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Nice attitude.

 

If he's a techie, they probably expect him to turn up in a mobile tip with
the foot well littered with empty Pot Noodle cartons, shirley? Wearing a
beard and sandals?

Ali

 

I had a flier all the way up there. Just under 3.5 hours from Bedford
to the hotel in Barrow (265 miles) is probably as good as I could
expect to do on a bike if I was giving it hell and only stopping for
fuel and no smokes.

I wouldn't mind working there if it wasn't for the bitterly cold wind
ripping off the sea and the total pikeyness of Barrow.

 

That's quite impressive. Hope there's no NIPs to come...

Well, the wind isn't a permanent feature. The rest, however... I
wonder if we (as in Cumbria) can persuade Lancashire to take Barrow
back? Although it must be said, I don't think Carlisle has much to be
proud of by comparison.

 

Alison Hopkins banged the rocks together and they said :

I've worked where I am for 1.5 years. Was supposed to have a review 6
months in, and one 12 months in.

Still waiting.

Also waiting for them to pay me the c-car insurance I had to pay, and
the cost of repairing my own laptop that blew up in work.

Still waiting.

 

banged the rocks together and they said :

I know my "people skills" leave a lot to be desired.

I always try to get jobs with a minimum of contact with customers/the
public.

 

Champ banged the rocks together and they said :

The cars functional, clean, practical, and doesn't make you think
"Ewww, I don't want to get into that" (unless you're a Donald
Trumpesque type).

I'd have no problems picking VPs from airports in it.

Now, if I arrived at the airport in a manky H reg Ford Sierra OTOH...

 

Alison Hopkins banged the rocks together and they said :

LOL

You forgot the pizza boxes and Jolt Cola cans.

 

DR banged the rocks together and they said :

<chortle>

Carlisle, Barrow, Penrith, Wigton, the list goes on and on.

 

At least Carlisle (and, AFAIK, Barrow) don't have smell problems.
Wigton has a large plastic film factory, which gives off a
particularly foul yet otherwise incomparable (in my experience) odour;
when the wind is in the wrong direction you just don't want to be
there. The problem at Penrith is a rendering plant just outside the
town; the smell is again foul, and wind-dependent. Otherwise they
would all be nice places, but for the denizens thereof...

 

I'd really not want someone with that attitude towards customers facing
them, however good they were at their job.

 

Not aimed at frag... but has anyone here ever seen a training film called
"Who Sold You That, Then? "

Ali

 

No, but I've seen one called "Who lost the sale".

 

Probably similar, I'll bet. This one was produced by John Cheese's company,
Visual Arts. I used to use it to train non sales people about the importance
of customer relations. Cleese played a white goods engineer who went in to
customers, hissed through his teeth and muttered "Who sold you....". Very
good, it was.

Ali

 

*waves*

back in the early 90s.

 

Coo, were they still using it then? I think I used it for courses in the
late 70's/early 80's. <gulp> Other than the dodgy fashion - I watched an
excerpt the other week - the messages are still pretty good.

Ali

 

banged the rocks together and they said :

Whats it like living in the 80s?

 

Champ banged the rocks together and they said :

Not at all, the comparison was between a Passat TDi and a Golf SDi IIRC.

If you take what I said to the extremes then the remains of a Ford
Model T would be just the same as a Bently Flying Spur, which is
ludicrous.

Just like your reply.

 

DR banged the rocks together and they said :

A plastic factory? I always thought it was a "turning cows into
leather" factory from the smell.

 

What, the 70s are over already?

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