Brandy and Cigars: Off topic thread

Slattsy

Any project lads out there that have done Six Sigma ?
Yellow Belt done. Green belt next week. Dreading it !

D'Agger

Haven't done them myself, closest I'll come is looking into ITIL this year, that and a security cert, must really get on that!

MIN2511

Slattsy wrote: »

Any project lads out there that have done Six Sigma ?
Yellow Belt done. Green belt next week. Dreading it !

Does signing up for them and dropping out last minute count? I've done the introduction, I moved roles just before the course and dropped out on the day.

Good luck dude! It's brilliant on the CV

Pawwed Rig

Morning all. How was the weekends?

Actually got to see the beginnings of daylight this morning on my walk to work

D'Agger

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

Morning all. How was the weekends?

Actually got to see the beginnings of daylight this morning on my walk to work

Had a good one, involved training, a match, topping up my nespresso war chest, Guardians of the Galaxy and finished last night with venturing to the city to see two buddies put on a really good gig. Good company and finished with a KCs!

Didn't get to bed until 3am though so I'm fairly bate this morning

The Black Oil

Was out in Howth on Saturday morning with some of the folks from the Photography forum. Good times. Am very much a novice.

Good to leave the office when it's not fully dark, either.

Slattsy

Slattsy wrote: »

Any project lads out there that have done Six Sigma ?
Yellow Belt done. Green belt next week. Dreading it !

Well **** me sideways.
Been asked to save 100k a year as my prerequisite to getting Green Belt Certified. Thanks Mr. Director guy !!!

Gonna have to look at FTE head count to get this over the line if i decide to push ahead with it.

Pawwed Rig

I am guessing that this is not some kind of martial art then?

Taltos

Slattsy wrote: »

Well **** me sideways.
Been asked to save 100k a year as my prerequisite to getting Green Belt Certified. Thanks Mr. Director guy !!!

Gonna have to look at FTE head count to get this over the line if i decide to push ahead with it.

How much does your director earn....

Six sigma, not a martial art.

Slattsy

Taltos wrote: »

How much does your director earn....

Six sigma, not a martial art.

You're out.
I'm in.

Saves €€

Easy.

Barna77

I might be on the move again. Dreading it.

D'Agger

Where to Barna or do you know?

ancapailldorcha

Barna77 wrote: »

I might be on the move again. Dreading it.

Been there. I don't envy you.

Barna77

D'Agger wrote: »

Where to Barna or do you know?

Not sure, I'd like southside Dublin, near enough city centre. I'm supposed to get my paycut back this spring, so I'll wait to see what happens and what's out there.

ancapailldorcha wrote: »

Been there. I don't envy you.

I know. It's a nightmare

D'Agger

Aye, keep your options open anyway Barna, never hurts

I'm happy out at work for now, must look into certifications this year big time

Been using a software program / chrome extension called rescue time - graphically shows you where your time is spent daily i.e. on what sites & programs on your laptop/PC so you can assign levels of productivity to certain sites, similarly you can assign levels of distraction etc. - gives you an overall percentage of how productive you've been and you can graph this over days/weeks/months

Really cool tool!

ancapailldorcha

D'Agger wrote: »

Aye, keep your options open anyway Barna, never hurts

I'm happy out at work for now, must look into certifications this year big time

Been using a software program / chrome extension called rescue time - graphically shows you where your time is spent daily i.e. on what sites & programs on your laptop/PC so you can assign levels of productivity to certain sites, similarly you can assign levels of distraction etc. - gives you an overall percentage of how productive you've been and you can graph this over days/weeks/months

Really cool tool!

I do not like the sound of this at all.

D'Agger

ancapailldorcha wrote: »

I do not like the sound of this at all.

You can pause it and set it for a certain time so you can take an hour off if you want to browse boards and stuff, but the idea is if you need to get something done, this will help show you where you spent your time and where you can save time etc.

boards nearly broke the graph the first day I used it :pac:

Barna77

Well, a miserable day has turned out pretty well.

A friend may have a spare room in a couple of months.

And I'm getting a visitor for Paddy's weekend :D

Pawwed Rig

I just saw a guy on adverts selling a phone for €890:eek:

Would someone seriosly pay that for a phone? The most I would consider is (absolute max) €200

Professey Chin

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

I just saw a guy on adverts selling a phone for €890:eek:

Would someone seriosly pay that for a phone? The most I would consider is (absolute max) €200

People have spent literally €1000 on the 128GB iPhone
DaFuq...

ancapailldorcha

The thing's unlikely to see a second birthday. I just don't get this.

Knex*

Don't see the point of it either. I'll probably spend 300 on the one plus when I can afford it, but I adore that phone and see it as being worth it. Aside from that, nah.

Pepe LeFrits

I'm moving at the end of the month too. Second move in less than a year, pain in the hole.

JaseBelleVie

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

I just saw a guy on adverts selling a phone for €890:eek:

Would someone seriosly pay that for a phone? The most I would consider is (absolute max) €200

Is the f*cking thing gold-plated or something?

I get upgrades for nothing with Vodafone (for my private phone) and with 3 (for my work phone), so I never spend much (if anything for a phone).

The mother and father both have iPhones, as does the brother. I have to be the odd one out and stick to Samsung!

Liam McPoyle

I bought my current phone second hand just over 2 years ago (iPhone 4) and it's never given any bother. Paid €200 for it and that's pretty much my limit for a phone, even a new one.

Pawwed Rig

JaseBelleVie wrote: »

Is the f*cking thing gold-plated or something?

http://www.adverts.ie/apple/iphone-6-plus-silver-128gb/7284662

Price dropped to €880. He must have realised that €890 was unrealistic :pac:

ancapailldorcha

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

http://www.adverts.ie/apple/iphone-6-plus-silver-128gb/7284662

Price dropped to €880. He must have realised that €890 was unrealistic :pac:

I refused to be impressed with a piece of technology that can't make a cup of tea much less pay most of a month's pay for one.

Kev.OC

Add one more onto the moving list.

Sephiroth_dude

JaseBelleVie wrote: »

I have to be the odd one out and stick to Samsung!

*high fives*

JaseBelleVie

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

*high fives*

Sephiroth_dude

DazHeath

I also pretend to have a brother

*high five*

D'Agger

Have an iphone through work, thank fúck I don't have to pay for it because they're simply not worth the money - very restrictive, you can't tweak it and get it to work the way an android can

I no longer love my phone like I used to, it's calls, whatsapp and basic browsing

Still....can't really complain....a free phone is a free phone :pac:

Any craic for the weekend gents?

Liam McPoyle

Wedding suit shopping tomorrow followed by a flitter of pints with my brother.

ancapailldorcha

D'Agger wrote: »

Have an iphone through work, thank fúck I don't have to pay for it because they're simply not worth the money - very restrictive, you can't tweak it and get it to work the way an android can

I no longer love my phone like I used to, it's calls, whatsapp and basic browsing

Still....can't really complain....a free phone is a free phone :pac:

My housemate said once that he pitied anyone without one. I pressed him on it and he just spouted the usual Apple apologist babble. I love the screens but that's where the appeal ends. You could probably have a nice week off in Eastern Europe for the price of one of those things.

Pawwed Rig

Business Cat wrote: »

Wedding suit shopping tomorrow followed by a flitter of pints with my brother.

When is the big date again?

Slattsy

Business Cat wrote: »

Wedding suit shopping tomorrow followed by a flitter of pints with my brother.

I'm on my pre marriage course today.

FML

Pawwed Rig

Slattsy wrote: »

I'm on my pre marriage course today.

Haha. Painful waste of a Saturday

D'Agger

Slattsy wrote: »

I'm on my pre marriage course today.

FML

Well Slattsy? Are you ready for marriage now?? :pac:

What's covered on those courses?

Slattsy

Load of bollox, but its done.
Another box ticked.

Liam McPoyle

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

When is the big date again?

10th of July.

Got the groomsmen sorted yesterday and am 90% certain Im sorted too so happy days.

Goin back to one other place as they couldn't really see us yesterday but I think we are going to run with the above.

Pawwed Rig

D'Agger wrote: »

What's covered on those courses?

If you can imagine the advice you would give 2 17 year olds that were moving out of their Mammy and Daddys place for the first time to get married you will not be far off what is covered in these classes. We got away without doing one but most people (who get married in a church) will have to do it

Barna77

Booked a trip to Austria.
Austerity measures apply.

The Black Oil

Odd situation on Dawson St. this evening. Some guy was on the ground, a few of us offered to help him up. Accepted initially, then rejected. Not sure why. He wasn't a junkie. Dunno.

D'Agger

The Black Oil wrote: »

Odd situation on Dawson St. this evening. Some guy was on the ground, a few of us offered to help him up. Accepted initially, then rejected. Not sure why. He wasn't a junkie. Dunno.

Panic attack? Certainly odd!

Barna77 wrote: »

Booked a trip to Austria.
Austerity measures apply.

Where and when Barna?

Berlin tomorrow week for myself! Hup!

The Black Oil

I'm not sure. As some other lad was helping him up he seemed to stop and say 'I'm just a bad person', at least that's what I think he said and I heard someone else saying that as we moved away. We were just a bunch of strangers who didn't know each other trying to help another stranger. Best not to judge, I guess.

Barna77

D'Agger wrote: »

Where and when Barna?

Berlin tomorrow week for myself! Hup!

Nice one! Mates are going for a weekend in June, but I'm going to be very broke for a while

Ten days in late April. Actually it's more of a road trip all over the place. Vienna, cross to Germany (Munich and the Alps), and maybe Slovakia.

D'Agger

The Black Oil wrote: »

I'm not sure. As some other lad was helping him up he seemed to stop and say 'I'm just a bad person', at least that's what I think he said and I heard someone else saying that as we moved away. We were just a bunch of strangers who didn't know each other trying to help another stranger. Best not to judge, I guess.

Jesús...that's a bit weird alright but yeah, like you say, best not to judge!

Barna77 wrote: »

Nice one! Mates are going for a weekend in June, but I'm going to be very broke for a while

Ten days in late April. Actually it's more of a road trip all over the place. Vienna, cross to Germany (Munich and the Alps), and maybe Slovakia.

Ah man that sounds unreal, something I'd love to do is a mini European road trip except go via France to see Normandy and some of the WWII sights along the way to the ultimate goal - Nurburgring for a couple of laps then home!

Hoping to hit Iceland in April myself, that could be amazing....I'll be broke after though!

ancapailldorcha

D'Agger wrote: »

Hoping to hit Iceland in April myself, that could be amazing....I'll be broke after though!

Iceland's amazing. You'll love it.

The Black Oil

Yeah, visiting the WWII sites would be good. Don't know enough about that period of history, tbh. Can't beat a decent road trip.