HTFU London

Why does it bother you that people want to skive at any given opportunity? Do you work in A&E?

I don't mind the skiving particularly. I had a couple of hours off in the afternoon to go and muck about in the snow with the kids and it was the happiest i've been in ages.

I just think people should admit that, rather than saying how impossible it was to get anywhere. I'm sure the A&E staff managed to get in and were probably inundated with fractures and shit.

OK yeah I see what you mean. Sort of ''Admit it, your'e envious, don't pretend it was hard to get in just cos some other people couldn't get in.''

Yeah the mucking about is what yersterday was all about.

I'm sure the A&E staff managed to get in and were probably inundated with fractures and shit.

Not quite. I was at the hospital this morning and lots of the staff failed to make it in.. they were rescheduling appointments for April.. and this was today when there was essentially fuck all wrong with transport. Who knows what the hospital was like yesterday?

And then she said "you will see tomorrow they're going to tell us that £xbn were lost today because of the snow". And that is an aspect of the UK I really dislike, the gloomy media.

+1 these calculations of "cost" are such nonsense. They divide GDP by the population, estimate how many people didn't make it to work, and then multiply up. Most economic activity that didn't happen yesterday will happen today. When was the last time someone said "I was going to buy a new kitchen yesterday, but it was snowing, so now I'm not bothering".

willski: This is no time for logic, you crazy fool!! This is the apocalypse!!!! Run for your lives!!!!

Not quite. I was at the hospital this morning and lots of the staff failed to make it in.. they were rescheduling appointments for April.. and this was today when there was essentially fuck all wrong with transport. Who knows what the hospital was like yesterday?

Ok - I take that back. A&E staff are a bunch of workshy, lazyarse monkeys.

yeah, like the uk can afford to loose more £££'s

Are you cancelling your annual leave, bank holidays, Easter and Christmas this year to make up for the £££s lost?

Most people who couldn't go to work yesterday had to take a day off from their annual leave.

Damn, just asked around and people are NOT taking a day off....

Are you cancelling your annual leave, bank holidays, Easter and Christmas this year to make up for the £££s lost?

Most people who couldn't go to work yesterday had to take a day off from their annual leave.

Same here, either a days annual leave or unpaid leave :-(

"Work from home" win!

Our disaster recovery plan is meant to operate when no one can get to the office. Everyone logs in from home and off they go.

Yesterday just over half of our staff skived off. Many (but not all) tried to log in from home. The system crashed. Disaster recovery plan fail.

Wasn't the real reason because certain employees were continually posting on certain web fora?

"Work from home" win!

Wasn't the real reason because certain employees were continually posting on certain web fora?

Loving the use of the 'fora' plural.

Wasn't the real reason because certain employees were continually posting on certain web fora?

Good use of the word "fora". Misuse of the word "employees".

wake up one monday, see the snow and say 'fuck it, I'm not even going to call work to tell them I'm not coming in.'

Wonderful.

To be fair I did send a text before going back to bed.

Everyone I rode past today was doing about 12mph. I did fall off turning the last corner into work though.

As long as it doesn't hurt I really like falling off my bike for some reason??? Anyone else?

+1 Fell off twice in the past few months coming around a corner and losing the rear on a slippery surface, but because it's slippery you just slide along and don't get hurt, it's pretty fun.

Unless your keys are in your pocket.

+1 Fell off twice in the past few months coming around a corner and losing the rear on a slippery surface, but because it's slippery you just slide along and don't get hurt, it's pretty fun.

Unless your keys are in your pocket.

Come on, Michael, I'm sure you'd find it a lot of fun if you did get hurt, too. Then again, would you ever get hurt? Hmm ...

Loving the use of the 'fora' plural.

Matt!
When are you coming out for a beer/shenanigans?

Matt!
When are you coming out for a beer/shenanigans?

As soon as there are beer fora or other shenaniga on, no doubt.

chris, you may have left london, but you live on in our media establishments.

has any one sued any one for liable and slander recently? recomend a good lawyer. i cannot belive this. lies to all my freinds, people i work with, and now the national press.

chris is not happy.

She was right about the appaling typing though.. x

has any one sued any one for liable and slander recently? recomend a good lawyer. i cannot belive this. lies to all my freinds, people i work with, and now the national press.

chris is not happy.

If you are serious, I can recommend someone. PM me.

I would, however, strongly advise against commencing libel proceedings. It is vanity litigation and, unless you have actually lost money and can prove it, tends to cost more than you recover.

honey, I think your going to have a hard time sueing her. I know that they went though everything with the observers lawyers before it went to press.

Don't worry Chris has more money than sense.

Phuuuuc! I've only just realised that this is for real.