Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

lostinrates

will someon witness some paper work for me tonigt\//?

this city is too hot....its love;y but i,m very pink and a little glowing. makes a chage freom white and shivery!

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

I suppose there's the odd chance that they link it to the "other" story.

You mean the 10-year-old coverage of LNE getting sacked? I thought about that, but I doubt it. The stories this time around (if any) are likely to focus on the suffering of the victims with serious injuries (not people I know) and maybe the families who've lost a partner, parent, kid etc (including us). They'll maybe want to point the finger at the various organisations who may or may not be found liable for the complex causes of the accidents. Dragging up irrelevant dirt on one of the victims wouldn't fit the theme, I don't imagine.

GDB2222 wrote: »

I agree. You need to dress for court, which is essentially the same as you would wear for a job interview. (Obviously, it depends on the job!)

So, smart clothes, to show respect for both the court and the deceased. On the other hand, it is not a fashion parade. At the same time, if it is going to last a while, you need to be reasonably comfortable.

My top tip is to take a bottle of water with you.

Well, that's what I thought when I did jury service, but then somebody official (can't remember who) told us to dress in whatever was most comfortable - jeans if we liked - and that as long as it was decent it didn't need to be smart.

I agree the thing is to err towards overdressing on the first day and then see how it goes. I don't think there will be many "ordinary people" like me there; most of those attending will be council officials, lawyers, representatives of companies and the like, so they'll all be dressed for business.

I'll remember about the water. Thanks for that.

lemonjelly wrote: »

Have an umbrella handy?

Ooh, thanks. I'll remember that.

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

My topper tip, when going to court, is to take a book / newspaper / magazine with you. There's more waiting about doing sod all than you'd think possible.

Thanks. I'll stock up before I go. I've spend two weeks in a crown court, so I'm expecting a coroner's court to be similar in the amount of time waiting.

Generali wrote: »

I want someone to do Excel, pay invoices and work with me on projects for members of senior management who will ask them where the projects are.

If they can't answer the question, "What would you do for a holiday?" then I have my doubts as to how they will answer a question like, "How is my business case for our $1.5 billion FX facility coming on?" (a question that would need answering urgently and correctly if I was to call in sick at any point this month).

In my rather brusque manner I say that someone who gets the job needs to be house trained already.

The job isn't an amazing one but the next promotion is a pretty good one. Thus we're looking for someone pretty good.

But Gen, they're totally different kinds of question. The holiday one is asking "Can you make a personal choice about a hypothetical situation on the spur of the moment?" or maybe "Have you wasted hours of your life fantasising about what you'd do if you had stacks of money?". The business one is asking "Are you on top of your work, and do you have all the information you need at your fingertips?" I would expect hardly any correlation between ability to answer two such dissimilar questions. PN is a brilliant example of what I mean.

LydiaJ

lostinrates wrote: »

will someon witness some paper work for me tonigt\//?

this city is too hot....its love;y but i,m very pink and a little glowing. makes a chage freom white and shivery!

Happy to.

Setting off soon!

lostinrates

Generali wrote: »

One candidate said, "I'd buy a house". She went to the top of the too boring to spend 40+ hours a week with pile.

there are houses ans there are houses/ she might buy something fascintaing

i think its h]great, three weks of sense fr every weel
k of rest of life to have room for something fun and scintilating for colleagues to be intrigued by.

shortsighted

sorry about typing. bit tired:o:D

having quick nap in a minute but too excited

lostinrates

see you soon lydia, so looking forward to it1!

oh, wearing jeans...too hot tpo wrestle with hpsiery and bought wrong shoes to brazen no tights

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Generali wrote: »

If you had 3 weeks off work and an unlimited amount of money, what would you do?

The Dakar.

misskool

Generali wrote: »

Here's something for the Nice People to ponder.

I've been interviewing some people and used the boring HR list of questions but chucked in a couple of my own. Most of them were technical questions (e.g. what Excel function would you use to.....) but I put one in to see what people were like:

If you had 3 weeks off work and an unlimited amount of money, what would you do? Time is limited, money is not.

The answers were very boring. So I throw the question open to you mob. What would you do?

I'll let you know my answer tomorrow (my time).

Galapagos Islands one week first class flight to New Zealand and spend 4 days then to Fiji and then Hawaii and then round it off by a helicopter flight by Niagara Falls

That's my bucket list travel

(Spot the theme :rotfl:)

Edit: Billy no mates at home trying not to speak so I don't lose my voice

Generali

I think some people are taking my question a bit personally which is slightly odd.

My answer, FWIW, would be to fly to the moon. My colleague wanted to fly round the world to visit all her old mates that she rarely, if ever, got to see.

Yorkie1

For luxury I immediately thought of doing lots of sailing in a nice, warm place. With friends to share the experience with. I'd have purpose-made specs so they didn't fall off.

I'm rather ashamed to say that my first thought didn't have charity in it at all ...

zagubov

LydiaJ wrote: »

I had quite a lot of fun living in France, alone and with very little money, because I was there for 6 weeks, which was long enough to get to know people, and I had a job and went to a church, which gave me things to do and people to see for a lot of the time, making me enjoy my free time better by contrast.

The thing that I felt was a wasted opportunity was 4 days in Boston (Mass). With no job and only a few days available, I couldn't become even a temporary part of any community, so the only thing to do was to try to "do the tourist thing" alone and with no money, and that didn't go so well.

I suppose what it boils down to is that I don't like being alone for many days at a time. I quite like travelling alone, but only if I get to meet people when I get to wherever it is.

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I had to spend a long time popping over to Boston many moons ago. I was staying not too far away with plenty of time on my hands and used to go there by train. It's not as exciting as it ought to be but it did have The Cheers bar (well the Frog and Parrot which is nothing like it) The Hancock tower with a lookout location you can see the whole city from including Harvard and MIT etc. and a monument to the guy who wrote this Kahlil Gibran, a Lebanese mystic and poet who died in Boston. Speaking of books that looks like an interesting one you've found, Lydia.

chewmylegoff wrote: »

We were considering Morocco recently (holiday at end of nov) but the more I read on trip advisor the more I didn't want to go anywhere near it. That is more because my ideal holiday is all inclusive and involves never leaving the resort than being anti-Morrocan. We did consider Egypt as well but I was put off by the fact that all the trip advisor reviews suggested that the only people going there at the moment are British and others are staying away which means that some of the hotels are half shut down (and all the other guests are British and therefore just as obnoxious as me).

We settled on Mexico in the end more because we were getting fed up of wasting so much time researching our holiday.

Dunno about Marrakesh. We visited Tangier once and it did our heads in. There's got to be better cities than that in Morocco.

The question about three weeks and unlimited money? Buy all the books I want and tour the world. Actually most of the world that has OK plumbing. The rest doesn't interest me. I don't feel comfortable in areas where I'm earning a vast multiple of the locals income. Travel to the moon. Nah that was old hat by the time I was in my teens. I'm waiting for Boris to build us a ladder to Mars.:D

Gen, you might enjoy this. That's how to get to the moon!

misskool wrote: »

Galapagos Islands one week first class flight to New Zealand and spend 4 days then to Fiji and then Hawaii and then round it off by a helicopter flight by Niagara Falls

That's my bucket list travel

(Spot the theme :rotfl:)

Edit: Billy no mates at home trying not to speak so I don't lose my voice

The Americas, Europe, NZ, Oz and a few other places. Misskool's itinerary sounds fab (been to Niagara already).