The Things You Are HAPPY About Thread.

[Pablowolf]

Also, why would Sainsbury's staff get a disciplinary?

The manager (I think it was the manager, he was wearing a suit) comp'd me some booze for stopping shoplifters. Specifically, they got a gift token, loaded the money for the booze onto it and then used that card to pay for the booze.

 

[Tredman]

Nice to do nice stuff

https://twitter.com/x/status/1356911915755327490

 

[Parkins left foot]

A bit of sun today - starting to feel as if I can get some sort of 'mojo' back after weeks of wet, cold or snowy weather

 

[Pablowolf]

Nice to do nice stuff

https://twitter.com/x/status/1356911915755327490

I always thought he was a bit of a nob, but since I've followed him on Twitter for the past couple of years, I've come to see that he's a good egg.

 

[UKYankieWWFC]

So after 2 months of being at the QE in B'ham my sister is being transferred to New Cross this evening to an ENT ward to help with her speech

 

[Tredman]

Thanks to the annoying Martin Lewis programme the wife watches every week I’ve just changed my Avios points for an absolute shed load of nectar points.

 

[Dublin Drummer Wolf]

Not sure where to put this so this thread will do as it made me smile...

Was on a call with our Lisbon team just now and one of the managers is called Nuno Santos. I commented that his name was similar to the manager of the team I support, and one of the other guys pipes up to say his cousin is currently playing for Wolverhampton.
I said who is your cousin and he tells me it's Vitinha!

Very cool. Apparently he loves it at Wolves and is having a good time and learning a lot. He's also terrified of getting Covid and so he has rarely been out of his house at all other than for training and games.
Might try and organise to get something signed.

 

[machin05]

Not sure where to put this so this thread will do as it made me smile...

Was on a call with our Lisbon team just now and one of the managers is called Nuno Santos. I commented that his name was similar to the manager of the team I support, and one of the other guys pipes up to say his cousin is currently playing for Wolverhampton.
I said who is your cousin and he tells me it's Vitinha!

Very cool. Apparently he loves it at Wolves and is having a good time and learning a lot. He's also terrified of getting Covid and so he has rarely been out of his house at all other than for training and games.
Might try and organise to get something signed.

Ask him if he lives next to Bantock Park. I'm sure it's him!

 

[Dublin Drummer Wolf]

Ask him if he lives next to Bantock Park. I'm sure it's him!

Apparently the only time he leaves the house is to get in the van for training/games

 

[Paul]

Apparently the only time he leaves the house is to get in the van for training/games

I'm the same to be honest, us elite sportsmen

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

More amusing than happy. Squeeze last day in her job before she start a new post week after next. She is having her leaving do drinks by zoom and is absolutely shedded on massive gin and tonics. I’m going to be pouring her into bed later!

 

[Templeton Peck]

Online training is the fucking bomb. Normally I'd have already driven somewhere, spent ages making awkward small talk and doing the horrendous 'tell us a bit about yourself' shite before being talked at all day. Currently I have the training on in the background whilst eating chocolate orange and farting about ion here. Pray we never go back to that bollocks.

 

[Pablowolf]

I always get so tired in the afternoons when someone's trying to force knowledge upon me.

 

[UKYankieWWFC]

Talking if work related issues
I mentioned a week or so ago about a job closer to home. Decided to take it. Less hours, more pay, opportunity for promotion.
I told my boss she understood but I knew she was mortified. She counter offered this morning, I declined the offer as it was no where near what my new opportunity is paying me and is only roughly my annual pay raises were for the past 3 years that I did not get.

 

[Dublin Drummer Wolf]

Online training is the fucking bomb. Normally I'd have already driven somewhere, spent ages making awkward small talk and doing the horrendous 'tell us a bit about yourself' shite before being talked at all day. Currently I have the training on in the background whilst eating chocolate orange and farting about ion here. Pray we never go back to that bollocks.

This is what I do for a living and unfortunately its a disaster from my side. So difficult to maintain proper engagement with the audience and not a good learning experience overall.

Besides, if your training's previously involved being talked at all day, then that is just a lecture and it only suits the theoretical learners - it doesn't cater for the practical or kinesthetic learners.
Bite-sized learnings are the way forward - short sprints based on the Agile methodology. 5 min videos followed by a 10 min demo or quiz, 30 min trainings followed by a group discussion or focus groups. Project work with defined roles that are then switched followed by debriefs and outcomes etc etc.
This is what I am currently attempting to implement at work.

 

[Templeton Peck]

This is what I do for a living and unfortunately its a disaster from my side. So difficult to maintain proper engagement with the audience and not a good learning experience overall.

Besides, if your training's previously involved being talked at all day, then that is just a lecture and it only suits the theoretical learners - it doesn't cater for the practical or kinesthetic learners.
Bite-sized learnings are the way forward - short sprints based on the Agile methodology. 5 min videos followed by a 10 min demo or quiz, 30 min trainings followed by a group discussion or focus groups. Project work with defined roles that are then switched followed by debriefs and outcomes etc etc.
This is what I am currently attempting to implement at work.

I'm a teacher and always trained by other or former teachers. We should be more aware than any of how long you should prattle on before shutting up. Never ceases to amaze me how many of them will talk at an audience for 2 hours without a break and expect them to be taking anything in.

 

[leedswolf]

This is what I do for a living and unfortunately its a disaster from my side. So difficult to maintain proper engagement with the audience and not a good learning experience overall.

Besides, if your training's previously involved being talked at all day, then that is just a lecture and it only suits the theoretical learners - it doesn't cater for the practical or kinesthetic learners.
Bite-sized learnings are the way forward - short sprints based on the Agile methodology. 5 min videos followed by a 10 min demo or quiz, 30 min trainings followed by a group discussion or focus groups. Project work with defined roles that are then switched followed by debriefs and outcomes etc etc.
This is what I am currently attempting to implement at work.

Some of what I do for a living is training delivery.

I must admit that the remote stuff I've been doing has in the main been very good and enjoyable.

 

[SSB]

Talking if work related issues
I mentioned a week or so ago about a job closer to home. Decided to take it. Less hours, more pay, opportunity for promotion.
I told my boss she understood but I knew she was mortified. She counter offered this morning, I declined the offer as it was no where near what my new opportunity is paying me and is only roughly my annual pay raises were for the past 3 years that I did not get.

Worked with someone who recently handed their notice in and was given a counter offer of a payrise but turned it down. Pisses me off as the only way you can seem to get recognition (and a payrise) is to threaten to leave and I know it'd backfire if I tried it.

 

[sycophantia]

Worked with someone who recently handed their notice in and was given a counter offer of a payrise but turned it down. Pisses me off as the only way you can seem to get recognition (and a payrise) is to threaten to leave and I know it'd backfire if I tried it.

happened to me 5 years ago, was in a job I hated, hated some of the other staff, particularly hated the boss who was an absolute twat and I rarely use the word hate. After I handed my notice in, came to me 3 separate times with better offers, in the end the boss came down and asked me what he could do to make me stay, gave him a one word answer....'nothing' and turned away from him.....felt great. Stupid thing is, if they'd offered me half what they ended up offering me two weeks earlier when I asked for a rise, I'd probably have stayed.

 

[Parkins left foot]

Worst training I had to do (when working for a major bank) was to have to do an interview with a 'fake setup' customer whilst being videod and the rest of the students were in another room watching & you had no idea what reaction they were giving (I do know from when I was one of those watching what the liklihood was)

Nervewracking & not real life