention that you need to do x, as it's been overlooked and hasn't been done. What we need you to do is thisthatandthesethings." Which is a list of the things that form what I said weren't ready yet. Which they know is what is meant to be ready. It's trying to steal credit. It's trying to make out like I can't do the job without her telling me what to do. When the truth is she can't do her job.

     

    Yes. I am very agitated by this person.

     

     

    ... other that that shit, some advice I've heard and started to act on is pretty good; say no to extra work. Especially if you can justify it because you're swamped, or you're doing x for Jim already.

  22. Posted

    I think the point has been made.

     

    X doesn't like console A because they feel its library mostly consists of one or two genres of games.

     

    Which is an opinion.

     

    Both ways the argument's gone -- the point is that the person who holds the opinion will not change their mind.

     

    So for the sake of it, why not just... accept this? And not try to convince that person anymore? No more defending your console with the same-but-reversed comment about the other console.

     

    The arguments are all the same.

     

    I have this console because I think that this other console does not have the variety of games that I want.

     

    "What about other people who have this other console?"

     

    Why does it matter to me?

     

    "It should matter because that's a lot of people so their opinion should count."

     

    Why should it matter to me?

     

    "Because if you discredit the opinions of others then why should others give credit about your opinion?"

     

    Why should it matter to me?

     

    ... That's how it reads in every thread, anyway. And that can fairly be applied to the argument either for Wii U or for PS4 (or for XB1). How about a future future where you may want to consider just... stopping. Or not rising to the bait. Both sides.

     

    Just ignore comments you feel are stupid.

  24. Posted

    Every time I log on I see that there's been a fresh spammer haul by someone. It may be a matter of hours before a blue or red latches on, but it's not a significant issue.

     

    If you report the post it many of us get an email notification, so if someone has ready access then they will resolve it within minutes.

  25. Posted

    @Supergrunch I am definitely not an expert, but I'd assume that changing of tax codes to take into account a predictable amount of income (which would replace the tax-free allowance, etc) would be straightforward due to it being down to employers to correctly label tax codes before submitting to HRMC/whoever. Kind of related is how claiming universal credit/benefits/dole has changed recently - from being a fortnightly payment to being a monthly payment, and with it leading towards having to 'sign on' online (again, I'm no expert and I'm just paraphrasing a friend who works in a privatised social services role) are reducing the amount of taxpayer money spent on the benefits system, but are actually just increasing complication for many individuals -- and are really not caring for the vulnerable individuals who were already spunking away 2 weeks worth of money in a few days then scraping until the next dole-out; why give them twice the money in one go?

     

    That Green Economy Policy as a whole would have to take decades to implement anyway. It's a heavy focus on the local community at a time where people are connecting via the internet on a massively international scale. But it's a complicated issue that I definitely can't claim to fully understand.

     

    Unfortunately, the Greens have not done a great job of running the council of the constituency next door to mine (where my Dad lives). The main things they've done; caused a refuse-collector strike, erected large plant pots in the road (in only a few locations, but they are hazardous to cyclists and are not lit/etc), reduced speed limit to 20mph in residential areas (problem being 'residential area' is not always very residential, and isn't really of a massive benefit to anyone. Plus one of the greens went on a leadership course costing thousands of tax-payers money -- after he stepped down from his position. He states that what he learnt on the course he has passed on to his successors. Surely if this is of benefit to them then they should've gone in his stead?

     

    Didn't mean to end up green-bashing. I voted them in (I was living with my Dad last election), and it's always going to be a case of the more disputed policies taking up the limelight.

     

    I agree with raising taxes - but not for the individual. VAT went up to 20%, and the fact that the 'living wage' is higher than the minimum wage, and the fact that inheritance tax exists, stamp duty exists... In an ideal world we raise corporation tax - but considering we've reduced the amount that corporations have to pay by 3% in 3 years it's clear that we are trying to stop large corporations from leaving the uk so any increase would just mean that the economy as a whole takes a dive... which brings us back to the green's idea of localising economies so that there's no reliance on these massive companies... and of course if a company is facing a larger tax bill and they don't have the legal finesse to take advantage of tax breaks or subsidies or reallocating their head office... then they'll just up the cost to their customers anyway.

     

    And if there's a minimum level of income guaranteed by a government, then the amount of money paid out by companies for their employees is going to take a total dive.

     

    aaaaah economics go away!

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