This and That (Where Great Conversations Are Happening)

[Hollywood E Rock]

7 hours ago, bossjon said:

Morning Everyone.  Had to drag myself to the office today.  

 

 

7 hours ago, MikeH5856 said:

Had to do the same yesterday... what a waste of gasoline. Got to sit alone in an empty building doing all the same work I could have been doing from home without the added expense. You have my sympathies! 

 

6 hours ago, bossjon said:

 

I have an odd situation.  I'm the only person on my team that works in Denver.  The rest are in charlotte or NY.  So I'm wasting gas, paying for parking and commute time.  Now they want us in 3 days a week starting next month.  Wonder if ill comply. 

 

6 hours ago, MikeH5856 said:

Mine's going to 3x/week beginning at the end of the month. And since I need money and health care and retirement savings, I'll comply, until I figure out how much it's costing me (we get to pay for parking on-site, too! Good deal for them, they get us coming and going!) and if there's any benefit to it, aside from the added stress and associated BS of being back at the office. But, my boss is very concerned about what the higher-ups may do with the building we're in if we stay remote, so I guess I'm going in.  

 

On the bright side, it's also construction season and literally every route I could take to work is completely wrecked and slow-going, so I should be able to start working through my library of audiobooks I've been neglecting for the past few years of working from home. 🤣

 

6 hours ago, Basil said:

@bossjon and @MikeH5856 im work in a workshop unfortunately i dont get a choice

but we had no work last 2-3 weeks, im currently waiting on some tools to do some jobs but my manager doesn't seem fussed about either.

i have to sit here and do nothing its boring as hell.

 

regards dragging you in case of office going is stupid too, work for office staff has changed forever more remote working and getting new smaller buildings where you may turn up once a week for odd face too face meeting, the companies that dont do this will go under eventually.

even my office in my company are doing this still, basically there are 3 people in two buildings usually and once every week they come in for big sales meetings.

and odd training for outside companies in engineering training room.

 

but anyone that just carries on will bury the company eventually why have big massive office buildings now with that cost that is no longer needed with remote working

 

basil 👍

 

6 hours ago, MikeH5856 said:

Watching our supervisors cling to outdated work ethos is like watching the dinosaurs die. And now that us peons know how good we could have it...it's frustrating. I get more work done at home without supervision then I do at the office with a boss wandering in and checking up on us and wanting to make small talk and complain and blah blah blah. But the Richie Rich's that run the show want to continue on with the way it was done in the 1950s instead of waking up to the future and realizing we're in 2022 and have options. It's so freaking pointless to go wade through an hour's worth of traffic to sit alone at my desk at the office to take Zoom meetings that could have been done from home.

 

But, ultimately, it all comes to down thing in the end. As they said in Goodfellas,

 

And if the boss wants to drop in and make small talk, he'll just have to remember one thing while I'm there.

 

6 hours ago, Squeegie McGee said:

 

 

3 hours ago, damships said:

I’ve been back in the office and unfortunately only got about 1-2 months of Remote Work. I also had to drag myself to the office today. I’ve been increasing my cardio in the mornings from 30 minutes to 1 hour, but crap it’s hitting me now. 😂 So freaking tired right now I just want to sleep. 
 

A conversation about how work isn’t our most pleasant parts of our day. A sad topic, but one that fortunately, unfortunately bonds us all together. Living through experiences of lazy co-workers, bosses who make bad decisions, being a fly on the wall as we watch companies die off do to higher ups inability to adapt & change. Which if I’m not mistaken is a skill that bosses are supposed to have. It’s concerning to read different accounts from different parts of the world deal with similar situations. I sometimes feel like everyone with the logical answers are never the ones at the top of their field of work. Fascinating…..

 

 

[Hollywood E Rock]

9 hours ago, Squeegie McGee said:

Btw @Hollywood E Rock another good title to this chat could have behave "Making conversations great again!"

 

@Squeegie McGee 

 

Given the history of this thread this title could have also been appropriate, but seeing how the phrase is connected to 

 

 

Someone probably wouldn’t have understood the nuance, & thought the title inappropriate 😂.

[Hollywood E Rock]

On 8/9/2022 at 12:03 PM, Casiusco said:

@Hollywood E Rock

 

Have you seen?

 

It was necessary to name Scarlett only once in a post, and everyone return to the thread.

 

It was work done.

 

 

 

 

@Casiusco 

If the plan is to get psychos to come to a specific area she makes for beautiful bait 

 

 

[Basil]

@Hollywood E Rock

 

yes

 

basil 

[Basil]

good morning all happy thorsday 

 

 

basil 

[Hollywood E Rock]

Good Morning Psychos! Many beautiful things are waiting to welcome you to this new day. Happy Thursday 

 

[Basil]

Just now, Hollywood E Rock said:

Good Morning Psychos! Many beautiful things are waiting to welcome you to this new day. Happy Thursday 

 

 

its true  

basil  

[Hollywood E Rock]

3 minutes ago, Basil said:

 

its true  

basil  

It’s damn true 😀

 

[Basil]

cheers  

 

[ajames212]

Yes yes yes. Glad to wake up today. Happy to see you all. Have a great one. 👍 

[Veum]

🥤☕ Top of the day to ya, going to be ☀️️ my friends…good day there Veum here❣️🙏🤠 

 

Mostly sunny and pleasant

 

 

I think it’s time to try this morning 😓…

 

[MikeH5856]

3 hours ago, Hollywood E Rock said:

Good Morning Psychos! Many beautiful things are waiting to welcome you to this new day. Happy Thursday 

 

 

More Scarlett posts then?

[Casiusco]

Good morning, everybody.

 

Today I have been reading an article about how Tom Cruise refused to allow "Top Gun: Maverick" to be released on streaming platforms in times of pandemic, instead of only releasing it in theaters, as it was eventually done.

 

And I think it's great.

 

I think that many times he has been criticized -or made fun of- due to circumstances of his private life, maybe unfairly, yes... unfairly, but what I have no doubt about is that he is not only one of the great actors of our time, but he is someone who really loves cinema.

 

An actor-true-filmmaker, even if he doesn't direct.

 

A true man of this art and this business.

 

Someone who really puts his effort and gives everything so that the cinema continues to be the cinema. And that going to the movies continues to be a fabulous ritual.

 

Long live Tom Cruise!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PS:

 

 

 

[ajames212]

@Casiusco and that 30 year old plus sequel made bank. Smart move bye his part. 

[Hollywood E Rock]

37 minutes ago, Casiusco said:

Good morning, everybody.

 

Today I have been reading an article about how Tom Cruise refused to allow "Top Gun: Maverick" to be released on streaming platforms in times of pandemic, instead of only releasing it in theaters, as it was eventually done.

 

And I think it's great.

 

I think that many times he has been criticized -or made fun of- due to circumstances of his private life, maybe unfairly, yes... unfairly, but what I have no doubt about is that he is not only one of the great actors of our time, but he is someone who really loves cinema.

 

An actor-true-filmmaker, even if he doesn't direct.

 

A true man of this art and this business.

 

Someone who really puts his effort and gives everything so that the cinema continues to be the cinema. And that going to the movies continues to be a fabulous ritual.

 

Long live Tom Cruise!

 

 

@Casiusco 

 

Not only did he have to fight to have the movie released in theaters he had to also fight to make sure the studio didn’t cut short it’s theatrical run. These dummies only wanted the movie to be exclusive to theater chains for like a month, & then be available on streaming smfh. You can’t make up how out of touch some of those people are. Glad he was able to win in the end, because Top Gun: Maverick is damn entertaining. It’s my number one movie of the year!

[nmskyler0405]

36 minutes ago, Casiusco said:

Good morning, everybody.

 

Today I have been reading an article about how Tom Cruise refused to allow "Top Gun: Maverick" to be released on streaming platforms in times of pandemic, instead of only releasing it in theaters, as it was eventually done.

 

And I think it's great.

 

I think that many times he has been criticized -or made fun of- due to circumstances of his private life, maybe unfairly, yes... unfairly, but what I have no doubt about is that he is not only one of the great actors of our time, but he is someone who really loves cinema.

 

An actor-true-filmmaker, even if he doesn't direct.

 

A true man of this art and this business.

 

Someone who really puts his effort and gives everything so that the cinema continues to be the cinema. And that going to the movies continues to be a fabulous ritual.

 

Long live Tom Cruise!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PS:

 

 

 

 

Ngl Tom Cruise is one of the actors who I respect the most in film industry. All of the movies I watched, there wasn't one where he didn't put his 100% into. The guy's acting is superb and despite his age he still pulls of a lot of crazy stunts that would make my jaw drops. Tho I'm gonna admit he's weird af but if the discussion is within the film industry only then this guy is second to none imo.

 

Same thing goes to Kevin Spacey, my all time favourite actor but I rarely bring him up in a discussion because people may think I support what he did irl (which I don't) 

[Fortis93]

 

This is a Super Moderator from a different room subtly letting you know...

 

 

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[Pbsw23]

1 hour ago, Casiusco said:

Good morning, everybody.

 

Today I have been reading an article about how Tom Cruise refused to allow "Top Gun: Maverick" to be released on streaming platforms in times of pandemic, instead of only releasing it in theaters, as it was eventually done.

 

And I think it's great.

 

I think that many times he has been criticized -or made fun of- due to circumstances of his private life, maybe unfairly, yes... unfairly, but what I have no doubt about is that he is not only one of the great actors of our time, but he is someone who really loves cinema.

 

An actor-true-filmmaker, even if he doesn't direct.

 

A true man of this art and this business.

 

Someone who really puts his effort and gives everything so that the cinema continues to be the cinema. And that going to the movies continues to be a fabulous ritual.

 

Long live Tom Cruise!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PS:

 

 

 

ALWAYS…… Save the best till Last 😁👌🏼

[tr0llhatt]

2 hours ago, Casiusco said:

An actor-true-filmmaker, even if he doesn't direct.

 

A true man of this art and this business.

At this point Cruise does what Cruise wants, he's got too much pull to say no to. He wants a submarine? He gets a submarine!
I could never have worked with the guy, he's way into his trade whereas I just wanna do my job and get paid. Just a (somewhat vital) cog in the machine, I don't give a stop using inappropriate language
 

[Veum]

3 hours ago, Veum said:

 

🥤☕ Top of the day to ya, going to be ☀️️ my friends…good day there Veum here❣️🙏🤠 

 

Mostly sunny and pleasant

 

 

I think it’s time to try this morning 😓…

 

 

I am disliking outdoor chores more & more…

 

 

 

I am acting like an older man…

 

[MikeH5856]

11 minutes ago, tr0llhatt said:

At this point Cruise does what Cruise wants, he's got too much pull to say no to. He wants a submarine? He gets a submarine!
I could never have worked with the guy, he's way into his trade whereas I just wanna do my job and get paid. Just a (somewhat vital) cog in the machine, I don't give a stop using inappropriate language
 

Based on my own experiences, you never want to work for somebody who's smart and highly motivated, and definitely not for somebody who's stupid but highly motivated, because they're just way too much high maintenance. Smart and lazy is ideal. I like Cruise, but working with/for him has got to be a nightmare. I'll pass, too!

[Veum]

My iPod with 55 Petra songs got me through my chores this morning nicely 🎼 

 

2 examples  

 

 

 

[Squeegie McGee]

11 minutes ago, Veum said:

 

My iPod with 55 Petra songs got me through my chores this morning nicely 🎼 

 

2 examples  

 

 

 

[Veum]

7 minutes ago, Squeegie McGee said:

 

[Basil]

4 hours ago, Casiusco said:

Good morning, everybody.

 

Today I have been reading an article about how Tom Cruise refused to allow "Top Gun: Maverick" to be released on streaming platforms in times of pandemic, instead of only releasing it in theaters, as it was eventually done.

 

And I think it's great.

 

I think that many times he has been criticized -or made fun of- due to circumstances of his private life, maybe unfairly, yes... unfairly, but what I have no doubt about is that he is not only one of the great actors of our time, but he is someone who really loves cinema.

 

An actor-true-filmmaker, even if he doesn't direct.

 

A true man of this art and this business.

 

Someone who really puts his effort and gives everything so that the cinema continues to be the cinema. And that going to the movies continues to be a fabulous ritual.

 

Long live Tom Cruise!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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well said that man @Casiusco and @Hollywood E Rock with your comments 👍

top gun maverick my favourite of the year cannot wait for steelbook and premiums of them.

when are the studios going to learn streaming is not the only way forward they can still make big money with cinema, blu ray's steelbooks and streaming

its not an either or it could be both and everyone will have multiple sittings 

 

i see the onion sellers bored again, any one remotely getting happy and poke his nose in trying to spoil the fun, shame he doesn't bother with his own french room as much maybe he could try help it instead of evading it  

 

basil