Wednesday was a bit of a long day. I found myself booked on a one-day course that was 100% mandatory In Glasgow And I decided to do it as a day trip. My four colleagues went up Tuesday afternoon, but I figured that since I live right next to the airport it was feasible to [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Work'
First day of term
October 18th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Work
Today was one of those days when a whole new tranche of graduates joins the company. As with policemen and teachers, as you get older the graduates seem to be younger every year. When I went to lunch I walked into the staff restaurant and thought I had taken a wrong turning into a school [...]
Tags: Technology
Ten years already?
April 7th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Work
At work today I received an email from somebody in HR, telling me that in a couple of months I will have been with the company for 10 years. It doesn’t seem like that long, partly because I did 6 years in one part of the company then transferred to a totally different job in [...]
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Beat the rush hour
April 7th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Life, Work
Anybody who follows my scribblings even casually on here, or Twitter or Facebook, will probably know that I am not a big fan of commuting. I have managed engineer my home and work so that I can get to work in a five-minute walk and I’m still a little amazed that so few people try [...]
Tags: Transport
Being sociable
November 21st, 2010 · No Comments · Life, Work
It is not that I am unsociable or anti-social, but as time goes on I do admit that I am more and more content with my own company. I am happy enough to go out with friends but I don’t feel bad if I am spending a night in – and now that I have [...]
Crisis camps
March 11th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Life, Work
I have been aware of the existence of Crisis Camps and BarCamps for a while without really knowing what they were, through seeing frequent references to them on a couple of work colleagues’ twitterfeeds. The other day I got round to asking one of those colleagues about the Crisis Camps and it is a real [...]
Tags: Nerdvana
I don’t want to complain, but…
January 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Life, Work
Everything looks so clean and white outside so I don’t want to complain about the weather, but I think I may moan a bit about the timing of it. It is only about 8 or 10 centimetres here at the moment. Hardly Arctic conditions, though it has made our street impossible again. This time our [...]
Its the way he tells them
December 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Life, Work
There was a bit of an end-of-term atmosphere at work today – which is going to make going in tomorrow feel like a real anti-climax. A major contributory factor was our xmas lunch in the canteen restaurant. Queueing up to get in there we noticed a picture of the incident at Prestwick where a Ryanair [...]
Winter wonderland
December 18th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Life, Work
Lots of snow tonight. Not looking forward to the journey to work tomorrow. Most of it will be OK, but the first few hundred metres involve a hill that has never been gritted in the ten years I have lived here.
Tags: Weather
Meeting Mandelson
November 13th, 2009 · No Comments · Politics, Work
Today was the long-awaited official opening of the new site where I work. Personally I have been in the new buildings for just over a year, but the industrial building with all the labs and test and manufacturing facilities took longer to finish, and now the company has decided that enough of our operations have [...]
Tags: Crawley·Trade Unions
