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17 November 2007

AGM I'd rather be just about anywhere than here. I hate these things. →[More:] Instead of having a day off with my kids, I'm stuck working this stuffy, boring event at The Forest of Arden hotel. This morning: powerpoint bollocks and boring speeches. Afternoon: taking photos of homely people. Evening: a rubbish meal and some truly awful "entertainment" Night: embarassing piss-up and awkwardness. Kill me now.

post by: chuckdarwin at: 05:57 | 13 comments

don't forget to bring us back a big slice of ennui

(why do companies think meetings are a substitute for communication? it's sad, really...)

posted by dodgygeezer 17 November | 06:55

If only I looked like you, I would take your place. For free.

posted by serena 17 November | 08:13

Yuck. You have my sympathies.

posted by malaprohibita 17 November | 11:00

what is a "piss-up?"

posted by Lipstick Thespian 17 November | 11:20

Drinking.

posted by matthewr 17 November | 11:47

But what's great is that if you look it up on google (with quotation marks) the only text ad to come up is:

Top Peeing Pay-Sites
Honest porn pay-site reviews.
Largest peeing site buyer's guide.
www.nameofpornsite.com/Pissing

I just wonder what that peeing site buyer's guide is like.

Moist?

posted by taz 17 November | 11:51

This thread is useless without photos of homely people.

posted by typewriter 17 November | 11:54

Business travel is a lonely enterprise. The awkward companionship, the evenings at loose ends, the false bonhomie, the bland, unhealthy food, the anonymous environments. It's the opposite of what we usually mean when we think "travel."

Since I'm about to depart for home after 21 days of this stuff, I feel your pain.

posted by Miko 17 November | 12:11

update: spent afternoon in the bar watching Scotland lose to Italy. Now comes the evening's hubris. Many toasts and much back-slapping. My overly luxurious beckons. note to self: bring stronger cannabis next year.

posted by chuckdarwin 17 November | 14:33

Sorry that you had to go through that. Part of why I became an engineer is so that I don't have to go to stuff like that. 12 years into my career and I've never had to travel for business. Marketing and sales and management rack up the frequent flier miles and let us grunts stay home and work.

posted by octothorpe 17 November | 15:50

Wow, is is piss up not a universal phrase?

posted by TheDonF 17 November | 17:45

I've been told to go piss up a rope but I don't think that it's the same thing.

posted by octothorpe 17 November | 23:03

oh dear, what a night...

posted by chuckdarwin 18 November | 06:29

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