This Business and Moment...

Just got my first first month’s pay inside IR35.. i’m making the tax man wetter than a triffle in the rain.
It could even driven me to start yelling tax cut and join the cult Truss.. nope. Cant bring myself todo that.
 
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NickK said:
Ahh your part of the furniture..

You really should have made them all feel bad by having a 20 years helium balloon flying above your desk.
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It's more like concrete boots than part of the furniture :)

We all wfh.
A definite downside of this is at least in the office you only have to contribute to cards for birthdays, long service etc for people in your team. Now we get company wide emails asking for contributions to someone you've never heard of.
Maybe I should have sent my own email round!!
 
Longest with a single company here is 13 years, only stuck it out because there was no end of overtime. And, as I'd worked my way up to deputy manager for secondary bulk, overtime meant doing nothing but finding somewhere to hide and grabbing a Gameboy of the shelves along with any games that took my fancy.
 
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@dLockers did your cable arrive and did it work? Haven't heard form you and just wondered :)
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It had arrived, thank you kindly (and for encouraging my 'alter'-ego as a wannabe pilot) -

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Looking forward to giving them a go! I shall report back ASAP...!

And the Haribo are working a treat to aid my charity cycle recovery!
 
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nst68 said:
20 year anniversary today of working here, not a peep from any of the managers :mad:
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If it's like a previous employer where one of my team hit 20 years with the company, they might be saving the presentations for a townhall or similar. Would be a bit of a damp squib doing it virtually.
 
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My current employer’s confrontational attitude towards it’s seafarers, engineering officers in particular, has come back to absolutely bite them in the ****. Literally, whenever any issues with pay or our terms and conditions have been brought up in the past, the response has always been a smugly delivered “well if you don’t like it, leave”. So now people are, in droves, and it’s getting to the point that they’re becoming unable to relieve people on time, which is in turn ******* more people off who are then leaving, thereby exacerbating the problem.

One way round it would be to either improve our work:leave ratio, increase salaries or reduce trip lengths, which are currently 3 months +\- 30 days, or a combination of the above, but they stubbornly refuse to do so so far, meanwhile rival companies are making far better offers, meaning they also aren’t attracting new recruits, but they somehow expect us to still work for them, despite how they’ve treated us in the past.

What’s worse for them is once a seafarer goes past the 3 months + 30 days point, and they don’t agree to sign an extension, then the company cannot legally keep them onboard, and the ship will be detained by port state authorities if they attempt to do so, so there’s coming a point where ships that should be being chartered for $150,000+ per day may well end up sat off hire, with the company paying out of their own pocket because they don’t have engineers to run them.

Makes you wonder how people with such terrible decision making skills end up in management.
 
This should be interesting - almost a month in to the new job and I've found a clanger in the entire portfolio's estimation system which explains why the business is being told one time line and the engineering has a completely different view without managing the expectation. There's no feedback from developer estimates to the front end estimates so what is extra-small XS, once it's gone through the pipeline is a large in equivalent story point estimate (complexity) and that is never reflected back to the business planning stage. It seems that with all these issues nobody has done a drains up on the estimation process ffs.
So I can see my day today creating a upper management PPT to go along a neatly worded email.. This delivery has been running for over a year with agile experts onboard and troubleshooting delivery managers dropped in a couple of times before.. this should prompt some interesting questions..
 
I often find this, too. Or, they just don't estimate at all. I would wonder what sort of pipeline it is and who manages those stories/ requests through it not to update it though and understand the complexity as those things should really come out more when you're doing prioritization work as well @NickK


I got pinged on LinkedIn again about this CPO role for a "web3" company - it's the 4th message I have had about it. I didn't reply to 2 of them, but the first one I spoke to a recruiter while I was on holiday, he said he liked me and would put me forward. I heard nothing, like most great recruiters. This last one, I just replied asking if she was working with the client directly. I know who it is and instead of getting another 10 messages about it, I thought I'd email the CEO. I'm not actively looking, I have loads of stuff on and I do well where I am, so I'm not bothered, but regardless it was more out of annoyance from recruiters. The CEO replied asking for some details. I said happy to chat casually if they're still looking and I'm not actively in pursuit of a new role, but saves me coming up and being shown to him / their company another 10 times. (I think because I have blockchain experience and product leader in my linkedin, it just pings up)
I hate recruiters.
 
Just wait until you have quantum cryptography or security in your profile! You’ll get his for crypto currency, security (when you're in cryptography).. plus the usual :) may favourite one was a call from a colleague in the same company I’d just accepted a contract from.
 
NickK said:
Just wait until you have quantum cryptography or security in your profile! You’ll get his for crypto currency, security (when you're in cryptography).. plus the usual :) may favourite one was a call from a colleague in the same company I’d just accepted a contract from.
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hahahaha recruiters are such buzzword whores. I wish they just looked at the competitors of the company they were working for and approached the people in similar roles - proper headhunting style if they want to find the right person. ****, it's what I used to do and it's far more effective.
 
I've been buzzing the past week as I was offered a position I've been on the hunt for for a while. I've worked at a small office in the middle of the countryside for 7 years, during which time I've developed a lot and done my chartered accountancy.

This new role is in a large global business where I'll be based out of London 2 days a week. >40% pay rise, career prospects etc and great development for me. Just got to get the pre-employment checks sorted and then roll on 7 weeks notice. Handing in my notice tomorrow as I finally got the formal offer through today. Very excited to be begin my new role and to be on to bigger and better things (hopefully!).
 
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I've been buzzing the past week as I was offered a position I've been on the hunt for for a while. I've worked at a small office in the middle of the countryside for 7 years, during which time I've developed a lot and done my chartered accountancy.

This new role is in a large global business where I'll be based out of London 2 days a week. >40% pay rise, career prospects etc and great development for me. Just got to get the pre-employment checks sorted and then roll on 7 weeks notice. Handing in my notice tomorrow as I finally got the formal offer through today. Very excited to be begin my new role and to be on to bigger and better things (hopefully!).
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That's a huge step up man! Well done!
 
Got my APM PMQ through work but I had already decided prior I don't really want to be a prj mgr. It wasn't a waste of time though as it was free to do it, picked up a few other qualis and I got a few years xp on my CV. Not actually sure what I want to do mind... I'll just go with the flow for now.
 
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Got my APM PMQ through work but I had already decided prior I don't really want to be a prj mgr. It wasn't a waste of time though as it was free to do it, picked up a few other qualis and I got a few years xp on my CV. Not actually sure what I want to do mind... I'll just go with the flow for now.
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Don't knock qualifications but in the same breath don’t get cocky!

I remember that one interview had tons of programming qualifications but couldn’t explain multithreading.
 
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