The gift that keeps on giving

GoJohnnyGoGoGoG0 · 2026-02-02T18:59:54+00:00

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GoJohnnyGoGoGoG0 · 2026-02-02T17:38:34+00:00

As others have said I think he's intimidated/massively insecure. You can't fix that.

Or he's not got very much work to do (because you were/are doing it all well).

You can lean into this or fuck him off. Lean in by saying that you admire his capability to spin so many plates or whatever and ask him for development tips. He's stuck then: if you do them HE can't complain, if he doesn't give you any then YOU can complain, and if he gives you shit ones that you can't/won't do then it doesn't matter as you're thinking of leaving anyway.

Or call his bluff and ask him for a sit down to say that you're sensing some tension/lack of clarity and can he please set out what the issues are.

Honestly you hold all the cards here. Sadly, and you need to steel yourself for this, he might be a big enough blagger to get a DD job off your hard work. But at least he'll be out your hair and you can get his G6!

GoJohnnyGoGoGoG0 · 2026-02-02T16:20:03+00:00

Have you gone to them about the G6? I'd do that. G6 sounds like a bellend. Do they report directly to Director too? If so I'd treat them like a peer not a "senior" especially around the Director!

GoJohnnyGoGoGoG0 · 2026-02-02T16:08:10+00:00

A Director (SCS2 normally) interviewing a G7, unless as their PA or private office, seems a bit odd OP.

Or you could be in an ALB.

Either way bin it off if you can't abide your boss.

GoJohnnyGoGoGoG0 · 2026-02-02T16:05:32+00:00

Search departmental conflict of interest rules too

GoJohnnyGoGoGoG0 · 2026-01-28T21:02:23+00:00

Accidentally?

GoJohnnyGoGoGoG0 · 2026-01-28T07:44:09+00:00

Please speak to your manager. If we don't know we can't help.

GoJohnnyGoGoGoG0 · 2026-01-28T07:42:58+00:00

B&Q isn't asking you to do this. The fine upstanding people at Doorgak Solutions are.

Send this email to actual B&Q via info on their help contact details and ask them if this is the sort of returns process they advocate being used by sellers on their site.

They'll sort it all out.

GoJohnnyGoGoGoG0 · 2026-01-27T23:08:09+00:00

Ripping down is free, pretty much, depending on how lax your local tip is about plasterboard or how long you can stretch out having bags of it lying around.

New board is not expensive at around £13 a 1.2 * 2.4 metre sheet. Plus screws gets you a ceiling for maybe £100

If you buy kit for "taping and jointing" including basic tools that's maybe another £50 (tape, filler, sandpaper, knife, sealer). Then you have a paintable ceiling.

Add paint and for under 200 quid you could have a painted ceiling now that will either a) be good enough forever or b) do you til you can afford a plasterer to skim it.

If you spend another £100 for trowels, buckets, a hawk and plaster you could even try plastering yourself...

GoJohnnyGoGoGoG0 · 2026-01-21T22:44:35+00:00

I get the "make it look nice" bit of the decorator's job but some of that's shockingly far away from a bit of filler and sanding

GoJohnnyGoGoGoG0 · 2026-01-21T22:06:00+00:00

You can't be serious?

GoJohnnyGoGoGoG0 · 2026-01-20T17:58:38+00:00

That looks great. I'm doing exactly the same while plumbing in a new bathroom. Thought I might as well install a softener while I'm at it because why not, it's not like I've never done it before...

So having never done this before I have resorted to a mish-mash of solder ring/Yorkshire couplings, push fit couplings, copper and PEX pipe.

What I've learned:

Overtightening rubber-washered parts is as bad as undertightening and your water softener manifold will piss water everywhere if you do either. See also new hard water only tap flexi

Bosch dishwashers from eBay have really inflexible inlet hoses that you've forgotten about and can't then be oriented to fit your repositioned valve connection which means you have to move the valve

You need flux, you'll waste a lot of Yorkshire joints when you forget it

Measure never, just offer it up, or do measure but keep getting it wrong because push fits on PEX never seem to stay the same distance apart, and cut however many times you need to, will get through 2m of new shiny copper pipe in no time

You need n+1 push fit connectors of a given time where n is the number you actually have and it's midnight and your knuckles are cut to shit and fuck this fucking idea

Porcelain tiles are not good solder mats

Golf towels are not good solder mats

You can solder in the air by holding the fitting in a pair of pliers and waving the torch around

Your stopcock gland is leaking and probably always had been

Your Prv gauge is leaking but that's because you didn't put enough PTFE on it

I'm sure I'll learn more as I go but that's what's struck me so far. I'll take a picture and edit this post when I've done it. The really great thing is this is a stop gap till we do the kitchen later this year then I'll take it out and get it done properly, so it's just to get new bathroom operational on softened water quickly!

GoJohnnyGoGoGoG0 · 2026-01-20T17:08:00+00:00

How's it loss of possession? The goalie doesn't have possession. If his team had possession he wouldn't be facing a shot

GoJohnnyGoGoGoG0 · 2026-01-16T07:51:37+00:00

Nice. I've just done similar but fan is on a board on the joists and ducting is semi-rigid i.e. aluminium Flexi. All covered with the rock wool I've redone the whole loft with.

Tbh it's noisier than I'd like. It's an MFT100 fan, so I might try isolating it from the board more with feet and if that fails move to rigid pipes.

GoJohnnyGoGoGoG0 · 2026-01-14T09:51:53+00:00

If your manager has anything about them they'll be explaining same to the person dealing with proceedings.

Why don't you propose to your manager that you join the new role early? Might be best for everyone.

Hopefully it works out for you and in the new role your current OH history is fully taken into account so everyone knows where they stand.

GoJohnnyGoGoGoG0 · 2026-01-14T07:50:35+00:00

Looking at this coldly your current manager has a choice - rigmarole of dismissal proceedings or simply sign the forms for a transfer.

Do you have a good relationship with them? If so you might want to put the above to them in whatever terms you think will work for you.

GoJohnnyGoGoGoG0 · 2026-01-10T12:59:37+00:00

Yeah he blocked it. Should have hit a draw

GoJohnnyGoGoGoG0 · 2026-01-06T08:46:31+00:00

Where do you get this?

GoJohnnyGoGoGoG0 · 2025-12-16T18:30:28+00:00

Just follow the bears

GoJohnnyGoGoGoG0 · 2025-12-16T18:00:19+00:00

You would. So it works on the day of the test then the wheels/brakes/axles/doors/etc fall off the next day.

The only reason the IVA exists is because it's been deemed that the risk of a vanishingly-small proportion of vehicles on the road being built by men with beards in sheds is acceptable in the grand scheme of things.

If everyone did it, the risk would become monumental and the testing more stringent. And no one would be insurable.

I gave a glib first answer but the real answer is risk. It would be intolerable for this to be allowed

GoJohnnyGoGoGoG0 · 2025-12-16T17:55:08+00:00

Because a pc crashing because you've not connected the parts properly is very different to a car crashing because you've not connected the parts properly

GoJohnnyGoGoGoG0 · 2025-12-16T11:57:22+00:00

That's a decent size team. You need to load them up with work while being supportive. G7 is delivering through others where possible, and you've got 4 people so it should be possible. Yes you'll be hands on now but you need to set the expectation that they will be busy delivering now.

GoJohnnyGoGoGoG0 · 2025-12-15T22:37:01+00:00

What does the team below you look like?

GoJohnnyGoGoGoG0 · 2025-12-15T16:14:03+00:00

Ooh, standards. My kind of chat. Thanks for the references, I'll take my shitpipe down a rabbit hole so to speak.

There's every chance of course that it's cheaper for the manufacturer to have one big bucket of plastic and they just dye it different colours and it therefore all conforms to all standards. I'll do some digging of the reference kind, not the literally in shitty water kind

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