The Official Pleasing Purchase Thread

[Mr. Dazzle]

I sit next to an NVH (noise vibration harshness) specialist and behind an electromagnetic simulation specialist.

I suspect Hi-Fi nerds don't even touch the sides

[KungFooBob]

I sit next to an NVH (noise vibration harshness) specialist and behind an electromagnetic simulation specialist.

I suspect Hi-Fi nerds don't even touch the sides

You don't have you own corner office?

Shocking!

[gremlin]

Does 10 x 5l cans of white interior paint count as a pleasing purchase?

[Mr. Dazzle]

I sit next to an NVH (noise vibration harshness) specialist and behind an electromagnetic simulation specialist.

I suspect Hi-Fi nerds don't even touch the sides

You don't have you own corner office?

Shocking!

I don't even have my own desk.

It's like a submarine, only with fewer soviets and less bumming. Still some bumming of course, I'm not a total peasant.

[Count Steer]

I sit next to an NVH (noise vibration harshness) specialist and behind an electromagnetic simulation specialist.

I suspect Hi-Fi nerds don't even touch the sides

You don't have you own corner office?

Shocking!

I don't even have my own desk.

It's like a submarine, only with fewer soviets and less bumming. Still some bumming of course, I'm not a total peasant.

Are they still doing this 'hot desk' malarkey? With all these folk WFH I'm surprised people don't get their own floor never mind a corner office.

[Mr. Dazzle]

You don't have you own corner office?

Shocking!

I don't even have my own desk.

It's like a submarine, only with fewer soviets and less bumming. Still some bumming of course, I'm not a total peasant.

Are they still doing this 'hot desk' malarkey?

Got an add on in MS teams for desk booking and everything now!

Mrs. D's lot are bloody geniuses. They say everyone has to be in 2 days a week - fine - but they make the whole company come in on the same 2 days, thus necessitating an office big enough for everyone which sits empty 3 days out of 5.

[KungFooBob]

I'm sat, on my own, on a row of four desks... Which are back to back with another row of four desks... Which are empty.

So I guess I have eight desks.

[Count Steer]

I don't even have my own desk.

It's like a submarine, only with fewer soviets and less bumming. Still some bumming of course, I'm not a total peasant.

Are they still doing this 'hot desk' malarkey?

Got an add on in MS teams for desk booking and everything now!

Mrs. D's lot are bloody geniuses. They say everyone has to be in 2 days a week - fine - but they make the whole company come in on the same 2 days, thus necessitating an office big enough for everyone which sits empty 3 days out of 5.

I can see some sense in that, y'know conversations, interpersonal contact etc (I'm a Luddite, I don't think Teams etc is the same/as good), but you can see the day coming when another company or two take the other days. Heck if life is that flexible, add in Saturday and 3 companies get use of the place 2 days a week. Ooh! I've invented WeWork!

[Mr. Dazzle]

Yeah I'm all for collaboration, but I also have limited reason to collab with HR and Finance for example. We don't all need to be there at the office simultaneously.

At my company we're more than 2:1 on employees/desks. Mostly because we're all engineers and we like to optimise

[Count Steer]

Yeah I'm all for collaboration, but I also have limited reason to collab with HR and Finance for example. We don't all need to be there at the office simultaneously.

Well, they can turn the heating off for 5 days and won't need cleaners on those days etc. I'd assume they'd be lobbying for a reduction in business rates too. It's also useful 'optically' - it reminds people they work in a company not a department or even worse for themselves, which it must start to feel like if you WFH all the time.

It's a shame that WeWork was run by an, ahem,...strange character. The idea is

[Rockburner]

Does 10 x 5l cans of white interior paint count as a pleasing purchase?

Depends on who you're going to throw them at (corked, or uncorked?)

[Yorick]

Happy boy here

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[ChrisW]

Happy boy here

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We bought about 30 of these from Sainsbury's in January, they were marked down to 10p!

They don't go off, at least there's still a few of them left

[MrLongbeard]

The wife actually listened , so

[Rockburner]

The wife actually listened , so

Thems the oddest nipple clamps I've ever seen.

[Taipan]

The wife actually listened , so

Wtf are they?

[MrLongbeard]

Wtf are they?

Fenn traps

[David]

So you have a Fenn infestation?

[Count Steer]

I just bought a NOCO battery booster. If it's as good as the one the recovery chap had (if and when needed), I'll be happy. OTOH I may have just bought an expensive torch/phone charger.

(Went to Halfords. Oh deary me. 75%+ of it seems to be bicycles, GPS's, roof/boot racks, car pimping products and dash cams. It's not the place for spanner merchants like it used to be...don't think I even spotted a socket set. ).

[MrLongbeard]

So you have a Fenn infestation?

Not for much longer

I just bought a NOCO battery booster. If it's as good as the one the recovery chap had (if and when needed), I'll be happy. OTOH I may have just bought an expensive torch/phone charger.
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Got one, it's sat in the boot unloved and unused for 2 years, coming once a year to top of its charge