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Just goes to show sometimes you can't teach old dogs new tricks
WTF? Just had a Microsoft Surface hub installed and my engineers are still using flip charts
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Hindsight
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There is something sensuous about the feel of a pen in hand and the physical contact with the paper that is just so much more than that screen and computer interface.
Barbarella springs to mind!!
http://www.criticalcommons.org/Members/ccManager/clips/barbarella-future-sex/view
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Surreal or what?
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Actually that last pic wasn't that surreal but this one is imo
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P.s. just realised this thread is wrong forum Muppet
In case you're wondering I'm having yet another training session with my engineers on how to operate the Surface Hub and we'll be here all weekend if necessary because this kit cost thousands and I don't want to see it go to waste
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P.s. just realised this thread is wrong forum Muppet
In case you're wondering I'm having yet another training session with my engineers on how to operate the Surface Hub and we'll be here all weekend if necessary because this kit cost thousands and I don't want to see it go to waste
From too much zeal for all things new,
and contempt for what is old
From putting science before art.
knowledge before wisdom,
and cleverness before common sense,
May the Good Lord deliver us.
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wtf? i fully got the context of the Barbarella clip that Hindsight posted, but this.... it all sounds a bit Puritan for want of a better word?
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Yeah, I read that post and had thoughts of Oliver Cromwell!
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If you've gotta ask you'll never understand.
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Actually that last pic wasn't that surreal but this one is imo
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P.s. just realised this thread is wrong forum Muppet
In case you're wondering I'm having yet another training session with my engineers on how to operate the Surface Hub and we'll be here all weekend if necessary because this kit cost thousands and I don't want to see it go to waste
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So you bought something without a clue as to how it works, in which case how do you know if it's going to be any good to you?
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of course I know how to operate it, from my posts it's quite clear it's my engineers who have not taken trouble to learn how to use it and instead are doing things the 'old school' way using the paper flip chart. Which would be fine if it's just an internal project but we're collaborating with engineers in other countries and emailing a photo of a rough sketch doesn't really work for me anymore
incidentally, I currently have 4 design engineers, two of them are permanent and have been working for Bomber UK for years so they know our designs inside out and how the company operates. Because we've got two huge projects on the go I've had to draft in two additional design engineers on temporary 3 month contracts. If these projects work out I'm hoping make some changes and have three permanent engineers reporting to one senior design engineer.
One of the engineers that is currently on a 3 month temporary contract is from Norfolk or Suffolk (they all sound the same to me) and it's quite clear from comments he's made whilst we've had the news on the big screen that he's a proper Gammon. He's been with us for about a month so in two month's time his contract will be finished and hopefully Bomber UK will be in a position to increase its team of Design Engineers from two to four, so this fella would normally be in pole position to take advantage of this potential opportunity.
NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS
In two months time I'm going to show him the door and I will even tell him to his face that his political views are not compatible with Bomber UK Ltd's core values of accepting all people in the workplace regardless of their race, gender, nationality or religion etc. The only religion we don't accept is Gammon. Best of all because he's on a temporary contract it's perfectly legal for me to do this. I would show him the door tomorrow but I actually need him because of the aforementioned projects, there's been some very late nights recently and it's all hands to the pump
and that's how it's going to be from now on and I won't be the only one. Employers like myself are going to be on the lookout for any faces they recognise participating in any Tommy Robinson rallies and the like.
Not just employees and temporary contractors, but suppliers as well. We produce equipment but we're not a fully-fledged manufacturer because we don't have a factory or any plant. We design our products and we're the end users as well, but we give our drawings to numerous other companies and tell them to build that sub assembly or circuit board whatever, to our specifications. We then contract another company to assemble all the components and sub assemblies to produce our finished product. If one of those companies screws up I simply say "f**k you, give me my drawings back, I'll get someone else to make this". Our Procurement dept constantly reviews our suppliers and sometimes I've had to make a decision to effectively kill a company by withdrawing our business. Usually it's because the company are in poor financial health and so I've had to finish them off with a bullet into the back of the head before they crash and burn and disrupt our Just In Time supply chain
Guess what? apart from the financials I will now be looking at the Directors of these companies, checking if they have any social media accounts retweeting UKIP and the like
I won't be the only doing this. People like you can rant off on message board forums but you can't actually affect anything, whereas people like myself, and there are thousands of us especially in London, we have the money, the people and the resources to f**k with your jobs, your careers, your companies, even your customers and your suppliers
have a good Sunday, I'm off to the point to point
that is all
- Bomber
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Oohhh a riddle....
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of course I know how to operate it, from my posts it's quite clear it's my engineers who have not taken trouble to learn how to use it and instead are doing things the 'old school' way using the paper flip chart. Which would be fine if it's just an internal project but we're collaborating with engineers in other countries and emailing a photo of a rough sketch doesn't really work for me anymore
incidentally, I currently have 4 design engineers, two of them are permanent and have been working for Bomber UK for years so they know our designs inside out and how the company operates. Because we've got two huge projects on the go I've had to draft in two additional design engineers on temporary 3 month contracts. If these projects work out I'm hoping make some changes and have three permanent engineers reporting to one senior design engineer.
One of the engineers that is currently on a 3 month temporary contract is from Norfolk or Suffolk (they all sound the same to me) and it's quite clear from comments he's made whilst we've had the news on the big screen that he's a proper Gammon. He's been with us for about a month so in two month's time his contract will be finished and hopefully Bomber UK will be in a position to increase its team of Design Engineers from two to four, so this fella would normally be in pole position to take advantage of this potential opportunity.
NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS
In two months time I'm going to show him the door and I will even tell him to his face that his political views are not compatible with Bomber UK Ltd's core values of accepting all people in the workplace regardless of their race, gender, nationality or religion etc. The only religion we don't accept is Gammon. Best of all because he's on a temporary contract it's perfectly legal for me to do this. I would show him the door tomorrow but I actually need him because of the aforementioned projects, there's been some very late nights recently and it's all hands to the pump
and that's how it's going to be from now on and I won't be the only one. Employers like myself are going to be on the lookout for any faces they recognise participating in any Tommy Robinson rallies and the like.
Not just employees and temporary contractors, but suppliers as well. We produce equipment but we're not a fully-fledged manufacturer because we don't have a factory or any plant. We design our products and we're the end users as well, but we give our drawings to numerous other companies and tell them to build that sub assembly or circuit board whatever, to our specifications. We then contract another company to assemble all the components and sub assemblies to produce our finished product. If one of those companies screws up I simply say "fudge you, give me my drawings back, I'll get someone else to make this". Our Procurement dept constantly reviews our suppliers and sometimes I've had to make a decision to effectively kill a company by withdrawing our business. Usually it's because the company are in poor financial health and so I've had to finish them off with a bullet into the back of the head before they crash and burn and disrupt our Just In Time supply chain
Guess what? apart from the financials I will now be looking at the Directors of these companies, checking if they have any social media accounts retweeting UKIP and the like
I won't be the only doing this. People like you can rant off on message board forums but you can't actually affect anything, whereas people like myself, and there are thousands of us especially in London, we have the money, the people and the resources to fudge with your jobs, your careers, your companies, even your customers and your suppliers
have a good Sunday, I'm off to the point to point
that is all
- Bomber
I was once talking to a senior executive of AGCO (they own Massey Ferguson, I presume you have at least heard of them) and his take on business in an uncertain world was that you just get on with it, meet adverse situations head on and adapt to new circumstances, not go whinging about how messed up your back yard is on a rather obscure forum. They would never once, not in a million years, make derogatory remarks about staff members in public or start threatening suppliers who may hold different political views.
As for the latter I know of one customer of an Austrian company which wrote to him to celebrate the shift to the right of that country's political spectrum. He was rather shocked by the letter and is now looking for a new supplier of that particular product. It works both ways.
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Not really, it is a maxim/quote that has been credited to various figures from the past as those with a reasonably broad knowledge of the world would know.
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It doesn't work both ways as far as Bomber UK is concerned, it only works one way as we can pick and choose our contractors and manufacturers at will the same way Sainsbury's can pick and choose their growers. And our clients are not Gammons who drive tractors but also London based large businesses that have national reach and they will stand with the Bomber and the kids every day of the week and twice on Sunday
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So they are not running businesses then, it's more a big club by the sound of it.
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