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Thursday, September 09, 2010

Pissing on somebody else's chips

One of the higher-ups in the council is having an "on the shop floor" day in one of our libraries.

"What do you see yourself doing in a couple of years' time?" he asked one of the assistants.

"I'd hope I'd have been given a redundancy pay-off by then," she replied.

7 comments:

Unknown said...

Reading town library has delegated these type of theatricals to a local theatre group and cunningly moved them to a muddy space behind the main building - http://www.heritageopendays.org.uk/directory/HOD011975E

Nota Bene said...

Excellent forward thinking...

Kevin Musgrove said...

Wendy: we keep the worst of our amateur dramatics for the staff room.

Nota Bene: probably horribly accurate!

Britta said...

"sweet dreams are made for you", sing the Eurytmics, "Dream on" Aerosmith.

Pat said...

Hope springs eternal.

Kevin Musgrove said...

Hello and welcome, Britta!

Pat: yes, sort of. Just not helpful when some of us are trying desperately to save her colleagues' jobs.

Madame DeFarge said...

Gosh, that long? Not worth renewing the library card then.