Ex-Army IT Folk

[realityhack]

Ex-army: I like to blow up a crisp packet and burst it behind them. Try it, works every time.

What happens? Do they go a bit like Flippy from the Happy Tree Friends?

[tay]

No, but in the status obsessed culture we've created having a big job title is more important than doing any real work.

Real work is overated, but so are job titles. Money, happiness and laziness.. those are worthy goal.

[Chugnut]

Yeah - and they try and cook sausages using large empty baked bean tins while trying to sell cheese to the french.

Oi! Stop picking on the Northerners!

[BrilloPad]

I worked with an ex army guy in 1994 - always wore a bowler hat to work. bumped into him in 2003 - still wearing at.

Terribly nice chap - great since of humour. And came in handy the night someone got into a fight with a cyclist...

[expat]

Have you ever worked for the civil service?

If I answer that, I'll have to kill you.

[Marina]

Ex-army: I like to blow up a crisp packet and burst it behind them. Try it, works every time.

You mean as an infallible method of getting a few teeth knocked out every time?

[Jog On]

Oi! Stop picking on the Northerners!

Eh?

That bloke was posher than me!

[Chugnut]

Eh?

That bloke was posher than me!

No Jog, you missed the (obviously tenuous) gag. Since you made a mention of The Apprentice I thought I'd instantly accuse you of picking on Northerners, like so http://forums.contractoruk.com/514966-post32.html.

Clearly we need a tumbleweed smiley. This will have to do.

[KathyWoolfe]

You mean as an infallible method of getting a few teeth knocked out every time?

Got to be cheaper than using an NHS dentist (that's if you can find one)

[malvolio]

Led a cross-service programme for the MOD a few years back. All four services had their own abilities which kind of aligned to how they work

Army - basically a lot of small units, all trying to outdo each other. Get a team that works and they're brilliant, but don't try and get them to do anything corporate or cooperative.

Navy - Ships run because everyone -officers and ORs - have to work together. Best team players in the world, usually useless as individuals though.

RAF - it takes 400 people to put a pilot in the sky. That's all they can do, put one thing up at a time. Great people, terrible workers!

Civil Service - best spellcheckers on the planet. Don't expect them to do anything else though...


(disclaimer: personal view only. The programme was a success despite my input!)