Planet Rugby Forum

Pat the Ex Mat

Compounding the issue is most of our team leaders are women with kids too, and it's a real nightmare trying to juggle all of that. Even if they are supposed to be in the office 3 days a week, as often as not they will have a sick child or childcare issues and end up working at home all week, or com...

Pat the Ex Mat

I think for experienced professionals, WFH is fine. My advice to juniors and anyone training juniors is to be in the office the majority of the time (so min 3 days). So much learning is incidental. Yep. Its also so hard to train people if they aren't around. Especially ones who are not so good at b...

Pat the Ex Mat

Hybrid - 3 days at work, 2 days wfh. I love it. I get a lot more done when I work from home, some of it even work-related. I agree with the comments about it being detrimental for people starting out in careers or new jobs, but for an old bastard like me who is busy counting his 17% super and time ...

Pat the Ex Mat

Suits are a uniform in a way - for a toff. We have a uniform and when I first started working in NZ I thought wearing a uniform was terrible, like being at school again, but now I love it, don't have to think about what to wear, don't have to buy "work" clothes, nice and easy. Don't get me wrong, I...

Pat the Ex Mat

The 1970s called Grandad! That line alone puts you in the grand-dad basket. Faaark knows how long ago I first read it and similar. Meanwhile and right now, dress codes are still a thing in some workplaces. [This is the bit where you say Ha ha just kidding or Get a better job] Some, yes. Nowhere I'd...

Pat the Ex Mat

My company offers hybrid working (2 days at home / three days a week in office ), although some people seem to have been able to negotiate 3 or 4 days at home. I don't do it, am in the office 5 days a week. I feel like it's opened so many cans of worms. Firstly, for the people who want to base them...

Pat the Ex Mat

100% from home. Don't think I've been in an in-person meeting for 4 years. And the 4 years before that I worked remotely while travelling around Europe and Asia. Couldn't work in an office now - after so many years, I just wouldn't be able to get used to holding my farts in again. Or belching in a ...

Pat the Ex Mat

I pity those of you who haven’t had the chance to watch her compelling commercials for the great state of South Dakota. https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/8abe0bb/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1059x652+97+0/resize/880x542!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F97%2F19...

Pat the Ex Mat

I pity those of you who haven’t had the chance to watch her compelling commercials for the great state of South Dakota. https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/8abe0bb/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1059x652+97+0/resize/880x542!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F97%2F19...

Pat the Ex Mat

Ted. wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2024 9:23 pm
Pat the Ex Mat wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2024 7:39 am
I guess Wellywood room temperature IS Cellar temperature
Right now, of an evening, we have to leave our brew next to the fire to come up to temperature.

It's damp up here - not cold, but feels it

My new local has Black Lager on tap which works

Pat the Ex Mat

towny wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2024 10:49 am
You’re arguing with someone that appears to be an expert, but no worries.

THIS is PR!

Pat the Ex Mat

grievous wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2024 10:48 am
OK Poindexter but they have also clamped down hard on company debt. Just refer to the construction companies going bust, 1300 since Covid.

More importantly, they are going after Breweries that are closing at about 2 a week

C'mon Albo, you said you'd help!

Pat the Ex Mat

Ted. wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2024 7:01 am

Well you might put it on the stove in some misguided attempt to coddle your tonsils, but civilised folk don't need to do that shit.

I guess Wellywood room temperature IS Cellar temperature

Pat the Ex Mat

This should of been held off until the held of the season, hideous when people are still putting in 100% every week. Not that RA would care. Yeah, very odd decision I think it comes down to creditors wanting to get more than 15c on the dollar back. If they liquidate a number of creditors will do be...

Pat the Ex Mat

grievous wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2024 4:12 am This should of been held off until the held of the season, hideous when people are still putting in 100% every week.
Not that RA would care.

Yeah, very odd decision

Pat the Ex Mat

hermie wrote: ↑Thu May 02, 2024 2:22 pm Although Phillo redeems himself (as he usually does) with
Searchlight on my trail
Tonight's the night all systems fail
Hey you good lookin' female
Come here!

In fairness, he does tell them to not be around

Pat the Ex Mat

Room temperature beer/ale is confirmed by boffins as being a shit way to imbibe one's tipple of choice. We all knew that anyway, but some people are innately bone headed and dogmatic with a tendency to haughtiness. Properly chilled beer / ale offers a more refined experience that may be beyond the ...

Pat the Ex Mat

99% from home

Having said that, few jobs here are advertised as such - it's usually Hybrid and then your boss gives you the wink

Pat the Ex Mat

happytramp wrote: ↑Thu May 02, 2024 7:37 pm Georgians using the power of rugby to stick to their Russian simping overlords.

https://www.reddit.com/r/rugbyunion/com ... he_riot/

Love this!

Pat the Ex Mat

You know what is laughable... Oh sure. If we assume that covid would have carried on like every other pandemic, at the same trajectory forever without any peaks, and variants would never have become weaker , then I guess we might maybe get to 10s of millions saved by them wonderful vaccines. Hell, ...

Pat the Ex Mat

Duff Paddy wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2024 5:36 am A nice evening stroll about Balham?

I've drunk with BS, he may indeed want to get hammered.....

Pat the Ex Mat

Pearl Jam - Ten. Great songs ruined by the mix, which was so unprofessional . Reverber spreaded casually all over, guitar lacking grit and edge, delay abuse on Eddie, drum sounding like a meek has been placed somewhere in a room to pick it up, like in a demo. If you switch from Ten to Vs, song by s...

Pat the Ex Mat

ROLDY wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 6:00 am
Thomas wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 5:48 am Do we get a public holiday if the bloke carks it?
I hope so. Let’s roll this weekend on a bit longer!

The only real reason to keep Australia as a dependency of the crown shirley?

Pat the Ex Mat

:shock: Mr Grin, what has brought you out of the woods? I missed some of you lot. The last couple of years haven't been that great for me really, the wife decided 30 years married was quite enough for her and left, then my pug Lemmy got run over and as these things tend to happen in threes, a coupl...

Pat the Ex Mat

Just to add re you comments Terangi48, It worries me that there seems to be a push to socialise costs and responsibilities in relation to business activities. What ever happened to user pays but more importantly, operators being responsible and being held accountable for their actions? Is the order...

Pat the Ex Mat

Least of all him! He'll call you stupid! Re picking individual funds, it was hilarious "Picking" Lithium stocks over the last few years. I have a small SuperHero account I play invest in (I'm an avowed ETF fan). Not good this year! :shock: :o :lol: I posted my reply above without reading this, and ...

Pat the Ex Mat

Tangentially related - but this conversation reminded me of 'felix Von luckner' who during WW1 took a three masted sailing ship to war in a time of Dreadnaughts... He also gave rise to one of the most colourful Wikipedia pages I've ever stumbled across. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_von_Luckn...

Pat the Ex Mat

In terms of investing, I tend to stay away from trying to pick stocks. I’m very cynical on public markets and what information is disclosed to the average punter. My brother is a partner at a long/short equity hedge fund and he’ll happily admit (after a couple of beers of course) that no one really...

Pat the Ex Mat

Yeah, we wouldn't nearly be approaching those numbers, two or three maybe. But we are in Welly (Lower Hutt to be precise), so generally no shortage of wind and not alot obstructing air-flow on the valley floor. Our building is also a little higher than the surrounding houses. The turbines would be ...

Pat the Ex Mat

f**ked the NCR stuff up. My only genuine complaint. The NCR are my favourite Fallout faction. Just seemed lazy, like they weren't arsed dealing with anything that wasn't fallout 4 raider stuff. Got to remember they weren't guaranteed season 2 - they have to make a changes to generate enough demand ...

Pat the Ex Mat

ROP? Rings Of Power, LOTR. Oh right. Video game nerds probably have much lower expectations, tbf. Other than the Last of Us live action game adaptations have been total dogshit since forever. You clearly haven't seen the response to HALO! TBF, I'm a huge Halo fan and don't mind what they did - they...

Pat the Ex Mat

In terms of investing, I tend to stay away from trying to pick stocks. I’m very cynical on public markets and what information is disclosed to the average punter. My brother is a partner at a long/short equity hedge fund and he’ll happily admit (after a couple of beers of course) that no one really...

Pat the Ex Mat

I played Fallout 3 a long time ago. Very enjoyable game with a surprisingly good ending. I've watched 1.5 episodes of the new show. It's not bad. As usual it's woke but what isn't. I think some of the violence is over the top also. The visuals are very impressive. Give yourself an uppercut mate :lol:

Pat the Ex Mat

Not sure how they managed to do it but the Ukrainians shot down a Tu-22M3 strategic bomber near Stavropol. https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1781178675045552537?t=gNF_kcGbfh0AVvHO_BaEow&s=19 I am amazed at the slow pace at which the plane is falling, almost like a leaf in the ait. Do these ...

Pat the Ex Mat

And I've been looking at domestic/small commercial wind turbines. From what I've heard the main reason domestic turbines haven't taken off is the much lower wind speed at the height small turbines can reach. Utilities install 100m turbines for that reason as well as or enonomies of scale. Solar OTO...

Pat the Ex Mat

shanky wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 1:39 am In NSW, the poles and wires are government owned

Good to know - we're still getting bummed on charges

Pat the Ex Mat

Kiwias wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 1:07 am Discharged from hospital yesterday and told to be a good boy and stay at home doing SFA for the next two weeks.

Bloody hell it is lovely to be back home.

Great news!

Pat the Ex Mat

Yeah, we have a gigantic system that maxes out when it's sunny. Farken hate having to pay the $1.30 supply charge each day. Have you costed out a battery? Yeah, I have. Have been told by a mate in the know to wait until the State Govt brings in a rebate for it or some shit. If I had a battery....ho...

Pat the Ex Mat

Binged 6 yesterday - it's excellent

Shows the useless ROP Showrunners how to create something new whilst using the source material correctly.

10/10 watching the rest today and season 2.

Pat the Ex Mat

The Goldmine continues: A portly local man who gets his barber to trim his dense facial hair into a cropped beard has become the butt of many jokes this week. The fact that his mates are also tier-1 smart arses does not help things for 30-year-old Jacob Webcke, a Betoota-based office worker. As some...

Search found 10387 matches