This Business and Moment...

Phate said:
TBH I'm not sure. But I did feel like I was told to write everything down to make me shut up and quit whining, in a way. Its the fact that HR didn't really offer to do anything that bugged me.
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Just avoid that person at all costs and start to communicate less. They will find someone else to pick on sooner or later. Don't let it get too you buddy! Just hold your head up and get paid. Forget the haters!
 
mrbell1984 said:
Mate nobody is worth that crap. Not even a cleaner. Avoid them all you can it's what I do and it works :)
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Its difficult when said boss literally sits opposite me. So to avoid him I have to lean into my monitor so I can't see him at all. I mostly sit with headphones in these days. Which helps a lot.

Still, like I say. Ideas/thoughts brewing of my own company (have been for a while anyway) - this weekend will be research and drawing up business plans I think. :)

If I went for it. I'd still need to keep this job for a while whilst the waters get tested. But it's something to focus my mind on.
 
Phate said:
Its difficult when said boss literally sits opposite me. So to avoid him I have to lean into my monitor so I can't see him at all. I mostly sit with headphones in these days. Which helps a lot.

Still, like I say. Ideas/thoughts brewing of my own company (have been for a while anyway) - this weekend will be research and drawing up business plans I think. :)

If I went for it. I'd still need to keep this job for a while whilst the waters get tested. But it's something to focus my mind on.
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Just keep your headphones in. :)
 
Ugh sorry I missed that Phate, he sounds like a complete and utter idiot.

I'm back at work and currently working from home due to the tail end of a bug. I mean I could go in, but you know, it's cold out... haha I'll go back into the office tomorrow. Slow start back and I'm fine with that. I'm just trying to catch up on all things emotuit too and that needs such a 2017 kick!

Happy new year, let's get some things done this year!!
 
randomshenans said:
Ugh sorry I missed that Phate, he sounds like a complete and utter idiot.
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He's been on a role this week :D He gave me a task to do and promised a delivery date to the end user for tomorrow, without discussing it with me. Then the task at hand is fairly substantial and asked me for a 1st iteration was needed for Wednesday for testing.

It was one of those situations where he set me up to fail, basically (huge task, impossible deadline etc) Anyway, I knuckled on with it, actually got the 1st version done for testing (which he was slightly gobsmacked about) then he then proceeded to keep changing requirements/make changes to the end product for the sake of making sure I could not hit the deadline.

Then yesterday (after he tells me about yet more changes he wants) he then tells me he's worried about not hitting the Friday deadline. I calmly said "everytime you make a change, it increases the risk of missing that deadline, you do realise this?" "this is why scope creep is a REALLY bad idea"

He went very quiet. He's shot himself in the foot for the sake of trying to get a reaction out of me, which I refuse to give.

He also made himself the project manager of said project, and is now at risk of making himself look bad.

I just smile and carry on as if all is normal. I may be screaming on the inside, but he'll never see that. I won't give him that satisfaction.

I'm back at work and currently working from home due to the tail end of a bug. I mean I could go in, but you know, it's cold out... haha I'll go back into the office tomorrow. Slow start back and I'm fine with that. I'm just trying to catch up on all things emotuit too and that needs such a 2017 kick!

Happy new year, let's get some things done this year!!
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Best of luck with emotuit this year :) - it's all about sales now isn't it?
 
2016 was our first full year as a company of more than 1 employee (me!) and I was really excited about taking everyone out for our Christmas party. I woke up on 20th feeling a bit iffy, 30 minutes later I had my head in the toilet bowl and it became readily apparent that I had come down with Norovirus. So bloody annoying, had a massive day planned. Everyone else still met up for a few beers but we're rescheduling the main events later in January.

Solid start to 2017 business-wise. Should be able to get a healthy amount executed in the first couple of months, and my colleague (the almost-quitter with good potential) has won a couple of big mandates. With everything he's got in the pipeline at present he could almost hit the lower end of his annual target by the end of Q1.

I'd like to approach this year with fresh enthusiasm but visiting my sister and new bro-in-law in New York last week was like a 7 day stag do/festival - I'm totally wiped out, the thought of booze makes my head spin and I've got to get my arse in gear quick to re-do our website and reorganise and file away roughly 2,000 CVs before the end of the month (I did a couple of hundred yesterday and it took two and a half hours...).

Thinking about having a go at growing the company headcount in Q3 should have have a solid first half of the year - fingers crossed.

I hope everyone's professional endeavours go well in 2017 :)
 
I was asked by our CEO for some suggestions for our call centre before Christmas but my work schedule has been manic, he was eager to see what suggestions I had based upon my work with an award winning customer service team.

They set targets in the call centre, then, they have a quiz. Now, Over November, these quizzes totalled up to over 120 wasted man hours, December (of which I was off for 2 weeks) totalled 75 man hours and so far in January, (4 working days) 35 man hours.

Anyway, it's got back the head of the call centres, a man who is so self-involved, narcissistic and useless and I had him in my room asking me why I was tracking the time they spent doing quizzes. "The CEO asked me too" wasn't good enough so he then proceeded to rather nastily tell me keep my nose out, stop doing it and perhaps I should be concentrating on my own work. I kind of kept my cool, but still snapped a little telling him that maybe if they spent less time ****ing about and more time working the bookings would be higher, that it's incredibly hard to do my job when him and his rabble are shouting and screaming as we're in the same open space and if he was so worried about people doing their job maybe he shouldn't be using work email to sex talk his girlfriend who is the CEO's PA...

He's not spoken to me since so I'm not sure where this is going to go but I really don't care anymore :D There's been a lot of little jibes about quiz's though so chances are he's telling people but it's him that is wasting time and it'll be him in front of HR if it carries on, and she hates him and likes me :D

I am all for motivating staff but it should be rewards that don't take away from actual working time that our sales consultants pay for, and those times there don't include "going home early" certificates for making bookings, or the time spent where he is prepping those or the time that managers/team leaders are involved in them.
 
We had a local company advertising for an IT manager about 4 months ago, I missed the advert until the day after it closed but emailed anyway. I photographed the wedding of the son of the owner and went to school with him so thought it couldn't hurt but heard nothing back.

Had a facebook message yesterday "Hi pal yur good into IT ain't u ??" from the son.

Didn't respond due to a terrible migraine but turns out it's for the same job but mainly to focus on their website and pushing it online to start with.. looks like things are on the up.
 
AHarvey said:
We had a local company advertising for an IT manager about 4 months ago, I missed the advert until the day after it closed but emailed anyway. I photographed the wedding of the son of the owner and went to school with him so thought it couldn't hurt but heard nothing back.

Had a facebook message yesterday "Hi pal yur good into IT ain't u ??" from the son.

Didn't respond due to a terrible migraine but turns out it's for the same job but mainly to focus on their website and pushing it online to start with.. looks like things are on the up.
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Christ with a message like that walk away now.
 
teaboy5 said:
Christ with a message like that walk away now.
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Lol, that's the son of the owner. It's a farming company that has expanded massively over the last 10 years into different areas but the son is a farmer, I don't think he really anything to do with the business side of things.

It can't be worse than where I am, constantly setting up email and laptops for people who either break them within days or leave the company a week after starting, and **** money. It's worth a chat at least :D
 
Need to put together an investor report today for last quarter of the year. I don't know how many times I can write **** lol

Planning out the year here too and what I should be attending and what sales and marketing strategies are. Had the Mrs say to me yesterday "you haven't sorted out when you're away yet, what are you going to this year?" I was like, it helps to have some damn money too! I'm just going through the conference schedule at the moment, seeing what the audience will be like and what would make sense to attend. I'd love to sponsor again, but I need about 12k to cover the cost of the 2 big ones. Not pocket money.

Ugh. Hard start to the year with empty pockets. Going to have to all out push this quarter with big sales and marketing drive and pushing lots of content. That's my strategy. See if I can get picked up by any other the big education publications.

Push on.
 
Crack on mate.

Also one conference which might be worth checking out if you don't know about it is "Web Summit" in Lisbon. It's a huuuggeee tech conference. I think it's hosted annually. :)

News for me. Relations with my boss continue to detoeriorate even further. After an absolutely awful week last week I spent the weekend recovering and getting my head straight, as such I spent zero time working on my business model :(

But alas. Every time he is a **** to me, it just reminds me that my days here are numbered due to my own doing. I have until the end of Feb to finish the model, prep and launch :)

Likewise...lets push on!
 
randomshenans said:
Need to put together an investor report today for last quarter of the year. I don't know how many times I can write **** lol

Planning out the year here too and what I should be attending and what sales and marketing strategies are. Had the Mrs say to me yesterday "you haven't sorted out when you're away yet, what are you going to this year?" I was like, it helps to have some damn money too! I'm just going through the conference schedule at the moment, seeing what the audience will be like and what would make sense to attend. I'd love to sponsor again, but I need about 12k to cover the cost of the 2 big ones. Not pocket money.

Ugh. Hard start to the year with empty pockets. Going to have to all out push this quarter with big sales and marketing drive and pushing lots of content. That's my strategy. See if I can get picked up by any other the big education publications.

Push on.
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What sort of people within education buy your product?

I've got some background in the industry and have been in software sales (not to education) for a few years so may be able to help, if you'd like.
 
We sell to universities/ colleges/ schools. Buyers different from CIO, Head of Online Learning, head of educational technology, or even in some case learning designers (depends on size of org).. anyone who deals with the management or delivery of online learning material / courses for that organization.

Happy to chat though!

@Phate, Web Summit is meh for us, but thanks! We did their US version, which was ****, but it was in Vegas so I enjoyed everything else :p It's just a bit too generic tech for us now, the conferences I need to be at are the pure education ones, where the attendees are all basically our potential customers (all unis and colleges).
We sponsored BbWorld and InstructureCon last year, both big and both cost me a ton. It was great for marketing and getting our name out, just needed to capitalise on the exposure more!

Spend some time on your model, it'll clear your head and help keep you focussed on the future. Chin up and keep pushing.
 
I've just successfully passed an Online Assessment which will enable me to promote upwards another grade in the CS. Another "what would you do in this totally unrealistic scenario" test - totally pish but needed if I want to advance.

Time to start looking into then jobs available, I'm tempted to try for a move out of Defence - been in defence for 3 years now and huge changes are coming which I fear people are not mature/prepared enough for in my field.

Being close to London means I could attract jobs with the London Weighting addition but means the daily commute. No rush at present but nice to be in a possible position for two promotions within a year.
 
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