Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

fc123

Miss K and the MQ's...I will send you the link tomo and a PM. We are using ours for the HG and a week later they will be at a trade fair. But otherwise are available to borrow.
Big snag is transporting them and not getting the chipped. We wrap out in foam and use a van. They can fit in a car if you dismantle but they can be tricky if you aren't used to connecting them back together again....but I can show you.

I will send you some on links on purchase /hire too as that may be more convenient....all depends on wherre she needs to be.;)

michaels

I had a linked in request from someone this week who I suspect had clicked the import my address book button and then not filtered who they send to...bit of a shame really as once I had remembered who she was I also remembered she is quite cute.

PN pick up a nice shell or pebble and go for a walk on a beach. Yesterday is gone and you have learned from it.

Its weird isn't it - I used to think I could program fairly well but now I'd have to do a google search before opening a recordset.

I can't warm to any one on the apprentice this year.

With me here all day builders have finally got the walls in the right place and can hopefully steam ahead on the shell - I had to give up 2 inches but what difference does 2 inches make?

chewmylegoff

fc123 wrote: »

open plan

Well I've never worked anywhere which wasn't open plan. Well when I was an auditor I wasn't in the office much anyway so it didn't matter, used to get some really weird locations to work at clients though. Highlights were a broomcupboard at an insurance broker in Birmingham and a factory kitchen.

Once I got out of that has been solid open plan, although I was in an 'almost cubicle' of 4 at one point. I don't notice it much anymore, if I want to be not interrupted I turn my phone off close down outlook and put headphones in, can pretty much zone out that way.

Probably more difficult for senior people used to having offices and having to slum it with the plebs! At least they get window seats.

The most irritating bit is that there is a printer/photocopying station close to where I sit which means people are constantly walking past. I did have to deliberately sabotage it at one point.

PasturesNew

The biggest issue with open plan is how bl00dy noisy people are these days. Years ago there'd be open plan, but it'd be quiet and work-like. Now people randomly wander around, clamped to their mobile phone, standing behind you chatting, mobile phones ringing here there and everywhere, text-arriving sounds... it's non stop chitter chatter and banging, crashing, bleeping, ringing, chirping, bad music blasting out like a 70s disco as somebody's left their mobile on their desk and gone to the loo.

Years ago people'd be working ... and the only phone would be standard sounding phones on desks. Now you're assaulted from all sides by all the bizarre and overly loud and annoying ringtones... followed by people wandering around shouting into mobile phones... before they'd be sitting at their desk talking into a non-movable phone, quietly and professionally.

I don't like it...

silvercar

vivatifosi wrote: »

I'm on LinkedIn. It's one of the few social networking sites that I use as I'm really not into Facebook (the work of the devil) or Tweeting on a regular basis (self indulgent twaddle). I find LinkedIn works really well for staying in touch with work contacts and I monitor who I allow to join very carefully. But one request to join my network recently was surprising. I have bought one thing on eBay. One. Ever. They've asked to join my network! !!!!!! is that about? Not only do they want me to grade my shopping experience (cba) but they want to be my friend for buying one thing once. I don't go out to buy a sandwich from Boots at lunchtime in order to make friends with the cashier, or pay money into my bank in order to arrange a pilates session with the teller. Bonkers I tell you...

I'm not on LinkedIn but I hear that the biggest problem is those that try to use it like facebook and post what they ate for lunch etc

PasturesNew

On LinkedIn, I mentioned it to somebody I chat to online in the States and said "Add me, you know important people and it'll look like I do too ... and I only have odd losers at the moment". And he said yes and did a search for me, but then couldn't add me as they wanted money/some upgrade for him to do so.

I've no idea how LinkedIn works really. I closed the window.... I'll log on again in a few months maybe.

misskool

LydiaJ wrote: »

Specially for misskool, and any other scientists, but may be of interest generally:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21472486

That's an IgNobel prize winner.:rotfl:

misskool

fc123 wrote: »

Miss K and the MQ's...I will send you the link tomo and a PM. We are using ours for the HG and a week later they will be at a trade fair. But otherwise are available to borrow.
Big snag is transporting them and not getting the chipped. We wrap out in foam and use a van. They can fit in a car if you dismantle but they can be tricky if you aren't used to connecting them back together again....but I can show you.

I will send you some on links on purchase /hire too as that may be more convenient....all depends on wherre she needs to be.;)

Thank you! I'm off on Monday to play and do stuff, we can pop by with patterns if you want to cast an eye on it? We are in midst of applying for another grant, so fingers crossed we can afford it.

neverdespairgirl

LydiaJ wrote: »

Pour it out without going back to the kitchen to do so? You are presupposing a teapot, which most people don't use any more. You make the tea directly in the mug (which is significantly bigger than a teacup) and if you do end up wanting more, you go back to the kitchen for the kettle as well as the milk and sugar - if you ever left the kitchen in the first place, which you probably didn't, because we're all now supposed to believe that the kitchen is "the hub of the home".

Ah, well the kitchen in our current flat isn't big enough to be the hub of anything. And tea tastes much ncier from a pot, I reckon.

neverdespairgirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

Everybody's doing an MA these days... because they were all told the same thing.

Yes, and it's hard to stand out from the crowd without.

One of the reasons I did an LLM after my LLB.