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7 minutes ago, Greyman said:
Can we not start a separate thread on GEEK SPEAK for all this and get back to how Russia are slaughtering the Ukrainians who are abandoning posts and deserting in there droves or how they are destroying the arms we are supplying at a rate of nots lol
Yep, apologies mate, that went off on a sharp deviation I admit.
Anyway, back to matters at hand, let’s hope Putin tops that f***ing creep Zelensky soon !
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45 minutes ago, Born Hunter said:
Yep that’s a project
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I’m just used to good PMs really benefiting projects.
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.
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Why can none of these people ever say or seem to understand that vast numbers of English people and British people feel undermined, unwelcome and under attack in their own land and events like this are just a manifestation of all those frustrations that are quiet frankly sneered at, insulted and ignored.
I’m not an educated or clever man, but as far as I can see the question these people should be asking is not “should police be acting like this to gatherings of people waving a St George’s cross ?”, the question is “Why do they feel the need to be there proclaiming there own identity in their own nation in the first place ?”
Why do they feel this way ?
Thats the question that never gets asked or spoken about and I wouldn’t mind betting it’s because they know the answer and don’t have the guts to talk about it.
Im not massively into St George’s day, I have seen people from Tamworth to Tim Buk Tu, black as the ace of spades, draping themselves in the St George’s cross…..my flag is my blood, your genetic heritage and the bond to the soil under your feet in your own land beats any and every flag.
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7 hours ago, Born Hunter said:
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.
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
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30 minutes ago, THE STIFFMEISTER said:
project management speak maté.
best run some of those terms past your own “Scrum Master “ to see how that goes down buddy .
the reality is most PMs I know spend most of the day on two different blowers , end up doing most of the other peoples jobs for them and end up getting malleted as soon as the project is finished . Proper cut throat industry where everyone pulls their wages , figures and earnings out of their arse .
fair play if you can make a good wage at it .
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:
PM:
”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”
PM:
”The manufacturers are arranging that and they have assured me it’s all sorted, no problem”
Me:
”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”
PM:
”It will be fine, they have assured me”
Me:
”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”
Me:
”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.
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6 hours 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
If the fat little c**t starts earning a million sovs he can give me some of it so I don’t do him in !
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10 hours ago, steve t said:
We milk them and eat the kids. Wife doesn't like pork or else I'd do a couple of pigs . Used to keep Dexter cows but got out of them last year.
We’re they short Dexters mate ?, how were those to keep ?
I had Australian Lowline Angus and they were brilliant to over winter…..they ate nothing but silage and cost €2 a week each to keep over the winter.
The condition on them was unbelievable for such low inputs, you’d have thought I’d given them a bag of meal every day…..they will thrive on nothing.
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The nearest I ever got to doing the London Marathon was when it used to go past my front room window every year when I was a kid ! Lol
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1 hour ago, NEWKID said:
Good on them mate, that's great going for such young adults.. you must be really proud and rightly so.
I guess I think there is opportunities for anyone with the right work ethic and if you want to step up your earnings then you need to take right amount of risk. The really wealthy people I know personally are entrepreneurial and extremely driven only one of them I can think of went to Uni, he worked for F1 for a bit and set up a very successful security camera/sensor business where they designed and installed security systems sold the company for a song and set up a clever scanning booth (we helped in early stage design), which is used at end of production line for cars to check any imperfections, clever bit of kit. I know quite a few blokes who run decent building firms, scrap yards, scaffold businesses etc and are worth a mint (multi multi mmillionaires), property etc, none ever went to Uni... I'm certainly not decrying education, far from it, but there are lots of ways to make money (you know only too well) and if you have the right mindset it is still there for you. I won't clog my lads views with negativity about being raped by our government or how many ways we are taxed as it could dampen the early drive/spirit, I tell him it is all there for him, take a chance, have a go etc... I agree with you and as an older more cynical man see the way we are pulled out straight, I genuinely feel sorry for people on the minimum wage grafting there nuts off to make ends meet, but (and I'm sorry if it offends) we all have the same opportunity, not everyone is built to take risks and put the extra bit in, and thats fine, but life can be a drag and a struggle if that's the case...
I agree almost completely mate, but I think now in a world where we can go anywhere I’d be seriously looking at what places embrace the entrepreneur rather than keep throwing chairs in his way.
Mind you, it’s the same old conversations down the ages…..my old pal god rest his soul was a machinery dealer (diggers, tracked machines, JCBs etc ), came out of a travelling family in the same area of Deptford as my people, he was a lot older than me by 30 years but he used to say “I should have took my family to America when I was young”
So I suppose blokes of a certain age always have these conversations.
Looking back, nobody would have put me off so it’s a bit rich for me to give lectures but I genuinely feel for young people getting started in this world……that’s where education comes into its own I suppose, my nicked supermarket bread crate full of dusters and dishcloths and ironing board covers is todays educated youngsters laptop.
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1 hour ago, Wolfdog91 said:
Coding is basically when you type up a program/ the instructions the computer follows. If the user does ABC on the keyboard you the computer do XYZ. He basically builds apps ,games or whatever computer program from scratch . It's much more complicated then that but that's the real basics of it. Extremely important job nowadays
His is something to do with systems that operate aircraft I think…..whatever, it’s nerds crack ! Lol
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47 minutes ago, Mickey Finn said:
Ah, Biden is pretty much doing exactly what Trump started. Most of what you hear to the contrary is just political rhetoric.
Well, we have to look at this in as exact an order as we can. The US was hesitant to get involved in either of the world wars. After WWII, we were staring across the field at a huge soviet army. Everything you mention in your post were tools we used to protect ourselves from that army. That army is gone, and nukes aside. Russia appears to be a paper tiger. So, we don't need those tools anymore. Like you say, we have tremendous infrastructure concerns that have to be addressed.
So, good luck with NATO, and the Middle East!
The Middle East is all in England mate, maybe we are keeping a close eye ? Lol
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1 hour ago, NEWKID said:
Funny I was yapping to my lad when n Saturday, hes 18 finishing his A levels in a few months in Biology and Chemistry plus a music production course..we got taking about university/jobs future plans etc... he's a bright lad and got his head screwed on, he said to me only one of his friendship group has gone into a trade (bricklaying), the rest are all going to Uni. His words were over half of them 20 years ago would've gone into a trade, they aren't super clever and the courses they are doing leaf to bog standard jobs and a pile of debt. I'm all for education but I agree with him, it's almost frowned upon to go into vocational courses with the focus on a job at the end, instead the "less bright" do sociology or Psychology when asked what they want to do with their qualifications the normal answer is "I don't know yet, but I'll habe a degree for the future"...why?
My niece is a prime example, spent years studying ancient history and archaeology, amazingly interesting but there are more people than jobs, she's 26 and had 1 placement so far for 6 months, now going back to open university to study again to complete the PHD, she hates her job in admin at a solicitors, but can't get a job in her chosen field...
Fin hit the nail on the head, he said there will be a shortage of trades as youngsters are driven into believing university of IT is the only paths to take, the saturation in these market places in 10 years or so and the lack of trades will be a void that needs filling... So we discussed his future, he says he has no passion for his subjects and doesn't want to waste his time or our money going uni, sensible... I've suggested he does an estimating course and cad drawing course, I think he'll come into our business and I'll ensure he is fully rounded to take on the roles you need to run a company, seriously mate there is still money in building, probably more than ever... I get not everyone has a family business to step into, but the opportunity in trades is very good for young lads, his mate apprentice bricky is clearing £600 a week at 18, your not getting any trade under £200 a day now most at £250, that's just labour... I think we'll see a flip in the near future once youngsters realised leaving uni with £80k of debt and no job opportunity is not the answer
My daughter just blagged it and she is a legal assistant for some big gambling firm or something like that, works from home, never has to leave the house and her work is global.
Her and her boyfriend have just bought their first house in Belfast, she is 21.
He never has to leave the house either, does something called “coding” (??) online.
They are both on good money and all the benefits that come with a proper job, I’d never advise them to go it alone as a couple just doing a small business…..there was a time they could have earned more but I just don’t think that is the case now, better to pick up the cheque and not have any of the aggro.
That can’t be healthy for a society can it mate ?…..I mean a society surely needs people who are going to get out and create something and it be worth their while don’t it ? -
16 minutes ago, Arry said:
While I see where you're coming from Wilf. But life was not exactly a bed of roses in the past. I'm in my 70's worked hard manually all my life. As a kid we had f**k all, none of the luxuries of today in comparison coal fire only heating, no double glazing hot water if you could afford to put the emersion on. Sent to the shop to get one razor blade for the old man, borrow a cup of sugar from next door. No car rented black and white TV, sitting in candle light because no money for the meter. Gran still had gas lights no electric and outside loo with news paper hanging on string.
I climbed out of that way of life by hard work starting a ground work business only to be knocked back by Thatches f**k up recession. But did any job to make ends meet any dip shit job till I got myself back on my feet. Worked by day shot foxes flogged the skins, caught rabbits assorts borrowed few fish scrounged swedes, spuds and kale from farmers.
What I see today is young people living above their means that want the latest phone, car, big TV etc etc all on tic or credit card. People that don't really want to work hard or at least don't want manual work just hoping the something will come along or they might win the lottery.
Theres some lads on here that graft hard and their work looks of a high standard. They seem successful so it still can be done. Myself I worked from 15 to 66 and if a 66 year old can make a living out of odd jobs, handyman, maintenance, laying hedges, cutting grass you get the idea then anybody can if they put their mind to it.
I do appreciate that some areas especially the old mining areas that have be run down thanks to Thatcher again. But if you're on the bottom run of the ladder and you want to climb that ladder then it's up to you. Drive, ambition, forethought and graft is the way up not sitting back and waiting for it to happen.
Cheers Arry
I started out at 14 selling dusters and dishcloths and stuff like that door to door for myself, topped it up with labouring for builders etc.
Went on the building site at 16 and did that until I was about 21, taught myself how to plaster and render and dry line and metal stud, do brick and block work to a very basic standard.
Worked market stalls and all sorts until I fell into what I ended up doing.
The over riding thing was that everyone could keep a bit for themselves, they could have a few readies, they could form a limited company and pay themselves, they could have a motor on the firm and those associated things that made it worthwhile.
Some of the old market traders I knew had only ever had cash and of course they kept most of it, why wouldn’t they…..they wasn’t a drain on society, they had enough money that they didn’t need anything from anyone.
But now I see things like IR35, you can’t have a crew cab on the firm any more, you can’t earn more than a grand from eBay….I was seeing lads nearly ten years ago who worked for my pal and they wouldn’t do overtime because it wasn’t worth it, the tax man just raided it all.
Then you add stealth tax and rising house prices and charges for this, that and the other that neither you nor me had to cope with as we were making our way and it’s all take and no give.
You say it was hard and you had to get out and graft and you are right mate, but the fact is me and you never had to content with the same things people do today.
We never had the same obstacles to earning our living.
And those obstacles are purposely designed to benefit politicians and their corporate masters from what I can see of it and we are getting f**k all in return except a shit sandwich.
I sure most ordinary lads don’t give a f**k about Ukraine or Tim Buk tu and funding their f***ing war or anybody else’s war, they just want to survive and not get robbed for knocking their pan in.
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43 minutes ago, .357shooter said:
You just don't get it at this point in time unless you are loaded you are fecked.
I was chatting this morning and said I wonder how long people will stand keep being taken from ?
Surely there has to come a point where this is just no more left to take ?
I worked for myself nearly all my working life, worked very hard if I do say so myself and do you know what, I genuinely wouldn’t bother to start a business today if I was young again and just starting out……I just can’t see as it’s worth the hassle for the return ?
Government's have engineered society so that the only lending banks do really is mortgages, those numbers are getting bigger and bigger but the trouble is, mortgage lending creates nothing except profit for the bank.
The have engineered society to close every avenue where the small bloke could keep a little bit for himself and taken all that extra money and pissed it away without remorse, they didn’t use it to make society better, they just burnt it !
Again, this money has created nothing.
Meanwhile, I think lots of people are genuinely struggling to make ends meet, the credit card is maxed out (more money for the banks !) and there is f**k all extra in the tank ?
Small business has to generate so much just to stand still and I’m sure it’s the same story for your employed bloke, he is never getting forward.
Surely at some point people have to get sick of that ?
At some point there will be nothing left to take ?
I think lots of people are sick of it but they just can’t quiet get a handle and where the punishment is coming from, fact is, it’s everywhere.
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14 hours ago, Mickey Finn said:
I'll agree you guys' punch well above your weight class. I'll even take your word that France has more queers. (Not the common world perception though.) Assuming we go full isolationist and stand by as the industrial world crumbles. Someone has to take the lead and only France is showing any real interest. If not them than who?
I think when Trump wins it won’t be a question of being isolationist, I just think he understands the importance of the nation state getting its priorities correct.
America has answered the call to friendly nations way before globalism, before this modern breed of politicians sold us all out to China and corporations.
Some of your towns and city’s are mirror images of our towns and city’s, once great thriving places with pride, industry, community now sadly just wreckage……I don’t think there’s anything isolationist about wanting to see that restored…..MAGA as the buzz phrase calls it.
I don’t think wanting to do right by your own precludes you from helping friends…..you just don’t want to have the piss taken out of you and I get that.
Why should a small town American (or Britain or whoever) have to rely on welfare while Western politicians and their corporate masters get fat by starting wars with others peoples resources ?
Any leader of a country owes his loyalty to his own first, sadly that hasn’t been the case for a long time.
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12 hours ago, Mickey Finn said:
I'll agree you guys' punch well above your weight class. I'll even take your word that France has more queers. (Not the common world perception though.) Assuming we go full isolationist and stand by as the industrial world crumbles. Someone has to take the lead and only France is showing any real interest. If not them than who?
When the terrorists did the Bataclan massacre in Paris the go to lads to arrive on the scene were British SAS troopers !……..that probably tells you all you need to know.
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12 hours ago, Mickey Finn said:
Like it or not, and for better or worse. France will most likely emerge as the dominant power in Europe. They have the resources available, the demographics, and the largest army. That's usually all it takes.
I don’t know where this information is coming from but from a European prospective everything centres around the European Union and the big boy in the room is Germany, Germany rules the roost.
Without the United States there is no NATO and if there is no NATO then everything will be worked along EU lines and that means Germany is in charge.From a military point of view the premier fighting force in Europe is Britain but we are no longer a member of the EU.
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Only 4 more games to go before we never have to look at Moyes “football” again !
Thank you Palace, you may just have sealed the deal !
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Probably find someone on Tik Tok……..I’ll get my coat !
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I’ve not seen McHull ?….maybe his heat shield disintegrated as he was having his casual morning stroll to America ?
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10 minutes ago, Mickey Finn said:
You laugh. But it will be France running NATO when we exit.
Will it f**k, from a military point of view those bunch of queers couldn’t run a bath !
Plus, without you lads NATO would cease to exist as any type of credible force.It has us but we just don’t have the size despite punching way above our weight.
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1 minute ago, dogmandont said:
Or can spot a flea on a salukis arse from a 100 yards away.
The face you see looking back at you from under the bed after 2 years of Covid ?
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I’m assuming the younger girl is the Pint Of Guinness daughter ?
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Russia Ukraine WW3
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“……….as a bunch of flowers”