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

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Belay that whinge... the missus has it in her handbag

[Bruce Rioja]

I hate it when I misplace something. I can't find my passport.

I don't think, in fact I know that I've never experienced greater panic than not being able to find my passport the night before the Lokomotiv Plovdiv game. I quite literally turned the contents of the house upside down in a bid to find it. After about 90 chest thumping, stomach churning minutes I found it between two books. Now, whenever I return from anywhere the very first thing I do, even prior to taking my coat off, is to run upstairs and put my passport back in a bedside drawer.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

I hate it when I misplace something. I can't find my passport.

I don't think, in fact I know that I've never experienced greater panic than not being able to find my passport the night before the Lokomotiv Plovdiv game. I quite literally turned the contents of the house upside down in a bid to find it. After about 90 chest thumping, stomach churning minutes I found it between two books. Now, whenever I return from anywhere the very first thing I do, even prior to taking my coat off, is to run upstairs and put my passport back in a bedside drawer.

Yup, I know that feeling.
I only needed it this time for opening a bank account... I needed two photo identities of which I have precisely two: driving licence (in wallet) and passport (in bedside table drawer). Only this time it wasn't cue *thump, churn sick churn thump*

[EDIT and having just reread the bank form, what I actually needed was two current pieces of identity, one of which must be a photo-identity].

[Montreal Wanderer]

I hate it when I misplace something. I can't find my passport. Last time I definitely had it in my greasy mitt was at Calgary a couple of weeks ago. I remember filling in that annoying slip of paper on the plane but I don't think I needed the passport to complete it, and I can't actually remember having to show it to immigration at Heathrow on the way out, I just remember collecting the bags and being waved past immigration. So the last time I saw it was in Canada. Fxck, what a pain.

Surely you must have had to show it to get into the UK. If not, no wonder the country is full of terrorists. You usually do immigration before you get your bags - it's customs you get waved by afterwards.

[Prufrock]

The girl I work with has a Beagle about a year old. Her mum and dad are going away on Saturday. Said Beagle got introduced to Daddy's passport yesterday. Oh dear.

[Montreal Wanderer]

The girl I work with has a Beagle about a year old. Her mum and dad are going away on Saturday. Said Beagle got introduced to Daddy's passport yesterday. Oh dear.

The dog ate my homework would sometimes work - not sure about passports.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

I hate it when I misplace something. I can't find my passport. Last time I definitely had it in my greasy mitt was at Calgary a couple of weeks ago. I remember filling in that annoying slip of paper on the plane but I don't think I needed the passport to complete it, and I can't actually remember having to show it to immigration at Heathrow on the way out, I just remember collecting the bags and being waved past immigration. So the last time I saw it was in Canada. Fxck, what a pain.

Surely you must have had to show it to get into the UK. If not, no wonder the country is full of terrorists. You usually do immigration before you get your bags - it's customs you get waved by afterwards.

You are not concentrating old man. I probably did, I just don't remember doing it.

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

Sorry AT. The rain dance failed. Never mind eh? It'll be like home from home from home for you.

Too cold for me. I'm off home to warm up some

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Sorry AT. The rain dance failed. Never mind eh? It'll be like home from home from home for you.

Too cold for me. I'm off home to warm up some

Well I'm better at rain dancing than I thought. Saturday, Sunday and now today not a spot of sun, and mizzle in the hills. Nearly rain. Not bad from the heatwave that was.

[mummywhycantieatcrayons]

Perhaps people will say I am ridiculously sensitive here, but I do hope I never get to the stage where it feels natural to describe another human being as ‘some extra resource’, particularly when the person in question is a brilliantly kind and quietly eccentric woman like Kate XXXX.

Team – I personally wanted to congratulate our two new Managing Associates on their well deserved promotions announced yesterday.

I also wanted to announce some changes in the XXXXXX team. Kate XXXX will be moving role over the summer to support Neil XXXXXX on the UCITS funds work – which will become her primary focus, while still retaining some involvement in XXXXXXXX as a ‘product expert’. Her support on the XXXXXXX team has been invaluable, and I know Neil is looking forward to some extra resource, particularly with Catherine away.

[mrkint]

It's just weird,isn't it. The client we work for hired someone to do some work in India. In meetings prior to her starting they kept describing her as 'The resource', so like 'the resource will do this', 'hopefully when the resource starts'. I mean saying her name wouldn't kill you, and also wouldn't belittle her to the status of a cog in a machine.

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

Sorry AT. The rain dance failed. Never mind eh? It'll be like home from home from home for you.

Too cold for me. I'm off home to warm up some

Well I'm better at rain dancing than I thought. Saturday, Sunday and now today not a spot of sun, and mizzle in the hills. Nearly rain. Not bad from the heatwave that was.

I didn't witness a drop. Will be October afore I see any. Was nice to feel a cool breeze again. That is one of the biggest things I miss for half the year.

[Montreal Wanderer]

It's just weird,isn't it. The client we work for hired someone to do some work in India. In meetings prior to her starting they kept describing her as 'The resource', so like 'the resource will do this', 'hopefully when the resource starts'. I mean saying her name wouldn't kill you, and also wouldn't belittle her to the status of a cog in a machine.

Not even human resources these days, Eh?

[bobo the clown]

It's just weird,isn't it. The client we work for hired someone to do some work in India. In meetings prior to her starting they kept describing her as 'The resource', so like 'the resource will do this', 'hopefully when the resource starts'. I mean saying her name wouldn't kill you, and also wouldn't belittle her to the status of a cog in a machine.

... though I was, not long ago, requested to recruit "a grunt" ... viz, a person to do a large amount of pretty basic work.

[Burnden Paddock]

It's just weird,isn't it. The client we work for hired someone to do some work in India. In meetings prior to her starting they kept describing her as 'The resource', so like 'the resource will do this', 'hopefully when the resource starts'. I mean saying her name wouldn't kill you, and also wouldn't belittle her to the status of a cog in a machine.

... though I was, not long ago, requested to recruit "a grunt" ... viz, a person to do a large amount of pretty basic work.

Right. So that's why he's 'Annoyed'.

[Worthy4England]

It's just weird,isn't it. The client we work for hired someone to do some work in India. In meetings prior to her starting they kept describing her as 'The resource', so like 'the resource will do this', 'hopefully when the resource starts'. I mean saying her name wouldn't kill you, and also wouldn't belittle her to the status of a cog in a machine.

... though I was, not long ago, requested to recruit "a grunt" ... viz, a person to do a large amount of pretty basic work.

Great! Do you do bag-bitches, lackies and heavy lifters too?

[Dujon]

No, my worthy man. I was just last night reading a bit of Orwell's (Blair's) writing. The coming description in HR departments is 'proles'.

[bobo the clown]

It's just weird,isn't it. The client we work for hired someone to do some work in India. In meetings prior to her starting they kept describing her as 'The resource', so like 'the resource will do this', 'hopefully when the resource starts'. I mean saying her name wouldn't kill you, and also wouldn't belittle her to the status of a cog in a machine.

... though I was, not long ago, requested to recruit "a grunt" ... viz, a person to do a large amount of pretty basic work.

Great! Do you do bag-bitches, lackies and heavy lifters too?

Gosh no. I have no bag-bitches. Where would I find some of those Worthy ?

[Worthy4England]

It's just weird,isn't it. The client we work for hired someone to do some work in India. In meetings prior to her starting they kept describing her as 'The resource', so like 'the resource will do this', 'hopefully when the resource starts'. I mean saying her name wouldn't kill you, and also wouldn't belittle her to the status of a cog in a machine.

... though I was, not long ago, requested to recruit "a grunt" ... viz, a person to do a large amount of pretty basic work.

Great! Do you do bag-bitches, lackies and heavy lifters too?

Gosh no. I have no bag-bitches. Where would I find some of those Worthy ?

They're usually attached near the posterior of someone called "Director", "Vice President", "MD" or the like. They perform a function totally different from "Executive Assistant", often with an amorphous title like Head of Cadence Steering Committee.

Job description seems to be fairly indeterminate, but comprises variously of:

1) picking up the tab at restaurants
2) carrying gear into meetings, whilst said Director walks in with a small slate/tablet/notebook
3) laughing at shit jokes
4) Startings all conversations with "[Director's name]'s view on this is...."

The approach to take to them is

1) Put the kitchen sink on their tab
2) Tell them "Can you make sure my laptop gets there too whilst you're grabbing [Director's Name]'s, I left it in their office"
3) Point out that humour has changed since the cutting edge "To the Manor Born"
4) Tell them you know [Director's] "view", as said Director works for you. Ask them their own view and wait for the tailspin.

[Beefheart]

I'm angry about there being no trains in our out of piccadilly. However, I'm happy about the fact that they were giving out free fruit pastilles at the train station and I've managed to accumulate 12 packs. These two things offset and as such I've decided this belongs in this thread.