» My most gullible moment

Freedom isn't free
A group of us spent an enjoyable afternoon convincing a schoolmate that he wouldn't be allowed to take GCSE art unless he applied for an Artistic Licence.

Not only did he fall for it, the poor chap then became increasingly distraught as tales of a difficult test procedure made his dreams of free creativity seem less and less attainable. We consoled him with the idea that, should he fail the full test, he could always re-apply for a pencil-only provisional licence and work his way up...
(Thu 21st Aug 2008, 23:22, More)

» Mobile phone disasters

Click, brrrr...
In my previous life as an engineer for a certain UK telco, I attended a fault on a (very old) E1 link to a mobile phone base station. Diagnosis involved lengthy discussion on my mobile with our control centre - the conversation was something like this:

"Power cycle it? OK, I'm switching it off now. Did you see the link go down? Hello?... Hello?... Bugger."
(Fri 31st Jul 2009, 18:13, More)

» Bastard Colleagues

Oh so many tales
But this is perhaps typical.
In a fanfare of shiny presentations and webcasts, the corporation's five core values, as decreed by our CEO and senior board, were unveiled to the masses - so, we are:

Straightforward
Helpful
Inspiring
Trustworthy

Oh and "Heart" but no-one can figure out how to be "Heart"...

Credit to whichever bright spark managed to bullshit senior management into picking those. God knows how much time and money they wasted on it, perhaps it's telling that they have stuck with it and either haven't noticed or don't care.

In case you're wondering, I work for a large telecommunications company based in Britain.
(Mon 28th Jan 2008, 14:29, More)

» Why should you be fired from your job?

Pretty sure my boss doesn't read b3ta...
Same company, old job:

Boss of the time had quite a sense of humour about this for some reason.

These days I'm a model employee of course...
(Mon 13th Aug 2007, 22:38, More)

» Teenage Crushes - Part Two

Christina Ricci
She's about the same age as me, so as I was growing up I had quite a thing for her. Not helped by her starring as the rather naughty Wednesday Addams in the films (I know she was probably underage, but so was I) - I didn't post in the fetishes QOTW, but that girl has a lot to answer for...

Of course now ruined by going blonde, why oh why?
(Thu 5th Nov 2009, 13:32, More)