Today I'm neither Angry nor Happy about....

[Annoyed Grunt]

Got a kind of job interview tomorrow. Not sure what to think. Didn't actually apply for anything but been asked to go in for 'a chat'. To be honest it would be good career wise for me if they offered me something and a few years back i'd have been well keen, but actually am quite content at the moment doing what I do after the stressful situation that was my last job. Ho hum. Guess its worth going to see what's what.

Nothing to lose if you go.......

[Bruce Rioja]

The main Montreal reservoir is on a hill above my University.

What a fecking stupid place to put it!

[Bruce Rioja]

Got a kind of job interview tomorrow. Not sure what to think.

And if you don't go, you never will. Nowt wrong in hearing them out - just don't agree to anything (which you won't, because you're a woman, unless it involves shoes )

[89bwfc89]

Did someone say shoes?

[mummywhycantieatcrayons]

The main Montreal reservoir is on a hill above my University.

What a fecking stupid place to put it!

That was my first instinct, but then I remembered why water towers are built on stilts.

[Bruce Rioja]

The main Montreal reservoir is on a hill above my University.

What a fecking stupid place to put it!

That was my first instinct, but then I remembered why water towers are built on stilts.

To water cannon students? I ever knew that. Carry on

[Gary the Enfield]

Got a kind of job interview tomorrow. Not sure what to think. Didn't actually apply for anything but been asked to go in for 'a chat'. To be honest it would be good career wise for me if they offered me something and a few years back i'd have been well keen, but actually am quite content at the moment doing what I do after the stressful situation that was my last job. Ho hum. Guess its worth going to see what's what.

Good Luck GG. Nothing to lose by going for a chat. If the offer is substantially better than what you have then you have a decision to make. If not, meh.

[Montreal Wanderer]

McGill's insurers will not be impressed. Or maybe the water company's?

The city owns the reservoir, not a water company. They were repairing the infrastructure and a backhoe smashed through the pipe. The University is older than the reservoir, Bruce, and we had no say in the placement. I have no idea about insurance, or whose insurance might pay. I'm fairly sure the library's insurer said they would not cover us for any further floods unless we moved the rare books out of the basement. I wonder if we did.

[Gooner Girl]

Got a kind of job interview tomorrow. Not sure what to think. Didn't actually apply for anything but been asked to go in for 'a chat'. To be honest it would be good career wise for me if they offered me something and a few years back i'd have been well keen, but actually am quite content at the moment doing what I do after the stressful situation that was my last job. Ho hum. Guess its worth going to see what's what.

Good Luck GG. Nothing to lose by going for a chat. If the offer is substantially better than what you have then you have a decision to make. If not, meh.

Thanks GtE, Colin and Bruce. You're quite right, nothing to lose, will see what's what. And shoes don't float my boat Bruce. Not a typical female that way.

[Bruce Rioja]

And shoes don't float my boat Bruce.

Yes they do. It's just that yours usually say 'Adidas' or some such on them, and are in monstrous girly colours

[General Mannerheim]

not really sure how i feel about this, but the story of Brendan Marrocco's double hand translplant got the cogs turning. They're hero's and put their life on the line yadda yadda, but soldiers choose to join the army, they know the risks, and they get paid a wage. Same as if someone had chosen to work as a Trawlerman for example. but if the trawlerman lost his hands in the the cable drum of his fishing boat one day, would he recieve the worlds most expensive opertaion to fix him up!?

[Lost Leopard Spot]

not really sure how i feel about this, but the story of Brendan Marrocco's double hand translplant got the cogs turning. They're hero's and put their life on the line yadda yadda, but soldiers choose to join the army, they know the risks, and they get paid a wage. Same as if someone had chosen to work as a Trawlerman for example. but if the trawlerman lost his hands in the the cable drum of his fishing boat one day, would he recieve the worlds most expensive opertaion to fix him up!?

I don't think it was anything to do with him being in the army. He had a double arm transplant because he'd lost both arms. I mean, the world's first (and very expensive) face transplant was undertaken for a woman who was figuratively as well as literally off her face on booze and a former addict - hardly an elite of the industrial-military complex.

[Bijou Bob]

And shoes don't float my boat Bruce.

Yes they do. It's just that yours usually say 'Adidas' or some such on them, and are in monstrous girly colours

Pot. Kettle. Black

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Oh dear. We’ve got a new bod from darn sarf who’s up working in the ‘provincial offices’ to ‘gain some first hand knowledge of how we operate’ – anyway, I’ve been told what a knob he is by many of my colleagues. So there I am with him and six others in a follow up telephone meeting discussing some engineering works in Hong Kong. I’m there purely from a database perspective, and although I have a cursory knowledge I have no real deep understanding of many of the engineering terms used. But, even I, with limited knowledge of what they are talking about most of the time was aghast at this little exchange: [names replaced to protect identities and conversation recited from memory]
Man in London – it’ll take quite a lot of ballast to stabilise this section
Hong Kong Man – that’s not the section we’re most worried about; we’re worried about the section where we need to install the slab track.
Man in London – That’s knobhead’s area. Can you enlighten us knob?
Knobhead (sounding a little uncertain in the spotlight) – Well it’s all there in the report I provided.
Hong Kong Man – We are a rittle confused about the amount of material we need to remove in order to lay the foundation for the slab track. It needs to go to landfill and landfill is very expensive in Hong Kong.
Knobhead – Yes, I think I dealt with that, It’s here in Appendix A, estimated of course.
Hong Kong Man (sounding very puzzled) – Approx 50,000 scoops?
Knobhead – Yes that’s right.
Hong Kong Man – Scoops?
Man in London – Scoops?
Knobhead – Yes. 50,000 digger scoops
Hong Kong Man – Do you think we could have that in metric tonnes!

[Gary the Enfield]

Oh dear. We’ve got a new bod from darn sarf who’s up working in the ‘provincial offices’ to ‘gain some first hand knowledge of how we operate’ – anyway, I’ve been told what a knob he is by many of my colleagues. So there I am with him and six others in a follow up telephone meeting discussing some engineering works in Hong Kong. I’m there purely from a database perspective, and although I have a cursory knowledge I have no real deep understanding of many of the engineering terms used. But, even I, with limited knowledge of what they are talking about most of the time was aghast at this little exchange: [names replaced to protect identities and conversation recited from memory]
Man in London – it’ll take quite a lot of ballast to stabilise this section
Hong Kong Man – that’s not the section we’re most worried about; we’re worried about the section where we need to install the slab track.
Man in London – That’s knobhead’s area. Can you enlighten us knob?
Knobhead (sounding a little uncertain in the spotlight) – Well it’s all there in the report I provided.
Hong Kong Man – We are a rittle confused about the amount of material we need to remove in order to lay the foundation for the slab track. It needs to go to landfill and landfill is very expensive in Hong Kong.
Knobhead – Yes, I think I dealt with that, It’s here in Appendix A, estimated of course.
Hong Kong Man (sounding very puzzled) – Approx 50,000 scoops?
Knobhead – Yes that’s right.
Hong Kong Man – Scoops?
Man in London – Scoops?
Knobhead – Yes. 50,000 digger scoops
Hong Kong Man – Do you think we could have that in metric tonnes!

Oh dear.

Also, did the Hong Kong man really say 'rittle'? Has he gone native?

[mrkint]

Oh dear. We’ve got a new bod from darn sarf who’s up working in the ‘provincial offices’ to ‘gain some first hand knowledge of how we operate’ – anyway, I’ve been told what a knob he is by many of my colleagues. So there I am with him and six others in a follow up telephone meeting discussing some engineering works in Hong Kong. I’m there purely from a database perspective, and although I have a cursory knowledge I have no real deep understanding of many of the engineering terms used. But, even I, with limited knowledge of what they are talking about most of the time was aghast at this little exchange: [names replaced to protect identities and conversation recited from memory]
Man in London – it’ll take quite a lot of ballast to stabilise this section
Hong Kong Man – that’s not the section we’re most worried about; we’re worried about the section where we need to install the slab track.
Man in London – That’s knobhead’s area. Can you enlighten us knob?
Knobhead (sounding a little uncertain in the spotlight) – Well it’s all there in the report I provided.
Hong Kong Man – We are a rittle confused about the amount of material we need to remove in order to lay the foundation for the slab track. It needs to go to landfill and landfill is very expensive in Hong Kong.
Knobhead – Yes, I think I dealt with that, It’s here in Appendix A, estimated of course.
Hong Kong Man (sounding very puzzled) – Approx 50,000 scoops?
Knobhead – Yes that’s right.
Hong Kong Man – Scoops?
Man in London – Scoops?
Knobhead – Yes. 50,000 digger scoops
Hong Kong Man – Do you think we could have that in metric tonnes!

racist.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Oh dear. Freudian slip. it's not even close to L on the keyboard.

Edit: I must have been thinking it as I typed it. he is Chinese.

[Harry Genshaw]

You velly bad man

[Bruce Rioja]

I had to take a guy from our Chinese plant for a game of golf a couple of years ago. The conversation rumbled on so I asked him "So, when was the last time that you held an election?" He said "Ah, just before bleakfast".

[boltonboris]

We had a Dutch colleague with us this week and I had to stop my self from laughing when he said "we have a phrase in Holland that says 'sitting on your blisters'". His stereotypical pronunciation of "sitting" made it.