Scootray Posted May 25, 2011 Report Share Posted May 25, 2011 And take tea breaks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted May 25, 2011 Report Share Posted May 25, 2011 I love working for the council. The people who make decisions are fucking lunatics though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TR!ΔNGL€ T€€TH Posted May 25, 2011 Report Share Posted May 25, 2011 most council staff do fuck all anyway except moan about working for the council.Replace "council" with "any job" and that's been my experience of dealing with colleagues in my working life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Le Stu Posted May 25, 2011 Report Share Posted May 25, 2011 I like how clean it is now. I assume they gave it some kind of industrial steam clean that makes it look like every single piece of masonry was replaced, rather than actually having replaced every single piece of masonry.some might say it's lost its gothic charm though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted May 26, 2011 Report Share Posted May 26, 2011 It looks like a right mismatch since they're not touching that building that's connected to the side, which is still dirty and aged. It's a small bit of building. They could have at least given it a rinse for consistency. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaaakkkeee Posted May 26, 2011 Report Share Posted May 26, 2011 Gimme 20 and bus fares hame and I'll pop round with a pressure washer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Easy Wishes Posted May 26, 2011 Report Share Posted May 26, 2011 And take tea breaks.And leave bang on 5pm without fail, mid phone call or sentence or whatever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaaakkkeee Posted May 26, 2011 Report Share Posted May 26, 2011 And leave bang on 5pm without fail, mid phone call or sentence or whatever.Unless it's friday. Then it's any time between 12 and 5. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Easy Wishes Posted May 26, 2011 Report Share Posted May 26, 2011 Stereotypes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaaakkkeee Posted May 26, 2011 Report Share Posted May 26, 2011 No I'm not making steorotypes 'cause I know people who work for the council and I have friends that work for the council. I'm not Raci-- wait, no, I mean I'm not making stereotypes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted May 26, 2011 Report Share Posted May 26, 2011 Flexitime. Most just sod off home whenever they want, and chalk it up as flexi. I don't see many of them working longer another day to make up for it either. I'm just bitter because I'm not on flexitime.Rabble rabble rabble! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stroopy121 Posted May 26, 2011 Report Share Posted May 26, 2011 Can't you ask to be put on to flexi? Or is it only for certain roles?The wife has just put in an application to work at the council actually.Team leader of some sort, or something.xxEDIT: You don't happen to work in HR do you, Joe? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TR!ΔNGL€ T€€TH Posted May 26, 2011 Report Share Posted May 26, 2011 It looks like a right mismatch since they're not touching that building that's connected to the side, which is still dirty and aged. It's a small bit of building. They could have at least given it a rinse for consistency.Well, I was told this was due to the Church of Scotland owning the church attached to the college. The council requested that they sand blast the church, but the church told them that they could stick it up their arses as it'll look shit (paraphrasing here). Apparently the council has now imposed an ASBO on the Church of Scotland in an attempt to get them to agree to cleaning the church up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted May 26, 2011 Report Share Posted May 26, 2011 I wish you weren't paraphrasing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Le Stu Posted May 26, 2011 Report Share Posted May 26, 2011 seems far too easy to beat up on council workers with the usual stereotypes. I prefer to remind them that they chose the employer of last result for those disadvantaged by slight mental/physical problems.And they still need a union lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest B. Arthur Posted May 26, 2011 Report Share Posted May 26, 2011 Well, I was told this was due to the Church of Scotland owning the church attached to the college. The council requested that they sand blast the church, but the church told them that they could stick it up their arses as it'll look shit (paraphrasing here). Apparently the council has now imposed an ASBO on the Church of Scotland in an attempt to get them to agree to cleaning the church up.I believe the Church part is actually for sale, so until someone buys it and agrees to it being the same finish as the rest of the College, it's gonna look stupid and out-of-place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest E.C Posted June 14, 2011 Report Share Posted June 14, 2011 I hear the first wave of people moving in is happening/has happened? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted June 15, 2011 Report Share Posted June 15, 2011 Yeah. HR moved in on Monday. They are the only ones in so far. Marischal College was meant to be for the most customer facing departments within the council due to the new state of the art customer service hub, yet the first two departments to move in are HR are Finance. The two most non-customer facing departments in the council. We're getting shunted to the decrepit Crown House in August. That place is falling apart more than St Nicks. Pointless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest E.C Posted June 15, 2011 Report Share Posted June 15, 2011 Job's a job...recession...etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Jack Posted June 15, 2011 Report Share Posted June 15, 2011 One of the worst things to happen to mankind in general was the invention of the 'Human Resources' department. Hell's Representatives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre Von Mondragon Posted June 15, 2011 Report Share Posted June 15, 2011 Human Resources sounds sinister, like people harvesting does, digging up fresh souls from the anthroposphere. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gladstone Posted June 15, 2011 Report Share Posted June 15, 2011 HR - jobs for people who couldn't get a job.A bit like recruitment agencies. A made up job for someone who couldn't find a job somewhere else. It's genius really. There is an incredible amount of money in recruitment. The bastards.EDIT: I just remembered saying something to my Mum about "HR" the other day and she didn't know what HR meant. She's never worked anywhere that has an HR department - fucking bliss. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Le Stu Posted June 15, 2011 Report Share Posted June 15, 2011 Human Resources sounds sinister, like people harvesting does, digging up fresh souls from the anthroposphere.indeed and I've heard that they're bigger and badder and rougher and tougher, in other words sucka there is no other.They also want to kiss themselves. o_O Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre Von Mondragon Posted June 16, 2011 Report Share Posted June 16, 2011 Word.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paime Posted June 16, 2011 Report Share Posted June 16, 2011 With regards to St Nic House, a chartered surveyor told me a couple of years ago that places like St Nic House were going to have to be taken down because the cost of making them compliant with energy efficiency regulations - Energy Performance Certificates and all that bollocks - would be more than to simply rip them down.For example, the space between each floor isn't big enough to install the necessary insulation to make it compliant. If you put the insulation in, the ceilings won't be high enough for some other health and safety bullshit. The windows all let out far too much heat etc etc. Basically, to make it comply, you'd pretty much have to take out everything inside it and build it again from the inside out, replace all the windows etc etc so it becomes so enormously expensive that it would just be cheaper to flatten it.Now - I assume that Marischal College wasn't exactly energy efficient, so all that stuff would have had to happen there, but then it was a complete shell when they started working on it this time around - and it looks a shite sight better than St Nic House.(How much of that is true, I have no idea)It's not really about being compliant - the vast majority of buildings in Aberdeen have fairly shit EPC ratings. Occupiers these days like raised floor access, comfort cooling and suspended acoustic tiled ceilings with recessed fluorescent lighting. The floor to ceiling height in St Nick's house is too small to retro-fit these sorts of things so the building becomes redundant.It's the cost of borrowing and a lack of available funding that's disrupting plans to redevelop just now, not the cost of demolition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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