I could have travelled up the night before, but then I don't get to see my daughter.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 21 Jun 2012, 10:10, 2 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

Ah, stop moaning then.
Still a 7:30am meeting is weird, people won't be fully awake.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 21 Jun 2012, 10:12, Reply)

Slap dash public sector practices.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Thu 21 Jun 2012, 10:13, Reply)

Makes sense, 7:30 offsite meetings discriminate against people with young children, people with disabilities
People caring for elderly relatives. Shouldn't happen.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 21 Jun 2012, 10:19, Reply)

I hear what you say. `
Trouble is in the private sector you can't say much about it unless you are the top man. If my senior mgmt want to do this sort of thing, and they frequently do, then your arse is in the meeting at 7.30.

I would have gone up on the train the night before, first class, gone out for a curry and got a bit shedded and stayed in a hotel. And they'd have paid for all of it.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Thu 21 Jun 2012, 10:24, Reply)

That may be the difference, here that's a perfectly legitimate thing to say to anyone,
you're not making any trouble or being akward, just suggesting something that could help a number of staff.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 21 Jun 2012, 10:29, Reply)

fucking hell
we have 7.30am meetings all the time. ditto meetings that start at 7.30pm and go on overnight. if you're on a tight deadline to completion for contract races or tax deadlines or a court hearing etc etc, you have no choice.

this is how big businesses work.

it's also how they pay for the public sector!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 21 Jun 2012, 11:06, Reply)

ahem. you missed this. Just after "pay for"

"top end tax accountants to completely avoid paying for"
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 21 Jun 2012, 11:21, Reply)

omg it's yesterday again
omg it's yesterday again
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 21 Jun 2012, 11:42, Reply)

Giving Battered the advantage he needs.

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Thu 21 Jun 2012, 10:14, Reply)

why? is she invisible for the rest of the year?
prick
(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Thu 21 Jun 2012, 10:14, Reply)

I like to spend as much as I can wIth her.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 21 Jun 2012, 10:21, Reply)

+anking
you edited
(PsychoChomp, Thu 21 Jun 2012, 10:21, Reply)

Yes. Typing on an iPad.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 21 Jun 2012, 10:23, Reply)

unless she's dying you'll have plenty of time with her, one evening won't hurt

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Thu 21 Jun 2012, 10:24, Reply)

Wait until you're a parent. You'll view things differently then.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 21 Jun 2012, 10:36, Reply)

its ok
i already want to spend every night with your daughter
(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Thu 21 Jun 2012, 10:42, Reply)

jeeeeeeeeeeeesus battered
don't encourage him to give up the glove
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 21 Jun 2012, 11:03, Reply)

So that's where shes gone
Fucking cheating oven glove bitch!
( Peej, Thu 21 Jun 2012, 11:06, Reply)