Posts by garethm 9 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Apr 2016
What have I found inside PC cases? Let's just say I used to work in a secondary school. I'm just surprised nothing alive was in one...
There were times my colleague and I got a PC into the office, opened it up and genuinely wanted to find the child that had done it and ask them physically how they had managed to get an entire pen into the case... or god knows whatever else!
I've had almost exactly the same thing! I have an Apple @me.com address from back in the MobileMe days, and someone has registered a PayPal account against it, somehow. That's er... not me.
PayPal literally do not care, do not want to care, and say it's not their problem, which I truly cannot fathom.
I used to work for a small, schools IT company in that there capital, and after 9/10 months, I decided that actually, I wanted to move back up North, for the main reason as it was as far away from my ex as I could get!
I quadrupled my notice period to give them as much time as I could to get people to shadow me in my schools, to pre-warn everyone, and to make sure that everything was tied off - I had utmost respect for the rest of my team, and I absolutely adored working with them - so I wanted them to be able to work as well as they could. Week or so went by, and no more was said... I ended up chasing up, asking when people were going to shadow me in the school every other day, to me told "We've not been told to do anything yet" by the lovely administration team.
Week 3 of 4, I start really growling - as wk 4 was school holiday, and we were all due to be on a huge installation. STILL no shadowing! In fact, the schools hadn't even been told I was leaving! By this point, I start raging to the CTO (a very good mate of mine) - asking him basically, what the hell. Turns out the CEO was the one who had to make the decision, and he was just head in the sand.
Week 4 turns up, and I start getting emails via our CRM system (any emails that got sent to my schools, I was automatically copied in on...) - and it turns out that I was being blamed for giving little notice! I'd already told all of my schools as I didn't want them to be surprised into it, and I received quite a few presents as thank you/goodbye! But apparently, it was all my fault for them not organising anyone to cover with me.
I honestly think they lost contracts over that. I knew my schools VERY well, and safe to say, they were not happy about having the blame placed solely on my door... thinking I wouldn't notice!
(The company no longer exists...)
After sampling many from around the country, I have pretty set standards on my breakfast preferences...
TWO (min) rashers of bacon
TWO sausages - Don't have a particular preference as to what type, but anything that resembles a paste is unacceptable. None of this one sausage garbage!!
At least one fried egg - cooked white, runny yolk... If the white is runny (read: snotty) - punishment will be violent and bloody.
2-3 hash browns
Beans (NOT IN A PONCEY POT! EVER!)
Toast. Controversially, I'm a fan of brown toast - but I will fall to popular opinion on this, and thick white is more than acceptable - so long as it's present. This has the benefit of soaking in all the deliciousness of the yolk and the bean juice!
Tinned tomatoes if they're available, though either way.
Coffee. Lots. A large pot at minimum!
Seriously - so many hotels are doing this one sausage crap these days. Where's the petition to make this illegal!?!
I did have a chorizo and sweet potato hash one morning for breakfast in Berkhamsted, which was divine... but obviously not a full English!
The Register 
Biting the hand that feeds IT
Copyright. All rights reserved © 1998–2025
