The all new Nick's adventures in Derby

[Steve]

Feck moi. Whirlwind day, three meetings 

Staff of about 40 of whom 35 are totty young ladies.
 

  a ready made herd for you to service then

[Nick]

It's insane

Loads of names to learn, two campuses to navigate (lost my own office today!), have to go in Saturday for 4 hours (but time and a half off in lieu), THREE one hour meetings today with professors with personality disorders, no time for lunch..........or even more than one coffee.

[Steve]

It's insane

Loads of names to learn, two campuses to navigate (lost my own office today!), have to go in Saturday for 4 hours (but time and a half off in lieu), THREE one hour meetings today with professors with personality disorders, no time for lunch..........or even more than one coffee.

You'll love it

How is the commute?

[Nick]

40 minutes if I leave at 7.20. May go earlier and leave earlier 

[Nick]

Meeting this chappy tomorrow!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05xnw9f

https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/business/derby-entrepreneur-ed-secure-investment-1191809

[Steve]

40 minutes if I leave at 7.20. May go earlier and leave earlier 

40 minutes isn't bad nowadays.  Thanks to the excellence that is British radio

Leaving early never works in my experience, you just hit the horror of the school mum drivers

[Nick]

40 minutes if I leave at 7.20. May go earlier and leave earlier 

40 minutes isn't bad nowadays.  Thanks to the excellence that is British radio

Leaving early never works in my experience, you just hit the horror of LL and Foggy in the Moke

 

[Barman]

40 minutes if I leave at 7.20. May go earlier and leave earlier 

40 minutes isn't bad nowadays.  Thanks to the excellence that is British radio

Leaving early never works in my experience, you just hit the horror of LL and Foggy in the Moke

 

 

[Nick]

4 more hours of "meetings" tomorrow 

And "HR" are sodding USELESS 

[Steve]

4 more hours of "meetings" tomorrow 

And "HR" are sodding USELESS 

It all went downhill for personnel depts worldwide when they started calling themselves HR.  Fucking pretentious term and too often led by fucking pretentious twats

[Nick]

Zackly!! This lot keep e mailing me and say they want to see me to welcome me on Day 1. Tomorrow is Day 3 

Will not answer any of my e mailed questions 

[Steve]

Zackly!! This lot keep e mailing me and say they want to see me to welcome me on Day 1. Tomorrow is Day 3 

Will not answer any of my e mailed questions 

We used to get idiots fresh from failing as HR managers at the likes of B&Q brought in to tell us how we had to be more strict with our engineers who were already working something like 10 hours unpaid overtime a week.

In ~30 years of managing people I can recall one HR manager that was worth the job title and amazingly she was an American. 

[Nick]

Zackly 

[Miss Demeanour]

Our HR is the epitome of useless !!!

They have basically been twindled away and team managers are now expected to 'absorb these functions. All policies etc  are online and any policy questions you have to ' log a request and fill our the appropriate form '  for the online robots to come back to you.

[Nick]