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@dooks
hehe, thank rich. yeah, comic sans always reminds of that wand.
one of the most satisfying moments of what i laughingly refer to as my career came after weeks of trying to get an important document signed by this strutting ballbag. despite repeated warnings, chiding and deadlines from me, after weeks and weeks of evasion, indecision and pointless amendments to amendments that contradicted his previous amendments; it finally became overdue and incurred a hefty penalty from the client.
the director's minions called me into a meeting with my line manager, at 4pm on the afternoon of the office christmas party, to instigate disciplinary proceedings against me for causing the penalty.
unbeknownst to them (having long since run out of patience with not being able to get the simplest of tasks done due to this endless interference from the clueless directors) i had, that afternoon, overheard my line manager take the reference phonecall for a new job i had accepted the previous day.
i just sat there listening to them going "blahblahblah" like the adults on a charlie brown cartoon. when they'd finished i blew out the door and straight to the pub to drink far too much, too quickly with my colleagues before crashing into the christmas party later that night, singing and dancing about like a man just out of prison. i remember really enjoying the looks of concerned bemusement coming from behind the cigar smoke on the director's table.