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So this means that one of us exists in real life... If Twitter is real life, of course.
Boo, ninja edit whilst I was searching, CFH!
Google only returns STW hits (and a tweet from cfinnimore of this parish), it's got to be from here surely.
Damn it man, you've done it again!
Madskillz, Cougar.
Also, my error*. Wasn't Jason.
Reveal yourself, Petefranklin! No. Not like that.
*It's late. I may have had a few light ales. Nearly bedtime akshully. Hic.
As the one who brought ringfencing the unicorn here, I cannot claim credit for it, I heard it from a sales guy at work. Who wasn't called Jason.
I have also since heard 'ringfencing the crown jewels'.
I did find this, though.
https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/silicon-valley-unicorn-fantasy-collapsing-175948599.html
[i]“Unicorn” is industry slang for a startup valued at $1 billion or more. [/i]
Pete rides bikes.
I'd quite like to go to zippykonas presentation.
Do they have coffee and biscuits?
Are there any Womenz there too?
Take weeksy with you next time, he'll be a right old laugh.
It's late.
The word you are looking for is 'lunchtime'
Luke warm buffet was provided.
Tom, am in Hong Kong. Lunch feels ages ago!
Ah, the jet set life of a paper clip salesman...
*stares wishfully out the window*
🙂
Luke warm buffet was provided.
I initially read that as "butter" and thought your day had taken a surprising tangent.
Five hour return journey by car to take a lone moody teenager for a university interview that was only 15 minutes long. Got home and we're out of coffee
I went to Blackpool once.
I went to Blackpool once.
Amatuer.
Try a day out to Ardrossan.
I once sat through a day long lecture by an Osmadrain representative. He was an extremely boring individual with a monotone voice talking about drainage. Longest day of my life. The worst part is I can't remember anything about it.
Tomorrow I have a workforce planning day...
In Bolton.
Great thread! My team now love STW.
Christ, how dull must their lives be.
(-:
3 hrs of customer centricity workshop this morning which over ran due to the use of too many words, most notable absence was the sales team. As I step out the door I'm accosted by a very flustered HR officer telling me there was an inspector from the HSE in reception wanting to do an unannounced inspection. I had to use severe will power not to swear very loudly. At the least the inspection went well.
Dalton zoo
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"We're not satisfied until your not satisfied"
Quote delivered by global head of sales for US ERP vendor to 300 sales bods about our clients
Tomorrow I have a workforce planning day...In Bolton.
I will let you know Bolton is on the up. The new Bus / Rail interchange is due to open, we now have a Town Centre cinema and some nice restaurants under the shopping centre.
We even have a pub named after a local taxi company ( I mean WTF !?!?!?!? )
All this next to the multi storey which was closed due to structural defects which some bloke is converting to shops !?!?!?! The boarded up shops, clubs, taxi ranks restaurants and when the council has meetings, there are protests outside to get rid of the leader.
Even Cash Converters has gone. If you go along the A666, admire the clean look as they closed it for 12.hours to clean the verges and filled 4 Transit Tippers with all the rubbish 😯
Get in, stay as little time as possible, then leave. It's horrible.
You've got Rice 'n' Three.
I'm from Bolton, well actually Farnworth
It's a hole and my heart sinks whenever I return to visit family and friends still stuck there
I win.
I tried to post this yesterday, but couldn't for reasons I can’t go into.
Yesterday I was an event, I won't mention the name of it, but it was for High Achieving Children, they call them “young Adults” but as they’re all 16-17 they’d be more accurately called “old Children”.
These kids have been told, for the last few years they’re “high achievers”, it’s been drilled into them, but despite this it’s created a bunch of whiners, not winners.
This even comprised of meeting with high achieving Adults, Oxbridge Students and Graduates and if you’re not quite the highest of high achievers, Grads and Under Grads from the rest of the Russel Group.
My role is this self-congratulating circle jerk was one of “the help”. My Mate and I provided part of the infrastructure which was integral to the smooth running of the event, and it wasn’t what they hoped it would be, it was perfect when compared to what they asked it to be, but that’s not the same of course.
I have learned from bitter experience that when working with certain elements of the public sector, you must be careful with information your given, in fact it’s sometimes prudent to pour several tonnes of salt over it, then some more. Sure enough as things were going perfectly / terribly depending on whether you compared it to the brief of the inner workings of some jumped up Social Media Commentator’s mind we were approached independently by groups of them for us to understand they were the centre of this particular universe and we should prioritise everything for them. As ever, with the public sector people feel far more empowered than the private sector and if there is ever an over-all “boss” to make these decisions, they’re always too busy doing whatever they do, no much. So I took a lot of shit because I had to decide who to believe was the most crucial person in the room, because they wouldn’t decide between them.
The actual event was boring for the Old Children, but for us it was excruciating – this 21 year old Undergrad from Cambridge stood on the stage telling us how she cried because she started her washing machine off on a cycle without any clothes in it FOR THE THIRD TIME. I could wash my own stuff at 14, and I was as from a high achiever as it’s possible to be.
The real kicker though – this was a 2 day event, yesterday was a carbon copy of the day before. Never again.