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Old 06-07-12, 01:46 PM   #11
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I was on a sales trip in Serbia a few years ago, went out for evening meal with the agent. Got back to the hotel about 11, and walked in on the final of Miss Serbia 2009 being filmed in the immense lobby of the hotel (Park Hotel in Novi Sad). We'd seen them setting up earlier in the day when we arrived, but nothing was doing when we had left for dinner.
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Old 06-07-12, 01:49 PM   #12
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i got hit on the bum with a staple gun 3 times, hurt pretty bad
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Old 06-07-12, 01:50 PM   #13
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Perhaps when

turned up outside the office door

But interesting work would have been playing with explosive bolts:-

We had a problem of cracks developing in spring hanger brackets. Nobody knew how a catastrophic failure would handle at speed. So fabricate a two piece hanger, bolt it together with a bit of explosive in the bolt and set off down the road. At the appropriate place/speed with all the cameras rolling blow it.
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Old 06-07-12, 02:21 PM   #14
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Been knee deep in chocolate quite a few times!

hmmmmm, Well, my job at Willy Wonkas was never that interesting. The thing we wished for the most was for a tin to get stuck on one of the roller conveyors on their way down to be packed up on pallets.

One night we were so busy maintaining the 2700 tins an hour maximum we forgot to watch out for suspicious looking packages threatening to fall off the conveyor above...........

We heard a very large bang.....

Took six hours to fix the conveyor, unjam hundreds of tins on it that were crammed in so tight were impossible to move, and a massive pile as big as a house on their entry point

The machines have no cut off if such a thing happens, and they keep on churning them out until some dozy sod wakes up and see theres a jam

Not interesting in the slightest to you lot, but hilariously funny to the four of us working at the time.....not so funny for management either
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Old 06-07-12, 02:25 PM   #15
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I used to work for BT at the time at which it was being privatised. One element of privatisation meant that the new competition had to have access to the BT exchanges to install all their equipment.

These exchanges often had Canteens, games rooms and Bars (yes real Bars with booze from 12-2 and lock-ins). Our turf (der)

All staff had a briefing on how to greet the competition, work with them, how it was important under Offcom regulations to provide access and equal facilities.

Day 1, twenty or so, Mercury engineers turn up in the canteen. Row ensues between the BT and Mercury guys. Massive all hands on punch up. Cowboy bar room brawl. Lasts for 20 minutes with BT taking the honours and Mercury guys fleeing the building.

Pathetic really, but we were young then. We got suspended for 3 weeks without pay. That was an interesting day.
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Old 06-07-12, 02:26 PM   #16
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I hate to tell you this but it's a lot more boring and a lot dryer now.
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Old 06-07-12, 02:33 PM   #17
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How long have you got.
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Old 06-07-12, 02:34 PM   #18
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I once sent an email to a high up customer asking him if he had green snot in his nickers by mistake.
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Old 06-07-12, 02:37 PM   #19
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well this is the internet so I guess you're only restricted by your bandwidth, crack on.
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Old 06-07-12, 02:42 PM   #20
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I watched the film The Great Escape, projected over the actual escape tunnel whete hut 104 was stood.
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