To think that quoting past threads/quiches on MN does not prove you aren't a troll?

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You know when someone says 'name changed but not a troll - missing toaster, poo troll etc'. It doesn't really prove anything, does it? Any lurkers could read all that and still be a troll of some sort, no?

Am bored, can you tell?

Ha! No she isn't Pinot but she may as well be. Very similar.

She's fabulous. In a weird way. Weird but good. She fascinates me no end.

Oh I haven't come across her much, just heard of her by reputation she's probably always on the intellectual threads whilst I ponce about in chat

I encountered Xenia on another parenting blogging site (man, I'm a weirdo) and seriously, that level of confidence.

Maybe I should have had her in my annual review today. I ended up telling my manager I want to quit. To be fair, he is a useless arse.

Don't quit now!

Think of the nuptials!

Pinot look upwards lovey.

You have done well to get her to engage that much Hully. Very unusual.

I said I'd like to move internally. This is the situation - I am, not being arrogant, but it's true, ridiculously good at what I do. Like to an extent that it's a problem. Anyway. It's also me and another manager who have the most experience, and the broadest experience, in the team. My line manager knows very little.

So, have my review. He's all "well, you're alright for your grade" and I'm thinking "dude, if I'm only alirght what the hell are you?" (he's more senior than I am, and seriously useless). Then he was going on about how other blokey person who only knows one thing but has a penis and complains a lot is really pleased with my progress (he's more junior than I am) on an area I have buttloads of experience on. I mean, I was involved in some pretty serious stuff in my previous role, things these douchebags could only dream of. Anyway, at the end I was very uspet and said I'd like to mvoe jobs. I managed to refrain from saying "and you're a useless cunt who's blocking my progress as you're freaking TERRIFIED of my giant brain".

It's an awful lot easier to type "I'm awesome", than to live your life in an awesome way.

Awesomeness is a state of being, not a statement of fact.

So ner.

I know that makes very little sense. I've had about 5 coffees today

I then went and cried in the bathroom

I then went back to my desk and my colleague asked if I was okay and we both went to cry in the bathroom.

We all hate this manager, he's completely useless. But there's another manager who's even more useless, so our line manager doesn't look as bad in comparison.

I actually am awesome.

Oh abs, that's a bit shit.

I hate companies that promote through imcompentence, thats why great people end up with shite managers as the only way you get rid is to promote the fuckers far far away

Pags anyone who lives in a shed and drinks gin is awesome - but remember, you will NEVER be as awesome as Pagboy

X and B are a match made in heaven. They could talk (quite seriously and without irony) about how fabulous they are to one another for hours. I love that about them actually.

Fight the fuckers Abs.

Fight them on the beaches.

Oh Abs so sorry you've been upset darling girl. Can you not have a chat with the HR dept and ask for a development plan?

Yous wot ain't read it yet - you have to read it, don't they fell? Innit great?

Oh christ, Hully has gawn all Churchillian

Hullys got a good point, we could all use a holiday

Oops, sorry, failed to acknowledge Abs's career crisis - got all caught up in the other awsomeness.

Abs I suggest an office coup. Stage an uprising. Have a vote of no confidence. Overthrow the useless bastards. Pretend they are Robert Mugabe.

We're all really, really miserable. We spend a lot of time bitching about how useless "the engineering school" (what we refer to the management team as, as they're all male) are.

What gets me, is I went from

• Old job - aaaaawesome amazing boss, who left. Got replaced with
• useless fuckwit job

after lots of thought, I decided to move jobs

• got aaaaaaaawesome amazing TWO bosses. Was ridiculously happy. Then one boss left, and the other one stopped having direct reports so I got
• guy hired in who had no technical experience, but was hired to be a manager. He's a shite manager but he's very good at bull shitting.

I'm so sick of ending up with rubbish, unsupportive managers.

I love 'hullys gawn all churchillian' posted immediately after 'innit great?'

I'm glad I didn't comment on the thread now , I'm not entirely sure my story about the bra fitting specialist who actually recoiled with horror at the job she faced pre surgery would have gone down terribly well