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#3128260 15-Sep-2023 18:05

Behodar:

Someone at work set up a meeting with me for this afternoon, with no agenda. She just turned up at my desk three and a half hours early and expected me to drop what I was doing and have the meeting then and there instead. I have no words...

Let me guess, a project manager?

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#3128269 15-Sep-2023 18:28

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Behodar:

Someone at work set up a meeting with me for this afternoon, with no agenda. She just turned up at my desk three and a half hours early and expected me to drop what I was doing and have the meeting then and there instead. I have no words...

Let me guess, a project manager?

I have always been a project manager professionally (on the side). However, I was the kind of person who could do it myself and always lent a hand when things got tight in one of my teams.

Today, it's more a case of having no clue of the subject and checking the progress of the project more and more often until it gets better. 😆 A meeting without an agenda is like an action without a due date.

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#3128271 15-Sep-2023 18:37

Tinkerisk: Today, it's more a case of checking the progress of the project more and more often until it gets better.

The more important a project is the more meetings will occur towards the end of the project. Project work must be scoped with respect to the number of project end meetings within the project timeline.

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#3128273 15-Sep-2023 18:51

gzt:
Tinkerisk: Today, it's more a case of checking the progress of the project more and more often until it gets better.

The more important a project is the more meetings will occur towards the end of the project. Project work must be scoped with respect to the number of project end meetings within the project timeline.

Once I was involved in a transnational project in which 10 Spaniards, 25 French, 3 English and 1 German had exactly 2 meetings to bring it to a successful conclusion.

The Spanish project leader called my boss after the kick-off meeting to ask him if he was sure that only one man would be enough for such a huge project? My boss replied that he had sent his army of one and that all the issues were covered - except the financial one, which would otherwise not turn out well for them (because in my eyes they wasted far too many resources).

Then there was this second meeting 15 month later in Madrid - we had celebrated the successful completion of the project and they wanted to poach me even before the tapas were served (in the same company group).

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#3135757 28-Sep-2023 10:24

I am sad 100 people died. But why would anyone release fireworks inside a dance hall?

Iraq wedding fire: How the blaze unfolded - BBC News

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#3135765 28-Sep-2023 10:49

Maybe an attitude of it's just fireworks what can happen. Otherwise they'd be outside firing real weapons into the air.

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#3135766 28-Sep-2023 10:52

Bung: Maybe an attitude of it's just fireworks what can happen. Otherwise they'd be outside firing real weapons into the air.

That's fairly offensive.

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#3135767 28-Sep-2023 11:01

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Bung: Maybe an attitude of it's just fireworks what can happen. Otherwise they'd be outside firing real weapons into the air.

That's fairly offensive.

Why? It seems firing weapons is something common in Arab countries (and many other regions).

Celebratory gunfire - Wikipedia

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#3136135 28-Sep-2023 21:31

Bung: Maybe an attitude of it's just fireworks what can happen. Otherwise they'd be outside firing real weapons into the air.

… which is quite stupid because the bullets will come back … somehow.

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#3136140 28-Sep-2023 21:48

Bullets returning to ground from celebratory gunfire kill a few people a year in USA

New Scientist: According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, falling bullets can hit the ground at speeds greater than 61 metres per second (m/s). Bullets travelling between 46 and 61 m/s penetrate skin. Faster than this, and they can penetrate the skull.

Apparently, when a country achieves a critical mass of weapons, it's a disease.

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#3136302 29-Sep-2023 09:32

One of my cars will need two front tyres soon. I looked up the price of the oem Michelin Primacy 3 it has at the moment.

New Zealand:$745 each.

UK: equivalent of $400 each

How do they double in price just arriving here?!

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#3136430 29-Sep-2023 11:28

Low volumes. Few enough people buy those specific tires (brand, model, and 3x sizing numbers) that importing them is probably speculation - you hope that in the next 3-6 months someone will want them enough to pay a major premium to compensate for you thing up capital and warehouse space.

The alternative is probably getting them airfreighted from Aus for probably similar pricing, or buying something else. People buying tires are usually not content to weight a month for surface freight.

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#3136498 29-Sep-2023 12:33

Tinkerisk:

Bung: Maybe an attitude of it's just fireworks what can happen. Otherwise they'd be outside firing real weapons into the air.

… which is quite stupid because the bullets will come back … somehow.

Yes - sometimes gravity takes over and brings them back.

Sometimes I just sit and think. Other times I just sit.

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#3136505 29-Sep-2023 12:53

Background: I have a Withings Horizon watch using a quick-release Hirsch strap. I bought the watch strap at Capital Watch Services. I've used Capital Watch Services for all other watch-related services before (except for my Omega, which I send to Auckland).

I am thinking of replacing the strap on my watch, something with a different colour. So, being in the city today, I walked into their store and I started browsing watch straps.

I started spinning the display case (like the one below, photo from another online store), like I've done before. You can't remove the straps from the display case and that's fine as I just want to see colours and look at the back of the strap. I know the width I need (20 mm) so I went straight to that size to see what is available.

A lady approaches, asks if I am ok, and sure I am, no problem.

Ten seconds later a guy approaches. His first words are not a question. It's a comment: "This is not a browsing cabinet. You need to have a watch for us to see what's the size."

WTF?

I told him I have a watch, I know the size and I am browsing. And that now I am no longer interested. And then I walked away.

I will just buy online from HirschStraps.

No wonder some retail stores are closing down.

What an attitude.

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#3136522 29-Sep-2023 13:15

freitasm:

What an attitude.

What a d*ckhead. Put up an appropriate review on Google Maps.

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