"Nick, can you come with me to HR?"

"Nick, can you come with me to HR?" my manager said to me today,
accompanied by the police.

Evidently I had upset someone in the office.

Yesterday morning a colleague and I went for a walk through the
grounds while having a cigarette and found that some ground crew had
dug a hole in one of the gardens and decided to dump a 7" long line of
soil in the entrance to one of the gardens. We commented that it
looked rather like a freshly filled in grave.

Later on at lunch we decided to make it a bit more grave like and got
two sticks of wood and tied them together in a cross shape with some
bind weed and then picked a selection of butter cups and put them on
it.

<http://www.flickr.com/photos/hayn0r/3662724377/sizes/l/>

Later we added some larger wild flowers.

We sat down and finished our cigarettes amused at our arty decoration
and thought nothing more of it.

Evidently later on yesterday someone informed security of a suspicious
item in one of the gardens. After investigation Security called the
police. Late last night and early this morning there were a fleet of
police cars there and they started digging up the grave in case
someone had been murdered and buried in the gardens of one of my
employers properties.

After reviewing tapes from the security cameras they saw my colleague
and I decorating the grave and told the police where we were.

After speaking with the plod and HR the plod was rather amused but HR
were rather appauled. There wasn't a body in it and they accused me
of digging a grave, all I did was make a cross out of broken wood and
pick some wild flowers.

Why don't employers appreciate artistry and creativity in their IT
staff? A good waste of an hour though, but I doubt it's going to be
the last I hear of it.

 

You're lucky they didn't get the rubber gloves out & give you a good
examination....oh, hang on

 

That's given me a big, big grin. But I'm sure that you're right and it
will come back to haunt you.

Bloody well done, anyway.

 

I think I've decided to say that my art is just an extension of my
rights as a citizen of the European Union as peaceful Freedom of
Expression.

And when that doesn't wash I'll say I was going through a manic phase
of bipolar depression and claim discrimination for having a
disability.

Or something.

 

say you thought it was part of the creative quarter.

james

 

Looks like something on Boot Hill

"****'em if they can't take a joke."

 

"I was distraught at the loss to mankind of the greatest musical artist the
world has ever known."

And then burst into tears.

 

Trouble is, they *can't* take a joke and they won't be the ones getting
fucked.


--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

BGN posted:

Go with the discrimination issue first; there is no limit on the
compensation you can claim for discrimination. You don't need to go
down the EU road.

 

"You is only pickin' on me 'cos I is blick."

 

I wouldn't dream of digging a grave at work, I've not had any training
in using a shovel and can't even begin to imagine the health and
safety issues. In fact the addition of a 'marker' to the excavation
should be seen as a good thing.. at least people are less likely to
trip over it now.

 

Bloody small grave.

--
Malc

Rusted and ropy.
Dog-eared old copy.
Vintage and classic,
or just plain Jurassic:
all words to describe me.

 

Maybe seven inches is the only size he can think of?

 

The sad thing is that you're probably right.
--
Richard

XJ900S
BOTAFOT #138, YTC#18, OMF#12

Email-remove insult to reply

 

Who knows?

Your real trouble is that your employers think you an immature fool.
Your actions now should be to remove this perception.

 

I'm pretty sure his employer will be considering removing him before
too long.

 

What I find incredible is that some utter fool actually thought it was a
grave and called the cops.

 

If only they could arrange a shallow grave...

Oh.