They’d just be pissed / coked up nutters with no tickets and would still find any excuse to be shit to the staff
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hmmm misjudging the ordering of bog rolls - thought i was ordering one 9 pack. Turned out it was 6 x 9 packs - so we now have to find a home for 54 bog rolls
Better safe than sorry.
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Expecting another lockdown?
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Or a few trips to the Turan?
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this afternoon i am ordered to sort out my life of travel in readiness for new book cases for the landing. I spent over a decade travelling for work, and everywhere i went i acquired guidebooks and real maps, proper road maps. I am now ordered to sort it out into an orderly mess in my office.
proper maps (this is pile 1 of 3)
20210713_140217 by uh_simon, on Flickr
morning at work - 2 hours of the H&S committee that’ll i’ll never get back, then on leave until Monday. 
by the sea-side for a couple of days
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Open the meeting, ask if anyone has died or lost a limb, if the answer’s no just state that h&s is fine and end the meeting after ten. Start holiday early. 
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not my committee, but as my dept is part of a bigger entity I need to sit and listen to others stories of woe. There were no slide decks, but loads of screen sharing of stuff that people couldn’t read.
but we did have a soldering iron burn, someone stuck in a lift, and shot gun pellets peppering the roof of our oberservatory from farmland next door. Oh and a rather too hot EV battery where the PPE hindered the solution
We had an exciting discussion about a chemical found in the back of a cupboard in the physics dept, about some new lasers for a laser cutter, and radiation.
As for my dept, someone losing a laptop under a pile of paper on their desk was as exciting as it gets…
they issued a 4 page checklist, that I told them no one would read as it was 4 pages. I upset the author by saying it was verbose and written like a children’s story - (imagine instructions for a risk assessment written by Enid Blyton for “5 Go to work in Chernobyl”). They asked can you do better? I said yes, and returned a 1 page document containing all the same info with waffle removed within half an hour…
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‘5 go to Chernobyl’ would be excellent - you should write it
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That will be counterintuitive to a great number of your colleagues 
And this too!
I rarely encounter something this bad, and it usually comes from support departments. Most of my immediate colleagues are Computer Scientists who have a tendency towards precision and extreme terseness.
The document I was referring to was authored by someone from the Health and Safety Office, who thought they were being helpful by telling a story
Pity they didn’t start with ‘Are you sitting comfortably? Shall I begin?’
Fitting a cat flap, fixing a kayak and as a follow up to this:
just this minute learning FoL#1 has passed her test!
Pub taxi ahoy!
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Congrats to you both
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Happy Birthday mate.
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Love that a nose bag means something different to me. Well, it did 
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The cakes look great. 
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That too 
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