London booze-up, 1st Feb

It's a 20 minute walk from here, so about 6. If I'm not asleep by then.

 

I'm in a telecon with the US til 6pm. its then an hour from here.
twill depend on how knackered I am as to whether I turn up at all.

I know that very feeling.

 

god - please don't let it just be me and Kiran ;-)

I've been here since 8:20, with only a short lunch, most of the rest
of the office have gone home already, and the only pressing bit of
work I have today is to write a desk-moves policy document :-/

 

i'll be there probably earlier than 1800 since i'm bored too.

 

On a normal day i'd declare that pointless, but apparently I now have to
write a process document so that some numbskull in Bangalore can read
alerts from a console, and raise problem records for them. Apparently
they can't develop any processes for themselves... and once written it
apparently needs a risk assesment.

"Risk: If you don't do this I'm coming to find you..."

I probably don't need to say I'm glad it's Friday.

 

Well I don't know about you, but I'm off to the pub...

 

How about this one I got today (actually, this is but one question
among 20 or so)...

"According to the schedule you sent, this year's profits were £x
million, whereas last year they were £y million. Can you provide an
explanation for this discrepancy?"

Discrepancy? Cheeky fuckers.

 

Hope so! I couldn't go in the end; still under the weather with
a bad chest cough, plus I had a couple of new DVD drives to install and test
(for the statisticians: one beige, one black; one Linux, one Windows...).

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This year just finished.

 

Dodger, demand a pay rise *NOW*.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, ginge

**** that. Options. He wants options.

Trust me on this.

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The CEO doesn't know how much profit each of our funds made. He does
"big picture" stuff. Probably.
Yeah, like that'd work.

What makes you think I haven't got any?

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, SD

Good lad. Just bide your time.

 

They really are wonderful. They'd be more wonderful if our share price
ever returned to 1999 levels.

 

Rewind to 1999/2001/whenever.

Biding your time doesn't always work as I'm sure many of us are aware.