A Mini Rant.

Fuckin' right on both counts

I don't give a shit where they're based, but if I phone a company in
this country then I expect to be able to understand what the twat on the
other end's saying

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Put Out The Lights On The Age Of Reason

 

Precisely. Why waste your own brain power actually thinking about
something when you can ask the super brain elsewhere in the office? It
does get very tedious but you do it because you like to be a helpful
soul and then everyone rings you up because you were so helpful to x.

 

"Rascist" is Champ's own little typo peculiarity. He does it every
time.
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Heh.

The news the other day had an item on about some chap who'd escaped a
prison/asylum thing in Wales under a van.

Reporter said something like "the man has a poor command of English,
and is thought to be heading for the West Midlands", which made me
chuckle.

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But what about "availabilty"?

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We don't comment on bad smelling unless we can be amusing about it.

Roger.

 

Salad Dodger

Here 'i'

 

Not necessarily: if you'd phoned up the Pru's customer centre in Delhi
in the middle of this year, you'd have spoken to someone from Reading,
most likely, while they were training up the locals.
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I notice you carefully avoided any irish reference in that statement.

Anyway its EU...

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Main Entry: avail·abil·i·ty
Pronunciation: &-"vA-l&-'bi-l&-tE
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -ties
Date: 1803
1 : the quality or state of being available
2 : an available person or thing

It's a real word, what about it?

 

Seriously, is there a difference?

 

Paul Corfield

Could you be so kind and come to Oxford to sort out the abysmal transport
strategy they concocted here. I know one of the consultants for it and she
was horrified of what the implementation made of the great theoretical
plans.

So what's the best way to cheat the LU ticket machines? ;-)

I'd say console yourself, most people here claiming great knowledge
of music have so only for a very small section of it too.

 

I feel embigened by knowing that.


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The speccy Geordie twat.

 

Well, from a business perspective I've got;

- Excel VBA
- Document / Knowledge Management
- Business analysis
- Communication skills, apparently, but see below.
- Utter bullshit, when required.
- An uncanny grasp of when keeping my mouth shut or saying very little will
make me look more intelligent than saying something would[1]

The last two are, by far and away, the most useful.

However, outside of work, there's;

- An encyclopaedic knowledge of the Simpsons.
- Film Censorship
- History of the Papacy.

All of which are going on my application form for the next series of
Mastermind, when it turns up.

[1] i.e. most of the time[2].
[2] In fact, so much of the time that I often combine it with my skill of
sleeping with my eyes open.


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Erm..."ginge", Ginge.

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I still haven't got the fucking first one yet.

 

Ben Blaney :

Reminds me of a little tale.

One of the supermarkets reduced staffing levels to lower costs, which
worked. Unfortunately they also reduced the number of customers because
people were pissed off with empty shelves and long queues.

They then tried to increase the number of customers by spending loads
of money on advertising, and lowering prices. Bizarrely enough, they
lost even more customers, and those that they gained were a bunch of
pikeys who didn't buy any of the high margin goods.

So then... then they removed lots of the 'value' products from the
shelves to stop people buying the no-profit lines. This lost them
more customers.

Realising things were a bit sticky, they hired a load of management
consultants to tell them how to run their business. This didn't work.

Finally they brought in a new MD, who sacked a load of staff to reduce
costs...

 

Puts me in mind of a little story I saw pinned in someone's cubicle many
years ago.

Fortunately the web was able to find it for me[1], the details are slightly
off, but the jist is the same.

http://www.aviationhumour.co.uk/general/boat.htm

[1] Isn't it marvellous, eh? No, really, isn't it?


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The speccy Geordie twat.

 

<waves>

Ginger and intolerant here.

 

On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 19:39:38 -0000, Simian

[cost cutting]

Sainsburys?