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Rough. Just like a soup in a pot we are what?
Bubbling hot!
Yes It’s been another scorcher of a day here in Sheffield. Unfortunately the air conditioning down in the ‘Dev Dungeon’ is struggling to cope.. I don’t know what it’s like on the other floors but downstairs it’s boiling… just like a soup in a pot? – quite…
We’re doing some research about the impact of the recession on the Yorkshire area, the number of people that have lost their jobs in 2009 and how people are using the Internet to save themselves some money.
If you are unfortunate enough to have been made unemployed in 2009 and live in the Yorkshire region then we’d love to be able to have a quick chat with you.
We’ll happily reward you for your time to thank you for your help .
If you’re interested in applying then please send me a PM (forum username chrisc) and I’ll get back to you straight away with more details.
If you’re not currently a Plusnet customer but would like to take part then please comment on the blog and I’ll get in touch.
Interesting news today that search engine Ask.com has decided to revert to its original name Ask Jeeves after just three years, following market research. I bet the same never happens to Norwich Union but stranger things have happened.
It’s been such a nice sunny day here in Sheffield that it’s not felt like a Monday. Spring definitely has sprung and with it our thoughts turn towards.. Well, let’s take a look at what has been occupying our minds today shall we, as we take our virtual stroll around Plusnet Towers. More…
It’s the end of another week but as usual I’m still here late on a Friday. Oh well at least the weekend is here.
Let’s start of first with Hayleigh from the prov team:
Hi Hayleigh here working on the prov team…
After what was supposed to be a short week the weekends finally here.
Most of us came back to work feeling refreshed after our Easter Break and a stone heavier for all the chocolate we ate.
It’s been another week of Tickets, Targets, Jabber, Arguments about Bread Cakes (or is that Batches?) (Ed: it’s cobs!) and Pool Competitions.
Of course every one of the Prov Temps thinks they have won especially Rob who now calls himself the Pool King (though strangely no one else does)
Don’t think it’s all fun and games though we do get some work done. We have been moving customers on to our 21CN trial and dealing with the influx of tickets from customers moving house and Migrating to PlusNet. We are also looking into more automation to help with the greater number of tickets.
It’s officially been a month now since we started working here and it’s been educational.
Next is Laura from HR:
Hello, here is how the week has looked in HR.
Barbs – Mon – Wed nice break went to see monsters and aliens and went to Chatsworth!
Thurs: Ciphr changes including some changer form and leaver form administration
Fri: Performance review stats and more ciphr changes
Amanda – Enjoyed the Easter break and went to BT in London on Weds for a HR meeting. Catching up on return from holidays, including designing the MDLP programme for the next module, a number of employee relations issues, resource planning and developing reward initiatives.
Jen – No monster and aliens for me this week…our employees aren’t that bad…
Mainly been dealing with recruitment this week, getting jobs advertised and contacting potential candidates, continued making updates to people’s holidays in CIPHR, also been researching rewards and benefits, been collating data to improve our HR reporting, plus of course, being on hand to let the swarms of visitors in and out of the building!
Laura – I have not spent that much time over in HR this week but the time I have has been spent sorting out various bookings and tickets for the game on Saturday. I have also been helping Jen out with some spreadsheets she has been working on.
Hope everyone has a lovely weekend, fingers crossed it stays sunny!
And last for today Catherine from QA:
Debate has, if not quite raged, then bubbled somewhat today about that old favourite: the temperature in the room. Myself, I think it is actually hotter than the surface of the sun at my desk, but Matt 1, just next to me, thinks it’s fine in here. So who knows? At least it’s sunny outside, and thoughts turn to tall glasses of chilled lager…. before then, however, what have we been up to? A relatively chilled day, with everyone working away on their own projects. Nigel has been exercising his ninja skills with Matt 1 on yet another Sekrit Projekt. Gavin has been creating documentation, making a front end for a new service him and Gary have been working on to give us at a glance information about our staging platform and doing some project work himself in the corners. Paul has been quiet as usual, working away on his latest project with Rys, and next to him Pete has been doing some work on updating and collating feedback on testplans, and going to the PNoTM meeting to help decide which of the many deserving candidates should get the honour. Sadly though, like Highlander, there can only be one, although unlike Highlander the winner doesn’t get a dramatic cloak and a large sword. Shame, really. As for me, I’ve been working with Matt 2 on some hardware testing and creating my own documentation. Have a good weekend everyone!
And that’s all for today. I’m off to London to see the FA Cup Semi Final between Everton and Man Utd on Sunday at Wembley and Simon Munnery at the King’s Head, Crouch End Saturday. Have fun and catch everyone again next week.
I woke up this morning, convinced it was Friday… when I realised it wasn’t, I then thought it was Wednesday… unfortunately, I’ve now realised it is Thursday which I guess is a good thing.
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Kelly was meant to be doing this today, but he’s been in meetings all day, periodically popping back to the desk to ask something, or become totally confused by the conversations around the desk.
Let’s see what everyone else has been up to then…
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Good afternoon readers, I hope you’ve all had a good Easter!
Been a while since I posted one of these blogs, so looking at the graphs for the past two weeks I thought I’d post a couple of observations of the traffic we’ve been seeing. More…
It’s Thursday, and the day before the long weekend… which incidently, means there’ll be no End of Day until Tuesday. Looks like the weather has, as expected, taken a turn for the worse since it’s a bank holday!
I’m looking forward to both a relaxing and fun weekend, as I think most people are so let’s see how we wrap up the week.
Happy Wednesday everyone. I’ve got a much more populated EOD for you today. I hope you enjoy it!
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