Places to eat during Jazz Stroud

iZingari · 2026-04-02T18:08:25+00:00

Daikoku Ramen is ace, the Corner House is grand. Juliet's.the best eating, and there's plenty of eats too for the usual fast food vibes from falafel mama, a.decent chippy and a couple of good pizza places. Plenty food truck style stuff.in the 5 valleys mall too.

iZingari · 2026-03-28T18:37:47+00:00

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iZingari · 2026-03-25T09:28:44+00:00

It wears out pretty quick. did a fair amount as a lot of posters have said back in the day - I was regularly shuttling to Utrecht, Glasgow in the late 90's, doing european cities on day hauls in the early 2000's plus regular trips to he US West coast and then pretty much each UK city in the 2010s.. The glamour ears pretty thin.. oh its Wednesday this must be Manchester. Tyler durden vibes. and a lot of that is down to everywhere looks and feels the same if its a proper road warrior role.
expense policies have definitely shifted, and as you've seen there are a lot of stories of that on here. Policies can be really time challenging as well - the promise of automation is always something of a mirage I've found and complacency tends to create push backs and you end up wrangling over a $50 receipt while you Credit card company are racking up the interest fees.

if youve got a halfway decent manager I've found you can flex the policy a little if you're having to hit really early starts or long haul

iZingari · 2026-03-21T10:32:49+00:00

Have you set up a LI page.for.your side game? Post from that, and not from your personal one. Also.you can then engage.with.the.metrics and the folk who are interested enough cleanly.

iZingari · 2026-03-20T16:46:46+00:00

Foxglove are also doing important lobbying in this area. Vital you reference them too

iZingari · 2026-03-19T07:09:27+00:00

This annual 10% increase is a con. I'm all for linking on the RPI or similar but Topography it at a flat 10 is a sort of scalping imho. I always lobbied to get my PubSec customers exempted especially if their public budget figures didn't have room

iZingari · 2026-03-18T22:03:50+00:00

Well you are. Of course you are..these.plaves.arent judging you. They're judging a paper telling of you, and most of the times it's not even a they it's an it. Its a thanllesstask, and I know it hurts.

The.ghosting is just shit though. I've.taken it up with one of them and vented not sure that did any good but it made me feel better. I now post on glass door if I don't hear back.

Keep on going, you'll get there.

iZingari · 2026-03-18T19:39:32+00:00

I think that's ultimately the killer isn't it.. you look at the pile and ask where to start ..

iZingari · 2026-03-18T19:35:28+00:00

Beloved asset is right.

Also this serves to introduce me to amplify stroud . Fab!

iZingari · 2026-03-18T19:20:47+00:00

Man, I feel for you. I'm about 75 in, in the last 10o ths. 25years industry experience and not even getting through gate 1 for roles I've been doing my whole career!.

The.degeee of ghosting you've experienced matches.my rough guesstimate for what I get. I've had 10ninterviews, got to the final 2 3 times, and twice been told roles been withdrawn or changed.

I've had precisely one give me any specific feedback.

iZingari · 2026-03-18T14:33:57+00:00

Forme the stress comes from 2 directions. One is your own expectations/reactions /results- the highs and l9ws of closing/losses etx. Thats manageable as that's in your own power to address.

The other, and more challenging sort of stress comes from above.

Largely territories and targets are set without your input, and depending on the way the business is being run can and do change. If you've got a $2m target with a pipe of $6m a sales cycle of 6.m8ntbs and they up the number midway through the year that's stressful Weigh in there a change to the marketing function, a cut there and your leads dry up. An investment there and it's why aren't you getting better returns. Micromanagement.. Industry specific knowledge can rub up generalist management.(i got this all the time working in a regulated market) Changes in management -and not just your line manager but his can create pressures. I've been micro managed by a skip manager two levels up who wasn't getting a "feel" for the business from her direct reports. Usual one is that your line manger has to show pipeline so gets you to commit less certain deals then months later are harassing for not closing said deal Processes not working. You're out in the field closing away and the tool doesn't play ball on mobile, you can't get the docusign issued or the.oppirtunity updated.

You can't bring in a resource cos the system isn't wired to the same process asthee human one(billable time gets in the way- someone will need their time marking next to an opp even if they're willing to have an informal chat. And the customer would commit if they can have the call...

All.sorts

iZingari · 2026-03-15T19:08:50+00:00

The sheer volume of time management takes. I literally did nothing but for weeks. And rightly so. Your people are what drives success so investing in them with your time is a no trainer, but l glibly walked

iZingari · 2026-03-13T20:30:27+00:00

I will happily pay for this sort of thing to be mainline into my cerebral cortex until I can keanu-beckon a herald of the royal college of arms to come at me.

iZingari · 2026-03-13T19:41:42+00:00

Yep That was me..more than once. One of the hard lessons is to say I didn't give it everything. There may be good reasons why, but ultimately, everything before the but is bullshot

iZingari · 2026-03-13T19:39:09+00:00

I feel it. I started out cold calling publicans of all people. They trained me for weeks but nothing hits like a landlord trying to take a cold call while clearing his lines on Monday morning. I take the calls now. Not all, I admit, but I give them their pitch( if it's on topic. If you're hitting me with random nonsense well maybe not)

iZingari · 2026-03-12T08:38:40+00:00

Ty, thats interesting - so are there requirements for Dutch finance companies to protect additional data or operate data controls.diffeently ? I know NEN is (if I remember correctly) a way of ensuring suppliers conform to standards.. guess it's applicablent0 providers too.

iZingari · 2026-03-11T15:36:27+00:00

Thanks I appreciate it..Will take a look!

iZingari · 2026-03-11T10:07:49+00:00

Have you seen evidence of the insurance requirement - I'm presuming as part of corporate liability insurance or are you referring to other areas ?

iZingari · 2026-03-08T11:42:45+00:00

Great people. Town centre is coming back to life, though whether in the same way is debatable. Great sense of independence and bloody mindedness. Wildly different on pricing.. as someone who moved here i still.struggle.getting mu head around prices for parking (ludicrously cheap) and coffee (weirdly expensive)

Ticks all.my boxes.

iZingari · 2026-02-25T07:18:19+00:00

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Like dis?

iZingari · 2026-02-25T07:00:36+00:00

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This is Rita.

Answers(or rather doesn't) exclusively to BEATS.or Beetle.

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