The who is going in to work versus who is (Not)WFH/taking AL tomorrow thread?

[Fagan_ODowd]

@myboyblue

@Fagan_ODowd

@Julio_Geordio

It must have been absolutely mental working in an office in the olden days and probably someone either side of you smoking a fag all day long

I used to smoke like a chimney in a small attic office in Dublin. Society’s attitude to smoking at the time was such that I never so much as gave a thought to the people sharing the room with me. We moved to a new build shortly after and you couldn’t smoke at your desk any more. You could only smoke in the smoking room.

When I was in school there was a smoking room for the sixth years.

I smoked in an office when I started off. And that’s not the canteen, the actual office. It wasn’t every day or anything but every Friday after lunch it was the thing to pull out the ashtrays and go mad. Bizarre really but their tradition.

The canteen was fair game for a few more years before we got shoved into the smoking room and then out to the yard. The smoking room used to be grim.

The walls in our smoking room started off white ended up brown.

[artfoley]

@glasagusban

Cheers art, I was going to look into the rules, I know it’s ten in year three. I’ll probably end up making a arrangement to take a chunk in April or something like that. There’s a trip in December I’d definitely tack two weeks onto if I could but don’t know if I’ll get the nod for it.

No worries. The 3 year cycle is gone so you’ll want to have a look at the new circular

92deae02-4627-452b-bc4a-50af15d3024a.pdf

[glasagusban]

Ah I hadn’t known about that, I’ll have a look. Basically I’d have taken the leave in January but my manager will be on shorter working year that time, so I figure he’ll have to facilitate me taking it at another stage, maybe into April.

[TreatyStones]

@myboyblue

The canteen was fair game for a few more years before we got shoved into the smoking room and then out to the yard. The smoking room used to be grim

Good IT crowd episode on that

[cluaindiuic]

My current plan agreed with work is to not work December and January.

[myboyblue]

@mikehunt and @Julio_Geordio have been doing that for years now

[Big_Dan_Campbell]

I worked for a American pharma company a few years ago who had unlimited holidays due to the fact that having gone through numerous mergers and acquisitions over the years they were finding a large number of mid and senior level employees had acquired/carried over huge amounts of annual leave which was a significant enough hidden cost.

By moving to unlimited holidays there is nothing to carry over. Obviously fair usage applied and the work had to get done but it worked fairly well.

[Mac]

Paddy Power brought this in a few years back I think. Apparently most companies who bring it in usually see people taking less holidays as there’s no target to hit. Think Netflix and AirBNB had it too. The yanks I work with have to be reminded monthly to take annual leave. Californians in particular appear to hate taking holidays as they feel they’ll fall behind their peers on the hamster wheel

[johnnysachs]

Its a shit underhanded deal that just ratches up pressure on employees. A trojan horse.

[KinvarasPassion]

@Mac

Californians in particular appear to hate taking holidays as they feel they’ll fall behind their peers on the hamster wheel

Existing not living

[Julio_Geordio]

Ya studies have shown people take less leave.

[FlakeAway]

Time to get those end of year goals in lads.

Did you reach your KPI’s and drive the company going forward?

[Spidey]

Still drafting objectives

[FlakeAway]

Hey ChatGpt. ‘Give me generic objectives for end of year, I work in an office environment’

[peddlerscross]

The work-from-home fanatics owe the rest of us an apology

The WFH fanatics are worse than the split season zealots it seems.

Thought they knew it all, and ultimately proven to be completely wrong.

[StoneCold]

Susrprise surprise opinion piece in right wing rag wants the drones back in the office

[balbec]

Embrace it. We missed you.

[StoneCold]

A key part of my carbon offsetting is encompassed by WFH

[Biff_Egan]

The office zealots expect the likes of yourself and @Julio_Geordio to have daytime naps in the supply closet.

[balbec]

In the Union room.