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There is a cleaner at work that makes random animal noises as he goes about his daily routine, we are not sure if he does them to get through the day or whether he has a form of 'animal noise tourrettes'.
So far he has bleeted like a lamb, barked like a dog, croaked like a frog, squawked like a parrot and oinked like a pig. It is hilarious and we look forward to him coming round.
What brightens your day at work?
Office cake!
home time
Someone else's unflushed turd.
Leaving
Coffee
The barely repressed urge to take a scale rule and carve my way out through the Accounts department and into criminal forensic history.
The coffee machine. Free lunch. Home time.
Office cake!
..courtesy of some, frankly, delightful youngsters who are raising money for their drama groups trip to perform at Disneyland Paris by flogging said cake(s). Brightened up a dull Monday.
Reading posts by ebike hating gammoners on here. Fair cheers ye up.
when Louise from accounts looks at you in that special way. I wonder what she is thinking...
The American girl complaining in the heat that her fanny stuck to the chair..... I know I'm childish but.... she said fanny!
when Louise from accounts looks at you in that special way. I wonder what she is thinking…
"That's a funny looking ruler....No...NO...PLEASE..STOP!"
Managing to get in first with an earworm.
This morning I got the other blokes with Paul McCartneys Frog Chorus thingy...
Discovering a little Asian cafe around the corner from where I've been working that does the best chicken tikka kebabs I've ever tasted (for kebab aficionado's - even better than the Spices of Kashmir in Salford)
Managing to get in first with an earworm.
This morning I got the other blokes with Paul McCartneys Frog Chorus thingy…
You monster!!!!
Getting an email from a particularly demanding colleague, who has cc’d her boss in, and then getting cc’d into the boss’s reply.
Said reply was roughly “Ask nicely and we might think about it, but not if you take that tone”...
Finding cake leftovers from last week in one of the fridges. The bonus was that it is still edible.
Sitting outside at lunch, away from a computer. Like I will be in 10 seconds.
When I left the Forces I got a job in a large, well known Finance Company. Going from working with blokes to working with 99% females was an eye opener.
One lovely lady who used to sit opposite would quite often say " Guess what today is stockings or hold ups day..." and would then show me a quick flash of leg.
Now that brightened my day up..(over 20yrs ago this mind..)
*adopts insufferably smug self-satisfied look*
Going out on my bike in an hour or so for a blat in the hills, because the suns come out. The joys of self-employment 😀
Bimbling around the office pretending to clean making daft animal noises.
Bimbling around the office pretending to clean making daft animal noises.
I kinda do this.
I show up in the morning and spend as much of the day as possible doing hee-haw
1. When there are no adults (bosses) in.
2. Leftover training day buffet
Looking at the young new receptionist but am still trying to decide if she is attractive or beautiful coz she never smile. she got the Farrah Fawcett hairstyle which is uncommon amongst young women nowadays. 🤔
Going out on my bike in an hour or so for a blat in the hills, because the suns come out. The joys of self-employment 😀
Yes, but you'll be humming The Frog Chorus all the way around. 🙂
Dum...dum, dum, doodydoo...
she never smile
...when you're there. Funny that.
Lunchtime rides.
Able to fit in a 12.06 mile road/gravel ride and a quick shower within the hour.
Go out 4 times a week at the moment.
(Downside is I now want a proper gravel bike... Whyte Glencoe?).
Those times I can get out of the gloomy workshop, clear te sawdust from my lungs and replace it with some soothing tobacco.
Leaving work this morning knowing I’m now on holiday for 20 days and that it’s someone else’s problem. It’s been my problem up until now because everyone else has shirked the responsibility.
The long arduous commute from my bedroom to my computer desk, fifteen yards away.
Tracey from head office visits me on Thursdays. That makes my day. A break from the normal group of resident land whales and ham beasts.
When somebody says thank you
When I get to leave at the end of the day.
Counting the takings💷
Switching off the deaf cleaner's vacuum cleaner at the mains used to give us a chuckle.
When I drive a few yards past Margaret (one of the many 'silvertops' who get the bus to town) as she's got her hand out for me to stop the bus, the look on her face is always a picture.
Once or twice a week I get to buy lunch from HERE
Incredible place. Don't know how they do the quality/quantity for money; for what central London rental prices must be I'm even more confused.
If you're ever passing, you must try it!
best chicken tikka kebabs I’ve ever tasted (for kebab aficionado’s – even better than the Spices of Kashmir in Salford
Binners tells lies. Nowhere beats Spices of Kashmir.
Thinking about my bike ride home.
I work with adults with learning disabilities, and some of them cheer me up. There’s a woman who is constantly happy; a guy with autism who is a genius on the piano; a man with a vocabulary of about 30 words who always wants to have a conversation - somehow it never gets boring; one guy who always speaks in non sequiturs that are often hilarious ...
The money is rubbish, the work is hard, and my boss is sometimes an idiot, but the service users make it s good job.
The American girl complaining in the heat that her fanny stuck to the chair….. I know I’m childish but…. she said fanny!
Childish ?, I'm 52, if something like that ever stops being funny I recon' it's time to check out. 🙂
When someone sends a really shitty horrible email, ccing everyone they can think of, right up to CEO level, and being able to respond, stating that the sender is wrong. And the CEO he copied in agrees with you. Utter, smug, bliss.
That, and being on garden leave.
Starting the second week of my 6 week summer break....the joys of a term time contract to avoid child care costs.
Shame my crash last month has left some nerve problems in my arm that are stopping me riding more than 3 miles before the pain exceeds the pleasure.
WFH..
CEO says "yes, thats the right course of action"
Powerpoint Presentation failures.
"how did you know that?" questions.
When my boss decides today is the she wants to micro manage one of the others in our team or just isn't in the office. It's amazing how much work gets done when you don't have to constantly explain what you're doing all day.
Discovering a little Asian cafe around the corner from where I’ve been working that does the best chicken tikka kebabs I’ve ever tasted
Well? WELL?
Where is it then?!?
Discovering a little Asian cafe around the corner from where I’ve been working that does the best chicken tikka kebabs I’ve ever tasted (for kebab aficionado’s – even better than the Spices of Kashmir in Salford)
Linky please?
Chocolate o clock.
And breakfast.
After nearly three years I still get a warm glow having got out of the civil service (especially not being a party to propping up the Trump war machine!), and the cherry on top is now working in a bike shop, less pay but much less BS.
Finding interesting or useful items left in cars that have been dropped off - got a rather neat tyre inflating pump today, sometimes there’s money that’s been accumulating behind seats, sometimes stashed away.
Taking a car across to Cribbs Causeway in Bristol for a windscreen replacement and recalibration; that’s an hour each way, plus two or more hours sitting in Maccy D’s waiting for the job to be done, that’s nearly five hours out of my day not being in work. Next one’s Wednesday! 😁
Another home worker here also. This picture sums it up...
ahaha i lived in Castle Greyskull Irwell once upon a time, about 50 yards from Spices of Kashmir. Housemate got mugged when he went to the offy next door. Halcyon days.
work pluses:
seeing cool wildlife on the commute - especially otters or kingfishers, but cormorants will do
attractive members of the opposite sex
having drum lessons on my lunch break in the summer
The various prolific bakers who insist on bringing their cakes into the office so they don't eat them all to themselves
Those random days when hardly anyone seems to be in and I can just get my headphones on and listen to an entire album without being bothered
but cormorants will do
attractive members of the opposite sex
Picky buggers
When the ice creams get served on hot days https://www.aldercarrfarm.co.uk/alder-tree-ice-cream
Use of the workshop at weekends.
Days off mid-week after working weekends.
Contractor here - so none of this office cake bonding stuff going on.
Happily though, what I most get a kick out of is making someone's life a bit easier and / or helping them understand a tricky point about a subject or themselves.
Bumped into a guy in London last week who I helped get qualified (we had a bet on about it - my winnings were 20p). Gave a management workshop a few weeks back and a business owner had what can only be described as an epiphany that he was, in fact, a "bit" controlling.
All useful in their world. I go home with a happy inner glow.