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[original PM]

Yawn

pretty dull day

finance 'workshop' this afternoon which will be riveting I am sure.

[covbob]

Well this is fun. It sounds like ClientCo's data centre fire surpression system is about to fail a safety test - the guy has noted that the propellant is out of date and that the (legally mandated) pressure sensors don't work on three of the four tanks (and were never installed on the fourth, which is a factory refit job).

Quite what the effect of this will be I don't know. It doesn't surprise me to find out that yet another part of the infrastructure is knackered though.

[covbob]

On a brighter note I do have two interviews lined up - one Friday, one Monday - which might well offer a way out of here. 9 months has been quite enough and the atmosphere is starting to get to me a bit.

[PhiltheGreek]

Easy! Simply borrow a remainer from General to suck all the oxygen out of the building in the event of a fire.

[NickFitz]

Petrol station lunch day, so a return to the M&S 3-for-£7 offers

It’s a miserable sort of day out there, though not actually raining at the moment

And the lurgy persists: my throat has improved slightly, but the rest of me has deteriorated

[covbob]

Well this is fun. It sounds like ClientCo's data centre fire surpression system is about to fail a safety test - the guy has noted that the propellant is out of date and that the (legally mandated) pressure sensors don't work on three of the four tanks (and were never installed on the fourth, which is a factory refit job).

Quite what the effect of this will be I don't know. It doesn't surprise me to find out that yet another part of the infrastructure is knackered though.

And about three things more too, including the manual discharge being at the far end of the room (meaning you need to run back through the room now filling with gas to get out after you set it off) as well as more besides. Oh, and the room leaks since they let builders make holes in the ceiling and filled them with porous foam.

All good stuff eh?

[barrydidit]

Salad. (Eggs (2), cheese (edam), tomato (ttd orgasmic), lettuce (little gem), cucumber (cut in batons), beetroot (pickled), coleslaw (light version), pepper (yellow)).

Hasn't really made up for the missed samosa, but I can defer that gratification, zen-like, till the weekend.

[barrydidit]

And about three things more too, including the manual discharge being at the far end of the room (meaning you need to run back through the room now filling with gas to get out after you set it off) as well as more besides. Oh, and the room leaks since they let builders make holes in the ceiling and filled them with porous foam.

All good stuff eh?

Sounds like a total cluster-fluff to be honest.

[covbob]

Sounds like a total cluster-fluff to be honest.

It's pretty much with the standard to which most things here are done. The level of professionalism and care taken over most things is pretty low (in the IT function at least. The rest of the engineers might be different).

It does make for a very easy life but I'm starting to tire of carrying people (and doing FA all day isn't really my style).

[barrydidit]

I like doing nothing sometimes, but when it's all the bloody time, it makes life impossible.

Ooh! Breaking news - contracts are exchanged on my new residence. I wonder whether, in the 3 months since I last went there, the overpowering smell of old ladies' piss has left.