Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

lostinrates

Lydia...five to twelve and you are still a little green light....

Sleep tight all. Hope nobody has to piddle too much, if so, its nice to know after being a wake you can have npanother little sleep.

SingleSue

lostinrates wrote: »

That IS good news. When are scan results due back?

Got to get the date for the scan first! They appear to have quite a waiting list for it......

lostinrates

Well, i have so far made seventeen cups of tea and coffee today and finally, number seventeen is my first one of the day!

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

Well, i have so far made seventeen cups of tea and coffee today and finally, number seventeen is my first one of the day!

You have 8 builders on site? :eek:

DW pointed out a brand called 'Builders' Tea' in Sainsbury's a few weeks ago.

"Nah," I said, that'll make my trousers fall down." Some poor woman next to us nearly swallowed her dentures. :rotfl:




They may not know where to put their apostrophes, but in my experience these guys always know where to park their bums.

Farmers are different. Getting them to stop and have a cuppa mid-job always seems to be inconvenient. On the other hand, after they've knocked off, they'll talk for a minimum of half an hour!:)

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

You have 8 builders on site? :eek:

I wish!

Builders times two times two cups, foreman one cup. Farmers;) three cups, diggerman two cups, clients and guests three cups, other neighbours three cups.

Now had my cup, plus done another round of digger man and my dad.

Diggerman is the sort of man that doesn't like women much, but i like him......its amazing that a digger can do in half an hour what it had taken me all last summer to do in the veg bed.

chewmylegoff

PasturesNew wrote: »

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.

a lot of the clients i used to go out and visit when i was a trainee accountant (in 2000-2003ish) still kept manual books and records (maintained by an old biddy with a blue rinse), and they still used those adding machines.

i expect most businesses have computers these days, as the cost of something functional has probably fallen by 80% in real terms since then.

it's amazing to think how much things have changed in just a few years. my favourite job was a charity which had two computers, each with a different version of their accounting system. it took me ages to explain to the woman doing the accounts that the two computers were not networked, and that when she put an accounting entry on one computer, it would not automatically appear on the other. it took much longer for me to sort it out!

Percy1983

My previous job they where still doing manual accounts while putting things into sage mms as an afterthought and to generate cheques.

I remember sorting the mess out and basically setting up the entire general ledger structure.

Its mazing how system can just get ignored or not updated because 'if it ain't broke don't fix it'.

Doozergirl

What a beautiful day!

Percy1983

its almost tropical here in Manchester!

Doozergirl

vivatifosi wrote: »

Is that one of the reading group books? I know I've seen it lately and not sure if it was one of the reading group selection or whether it just came in at the same time.

Incidentally, the two books that people are going absolutely mad over from the collection are The Sisters Brothers and Girl Reading. I hope you enjoy those as well. Hope you're sleeping better with no more weird dreams too!

Yes, it's one of those books. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

I'm reading Girl Reading now and not enjoying it as much as I could. The lack of speech marks is utterly infuriating, I can't imagine what they thought it would add except to confuse readers. I find it confusing enough that it doesn't seem to be able to tell any of the stories straight so I constantly feel like I'm missing something without having to re-read and decipher who said what by counting lines.

I'm sticking with it, but it had better get good!

I hope you're back's feeling a little better. I had a lovely massage this morning and thought of you

Missing lemonjelly too.