quote:Originally posted by Dr. Benway: you're probably just nervous - was that a job interview or something? Also, why are you in herbs' old flat?
If I was going to a job interview, I certainly wouldn't have such a big knot in my tie. It just screams "for the love of Christ don't employ me, I'm the biggest gayrod on the planet. Seriously I'm a massive **** , you'd be better off going to the local special school and randomly selecting a student from the remedial class, because they'd end up being a better employee than me"
It must have been a fancy dress party or somethhing, so I decided to dress like a **** from london. Herbs, did you have a fancy dress party like that?
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He's actually sitting on the laptop keyboard now I can barely see what I am typing. Luckily I have a separate keyboard attached. He's sv atARINGG AT ZZTZZHZZEZZ ZZZZZZZZZQ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!8 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!! thescreen now and walking over the keys!
quote:Originally posted by mart: My cat is sitting next to my laptop, playing with my roll-up cigarette filters, purring contentedly and also not looking, or acting, like Ringo.
Is he also not looking or acting like any or all of the following
- Ben Fogle - An Easter Island Statue - The Scream - A bald man standing in front of a picture saying 'Yahoo!' - Charlize Theron - Joan of Arc - John Merrick - Dr Benway - An inuit's penis
Please answer each item individually in no less than 200 words.
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quote:Originally posted by Ringo: It must have been a fancy dress party or somethhing, so I decided to dress like a **** from london. Herbs, did you have a fancy dress party like that?
All my parties are like that. Fancy dress or otherwise. Come as you are, that's what I say.
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Can I just say I'm not really a fan of the 'not looking like ringo' game. It seems like the games they used to make up in school designed specifically to exclude me from playing.
It's no wonder I turned into such a big-knot-tie wearer..
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quote:Originally posted by Ringo: Can I just say I'm not really a fan of the 'not looking like ringo' game. It seems like the games they used to make up in school designed specifically to exclude me from playing.
Mind you, how does one win? So many of us 'do not look like Ringo' that there are a whole spate of winners, and therefore, none at all.
I think we all lose.
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I see Ringo dancing in a Beryl Cook painting, but I can't find the poxy thing online. It's accompanying Hunter Davies' article in the Guardian mag, if anyone has that to hand. He's not wearing a fat tie though, so it might not be him.
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I had to wear a tie at a place I worked at recently, and I didn't, and nobody said anything about it, they all just carried on wearing ties and never asking themselves why.
At the place I work now you're specifically not allowed to wear trainers, and I do, and nobody has said anything. I mean, they're reasonably discrete trainers, not bright white hip-hop ones or anything, but it's an interesting phenomenon that you can go around blatantly breaking this documented "dress code" thing and no one gives a fuck anyway.
I'm going to wear a baseball cap to the pub later, just to check if I've actually gone invisible, or if I'm Bruce Willis out of that crap film where he's dead without knowing it. Duh.
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I'm not. It's all sort of 'casual' around here, which actually just means 'no tie' so I still have to put on shoes and a shirt. I'm not kidding, I look shit in a shirt, but at least if I have on a tie I can acccesorise a bit. Nope.
I'm not really that bothered about not having a tie, but everything about the job is annoying me presently. Apparently, we need to stop spending time fixing calls that come through and delegate them on to the other departments more to make sure we don't keep anyone waiting in the call queue. Esentially, if three people are waiting in a global business of over 3000 users it's deemed a bad thing. I suppose it seems like a great idea, well thought out, if not for one really important aspect. We promise the business a 70% fix rate on first contact with us and have no agreement to pick the phone up in any given time frame, so essentially this move will reduce our fix rate percentage to produce an effect in the business that isn't a requirement or expected. Apparently people in our 3rd line role are considering our ability to fill in incident tickets as grounds for refusing someone a chance for a promotion within their department. So for example, if you were to forget a small detail when troubleshooting in the system (That some readers may know as 'Remedy') this can later affect your ability to handle systems/specialise on an application/understand how a server works/ Whereas there is a culture in the 3rd line department for not even opening up the application and leaving routine tasks left unchecked for days. Essentially, now the business has been re-arranged to provide a clear career path for people on the lower pay bracket to move up the ranks and specialise, those teams are digging their heels in and distancing themself from the helpdesk it seems. This also doesn't help when earlier I wanted 5, count em 5 minutes to check some settings on a printer on a mac and was denied the chance to go, even though I've spent the last couple of months being told that the opportunities to learn about our cross-platform environment are freely available and we can't even take them :maid:
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That's some boring shit above. Sorry.
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quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: I'm not. It's all sort of 'casual' around here, which actually just means 'no tie' so I still have to put on shoes and a shirt. I'm not kidding, I look shit in a shirt, but at least if I have on a tie I can acccesorise a bit. Nope.
That's pretty standard isn't it? I've been dressing like that in almost every job I've had.
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Presumably the baseball cap idea is that you put it on and stand in front of a mirror. If you are invisible, you will just see the hat sort of floating in the air. Right?
If that's the case then I suspect you don't actually need to go to the pub to do this. You could just put the cap on, now, and wait for reactions such as "bloody hell there's a baseball cap just floating in the air! Look! It's where Dang used to sit. Fucking hell, that's weird."
In the pub you'd just freak people out. Or not, if they're pissed. I don't know. Maybe I misunderstood.
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quote:Originally posted by Dr. Benway: That's pretty standard isn't it?
You must have worked for every really laaaaid back company ever. I've only had two choices since I moved to London: Suit n boot or very definately smartcasz
quote:Originally posted by mart: Presumably the baseball cap idea is that you put it on and stand in front of a mirror. If you are invisible, you will just see the hat sort of floating in the air. Right?
I don't know. I've never actually watched that Bruce Willis film. I was under the impression that he could see himself, including his clothes? Maybe I should force myself to watch it, but the concept sounds so shit.
I'm fairly sure I'm not invisible though, unless there are a lot of really insane people that keep coming up to my desk and asking infuriatingly dull questions into thin air.
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quote:Originally posted by Dr. Benway: That's pretty standard isn't it?
You must have worked for every really laaaaid back company ever. I've only had two choices since I moved to London: Suit n boot or very definately smartcasz
Doing contracts with computers means you get the whole range of work outfits and you never know what to expect. Last one, I turned up on Day One wearing a tie as it was in Docklands and I thought they all dressed like that there, only to find they apparently had some kind of ongoing competition to see who could look like the biggest slob. It was moth-eaten cardigans and paint splattered jeans all round. Good people though. The more suited and booted, the more likely to be complete wankers.
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quote:Originally posted by mart: Well then I don't understand your concept at all Dang.
Bruce can se himself in mirrors, yes. I don't think he wears a baseball cap at any point in the film.
So, don't you think that a good way to check if other people can see you, avoiding all likelyhood of them coincidentally saying "I miss you" when you say "Did you miss me?" or something, would be to go somewhere wearing something you shouldn't wear in that place and see if anyone has a go at you? That would seem to be very logical to me. Although there's always the chance that the landlord of the pub was able to see dead people, so you'd have to try a few places to be sure.
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quote:Originally posted by Dr. Benway: That's pretty standard isn't it?
You must have worked for every really laaaaid back company ever. I've only had two choices since I moved to London: Suit n boot or very definately smartcasz
Most American firms seem to employ this dress code as standard, including a white t-shirt underneath the shirt, so another button can be undone at the top. In fact, you wouldn't be dressed properly if you didn't do this. The only place I worked where it was casz, ie, chinos, jeans, jumpers, and maybe polo shirts, was a market research firm, and I was reprimanded for dressing 'like a builder'.
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Why would someone have a go at you for wearing a baseball cap? Except for it being rude to wear a hat indoors. Is that what you mean?
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