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First order of business - book holiday time for Cheltenham and Ascot :thumbup:
:wave: that's another Christmas out of the way...Quote:
Originally Posted by Tony C
Two hours in and I'm done with it. Can't be arsed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tony C
Doesn't bode well for the rest of the year, really.
Should a gentleman of your vintage not be considering retirement?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I've spent the last two hours sorting out someone who broke their wrist ice skating on the 20th December and now seems to think that means she can spend the next six weeks sitting on her arse. :baghead:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Indeed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I also really do not wish to hear about other people's boring Christmas stories.
I may become more cheerful in March.
I developed a throat infection on 27th and spent until yesterday shivering under two duvets.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pat Vegas
A splendid christmas break indeed.
What doies she usually do then? Is she a manual labourer?Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Yeah...internet browsing all dayQuote:
Originally Posted by Tony C
Isn't this exactly what the headwand was invented for?Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
An associate editor. It means she can't drive and at worst, she'll have to type one-handed. :shrug:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I may suggest that, r. Needless to say, one of your colleagues is happy to sign her off for eternity. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Rich
:-(Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I was sick too.
and worked all the other days. I think I will **** it off next year.
I might actually f the whole of this year off too.
she must be very **** at ice skating to break her wrist.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
You can't defenstrate an entire year. It's physically impossible. Whatever you do, the year will happen, and it will happen with you in it, unless you remove yourself from it. :-( That's not what you're thinking, is it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pat Vegas
I'd suggest you call the Samaritans but Ian Harvey might answer :-(
I expect the source of your chagrin is that you may have to actually do some work now b?Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Ice skating is a bit of a spastic thing for grown adults with other responsibilities to do if you ask me, f. Basically asking to get injured.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pat Vegas
Exactly, h. Here I was looking forward to a nice day sitting around scratching myself and here I am having to write letters and talk to HR people (and we all know what cùnts they are, right?). Very frustrating.Quote:
Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman
In my exalted position I obviously won't have to be doing any of her actual work, but I will have to shuffle the deck a bit and lumber some other poor sods with it. And frankly, that's enough of a pain in the hole.
The idea of Ian as a Samaritan never fails to make me laugh. :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
They want to go at work :-( they ask me if I can skate even though they know I played Ice Hockey for years :shrug:Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
However I find public skating sessions rather boring.
"I never have suicidal feelings you know because I have nothing to feel guilty about. I suppose you've voted Tory, haven't you? :sniff:"Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
:hehe: You'd at least end up wanting to take him with you, wouldn't you?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Oh, it's different if you're an expert. But people who do it once every few years and then seem surprised to discover that ice is a/ slippery and b/ quite hard get zero sympathy from me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pat Vegas
I once went to a Christmas press lunch at Somerset House where ice skating was a pre-lunch activity. Knowing I was shít at it and hadn't done it for about 15 years, I sat it out, preferring to get an early start on the drink. Gratifyingly, one of my press colleagues fell on his arse and cracked his coccyx. I had to work very hard not laugh.
Well then I suggest you simply delegate the delegating.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
HR people? **** di tutti ****i
And the sanctimonious, supercilious ginger cnut would start lecturing you about how selfish and unsocialist you were being.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
As I say, the only way I can ever see a conversation with Ian making one less inclined to selbstmord would be by transforming one's suicidal feelings into homicidal ones.Quote:
Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman
IAHYKQuote:
Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman
you pair of cnuts :vsign:
:hehe: I was hoping you might be, i. Happy New Year!Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
Fired anyone yet this year, IUFG? You've had about 4 hours or so...Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
;-)
You too, you miserable twát ;-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
People fire themselves, W. You knows this.Quote:
Originally Posted by WES
We merely make sure due process is followed.
Body count for 2019 = 1
Yup, walked straight back in to an email from an unhappy customer regarding a job we delivered just before xmas. Looks like a reprint and money lost.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tony C
Seems like 2019 is gonna be a **** of a year, then again I can't remember the last one that wasn't :-(
Happy New Year y'all :wave: