SpursRiot2012

On 9/22/2018 at 7:42 PM, air_raid said:

Fucking Spurs, just came so close to the biggest Spursing-up for ages. The shite defending for the disallowed goal was bad enough but no way should that last sixty seconds have been as tense as they were. It's a scathing indictment of the team's propensity to wobble that a 2 goal lead on 85 still doesn't feel safe. There's some good stuff going forward but this win has to be followed up with three more points against Huddersfield or it's just papering over the cracks.

Me and the guy from the Turkish off licence on the corner often discuss Spurs. Last season, he was telling me that he didn't think Poch - while acknowledging the fact that he's brought us on hell of a lot - was the man to bring us silverware. I more or less dismissed him, although I had already at that point been wondering about his abilities to change games late on. That isn't just from a, "who can we bring on to change this?" perspective but more that, as manager, from the 60 or 70 or 80 minute mark, he needs to be in there getting the right instructions to the players. In any situation. If we're in front by two goals with 10 to play, it's up to the manager to give the team the impetus to finish the job. Likewise, if we find ourselves a goal behind with not long left. Plus, I've never been a fan of his substitutions. They often seem to be too little too late.

By no means am I saying I would want Poch gone but, given his relative youth as a manager in a top division, he still has things he needs to learn or adjust.

The evidence of the season so far leads me to stick by my earlier prediction that maintaining a top four position is imperative beyond anything else. If we don't win the FA Cup or whatever, and that causes some of our players to want out, fine. But from a purely football business standpoint, we need to be playing Champions League football in the new stadium (assuming we ever move in,).

I wish I was a fly on the wall during contract negotiations between Poch and Levy after Poch said the club needed to take chances. Surely he didn't mean the chance of spending zero during the window and risking our top four spot?

Is your veganism a health thing or more to do with animals?

So I guess it wasn't just me who just didn't like Telltale Games. It's not like I couldn't appreciate what they were trying to achieve but forn for me the linear progrssion and the idea I could never shake that I wasn't really playing a video game but more just following what Telltale laid out for me.

So my on again, off again relationship with my sales role came to a head this week when I found out that a coworker who does the exact same job I do was getting paid a fair emount more than I was.

I have been operating under basically a zero hours contract, although with a substantial day rate. The benefits on my side was the flexibility - I work one to three days a week - and the lack of notice period I would have to give to leave The downside was that I was on an essentially freelance day rate, I was not entitled to acurre holiday. Meaning, any time time I wanted to fuck off for two weeks on holiday meant zero pay.

In the last month or so, they hired an office manager who was aghast we at the level of record keeping within the company and is keen as hell to get us all to sign contacts that would include no compete clauses for 90 days or more meaning we couldn't go work somewhere doing similar role until that time had elapsed. Since I was working on a handshake agreement with my MD, I never signed any contract on my return to the company.

The office manager is keen to sign everyone down to contacts but that fact was I wasn't signing shit until my pay was on par with the aforementioned coworker. Also, I wanted holiday pay.

After a number of weeks going back and forth, it was agreed I would get a pay rise, holiday pay, the whole shebang.

Then, towards the end of the day, I was brought into a meeting and informed the "business change manager" (her duties were to make our CRM fit for purpose) had left or been forced out and I was asked to take over management duties for the CRM, but also still making sales calls a couple times a.week.

Thing is, the earlier discussions with my MD re: pay and holiday accrument, didn't mention anything about taking over CRM management for the entire company. Now I'm wondering if I should take my MD aside and say that given the extra responsibilities that entails, I shouldn't be asking for yet another bump in pay. Not a huge amount but I feel if I am going to be doing essentially two different jobs within the business, I should be compensated accordingly.

Was wondering if anyone had any advice on this. I secured a pay rise for my sales role on Tuesday but it wasn't until Tuesday evening that I was informed that the women they specifically hired "a 'Business Change consultant" had been unceremoniously turfed out. I know for a fact she was being paid, basic salary wise, more than almost all the sales sfaff.

We have a CRM strategy meeting booking between the MD, the head of BD and myself but would I be out of line, considering how quickly they've thrown the CRM my way, I should ask for a further rise in pay. That is my predicament

We do our weekly shop online, usually Tesco, sometimes Amazon Fresh. We get all our meat, veg, fruit, cereals, milk, all that stuff in the weekly shop. Then I usually hit the Turkish shop on the corner on the way home from work for some Pepsi Max Cherry and Haribo strawberry straws. We worked out that during a span of about two and a half months, we'd spent nearly £2,000 in the cornershop. No wonder they like us so much.

I don't really have any Xbox/PC gamer friends - and I don't even think Red Dead 2 will be on PC on release, anyway - so I really hope the bajillions of monies Rockstar made from GTA: Online hasn't made them put more effort into online than the actual single player.

2 hours ago, The British Bushwacker said:

I just remembered i'm friends with Victor on Facebook, not sure why as i've never met the bloke.

I used to be friends with him on Facebook. He was always up for a chat.

ITV night be even worse than Channel 4. I often wonder who actually watches ITV because apart from World Cup games, I don't believe I've watched anything on any ITV channels in years.

3 hours ago, Mr_Danger said:

It definitely has it's similarities. Middle class white American does crime with white trash side kick. It does have more focus on it's supporting cast though. I think the main young redneck fella is a talent. He put in a good turn in Super Dark Times. My main problem with Ozark is Jason Bateman. He's just a less likeable Michael Bluth in it.

It does have some similarities initially but, I feel, deviates quite quickly from them.

Just caught up with Bodyguard. I like it a lot, but I don't think it quite hits the heights that Line of Duty has. Which is fine, because now I'm going to re-watch Line of Duty again.

Just finished Ozark's second season on Netflix. I thought it was good. The show isn't without its issues but it is certainly one of my personal favourite series at the moment. If you haven't bothered with it, I recommend watching both seasons. I heard some people basically say it's a show trying to be Breaking Basz but it really isn't. The season two finale indicates that I'm sure there will be a third season, not to mention it is apparently one of Netflix most popular shows.

I wouldn't be surprised to see Big Brother continue on some other channel or platform as Endemol have expressed their disappointment at not being able to make a new deal with C5 and renewed planning permission for the Big Brother house in July.

He is also the voice of a sentient blob of green goo in The Orville.

I think Series 10 was the last series on Channel 4 that I watched properly. I was working nights at the time, living by myself, and used to get in around 7am and have a bite to eat (or possiby get pissed) which watching the previous nights episode of the Sree, Noirin, Marcus and Shiavash show. It was good fun. I remember the producers played Hungry Life The Wolf in for Marcus one night they were having a party and he was in a strop.

I have watched one or two regular seasons and a few Celebrity editions since the move to C5 - obviously the Jim Davidson year stands out there - but generally C5 couldn't recapture the magic that had already been kind of lost on C4. Having said that, I don't get at all why a show like Love Island - which to me seems like one Big Brother task writ large - can be so popualr and nobody being able to find a way to make Big Brother worthwhile again. I said this when C4 put the show out to pasture. They needed to go back to basics but carried on even further with the crazy tasks, swerves and everything else. Which is why in actuality I think Series 1 will always be my favourite. Watching the buildup and the payoff to Nick getting caught and his subsequent tearful exit via the back door was fantastic. And people *cared* about the fact that he had cheated on this TV show. I remember the tabloid front pages about it like it was yesterday.

29 minutes ago, PunkStep said:

Seeing as you spend part of your morning making dead-end cold calls to build up your stats, and the rest of the day browsing the internet, your MD would be a lunatic to trust you to work from home!

Eh, it's just how the game is played. I am one of the best closers there, and I don't need to make 100 calls a day to hit my targets or to generate high quality leads for our clients. But since the figures are public, and we often have new people starting, I have to set an example when it comes to stats and they will eventually work out for themselves - if they're any good - that those calls made stats are bullshit because once you've built a pipeline of warm leads, it's quite rare to *have* to make a whole bunch of cold calls to hit your targets each month.

2 hours ago, Loki said:

Work from home is king, lads.  If I start work before 10 am it's a good day.

I could easily work from home. B2B telephone sales isn't something you need to be chained to a desk at a specific location to accomplish in 2018. I can close meetings all day long on my mobile at home wearing nothing but my boxers. I would need access to our CRM, but that's all web based, so shouldn't be an issue.  But the MD is probably never going to go for that. I had an idea to pitch it to him by trying to find studies that show working from home at least some of the time might increase productivity and such like. Maybe I'll revisit that idea. He already pays me to write the company blog from home, and I get that done without needing constant supervision. I could do my three days I currently do in the office and then two days from home. As I'm typing this I am more and more thinking about how actually this might not be too hard a pitch at all...

I love Norm and was saddened by his comments but his explanations for his couple of faux pas lately seem to be pretty genuine, and I'd like to believe that they are. I'm not sure I entirely get what he's saying about Hardwick and #MeToo exactly, though.

My work day goes as so:

6:30am: alarm goes off

6:40am: drag myself into the kitchen, where if I've been clever the automatic coffee maker will have already finished making a pot of coffee. I drink that coffee, smoking on the balcony, checking the news, here and Reddit, usually, on my phone.

7am: head to the bathroom. Here, depending on how recently I've taken a dump, I may or may not take a dump. I then shower.

7:15 - 7:25am finish shower and get dressed.

7:30-7:40: moisturise and deal with my hair.

7:50 - 8am: catch the bus to work, usually listening to a podcast.

8:30: arrive at work, make a coffee and get my desk set for the day.

8:45am begin work.

9:30am: actually begin work, because nobody in the world wants a cold call at the best of times, let alone at 9:01am. So, I try to make about 20 quick cold calls that I know won't be answered just to keep my stats up for the day.

10am - 1pm: a mixture between smoke breaks, coffee, aimless internet browsing and calling back warm leads to try and close them.

1pm: lunch, usually in the local park, anything from a small pizza to a bacon sandwich.

2pm - 5:15pm: see 10am - 1pm.

6pm: arrive home, say hello to my girlfriend, who says she is going to make dinner for about 7pm, which I welcome because I, "really, actually want to get an early night tonight."

10pm: dinner is ready, and I've usually spent the last few hours watching shit on Netflix or whatever while eating shit and drinking Pepsi.

10:30pm: after dinner smoke and decaffeinated coffee.

11pm: go to sleep but actually fuck about on my phone or watch more shit on Netflix until I actually go to sleep around 1am, before dragging myself out of bed and into the kitchen less than six hours later.

I only work three days a week, however. So, as @PunkStep rightly figures, I usually don't get out of bed until lunchtime any other day.

Just now, Chest Rockwell said:

I started reading that and I was perplexed that you didn't shower in the morning. Then I saw you were cycling and I thought, oh that's ok he'll shower when he gets to work. And then I started scrolling faster just looking for and evidence that you clean yourself. I was horrified to see that you just have a bath in the evening.

You're disgusting and I'll never look at you the same.

 

I was thinking the same, except for me it's that if I don't shower before I go to work, I feel as though I haven't actually woken up until lunchtime.

I've even switched almost entirely to using my phone or my watch to pay for stuff on card or travel on the bus or tube. I still keep my card on me just in case, but Contactless is King in my book.

Dolph Ziggler is one of the top guys on Raw? Welp, there goes any interest I may have had in jumping back in now I have Sky Sports.

7 hours ago, Briefcase said:

I read earlier (admittedly on one of those news sites) that with FOX paying all this money for Smackdown that WWE will make Smackdown the flagship (A) show instead of Raw and will end up moving everyone around for it.

Not sure what to think of that? But hopefully it will be the kick up the arse WWE needs and may liven things up a little bit. WWE will be pushing hard for ratings but Raw has always been the flagship show so surely its high risk to throw all the eggs in one basket unless they do a clever angle where Triple H takes over Raw and gets NXT thrown into the mix to keep the hardcore fans happy.

They'd have to do something to freshen up Raw and make sure they don't piss of USA Network/NBCU because USA also just paid out the ass to keep Raw for another five years and I don't expect they'd be pleased to see all the big guns (such as they are in this day and age) move over to Smackdown and Raw becoming a 'B' show.

Sidenote: I really haven't watched much WWE since the second brand split (the first brand split also led to a long, long period of me not watching WWE, so I guess I don't like brand splits). Is Smackdown currently looked at like a 'B' show before the Fox move? I know historically it always ends up being the case, but as I recall the second brand split was supposed to have both shows be strong.

I've bought and spent probably thousands in Bitcoin over the years, but never actually invested in it. I'm pretty sure I have a wallet somewhere that may actually have 2-3 BTC in it but fucked if I can find the seed.

No, no. Spain is my adopted nation, England is where I was born and Ireland is where I'm going to gain citizenship simply for my own selfish benefit in order to remain an EU citizen. In fact, I very much doubt I will ever visit Ireland again in the rest of my life.

Also, neither of you answered my question.

I haven't watched any Nations League games as I'm away but are all the big teams taking it seriously or are these games just glorified friendlies or what?

1 minute ago, Keith Houchen said:

It's a double call back to be fair.  I've never played Shen Mue but I don't think it will be my kind of thing.  The idea of having a job in a video game seems a bit too much for me.  Now, excuse me while I go back to Elite Dangerous to complete my mission of delivering medical supplies to a planet with an outbreak.  They won't ship themselves.

I dipped back into Elite recently, even going so far as to buy a HOATS and voice controlled, third party AI software. It's so much more complex than when I was obsessed with the game during its period on Early Access on the Xbox that all the changes are a bit daunting to get to grips with.

I will - especially given I've bought special equipment for it - jump back into it and work out what i want to do. I'll be getting my Oculus involved too so it shouldz in theory become my main game again.