Gripe of the day - What is yours?

[Sir Trev]

Originally Posted by Adam Ef

Brooker has it all worked out... audio NSFW (contains swearing)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHun58mz3vI

That is sooo accurate. Love the way it's a BBC clip making fun of BBC reporting styles too.

[timwilky]

Only 24 hours in a day. yet my bosses seem to think I can fit 36 hours to a working day.

I have too many concurrent projects and not permitted to take on any junior PMs to run the business as usual leaving me free to undertake the difficult and costly.

A former boss once equated it to the old circus spinning plates act. You can keep adding more plates but you get to a point that they start falling and only then does anyone notice that things have gone wrong as a result of spinning the wrong plate at that moment in time. The trick apparently is deciding which is the least costly to break

[littleoldman2]

That's why I left manufacturing in 2004.

[littleoldman2]

BTW Tim this is your fault, you should have dropped a few cheap plates last year.

[Bibio]

Originally Posted by timwilky

Only 24 hours in a day. yet my bosses seem to think I can fit 36 hours to a working day.

I have too many concurrent projects and not permitted to take on any junior PMs to run the business as usual leaving me free to undertake the difficult and costly.

A former boss once equated it to the old circus spinning plates act. You can keep adding more plates but you get to a point that they start falling and only then does anyone notice that things have gone wrong as a result of spinning the wrong plate at that moment in time. The trick apparently is deciding which is the least costly to break

its called saying NO.. a word that most people will not use which in turn makes it worse for all of us.

[kaivalagi]

Originally Posted by littleoldman2

BTW Tim this is your fault, you should have dropped a few cheap plates last year.

That's exactly what I was going to say....easier said than done though when you give too much of a sh*t about doing the right thing...I blame my parents for bringing me up right haha

[SV650rules]

Originally Posted by Bibio

its called saying NO.. a word that most people will not use which in turn makes it worse for all of us.

+1

Used to have a boss that said yes to everything that higher ups suggested, the result was working weekends as well as weekdays, he never learned to say no... Higher management can be d1ck heads and need reigning in every so often.

[Bibio]

looking at stuff to eat only to say NO i cant have that.

Had my rotor cuff and tear done on my shoulder talk about pain thank goodness for Morphine. lol

[littleoldman2]

Morphine by mouth I really know what you mean, but by IV, I see and hear all sorts of nonsense. Fentanyl by IV on the other hand, no pain and none of the nonsense. Just make sure you get plenty of water to combat the constipation.