Re: NEC Bike Show Sunday 30th

Paul Corfield wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 01:27:39 GMT, "platypus"
> <monotreme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Bear wrote:
>>> On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 00:37:50 GMT, platypus said ...
>>>> Bear wrote:
>
>>>> The mobly's in the desk drawer at work. I'll check when I'm back
>>>> in on Tuesday.
>>>
>>> You're the second most hopeless person I know.
>>
>> Apart from yourself?
>>
>> I'm being a bit crypto-Luddite on the mobly front. Compared with a
>> proper old-fashioned electric telephone, the average mobile is crap
>> - tiny, squidgy keyboard, nasty little speaker, the need to press
>> the nasty buttons hundreds of times each to get it to do anything.
>> It's just a cheap, horrid plastic thing that noises come out of.
>
> <applause>
>
>> I have a proper, full-sized telephone on my desk at work, with a
>> (admittedly, dismal third-rate Plantronics) headset so I can talk
>> and type at the same time. My direct work number is in my work sig.
>> I'm rarely away from my desk. WTF do I need a work mobly?
>
> <second round of applause>
>
> The boss was on leave recently. One of my colleagues was covering for
> him. I checked my mobile one evening to find I had a call from said
> colleague - made at 17.49 saying that a response to Mayor's Questions
> had to be done that evening. Now this was a slight issue as I was
> listening to the call at 23.00. However I also knew that we typically
> get 4 days to respond to Mayor's Questions so either it was his ***
> up for not sending them out on time or else we still had 4 days to
> respond. All sorted out the next day with the minimum of fuss.
>
> I then learnt that he had queried why I didn't respond (there was an E
> Mail the next day) or why I didn't have a company mobile. Of course
> that query never came to me. I can do my job perfectly well without a
> mobile phone.

Once described as "malady of spurious urgency". Major panic comes in at
3:00PM Friday afternoon. You pull out all the stops to fix/document/respond
to it, phone the "manager" who raised the thing in the first place, at
4:45PM, fifteen whole minutes before his life-or-death deadline.

....only to find he's buggered off to the golf club at 4:00PM.

>> When I get in in the morning, I unlock the desk, take out the laptop
>> and the mobly, and switch them on. The mobly lies on the desk
>> beside my real phone until it's time to switch it off and go home,
>> and the laptop sits beside the real PC that I need to do my job.
>> The laptop is used for email and corporate spam, chatting with Ginge
>> and web-surfing. The PC is used for managing and maintaining a
>> complex, multi-site callcentre environment.
>
> That is all rather bonkers.
>
>> I just /love/ working for a bunch of unreconstructed Holocaust
>> collaborators.
>
> <chortle>

http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/

I'm slightly surprised that I didn't have to have my staff number tattooed
on my arm.

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platypus

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