Be Excellent To Each Other

*goes home to change*

Ahem!

Enjoy.
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Meeting with boss: Cancelled
Academic Bookings: Cancelled (due to strike)
DavPaz's Lunch: Extended

Space Bridge is fucking annoying & very compulsive which makes it more annoying. I like the modern scoreboards too.

Forgot to put my out of office notifices on when I had three days off this week. Fair cop, really, but an email "reminding" me that it's "extremely important" that they're put on.

Now, I dunno about you, but if one of my staff did that, I'd wag a finger at them in person and that's about it. It obviously should be done, but "extremely important"? No it isn't. Going by their scale, absolutely everything I do is "extremely important".

Besides, in my absence I can see that close to fuck all has been done anyway. They haven't even posted the letters in the "to post" tray, even though they were already weeks late because I was off last week and nothing got done then, either.

Siiiiiigh. Still, on the plus side, my new complooter arrived today! As did a letter from my union. Excellent.


Edit: And now a shitty email (inbox was 51 unread after 3 days, woo) copied in to Idiot Boss 'reminding' me of yet another process that I got wrong once out of 100+ times. Bonus: This time the mistake was made when I wasn't even here. I don't even have to come into the office to get in trouble for someone else's cock-ups anymore! Damn, I'm good.

*Presses BUY on 3-axis CNC mill*

Yeah!

Wait, what?

Pah, you want a 4-axis NCN Mill.

Did *not* need my coat for lunchtime stroll.

Phil Collins weather.

I hope you replied to all pointing that out.

He can't, he didn't have his out-of-office-autoreply turned on!

I'd need a form with at least three signatures to do that. And two of them are on strike.

I just got an apology about it. Naturally, I replied and was all like "no worries, whatevs man". OBSERVE THE WAYS OF MAGNANI-MAN.

There's some fit birds in Oxford flashing the flesh today. BRB, disabling shutter sound on my phone camera.

Unfortunately the Asda car park in Great Bridge isn't as gifted.

Strange. The people shopping at the ASDA here are certainly pretty gifted.

FTFY

FTFY!

Get to fuck, the both of ya!

Sooper. I just agreed to 1.5 hours overtime tomorrow in return for an entire day off later in the week. Woop!

Is the day off Saturday?

Took two hours to get my hair done, have done no house work but I just don't give a fuck because I look...



(I cannot believe The internet lacked this macro and I had to make it myself.)

Sadly not
I still have to work that. I should have probably specified which week.

Booo to you, Russ. Boooo.

I know, I know. But look on the bright side: you get stupid sexy throughsilver all to yourselves.

Just so you know, there's nothing in my job description about flip chart stands and the wrangling thereof

That's very true. And he wants to take us to the cinema, so who knows what's he's planning to do to Miss Malabar me.

Any reasonable request.

Better than moving desks anyway, Shirley.

Things that are shit: Trying to work over remote desktop to a machine that's a 460ms round trip away.

Get up and walk to it.

It's in Osaka.

Oh, ms meant miles, not milliseconds.

No, it meant miliseconds. It's still in Osaka.

Osaka is 460 miles away? Fucking hell, Tsunami, good show!

Then stop your moaning. Be thankful it's not waterlogged or something.

Don't you just love Chinese instructions?

Are you shaving??

Just slide the sharp end over your face, fool.

But how can we stop the twinkling?

"U LEFT UR OUT OF OFFICE OFFF!11 EXTEMELY MPORTENT!!"

"Yeah, sorry, forgot. While I was away, you sent a PhD certificate to someone without including the title of their thesis. Or paying their examiner. In intercepted it, though, and have fixed it. Again."

"..."

"Yeah, thought so."

Hmm. I've just had my boss on the phone telling me that the company down in London we work closely with are looking for a web developer, and are quite interested in hiring me, having seen what I can do.

They're offering more money, not what I'd consider a particularly brilliant wage, but they're a stronger company than I'm currently in. Of course, the physical logistics are iffy, as I'd have to either commute and stay down there for a few days a week, or actually relocate, but this job feels like a dead end at the moment and I know I could progress in a new place.

Hmm.

I've said I'll give it some thought.

London's a land of opportunity and dreams. Just be aware that the living costs are higher by a significant margin.

I'm sure plenty of Beexers would lend a couch whilst you find a place though.

They've said they'd offer accommodation, which probably would involve staying with one of them. I haven't had a proper talk with the company yet, only my boss saying he'd put me forward as an ideal candidate. I certainly couldn't afford my own place down there without uprooting Miss Malabar, and I'm not sure either of us would be open to that idea.

I feel like it'd be an awful shake-up of my life, but I'll have to weigh up the pros and cons before actually even remotely deciding.

Hmm. I might just look for a new job around here instead.

If they've offered you accommodation it sounds ideal for a 'stay away a few days at a time' style commute. If you don't want it tell them I'll have it.

The last 2 people I walked past were a man in a winter coat and scarf followed by a girl in vest top and hot pants. Spring confuses people