Learnt anything interesting at work recently?

[Mick Mac]

My wife knows the Kijama technique - makes it take a lot longer to go down.

[mattham]

I learnt the crappest excuse for avoiding an interview, ever. Apparently a chairman of quite some importance cannot speak to me now or for the next four days because she is travelling. Where to? The bloody moon? Like she's got no dead airport time? Honestly. I could spit.

[Brendan]

I learnt that the coffee machine on the 3rd floor gives you a proper full cup of coffee.

The one on the 2nd floor is still broken.

[Ted Max]

I learnt that my generous hosts thought it was OK to begin a meeting by getting their heads down into their Blackberries, leaving me sitting uncomfortably. Power hierarchy firmly established, children? Now we can begin.

[ratty]

I don;t work Wednesdays!

However, today I have learnt that the burgers they sell in the cafe outside the valley make me want to puke and poo myself all at the same time!

[FrustratedLawyer]

I learnt that the Peckham Job Centre Plus is a horrid place staffed by fools and its not worth the effort claiming the dole.

BBW Re the Kajima Technique how is this more advantageous than the crane assisted top-down disassembly of buildings being done up in Town. I had watched the demolition of 20 Fenchurch Street for over a year and that seemed like a thorough but slow method. I assume all the metal was taken away for recycling.

[candj]

Same with the old county hall (GLC building) by Waterloo being dismantled via cranes. It took well over a year and a half to strip apart due to the underground, gas mains, water, etc running under it. Although a total demolition via explosives would have been quite an exciting spectacle

I suppose they were then able to recycle the asbestos effectively.