Grumpy Old Man
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@booboo said in Grumpy Old Man:
You know what makes me Grumpy? Technology.
Like pushing the edit button instead of the quote button and ruining someone else's post.
(Err ... sorry)
Oh, and "client facing".
That's quite funny, you left in the only phrase I wasn't actually grumping about!
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@MN5 said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
Why the fuck is this super yacht incident such big news (at least in the UK)? I don't get it.
I haven’t heard anything so it’s obviously not all that big. Stop whining
Hush, Andrew.
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@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
Why the fuck is this super yacht incident such big news (at least in the UK)? I don't get it.
Mike Lynch - tech billionaire - owned it and he and his family died in it.
Became a bit of a poster-boy after being acquitted in US courts for allegedly defrauding HP when they bought his company
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
Why the fuck is this super yacht incident such big news (at least in the UK)? I don't get it.
Mike Lynch - tech billionaire - owned it and he and his family died in it.
Became a bit of a poster-boy after being acquitted in US courts for allegedly defrauding HP when they bought his company
Thanks. I still think it's utterly bizarre how much airtime and detail and "specialists" it's getting on telly.
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@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
Why the fuck is this super yacht incident such big news (at least in the UK)? I don't get it.
Mike Lynch - tech billionaire - owned it and he and his family died in it.
Became a bit of a poster-boy after being acquitted in US courts for allegedly defrauding HP when they bought his company
Thanks. I still think it's utterly bizarre how much airtime and detail and "specialists" it's getting on telly.
Call it the Kardashian Effect
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@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
Why the fuck is this super yacht incident such big news (at least in the UK)? I don't get it.
Mike Lynch - tech billionaire - owned it and he and his family died in it.
Became a bit of a poster-boy after being acquitted in US courts for allegedly defrauding HP when they bought his company
Thanks. I still think it's utterly bizarre how much airtime and detail and "specialists" it's getting on telly.
Wasn't that about a year ago? So yeah - odd that it's rearing its head again.
Quick google search - suggests UK investigation finally complete... "it was windy" ? That's 9 months of work.
Talking with a UK-based colleague back when it happened - I got the impression there was suspicions of a conspiracy theory - but never outright said so in media, which seems strangely refrained from UK media. -
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@MN5 said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
Why the fuck is this super yacht incident such big news (at least in the UK)? I don't get it.
I haven’t heard anything so it’s obviously not all that big. Stop whining
Grumping. Whining is for young people who can still be helped and have some form of hope for an ok life and barely acceptable personality. Please read the thread title. Don't get me started on people who don't read thread titles...
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@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
Fuck these fucking ever increasingly, sickeningly sycophantic USA led global town halls. Anyone ever thrown up their whole insides?
Working at a US Insurrer and at the Town Hall
Head of UK Operation: "I hope you all have your house, car and other insurance with us. We expect you to use your 10% staff discount"
Voice from the floor: "Why would i do that when our car and house insurance is 40% more than NFU or Direct Line"
Killed the buzz stone dead.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
Fuck these fucking ever increasingly, sickeningly sycophantic USA led global town halls. Anyone ever thrown up their whole insides?
Working at a US Insurrer and at the Town Hall
Head of UK Operation: "I hope you all have your house, car and other insurance with us. We expect you to use your 10% staff discount"
Voice from the floor: "Why would i do that when our car and house insurance is 40% more than NFU or Direct Line"
Killed the buzz stone dead.
X PERSON + Y PERSON + Z PERSON (2 Senior Leadership plus new senior leadership) ARE THE DREAM TEAM!!!
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@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
Fuck these fucking ever increasingly, sickeningly sycophantic USA led global town halls. Anyone ever thrown up their whole insides?
Working at a US Insurrer and at the Town Hall
Head of UK Operation: "I hope you all have your house, car and other insurance with us. We expect you to use your 10% staff discount"
Voice from the floor: "Why would i do that when our car and house insurance is 40% more than NFU or Direct Line"
Killed the buzz stone dead.
X PERSON + Y PERSON + Z PERSON (2 Senior Leadership plus new senior leadership) ARE THE DREAM TEAM!!!
The best CEO I knew used his Town Halls to explain what the top management had got right - and, in detail, where it had screwed up..
Ex-Army. Used to spend 2 Fridays a month actually working in one of his firms customer-facing areas. Knew the business and people inside out. Rare breed.
