#jobsworths

[360degreesasthecrowflies]

I am absolutely about to SNAP today. Yesterday I started work, at my office desk, at 7.30 in the morning and finished at 3.30pm, a normal 8 hour work day. I left the house at 6.45am and was thinking about work really from 7, which I could have counted too if I wanted.

Having been informed when I started this job several months ago that our regular work hours run 7am-7pm and are fully flexible within that period.

Today I wake up to snippy email from my workstream manager that I didn't REQUEST to 'finish early' and that apparently now we have regular hours that I should be working (9-5) and I'm just over here like...

Do you actually think that you CONTROL me?

Are you really sitting over here trying to make POWER PLAYS over THE SPECIFIC HOURS WITHIN THE DAY that I do my work, given that the work in question is a list of pre-set tasks that I have a weekly amount of time to put towards that has already been signed off by people WELL ABOVE YOUR pay grade?

Sorry but I will not be 'requesting' anything of somebody who is not actually my BOSS and who is only a few years older than me and who I already do more work than in the company.

I didn't 'FINISH EARLY' if I STARTED working in the day 2 hours before you did...

Noting also that since I started this job where apparently the work hours are 9-5 Mon-Fri now I have already worked:

on a Sunday, for no extra pay, because she asked me to prepare something for her

into the evening beyond 5pm up to 6 to get something urgent finished

Up to 5.30 pm most days! So I've been doing extra have I?

You can shove that kind of passive aggressive email up your ass miss local government. What is WRONG with people that they get off on controlling others like this? Get a kink or a hobby and leave this out of the workplace please.

[deus-regina]

GeneRick and Jobsworth Rick are having an argument...

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[soniabigcheese]

Typical

Recycling day today. I try my best to separate everything

BUT

Our council have only supplied us with two tiny little boxes to recycle glass, metal tins/cans, paper/cardboard and plastics.

There is nothing else, so I HAVE to mix them up a little bit. So I use boxes for the cardboard and paper, and the rest, I've got to find a way of storing them safely

And now they left a box absolutely packed full of glass (6 at last count) bottles, and the rest were tins/drinks cans because these were 'mixed'

And to add insult to injury, next door have a wheelie bin which they mix everything up in.

Not only that, I enquired about getting an extra box and was told we had to pay for it as we 'don't qualify'

Next time, the bottles will be in a bag or a sopping wet box. Let's see how they figure that one out.

They're definitely lazy, as the last recycling, I noticed loads of plastic bottles strewn around the street, where they'd been dropped and these fellas couldn't be arsed to pick them up.

[eurofox]

Some dog owners need to get it through their skulls that not everyone likes dogs, and they especially don't want to be around them while their eating.

[ohbutwheresyourheart]

10am on Monday morning and I'm already up to four bouts of yelling at my laptop and two instances of screaming into a pillow

[davidhencke]

Disciplined: The Adelaide train driver who said he locked disabled people on a train if they used the wrong carriage

Our visit to Australia using a wheelchair to get around six big cities has been a heart warming experience. Visiting Darwin,Brisbane,Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth we found staff in museums and galleries and the Northern Territories Parliament extremely helpful. Pavements had dropped kerbs and public transport was disabled friendly with spaces for wheelchairs on trains. Margaret on the…

[chicknstripz]

That man ain't got the spoons to bleach his hair after dealing with Anakin 'imma commit a war crime' Skywalker all day long

[saintsenara]

have you any thoughts on percy/lucius, a.k.a percy taking the ultimate move to piss off his dad?

thank you very much for the ask, anon!

i absolutely believe that the ministry would demand the malfoys catalogued their entire estate so that most of it could be sold off for reparations after the war.

and i also believe that percy is exactly the sort of jobsworth [and one who owes kingsley a lot for not having him sent to prison for his collusion with the regime... molly's meatballs - behave! - really must have slapped] who'd end up being sent to do this.

being forced to spend hours on end shut in a room with an older man who's fallen from grace and yet remains unhumbled, who's constantly disputing your figures, who assures you that the dining table has far stronger legs that you're implying and can bend you over it in order to prove it...

hot.

[natalieironside]

It's actually good to be a jobsworth. If something isn't part of your job description, you shouldn't do it, and most things are more than your job is worth.

Personally I think ppl are only saddled with the epithet of jobsworth by customers and by upper management types who don't take "no" for an answer or "because that would be illegal and the SEC would get involved" for an explanation

[gallifreyinstituteforlearning]

So, uhm.

Who’s Borusa? Whats his deal with Rassilon?

Who is Borusa?

Borusa was a high-ranking and influential Time Lord on Gallifrey, having served as a tutor to the Doctor (and others like the Master and Romana) and held important positions such as Cardinal, Chancellor, and eventually Lord President. He was a staunch traditionalist and an authority figure who valued power, stability, and Gallifrey's traditions.

🎓 Borusa as the Doctor's Mentor

Back when the Doctor was a young scallywag at the Academy, Borusa was the strict teacher trying to keep him in line. He was all about tradition, rules, and Gallifreyan superiority. He wasn't a fan of the Doctor's rebellious nature and often gave him a hard time (even when the Doctor saved Gallifrey from the Master, Borusa only gave him a 'nine out of ten' for it).

💼 Borusa's Ambition and Fall

Though Borusa started out as a respected leader, his ambition ultimately led him down a dangerous path. Obsessed with Gallifreyan tradition and convinced that he alone should rule Gallifrey forever, Borusa sought immortality. He orchestrated a massive plot involving the Doctor's past selves, believing that gaining eternal life from Rassilon would solidify his rule.

Unfortunately for him, it was all a trap. Instead of ruling Gallifrey for eternity, Borusa was imprisoned as a statue in Rassilon's tomb—stuck in stone but still with a consciousness, which is quite possibly the most disturbing thing that's ever happened, like, ever, in anything, and I'm still having nightmares about it.

💥Final Chapter

The story doesn't end there, though. During the Last Great Time War, Rassilon freed Borusa from his stone prison, though had no intention of giving Borusa his freedom—he needed him as a tool for his own schemes. Borusa's mind and body were constantly regenerated to predict the best outcomes in the war, suffering through countless transformations. He was eventually freed from this misery by the War Doctor.

Funnily enough, Borusa, who had once sought immortality for personal glory, finally found peace in death—choosing to sacrifice himself.

🏫So ...

Borusa started out as a strict, by-the-book leader and mentor, but his ambition drove him to seek ultimate power, which led to his downfall. He was eventually tricked by Rassilon and trapped in eternal imprisonment as a cautionary tale about the dangers of unchecked ambition.

Related:

💬|👤👑Why is Rassilon everywhere?: Who Rassilon is and why he’s so important.

💬|👤🔥Who/What is Lord Burner?: Looking at the entirely fictional role of the entirely fictional Lord Burner.

💬|👤💂Who is Commander Maxil?: Looking at Gallifrey’s resident jobsworth.

Hope that helped! 😃

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[thethirdromana]

There have been Doctor Who episodes set at Heathrow and Doctor Who episodes set at Gatwick; how would you write a Doctor Who episode set at Stansed?

Ooh. So Stansted is (one of) the key airports for cheap flights. If you're travelling through Stansted you're disproportionately likely to be going for a week in the sun in Spain, or a long weekend in Eastern Europe.

So I think that situates it well in RTD's Who. I think the context is that whichever companion (Donna would work, as would Ruby) says to the Doctor that he's taken her to so many places, now it's her turn to show him how she relaxes, and there won't be any dratted alien menace or anything going wrong there.

(OK, I'm starting to see this very much as Donna.)

I think this has to be a bit of a comedy episode. Packing drama. Getting up super early. Arguing about who's going to drive - Donna says the airport is part of the experience and refuses to use the TARDIS.

Then they get to the airport and things immediately start to go wrong. The display screens are glitching, and loads of flights are being delayed or cancelled. The Doctor thinks there must be something wrong; Donna says that they paid £25 return on Ryanair and this is just what you have to expect.

As viewers, we get to see that it *is* aliens. Something gremlinish. They love chaos and high emotion. A fight breaks out in the departure hall, and the little train derails. "Still normal?" asks the Doctor. Donna concedes they should investigate. They eventually find the aliens, but not before more airport antics - a chase on luggage trolleys, aliens going round the baggage carousel, jobsworth passport control refusing to accept the psychic paper, that kind of thing.

Eventually they persuade the gremlin-aliens to leave the airport alone and attach themselves to an under 15s rugby tour, where there will be chaos and high emotion enough for anybody without the aliens even needing to do anything to provoke it. The Doctor and Donna make their flight in the nick of time, and we finish with them drinking cocktails by a pool.

[melrosing]

Something a bit less hatering, if only 'cause I'm curious on your thoughts about Jaime/Criston and the Kingsguard in HOTD/ASOIAF, because I do feel that Criston's general trajectory is interesting, especially in contrast to Jaime (& his probable decision to go fight the dead v. Mr Annihilation) and the whole tangled up in the Targaryen self-immolation of it all

(uh. Pardon the pun. Anyways love your rebellion SparkNotes and Braimeposting, it's always great to read)

I did actually like the note Criston's S2 arc ended on, my only criticism was that it felt like we didn't really see all the workings that got him between point A (absolute kg jobsworth) and B (craving annihilation). like yes he did look about him in horror as the dragons laid waste to his army but that might've worked better as the climax of a more built out arc (like how Aerys' wildfire plot is the thing that sends Jaime over the edge, but is ofc preceded by a gradual breaking down)

but still as I say I did like it bc I think the KG is a really interesting institution to interrogate and it makes sense that Jaime wouldn't be the first to do so. and I like the neat little parallels like Criston functionally joining the KG for Rhaenyra (as Jaime did for Cersei) and thinking becoming a KG will lift him up in society whereas functionally it only makes he and Rhaenyra an impossible match and he's surrendered all agency to the white cloak. so he tries to make the white cloak his whole life, and ends up more lost bc of it.

I think they differ though in that whilst Criston gives more and more of himself away to the KG (I feel like S2 ends with him just accepting that this is both his life and his death now, he will never be anything more), Jaime is starting to look beyond the KG. I've said before I think he will in fact be removed from it, and that that will mean he has to continue reckoning with what true knighthood must mean, if it didn't mean the KG. it's a much more hopeful story, and I think having this idea of Criston's even makes it more poignant, in that we can imagine there have been many men who have been swallowed by the cloak, and here's Jaime carving a new fate for himself.

also thanks!! love me braimeposting. love me sparknotes

[servants-hall]

[...]

The new season will see Mrs Hall taking on the role of being a blackout warden in the village – but it's a responsibility that Siegfried doesn't take too well to.

Chatting about that dynamic to Channel 5 ahead of the release of the new season, when asked how Siegfried's reacts to Mrs Hall's new job, West said: "Extremely badly. Selfishly and overstepping the mark, and in ways that an analyst would have a lot of fun dissecting, he doesn’t really understand why the village warden, Mr Bosworth, makes him so angry."

He continued: "I think Siegfried is caught up with ideas of protecting Mrs Hall and being angered by Bosworth’s jobsworthing. And he oversteps the mark in trying to protect somebody he would see as staff but also as a friend.

"And he’s slow to realise that, but then when he does – because of the sad loss of a dear animal companion and some detective work to find out how – all is right in the end, or nearly."

West added: "But Siegfried does feel slightly out of it, strangely at a loss when James is away, because the brother that I am related to isn’t there, and the son that I never had but do love enormously isn’t there either.

"And my friend and companion and housekeeper is away doing important stuff that I’m not being asked to do. And he slightly feels like a spare part at a wedding."

Revealing more about how Mrs Hall finds out about becoming a blackout warden, Madeley said: "Yes, in seeking something to do that she can contribute to the war effort beyond knitting, she goes to the community meeting and hears that they need wardens.

"This is basically the job of going around, making sure everyone's safe at night, and ensuring the blackout is being enforced. Because she knows the community well, she thinks that would be a good job for her."

And there's set to be a brand new character in the mix as well, as Mrs Hall meets Mr Bosworth.

Madeley revealed: "We meet a brilliant character called Mr Bosworth, played by Jeremy Swift, who’s an interesting fish - quite pedantic but also a lot of fun.

"He trains her up to be an ARP warden (Air Raid Protection), and they develop a really fun relationship. Bosworth is a very funny character, and it’s an unlikely friendship that evolves through that work. It’s a fun storyline for me."

[upsettingandunfortunateclasshate]

The hate for Starmer is serious. We've all been reminded of how much we hate blairite nomark jobsworth grasses law types middle management types etc who coldly tell you you're going to be sanctioned

From the posh boys to this

[olympain]

It's been fun because he's his own worst enemy and he's so conflicted. He is such a jobsworth and a wannabe superhero. He has these delusions of grandeur where he feels like everybody is failing before him.

[zeldaelmo]

Chapter eight - Odd Coincidences

Princess Zelda had not had enough after their excursion to the bar—he should have anticipated as much, no matter how many weeks in blissful ignorance he had spent in her presence afterward.

The elevator of one of the annexes of the castle became his trap yesterday when her fingers buried into the stiff fabric of his sleeve, her warmth oozing into his skin like a heating pad.

“I need you to change your shift,” she had whispered into his ear. “I’m going to Hateno tomorrow and I want you to come with me. The other jobsworths will only cause me trouble.”

Uh, ok. He had conquered the status of jobsworth and evolved to something better. Idiot probably, at least that was what he’d call himself. Nice. No, not nice. Bad! Very bad. He wasn't supposed to be anything for her.

Just before they stepped out of the elevator—back in perfect three-step-distance—he had learned that she planned to meet with a friend after the conference with Hyrule’s agriculturists that she attended. He was too relieved that she had explained her plans this time, so it was much easier to agree. He hadn’t wasted a second thought if that meant that she began to trust him, really trust him apart from the scene in the sub, either. A meeting with a friend, how could he deny her that?

https://archiveofourown.org/works/58009699/chapters/148809493