Tell us something really trivial about your life (Vol 29)
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DickyC said:
Still trouble at t'mill. Laid off 'temporarily' from my job driving for the garage as the guvnor waits for funding, I popped in on Saturday morning bearing bacon sarnies. It wasn't enough for a reprieve. I knew really and have been pursuing other driving jobs and also getting back into contract CAD work. This kind of things awaits the eager CAD job hunter:
An opportunity has arisen to work as a CAD Technician for one of our large and reputable client’s.. . blah, blah, blah... unfortunately your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.
Hold up, I haven't applied yet. You and your rogue apostrophe. Ooh, hang on! What's this?
In the meantime please keep an eye on (url removed) for any other potential vacancies.
Oh, good. I'll go and look at the URL Removed website, shall I?
If I may ask, CAD building, ships, electrical, space programme, aeronaughtical?An opportunity has arisen to work as a CAD Technician for one of our large and reputable client’s.. . blah, blah, blah... unfortunately your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.
Hold up, I haven't applied yet. You and your rogue apostrophe. Ooh, hang on! What's this?
In the meantime please keep an eye on (url removed) for any other potential vacancies.
Oh, good. I'll go and look at the URL Removed website, shall I?
V6Pushfit said:
If I may ask, CAD building, ships, electrical, space programme, aeronaughtical?
Oil and Gas mostly but having been diverted early on into modelmaking - and steadfastly refusing to specialise after the models were replaced by 3D cad - I have been a jobbing 2D CAD draughtsman without portfolio since 1985. If I can get in somewhere I'm all right. The last CAD contract I had I worked for five disciplines and the one before seven disciplines. Unfortunately, employers think they want a specialist, not a Jack-of-all-Trades, forgetting that what they actually want is to get the drawings out the door.Off up that London sometime this week to ply old mates with drink in the hope they'll into invent a role for me. It's worked before.
DickyC said:
Oil and Gas mostly but having been diverted early on into modelmaking - and steadfastly refusing to specialise after the models were replaced by 3D cad - I have been a jobbing 2D CAD draughtsman without portfolio since 1985. If I can get in somewhere I'm all right. The last CAD contract I had I worked for five disciplines and the one before seven disciplines. Unfortunately, employers think they want a specialist, not a Jack-of-all-Trades, forgetting that what they actually want is to get the drawings out the door.
Off up that London sometime this week to ply old mates with drink in the hope they'll into invent a role for me. It's worked before.
Drawings out the door is a constant here. 'Oh we'd just like to change room numbers', or 'can you just make the building 1m longer' was last weeks classic.Off up that London sometime this week to ply old mates with drink in the hope they'll into invent a role for me. It's worked before.
We really need to stamp out these incursions by rogue poets. The airfield was a mess this morning, bloody Fedoras and cravats all over the shop. They've been using sharpened quills too - nasty business. We've had to clear dozens of them, I've issued Battert with a pair of Kevlar gloves.
Anyhow, to help keep everyone alert I've prepared the following verse:
If you spot a bard,
Mark his card.
Give him no quarter, or his fellow cads,
Hoof the buggers in the nads.
Anyhow, to help keep everyone alert I've prepared the following verse:
If you spot a bard,
Mark his card.
Give him no quarter, or his fellow cads,
Hoof the buggers in the nads.
DickyC said:
V6Pushfit said:
If I may ask, CAD building, ships, electrical, space programme, aeronaughtical?
Oil and Gas mostly but having been diverted early on into modelmaking - and steadfastly refusing to specialise after the models were replaced by 3D cad - I have been a jobbing 2D CAD draughtsman without portfolio since 1985. If I can get in somewhere I'm all right. The last CAD contract I had I worked for five disciplines and the one before seven disciplines. Unfortunately, employers think they want a specialist, not a Jack-of-all-Trades, forgetting that what they actually want is to get the drawings out the door.Off up that London sometime this week to ply old mates with drink in the hope they'll into invent a role for me. It's worked before.
Yes, all the best with the work business Dicky. As you say, something generally comes along...
I'm having Lucido / Pushfit type problems with formatting and 'my stuff' now, except it's not on a Smartphone, it's a laptop.
Everything works ok on other sites, even Mumsnet has stopped trying to autocorrect 'dryness'.
It's only PH I'm having problems with, I assume someone's been fiddling with the wiring again.
I'm having Lucido / Pushfit type problems with formatting and 'my stuff' now, except it's not on a Smartphone, it's a laptop.
Everything works ok on other sites, even Mumsnet has stopped trying to autocorrect 'dryness'.
It's only PH I'm having problems with, I assume someone's been fiddling with the wiring again.
The other role I've considered is being Curator of a Private Collection of Automobiles.
Curator, Cleaner, Polisher, Primper, Primer and General Gopher for a wealthy enthusiast's car collection would do nicely but, as far as I can tell, such roles don't come along very often.
Hoy! Less of that. We can all dream.
Curator, Cleaner, Polisher, Primper, Primer and General Gopher for a wealthy enthusiast's car collection would do nicely but, as far as I can tell, such roles don't come along very often.
Hoy! Less of that. We can all dream.
Bomma220 said:
Yes, all the best with the work business Dicky. As you say, something generally comes along...
I'm having Lucido / Pushfit type problems with formatting and 'my stuff' now, except it's not on a Smartphone, it's a laptop.
Everything works ok on other sites, even Mumsnet has stopped trying to autocorrect 'dryness'.
It's only PH I'm having problems with, I assume someone's been fiddling with the wiring again.
You have to press and hold 'my stuff' and then press 'open' when the dialogue box comes up.I'm having Lucido / Pushfit type problems with formatting and 'my stuff' now, except it's not on a Smartphone, it's a laptop.
Everything works ok on other sites, even Mumsnet has stopped trying to autocorrect 'dryness'.
It's only PH I'm having problems with, I assume someone's been fiddling with the wiring again.
That was after a week of throwing the iphone across the room so you may have to do that with the laptop
V6Pushfit said:
You have to press and hold 'my stuff' and then press 'open' when the dialogue box comes up.
That was after a week of throwing the iphone across the room so you may have to do that with the laptop
I hurled it forcibly at the wall opposite the fireplace (it took a while for it to switch on again) and tried what you suggested, it seems to have cured the problem.That was after a week of throwing the iphone across the room so you may have to do that with the laptop
Thanks very much, it's saved me from going on the waiting list in Website Feedback
I’ve been on patrol and the coast is clear the Yeats and Burns bunch have returned to their Manors we’ll have to take note to quote both in future to prevent another uprising.
Bobbers needs a trolley I might have a coupe of spare gurneys from last nights fracas?
Peri track?
Bobbers needs a trolley I might have a coupe of spare gurneys from last nights fracas?
Peri track?
Edited by V6Pushfit on Monday 23 October 17:26
Could well be half term related Bobbers. I've been out to collect Grandbomma, she'll be staying until Sunday.
Barely had time to fit in two rounds of Ker Plunk and one of Mousetrap before we had to stop for dinner. It's all go.
That reminds me, I'm not much nearer to getting this Android phone thing working. I'll ask her to have a look at it tomorrow.
Barely had time to fit in two rounds of Ker Plunk and one of Mousetrap before we had to stop for dinner. It's all go.
That reminds me, I'm not much nearer to getting this Android phone thing working. I'll ask her to have a look at it tomorrow.
Bomma220 said:
Could well be half term related Bobbers. I've been out to collect Grandbomma, she'll be staying until Sunday.
Barely had time to fit in two rounds of Ker Plunk and one of Mousetrap before we had to stop for dinner. It's all go.
That reminds me, I'm not much nearer to getting this Android phone thing working. I'll ask her to have a look at it tomorrow.
Mine's android what problems are you having?? Is it new? Are you using it via tinternet or an app??Barely had time to fit in two rounds of Ker Plunk and one of Mousetrap before we had to stop for dinner. It's all go.
That reminds me, I'm not much nearer to getting this Android phone thing working. I'll ask her to have a look at it tomorrow.
Has anyone here done delivery with ikea? I'm contemplating it (as I don't have a car atm).
I want to get this in black to replace the top of a desk I have.
It's only £6 so i replace it every few years once it has too many cuts or dents in it, I swap the legs over. Ifbeer water gets in the cuts then the MDF swells up, which doesn't look good.
I have a feeling the delivery would probably cost more then the top itself!
I want to get this in black to replace the top of a desk I have.
It's only £6 so i replace it every few years once it has too many cuts or dents in it, I swap the legs over. If
I have a feeling the delivery would probably cost more then the top itself!
Bobberoo99 said:
Mine's android what problems are you having?? Is it new? Are you using it via tinternet or an app??
It's a new one, it worked ok for a day or so but it's largely given up on doing anything useful now. A lot like me, in fact.I've contacted the supplier by morse code, they said to take it in to the local shop and it'll either be fixed or replaced.
I'm not sure what old Patel's going to make of it, he's in his 70's and blind in one eye. I can at least get some Rothmans and a paper whilst I'm there, I'll see what he says.
Bomma220 said:
Bobberoo99 said:
Mine's android what problems are you having?? Is it new? Are you using it via tinternet or an app??
It's a new one, it worked ok for a day or so but it's largely given up on doing anything useful now. A lot like me, in fact.I've contacted the supplier by morse code, they said to take it in to the local shop and it'll either be fixed or replaced.
I'm not sure what old Patel's going to make of it, he's in his 70's and blind in one eye. I can at least get some Rothmans and a paper whilst I'm there, I'll see what he says.
Bobberoo99 said:
Ah I didn't realise it was a Patel special, did you not realise that they're smuggled into the country in the shorts of people who swim ashore from France!?!?!?
I`ve got some Samsung A5 thing & I hate it.All I want is something to make calls & send texts with but Vodafone insist I have this thing.
Apparently monthly pay customers don`t want just a phone.............. Actually I do but you wont sell me one. w
kers!f
king Phone. fking Pelican.......... Oh fking fk!!. 
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