while I'm at it...

the worry is that I've been here a tad under 4 years, despite the fact
for the first 6 months I kept telling myself that I had to leave, or
I'd go mad.

You work it out.

 

Yes, I can see why that wou;d be of concern. I had exactly yhe
opposite - after 30 or so employers over the years, I was convinced I
wanted to stay here after just a couple of months.

So when't the leaving do?

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I feel your anguish.

 

I felt like that about my last permanent employer. Unfortunately in
that case the company had changed beyond recognition after two years.

The positive side of having stayed here is that I *haven't* just done
the same thing the whole time, I've had 5 different job titles, and my
role and responsibility changes quite frequently.

Good question. I'll see how this years bonus pans out.

 

Similar for me, though I took this job as a way of moving back to
permanent from contracting, because I wanted to move away from
development into more general IT management. It's not so much a
problem that this place is a corporate (I've worked for other
corporates that were completely different); it's more that the way the
French "organise" things is completely counter-intuitive to someone
used to using things like "logic", "reality", "common sense" and
"reason" in a business environment.

 

Ah. I worked for Bull. This sounds all too familiar.

Ali

 

Sounds to me like an unholy alliance between The Stone Roses, Happy
Mondays and The Glitter Band.

"The band who sound like someone else".

 

Yes, but Kasabian are Dad Rock and strangely empty. If they were a
pudding it'd be Butterscotch Instant Whip.

FWIW, I can think of one contemporary band who are anything but
derivative...

 

It's even the right fucking colour.

<fx: drumroll>

The Fall

 

That's a bit of a giveaway.

It indicates the absorbtion of the self into the 'mass' for the greater
good.

 

You can only say that because they've been going so long doing the same
thing.

All music is derivative to a degree. What's important is what spin is
brought to the table. For instance take Kings of Leon and Wolfmother.
They're both hideously derivative and yet KoL makes it sound like
they're not and Wolfmother sounds like what was scraped off the remains
of the plane that Lynyrd Skynyrd crashed in.

 

An antipodean posting style?

 

Er...that's it!

(Thanks Platy)

 

<small voice>
I like Kasabian and am going to see them at Earls Court on the 19th.
</sv>

It won't be as good as their gig at Brixton.
The Killers (Brixton, Monday night) rocked though.

 

the real worry is that I'm getting used to it.

 

beige, duh.

 

it is, isn't it?

I wouldn't say that, however.

 

The upside was that when I visited Corporate, we got decent canteen lunches
with wine. Nice.

Ali