This is the closest that I will ever get to being on b3ta at work.
I'm doing overtime remotely from home.

What the fuck is wrong with me?
( Maladicta, Wed 5 Aug 2009, 19:18, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

make sure you get paid

( Lisette von Falcon, Wed 5 Aug 2009, 19:21, Reply)

Oh, I will.
I told the boss I was doing 3 hours' worth tonight to get our inbox down to a manageable level. Only another hour and 32 minutes to go and I will have earned 36 shiny pounds!
( Maladicta, Wed 5 Aug 2009, 19:28, Reply)

You get paid in polished coins?
I have to put up with bank transfers. Don't get to see any of that money until I spend it.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Wed 5 Aug 2009, 19:34, Reply)

Sadly not; get paid by BACS.
I wouldn't be doing this if I didn't need the money. I'm very very overdrawn :( It's quite nice to sit and work with music on and with a cup of tea (no music allowed in the office).
( Maladicta, Wed 5 Aug 2009, 19:51, Reply)

Does that also include iPods
(or Walkmans for those feeling Retro)?
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Wed 5 Aug 2009, 19:54, Reply)

Yes, it does - it's in our office rules that no one may break.
Something about being one team.
( Maladicta, Wed 5 Aug 2009, 20:02, Reply)

iTeam

( willenium Fist bump for verification, Wed 5 Aug 2009, 20:08, Reply)

We also have a big flatscreen TV
that I want to either squeeze a rickroll on to (since I know it has a USB port and can therefore accommodate speakers) or add a slide to that just says OBEY.
( Maladicta, Wed 5 Aug 2009, 20:11, Reply)

Put the slide that says obey in
and fix it so removing it =instant rickroll
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Wed 5 Aug 2009, 20:13, Reply)

I think that's why the boss won't let me play with it
because he knows I'd do something completely insane and probably break it!
( Maladicta, Wed 5 Aug 2009, 20:16, Reply)

.
Or try and access the web-caches of the company directors and cycle through the caches' image-contents.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Wed 5 Aug 2009, 20:16, Reply)

Our web policy is positively draconian
although I have noticed that it doesn't block Google Cache, so I could read vintage QOTW if I so wished...
( Maladicta, Wed 5 Aug 2009, 20:26, Reply)

Re Vintage QOTWs
Pity it wouldn't let you reply to old Questions.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Wed 5 Aug 2009, 20:30, Reply)

Now that would be fun!
I'm not keen on the idea of my b3ta login turning up on the work server, though...
( Maladicta, Wed 5 Aug 2009, 20:36, Reply)

Same here
Even though I'm one of the lucky few to have an Internet Laptop on my desk, I still use my iPhone for b3ta-ing (b3ating?).
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Wed 5 Aug 2009, 20:39, Reply)

That's one of the few reasons I would want an iPhone other than the fact they are SHINY.
Am looking into a data bolt-on, or Pot was going to hook me up with a contract with unlimited data to feed my b3ta habit, except my phone doesn't like pages over a certain size :(
( Maladicta, Wed 5 Aug 2009, 20:53, Reply)

It's the opposite with us.
Two Christmases ago, we got everyone in the office a free iPod. So we encourage people to listen to mp3s. Of course back in the days of slacker attitudes to office Internet access, I'd download shed-loads of mp3s at work.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Wed 5 Aug 2009, 20:12, Reply)

Sounds like heaven.
Would mean I wouldn't have to listen to the latest from Strictly Come Dancing!
( Maladicta, Wed 5 Aug 2009, 20:17, Reply)

Is that what they blare out over the tannoy at work?
Or is that just the taste of one of the Higher-Ups with music-listening privileges?
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Wed 5 Aug 2009, 20:32, Reply)

Nah, it's my colleague banging on about it ><
am not a fan. Not even slightly, and unfortunately I am alone in my despising of musical theatre, too!
( Maladicta, Wed 5 Aug 2009, 20:36, Reply)

.
I used to work in a place where listening to my colleagues banter would make me want to demolish the contents of my desk using only a pencil strapped to my forehead. Nowardays, I work in a place where half the banter is in a foreign language.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Wed 5 Aug 2009, 20:41, Reply)

We have to speak French on Wednesday afternoons.
I say "have to" - we rarely do :(
( Maladicta, Wed 5 Aug 2009, 20:52, Reply)

You could compromise and parler la Franglais.

( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Wed 5 Aug 2009, 21:05, Reply)

We do un petit peu.
9.08 - I've done my 3 hours and am now free! :)
( Maladicta, Wed 5 Aug 2009, 21:09, Reply)

Le yay!
Maladicta est gratuit!
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Wed 5 Aug 2009, 21:14, Reply)

Pas gratuit, mais au même temps je ne baise pas pour l'argent.
Pourquoi, alors, est-ce que j'ai dit au responsable que je ferai la même chose demain et vendredi? VDM.
( Maladicta, Wed 5 Aug 2009, 21:17, Reply)

Eh beh oui!
C'est pour l'argent brillant, n'est pas (la même chose - pas la baiser)?
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Wed 5 Aug 2009, 21:33, Reply)

Vitamin B3a deficiency

( willenium Fist bump for verification, Wed 5 Aug 2009, 19:22, Reply)

It is - I don't dare even attempt to get on b3ta at work because we're so busy
and my boss will cunt me in the fuck with a P45 if no work gets done... we're a bit slow at the moment so I've taken one for the team and am going through the emails answering the ones I don't need the work-based systems for...
( Maladicta, Wed 5 Aug 2009, 19:29, Reply)

print out some pictures of fluff
than look at to simulate /links
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Wed 5 Aug 2009, 19:31, Reply)

I usually get my b3ta fix
ninja-emailing Pot at work, and after four when the bosses have gone home we all just take the piss out of one another while we work, and drink tea. It's almost like OT.
( Maladicta, Wed 5 Aug 2009, 19:52, Reply)