Derby vs London
We worked for the internet publishing side of a newspaper group and had just been merged (taken over by) another part of their business. To be honest, there was a bit (lot) of bad feeling between the two parts of the company, apologies to anyone who's from Londonshire, but the guys we worked with thought the universe revolved around London, and anywhere else (I'm being serious) was inconsequential. Maybe it was just the attitude of the kind of people that get attracted to working in that industry, I don't know.

Anyway; we were based in Derby, they were in London - they thought of us as hicks from the sticks, we thought of them as coke sniffing idiots - so there was a lot of anticipation when our new company organised a pre-christmas get together at Koko's in London...free alcohol and accomodation all round. One of the lads took so much advantage of the free bar, he ended up stripping and then writhing (naked) all over another (female) party goer right in front of their MD heh!

I suppose you could say that was abusing freebies in all kinds of ways. Needless to say relations between the two sides were a bit frosty after that. The writhing guy didn't come back to work again (he texted his boss saying he hated all that corporate shit!) Not sure if they got invited back the next year, luckily I'd left by then. (yay)
( curvylittlegoth heard the voices in your head on, Fri 9 Nov 2007, 13:57, 1 reply)

Actually
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It's more prevelant than you could even dream. Southeners really think that we "hard fuckers" from "up 'Nrth" are thick as two short planks.

Where as we *real* Northeners (Northumberland) take the piss when they call us down to do the technical stuff that they couldn't do in a million years - and pay us around triple per-hour compared to their wages.

I can do more in one day than a team of Shandy-Drinking-Southern-Cunts can do in a month.

And my stuff will work. (Unlike Southeners)

Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Fri 9 Nov 2007, 16:00, closed)