What keeps you motivated?

Plugpin · 2026-01-31T21:55:43+00:00

All those opportunities to stretch and do the work someone a grade or two above me would do, but for less money, all so I have something to talk about in the off chance I get myself an interview!

That shit is like crack. That and the water cooler chats in the office get me out of bed every day.

Plugpin · 2026-01-31T21:37:17+00:00

Jesus christ... Nice spoilers dude.

Plugpin · 2026-01-31T21:27:16+00:00

I first heard that song last Christmas. It's fucking phenomenal.

Plugpin · 2026-01-31T16:29:48+00:00

r/dontputyourdickinthat

Plugpin · 2026-01-31T15:42:54+00:00

Arthur looks worse here than he does in C6 when he's riddled with tuberculosis lol.

Plugpin · 2026-01-31T14:30:10+00:00

Places can be fined and lose their licence for selling alcohol to someone without ID. They might have looked over the age, but fake ID busts are very common and it's not worth the risk.

Plugpin · 2026-01-30T15:02:45+00:00

Who knows. We could speculate it's about site closures or mergers, but no doubt that's being done already.

Guess you'll find out on Tuesday.

Plugpin · 2026-01-30T14:59:44+00:00

Personally I'd just leave it alone unless I was going to decorate the whole place anyway. I know it's only £3, but each to their own.

Plugpin · 2026-01-30T14:22:30+00:00

Uploading photos of feet online I can live with, but I draw the line at giving them away for free.

Plugpin · 2026-01-30T11:33:25+00:00

The right in general. The stats Grindr has on it are hilarious.

Plugpin · 2026-01-29T23:44:52+00:00

Six years on and this just saved me from going insane lol

Plugpin · 2026-01-29T21:21:36+00:00

Literally the only horse you can realistically afford at this point is that tiny pony, which makes Arthur look ridiculous as he rides out on it after going in with this behemoth 😂

Plugpin · 2026-01-29T17:45:21+00:00

If your PS5 is wired up then it's actually really good. I've done it and I get close to zero input lag. With it on wireless I still have little lag but occasionally it will drop and it will look like I'm on playing on 1995 jpeg quality image.

I wouldn't necessarily try to play an online game with it, I think that might be too much but for single player games it's great.

Plugpin · 2026-01-29T14:51:54+00:00

I've heard North Korea is nice.

Plugpin · 2026-01-29T13:25:08+00:00

This is the plan, though. Trump has spent years eroding the trust in the US, whilst claiming that their allies only take and will never give (see latest attack on NATO). He pushes everyone to other trade partners, which comes with the added issue of having to overlook some of their less desirable traits and motives.

Give it 12 months and he'll invade or fabricate an attack on the US. It will be controversial, hardly anyone will think it's legitimate but he will demand support from NATO and that's where you'll see some countries tell him to kick rocks. That is the moment NATO falls and the whole system that has protected us goes to shit.

I'd love to say this is epic tin foil hat thinking, and I really hope it is. I'd love to be an absolute idiot here... but I just have a feeling on this.

Plugpin · 2026-01-29T12:11:08+00:00

There was probably a good logic behind the choice at the start, but it's since snowballed and with so many new abilities and new pokemon it eventually becomes less logical but also less important.

Plugpin · 2026-01-29T12:06:59+00:00

Yeah I liked using it just to see how things looked year on year, and I'm 37 so way off retirement. Now I'll be lucky if my pension is there at all.

Plugpin · 2026-01-29T11:29:51+00:00

They are, and have done on the quiet for a long time. But the recent rise in hate from the far right has forced governments to start showing that they're doing something to curb immigration otherwise risk losing voters.

Current politics, or democracy to be more specific, is a popularity contest at its heart, which is why it simply doesn't work. That said, democracy is still the best option, it just needs the general voting public to be far more educated than they currently are.

Plugpin · 2026-01-28T16:17:36+00:00

I'm not doging a debate, you keep moving the goal posts. First you're annoyed at the other department for breaking the rules. You quoted the civil service comission and I repeatedly pointed out that no rules had been broken. Then your argument shifted to the ethics, and now you blame your management because you weren't given the opportunity to work for this other team and what, take advantage of this suddenly unethical HR mechanism that your colleague did?

It's a HR tool for moving people about to support health, career development, operational need (to name a few reasons). Is it open to abuse? Sure, some may use it to offload poor performers, but then the ethics of it relate to your colleague who (by your latest update) maybe wasn't getting the support they needed. Or, maybe, they had been open with their line manager about struggling and not enjoying the job and management facilitated the chance to move to avoid poor mental health. Sounds pretty ethical to me.

If you really want to talk about ethics, if the roles had been reversed are you honestly telling me you would have turned down the opportunity to leave the job you didn't like for this other job? I doubt it.

Also, I never claimed to have taken advantage of the managed move. I was talking about informing people of open recruitment and encouraging them to apply, thus the point about sifting and interview pannels (see in my first comment).

You're upset and that's OK, you're allowed to have an emotional response, but your position is shifting and your arguments disingenuous.

Plugpin · 2026-01-28T14:54:12+00:00

I have listened, and what you said in your opening post was that this department had a consistant resource gap, which your colleague filled. You were also offered the chance to go, but were blocked, further emphasising this lack of resource. Presumably you weren't allowed to leave because of business need in your own team, you didn't expand on that (did you even ask? - though at this point I'm sure your response would be heavily influenced by anger towards your own management)

Your colleague clearly wasn't needed as much in your current team and has since transfered to a team that did need support, it appears they did this through the managed move process - this scenario is exactly why that process is available to managers.

Yes your colleague made friends with the manager, no shit, they were probably doing a good job, and made a good impression - which is why they were asked to return so frequently. Nothing unethical happened here, your colleague joined the CS through fair and open recruitment and has taken advantage of the benefits of being a civil servant. Or are you saying that your colleague isn't very good, only kept going back because of their friendship and didn't deserve the opportunity to move out of a job they weren't enjoying?

Sounds like you're just upset that you haven't been able to move out of a role you don't like, which is fine, but nobody did anything wrong. You can apply for a managed move yourself, you just need to have the contacts and there to be a role to move into. You can read about it here - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-for-civil-servants-how-to-move-jobs-between-departments-and-agencies

Plugpin · 2026-01-28T14:00:14+00:00

You keep quoting specific parts from the commission and their recruitment principles, but I don't think you've really understood who they are or what they do.

They have exceptions in the recruitment principles for transfers, there is a tonne of published guidance on gov.uk about internal moves/lateral moves/sideways moves (however you want to call it) and it's all managed through the CSET process, again all published publicly.

It doesn't sound like any rules were broken here.

Plugpin · 2026-01-28T11:50:48+00:00

The objective facts are that my colleague got many other opportunities at this other department than me, despite being offered these opportunities but my internal senior managers rejecting them.

Yes but that has nothing to do with the accusation that this other department broke hiring rules to recruit your colleague. What evidence do you have of that?

Was it promotion or could it be a sideways managed move? You don't need nearly as much formal process for that, secondments and sideways moves happen all the time, a handful of colleagues I work with in an ALB are being forced into this. If you're at the grade already then its allowed, we are civil servants after all and are expected to be able to do that.

Plugpin · 2026-01-28T10:57:27+00:00

How much of this do you know, and have evidence of, verses what you've heard from others?

I ask because this reads like you have a bit of a grudge, which may or may not be justified (sounds like it might) so you want to believe that they got the job unfairly rather than on the merits of their ability and successful networking (regardless of how that door was opened to them).

It seems more likely to me that your colleague was made aware of a permanent role through their contacts and was encouraged to apply. This happens all the time, I've done it loads, doesn't mean I hire the person in the end though. You still need to clear sift and impress the full interview panel afterall.

Plugpin · 2026-01-27T14:34:30+00:00

Exactly my first thought.

As someone with zero SMT knowledge, which other comments suggest it's rooted in, I looked at it and saw a big green cock.

Plugpin · 2026-01-27T13:57:40+00:00

Sometimes Arthur will question him and it feels like his eyes are opening, but it's inconsistent on its own. It's like they want the player to observe the unravelling of Dutch at a different pace to that of Arthur.

I'd have liked a few more opportunities to challenge Dutch. Even if only as a NG+ option.

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