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Points: 31169 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 20 2008 at 15:34
Originally posted by prog-chick prog-chick wrote:

I know, I know I am being unreasonable, but the one in Cricklade SERIOUSLY is damaging to use, I am using it whilst trying to stop a crash helmet rolling down the street, trying to prop up a mail sack, doing all the things I mentioned above and squatting an unladylike fashion to use the blasted thing. I am NOT being reasonable, I am being UNreasonable, I am thumping tables and being annoyed. It's part of old age I think. I want things MY way! LOL  

Sorry for my unthoughtful behaviour........... It's how I felt at the time though! Approve


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Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

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We've even had to flog Sir Fred's private jet.Cry
 
to keep staff morale up, was the 'banker of the week' allowed to fly it home at the weekend?...Big smile
...and the flogging will continue until morale improves Big smile
 
 
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Points: 7003 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 20 2008 at 18:28
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

We've even had to flog Sir Fred's private jet.Cry
 
to keep staff morale up, was the 'banker of the week' allowed to fly it home at the weekend?...Big smile
...and the flogging will continue until morale improves Big smile
 
 
 
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I wasn't even aware that the plane out here was Mystic Fred's ..... Wacko
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Private Jet..? Confused
 
 
....got a whole fleet of 'em  Wink
 
 
 
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Originally posted by mystic fred mystic fred wrote:

Private Jet..? Confused
 
 
....got a whole fleet of 'em  Wink
 
 
 
 
It looks like your airline's folded - probably following a catastrophic nose dive.
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^^well, if if he will insist on operating with paper thin profit margins...Stern Smile
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Originally posted by mystic fred mystic fred wrote:

Private Jet..? Confused
 

 

....got a whole fleet of 'em  Wink

 


 

 


A couple more folds and they could the Fan Am fleet.

Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb.
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Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

We've even had to flog Sir Fred's private jet.Cry
 
to keep staff morale up, was the 'banker of the week' allowed to fly it home at the weekend?...Big smile

Is that banker as in Cockney rhyming slang?

I think the phrase "keep staff morale up" is incorrect - it's not exactly up at the moment. One of the best things we had was a scheme to reward outstanding pieces of work with vouchers - and it's just been scrapped. I'm expecting a coin slot to appear on the coffee machine any day now.
Well, the coffee's still free but we now need management approval to order anything from a paper clip upwards.
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I need management approval for paperclips! Wink
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Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Well, the coffee's still free but we now need management approval to order anything from a paper clip upwards.
 
welcome to the world of working for a charity, my friend...Wink
 
not only do you have to seek approval before ordering paper clips, but you aren't able to pop down to your local stationery shop to buy some...oh no...Stern Smile
 
you have to order them from a national stationery supplier in Leeds, because some bigwig has negotiated a 10% loyalty discount for all stationery purchases, across the organisation...
 
this means that your paper clips are ordered through a call centre in Beeston (by pressing option 3), by a young lady who will say that your paper clips will arrive within 3 working days, but will be subject to a £10 delivery charge, as your paperclips do not reach the minimum amount of £50 required to qualify for free delivery.
 
Your order will then be sent to a central collecting depot in Telford, where they will be kicked about the warehouse floor by several spotty young scrotes on a government 'back to work' scheme, before being sent on to a depot in Worcester, belonging to the courier service who subcontract deliveries for your county.
 
In three days time, self employed white van man will scrape his vehicle against your front wall, in an effort to pull up to the front door, but all he pulls off is his back bumper.
 
Unfortunately however, I'm not in, so I return to be greeted by some mangled card on my mat, containing indecipherable heiroglyphs, to the effect that because I wasn't in, my safety clips have been returned to the warehouse in Worcester, awaiting collection. 
 
I am consequently faced with the challenge of ringing an 0870 number, and having to go through a menu selection process, before having to input my all personal details into a computerised voice recognition service, which has the audacity to tell me to speak more clearly.
 
Upon the third delivery attempt, (in a week's time) I eventually meet up with an enraged White Van man who wants to know why the Censored no-one has been here previously to sign for the 'box', before pulling off in a huff and scraping the side of his van against my wheelchair ramp in the process.
 
One thing we can agree on however, is when WVM uses the term 'box', he ain't kidding...I venture to open something which would house a new television set, to be greeted with several cubic feet of tiny polstyrene balls, which have, of necessity, leaked all over the office floor.  It is only when I reach the bottom of the box, do I find a small bag of paper clips, tighly fastened to the centre of the base of the box with a plastic roll.
 
A delivery note kindly asks me to check off all the items against the computerised list, and ring another 0870 number, if there is an error (heaven forbid if they have sent me elastic bands by mistake...Ouch).
 
My invoice arrives 7 days after the box, for £1.99 (itself 70p more expensive than my local stationers) plus VAT and delivery charge, besides a new displosal/environmental charge of 15%, which they have recently thought up...needless to say, the invoice gets sent to our Head Office in Matlock to be paid within 4 weeks.
 
In all this time, I have passed the packet of paper clips in my local stationers on at least 5 occasions, and looked at them longingly...Cry
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Points: 20032 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 21 2008 at 08:48

Hmm, I seemed to have touched a nerve there, young Jared.LOL This isn't the ranting room you know.

Anyway, I don't work for a charity, but I may be working for the government if our shares don't sell!
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Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Well, the coffee's still free but we now need management approval to order anything from a paper clip upwards.
 
welcome to the world of working for a charity, my friend...Wink
 
not only do you have to seek approval before ordering paper clips, but you aren't able to pop down to your local stationery shop to buy some...oh no...Stern Smile
 
you have to order them from a national stationery supplier in Leeds, because some bigwig has negotiated a 10% loyalty discount for all stationery purchases, across the organisation...
 
this means that your paper clips are ordered through a call centre in Beeston (by pressing option 3), by a young lady who will say that your paper clips will arrive within 3 working days, but will be subject to a £10 delivery charge, as your paperclips do not reach the minimum amount of £50 required to qualify for free delivery.
 
Your order will then be sent to a central collecting depot in Telford, where they will be kicked about the warehouse floor by several spotty young scrotes on a government 'back to work' scheme, before being sent on to a depot in Worcester, belonging to the courier service who subcontract deliveries for your county.
 
In three days time, self employed white van man will scrape his vehicle against your front wall, in an effort to pull up to the front door, but all he pulls off is his back bumper.
 
Unfortunately however, I'm not in, so I return to be greeted by some mangled card on my mat, containing indecipherable heiroglyphs, to the effect that because I wasn't in, my safety clips have been returned to the warehouse in Worcester, awaiting collection. 
 
I am consequently faced with the challenge of ringing an 0870 number, and having to go through a menu selection process, before having to input my all personal details into a computerised voice recognition service, which has the audacity to tell me to speak more clearly.
 
Upon the third delivery attempt, (in a week's time) I eventually meet up with an enraged White Van man who wants to know why the Censored no-one has been here previously to sign for the 'box', before pulling off in a huff and scraping the side of his van against my wheelchair ramp in the process.
 
One thing we can agree on however, is when WVM uses the term 'box', he ain't kidding...I venture to open something which would house a new television set, to be greeted with several cubic feet of tiny polstyrene balls, which have, of necessity, leaked all over the office floor.  It is only when I reach the bottom of the box, do I find a small bag of paper clips, tighly fastened to the centre of the base of the box with a plastic roll.
 
A delivery note kindly asks me to check off all the items against the computerised list, and ring another 0870 number, if there is an error (heaven forbid if they have sent me elastic bands by mistake...Ouch).
 
My invoice arrives 7 days after the box, for £1.99 (itself 70p more expensive than my local stationers) plus VAT and delivery charge, besides a new displosal/environmental charge of 15%, which they have recently thought up...needless to say, the invoice gets sent to our Head Office in Matlock to be paid within 4 weeks.
 
In all this time, I have passed the packet of paper clips in my local stationers on at least 5 occasions, and looked at them longingly...Cry
 
 
Pffft that's easy!  I would have thought you had to check against Sage Accounting when you last ordered them before you started the process. LOL Tongue
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Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Hmm, I seemed to have touched a nerve there, young Jared.LOL This isn't the ranting room you know.
 
True, but I feel a heck of a lot better for being able to get it off my chest...Embarrassed
 
highly therapeutic...Smile
 
Anyway, I don't work for a charity, but I may be working for the government if our shares don't sell!
 
Again true, I was being facetious about the budgetary constraints you'll shortly be under...EmbarrassedEmbarrassed
 
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Fanny, I feel for you , I really do, that's the kind of beauracracy that drives me insane............ reading your post I had a nagging sick feeling........... which I have put right by ordering credit reciept rolls...... I was on my last one!

So every cloud and all that...............Tongue

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Shedders, like J recently I have had a thorough sort out of my collection and have come across a selection of CD's that I do not presently play and  probably never will.

They deserve a better home!

 

If you would like one or more for nought as long as you are based in the UK or Mainland Europe let me know by PM and I'll send it/them to you.

 
If there is a huge demand I'll share them out equitably.
 

Here they are:

 

Aereogramme - My Heart Has A Wish That You Would Not Go.

Ayreon - The Final Experiment

Colosseum - Anthology

The Datsuns - The Datsuns

Pelican - The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw

Secret Machines - September000

Secret Machines - Now Here Is Nowhere

Secret Machines - Ten Silver Drops
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Hmm, well I have Colosseum's Anthology and Pelican's The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw already...

I'm not fussed about the others.
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Points: 7456 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 21 2008 at 13:53
Originally posted by James James wrote:

Hmm, well I have Colosseum's Anthology and Pelican's The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw already...I'm not fussed about the others.


Ah,well. Nevermind.

Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb.
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Originally posted by progmetalhead progmetalhead wrote:

Shedders, like J recently I have had a thorough sort out of my collection and have come across a selection of CD's that I do not presently play and  probably never will.

They deserve a better home!

 

If you would like one or more for nought as long as you are based in the UK or Mainland Europe let me know by PM and I'll send it/them to you.

 
If there is a huge demand I'll share them out equitably.
 

Here they are:

 

Aereogramme - My Heart Has A Wish That You Would Not Go.

Ayreon - The Final Experiment

Colosseum - Anthology

The Datsuns - The Datsuns

Pelican - The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw

Secret Machines - September000

Secret Machines - Now Here Is Nowhere

Secret Machines - Ten Silver Drops

 
Clap That's a nice offer and an interesting selection - we may have the beginnings of some underground prog trading here...
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I sent a CD to Jared today. I might find some more to share over the weekend... not a bad idea actually. I may also have a few Bon Jovi vinyls on offer Embarrassed
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