Archive for work

Yummy school food…

Posted on 20 October 2006 at 1:05 pm by dustmite

Ah, the joys of the healthy foods kick in schools. It’s an excellent idea, getting a load of people to have to cook using real ingredients. Well, the notion’s not bad, but it means you end up with… (if you’re about to eat, look away, quick, look away!):

Mmm... yummy!

That’s not how you spell contractor…

Posted on 10 October 2006 at 1:39 pm by dustmite

A contractor, of all people, visited me today carrying the plans for a major piece of redevelopment at work.

Essentially, there were three rolls of blueprints, all final versions produced by the county council, which had been with the contractors for a few months… one of which had a rather interesting spelling mistake. See if you can spot it:

Ahem... Spell checkers are important...

Nice to see that the county think the same way as we minor plebs do about contractors…

The replacement staff member…

Posted on 9 October 2006 at 2:50 pm by dustmite

Ray, a member of my staff, has fallen ill with the dreaded ‘flu that’s doing the rounds… in his absence, a large toner order arrived and so… I am proud to introduce, the patent pending, Ray replacement!

The great, big, Ray replacement!

Herm… That wasn’t the kind of cup I was after…

Posted on 6 October 2006 at 12:19 pm by dustmite

Whilst googling like my usual manic self to find a problem we have with a Dell printer via cups, I got this mildly odd result:

[PDF] Chapter 1 SAFETY ASSESSMENT
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
The ear muff consists of two rigid cups or shell(The hard shell
outside ... ERROR: syntaxerror.

So, there you go… if you’ve ever worried about the safety of ear muffs, let that document be a testament to their safety!

A little note…

Posted on 2 October 2006 at 2:38 pm by dustmite

There’s a tedency in the place that I work for little bits of paper to be circulated around. Apparently, this new fangled technology is called a hand-written memo. So anyway, a person is hotly dispatched to deliver a highly urgent piece of scrawled writing to me, and this is what it said:

So there we go... The world, on a laptop!

Any clues, anyone?