Career move?
Our office is in a shambles at the moment, as restructuring is going on. Half the staff on my floor have moved upstairs, and they are in the process of constructing an office and a meeting room in the space that was previously occupied. The Operations manager (we shall call him ‘Mr X’) is already in occupation, and they are constructing the office around him which is interesting.
This afternoon some of the furniture was being moved into the shell of the new meeting room by David (oops… I mean Mr X!) and the IT manager (we shall call him ‘Mr Y’). I was dragged into the procedure to help having burst out laughing upon hearing David utter the phrase “Perhaps it would work better if I pulled at the same time as you push?”.
Once the furniture was in place they declared the next task was to build the desk for the new office. David asked Phil (erm… Mr Y!) if he knew how the desk should be assembled. Phil’s reply was a confident “Yes!”, which those of you who have ordered from Ikea will know means a definite no. He had a vague idea that “the big flat bit goes on top” and there were a couple of “standy uppy bits”. The real confusion came when “some slidy things” entered the equation.
Needless to say the afternoon continued with much hilarity.
Last Friday was fun too. We had our annual staff day out. Two years ago we went to france for lunch in a Chateau and some cheap booze shopping, last year we went to Buxted Park Hotel and had an activity packed day of team building games, and this year we spent the day at Pilgrim Hall conference centre.
The same guy that organised the team building last year came back, but this time a little more relaxed. In the morning they provided some circus gear and taught us how to do things.
That morning I learned how to juggle (as demonstrated by Claire, my manager)…
…plate spin (demonstrated by Yvonne)…
…unicycle…
…and tightrope walk.
They also had diabolos and devil sticks, but I’ve got my own, so can’t claim to have learned them. The guy who taught me all these skills was a nutter, and really really good:
In the afternoon, I spent about 15 minutes flying my radio controlled chopper around, had a couple of dogfights against Phil on a couple of laptops he’d brought, and then the intention was to do a bit of archery, and then go swimming, play pool and a bit of table tennis.
As it turned out I wasn’t too shabby at the archery.
Andy, our Managing Director didn’t take too kindly to me being quite good, and so all my other planned activities went out the window as Andy ordered I stay and keep archer-ing until he beat me. Unfortunatley he didn’t during the recorded competition (he did a bit later, we kept going even after that!). So although I may soon lose my job for beating the MD, at least I got a nice shiny medal and the knowledge I can go for a career change & join the circus!
The highlight of my day though was spotting this sign:
Juggling, diabolo, devil stick, unicycling, tightrope walking and plate spinning are all fine. If you touch the blinds, USE CAUTION!
As always, the full album is viewable at flickr
And as a bonus, have a mobile movie:
