New Contract Stress

[eek]

Do you remember the Parker 25 range?

I had both a fountain and ballpoint model of the Parker 25 and they were a joy to hold. Lovely chunky, brushed stainless steel and it was the first pen I learned to twirl around my thumb. I was reminiscing about the Parker 25 the other night and went on line to discover that you can't get them any more :-(

Discontinued in 1994 so either you are old or talking bulltulip

Either way it's not the Parker Sonnet Cicele which is a proper contractor pen with prices to match.

[eek]

I worked on a project where we got a guy back who wrote the manual and some code to go with it.

Unfortunately the people who had worked on it before we all arrived and he arrived back had screwed everything up.

He spend most of his first day looking at everything in complete disbelief. He then stated loudly so the whole floor could hear "They have f**ked up my work and the entire system!"

Did he stay for the rest of the contract or leave in disgust at the end of day 1.

I suspect that I would have done the latter...

[SueEllen]

Did he stay for the rest of the contract or leave in disgust at the end of day 1.

I suspect that I would have done the latter...

He stayed as long as I stayed.

Or to be more exact I stayed as long as he stayed.

[northernladuk]

Or to be more exact I stayed as long as he stayed.

You two were getting it on?

[SueEllen]

You two were getting it on?

Nah.

Everyone left before, at or around the same time as him as he was the knowledge base

[quackhandle]

Do you remember the Parker 25 range?

Never found the higher end pens that nice to write with. My dad loves his parker pens (and he also does calligraphy) and he has some expensive ones, but a bit meh!

Took me a while to find the Mitsubishi uniball Signo Gel Impact £3.50 (or if you want to be green the refills are £1.50 from cultpens.com) not found anything as good, but let me know if you have, I am a pen geek.

qh

[eek]

Never found the higher end pens that nice to write with. My dad loves his parker pens (and he also does calligraphy) and he has some expensive ones, but a bit meh!

Took me a while to find the Mitsubishi uniball Signo Gel Impact £3.50 (or if you want to be green the refills are £1.50 from cultpens.com) not found anything as good, but let me know if you have, I am a pen geek.

qh

If we are talking pens I have a fair few from kickstarter.

https://cwandt.com/products/pen-type-a? And https://cwandt.com/products/pen-type-b both have a reassuring pop when you open them

the titanium ones at https://bigidesign.com ones are also nice and small but the silver sonnet cicele I mentioned before has a very reassuring heft so they are my pens of choice unless I want to kick a meeting off with a type a or b.