[mongo_jones]

the thing to do is to mangle one and display it on a spike near your seat. serves as a warning to the others.

i was once in a kiddie zone on a long singapore airlines flight from los angeles to singapore. if you think being surrounded by kids in the air is bad, try it for >16 hours of flying. since then i always ask if there are families with children anywhere near my seat and if they are i ask for a re-assignment.

[hollywood]

How about if you advise the flight attendant that you are a sex offender? Won't that get you a new seat in another location?
I recall some story about Michael Stipe going into the head and coming out with peanut butter spread all over his face. Suddenly, he had the whole row of seats to himself.

[Maurice Naughton]

I have copied these recommendations into my plan book and will try to implement some of them next time. The mangled kid on a spike appeals to some instincts that I try to keep well buried, except in my journals.

[tighe]

Maurice Naughton, on Sep 9 2004, 10:56 AM, said:

A small piece of Canadian Tillamook Cheddar provided some relief.

I hadn't realized that Tillamook had been moved from the Oregon coast!

[Ms J]

Yesterday I had to go on a departmental away day in Harrow. The idea was to split us all into teams and get us to do a circuit of silly competitive games whilst wearing silly costumes. It was It's A Knock Out with a big beer & barbeque carrot.

Naturally, I twisted my ankle on the first task (a bouncy castle obstacle course covered in velcro). I decided it was fine, and so finished all the tasks with the rest of the team and then drank beer for a couple of hours. THEN I discovered that I was suddenly finding walking painful & difficult.

Today I am bandaged, iced, and anti-inflammatoried. I tell you, I had better be able to stomp around in heels next month, or I'll be REALLY put out.

[Maurice Naughton]

tighe, on Sep 8 2004, 04:32 AM, said:

Maurice Naughton, on Sep 9 2004, 10:56 AM, said:

A small piece of Canadian Tillamook Cheddar provided some relief.

I hadn't realized that Tillamook had been moved from the Oregon coast!

You damned administrative academics are so punctilious about truth and accuracy. I used to teach creative writing. In other words, I taught students how to lie effectively. The employment of a certain amount of fiction was one of those things that used to be excused as poetic license. So back off, buddy.

[Maurice Naughton]

Did I perhaps sound a mite testy just then? This morning, on a crowded Metro train, a pickpocket picked my backpack (yes, ladies, I'm one of them). Got my digital camera.

[Kikujiro]

Maurice:

[ampletuna]

Miss J, on Sep 10 2004, 10:45 AM, said:

Yesterday I had to go on a departmental away day in Harrow. The idea was to split us all into teams and get us to do a circuit of silly competitive games whilst wearing silly costumes. It was It's A Knock About with a big beer & barbeque carrot.

Naturally, I twisted my ankle on the first task (a bouncy castle obstacle course covered in velcro). I decided it was fine, and so finished all the tasks with the rest of the team and then drank beer for a couple of hours. THEN I discovered that I was suddenly finding walking painful & difficult.

Today I am bandaged, iced, and anti-inflammatoried. I tell you, I had better be able to stomp around in heels next month, or I'll be REALLY put out.   

*gulps*

i have this pleasure to look forward to next week. There are 6 "activities" on Friday that each team has just had to put individuals forward for. They haven't told us what they are but two involve water and I have heard the words "horizontal bungee" being bandied around. How pissed off would you be if you were staying a 5* hotel in Marbella when 100 Sun employees turn up brandishing inflatable bananas.

[Kikujiro]

ampletuna, on Sep 10 2004, 11:15 AM, said:

How pissed off would you be if you were staying a 5* hotel in Marbella when 100 Sun employees turn up brandishing inflatable bananas.

I thought the Sun owned Marbella anyway.

[Ms J]

ampletuna, on Sep 8 2004, 09:15 AM, said:

i have this pleasure to look forward to next week. There are 6 "activities" on Friday that each team has just had to put individuals forward for. They haven't told us what they are but two involve water and I have heard the words "horizontal bungee" being bandied around. How pissed off would you be if you were staying a 5* hotel in Marbella when 100 Sun employees turn up brandishing inflatable bananas.

Marbella? You're doing your silly water games in Marbella? Man, that's what's great about The Sun. We were in HARROW, for heaven's sake.

My commiserations on the inflatable bananas. I had to wear a disco wig. (Sigh.)

[ampletuna]

oh yes, each team has a fancy dress theme for the evening. ours in Grease, another's is Rocky Horror...male colleagues in suspensers.

[Lippy]

I've never worked in the corporate world. What is the purpose of the above-described shanigans?

[Vanessa]

Lippy, on Sep 10 2004, 01:15 PM, said:

I've never worked in the corporate world. What is the purpose of the above-described shanigans?

Instant staff demoralisation?

v

[Ms J]

Uniting everyone against a common enemy.