It's Only a Handbag!
We are in the run up to the Christmas layoff now, that magical time when contractors get laid off without pay for two weeks. The work load is tapering off and all seems to be well in the mechanical garden. We are now at the end of a year long project to relocate all the systems to the new European data centres, it has beyond all expectations been achieved to all intents and purposes. As a result we are enow trying to complete the other outstanding bits and bobs, this it would seem is not so easy as there is a little dissent in the ranks.

This morning I got Hand Bagged by one of my colleagues, I’m getting used to it now – the handbags have been known to reach my home – which I might add is around 430 miles from the office where the hand bagger works. In order to keep my morale up I’m having a quiet whisky in the kitchen, and thinking like most Liverpudlians about going into a small business for myself – probably via a Skylight! Any way back to the topic in hand – why did I get hand bagged I hear you ask, well I’m not really sure is the answer. All I did was request some information from colleagues for some monitoring software, the result was an email where I got hand bagged.

Still I have to make allowances for that and do the daily walk into the office across all the eggs, it has given me great training which will stand me in good stead for the future. And consequentially tonight I have spent some time working on my email signature, I’m hope full that it will start a new trend where people can demonstrate the way that they feel without fear of a hand bagging, or at least smug in the knowledge that they pushed someone else over the edge.

My new email signature will look like this;

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Very arty I hear you all say, well it is and I'm quite proud of it, Vi is a wonder full tool and should be taught in school as an introduction to computing. It'd put a lot of the young and keen types off, making life easier for the old farts like me!