April 28, 2006
You Don’t Like Rice Michael?…..
Credit card company called and asked if I’d spent 850 pounds in an Indonesian beauty parlour yesterday - as it happens the first thing I thought was how on earth do you spend 850 quid in an Indonesian beauty parlour? and then I told himno - not recently - they removed all the suspect activity from my statement and told me to cut the card up - someone on the other side of the world had gone shopping with it - but in the end I wouldn’t have to pay - so it was all OK.
The moral of the story is that MBNA are quite handy at making sure you don’t get ripped off and also that when you come across a too cheap to be true DVD site based in Thailand - it is in fact probably too good to be true and you shouldn’t buy things from them with your credit card.
Doofus award pour moi.
Tea Retail company we supply sent some folk over to discover the world of tea and choose new products - they wanted to mess around with fruit teas, Rooibos, Peppermint, Chamomile and Green teas - my boss kind of over elaborated on the charm offensive and probably scared the crap out of them - you could see the jokes tumbleweeding across the tasting room - the constant stream of technical tea chatter was going in one ear and out the other as glazed eyes looked around for some sort of excuse to get the hell out of there - my boss seemed oblivious and just steam rollered his way through the day regardless of his obviously wilting audience.
They work in a large multi national corporation that runs the rule over its workforce like something from George Orwell’s 1984 - they have directives sent down to them saying that they must have a paperless office within a week and must dispose of all In-trays and filing cabinets - they go on team building exercises where they wear different coloured hats to show how they are feeling inside - they are limited to one personal item per desk - they no nothing about the job they are doing and manage to get through days by looking interested, nodding and saying yes a lot while reversing any question asked of them back in the opposite direction - people are never sure if they are going to be sacked or not - that kind of thing.
My boss is a very frustrating strange little man sometimes, but I sure as hell prefer dealing with him to working in their bureaucratically fucked up nine-to-five nightmare of a scenario.
They were good people though - especially the feisty blond girl smuggling pillows - she looked like she had a few tricks up her sleeve - ahem - anyways, I let my boss continue his spiel for most of the day and chipped in where necessary - one of the girls turned and asked about whether Green tea was really any better for you than Black tea and if it really was as beneficial to your health as it’s made out to be - I thought about launching into a lengthy explanation of how during production, the earlier you prevent oxidiation, the more anti-oxidants will remain and how these were important in fighting off free radicals inside the body, preventing numerous ailments such as the spread of cancerous cells for example - that unlike black tea, Green tea doesn’t go through a fermentation period before drying and that therefore there would be more anti-oxidants present.
However, when I saw that the day was getting long and people were looking for something short, sharp and to the point, I simply said that it was just like Kiefer Sutherland says in the Lost Boys How can a billion Chinamen be wrong?
The moral of the story is that MBNA are quite handy at making sure you don’t get ripped off and also that when you come across a too cheap to be true DVD site based in Thailand - it is in fact probably too good to be true and you shouldn’t buy things from them with your credit card.
Doofus award pour moi.
Tea Retail company we supply sent some folk over to discover the world of tea and choose new products - they wanted to mess around with fruit teas, Rooibos, Peppermint, Chamomile and Green teas - my boss kind of over elaborated on the charm offensive and probably scared the crap out of them - you could see the jokes tumbleweeding across the tasting room - the constant stream of technical tea chatter was going in one ear and out the other as glazed eyes looked around for some sort of excuse to get the hell out of there - my boss seemed oblivious and just steam rollered his way through the day regardless of his obviously wilting audience.
They work in a large multi national corporation that runs the rule over its workforce like something from George Orwell’s 1984 - they have directives sent down to them saying that they must have a paperless office within a week and must dispose of all In-trays and filing cabinets - they go on team building exercises where they wear different coloured hats to show how they are feeling inside - they are limited to one personal item per desk - they no nothing about the job they are doing and manage to get through days by looking interested, nodding and saying yes a lot while reversing any question asked of them back in the opposite direction - people are never sure if they are going to be sacked or not - that kind of thing.
My boss is a very frustrating strange little man sometimes, but I sure as hell prefer dealing with him to working in their bureaucratically fucked up nine-to-five nightmare of a scenario.
They were good people though - especially the feisty blond girl smuggling pillows - she looked like she had a few tricks up her sleeve - ahem - anyways, I let my boss continue his spiel for most of the day and chipped in where necessary - one of the girls turned and asked about whether Green tea was really any better for you than Black tea and if it really was as beneficial to your health as it’s made out to be - I thought about launching into a lengthy explanation of how during production, the earlier you prevent oxidiation, the more anti-oxidants will remain and how these were important in fighting off free radicals inside the body, preventing numerous ailments such as the spread of cancerous cells for example - that unlike black tea, Green tea doesn’t go through a fermentation period before drying and that therefore there would be more anti-oxidants present.
However, when I saw that the day was getting long and people were looking for something short, sharp and to the point, I simply said that it was just like Kiefer Sutherland says in the Lost Boys How can a billion Chinamen be wrong?
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