Am I a Dinasour - Office Environments?



the dark one said:
Just wear the shite you do when we are the lash mate. I regularly chuckle to myself on your appearance. You'll fit rite in. Anyway, what you spouting off about now? Demarkation ? Ya loon.
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I knew you’d sniff this out ya little fucker!

You need an apprentice to make your 20 teas a day and go get your rat burgers?

Jack Wolforskin said:
wanker.
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TheWanderer said:
Went to have a chat with a director of a company earlier on in the week about possible opportunities at the company, a big thing he mentioned was that I would need to fit into the culture of the company.

The dress code on that day seemed to be shorts and zany comedy T-shirts or shit with Atari symbols etc on. Staff seemed to be just f***ing about chatting shit or playing ping pong, hangng about in 'break out' areas or on their laptops in the cafe, they seem to have loads of 'fun' days etc......I sort of decided I couldn't work there by this. Turns out they're not hiring anyways.

But Ive come away thinking, is this what modern office environments are like? I'm more of a tradional suit or at least a pair of slacks and buttoned shirt type of man, I like to keep work away from socialising, get to work, do a full days graft before leaving and getting home and taking the work clothes of is a demarkation point to try and switch off from work. To me if your staff have time to piss about, you hav etoo many staff.

Do i need to maybes broaden my thoughts on this to fit into new companies? This is my first real exposure of looking for employment outside of my company that Ive had.

Where do I even buy a funny Bart Simpson t-shirt???
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zany wankers who give it big licks at work and go home and get pissed / roar / smoke shit all night / post pictures on facebook to cope.

Enjoy
 
I work in an office like that of the op.

No uniform. Nintendo, team lunches every week, rooftop terrace, bar etc

It's a very programmer orientated workplace. Very wacky people.

Whilst it's laid back you can tell they promote a culture of worklife/ homelife combined, rather than a traditional 9-5.

All conversations seem to happen through an online messenger.

Now it has its advantages, but the lack of boundaries makes you feel like if you're not doing a real job and it is a bit of a popularity contest, people can come across quite arrogant.

The best bit, is this work from home malarkey then you can dip in and out of working and doing what you want.

That is the main benefit and why I won't br changing jobs in a rush despite the aforementioned zaniness.
 
lager chimp said:
I took some students on a visit of procter & gamble (something like that) over at silverlink a few year back and in one of their call centres that delt with dog food or pet insurance the staff were allowed to bring their dogs in
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Used work for Netscape way back when. Was over in their office in mountain view a few times and they had a doggy creche there! :lol:
 
This an extract from an e-mail I received today, asking if me or any members of my team wanted to attend some Agile training - stupidly I'd replied to the previous one asking for more details....

"My slide deck covered Scrum ceremonies, Scrum R&R, Sprint planning/backlog grooming, retro/sprint review, how scaled scrum fits into large enterprise agile scaled organization alongside lean, XP practices, Kanban etc.


Moreover, I can add few topics that are not covered in normal agile training (I guess so) like planning poker, story mapping, impact mapping and few agile games :)"

Scrum ceremonies'....., 'backlog grooming'......, 'planning poker'....., 'agile games'......

FFS WTF
 
Jap Stammer said:
This an extract from an e-mail I received today, asking if me or any members of my team wanted to attend some Agile training - stupidly I'd replied to the previous one asking for more details....

"My slide deck covered Scrum ceremonies, Scrum R&R, Sprint planning/backlog grooming, retro/sprint review, how scaled scrum fits into large enterprise agile scaled organization alongside lean, XP practices, Kanban etc.


Moreover, I can add few topics that are not covered in normal agile training (I guess so) like planning poker, story mapping, impact mapping and few agile games :)"

Scrum ceremonies'....., 'backlog grooming'......, 'planning poker'....., 'agile games'......

FFS WTF
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If theres nee Yoda toy then yer not doing it properly
 
Jap Stammer said:
This an extract from an e-mail I received today, asking if me or any members of my team wanted to attend some Agile training - stupidly I'd replied to the previous one asking for more details....

"My slide deck covered Scrum ceremonies, Scrum R&R, Sprint planning/backlog grooming, retro/sprint review, how scaled scrum fits into large enterprise agile scaled organization alongside lean, XP practices, Kanban etc.


Moreover, I can add few topics that are not covered in normal agile training (I guess so) like planning poker, story mapping, impact mapping and few agile games :)"

Scrum ceremonies'....., 'backlog grooming'......, 'planning poker'....., 'agile games'......

FFS WTF
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Sounds like you need the training marra
 
Jap Stammer said:
This an extract from an e-mail I received today, asking if me or any members of my team wanted to attend some Agile training - stupidly I'd replied to the previous one asking for more details....

"My slide deck covered Scrum ceremonies, Scrum R&R, Sprint planning/backlog grooming, retro/sprint review, how scaled scrum fits into large enterprise agile scaled organization alongside lean, XP practices, Kanban etc.


Moreover, I can add few topics that are not covered in normal agile training (I guess so) like planning poker, story mapping, impact mapping and few agile games :)"

Scrum ceremonies'....., 'backlog grooming'......, 'planning poker'....., 'agile games'......

FFS WTF
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Was the trainer called Jose?
 
Bob Fleming said:
Sounds like you need the training marra
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I've had the training.

It's all bollocks.

Essentially, they give fancy names to what most people would consider to be normal working practices, using common sense to solve problems, and being flexible about what needs to be done to meet deadlines. What most people do every day without thinking about it or giving it a fancy label.

Waste of f@@king time.

DaveH said:
Was the trainer called Jose?
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Slightly o/t, but I took me nearly 40yo Subbuteo into work last week and all the young 'uns couldn't get enough of it. Lads and lasses queueing up to play. Hasn't been damaged either.
 
Just finished temping at some place where I had to dress like Moss Bros to do some data entry shite you could teach a brain damaged labrador to do. Dress codes for deluded folk that need to think they're investment bankers when they're just doing banal admin shite that'll get done by a computer in five year's time.
 
My office is in a football stadium so you'd think slightly relaxed dress code but nope, shirt and pants etc but seems the lasses get to wear what they want, we do have a free bar on a friday for an hour after work in one of stands. Don't understand the strict dress code for a completely private and secured place like
 
My place has zero dress code. When i started it was smart casual for me. My office in summer has no air con and testerday was touching 26 degrees before lunchtime.

I know go in wearing shorts, tshirt and trainers as its that warm. We arent customer facing so no probs. Although its still jarring to see people coming to work in trackies mind.
 
I work at a well known nuclear site, you will be pleased to know we don't wear Atari T-shirts and we all take it very seriously indeed.

We don't have goats in the office and we don't play ping pong. We did many years ago play football at lunchtime, but someone broke their ankle and that was banned.

So for you younguns reading this, don't come to nuclear if you are wanting to piss about. Try the army instead.
 

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