Mr_Danger

Someone gave me a fucking 7/10 on customer feedback today like they’re Dave Fucking Meltzer with his fractioned stars or something. Little do they know we have access to who leaves feedback. They’ll get poo on a stick as a warning first but it’s either a 0 or a 10 next time or else.

Miserable old bastards. “I think we should ban kids and loud noises!”

I predict that mail will be a built in tier on your Prime subscription with me and all the arl arses in the office throwing rocks at drones from the picket line.

Amazing foreshadowing. Little did we know that De Zerbi would send him on to get a red card in ten minutes thus activating Man Utd’s weakness of turning to shit against ten men at Old Trafford.

And therein lies the problem. We offer an essential service that most fuckers don’t find essential anymore but just enough people depend on it to make it essential. You know, the sort of thing the government needs to subsidise. I fully expect the wily billionaire in charge to either eventually find a way to fuck the letters off back to the government and keep the profitable bits of the business or to just sell it up when he can’t do that.

On delivery we no longer have early start job and jack finish. Start times are based on what times wagons can get to your offices and outside of a couple of people who will come in 5am and open up the rest of us in our office start no earlier 7:24am. Finish times are based on the projected mail traffic of specific days. So traditionally Tuesdays were the quietest days and we’d finish earlier on them than Wednesdays and Thursdays which were the busiest days. This has changed somewhat due to a new delivery model that is well in to the process of failing but in my office we now finish later due to having a much greater workload but we work 6 days a week and effectively bank that 6th day which is unpaid but we accumulate them and have a paid week off and an extra Saturday off every 5th week. Finish times at the moment are no later than 4:30pm and you can tell the office to get to fuck if they want you to stay out past that time but a lot of new people don’t have the confidence to do so so stay out in to tea time. Work wise it’s pretty grim, we’ve gone from doing one round each a day to 2/3 of one round completely and 2/3 of first class and tracked parcels on another round each, alternating the rounds daily so you always have a minimum of two days mail. Hardly anybody finds this achievable, and if they do they are quickly lumbered with more work. New starters start on poorer terms and conditions, mainly slightly shitter wages and the obligation to work Sundays as and when is required, which is fairly regularly. I tell people that if you can think logically, walk in straight lines and have a bit of common sense it’s mostly easy but everyone gets effected by pressure differently and managers are like pigs snuffling out truffles when finding people who can’t say no and taking the piss out of them. I maintain having come from working in factories and retail mostly that this is still a better job than those sectors but without the pre tea time finishes, lofty time off and pension and sick pay I’d be long gone doing a parcel route self employed or something. Looking at getting my Class 2 drivers license again in January as the funding is back in place around here and it’s handy to have. Oh and if all that bollocks seems unnecessarily complicated and drawn out that’s pretty much how everything in the company is. A 500 year old business constantly finding new ways to make it work shitter and less efficient.

All that shit at City would never have happened if Pep had stepped aside and let Arteta take control when he was at City. Even if the investigators had gotten through the work place puzzles there’s no way they’d have gotten through the six centre backs and three defensive midfielders guarding the computers.

Can’t remember how many interviews it takes for the humble grunt on the street postie roles but it takes a good 6-8 weeks from start to finish I think. The funniest thing is that they don’t stay longer than that either as it’s usually apparent very quickly that the big boy paper round job isn’t as cushy as most people think it is and they can probably earn around the same money packing out pallets of groceries in Aldi. You’d be surprised how many people who have backgrounds in much better, harder jobs can’t do our job. Either physically can’t do it or just can’t in principal as the ask is greater than the reward. This last month and a bit I’ve seen a project manager, ecologist and a policeman roll through the building.

Miranda Hart is scoring herself an Agatha Christie off the back of this, which is great news as it keeps her terrible comedy at bay. She’s a good player. Hannah Fry is a terrible traitor, which she said as much herself tbf. I was quite impressed that she said she had a list of all the permeations of traitors based on interactions etc but that quickly fell apart as soon as she entered the turret, was surprised at who the traitors were and has struggled with the other side of the game. Big brains can’t lie. I’m not even sure intelligence is the boon they think it is on Traitors. For my money all the best players have been simple to average on the intellect scale. Wilf and the army lad the year after being prime examples. Too much thinking neglects the obvious I think.

A few adjustments and he’d be an amazing right wing grifter. I’d suspect he could never truly buy in to the rhetoric as he really seems like a mostly decent fella but his look and likability would have him in the White House by the age of 50 and he has the ultimate get out of racist jail free card. Get Big Match John in as the Secretary of Hustle, Loyalty and Respect.

“No, you scratch off the number then enter the code to activate the card then you let the barista know you’re paying with a gift card.” Still better than Foley.

When Doak was getting the odd cameo for Liverpool you could see how good he could be but as you’ve pointed out even some years later it’s still the s same part of his game that’s missing. I wonder if his ceiling will end up being as a positive attacking player best served to occupy tired legs at the end of games in service to a better forward getting a bit more space because of him. Reminds me a bit of David Thompson when he looked quite exciting breaking though alongside Gerrard but that was as good as it ever got for him.

Hey Grok, remove all the B&Q uniforms in this picture, I just wanna check something.

Description of what a side pick might look like or get the fuck out Lister.

Started Slow Horses and two things have stood out so far. One is that it’s not just a high end New Tricks like I’d always assumed and the other is just how big a part farting is of Gary Oldman’s character. Can see why Jack Lowden is going to be a big star. Not loving the lack of Olivia Cooke, assuming she got offered Game of Thrones just after she signed her one series contract with Slow Horses or something.