[Smile] What's something small that really makes you smile?

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#3206258 14-Mar-2024 10:27

Bung: If it's happening now (Easter) somebody in management missed their target of getting it done by Xmas 😕

Unless they didn't specify which year! 🙃

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#3206272 14-Mar-2024 11:01

floydbloke:

"If you’ve engaged with the recent post from <big cheese name> or the latest <business unit> hui, you’ll know some changes on the horizon have been announced for <business unit> to a evolve a more functionally orientated, centralised approach."

Don't worry, in a couple of years the federated model will gradually return because the centralised team isn't fulfilling the needs of the various business units... big cheese will need to re-centralise again in three years.

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#3206279 14-Mar-2024 11:09

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"Restructuring". Doesn't affect me personally and I shouldn't talk about details, but I'll just make the observation that it always seems that redundancies start from the bottom up when it should be the other way around. Very displeased 🤬🤬

I've pulled the above quote from the Annoy thread but decided to post in the Smile thread because this is the umpteenth restructure in my 40 odd year working life and I've basically stopped giving a ****, and the business jargon bollocks is what made me smile and cringe. This was part of an update email I received this morning:

"If you’ve engaged with the recent post from <big cheese name> or the latest <business unit> hui, you’ll know some changes on the horizon have been announced for <business unit> to a evolve a more functionally orientated, centralised approach."

Now called 'right sizing'.

Most of the posters in this thread are just like chimpanzees on MDMA, full of feelings of bonhomie, joy, and optimism. Fred99 8/4/21

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#3206352 14-Mar-2024 15:03

That my new driveway gate from Easygate (With all the fittings) in Tauranga has arrived safe and sound in Christchurch.

It is currently in my back yard.

Install guys are here tomorrow........yahoo.

Had one trespasser binned by the Police this week! (Trespass order already against him!)

Court date to come for the repeat offender who has multiple other trespass orders against him!

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#3206360 14-Mar-2024 15:37

msukiwi:

Had one trespasser binned by the Police this week! (Trespass order already against him!)

Court date to come for the repeat offender who has multiple other trespass orders against him!

Sounds like a story here...

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#3206413 14-Mar-2024 19:12

We stumped up the extra to fly premium eco back to NZ. The kids have never flown anything but eco before and more often than not we fly a budget carrier.

They are absolute thrilled by everything that is different like extra legroom, a footrest and getting a welcome glass of juice. It’s really neat.

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#3206458 14-Mar-2024 22:02

Handle9: We stumped up the extra to fly premium eco back to NZ. The kids have never flown anything but eco before and more often than not we fly a budget carrier.

They are absolute thrilled by everything that is different like extra legroom, a footrest and getting a welcome glass of juice. It’s really neat.

That's something that brings back memories for me. A year before we moved to NZ we took the kids, then aged 5 and 7 to Disneyworld, Fl for Christmas. (For those who haven't been it's theme park(s) the size of a small country). Christmas Day at the Magic Kingdom was very special.

It was Virgin Airways from LHR to Orlando (MCO for purists).

Virgin pioneered Premium Economy and both ways we were in the front 2 x 2 seats of the upper deck of a 747. The flights were a dream with the kids sitting on the floor with their drawing books between the seat and the bulkhead most of the time apart from when they got some very special kids meals - think kids food but done by great chefs.

It cost a lot of money but as part of the overall experience it was worth it and they remember those flights 20 years later.

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#3206517 15-Mar-2024 08:51

Handle9: We stumped up the extra to fly premium eco back to NZ. The kids have never flown anything but eco before and more often than not we fly a budget carrier.

They are absolute thrilled by everything that is different like extra legroom, a footrest and getting a welcome glass of juice. It’s really neat.

Kids just make you smile. They are so happy and grateful for little things that we cynical adults take for granted.

Have a safe trip back home.

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#3206558 15-Mar-2024 10:50

cddt:

floydbloke:

"If you’ve engaged with the recent post from <big cheese name> or the latest <business unit> hui, you’ll know some changes on the horizon have been announced for <business unit> to a evolve a more functionally orientated, centralised approach."

Don't worry, in a couple of years the federated model will gradually return because the centralised team isn't fulfilling the needs of the various business units... big cheese will need to re-centralise again in three years.

In about a year, head of <business unit>, who had promised that centralisation would be the answer to all of <big cheese>'s prayers, will move on with a glowing reference in their next step towards <big cheese> level. A new head of <business unit> will arrive and, after hiring of consultants and focus groups and other window dressing, declare that centralisation was a failed experiment that is now discredited and promise that federation will be the answer to all of <big cheese>'s prayers.

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#3206560 15-Mar-2024 10:51

elpenguino:

Now called 'right sizing'.

Because it sounds so much better than downsizing.

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#3206666 15-Mar-2024 13:26

New gate installed!

I'm really happy with it.

(Trespass nutter was locked up again for several hour last night too!)

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#3206670 15-Mar-2024 13:32

Sorry, what's the story with the trespasser @msukiwi?

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#3206728 15-Mar-2024 15:38

freitasm:
Sorry, what's the story with the trespasser @msukiwi?

Some kid who turns up after school each day demanding to be fed, claiming one of the rooms as his own, and generally acting like he lives there. Been doing it for years apparently.