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12 hours ago, DIDO.1 said:
I've contacted reform numerous times to say I'll help locally....I'll print and deliver leaflets and get some signs up. Never get any reply
Inspires confidence that
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14 minutes ago, Borr said:
The more people I speak to the more aren't going to vote, I'd originally thought I'd vote UK reform but not sure they even represent much of the area I'm in. I've had enough of Tories had plenty of time and opportunity, labour is a waste of time and starmer still in cahoots with Blair mandelson etc. I've completely lost all faith in the British political system
I feel a bit like that. What exactly are we voting for this time?
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Just a small setup but does me. Can get three in a pen at a squeeze.
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We had a load this year for the cabin. Burnt well enough. It’s not ash mind. But suppose it is when you’re finished lol.
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6 hours ago, paulus said:
last night 11.45pm ish
I found it mad how it all appeared to converge like that.
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What an incredible night! Thought I’d never see it.
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As far as I’m aware my prostate is in fine fettle but I reckon I’m gonna give that nettle tea a spin.
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Every man and his dog is going to agree with you. It's completely reasonable. But let's be honest, reason and alcohol don't really mix do they.
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2 years and 400 pages, I'm sure something exciting will happen soon!
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3 minutes ago, WILF said:
I’ll give you a true example mate, a bloke I knew set up a relocation firm.
He was a salesman with no relevant experience in the field beyond selling people the service.
His firm did a relocation for a big solicitors firm in London, on the day it was completed the solicitors had one of their top lawyers flying in from the United States to do a job.
One of the relocation lads forgot to plug in this blokes phone in his office…..so he sat there all day and did nothing.
The solicitors billed the relocation firm £10,000 for this blokes lost days work !
That’s ten grand because somebody didn’t make sure about details and just assumed it would be ok because they told someone else to do it !
On another job it cost the company moving £150,000 to rent a server room in their old office for 4 days because the IT didn’t get it all sorted in time because the lawyers didn’t sort out the lease in time.Details mate, making sure, talking to everyone and then making sure again all the way along the entire life cycle of a project……most of these tits assume that if you throw in a few nonsense buzz words, send everyone a spreadsheet once in a while, crib about £200 when the jobs worth a million quid and send some emails that it constituents good work and it will all just fall into place, it won’t…..somebody will be going home 15 minutes early to watch the darts or having a holiday in Tenerife on crucial days when they should be doing their bit, you need to know they are going to do that in advance and adjust or everything breaks down.
I can relate, just not to the generalisation. Like I said, stakeholder management and discipline is all there is to it. With experience you develop a sixth sense for those gaps, whether you're a PM or just work in a similar role in a project environment.
Two minutes ago I just took a call on how acceptable it is for product battery life to significantly be reduced in freezing temps, 24 hrs before we commit 6 figures to manufacturing. That's entirely because, for this project, proper governance came way too late.
I've seen no PM, waterfall, agile, bad PM and good PM. It's night and day the impact a good PM (of any type or gender) makes.
Strictly speaking Agile doesn't have a PM though.
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1 hour ago, WILF said:
It was a description of a small portion of a wider project, as in: Big company needs to seamlessly move to new location, there’s 500 people to shift, they need all new equipment installed to deadlines and to meet with legal lease breaks / new tenancy agreements / IT needs to seamlessly move servers and all infrastructure / they need to finish work at old location on Friday evening and just walk into a fully functioning new location with everything down to their stapler in the right places on Monday morning or they are loosing millions of pound etc etc etc……it’s multifaceted and involves a lot of people having to deliver key elements at exactly the right time in exactly the right order.
Belive me, it’s a project ! Lol
Yep that’s a project
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I’m just used to good PMs really benefiting projects.
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27 minutes ago, WILF said:
The best project managers I met met were women and and only about half of those were any good, the blokes were normally tossers doing nothing more than handing out spread sheets and time lines but without an actual clue of how projects have to fit together in reality.
A normal conversation would be along the lines of:
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”X amount of kit will arrive on X amount of 40ft lorry’s at X time every evening for 14 days”
Me:
”Who’s doing the transport and what’s their contact number, I don’t want to have 10 blokes standing around doing nothing while the driver has egg & chips in a cafe on the M20”
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”The manufacturers are arranging that and they have assured me it’s all sorted, no problem”
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”It’s never all sorted and when they go home and 4:30 they don’t care, give me the number of the person at the manufacture and I’ll talk to them”
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”It will be fine, they have assured me”
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”I’ll repeat, it’s never all fine, just give me their details, I need to know everyone and their contacts at every step so I can make sure your job gets done on time”
PM:
”I’ll email them tomorrow and double check, but it’s all fine”
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”I’ll just fly out there and see them myself”
Absolute amateurs the lot of them in my experience……when it gos boss eyed they normally have a confused look and the excuse of “well I emailed and sent the spreadsheet ?!”
Yeah, but you didn’t make sure and then make sure again did you ya f***ing idiot !
These people have caused me no end of extra hours in my life because I never let other people break my promises and I can’t stand excuses.
Women ( when you get a good one) I found are much better at the role, they let people who know get on with their job, are open to advice and collate and deliver information well so that everyone knows who, what, how and when.
Not sure I'd really call that project management tbh. That sounds more a business as usual activity. What's the output? I mean a PM would do that as part of an actual project if there wasn't a dedicated team member to handle logistics but it's not exactly representing the value that a PM really brings to an organisation.
Not that I'm a project manager but the best ones are experts at stakeholder management. I see it all of the time where directors/VPs are completely misaligned, team members too afraid to voice concerns over feasibility etc etc. Stakeholder management and discipline are all there is too it at it's core. They have a sixth sense for risk too.
I suspect we're talking about two very different professionals really.
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1 hour ago, mushroom said:
I've seen my fair share of blaggers over the years (I've probably over 300 nobhead CVs stored to check against).. Only one got past me in a hiring process.. She was fuucked off within a week for crashing the backend of a bank's custom CRM lol. Nothing more frustrating than a dev/team that doesn't hold their hands up and even worse is a PO or SM that can't lead or collaborate.
I would disagree on the niche bit a little, you can specialise and earn big but you can also be good at what you do and earn big.
I'll be honest, I've never worked with anyone on that sort of money except maybe the current or former C-suite professionals in the upper echelons of in multinationals that need 9+ digits to record their "EBITDA".
Are you talking about just a really good Java/python etc dev's? Because one worth a million quid a year is mind boggling to me. What I would expect for that sort of money is someone with three decades of experience in SW, ranging from dev, system architecting, infrastructure, PM/PO/SM, data engineering/science, with a CV that has roles on like CTO at Spotify etc etc.
How common would you say these people are? For me it's 1/1000 professionals.
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21 minutes ago, mushroom said:
Some of the coders I've worked with/hired are on big big bucks. A mate is earning easily close to a Mil € a year going into big companies and reforming their IT teams to make them more efficient... He moved to Andorra for the max 10% tax bracket lol.. If they are able to go it alone and invoice the clients/companies they'll end up much better off, more so if they move to a low tax country
You’d have to have an extremely niche skill set with a very comprehensive portfolio to achieve that though. He’s beyond the 1%. For every one of your mate there’s 1000 wankers who will sit there with a completely straight face and say that a catastrophic bug that ground the system to a standstill within two days of release is my fault because it wasn’t defined in the acceptance criteria that it shouldn’t do that.
AI coding tools can’t come fast enough!
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I think it’s still quite normal for tradesmen to go self employed. But modern industry more widely has many specialist professions that aren’t so suited to being self employed. They’re a cog that needs a machine. I’ve worked at a tiny tech company, a huge one and something in between. For me personally I don’t get much satisfaction out of the day to day of a small firm. Everything is a bit of a blag and Mickey Mouse. Working at a big firm that has the resources to really be top tier can be fulfilling in a way Fred in his shed just can’t compete with.
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1 hour ago, kanny said:
Plenty of kites and buzzards this way and over in the Vale of Belvoir, was a rare sighting 20 years ago, a success story I suppose.
Similar topic. Never saw ravens our way, moved to the southern end of the vale and there’s plenty here and apparently have been for ages. Weird how they haven’t spread though.
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Simply a case of the population recovering and their geographic range expanding as a result. I live in the sticks and they turned up here about 5 years ago and are quite prevalent now. First time I ever saw them was 15 years ago while labouring on a site in Henley.
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Technology moved on. The value of sites like this is just a place to have deeper discussions. In terms of entertainment the app based social media platforms have a way higher level of engagement. A huge volume and variety of content, millions of pictures and videos from all over the world. Pure ‘quick fixes’. And the effective ‘suggested posts/accounts’ features based on what you’re clicking on to keep users addicted.
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43 minutes ago, chartpolski said:
How were the occupation force going to be resupplied ? They couldn’t have brought enough with them to withstand a siege/ stalemate situation , they were looting houses and shops for food.
I didn’t think Conqueror was singly conclusive, I thought it was the single incident that convinced the Argies that we were there to win, the mood change in both countries, indeed around the world, at the time was palpable.
Thatches gamble to sink a ship outside the 200 mile excision zone worked, it showed negotiations were off the table.
Im not a military strategist, I’m just going by what I saw in real time back then and what I read, so it’s just my opinions.
Cheers.
They were being resupplied by plane, airport to airport without even needing aerial refuelling.
You said game set and match which means a conclusive victory. It wasn’t at that point.
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1 minute ago, chartpolski said:
Of course the war was multi faceted but sinking the Belgrano showed we were not afraid to use everything at our disposal including nuclear powered subs if necessary.
The Vulcan raid was in the same vein, it told the Argentinians that we could bomb their mainland if we wanted to.
Our land forces showed a professionalism way above the enemy.
All the elements came together but I still say the sinking of the Belgrano was the decisive action that turned the war.
I don’t believe the Argies could just sit it out, they couldn’t be resupplied because of our naval presence and our land forces couldn’t afford a stalemate, so there was only going to be one conclusion, in my mind.
Cheers.
100%
Yeah conquorer was the first big ‘f**k around and find out’ statement of the war.
My comment regarding sitting it out was in reference to conquorer not being singly conclusive (game set and match). The occupation force wasn’t dependent on naval resupply so although a hugely impactful event there was much left to do.
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6 hours ago, chartpolski said:
Just like we didnt get involved in the Viet Nam War , even though the yanks asked us to. We didn’t ask the yanks to get involved in the Falklands.
As soon as Thatcher ordered HMS Conqueror into action, that was game, set and match, we didn’t need any help.
Cheers.
The sinking of the Belgrano was a decisive and historic event.
But without the equally as decisive actions of many other elements of the task force the war couldn’t have been won. The entire Argentine navy was eliminated with that sinking but the land forces were still being supplied by hercs and the air war was still active from mainland bases.
If the harriers hadn’t completely outperformed what was expected from them, if 3 para hadn’t shown the grit and professionalism they had, if 40 Cdo hadn’t yomped when their rides didn’t turn up, if the Vulcans hadn’t put a big target on the mainland etc etc the argies would’ve just sat tight and waited us out. So many elements of that task force out performed what was expected of them.
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Not much of f**k all has really changed in the past 12 months. Russia failed to achieve anything close to a successful invasion and Ukraine, with all the support the West dares to give, have failed to fully achieve the goals of their counteroffensive.
Wasn't it six weeks it took the coalition to completely invade Iraq?
This will continue now until both sides have had enough of the shit and stalemate and the new lines on the maps are accepted.
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He had me a good en until about three hours into a podcast he starts speculating that psycadelic powered telekinesis was used to move ancient megaliths!
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I’d imagine it was half useful back in the days of iron sights. But with modern firearm/optics technology I can’t see any kind of keeper really getting value out of one.
Maybe a bit controversial but I’d say camo patterns don’t kill much either.
Couldn’t make it up!
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Get up on a roof with your sunnys and factor fifty to watch the show!