Strategic combat - a couple of Newby questions

[dumbluck]

*chuckle* well, the one girl it matters with is a chocolate freak... who happens to dislike the flavor of the chocolate I work with. (she worked there briefly as well.) Go figure.

And also, I don't really work with the raw chocolate (where the smell permeates the entire room), I just wrap and pack it after it's been formed into the various candies. Heck, after the new year, I'm going to be in the shipping department for about 2 months, so then all I will smell like is battery acid, sawdust, and cardboard shavings!!

So, what does your nine to 4 job entail?

edit: And just for giggles and chuckles, take a look here

[ 21 December 2001: Message edited by: dumbluck ]

[Growltigga]

'nine to four??' in my dreams.

I am a lawyer based in Manchester, England. I specialise in banking and finance and because it is transactional based, we normally do 50-80 hour weeks. Average working day is 7.30am to say 20.00.

Problem is law is so highly specialised you cant really move to do anything else as all you have trained for is to be a money grubbing miserable whinging swine.

Personally, I need to win the lottery tomorrow so I can train up to be the world's first male lap dancer

[Growltigga]

Luckily, the wife is a lawyer as well so she understands. Sad to say going home is generally a treat.

Strange, in the UK, lawyers tend to marry lawyers but then I suspect that just has something to do with genetics and trying to breed the strain out

Bad thing is we dont get bonuses or overtime so when you work out the hourly rate on the salary, I pay my cleaner more - hell, anyone in MacDonalds earns more than me

[geoschmo]

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Originally posted by Growltigga:
Bad thing is we dont get bonuses or overtime so when you work out the hourly rate on the salary, I pay my cleaner more - hell, anyone in MacDonalds earns more than me

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Yes, but you get to wear those nifty wigs right?

Geo

[Growltigga]

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Originally posted by geoschmo:


Yes, but you get to wear those nifty wigs right?

Geo

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No, that's barristers - unlike you Yanks, our legel professions are split two ways - you are either a barrister (get to wear the wig and appear in court) or a solicitor (do the hard graft and grease the wheels of industry)

I am a solicitor

Scary thought is that when you join the English legal profession, you either go soliciting or go to the bar (technical term for becoming a barrister)

European lawyers for some reason laugh so hard at this that the tears run down their legs - they say that English lawyers either go cruising for a piece of derriere or end up drunk

probably a fair comment

[Gryphin]

Growltigga
Do they compare you to *Sharks* over there? Maybe we should create a special Ship Set for Lawers and Computer people like me.
Hmm, and a 3rd set for people who are both.
Enjoy

[Growltigga]

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Originally posted by Gryphin:
Growltigga
Do they compare you to *Sharks* over there?

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Well, the standard joke is that this lawyer falls into the sea and before he is rescued, a damn great big maneating shark comes swimming up to him. Instead of chomping him up, the sharks puts him on his back, swims up to the side of the ship and puts him back on board. Noone can believe this so they ask the lawyer why the shark didn't eat him but rescued him instead. The lawyers just says that it was professional courtesy.

Actually, English lawyers arn't called sharks cos we are (a) useful members of society, (b) a damn sight cheaper than US lawyers and (c) not thieving lying rotten bindippers

[Mephisto]

And we don't chase Ambulances in Europe (well, at least in germany).

[Growltigga]

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Originally posted by [K126]Mephisto:
And we don't chase Ambulances in Europe (well, at least in germany).

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that doesn't really happen in the UK either

just thought, your combination of being a paramedic and lawyer is great, you can patch 'em up on the scene and get new instructions

you cunning swine

[Mephisto]

LOL! Actually most of the time you wonder how the doctors can get around with some people all day long.