Well played kono!

Yes, it took me by surprise a bit! I definitely didn’t go up there with any ulterior motives.

Someday the lounge will get to my years at the Big World Bank Machine… i once interviewed for the supervisor job when my boss had been (unfairly canned), long story short, my dept. VP and the ranking management treated me quite poorly, being on their phones a half dozen times during the interview, even worse i didn’t drink for a World Cup game, way back in 2006? i believe because i had this fucking interview… at one point when asked about getting a group to work together i stated i’d start witha group hug… since the VP wasn’t paying attention she wrote it down and then stopped, looked at me and i stated i was just seeing how close she was listening… she turned the same color as her dyed red hair and we both knew the interview was over… i wanted to state they wasted my time and i could have been down the pub… there’s more to it later on (another job i didn’t apply for but was basically mine for the taking) but that’s a post for the future…

and look at you my friend! Union Rep… i like it!!

Ah beware my friend… old flames are difficult to extinguish ;) i had one of those that was off and on for close to twenty years, we’d keep in touch, meet up every now and then knowing full well how those meetings would end… ah life is a trip :)

Sounds a crackin match though!!

Just one example – we have to take our breaks on the train (although some people, including myself, ignore this and get off the train a stop or two earlier). This directly contradicts advice from the Arbitration and Conciliation Service that breaks should be taken away from the working environment.
Anyway, glad we’ve got a bit more of an active branch now.

Sounds like systematic exploiting.

Things have got to change in my workplace Mr M. There are many practices -all of which suit only the company - that I have never encountered in the three other rail companies I’ve worked for.

You’ll man the barricades soon ?
Allons mes enfants …

Phew!

Yes, it’s excellent news Miss S. The city centre pad is a big part of the Five Year Plan.

I think Miss Black and HR should have had the guts to tell me that I am wasting my time with that company before I went to the effort of getting time off work to sit through a set of tests I’ll never pass, no matter how good my marks.

Mostly good news then?
I don’t like Miss Black. I think she should be sacked.
Sx

Belatedly…it’s there!

Come in, Looby, your month is up.

Oh the grinders of the world, the one’s who think endlessly toiling away make them productive members of society… granted if they’re in the trades that may be true, or maybe if a doctor or most especially a teacher but here in the L’america it’s mainly service and non-sense when it comes to the “grind", it’s a suckers game… as the great Abe Lincoln once said, I’d much rather be in the pub… that’s where the problems get solved… or something like that… i’m a work to live not live to work sorta guy… those that view it the other way around? ain’t my problem… lol! i’d be doing the exact same thing as you my friend… if i ever get towards the end of the Wilderness Years you’ll see… ;)

Yes, they weren’t ones for a quiet night in with a couple of drinks.

These Phoenicians were everywhere ! Brought the alphabeth, tah ! Went downhill from there. They should have stuck to Greek wine, powerful incense (roter Libanese), and Aegyptian brew.

There is a mud volcano in Indonesia named Lusi that is actively gulping up mud since 2006, and will keep going for the future until the while system collapses.
MAybe the guide meant that the volcano is / was active for seventy years, what does not mean continuous ejaculation.
Even a volcano must reload.

A post/comment combo reply… look at me multitasking or whatever they call it these days… i’d like nothing more than to jet off to some exotic locale for a Madchester event where i could indulge in copious amounts of psychedelic substances while dancing to the wee hours… you lucky bastard!! (yes i know it was a house music event which would be fine as well but i’m dreaming here ;)

and why couldn’t a volcano erupt for decades? yes this one did not but here in Merica we love myths not facts dammit! and if the family jetted off to vacation/travel without me i’m with you my friend… it would be like a vacation in intself… me and the cats and fat bag of shrooms, the stereo blasting dub while i ripped dabs… in home entertainment ;) i mean what’s not to like, lol!

I’ve corrected that, and made a note not to believe everything you hear on a tour bus.

Shame you’re being left behind Exile. Hope you enjoy the time by yourself though. I quite liked it when the family disappeared for a while.

How can an eruption go on for several decades?! Sounds preposterous. Check yer facts.

My oldest daughter is going to Rome to visit her boyfriend. My wife and other daughter are going to Dublin. I’m not going anywhere but I would like to. Travel is liberating, innit?