Hi All

[Hellcat]

Find a pub and get them to put it on. Gives you an excuse to be in a pub by lunchtime!

Once got Varsity in Sheffield to show the F1 and a Scream pub to show the Hartlepool footy playoffs. Think me and the GF were the only ones watching it!

 

[The Negotiator]

Not much of a partier and now a 2nd year, have a small excuse for not joining in and being boring

Maths was always 9ams last year (as was everything else to be honest but it being maths always made it 10x worse!).

Easy first 2 days though, some sort of professional development days on monday and tuesday, CVs, personal profiles and the like, nice.

 

[*Hannah*]

Not much of a partier and now a 2nd year, have a small excuse for not joining in and being boring

Maths was always 9ams last year (as was everything else to be honest but it being maths always made it 10x worse!).

Easy first 2 days though, some sort of professional development days on monday and tuesday, CVs, personal profiles and the like, nice.

sounds cool, sometimes i wish i went to uni, but then i would not have my car, so did an apprenticeship.

 

[The Negotiator]

Didn't have a huge choice personally, apprenticeships can put you in a really good position really quickly which is good. I know that will be my difficulty, if I go into chemical engineering after my degree, even with my year in industry, I will lack suitable experience.

What is your apprenticeship in?

 

[*Hannah*]

Didn't have a huge choice personally, apprenticeships can put you in a really good position really quickly which is good. I know that will be my difficulty, if I go into chemical engineering after my degree, even with my year in industry, I will lack suitable experience.

What is your apprenticeship in?

My apprenticeship was with my local government, Business administartion, secretarial, for two years and just started a new job with local gov so i can give my sat job up at get the weekends bk yay.

Your qualification sounds interesting and most companies run post graduate schemes that help graduates gain experience.

 

[The Negotiator]

Cool

I will be able to go into most fields, be it engineering based or otherwise, right now I will go where the money is (so finance fields) but maybe I will get enthusiastic for the subject in the next few years. I know most large companies run grad schemes but will still be going in as a grad rather than a fully trained employee. In the short term I will be less employable but in the long term, the limit will be much higher than if I didn't have a degree.

All this boring talk on saturday night Sorry

In your new job you can now be as inefficient as everybody else in the cival service

 

[*Hannah*]

Cool

I will be able to go into most fields, be it engineering based or otherwise, right now I will go where the money is (so finance fields) but maybe I will get enthusiastic for the subject in the next few years. I know most large companies run grad schemes but will still be going in as a grad rather than a fully trained employee. In the short term I will be less employable but in the long term, the limit will be much higher than if I didn't have a degree.

All this boring talk on saturday night Sorry

In your new job you can now be as inefficient as everybody else in the cival service

You mean Sunday morning lol, hey im not like that lol trying to improve the admin side of things in my office, but im sure there are plenty that are inefficient in any companies

 

[The Negotiator]

I am just kidding Where I worked during the summer at powergen, they were very soft, I worked with some really poor people who I would have had sacked if I was in charge but instead they just worked poorly and got paid the same as everybody else. Not only that, the work they did affected real people with real life issues and their lack of ability will have had an impact of them.

I think a lot of it at powergen was a reflection on how many temps there were, so many people (like me) with poor training, lack of support from 'supervisors' after getting the job from short interviews which obviously weren't more than a formality.

 

[Hellcat]

If my local government is anything to go by then there is plenty of scope for improvement!

 

[The Negotiator]

My MP ignores me now I questioned the way he voted on both the war and tutition fees, received replies, this time I asked him to look into why my health care support (HC1 and HC2) considered my student loan as income, I got no reply. I did get a reply from the PPA (prescription people) which as expected was "i sympathise but it's not our policy". Grr...

 

[Hellcat]

We used to have Peter Mandleson, not always the most careful but least he had some power within the government to get things done for us. Now we have a right mr nobody.

If I actually wrote half of the letters I have meant to write to people there would be an area of rainforest the size of texas missing!

P.S. since you are handy with maths.. I have 120 servers to reboot. It takes 20 minutes to reboot 1 server. How long will it be until I am p*ssed off with typing shutdown /m /r /f machinename?

 

[The Negotiator]

Can't you automate it?! If it takes 20 mins to reboot each server, the least of your worries is the shutdown /m /r /f machinename since you will be there for 2400 minutes, 16 hours if my 2am maths is ok

 

[Hellcat]

its not all that bad. Just these 10 or so servers that are on one of the thinnest network connections i've ever seen. One at a time or the whole thing grinds to a halt!

The other 110 can be done in blocks

 

[chaos]

I can't remember the welsh name for mold and i live there lol. Where abouts are you from?

Well this thread sounds like it should belong in LL!

I'm from down south

 

[The Negotiator]

Woh woh woh, there's a place called "Mold"?

 

[chaos]

Woh woh woh, there's a place called "Mold"?

Yep. I think it used to be spelt 'Mould' - honestly, I'm not joking!!!

 

[The Negotiator]

I am going to do some looking around, being from Snottingham, I think we might have another challenger for stupid names in a modern context.

Just glad I didn't go to Bell End School or live in Muff.

Bell end (albeit not the school I have heard of):
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Bel...amptonshire,+NN29&spn=0.024705,0.079338&hl=en

Now I see Mold is in Wales I do understand

 

[*Hannah*]

I am going to do some looking around, being from Snottingham, I think we might have another challenger for stupid names in a modern context.

Just glad I didn't go to Bell End School or live in Muff.

Bell end (albeit not the school I have heard of):
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Bel...amptonshire,+NN29&spn=0.024705,0.079338&hl=en

Now I see Mold is in Wales I do understand

Hey! Yes there is a place called MOLD not spelt as the fungi, Wish i Never told u lot, plus i live within mold called New Brighton, Im sure there are worse named places, and wales is ace!!

 

[Steven]

There is a town called Muff in Donegal. They have a diving school.

 

[Jules Rules]

There is a town called Muff in Donegal. They have a diving school.

oooohhh dirty steve!!!!! Hi han