That'd be the one
Not what I want, but since the property market doesn't want me I'll take it.

Bxx McBxxxxx hasn't done too bad since he walked away from his family on Shxxxxxx Grxxx, Barrow, in 197x.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Fri 25 Nov 2011, 20:24, 2 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

I like this thread. It's like being in the foreign office.

( girlinthehole, Fri 25 Nov 2011, 20:27, Reply)

One of the participants would make a fine Anthony Blunt.

( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Fri 25 Nov 2011, 20:34, Reply)

Or Anthony Burgess, as the papers often mistakenly called him at the time.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 25 Nov 2011, 20:36, Reply)

Easy mistake to make

( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Fri 25 Nov 2011, 20:38, Reply)

Aye, it's a multinational these days.
If this job is anything like our process mapping it'll be wall-to-wall with acronyms. Still it's better to drown in acronyms than bullshit business speak; at least they actually mean something.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 25 Nov 2011, 20:34, Reply)

It's stock control - one of my specialist subjects.
It's trying to turn a Rothko into a Mondrian.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Fri 25 Nov 2011, 20:45, Reply)

Turning a shambolic pick face with no less than seventeen part-pallets into a lean, efficient workspace with a place for everything and everything in its place.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 25 Nov 2011, 20:58, Reply)

Yes
Or, if you'd like, Escher into Beck.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Fri 25 Nov 2011, 21:02, Reply)

turning aPollak
into a B&Q emulsion department
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 25 Nov 2011, 21:05, Reply)