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Re: The Official Pleasing Purchase Thread

Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2023 2:47 pm
by 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 :D

Re: The Official Pleasing Purchase Thread

Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2023 2:56 pm
by KungFooBob
Mr. Dazzle wrote: Wed Dec 13, 2023 2:47 pm 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 :D
You don't have you own corner office?

Shocking!

Re: The Official Pleasing Purchase Thread

Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2023 2:58 pm
by gremlin
Does 10 x 5l cans of white interior paint count as a pleasing purchase? :(

Re: The Official Pleasing Purchase Thread

Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2023 3:01 pm
by Mr. Dazzle
KungFooBob wrote: Wed Dec 13, 2023 2:56 pm
Mr. Dazzle wrote: Wed Dec 13, 2023 2:47 pm 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 :D
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.

Re: The Official Pleasing Purchase Thread

Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2023 3:10 pm
by Count Steer
Mr. Dazzle wrote: Wed Dec 13, 2023 3:01 pm
KungFooBob wrote: Wed Dec 13, 2023 2:56 pm
Mr. Dazzle wrote: Wed Dec 13, 2023 2:47 pm 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 :D
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. :D

Re: The Official Pleasing Purchase Thread

Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2023 3:27 pm
by Mr. Dazzle
Count Steer wrote: Wed Dec 13, 2023 3:10 pm
Mr. Dazzle wrote: Wed Dec 13, 2023 3:01 pm
KungFooBob wrote: Wed Dec 13, 2023 2:56 pm

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.

Re: The Official Pleasing Purchase Thread

Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2023 3:34 pm
by 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.

Re: The Official Pleasing Purchase Thread

Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2023 3:39 pm
by Count Steer
Mr. Dazzle wrote: Wed Dec 13, 2023 3:27 pm
Count Steer wrote: Wed Dec 13, 2023 3:10 pm
Mr. Dazzle wrote: Wed Dec 13, 2023 3:01 pm

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! :lol:

Re: The Official Pleasing Purchase Thread

Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2023 4:00 pm
by 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 :D

Re: The Official Pleasing Purchase Thread

Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2023 4:12 pm
by Count Steer
Mr. Dazzle wrote: Wed Dec 13, 2023 4:00 pm 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 :thumbup:

Re: The Official Pleasing Purchase Thread

Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2023 4:35 pm
by Rockburner
gremlin wrote: Wed Dec 13, 2023 2:58 pm 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?)

Re: The Official Pleasing Purchase Thread

Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2023 5:54 pm
by Yorick
Happy boy here :obscene-birdiedoublered:
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Re: The Official Pleasing Purchase Thread

Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2023 7:09 pm
by ChrisW
Yorick wrote: Tue Dec 26, 2023 5:54 pm Happy boy here :obscene-birdiedoublered:

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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 :thumbup:

Re: The Official Pleasing Purchase Thread

Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2024 6:25 pm
by MrLongbeard
The wife actually listened :o , so

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Re: The Official Pleasing Purchase Thread

Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2024 7:01 pm
by Rockburner
MrLongbeard wrote: Wed Jan 10, 2024 6:25 pm The wife actually listened :o , so

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Thems the oddest nipple clamps I've ever seen.

Re: The Official Pleasing Purchase Thread

Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2024 10:03 pm
by Taipan
MrLongbeard wrote: Wed Jan 10, 2024 6:25 pm The wife actually listened :o , so

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Wtf are they?

Re: The Official Pleasing Purchase Thread

Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2024 10:38 pm
by MrLongbeard
Taipan wrote: Wed Jan 10, 2024 10:03 pm
Wtf are they?
Fenn traps

Re: The Official Pleasing Purchase Thread

Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2024 9:23 am
by David
So you have a Fenn infestation?

Re: The Official Pleasing Purchase Thread

Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2024 1:43 pm
by 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. :D

(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. :( ).

Re: The Official Pleasing Purchase Thread

Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2024 1:53 pm
by MrLongbeard
David wrote: Thu Jan 11, 2024 9:23 am So you have a Fenn infestation?
Not for much longer
Count Steer wrote: Thu Jan 11, 2024 1:43 pm 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. :D
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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