At my interview my current boss quite rightly pointed out that I had quite a colourful work history
To which I rightly responded that yes I had - I had come out of university at the peak of the dot-com boom, and surfed on the very edge of it, as companies basically collapsed around me, causing me to move on about every six months for a couple of years.

It was a fun time - venture capitalists were throwing money at anything with a dot in the name, and things were getting really quite silly.

I think my favourite one was the company where each of the 70+ employees had their own personal desktop colour printer, and the senior management had a "all staff meeting" each month in the local pub, behind the bar of which was always enough to get us all absolutely bladdered.

Unsurprisingly, being one of the last in, I was one of the first to go, and it managed to limp on another three months without me before finally falling over and just lying there, waiting for the Great Administrator.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 15:32, 3 replies)

:)
"limp on another three months without me"

It all about you init! :)
(waxdart hello., Fri 11 Jun 2010, 15:35, closed)

Yes.
Yes it is.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 15:38, closed)

boo
I knew someone who worked at boo.com, the first internet online clothes emporium. I think they managed to get through £1million in under 12 months. They'd do things like instead of having a conference call to New York, would fly first class for a 45 minute meeting.
(sugar_tits, Sat 12 Jun 2010, 18:52, closed)