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[Misti]

Have you tried backing in? It's easier to be accurate as the steering is at the front and you have your wing mirrors to check both sides. (Unless you knocked them off on the gatepost on yout last attempt!) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

I am backing in! The car is much easier to reverse than drive forward... at least I can see where the back is (in the mirrors), whereas I have to guess about the front.

[andante]

All cars are easier backwards, that's why you reverse in when parallel parking. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

[Pixie*Porsche]

Best advice that I can give for reversing, if you have two door / wing mirrors, make absolutely sure they are set up correctly. Reverse steadyly, making through checks throughout so you know exactly what you're "aiming for" so to speak.

[jod]

Best advice that I can give for reversing, if you have two door / wing mirrors, make absolutely sure they are set up correctly. Reverse steadyly, making through checks throughout so you know exactly what you're "aiming for" so to speak.

... preferrably not gate or my favourite, bit of house that sticks out from the rest - there to catch you out when disgustingly normal kids are arguing in the back of car it is raining and you are tired.

[Maizie]

So working in West London today, and we have been asked to sit in a different area - nobody here has a set desk, it is all hot desks and you have a locker for your personal stuff and have to clear everything each day.

Where we are sat today is fine, except that the furniture and/or floor seems very wobbly! Everytime somebody walks past, everything joggles. I suspect I will feel a bit seasick by the end of the day...

And the monitor on this desk every so often goes click-click-click-fizz and switches itself off (before coming back on again five seconds later).

Not sitting at this desk again (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

[Misti]

A contributing factor to turning down a job offer I recieved was the fact that the entire company hot desks. They don't actually have enough desks in (or parking at!) their offices, for everyone who is based there. Goodness knows what happens if x% of staff don't have a meeting / work from home day!

I really don't understand how it can work out well. For a start, I like having my own meticulously tidy workspace, with all my reference files of accumulated "useful info" to hand. Its useful to be able to ask a colleague on an ajoining desk a quick question....

[Mad Tom]

A contributing factor to turning down a job offer I recieved was the fact that the entire company hot desks. They don't actually have enough desks in (or parking at!) their offices, for everyone who is based there. Goodness knows what happens if x% of staff don't have a meeting / work from home day!

I really don't understand how it can work out well. For a start, I like having my own meticulously tidy workspace, with all my reference files of accumulated "useful info" to hand. Its useful to be able to ask a colleague on an ajoining desk a quick question....

The way it usually works is that the desks (and computers that come with them) are swappable, but each staff member has their own set of (wheelable) drawers or cupboards, with all their personal stuff.

It would be a problem if everyone turned up at the same time, but in a big company predictions of the most people that will be in at the same time are pretty accurate.

[andante]

We had that system in the accountancy firm I worked for, but I don't think we had any space that was for personal storage. A lot of people were always out on audit, so it was rare that the office was busy. The benefit was that the team for each audit was different, so you could sit at a block of desks with the rest of the team from the job you had just finished to complete the paperwork. Also you would work for different managers and so could pick a desk near their office. And from time to time we were sent off to work for other departments, eg tax, insolvency, so would grab a desk in there department. It worked very well.

[Maizie]

The way it usually works is that the desks (and computers that come with them) are swappable, but each staff member has their own set of (wheelable) drawers or cupboards, with all their personal stuff.

Yep, we each have a 'locker', which is a big cube cupboard. This comes with a box-with-handles type thing in it, handy for putting in A4 paper and carrying stuff to and from your desk each day.

I have always had my own desk up to now, and it is nice having your 'home comforts' around. But as I am now only in the office once a week, it's not really a problem!

Our company does 8-to-10, i.e. we have 8 desks for every 10 members of staff, across all the buildings. Today is Tuedays, when all of our team [8 of us] comes in so we can all see each other (Thursday is most of the team, and the other days are only 2 or 3 people each). It's fine for all of us to come in, the only problem is if every other team decided to do that on the same day as us! Having said that, one of the other buildings is practically empty so if we really got pushed for space we'd just decamp over there for the day!

The other thing to note is that people who do come in every day effectively do have set desks. There is a team table nearby which almost always has the same team sat around it - a new one is going in soon, and our manager has decided that we are going to try to make that our area - so not only can we all be in on the same day, but we can be sitting together 'openly'. Today we are all sat near each other, but the desks are mostly separated by big screens, so for example I can talk to my colleague sat behind me, but the one opposite I can't see!!

[jod]

The way it usually works is that the desks (and computers that come with them) are swappable, but each staff member has their own set of (wheelable) drawers or cupboards, with all their personal stuff.

Yep, we each have a 'locker', which is a big cube cupboard. This comes with a box-with-handles type thing in it, handy for putting in A4 paper and carrying stuff to and from your desk each day.

I have always had my own desk up to now, and it is nice having your 'home comforts' around. But as I am now only in the office once a week, it's not really a problem!

Our company does 8-to-10, i.e. we have 8 desks for every 10 members of staff, across all the buildings. Today is Tuedays, when all of our team [8 of us] comes in so we can all see each other (Thursday is most of the team, and the other days are only 2 or 3 people each). It's fine for all of us to come in, the only problem is if every other team decided to do that on the same day as us! Having said that, one of the other buildings is practically empty so if we really got pushed for space we'd just decamp over there for the day!

The other thing to note is that people who do come in every day effectively do have set desks. There is a team table nearby which almost always has the same team sat around it - a new one is going in soon, and our manager has decided that we are going to try to make that our area - so not only can we all be in on the same day, but we can be sitting together 'openly'. Today we are all sat near each other, but the desks are mostly separated by big screens, so for example I can talk to my colleague sat behind me, but the one opposite I can't see!!

That I can appreciate Maizie. One the one hand great to use a decent sized monitor, on the other talking to headless colleagues is rather disconcerting when it isn't by phone.

have you sorted out the wobbly furniture yet?

[Czerny]

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[Colin4May]

What irritates me is people allowing their kids to push shopping Trollies, which they then whack into the back of my ankles!

[andante]

What annoys me is people who allow their children to stand in shopping trollies. Unhygenic! And people that take guide dogs / Hearing dogs into the supermarket. The blind people still need a human guide to find the goods, and I don't see what a hearing dog does in a supermarket. Again if it's unhygenic to have dogs in food shops it's unhygenic whatever sort of dog they are. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif)

[andante_in_c]

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[fsharpminor]

What irritates me is people allowing their kids to push shopping Trollies, which they then whack into the back of my ankles!

A little while ago I caught a lady's bottom with the front edge of my trolley when she stopped suddenly.
'Im so sorry Madam' I said. 'Humph, its a good job it wasnt your hand' came the reply. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)