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 […]
Entries Tagged as 'Work'
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 · Comments Off on Being sociable · 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 · Comments Off on I don’t want to complain, but… · 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 · Comments Off on Its the way he tells them · 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 · Comments Off on Meeting Mandelson · 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
Risky business
September 27th, 2009 · 8 Comments · Life, Work
The other day we were doing some risk analysis at work, the usual stuff that many companies and departments do – even more so it they are an IT department or rely heavily on IT.  It was the traditional brainstorming session, collecting threats and vulnerabilities and then assigning probabilities and impacts to them., but I […]
Come on down
July 16th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Life, Work
It is going to be a (slightly) historic day on Monday. The tall chimney opposite County Oak in Crawley is coming down. Over the last couple of weeks we have enjoyed watching various mechanical monsters chewing up the factory building next to it, and now we are ready for the main event.
Tags: Photos·Town Planning
