But dear lord, your eyebrows could give Throughsilver a run for his money

You could have done it in the time it's taken you to post that.

WOO! Shitty emails copied to my boss's's boss for not giving a reason for wanting time off in 12 days instead of the PROTOCOL GUIDELINE 14 even though it makes no difference to anything ever. Apparently in future I have to be sure to reply to emails that are "time driven as this clearly is". So the things I've been doing instead, like making sure we reported the right students to the UKBA before yesterday's deadline, therefore removing the risk that we'll lose millions in funding every year, making sure that the wrong students are not booted out for not paying their fees before the deadline this thursday, and making sure that PhD students get the information they need to complete their PhD theses before their deadlines, are presumably not as important as informing my lord and master why I want the time off that I'm entitled to slightly before the arbitrary notice period, regardless of whether this matters in the slightest or is anyone's fucking business.

... if it were me, someone would be wearing a photocopier right about now.

Fucking bureaucratic, jobsworth wankers. In the real world/private sector, no-one would give a rat's arse about some arbitrary holiday notice SA, most especially if you'd saved the company millions of pounds in the process. Shit the bed, you might even get a rise and/or recognition.

That whole attitude, philosophy and ethos is, in a nutshell, what's wrong with this country and the public sector in general.

Sorry to hear of your troubles SA mate; if it were me, someone would be wearing a photocopier right about now.

SA can't quit, he makes me feel better about my job!

Fucking bureaucratic, jobsworth wankers. In the real world/private sector, no-one would give a rat's arse about some arbitrary holiday notice SA, most especially if you'd saved the company millions of pounds in the process. Shit the bed, you might even get a rise and/or recognition.

That whole attitude, philosophy and ethos is, in a nutshell, what's wrong with this country and the public sector in general.

Sorry to hear of your troubles SA mate; if it were me, someone would be wearing a photocopier right about now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LtrnnXQTc

I'm 43, so DBS is but a mere whippersnapper to me.

Warhead is the Father of the House.

Happy 29th Kern!

BTW - for the next two weeks they are monitoring my internet usage at work (well, the usage of everyone), so I won't be on during work times at all.

After that (as soon as I get the nod from my tame mole in HR), I'll be back.

Apologies to those who thought I might be gone for good...

But we can still be friends.

Something crazy is happening, which i'm hoping is due to the antibiotics i'm on at the moment.(

Everything tastes and smells much more intense than usual, the steak I had last night was amazing, even the crappy curry pack we bought from Tesco the other night tasted awesome. However everything stinks, the guy sitting next to me on the train home smelled of cheesy feet and BO, the guy opposite me this mornign stunk of coffee, the walk to town positively reeks.

Have you considered that you sense of smell is becoming normal? Some people have a greatly diminished sense of smell and taste. Oddly enough, these are the people that are more likely to be food connoisseurs. Those that taste and smell with greater clarity (supertasters, the term is ) often stick to bland foods to avoid the extremes of flavour.

OMG you're pregnant!

Whoooooo, congratulations!

I'm in London most days, it's never as smelly as this.

:D I'll call it Mimi if the pee stick has two lines tonight!