Be Excellent To Each Other

10 Downing Street, London. Probably won't be time for biscuits, unless you take a hostage on the way in.

Just found a brilliant wall of text email from the boss who likes to bitch about the standard of my emails, without ever giving an example. "as these communications may be stressful to the student, she will continue to receive such communication".

So.... you've just told a faculty director that we'll keep sending emails to a student, because it stresses her out.

Sigh. Once again, I'll have to wade in and fix something that someone else fucked up months ago by pissing around with my students without asking or knowing that the hell they were doing. On the plus side, that's only the second time today.

Please punch my face. Thank you.

Have you started looking for another job yet? You need to get out of there, and staying to help the students (which you seem to do brilliantly, yet is consistently difficult with all the moronic barriers you're facing) is not going to be good for your own health and happiness. The shit has already started hitting the fan, and you need to stop standing behind it.

I have, I applied for a couple this week. I'm cherry picking which ones I go for, as they're mostly away across the country and there's no point spending all my savings on interviews, plus I don't want to jump ship directly into an even crappier ship. But ugh, it really can't come soon enough. I'm sure people are sick of hearing about it, but if I don't mouth off somewhere I'm going to end up sending an email I regret, so.

I just need to look forward to the day I can staple my notice to someone's stupid face, and tell them I'm leaving to do their job somewhere else, except well.

Cheers for the ear, by the way

It's what we're here for, isn't it? Or was it dick jokes? I can never remember.

Let me remind you.

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Not again, you don't.

The more I think about it, the less I'm sure about the job I interviewed for yesterday. The interviewer said a couple of things which, at the time, I took for being poor attempts at cracking jokes, but am starting to wonder now if they weren't just plain rudeness.

For instance, I'd specifically requested that the interview take place during my lunch hour as I didn't want my current employer knowing I'm looking elsewhere - that's why they settled on a noon interview (though this of course necessitated a dodgy looking pre-12 departure from the office) . I'd noticed that the interview seemed to have been going on for a long while, but didn't want to appear rude by looking at my watch. Eventually the interviewer chap told me "we better wrap this up in a minute, you probably need to be getting back." So I asked him what the time was?

"13:25"

"Shit!", I rather accidentally exclaimed.

"Good job you're looking for a new job then," was his reply.

I informed him that I was very sorry but I really would have to go soon as my boss is quite strict on time-keeping, which he told me was good because so was he. All the same, the interview didn't wrap up until 13:40. He told me he hoped I could smooth over the massive overrunning of my lunch break, I said "so do I" and he told me "well, that's your problem really, not mine."

I haven't actually heard anything from them yet. It did, despite the above, feel like it had gone pretty well at the time, but now I'm neither sure if it really did, nor if I'd actually want the job if offered it.

How can you say this and NOT be a dick? Fingers crossed for you Zio!

Hmm, yes. First of those, okay. Second - technically correct, but he's a bit of a twat and is happy treating you as a lower order.

They mentioned the possibility of there being a second interview at some point though, so if that happens I can take a better look round and try to get a better idea for whether or not it's the sort of place I'd want to work.

Do we have a Duke Nukem forever thread? I couldn't find one.. Perhaps I should start one?

Especially now THIS little set is incoming!



This edition contains a copy of the game with exclusive Balls of Steel cover art and the following cool items:

Collectible bust of the greatest alien ass-kicker of all-time
Numbered, limited-edition certificate of authenticity
100-page hardcover book: The History, Legacy & Legend: Duke Nukem Forever Art from the Vault
Duke Nukem Forever postcard series
Duke Nukem Forever radioactive emblem sticker
Duke Nukem Forever collectable comic book
Duke Nukem Forever foldable paper craft
Duke Nukem Forever poker chips
Duke Nukem Forever mini-card deck
Duke Nukem Forever radioactive emblem dice


I'm excited!

Woo! Cock-up of the day number three discovered!

Off I go to another building to un-fuck another situation somebody else caused. La la la lala la


Zio, your interviewer sounds like a bit of a tosser to be honest.

Is it meant to be any good then?

edit: Duke Nuke 'em I mean

Ok, trying to find a way to do a poor joke about the Second Coming led me to this Wikipedia page, concerning another one to add to the 'BeeX List of Great Cornishmen':


From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Nichols_Thom

Fascinating story.

Pub time now.

Who cares? With that haul on my shelf I'll be the coolest kid in town!

Add that to the no internet policy at work, and I would be saying, thanks but no thanks.

I look at interviews as my chance to see whether it is a place that I would want to work, rather than them seeing if they want to employ me, but then I'm an arrogant fuck!

Unbelievable. I've booked a week's holiday for the end of the month. I've checked, and nobody else in my department is off then. Boss emails asking why it's so 'late notice' because our ridiculous policy says that two weeks' notice are needed to take a week off. Even though nobody is off, and I was 2 days short of that, and if I took one less day it wouldn't count as a week, so 2 weeks wouldn't apply.

WHAT FUCKING DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE YOU RIDICULOUS SATIRE OF A HUMAN BEING

You know, this is the first time I've interviewed for somewhere where the actual interview has put me off wanting to work for them, 'tis an alien concept for me.

If I do get a second interview, I'll go along but I'm going to be having more of a look at the place this time, so that if they do offer me the job, I can make sure it's something I want. I really don't want to end up going from one shit job straight into another.

Tell him his mum is taking you to Mardis Gras.

Now I know most of you won't want to click on the following link, what with it being Kelly Brook in the nude, but I thought I would post it, just in case any of you do:


***NWS Link in spoiler***

Costco! Jeans! Right size! Loose fit! Not expensive!

Costco!

(Fridays have changed)

Oh my.. you can see all her bits & bobs 27 and everything...

Looks like I am going to be doing a bit more freelance for RPS now. Starting with this.

FILTH! Shit, I don't even mind that the gal obviously has a few 'heavy flow' issues.

(Mind you, having clicked on the least red photo for a good, old fashioned perv, I was greeted with some blasted picture of a wind turbine with 'GO ENVIRONMENTAL!11' banner obscuring all the interesting wobbly and immaculately Brazilian bits from view. I guess that's what they call Poetic Justice, given my rather un-PC ramblings in Mali's 'Swampy' thread earlier today )

Making no mention of how long the interview would take, knowing that you were nipping over there on your lunch break, kind of is his problem, nein?

What the hell has she done to her pubes? Christ. I thought shaving them off was ridiculous enough, but making them into a hitler 'tache has to take that crown.

Anyway, should I know who she is? She in a band or something? I've definitely heard the name, but she doesn't look familiar.

Peak District Assault Vehicle is now race prepped.

MaliA less so. Lost an SPD shoe. And is fat.

Setting up to be interesting.

My Friend's book, the one about the schools, is up for the Orwell Prize. Will stick a fiver on it to win, I think. Probably should read it, too.

Scrap whatever you are planning and cycle this.

http://www.peakdistrictinformation.com/ ... cycle0.php
the official article does not mention that at no point on this whole route are there any cars.

2 things. How long has Challenge been on freeview and has bullseye always been so fantastic?

"Welcome to fucking Bullseye":



If you look at the very end where they are waving, the door is part of the motel reception set from Crossroads. What other forum gives you trivia like that eh?

Chinny can you find the clip of the Geordie bloke as follows:

Jim: I believe your wife has a nickname for you?
Man: Aye. SuperSperm (aaaye. Soo-pa spuuurm)
[everyone laughs]
And then take 2 he does the same thing again.

No.

Awesome! Cheers. In take 2 he says it again and JB exclaims "he said the same pissing thing!"

Trailer here. Has some gratuitous railway scenes (yay!).

Can't quite say it's making me go and watch it, however. Dagny Taggart looks every bit as cardboard here as she does in the book.*



* Yes, for some reason I did once plough through it (a heck of a lot of bad karma on my part, I fear). The sex scenes are horrid, Galt's speech is overlong and irritating, and the characters utterly unlikeable. And then there's the politics - Orwell she ain't. The bit about the launch of the John Galt line is quite good, however.

The brilliantly named Protection of Freedoms bill makes for some interesting reading. Especially s54:


So, it would appear that if it goes through, then clamping cars could disappear.

Good, I thought they were getting stopped this year, I assume this bill is the one that is going through to do it?

We have a great parking system at my flat, but that has come about by accident rather than design.
Everyone has 1 space, but as we live next to the college and train station, those quite often get used by idiots.
"We" also have about 6 communal spaces that are on college land and not part of the landlords freehold, yet appear to be part of the flats rather than anything else.
The parking nazis that have been employed by the landlord are total idiots, and cant seem to understand that the communal spaces aren't ours and they have no jurisdiction over them so they ticket cars parked there if they aren't showing a parking permit for the flats. We also have a load of double yellow lines that have been randomly painted, but this is on the access road, which is owned by the college, and the yellow lines aren't enforceable (no termination, no signs etc...) The parking dudes ticket anyone parking there too!

The solution the residents have come up with is that we ignore them, park where we like and rip up any tickets we get and tell the parking nazis to piss off if they ask for any money.
College students and commuters see the tickets and don't park there, we get lots of spaces to park in, it works very well

How does that sit with, say, a neighbour bloking your car on your driveway?

Well you can't clamp it or move it, but the council can under subsection 4, I would suggest.

What I wonder is whether subsection 4 also covers the private clamping/towing firms where you've parked in a 'your vehicle will be clamped' area.

I meant with respect to:

(1)A person commits an offence who, without lawful authority—
(a)immobilises a motor vehicle by the attachment to the vehicle, or a part of it, of an immobilising device, or
(b)moves, or restricts the movement of, such a vehicle by any means,intending to prevent or inhibit the removal of the vehicle by a person otherwise entitled to remove it.

ie, they are immoblising your car unlawfully.

It doesn't cover them, this legislation is intended to outlaw private clamping firms.

Right, but subsection 4 needs clarity. What constitutes entitlement to remove a vehicle?

I imagine it's defined elsewhere in the document. My understanding was "a council license and the vehicle being on public land".

Urrggghhh. Finally made it home at 4 having drunk various lager, cider, bitter, stout and two kinds of whisky.

Brilliant! I haven't been to a beer festival in ages, I do rememeber thow they make me feel the next day, though. Pineapple juice is what i recommend.

On my way to meet friends in London, and bumped into our very own Gaz! Small world.

I hate to ell you, but that wasn't a co-incidence.

Get more locks for your doors unless you like waking up to horses heads.

Talking of horses... I might have been a bit hasty when I said that they were stupid because they need their shoes nailed to their feet, because it turns out that they make excellent conductors

(sorry)

Nasty.

I am part beast, part plumber.



Shiny eh? Might even risk turning it on, tomorrow.