Feeling Down

HungryCol

Pagem wrote:

where are turbo-shandies?

Excuse my ignorance, but what's a turbo-shandy? :oops: Sounds like someit I should drink before a race :twisted:

Lbaguley

turbo-shandy [shudder]

strong lager (eg stella) + smirnoff ice

Pagem

Lbaguley wrote:

turbo-shandy [shudder]

strong lager (eg stella) + smirnoff ice

aye, that's the one. does the trick terribly well.

popette

Lbaguley wrote:

turbo-shandy [shudder]

strong lager (eg stella) + smirnoff ice

:shock:

A few years before I started trying to get on the right side of power to weight ratios, I was more interested in maximising the alcohol to pounds ratio and in our local off license this came out with a rather interesting wine called Tiger Milk. I once had a bottle of sherry at the Chemistry Magic show - downed in 5 minutes. Combined with peanuts I produced a spectacular show all of my own!

Jonesy - have a great time at uni. xx

passout

I never got where I am today by feeling sorry for myself.........

You need to stop moaning and work harder.

Personally I give 110% to my work each week
(40% on Monday, 30% on Tuesday, 20% on Wednesday and 10% on both Thursday & Friday).

jonesy124

well today I worked really hard. I did have a bit of a strange moment when a bloke threw his business card at my desk in mid conversation.

I am still slightly baffled as to why he just chucked it at my desk while we were talking about international growth (or something along those lines) :?

popette

I bet he spent hours plucking up the courage to "casually" throw his business card at you.
Bless.

pneumatic

Obviously, he wasn't Chinese, where such behaviour would have been seen as profoundly insulting. So, tips for Cake Stoppers when exchanging business cards with Chinese people:

1. Take hundreds with you; you'll need them.
2. Hold your card face up, writing towards them, with both hands by the corners
3. Present yours modestly.
4. Accept theirs with surprise and delight.
5. Study their card carefully; the longer you spend looking at it, the more respect you are giving them.

If you dole them out and stick them away like a cowboy in a poker joint, your new Chinese friend won't be for very long.

Extra tip: theirs will be bilingual, Chinese on one side, English on the other. Don't be tempted (like I was) to be a smart arse and get yours translated too unless you are sure they are going to get it absolutey right. My beautiful looking Chinese characters contained some kind of howler that made everybody laugh. I felt a bit like the westerner wearing a cool looking T-shirt with dinky little Chinese characters on it, bought at the local market that unknown to them translates as "I am a Hong Kong prostitute."

passout

I lived in Japan and know what you mean but their version of English is equally funny. You're right though - best playing it dumb (not hard for me). In the Far East they don't expect Westerners to understand, so unless you really are fluent just leave it, otherwise all kinds of chaos starts up. Not respecting business cards and wearing shoes inside never goes down well that said. Luckily the liked me in Japan because i always got drunk with them - very important owith the guys over there.

Jonesy - I'm sure you work hard really. The trick is to look like you're working hard. If walking down the corridor always carry files with you for example.

stevec205gti

pneumatic wrote:

Obviously, he wasn't Chinese, where such behaviour would have been seen as profoundly insulting. So, tips for Cake Stoppers when exchanging business cards with Chinese people:

1. Take hundreds with you; you'll need them.
2. Hold your card face up, writing towards them, with both hands by the corners
3. Present yours modestly.
4. Accept theirs with surprise and delight.
5. Study their card carefully; the longer you spend looking at it, the more respect you are giving them.

6. Prepare for the vast amount of sh!te they send over that is nothing like the drawing/CAD model you spent hours painstakingly working over just for them, all because your purchasing department seem only driven by cost and not actually getting something that works and buying it from just round the corner :x

IanTrcp

pneumatic wrote:

Obviously, he wasn't Chinese, where such behaviour would have been seen as profoundly insulting. So, tips for Cake Stoppers when exchanging business cards with Chinese people:

1. Take hundreds with you; you'll need them.
2. Hold your card face up, writing towards them, with both hands by the corners
3. Present yours modestly.
4. Accept theirs with surprise and delight.
5. Study their card carefully; the longer you spend looking at it, the more respect you are giving them.

If you dole them out and stick them away like a cowboy in a poker joint, your new Chinese friend won't be for very long.

Extra tip: theirs will be bilingual, Chinese on one side, English on the other. Don't be tempted (like I was) to be a smart ars* and get yours translated too unless you are sure they are going to get it absolutel right. My beautiful looking Chinese characters contained some kind of howler that made everybody laugh. I felt a bit like the westerner wearing a cool looking T-shirt with dinky little Chinese characters on it, bought at the local market that unknown to them translates as "I am a Hong Kong prostitute."

I once proudly handed a bilingual two-sided card to the president of Yamaichi Capital Management-

Me: "You'll see it's in Japanese on the back"
Him: -after a long pause- "Why you say it is the back not the front?"
Me: "I'll get my coat."

That was the end of that deal!

stevec205gti

Following on from my last miserable post - sorry for putting a downer on things.

I wouldn't worry too much about your problems at work seeing as it's only a short term position - although it seems quite harsh at the moment once you end up leaving uni and getting a long term job you'll see you end up getting far more stick than that (that's not supposed to sound as patronising as I've written it - i've just had too much vodka to come up with a better way of putting it!). Unfortunately it's very rare that a manager notices extra good points, it's far easier to pick up on and focus on the bad.

I'm having a particularly bad time at work at the moment so have a good idea of how you feel - my boss has just moved departements so I currently don't have a manager, and nobody will tell me what's going on. The only consolation I have is that I've booked next week off and staying at my sisters in Staffordshire so will spending the entire week on my bike, struggling up stupidly steep hills completely forgetting about my cruddy employment opportunities!

gkerr4

suspectdevice wrote:

you can see the sea,it's over there between the land and the sky.

that is the best episode EVER!!

Bunnyman 5.5

Ah'm off tae git droofin' on some Buckie! :P :twisted: 8) :shock: