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Author:  Malc [ Thu May 29, 2008 14:49 ]
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Squirt wrote:
Malc made a simple mistake. There's no need to milk it.


The thing is, I used "an udderless" not "a udderless" showing that I meant to use that. Maybe I am obsessed by bovine mammary glands

Sorry no puns in this post.

Malcowm
Author:  Mr Cochese [ Thu May 29, 2008 14:50 ]
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ComicalGnomes wrote:
pupil wrote:
I mentioned in the "weekend" thread last week that Friday I was going to a job interview. Well, I got the call this morning and I got the job!! :D

Given I live in Manchester, and work for the same humble university, I'm happy to offer you advice on any relevant stuff. After you start you'll be able to look me up on the internal staff directory and EVERYTHING. Fun.

I never knew you worked at the Uni. I was there until last December.
Author:  ElephantBanjoGnome [ Thu May 29, 2008 14:51 ]
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Did you take voluntary severence? I applied 6 months ago and then never heard a thing, which was a shame, because I'd have got an awesome payout if it had worked.

Strangely though, they didn't seem keen to give a giant lump sum to someone on a fixed term contract that was due to expire.
Author:  SteONorDar [ Thu May 29, 2008 14:52 ]
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I put sporting equipment in boxes, except when my brain melts and I can't get out of bed, like now.

When not doing either of them, I drink to excess and talk bollocks.
Author:  Mr Cochese [ Thu May 29, 2008 14:54 ]
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ComicalGnomes wrote:
Did you take voluntary severence? I applied 6 months ago and then never heard a thing, which was a shame, because I'd have got an awesome payout if it had worked.

Strangely though, they didn't seem keen to give a giant lump sum to someone on a fixed term contract that was due to expire.

I can neither confirm or disconfirm that, for some reason. What part of the uni are you in?
Author:  ElephantBanjoGnome [ Thu May 29, 2008 14:57 ]
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Oh of course. I forgot there was a clause that said anyone who took it wasn't allowed to say whether or not they did, or didn't. Big bunch of balls if you ask me.

My gf took severence (third party claim, non-binding), y'see, which has allowed her time to retrain and she's now doing what she wants, which is super-ace.

I was in MSEC on the D floor of the Sackville Building, now I'm down in the wilderness of the Stopford.
Author:  pupil [ Thu May 29, 2008 15:00 ]
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Thanks for the congrats guys :) :kiss: I'll def PM you via here, Comical, when I start at the Uni so I can say hi if I find which bit you work in.

Did I also mention that I'm gonna be getting a 25% pay rise with this new job. No, I don't think I did, did I? ;) Finally, I will have spare sponds to piss away on tattoos and holidays, yay! :P
Author:  Dudley [ Thu May 29, 2008 15:05 ]
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I make computers do shit.

Except right now, when I'm trying to stop it doing shit, and failing.
Author:  Mr Cochese [ Thu May 29, 2008 15:07 ]
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ComicalGnomes wrote:
My gf took severence (third party claim, non-binding), y'see, which has allowed her time to retrain and she's now doing what she wants, which is super-ace.

I'm doing software development now, which is also ace. Much better than databases and spreadsheets.
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I was in MSEC on the D floor of the Sackville Building, now I'm down in the wilderness of the Stopford.

They shifted you down to my end on Oxford Road then. I was in the John Owens Building, with the funky stained glass windows.
Author:  ElephantBanjoGnome [ Thu May 29, 2008 15:11 ]
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You didn't work for MCISO did you? ;)
Author:  Mr Cochese [ Thu May 29, 2008 15:12 ]
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ComicalGnomes wrote:
You didn't work for MCISO did you? ;)

No. They are the enemy of mankind.
Author:  ElephantBanjoGnome [ Thu May 29, 2008 15:13 ]
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Awesome, when I first started I was in the Beyer building and under their jurisdiction. It took 3 weeks to get my own PC.
Author:  Goddess Jasmine [ Thu May 29, 2008 17:50 ]
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I'm a mobile holistic therapist, which means I go into peoples houses and get paid to rub oil over their naked bodies. I'm currently trying to sort my house out though because I'm applying for jobs in prisons as forensic psychology is the way I want to go - hence the job interview next week. It's my first ever and I'm bricking it!

Hobbies: Scuba diving, reading, swimming, gym and gaming. Not that I have time for any of them at the moment!

Congrats Pupil, I hope some of your good luck will rub off on me by association! :D
Author:  sinister agent [ Thu May 29, 2008 17:56 ]
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Oooh, we have not one, but TWO people at the university of Manchester? Excellent!

If I give you a name, can you stalk someone for me?

Anyway, me. I do miscellaneous admin, design and IT crap for a local architectural salvage company, and am looking for a part time job in a library because I miss library work (two applied for today, hopefully I'll get at least one of them), need a more regular income and met nearly all of the finest people in my life while working, so it'll be good for me too I think.

When not working I bum around on the internet, play games, read, write (not nearly enough though), cook, clean up after my housemates (and no doubt picking soiled nappies off the living room floor in a few months. I wish I were being pessimistic), and act as some sort of unpaid freelance counsellor for confused young women and couples who keep crossing my path. I find people interesting and comfort myself by considering the fact that while I write less than I used to, what I write is better now, and the gaps in my major ideas get smaller the older I get. One story in particular is very important to me, and will be mostly a product of the thousands of hours I've spent trying to patch up a tiny part of the damage done by our country's many cuntish parents and stupid education system, and will hopefully be an inspiration to the people who've suffered under both. There's another one about evolution, politics, evil and sacrifice, but that, while bigger, is less important to me philosophically.

I would like to travel round the UK, visiting all manner of small towns and visiting all the strange and charming people I have met on the internet. I'd also like to brush up on my Spanish and visit Barcelona, Seville and Salamanca, and maybe learn a more obscure language and move to a country in Europe somewhere. I'd also like to teach myself a bit more history and biology and maybe do some sort of part time course, just because I find both interesting. Until I can afford either, ho hum.
Author:  AceAceBaby [ Thu May 29, 2008 18:04 ]
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By day I work doing spreadsheets for a large organization. By night I goof around and sell virtual houses for virtual money. From next week I will be doing that on every Friday also, going part time because the hobby pays better per hour than the day job.
Author:  Mimi [ Thu May 29, 2008 18:07 ]
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AceAceBaby wrote:
By night I goof around and sell virtual houses for virtual money. From next week I will be doing that on every Friday also, going part time because the hobby pays better per hour than the day job.



You play Monopoly?
Author:  myp [ Thu May 29, 2008 18:11 ]
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Hi!

I work for the largest investor-owned gas and electricity supplier in the world, providing 1st and 2nd line technical support to the Home Energy Consultants who annoy you by knocking on your door when you're watching Corrie/eating your dinner.

I enjoy spending time with my fiancée and friends, clubbing (mainly trance/electro), music (playing and listening), sports (mainly football and cricket), alcohol (mainly real ale and red wine) and obviously games.

I also specialise in looking like Nathan Barley.
Author:  Mimi [ Thu May 29, 2008 18:13 ]
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myoptika wrote:
I work for the largest investor-owned gas and electricity supplier in the world


You play Monopoly?
Author:  AceAceBaby [ Thu May 29, 2008 18:20 ]
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Mimi wrote:
AceAceBaby wrote:
By night I goof around and sell virtual houses for virtual money. From next week I will be doing that on every Friday also, going part time because the hobby pays better per hour than the day job.



You play Monopoly?


I make stuff, with three dee.
Author:  metalangel [ Thu May 29, 2008 18:22 ]
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I am a train delay attributor for ("Railtrack" -Ed.) which means I sit in the rail control room watching the computers (coloured boxes representing trains, moving around a simplifed map of the network). If a train is more than three minutes later at point B than it was at point A, the blame (and possibly financial compensation for causing the delay) has to be placed, and my job is to determine who gets it.

This is in between being abused by demented hermits (the signalmen and women, who spend all day on their own pulling levers/flicking switches in their private kingdom - the signalbox in Arsehole, Shropshire) and shiftless train operators (who fight tooth and nail to minimise the amount of delay minutes attributed to their own crappiness). Happily, when things are running on time, I can sit back and relax. This is also a huge step up for me as I now just watch things go wrong and laugh, whereas my previous role as customer relations for a ToC meant I got abusive phone calls and letters about it and had to feign concern.

When I'm not working, I enjoy in no particular order gaming, drinking, driving (though not after drinking), motorbiking (though, again, never after drinking), travel, music, and spending time with the missus.
Author:  Mimi [ Thu May 29, 2008 18:23 ]
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Ooooooh.

My cousin is doing something like that. taking blueprints and making 3d house models. Or something.
Author:  NervousPete [ Thu May 29, 2008 18:27 ]
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Ooh! Forgot to reply to this one.

Work: I am a librarian in Cardiff Libraries. You may have heard me mention it. From time to time.

Hobbies: Immersing self in high culture and comic books. Creative writing (should do more), PC gaming including Lord of the Rings Online, reading up about geology and weather systems and recommending things. Relentlessly. Also bopping to indie music and drinking ale or wine or whiskey.
Author:  sinister agent [ Thu May 29, 2008 18:28 ]
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MetalAngel wrote:
When I'm not working, I enjoy in no particular order gaming, drinking, driving (though not after drinking), motorbiking, travel, music, and spending time with the missus (though, again, never after drinking).


RESTORATION RESTORED.
Author:  ElephantBanjoGnome [ Thu May 29, 2008 18:28 ]
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Who do you need to stalk?
Author:  myp [ Thu May 29, 2008 18:33 ]
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Mimi wrote:
myoptika wrote:
I work for the largest investor-owned gas and electricity supplier in the world


You play Monopoly?


You now owe me ten times what's on your dice.
Author:  sinister agent [ Thu May 29, 2008 18:35 ]
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ComicalGnomes wrote:
Who do you need to stalk?


A lady friend. She studies there. Ancient History. Actually, to be honest there's probably not much you could find out that I can't just ask, except maybe what shoes she wears, but it's always fun to stalk.
Author:  GazChap [ Thu May 29, 2008 22:42 ]
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MetalAngel wrote:
pulling levers/flicking switches in their private kingdom - the signalbox in Arsehole, Shropshire

I thought I heard some strange noises coming from there when I was in bed last night, would you recommend I see a doctor?
Author:  Mr Dave [ Thu May 29, 2008 22:48 ]
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I program stuff. If you don't already know what I program, then you won't be enlightened by the end of this post.

Except by this lightbulb: :bulb:
Author:  Steve [ Fri May 30, 2008 0:24 ]
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For the last 2 years I have produced the pricelists for a large corporation. Hey media.... As you may have spotted from my typing, I was average at best at this. Now I am a full on programmer (my spelling is all taken care of).

On an evening I usually kick about playing computer games - pc or console, I am not fussy - or go out with a few friends. Nothing very special really. I do enjoy the odd random adventure, I am going to Berlin in June, I have never been there and hope it will be cool. Also, me and a mate enjoy making "Random Friends" where we just sit at a table of unlikely looking people and try to join conversation with them. This works about 60% of the time.
Author:  Sheepeh [ Fri May 30, 2008 1:43 ]
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I work for Makro. Whee. I drive machinary about, forklifts, WAVE machines, stuff like that. Moving stuff round, plonking it down, making it look reasonably nice, getting asked stupid questions by customers.

Exciting stuff.

I am now applying for BeeX Uni, as I am told Comical's girlfriend wants her Wii back, and I have some Mafia work to do.












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Author:  romanista [ Fri May 30, 2008 7:42 ]
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I work as Advisor for the dutch ministry of economic affairs, as people might remember from my article about games in the favelas of Rio. I work for its innovation agency, helping people with ideas about things like travel information and bikes to get their project from the ground, and i coordinate the dutch part of the European project Link, a forum for intermodal travel between European countries.

For hobbies, was for a long time an official in the Dutch Go Association (a japanese mind sport, see e.g. my article in the american go journal), but stopped that when Jens was born. Spent my time (when not doing things with or for my son going to Ajax, going to Techno Raves, playing games at the evening and Cycling (did the Tour of Flanders e.g.)
Author:  WTB [ Fri May 30, 2008 10:34 ]
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I'm an Avant Garde painter, specialising in faeces on canvas. Occasionally I go to work as well where I currently write SEO copy.
Author:  Grim... [ Fri May 30, 2008 10:42 ]
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I spend a lot of time in meetings. I spend a lot of that time in the meetings arguing and posting on forums on my phone.

I'm doing both now :)
Author:  BikNorton [ Fri May 30, 2008 12:23 ]
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Careful not to say your posts and post your arguments.
Author:  Zardoz [ Fri May 30, 2008 12:54 ]
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myoptika wrote:
(mainly trance/electro)


That CD/DVD you promised me over a forum ago must be getting really good now, with all that time you've spent compiling and recompiling the very best in bleeps.
Author:  Mr Russell [ Fri May 30, 2008 19:19 ]
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I run a convenience store, and evrey so often go round the country to help run other convenience stores.

I spend most of my time doing paperwork and trying to keep my staff happy.
Author:  Derek The Halls [ Fri May 30, 2008 19:39 ]
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For a living I run this place:

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Author:  Mr Russell [ Fri May 30, 2008 19:44 ]
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How much stock do you hold at any one time?
Author:  myp [ Fri May 30, 2008 19:53 ]
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Zardoz wrote:
myoptika wrote:
(mainly trance/electro)


That CD/DVD you promised me over a forum ago must be getting really good now, with all that time you've spent compiling and recompiling the very best in bleeps.


Dude, I've had to put it on a Blu-Ray.
Author:  MrChris [ Fri May 30, 2008 20:44 ]
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Mr Russ wrote:
I run a convenience store, and evrey so often go round the country to help run other convenience stores.

I spend most of my time doing paperwork and trying to keep my staff happy.


Mr Russ, yesterday:

"I'm not even supposed to be here today!"
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Author:  Mr Russell [ Fri May 30, 2008 20:59 ]
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Mr Chris, you're damn near spot on.

Except I've never had a girlfriend who's had sex with a dead guy.
Author:  GazChap [ Fri May 30, 2008 21:05 ]
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What about a girlfriend that's sucked 37 dicks? :P

//edit: In a row?
Author:  Mr Russell [ Fri May 30, 2008 21:22 ]
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37?!
Author:  SteONorDar [ Fri May 30, 2008 21:34 ]
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GazChap wrote:
//edit: In a row?


As opposed to simultaneously?? That's be a skill.
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