dfunked09 wrote:Pretty sure imposter syndrome is quite normal when you first start a new job and you need a while to find your groove. I certainly didn't lie at all in my interview so they should know what they are getting. Still better money, more holiday and health care too. This will be my first pay rise in 12 years. |
Working from home - the new normal? • Page 8
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AceGrace 3,464 posts
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challenge_hanukkah 14,394 posts
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Registered 8 years agoThere's a girl in my team who is an imposter. -
Dirt3 1,775 posts
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Registered 7 years agochallenge_hanukkah wrote:
Let me guess, you found out because she outperforms you all by a factor of 3 ?
There's a girl in my team who is an imposter. -
quadfather 39,069 posts
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Registered 11 years agoI'm going with the size of her cock. -
challenge_hanukkah 14,394 posts
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Pretty much. -
I have had imposter syndrome in pretty much every job I've had, even after months and years of being in that position. -
brokenkey 11,128 posts
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Registered 20 years agoJoeBlade wrote:
I've done a couple ofinterviews since lockdown, and my advice is to ensure that you have gallery mode switched on if there's more than one person interviewing you, so you can see all of their reactions at one. If you can hide or minimse your own face, you'll be more natural when you talk.
After that I still had other offers and interviews but they were all remote and I started to realize I was totally shit at them. I found the video and the lack of physical presence very distracting and was far too focused on whether I was coming across the way I wanted to rather than what I was talking about.
I also had very little feel of the people I was talking to, not just who they were and whether they seemed like good potential future colleagues but also what it was they most wanted to hear from me (considering my 20+ years of experience that can be a great many things and focusing on the wrong ones can leave someone with a completely wrong impression)
The fact that video calls were something I almost exclusively had with customers in the past - a kind of call where you have to adopt quite a different attitude and tone compared to an interview - really doesn't help either. -
brokenkey 11,128 posts
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Registered 20 years agoDirt3 wrote:
you can get smoothies on it too, so you can mix it up.
Pret coffee subscription looks like a good deal if you consume coffee.
Up to 5 coffees a day for £20 per month.
I admire their attempt to try and change their business model to adapt to the new conditions, rather than doing the same old stuff.
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Dirt3 1,775 posts
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Registered 7 years agoI think if I hit my body with the saturated fat in the smoothie after firing myself up on caffine that would be a short route to an early grave. -
nickthegun 87,711 posts
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Registered 16 years agoDirt3 wrote:
Im looking forward to their charge into the suburbs to follow the workers back to their homes.
I admire their attempt to try and change their business model to adapt to the new conditions, rather than doing the same old stuff.
Taken out of the context of a city, it will be interesting to watch them utterly fail to convince people 8 quid for a sandwich and a drink is good value. -
sport 17,064 posts
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Registered 16 years agoquadfather wrote:
Bichii?
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I'm waiting for an update from management as to whether we will be going back to the office this year. It seems extremely unlikely but it would be good to know one way or the other. I might spend a bit to improve my home office if it's going to be a long term or permanent arrangement.
I imagine my team will most likely have a blended working approach in the future, some days at home and some days in the office. I'd be pretty happy with that as 80% of my work can be done at home. Some face to face meetings are still required for larger projects.
None of us are sure that we will have an actual desk to go back to once things are back to relative normality. I can see having to book a hotdesk if I want to go into the office. -
dfunked09 2,406 posts
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Registered 1 year agoAs far as I'm aware my company are still poised to start bringing everybody back in, but split so not all members of a team are ever in the same place.
Considering there's currently one other guy on my team in the UK, that makes me going back into the office at all a bit pointless.
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mad_caddy 3,751 posts
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Registered 17 years agoSo after having 3 weeks of people in the office, my work have decided to ignore the advice and for us to carry on as we are.
Mostly because the office is considered covid safe.
However they have sent all the "vulnerable' people home to work.
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Tonka 31,979 posts
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Registered 18 years agoI talked to an owner of an IT consultancy firm, small one, and he was shitting his pants because he was so worried that people would work when they were at home.
Hr simply didn't trust his employees. I found it rather old fashioned. He's basically renting out humans to occupy seats at other companies.
Of that company can't see the human, they some he is lying about them doing any work.
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Gruff 3,940 posts
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Registered 18 years agoWork for a bigish IT company, still at home with no hint of returning back to the office.
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ibenam 3,507 posts
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Registered 14 years agoBeen working from home since March. Absolutely loving it. Office has said done bother coming back into the office as they save 10k a year on me not taking a desk. -
ibenam wrote:
10k a year? How much electricity do you use?! Or is that for the whole office?
Been working from home since March. Absolutely loving it. Office has said done bother coming back into the office as they save 10k a year on me not taking a desk. -
ibenam 3,507 posts
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Registered 14 years agoandytheadequate wrote:
Per person, we are slap bang City centre.
ibenam wrote:
10k a year? How much electricity do you use?! Or is that for the whole office?
Been working from home since March. Absolutely loving it. Office has said done bother coming back into the office as they save 10k a year on me not taking a desk. -
SolidSCB 16,771 posts
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Registered 12 years agoBeen working from home just fine when needed but of course they are doing a 'risk assesment' for a return to the office the second the furlough period is over. Which obviously they are well within their rights to do but is just going to be a costly gamble they don't really need to take from my point of view.
I'm also a little bit concerned they are going to take the absolute piss with the new scheme coming in after October, use it to try and have me in pretty much full time and try and fiddle the system with it. I've only skim read it so far but my initial assumption is that employees could easily be shafted by it. -
ibenam wrote:
That's a ridiculous amount. I wonder if the "water cooler ideas" that twats on the news keep talking about is worth the cost.
andytheadequate wrote:
Per person, we are slap bang City centre.
ibenam wrote:
10k a year? How much electricity do you use?! Or is that for the whole office?
Been working from home since March. Absolutely loving it. Office has said done bother coming back into the office as they save 10k a year on me not taking a desk.
There's no chance we'll go remote full time as my employer are in the middle of building a fancy new office but we won't be going back in full time, and not until the pandemic is over. -
mikew1985 15,598 posts
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Registered 14 years agoHe's saying per year, it could easily be that after rent, rates and infrastructure, coffee, fruit, cleaning etc.
12 person office rent of 10k per month, hardly unbelievable. city centre rents are huge.
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Humperfunk 8,634 posts
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Registered 9 years agoMy work have been phenomenal through this. I have a brand new laptop, two brand new screens, a brand new office chair and assuming I move flat in a month if we aren't all locked down, they will sort me out a brand new desk. They're kitting us out to work from home for the long term, new chat is they won't expect anyone back until maybe June next year. January is the very earliest now but looking more and more likely it will be later. And I am all for it!
Big thing is that productivity has gone up since March when we were locked down. Superb. -
mikew1985 wrote:
Oh, I wasn't doubting it, more that it's an awful lot of money when you think about it.
He's saying per year, it could easily be that after rent, rates and infrastructure, coffee, fruit, cleaning etc.
12 person office rent of 10k per month, hardly unbelievable. city centre rents are huge.
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reddevil93 15,997 posts
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Registered 14 years agoGoing to be even more expensive to have people in the office now if there are social distancing rules etc. Move to remote work is going to accelerate so much. Already seeing lots of remote only jobs going up on places like Angellist.
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simpleexplodingmaybe 19,992 posts
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Registered 6 years agoLooks like my fantastic position of being promoted into a role which requires no physical presence on campus is coming to an end as a former team is increasingly stretched and short staffed meaning anyone who can work for them is being volunteered to do so. On site. -
simpleexplodingmaybe 19,992 posts
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Registered 6 years agoJust as the single biggest risk factor involved - the students - are arriving in their thousands. -
hedben2013 2,261 posts
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Registered 9 years agoYou'll be fine, if today's Twitter is anything to go by all the students will be doing virtual lectures and confined to their rooms within a week -
Dougs 100,414 posts
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Registered 18 years agoI'm sure there was a separate thread somewhere, but here will do. Any recommendations for a good ergonomic office chair? My current one is a mesh back thing but is dying after 6 years. Kind of need one now with what I gather is called a seat slide. Budget of £150-200.
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