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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Jul 17, 2003
The evil boss woman decided she was going on holiday this week, so I had to stay in to cover her work 
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Jul 17, 2003
So which is worse - covering her work or her being there?
Think carefully about your answer, young padwan.
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Jul 17, 2003
Her being here is infinitely worse, I don't need to think about that. For a start, she sits right behind me, and has a disturbing habit of staying at my monitor. Her 'work' doesn't seem to take long, oddly.
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Jul 17, 2003
Often the way with management, I find...
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Jul 17, 2003
Mmm. We had fun earlier in the week- we were asked to produce a chart accounting for all our hours, while we all came in a couple of hours a week short, we could only account for 11.5 of her 37 hours a week 
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Jul 17, 2003
Tut tut. I trust you didn't do that deliberately?
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Jul 17, 2003
No, I didn't have to that was all we could think of. We had to fudge it in the end.
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Jul 17, 2003
Hmm, oh for the luxury of coming up short. We always used to make sure that our time usage charts showed at least 110% of working hours being used. Drove management batty.
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Jul 17, 2003
Believe me, by the time it got up stairs, it shows us operating at peak efficiency
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Jul 17, 2003
Ha, and there is the difference betwwen the civil service and the rest of the world - we work at over peak efficiency...
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Jul 17, 2003
Ohh, listen to that- it's a pig requesting clearance for take off.
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Jul 17, 2003
In the finest traditions of Civil Service claims everywhere, then...
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Jul 17, 2003
You really sell your place of work well, don;t you?
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Jul 17, 2003
Why lie when the truth is such an attractive advert for the place?
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Jul 17, 2003
New and interesting defination of 'attractive' there.
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Jul 17, 2003
Previously unknown, I'll think you'll find.
You don't exactly run up the flags for your employers either, y'know...
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Jul 17, 2003
No well, who does really? I'm sure there are great reasons to work here, they're just well hidden.
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Jul 17, 2003
Such is the way of all workplaces, I find. 
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Jul 17, 2003
Unfortunately the alternatives are either a) highly unlikely or b) really unappealing.
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Blues Shark - For people who like this sort of thing, then this is just the sort of thing they'll like Posted Jul 17, 2003
Mmm, I'm still working on my life ambition of being Richie Benaud. Though i'd settle for being Phil Liggett.
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