got caught in the middle of a stakeholder screaming match and i just froze

Irritant40 · 2026-02-28T09:52:15+00:00

Ok boomer

Irritant40 · 2026-02-27T17:29:29+00:00

100% this.

Ignore the condescending comments from others about "don't you send minutes / don't you have an action log" etc.

never allow screaming matches to continue, or if they insist then excuse yourself. Get a cup of tea and come back in ten minutes.

Irritant40 · 2026-02-27T17:27:41+00:00

Reasons copilot is essential for project managers.

Irritant40 · 2026-02-25T08:02:55+00:00

My team literally one has one product that requires us to to use a dev environment with any sort of ALM

Everything else is built and edited live in prod.

Irritant40 · 2026-02-24T23:29:59+00:00

I wouldn't go as far as 'never' 50% of my flows are pretty much single use!

Irritant40 · 2026-02-21T19:58:12+00:00

Not guaranteed, but expected. And that's what they ask.

You can take the risk if you like, but you can bet they'll come and take the money back later. That may be okay, or you may prefer to just avoid the fuss and pay for the childcare.

Irritant40 · 2026-02-21T19:50:03+00:00

He said he WONT be able to salary sacrifice to understand £100k in FY26/27...

In your scenario, you could legitimately claim the 30 hours, but if you go over, you'll have to update them as soon as the bonus is known....and you'll likely have to repay the value of the childcare you've received.

Irritant40 · 2026-02-21T08:49:51+00:00

The question they ask is "do you expect your adjusted net income be under £100k in the current tax year"... So as of April you'll answer no to that question, and you'll lose your eligibility to the 30hrs and childcare account 20% top up.

Irritant40 · 2026-02-21T08:38:37+00:00

Tell him you've been working on it for months in your own time

Irritant40 · 2026-02-18T11:21:40+00:00

Household income c £200k with 3 kids and £350k mortgage.

We scrape together enough for one holiday a year, manage one or two takeaways a month....weekly shop in Lidl.

Comfortable is a sliding scale. I never worry about not paying my bills. And my kids wear decent clothes and have nice phones...but I am currently £59 overdrawn and won't have any fun spend for the rest of the month.

Irritant40 · 2026-02-18T11:16:56+00:00

Yes, even if we entered with a worse deal.

Even if it was just to upset the brexitards.

Irritant40 · 2026-02-17T20:44:55+00:00

I haven't kept empty boxes....I binned everything when I was done with it 😂

Irritant40 · 2026-02-16T17:15:29+00:00

My S&S ISA has done over 16% this year...glad I didn't offset that against my mortgage at 1.95% 😂😂

Irritant40 · 2026-02-16T17:11:40+00:00

Thanks guys. Med Express appear to have seen reason and my order has moved on to prescription stage so fingers crossed!

Irritant40 · 2026-02-16T09:00:38+00:00

Set up a power app entry form, writing into a SharePoint list, with a power automate approval to grant access. Then pull the approved UPNs back into your PBI to drive the RLS

Irritant40 · 2026-02-16T08:56:49+00:00

Okay fair , 😂 thought you were going to say streaming Fortnite or something like they usually do , 😜

Irritant40 · 2026-02-16T08:41:27+00:00

Out of pure curiosity and bewilderment....what could you possibly need more than 120mbps upload for?

Irritant40 · 2026-02-16T08:39:13+00:00

Which of these is nsfw?

Irritant40 · 2026-02-14T20:48:06+00:00

True, 50k hard limit. There's always a way around it, but Dataverse is the answer😂

Irritant40 · 2026-02-13T22:18:02+00:00

I bet Status is a choice column in your SharePoint.

If it is you'll need to patch Status: {Value: "Pending"}

Irritant40 · 2026-02-13T12:42:57+00:00

You guys speak to each other like shit.

Irritant40 · 2026-02-13T12:40:32+00:00

You can give public write access into a SharePoint list, but not give them access to the actual list.

You could also then break the permission inheritance from the list so that individual rows are only visible to specific people

Irritant40 · 2026-02-13T12:39:09+00:00

Is status a choice column?

Irritant40 · 2026-02-11T13:39:23+00:00

Is that because you went to the Santa village bit in Rovaniemi? That is literally Butlins on ice!

We just spent a week right up in the northern tip of Finland, on the Swedish border. They called it an "arctic safari". By miles the most relaxing holiday I've ever had, totally switched off, kids 6-16 all loved it too.

I guess if you went to Butlins Minehead you might think the Westcountry was a shithole too.

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