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Sat all day in a Room Without Windows (oubliette?) supposedly manning a phone.
Except that they didn't have enough phones. I was given a PC to work on, except that I had to be shunted off because they didn't have enough.
I was the only one of my colleagues so far to honour their clearing responsibilities so I think that my presence was a bit of a shock. I had to deal with three enquiries before 11am, and then nothing for the rest of the day. Fortunately I had composition to get on with, but it is a Room Without Windows with MAGNOLIA walls. Needles tosay, I'm feeling a bit rubbish now.
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« Reply #6781 on: 18:53:57, 08-08-2008 » |
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I spent HOURS on a desktop publishing project (not my favourite at any time). Then He returns to office after shopping trip with wife. "Well" he says "I don't like that, that map should be the other way" I reply "If you want two maps on one A4 page you have to put them like that" To which he says "Can't the OS Map go full page?" "No" I reply "because we only have 6 pages" "Have we used all 6 pages?" says He and proceeds to count them. "Can't we have another page?" "No" said I through gritted teeth "It is a 3 fold-over, 6 A4 pages, you cannot have another page because then (more gritted teeth) it wouldn't be a 3 fold-over and you would have to go up one level to an 8 page custom design, it is a Printers template" "Oh" then "Is the map on the computer?" "No, it's in bluddy Outer Mongolia!" I didn't say that really but the joys of working with someone so computer illiterate  |
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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« Reply #6782 on: 22:46:20, 08-08-2008 » |
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I couldn't really have eaten in front of a class of pupils
My class is used to me arriving to take the afternoon register with a half-eaten apple in my hand...apples are so refreshing to have after a hastily scoffed sandwich or baked spud but they take too long to eat - I'm a slow chewer. |
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« Reply #6783 on: 22:52:19, 08-08-2008 » |
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I couldn't really have eaten in front of a class of pupils
My class is used to me arriving to take the afternoon register with a half-eaten apple in my hand...apples are so refreshing to have after a hastily scoffed sandwich or baked spud but they take too long to eat - I'm a slow chewer. I read 'baked squid'. I'm sick. |
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« Reply #6784 on: 14:59:54, 09-08-2008 » |
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« Reply #6785 on: 15:59:48, 09-08-2008 » |
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Outer Mongolia!
MAGNOLIA walls.
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« Reply #6786 on: 19:24:54, 09-08-2008 » |
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What do fellow GORers think of this? In the gym where as regularly as I can I conduct a quixotic campaign against decrepitude, the sounds of KissFM (a commercial radio station broadcasting a staple diet of R&B and hiphop, for those who don't know) emanate constantly from loudspeakers positioned in every available corner. I often take along my iPod to blot this out, since it is not really to my taste, but the other day I was pedalling away with naked ears and noticed not only that the woman next to me did have earphones on but also that it was clear she was listening to the SAME RADIO STATION as that coming from the speakers.
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« Reply #6787 on: 19:53:16, 09-08-2008 » |
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Perhaps she desires the 'cocoon effect', r, despite the fact that the same soundtrack is available to the unpodded. I'm a naked-earer myself, although depending on who's manning the reception desk at Liz McColgan's gym, the choice of station will be R1 or Wave FM, Dundee's local commercial outfit. In either case, it's enough to make me redouble my effort in the attempt to shut them out. Because the clientele tends to be small-town local, there's quite a social feel anyway, with more working out naked-ear than podded: most members know many of the others (sometimes even as far back as school), and encouraging comments and grins are quite usual, even occasional banter without being restricted to various cliques, which has tended to be my experience of city gyms. The staff happily pass the time of day, too, if they're not booked on a specific training session: even the celebrated lady herself is often to be seen training, or encouraging others. A very happy place. |
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« Reply #6789 on: 20:55:19, 09-08-2008 » |
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I was the only one of my colleagues so far to honour their clearing responsibilities Really   I'm surprised that in itself isn't enough to make you Mr Grumpy.  PS MabelJ, yes, I found it hard not to read Ron's post like that too! |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #6790 on: 21:19:24, 09-08-2008 » |
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Me, I can't read the word naked without immediately thinking of people with no clothes on.
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« Reply #6791 on: 22:03:39, 09-08-2008 » |
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« Reply #6792 on: 22:25:27, 09-08-2008 » |
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Richard Barrett, thats one reason why I dont go to gyms, because ol that inscesant noise they call music belting out at every conceivable corner!! There are some things I do like as far as the popular music goes but the rubbish they put on that or similar channels, is enough to drive anybody insane.
Perhaps, thats one reason why youngsters today, who like that kind of music, etc, how some of them i]seem to go wild with their behaviour!
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