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cheeky chappie said:
I laughed out loud in a meeting once when a colleague said 'we're going to sunset that for now ...'

I followed up with 'when are we going to sunrise it again?'

Didn't get into bother as we all knew each other well enough, however sometimes you need to sit there with a straight face e.g. if it's a senior manager spouting that sort of stuff.
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Over the years, it’s a wonder I didn’t crack my jaw trying not to laugh in some meetings. Worse one would be if one of your colleagues was also trying not to to laugh as well and you didn’t dare look at each other or you’d have lost it completely. Fortunately I’m now retired so don’t have to put up with such claptrap.
 
Battiola73 said:
In a workplace when you get to a certain age, you’ve gone through numerous “fads” spouted by managers. After a time they do a full circle and you start again. When I started work in the late 60s we didn’t have any of that codswallop, just went in and did your job and got paid at the end of the week. The only mission that might be mentioned would be Mission Control Centre in Houston or Space Odyssey by David Bowie!
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The part of the civil service I work for is encouraging plain speech and guidance is available on report writing and asking you to consider who will be reading it (public, other government department etc). We have masses of technical terms anyway which gets complicated when you add management speak.

You get the occasional comment in meetings but it's not that bad. Although we do have a Mission Statement!
 
Muttley said:
The part of the civil service I work for is encouraging plain speech and guidance is available on report writing and asking you to consider who will be reading it (public, other government department etc). We have masses of technical terms anyway which gets complicated when you add management speak.

You get the occasional comment in meetings but it's not that bad. Although we do have a Mission Statement!
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You encourage Plain Speech. Well you won’t get much of that on here.
 
My late wife (a nurse manager) used to have a bullshyte bingo sweepstakes with colleagues before the interminable meetings would take place. Her boss, a young gun, was one of the worst culprits for ‘blue sky thinking’. They had a bet he would come up with ‘granularity' AGAINNNN…pre-meeting. Whatever granularity means? Of course, practically the first words he said included the word. She was terrible at disguising hidden laughter and promptly spat out a mouthful of coffee all over the desk when she heard his say it…
 
Here’s a Story

I was studying at City of Bristol College in 2001, when Tony Blair visited, Most of the students who werent involved, were almost in lockdown we were able to attend that day, but we had to stay on the floor our classrooms were in, and were encouraged to eat our lunch in the classrooms as well, so it would all remain safe for him.

It was the same occasion when he got targeted by a Tomato, so even though we were lockdowned, it had nothing to with us.

I did however make the whole building have to be evacuated one day though as a handle bar of my manual wheelchair hit the broke glass panel
 
Jazzydrury said:
Here’s a Story

I was studying at City of Bristol College in 2001, when Tony Blair visited, Most of the students who werent involved, were almost in lockdown we were able to attend that day, but we had to stay on the floor our classrooms were in, and were encouraged to eat our lunch in the classrooms as well, so it would all remain safe for him.

It was the same occasion when he got targeted by a Tomato, so even though we were lockdowned, it had nothing to with us.

I did however make the whole building have to be evacuated one day though as a handle bar of my manual wheelchair hit the broke glass panel
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To make the final, bit worse, my classroom was on Floor 6, and as you can’t use the lifts in a fire situation, Meant Emma had to stay in the college all on her own, all I could hear was alarms and fire engines, but turned me into a right mess.

Everybody rentered, and it wasn’t until somebody said what caused it made me think it was me, I owned up. Wasn’t punished, if anything most staff laughed
 
HughTwo said:
What's happened to the "Power of the National Grid".

Peter Volauvent loving a cordless vac!
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That's for the corded one coming up later.

He said cordless one comes with a docking station and you leave it charging all the time.....

Great idea for battery life and for those of us with limited mains sockets.

Joy, a a marvelous scrubber made by the household name of homesmart.
 

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