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    Guest replied
    Is it my imagination, or do you lot bog off at 16:30 (GMT).
    I work in the public sector, what do you expect?

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    Guest replied
    Let me see...

    10:00 Get out of bed
    10:05 Sit on terrace having a fag while PC boots up
    10:10 Read and answer any e-mails that have come in overnight
    10:30 Go into town and sit outside at a cafe while drink Cafe Latte Machiatto
    12:00 Go home and check e-mail
    12:15 Luch
    14:00 Check e-mail and put together proposal for systems in Russia and Saudi
    15:00 Watch court TV
    16:30 Check e-mail
    16:45 Crash out for an hour
    17:45 Start dinner
    19:00 Check e-mail and work on problems with Israel system
    20:15 Watch Confed Cup games
    22:30 Check e-mail and create SLES9 cdroms for USA
    00:00 Watch Sexy Sports Clips on DSF while switiching over to see if there's anything interesting on Beate Uhse channel
    01:00 Check e-mail and send expenses in
    01:15 Last fag and off to bed

    That was today, tomorrow will be slightly different, possibly

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    Guest replied
    Let me see...

    09:30 - Arrive at work
    10:30 - PC is on, coffee is drunk - time for reading emails.
    11:00 - Check to see if what I did yesterday is still working. If not skip next 2 stages and blame permies for it going wrong.
    12:00 - Fire up Visual Studio (.Net no less).
    12:30 - Re-boot PC.
    13:00 - Lunch
    15:00 - Have a dump
    15:45 - Reply to the inane emails I have been sent today
    16:00 - Implement "new" versions of what I developed today (changed the font to arial)
    16:30 - Re-boot PC
    17:00 - Chat about how busy we are.
    17:17 - Off home

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    Guest replied
    so all my weeks work is fffffing useless now!
    Maintaining the status quo then MF?
    :rollin

    Bastart fiddle. Fancy being beaten to the punchline by a fossil like you!

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    Guest replied
    > so all my weeks work is fffffing useless now!

    nothing new there then

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    Im gonna head off early as well as the PM has just changed the requirements on all the work I was 80% of the way through.

    Client wanted a change - so all my weeks work is fffffing useless now!

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    Guest replied
    @#%$! Is that the time. Bye! 8)

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    Guest started a topic After 16:30

    After 16:30

    Is it my imagination, or do you lot bog off at 16:30 (GMT).
    It goes very quiet in here after that time.
    Though a number of you still show up as logged in.

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