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  1. 20 hours ago, GordonD said:

    When we were preparing for a major computer upgrade we were working unusually late one night and the cleaning guy came in and started wiping the desks round the stuff we had lying there. To be fair he wasn't the brightest of guys and wasn't sure how to deal with people occupying desks he cleaned when they were empty. We told him not to bother and he thought he'd been given a row, so went off to tell his boss. She came in to defend him but we explained we hadn't been having a go at him. Must have got through though because he only cleaned the vacant desks after that.

    Many places I've worked at have had the cleaners come in during the working day. Maybe they charge more to come in outside of office hours. It's always fun trying to work on some deadline with a hoover droning away behind me or my desk randomly being sprayed and wiped.

  2. 8 minutes ago, Cerberus said:

    I went to lunch with a colleague today and he spend 10 minutes telling me and about 10 other people in the sandwich shop how his 6 year old son has a whopping penis.

    Was he the kind of guy who as a child used to run round the playground bragging "my dad's bigger than your dad"?

  3. 20 minutes ago, ICTChris said:

    My colleague followed up this by setting up a meeting for 7pm tonight to discuss this issue again.  So he set up a meeting before he got into the office then for after he'd left the office.  In addition, everyone working on this project will be out of the office so they'd either have to work late or log in from home.  Sometimes in our role you have to have meetings at different times but there has to be a justification for it, absolutely none in this instance.  Pure slopey-shouldering.  

    Brutal stuff.

    If he's scheduling meetings for a time when he won't be around, can't you just hold the meeting and in his absence assign him all the least pleasant jobs?

  4. An attractive young French girl on an international internship has just started at our place. She can't be a day over 20 or 21 years old and she likes to sit near me in the lunch room because, unlike my oafish colleagues, I can remember a handful of things from getting an A in Standard Grade French.

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