My (somewhat prestigious) $work paid a quite handsome amount of money to some contractors to find all the asbestos across the estate. All dutifully marked with stickers to let people know where they … (View Post)

I think you'll find "valued member of our team" is the HR-friendly version of "drudge". I'd hate to have to send you on those courses. Again. (View Post)

I gave it a blast with web-search enabled and some pointers as to the website it came from. It was quite good at solving some of the questions, but overall hit'n'miss. Unlike human PBers. I… (View Post)

I was at a party many years ago and got chatting to a guy. The usual small-talk "Oh, so what is it you do?" and he explained he set the crossword for one of the broadsheets. And I did a big… (View Post)

I am getting dizzy with HY tonight. But this came to mind from Douglas Adams on the Babel Fish. --- Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could hav… (View Post)