Ex-Manager Thread

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Who would you have as our next Manager

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fran-MLs little camera said:
I always wonder if just having a short time at his boyhood club was worth it to him or whether he would rather have not gone and failed (though he scarcely had a chance). I hope he is proud to have been a Liverpool player (even though that is beyond our comprehension :)).
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I think it's the things you don't do that you end up regretting. It is with me anyway - I've made loads of mistakes and hopefully learned from at least some of them. It's the things I passed up or chickened out of that occasionally have me thinking "if only".
 
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Missing Lambo said:
With due respect, FLT. This isn't good enough. You're not supposed to be doing something you enjoy, FFS. Ooops, sorry. For a moment I may have confused you with a Tory MP.

Exasperation shared. How was your yogurt this morning? Just got to mine in time - BBD of tomorrow.
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You've been softened living oop norf.... we don't check the dates of yoghurt here Lambo, we take a judgement on how furry or not it is :(
 
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Archers Road said:
I think it's the things you don't do that you end up regretting. It is with me anyway - I've made loads of mistakes and hopefully learned from at least some of them. It's the things I passed up or chickened out of that occasionally have me thinking "if only".
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Archers, she'd have only turned you down mate. Probably best you never got enough courage to ask her :emoticon-0105-wink:
 
fatletiss said:
I had it for 6 months. I used to go into the office and do nothing.... I did 3 months of nothing at home before starting this current job. Tip for people: don't resign on 30th October if you have 3-6 months notice; do it in the spring/summer :(
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I've been doing it since February at my job - known as being on the bench. Being at home applying for internal projects on full pay. And yes, the dream has been achieved - made it to the Euros! Start a new project soon, but not for four weeks!
 
Pelletron said:
I've been doing it since February at my job - known as being on the bench. Being at home applying for internal projects on full pay. And yes, the dream has been achieved - made it to the Euros! Start a new project soon, but not for four weeks!
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What business are you in Pelletron? Sounds like construction management to me...
 
Pelletron said:
Work for IBM. They were doing a bit of restructuring in the first quarter, meaning less suitable placements were coming up. Then in Q2, was a glut of staff competing for positions. Which combined to make it a bit harder to get off the bench.
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Good Luck when it starts. All feels like fun when you're paid not to work at the beginning, however it then gets a bit frustrating on the brain.
 
Been a homeworker since turn of the year - work in IT (Remote access & server visualisation is my forte), so always been able to do what I do from anywhere in the world. Miss the human interaction sometimes, but it's nice to get up at 7:29 to start work at 7:30am! This time of year is good too, as little coffee breaks in the garden are nice :)

I'm also the only one of my colleagues (all office based in Plymouth), that isn't worried about England v Wales being on in the daytime :)
 
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thereisonlyoneno7 said:
Been a homeworker since turn of the year - work in IT (Remote access & server visualisation is my forte), so always been able to do what I do from anywhere in the world. Miss the human interaction sometimes, but it's nice to get up at 7:29 to start work at 7:30am! This time of year is good too, as little coffee breaks in the garden are nice :)

I'm also the only one of my colleagues (all office based in Plymouth), that isn't worried about England v Wales being on in the daytime :)
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You've got waaaaaaaaaay too much personality and positivity to work in IT :)
 
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fatletiss said:
You've got waaaaaaaaaay too much personality and positivity to work in IT :)
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Lol, they all say at work to me when **** hits the fan, I am always the calmest and most likely person to see the positives out of it :)

Last year we had a major sev 1 when basically we lost the Comms room. So all customer websites were down (work for a white label insurer - so no quotes were coming from the price comparison sites for all our blue chip customers!), but I sat back, grabbed a coffee and worked out how to make the best of a bad situation. Three hours later we got it back, they all lost about 10 years of their life and most their hair, I was glad that we finally got to reboot some of the 24-7 servers that needed patching :)

To bring it back on topic. Ron leaving in my world would be a Sev 1. Other teams would panic, throw money around and tear out their hair. Les sits back in his chair, puffs on his cigar and thinks that at least we can upgrade Ron with the minimal of fuss ;)
 
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Archers Road said:
<laugh> She wouldn't have though - not the one I'm thinking of. Just wasn't meant to be, I guess.
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Never worth going back .......... Take it from me. Married my first girlfriend after a hiatus of over 30 years ........ Then discovered what a lying, scheming, deceiving, vindictive b*tch she is ..............

Not that I'm bitter .......... this time next week I should know how much this stupidity has cost me from my pension and house ...... Anyone got a caravan to live in? :emoticon-0107-sweat
 
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Pelletron said:
Work for IBM. They were doing a bit of restructuring in the first quarter, meaning less suitable placements were coming up. Then in Q2, was a glut of staff competing for positions. Which combined to make it a bit harder to get off the bench.
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Good luck!! Know plenty of folk who used to work there - seems that "restructuring" is the way forward with many companies these days ...... Glad I'm out of it.
 
thereisonlyoneno7 said:
Lol, they all say at work to me when **** hits the fan, I am always the calmest and most likely person to see the positives out of it :)

Last year we had a major sev 1 when basically we lost the Comms room. So all customer websites were down (work for a white label insurer - so no quotes were coming from the price comparison sites for all our blue chip customers!), but I sat back, grabbed a coffee and worked out how to make the best of a bad situation. Three hours later we got it back, they all lost about 10 years of their life and most their hair, I was glad that we finally got to reboot some of the 24-7 servers that needed patching :)

To bring it back on topic. Ron leaving in my world would be a Sev 1. Other teams would panic, throw money around and tear out their hair. Les sits back in his chair, puffs on his cigar and thinks that at least we can upgrade Ron with the minimal of fuss ;)
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I like to imagine that this is how Les handles the 'meltdowns' at Saints.

Sitting back, having a coffee, a break in the garden and sorting it all out in a calm manner while everyone else sh!ts themselves. <laugh>
 
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davecg69 said:
Never worth going back .......... Take it from me. Married my first girlfriend after a hiatus of over 30 years ........ Then discovered what a lying, scheming, deceiving, vindictive b*tch she is ..............

Not that I'm bitter .......... this time next week I should know how much this stupidity has cost me from my pension and house ...... Anyone got a caravan to live in? :emoticon-0107-sweat
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Sorry to hear that mate. She's not Dutch is she?
 
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Gucci Mane said:
Seeing as Ron is as good as gone, I'd like to go into full bitch mode:

1) Some of the football we played on him was among the worst I've seen since we've been back in the Prem, in terms of entertainment. It was so utterly uninspiring, it put me off going to
2) Our Europa League campaign was a complete disaster and I blame that firmly on Ron, for not having the team playing anything resembling football. It was more like Aussie Rules football just punting it up to Pelle and hoping for the best. It was an embarrassing show for the club, when it was supposed to be something special.
3) As happy as I am with a 6th place finish, it could have been so, so much better if Ron managed our November/December period properly - 1st season I can understand him adjusting to the Christmas period and underestimating it. This season we should have been prepared and picked up more than 3 points in 24 (or whatever it was) - if Ron was as good as Everton seem to think he is, we would have finished top 4 this season.
4) The obsession with playing Pelle, hopefully he signs for Everton.

**** off now Ron.
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Hurrah for that. I'm not going to go into all that detail though. I said all of the above 6 months ago as did a few others and most of us who did so then didn't bother to comment much further.

What I will say though is from watching every match via stream bar a couple since we returned to the Prem I didn't bother watching many at all this calender year and went to watch Lincoln City instead every other week.
 
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