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Are you ok where you are?

no, need a job
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no, hate the one i've got
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*sigh* it's ok
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James Blast
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I am in a world of pain

@ mf you can get white ink :oops:
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Zuma
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at least it is Friday James :von:
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I'm middle management so I guess that makes me a repressed and frustrated miniature tyrant.

But it's actually quite good, really. Nice money, a decent enough boss once you learn to manage him and deal with some of his more bizarre moments, good funny nice colleagues, utterly excellent staff, and very very very little of this:
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SINsister wrote:I'm being "made redundant" (more like, I'm being forced out due to lack of work) in the very near future. So it looks like a July meetup with you folks is out of the question, now... :cry: :evil:
Sorry to hear that Erika. :( Now you have a real reason for wussing out of a visit damnit!
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Zuma
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Andrew S wrote:
SINsister wrote:I'm being "made redundant" (more like, I'm being forced out due to lack of work) in the very near future. So it looks like a July meetup with you folks is out of the question, now... :cry: :evil:
Sorry to hear that Erika. :( Now you have a real rason for wussing out of a visit damnit!
Aye as Andrew said, we are not happy on either count..
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Zuma wrote:
Andrew S wrote:
SINsister wrote:I'm being "made redundant" (more like, I'm being forced out due to lack of work) in the very near future. So it looks like a July meetup with you folks is out of the question, now... :cry: :evil:
Sorry to hear that Erika. :( Now you have a real rason for wussing out of a visit damnit!
Aye as Andrew said, we are not happy on either count..
Ditto :(
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scotty wrote:
Zuma wrote:
Andrew S wrote: Sorry to hear that Erika. :( Now you have a real rason for wussing out of a visit damnit!
Aye as Andrew said, we are not happy on either count..
Ditto :(
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Zuma
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Wot Mr Eloquent said..(go on, go on, go on..)
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markfiend wrote:Can I change my vote?

I've just had to explain the 4-colour (CMYK) printing process to my boss, including a thorough explanation of why there's no such thing as white ink :roll:
:lol: :lol: :lol:
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markfiend wrote:
timsinister wrote:I can't find your icon for laughing and pounding the floor, but that's it.
Image him? You can find mine here

The worst thing is, he still seems to think I'm wrong about white ink :eek:
So Mark icons like this are ok on this mboard > Image
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speachless
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eek, manners...
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What is this one doing - is it strength training?

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James Blast wrote:speachless

This ones for you Jimmy! :lol:

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Francis
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Love my job. Don't whinge, walk.
And you know that she's half crazy but that's why you want to be there.
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James Blast
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Oh dear God, it's Friday, it's afterhours, it's Francis!
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_emma_
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Mickpit wrote:"civilised countries" ???
You know a litre of decent vodka costs about €30 in the land of the 'rich people' - so who's rich now?
Ha! :P
Seriously though, I think low prices of alcohol here are just a means to keep the masses blind, numb and quiet. But it's a topic for a different thread in a different forum.
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Francis wrote:Love my job. Don't whinge, walk.
:|

There's a great bit in one episode of The Ofice where Tim (Martin Freeman's character) says something along these lines:

"OK, this job, it's like I rolled a dice and got a 3. It's OK, it could be worse. And maybe if I rolled again, I could get a 6. But then again, I could get a 1."

The fear factor is a dreadful thing. :|

Re: White ink; I know it exists (white print on black t-shirts for example) but

a) it's not involved in the CMYK process and my boss was holding up a magazine asking "well how do they get the white bits in the photos then?"

and b) white ink for running through an offset litho press? The best you could get would be translucent I'm sure; you couldn't use it like Tipp-ex, which is what he wanted...
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Mickpit
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_emma_ wrote:
Mickpit wrote:"civilised countries" ???
You know a litre of decent vodka costs about €30 in the land of the 'rich people' - so who's rich now?
Ha! :P
Seriously though, I think low prices of alcohol here are just a means to keep the masses blind, numb and quiet. But it's a topic for a different thread in a different forum.
Alcohol here also keeps us blind, numb (though not quiet) - but the high cost is tax that funds (self proclaimed 'socialist') politicians extravagent lifestyles................ now that tastes really bitter.

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timsinister wrote:Are you employed ATM, Mrs. Strange?
i have work during term time until christmas, but it's not permanent. i do have to find something during the summer for a few weeks.
I don't wanna live like I don't mind
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I guess it's both the best, and worst bit of working in a school; summer holidays. :wink:

Luck!
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i get paid if i'm permanent!
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