Re: OT: What a waste of a day

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In message <43b2bb53$0$23283$db0fefd9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Niaz Khan
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I've been at work for nearly 8 hours !!! ....what a waste of time.
I could be at home playing Halo on the PC or trying out my new gamecube
games.

Every year over the Xmas period while our customers are (mostly) off and
it is quiet, I have a gaming day at work.

So today, I took in the Xbox and Cube to work, and another one of my
colleagues brought in his newly acquired 360 and I borrowed a rather nice
Hitachi projector that is usually used in the conference rooms. 15 minutes
later, we were enjoying multiplayer gaming for the rest of the day on a
massive, projected screen. As the projector also did HD mode too, I also
got to see what the 360 was like in projected HD glory. [1]

I am quite clearly, the loveliest boss ever. :-)

[1] 720p looks nicer than 1080i in my opinion. 


Can I work for you?

Almost certainly, as long as you can meet the following criteria.
1. Display an in-depth knowledge of a subject that everyone else finds extremely tiresome and boring. This may be something like an unhealthy interest in Victorian brickwork in post-industrial towns, crocheting techniques of the late nineteenth century, collecting shoes from the 1930's, or perhaps even a more common one, like knowing the biographies of all the different people who have played Doctor Who.
2. Have an obsessive interest in a sci-fi series of your choosing and also be able to display extensive knowledge of all the Star Wars movies and be able to rank them in the correct order of merit. Bonus points are awarded for going off on tangents and rabidly arguing that Joss Wheedon is a weenie and that the remakes of Battlestar Galactica have given the world hope that sci-fi series can still be great.
3. Be able to demonstrate during interview, perhaps even without your knowledge, that you are like a character a particular character from the Simpsons.
4. Do not like football.
5. Can spell PC. 

When do I start? :-p

I'm clearing a desk ready for you. :-)

I'm just about to start recruiting again actually, and will be looking for another three people and we've just won another two contracts, so I am going to be looking for some more again after that. Not your sort of thing though really, as all of them will be PC support type jobs at varying skill levels. That remote working from Australia might present a couple of problems too :-)
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