I hate

herpangina

Sorest f&@king throat ever

Had to check that this wasn't somebody's terrible idea for the name of a fizzy drink.

No, no, no. Herp is a contraction of herpetology, the study of amphibia and angina is self-explanatory. Thus, herpangina is a frog with angina in the throat. Hope that helps...

“See it, say it, [sort it / sorted]”

The recommended cooking time on oven chips.

This came up a while back also
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/128276/?offset=17875#comment16298194

I've always figured my oven is shit, which it is, but they need a good half hour minimum.

I like to join in with…
“sex dwarf!”
“sausage!”
…

I am currently hating people who don’t work at a proverbial coal face routinely taking “toil”

I get it if you are a clinician or fireman or someone who can’t just down tools when the working day ends. I don’t get it if you have a cushy number that requires you to do a couple of extra hours in the week.
I’m looking at fuckers who clock off at half 4 having started at 9 claiming toil because they ate at their desks.

Pro tip: if you look at someone’s calendar and they have toil mapped in regularly, you are going to be dealing with an unreasonable fuckonaut

Pro tip: if you look at someone’s calendar and they have toil mapped in regularly, you are going to be dealing with an unreasonable fuckonaut

Or someone whose manager(s) are. Ask me how I know.

You’d do extra work for no recompense? Been there, fuck that shit.

If, in my mainly non coal face life, I do extra hours it’s TOIL (at time and a half) all the way.

Exactly. Rinse that shit for alllll it's worth

I worked for a company years back who changed overtime pay for TOIL (which had to be taken within a month). Somewhat unsurprisingly, the only overtime that was worked was when people needed holidays, not when projects or work needed extra hours.

Incorrect use of prefix 'none' where 'non' should be used.

Examples,

The car was none compliant so it failed its MOT
The mat is none slip so is safe for elderly relatives

Cockroaches. Absolutely no need for them. Definitely no need for one hiding in my colleague's cup of tea in the office this morning.

Not your cup of tea?

I don’t get it. Should people do work for free, or is it specifically being recompensed with time off instead of pay?

Fuck working for free. If there’s something that absolutely can’t be put down and finished later, it’s important enough for the company to pay for.

Depends if you consider a day off as working for free. I never minded an occasional day of TOIL but every month is bullshit.

See also - traveling for work on your own time. I've had bosses who were surprised if they had me travel on a weekend or bank holiday and I claimed TOIL for those days

Feel like I’m missing something. Someone works extra hours on their day. Then they take those hours off a different day. That’s bullshit?
I’d they’re having to do that every month, then there are departmental workflow or staffing issues.

Usually TOIL (when I've worked it) has been something like 1.5x so if a specific project needs a couple of days extra work over a week to get it done, I've done it and got 3 days back in return. Even 1x is not bad if you do it every now and then but I know people who are doing it regularly.

The problem is if, as an employer, you're regularly having your teams do overtime for TOIL, you're stuck in a death spiral. The team have to take the time off so they're not working so they need to work more overtime to keep up. My last UK employer only did paid overtime for that specific reason.

We sometimes have to do Saturday stuff, which is when we're offered TOIL. Some depts have to do more Saturdays sure to the nature of their work (open days etc). It's 1x so effectively it's just organising when you need to do your hours. No big deal.

Bunches of flowers. A one-click-delivery of insincerity and waste.

Yeah never got that. Flowers are nice, but in the ground alive.

I just stop the issue at source. I work my hours maybe a little more for an equal amount of flexibility the other way.
If it’s a regular requirement then that needs to be managed upwards.
The key word being “routinely”

I’m currently working with people that are basically gaming a system to the point where it’s nearly impossible to meet deadlines because we don’t have their input, because they take toil because they are regularly working over their hours because they are slow at their jobs.

Bunches of flowers. A one-click-delivery of insincerity and waste

but a "cheat code" to be deployed wisely if your partner likes them