quote:Originally posted by Uber Trick: Mikee: why did you get fired?
It's actually not as bad as I am making out, I have been laid off in the most polite way imaginable. I was told a permanent member is taking a position in the team, but the truth is, I think it's just a management decision. I still have two weeks to leave the building. The thing is, there was a hoo-ha about a letter that I had lost. Someone checked the system and found the file had showed up eventually, but that was after it had promted a serious review of my work. I actually didn't get an apology once it had been discovered that the system was placing dozens of files into a folder that shouldn't exist. So a system error basically. I think the icing on the cake was when I allocated a case to the wrong department, which cost us two days out of the full twenty working days we had to reply. I mean, I think it's clutching at straws a bit to make up for the fact that my contract is finishing early. Put a little self doubt in my head first you know? It's quite funny really. I've had not too bad a day. My favourite bit was when someone sent in a photograph of a smelly heater that was caked in food. Also, the job I have been given to see my fortnight out is to look through hundreds of accounts and work out which ones have been logged correctly. I've found about 2 out of 50 cases today, so if there isn't enough irony to make me laugh at this predicament, then nothing will ever make me laugh again.
quote:Originally posted by jonesy999: I heard the Ikea story on the radio this morning. Until now I thought it was a dream. Obviously I don't want to laugh at people being potentially crushed to death, not least because of the current Thorn Davis Acts Concerned climate but I do think the Ikea Riot is some fucking funny shit.
Sky was working in Selfridges on the bank holiday Monday after Christmas (the first day of the January sale) and there was a stampede in the Gucci concession and a woman fell over and got trampled and had to be taken to hospital in an ambulance. They had to close Gucci for an hour until people calmed down. Chavs eh?
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Someone was stabbed during the Ikea Riots. What I'd like to know is did the stabber take a knife with them, you know, just in case things got messy in Blinds and Curtains, or did they manage to make it to through Kitchens and the tills in under an hour?
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Perhaps the knife was just part of their camping gear - you know, for if they got lost somewhere around the cushion and soft furnishings section and had to bed down for the night?
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quote:Originally posted by Uber Trick: Mikee: why did you get fired?
I actually didn't get an apology once it had been discovered that the system was placing dozens of files into a folder that shouldn't exist. So a system error basically.
I think the icing on the cake was when I allocated a case to the wrong department, which cost us two days out of the full twenty working days we had to reply. I mean, I think it's clutching at straws a bit to make up for the fact that my contract is finishing early. Put a little self doubt in my head first you know? It's quite funny really. I've had not too bad a day. My favourite bit was when someone sent in a photograph of a smelly heater that was caked in food. Also, the job I have been given to see my fortnight out is to look through hundreds of accounts and work out which ones have been logged correctly. I've found about 2 out of 50 cases today, so if there isn't enough irony to make me laugh at this predicament, then nothing will ever make me laugh again.
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Hey Mikee, if it makes you feel any better I've just aquired copies of Dies Irae by Coptic Rain as recommended by your good self, and Apocalyptica by the ear-drum meltingly fantastic Apocalyptica from last Saturday, and copies of both will be winging their merry way to you once I get back from Naarwich on Monday. Just so you know like.
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Physic! Please help me! What I was trying to do above was post the picture from Glasgow - number 51 - of me and Astro doing the :madfacesmilie: but for some reason I couldn't make it post. Can you sort me out? Pleeeease?
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Cuh I spend 5 minutes uploading a copy of it and copying the link and NWOD fucking beats me to it, damn my semi-drunken fumbly typing..
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quote:Originally posted by Physic: Cuh I spend 5 minutes uploading a copy of it and copying the link and NWOD fucking beats me to it, damn my semi-drunken fumbly typing..
quote:Originally posted by Physic: Cuh I spend 5 minutes uploading a copy of it and copying the link and NWOD fucking beats me to it, damn my semi-drunken fumbly typing..
Dude, I'm wrecked. I went out drunking.
I'd better leave this thread. It took me longer than necessary to type this. I spelt necething right. YAY!
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Me too dude, early birthday celebrations, pizza and drunkenness, and then tomorrow travelling to Naaarwich and more drunken foolishness. What more can a baldy soon-to-be-28-year-old ask for? Posts: 2337
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Oddly enough, this response to the news of C&C's engagement - from committed even rabid republican Steve Bell - seems to get it right. At first glance it seems acidic and bitchy, but the more you look at it, the more poignant and humane it becomes.
I don't know. I reckon a lot of people must have cloth eyes or something: while not "pretty" attractive, CP-B has glamour in spades and it isn't hard to see how their affair has endured for 30 plus years (more than many/most married couples).
As a side note - and having failed in my eBay bid for that nude of Kate Moss - I wonder whether anyone here is familiar with that picture Freud did of Camilla's erstwhile husband, Andrew Parker-Bowles. In it, the now-portly, rubicund officer sits slumped, the buttons of his tunic undone, a quite incredible image of the cuckolded spouse - restoring some of his very clearly robbed dignity. This link includes a detail and a comment on the picture, but I've been unable to find any decent reproductions on the net (NPG website shows only a work-in-progress).
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My favourite headline this morning was The Express with WHAT WOULD DIANA SAY???1!!
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Heh - yes. I reckon they must have the malfunctioning OutRage01 (millennium edition) headline software formerly used by the Mail (which recently upgraded to s'Norton AntiEverything).
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I couldn't work out Natasja Kaplinski's opinions on the subject this morning, but the people of windsor seemed to be pretty divided, based on the vox pop that was broadcast at 8.15.
off topic, has anybody seen Big Cook Little Cook in the mornings, and noticed the similarity between big cook ben, and our very own 'Big Cook Ben'?
This picture doesn't help to highlight this:
Those two were punditing on 'TVs most outrageous moments' on C5 the other night, being all cynical and biting, and it tarnished their image a little bit.
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