Great day at work

[ailbhe]

I had a meeting this morning and discussed timekeeping, among other things. I explained that I understood that after 6-8 months of constant overwork and unpaid overtime, we all felt like we "deserved" to come in late whenever we felt like it, etc, but that I have been pretty generous with letting people go home early and so on. It was one of the team who said "Yes, we shouldn't take the piss".

So I was pleased.

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Thank you

[science-vixen.livejournal.com]

I surfed onto lifejournal through Halimede, and was quite happy to be able to use one of your codes for an account of my own.

[eck.livejournal.com]

Sorry to read more recently that your work's been stressing you out so much!

You're managing a team where you work? Reading some of your entries as they go by, I haven't remembered what you last said your work is.

Care to supply a Transatlantic translation for what your team member meant by "we shouldn't take the piss"? :-) I know full well it's not what an American would mean, but the context leaves me a little fuzzy, here.

Taking the piss

[ailbhe]

Taking the mick
Codding

More usefully, mocking. In this context, it meant that they shouldn't come in so late as to appear to be mocking my authority and the company's claim on them. Treating with derision or lack of respect.

Re: Taking the piss

[eck.livejournal.com]

Ohhh...!

So yeah, not being sure you really meant you're their boss was making it harder for me to glean the rest from context. "Taking the piss out of" is a sorta familiar phrase to me, but not common enough hereabouts to, y'know, clarify much in itself.