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Made in Sheffield 1 Sep 14th 2017 7:27 am

Re: Room 101
 

Originally Posted by Scamp (Post 12337798)
People booking meetings for you that you have no interest or desire to be involved with, then leaving you to do it and not even turning up themselves.

That happens to my husband a lot. Yeah, extremely annoying. Especially when they tell him about it at the last minute.

Bahtatboy Sep 14th 2017 7:31 am

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Having Tyrone from Snatch sit "next" to you on a flight. He'd let himself go a bit, too.

scrubbedexpat141 Sep 14th 2017 7:48 am

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Originally Posted by Made in Sheffield 1 (Post 12337803)
That happens to my husband a lot. Yeah, extremely annoying. Especially when they tell him about it at the last minute.

Drives me up the wall. Especially as these are interviews.

I'm meant to interview some guy for a role I know nothing about, who has no experience useful for the stuff I'm looking after? Why? What's the point? Is this a wind up? Am I on telly?

Bizarre and hateful.


Originally Posted by Bahtatboy (Post 12337805)
Having Tyrone from Snatch sit "next" to you on a flight. He'd let himself go a bit, too.

You mean he sat next to the person on the other side of you?

Millhouse Sep 14th 2017 7:52 am

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Well this morning I had a deal turned down by my investment committee despite weeks of lobbying and each individual member supporting the deal.

Pisses me off when people have no backbone.

IKnowNothing Sep 14th 2017 9:21 am

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Originally Posted by Millhouse (Post 12337815)
Well this morning I had a deal turned down by my investment committee despite weeks of lobbying and each individual member supporting the deal.

Pisses me off when people have no backbone.

It's not that, it's that they're two faced arseholes who want to stab you in the back.

Made in Sheffield 1 Sep 14th 2017 12:23 pm

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Just had a call from Etisalat asking if our company want to renew our current package, if so we need to email them. I thought they did things like this automatically, anyway…..

He said I’ll just need to reply to his email which he would send in the next 15 minutes. He asked me for the owner’s email address. Told him they should have it on their records. Apparently not as he’s phoning from a different department.

Repeated the email address to him 5 times. I've got a feeling I'm not going to receive anything.
It’s Thursday afternoon and I’m not really in the mood to call them.

Millhouse Sep 15th 2017 5:42 am

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Originally Posted by IKnowNothing (Post 12337862)
It's not that, it's that they're two faced arseholes who want to stab you in the back.

Well that too. But in this case it wasn't quite that. One person (who hadn't been lobbied) contaminated the whole group and we sink to the bottom.

My beef really is with decision making by groups.

IKnowNothing Sep 15th 2017 6:45 am

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Originally Posted by Millhouse (Post 12338548)
Well that too. But in this case it wasn't quite that. One person (who hadn't been lobbied) contaminated the whole group and we sink to the bottom.

My beef really is with decision making by groups.

Have you seen the film "12 Angry Men"?

littlejimmy Sep 15th 2017 8:41 am

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Fascinating thread. Went back through a few pages (it's fun to read backwards and having to keep going to see what sparked replies) and saw a little spat...has Meow not posted since?

Anyway, is testicle-faced media mogul Rupert Murdoch in?

Millhouse Sep 15th 2017 11:05 am

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Originally Posted by IKnowNothing (Post 12338579)
Have you seen the film "12 Angry Men"?

The original not the remake. Nothing like my investment committee though.

IKnowNothing Sep 15th 2017 1:42 pm

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Originally Posted by Millhouse (Post 12338707)
The original not the remake. Nothing like my investment committee though.

When has a remake EVER been better than an original?

Bahtatboy Sep 15th 2017 4:25 pm

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Originally Posted by IKnowNothing (Post 12338823)
When has a remake EVER been better than an original?

This is when:

Godzilla (most iterations)
Batman (all iterations)
True Grit (not that the original was bad)
Heat
War of the Worlds
Casino Royale
The Ladykillers (IMHO, although it's a close-run thing)
Young Frankenstein

I'm in two minds about Get Carter and The Italian Job.

mikelincs Sep 15th 2017 8:53 pm

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Originally Posted by Bahtatboy (Post 12338970)
This is when:

Godzilla (most iterations)
Batman (all iterations)
True Grit (not that the original was bad)
Heat
War of the Worlds
Casino Royale
The Ladykillers (IMHO, although it's a close-run thing)
Young Frankenstein

I'm in two minds about Get Carter and The Italian Job.

I lot of the things better in the re make is the improvement in special effects that many in the originals just didn't have.

Boomhauer Sep 15th 2017 10:44 pm

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Originally Posted by Bahtatboy (Post 12338970)
This is when:

Godzilla (most iterations)
Batman (all iterations)
True Grit (not that the original was bad)
Heat
War of the Worlds
Casino Royale
The Ladykillers (IMHO, although it's a close-run thing)
Young Frankenstein

I'm in two minds about Get Carter and The Italian Job.

What do you think of the IT remake? I think it's alright but still prefer the original made-for-tv versions from the early 90s.

Bahtatboy Sep 16th 2017 6:17 am

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Originally Posted by Boomhauer (Post 12339209)
What do you think of the IT remake? I think it's alright but still prefer the original made-for-tv versions from the early 90s.

I'm scared of the dark.


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