Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Accountants don't need to be able to do maths, that what spreadsheet and calculators are for. I still have to carry a calculator around as, despite having a-level maths and ACA, I cannot add up without it!

I can't use calculators.... how do you know you pressed a button enough/correctly? There's no audit trail for that.

Years (and years) ago, I had a temp job at a council for 2-3 weeks. The room was filled with boxes, each containing 1" (or so) piles of receipts/invoices, bound with a big rubber band apiece. The job was to:
Pick up a pile, go through each one, using an adding machine that produced a 'till receipt'. Then attach the till receipt to the pack and put it in another box. Each pile would be added up by two different people - and if the second print out matched the first one it could then go to be signed off.... and would disappear to another department that did something with them.

If the two didn't match, you had another go until they did match.

This job/department wasn't a one-off. This was how the Council pushed the paperwork around the building to get things paid and totted up. The Dept was a full-time, permanent department. A room of people who spent their days just tapping into adding machines and printing off the items/totals to make sure they added up. You wouldn't see that nowadays.

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

What sort of people? I need to know so I can annoy you in your serious thread!

Oh god I hate that.... I spot a title that catches my eye, pop in to be facetious ... and realise it's LIR's thread or she's posted ... and have to back off

michaels

Well the good news is that according to the BBC today we should only sleep for 4 hours then wake up for an hour or two and 'find something to do' before having our second sleep for the next 4 hours...

I'm about to try and drift off to the sound of LIRs rain maker - if I wake up at 3AM desperate for a p I will know who to blame

vivatifosi wrote: »

... - I can't generally sleep more than 3 hours before I wake up with back ache ....

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

Well the good news is that according to the BBC today we should only sleep for 4 hours then wake up for an hour or two and 'find something to do' before having our second sleep for the next 4 hours...

I'm about to try and drift off to the sound of LIRs rain maker - if I wake up at 3AM desperate for a p I will know who to blame

I recommend the one with puddles, the rain on leaves or the heavt rain ones. Just about t o crank it up myself:D

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Oh god I hate that.... I spot a title that catches my eye, pop in to be facetious ... and realise it's LIR's thread or she's posted ... and have to back off

Why do you have to back off?

vivatifosi

The rainmaker app. That's exactly what I thought, though it does sound very relaxing.

Re the BBC... Oh what a great job the reporter must have if IRL they can sleep for four hours, get up and potter for a bit and still get another four hours. Lucky sod.

silvercar

Zabagov - glad DD is not in pain

lir - good attitude to potential adoption, we have a relative who is a doctor on the adopting panel and he says the people with the right attitude are the ones who take the view that they would like to do it, but their world wouldn't end if the couldn't.

singlesue -glad the test results were Ok so far

Bristol advisors - M4 - M32 route worked, traffic heavy but the only real hold-up was in Bristol city centre. He likes the uni, the town on the course, so now the only worry is whether he will get the grades.

silvercar

There is a sleep app for the iphone that wakes you up gently when you are in the right type of sleep. Then shows a graph of your sleep pattern. Best to put the phone in flight mode if you are going to sleep with it on your pillow, to avoid being zapped all night long.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Why do you have to back off?

Because sometimes what I'd have posted wasn't really that clever, OR funny .... so it's best left as outside of the NP thread other people might take what I say wrong and it'd all go t1ts up from there.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Because sometimes what I'd have posted wasn't really that clever, OR funny .... so it's best left as outside of the NP thread other people might take what I say wrong and it'd all go t1ts up from there.

I don't really understand what i have to do with that? Fwiw, don't let me stop you posting anything.