Amusingly enough, the majority of the office has just buggered off home to go watch the football, leaving the place pretty much deserted. This could never happen in any other kind of work. So very very strange. Oh and someone actually nearly got rejected for an interview because they thought the applicant wasn't English :-s ( Read more... )

I don't think I've really ever told any of you this but one of the things I do to pass the time is to collect and paint warhammer 40,000 (a tabletop wargame) and although I have never really played a game of it before, I still very much enjoy putting the things together and painting them. Anyhow, until a couple of weeks back I had pretty much ( Read more... )

 It's 'bacon butty day' at the office! I told Laura this last night and she said that at her workplace-to-be they had 'tie days' on Tuesdays and Thursdays and we both decided that the corporate environment breeds some very strange things. The bestest thing in the whole wide world today though is that it's only a half day so not only do we get a ( Read more... )

ARGH! I have a forest of workpackets to put together, about a hundred drawings to find and I've just filed a sub con for electro tin plate when I should have chosen ultrasonic clean, something which is very bad and is going to involve around an hour and the senior technician to sort out. Once he's sorted it I'm going to have to run the sales order ( Read more... )

Good Morning, United Springs, How can I help?

*head-desk*

Yesterday I turned into work in freshly shined shoes, a shirt, ironed trousers and almost with a tie. Your once noble and good friend Tom has turned sellout temporarily and got an office job and it sucks. I'm sat here right now with nothing left to do but tell you all how bored I am. I haven't a clue what I'm actually meant to be doing, everything ( Read more... )

At the place I am working presently, a factory complete with all the mundane trappings of the industrial workplace, there is a cord dangling from a light high above our heads which is looped and tied at the end. It looks like a noose. I am working alongside an African that I dont think I have spoken of yet, but he's about the only interesting thing ( Read more... )

Intelligence is a concept that eludes me constantly. One minute I am with people who consider me supremely intelligent and I find myself thinking (and this thought comes with incredible guilt) that I am needing to talk down to their level, and then the next minute I'm talking to people whose intelligence totally outweighs my own and who can run ( Read more... )

This morning I half woke up finding myself searching frantically for a hosepipe in my room to wash down the floors. I was spluttering to Vics something like ( Read more... )

Y'know, you never quite realise how fucking powerful bulls are until one gets playful and tries to charge at you. God bless cattleprods and large heavy sticks ( Read more... )