“Wine tasting 6–8pm” = 7–10pm when you’re on good terms with the hosts…wonderful wines. Southern Italy. Favourite has to be the Tormaresca Pietrabianca, a Chardonnay–Fiano blend…very Burgundian and saline despite the exceptional ripeness.
Newbie bankers on Saturdays. Sigh. 5 minutes into filling out the 1-page form to deposit a NatWest cheque issued in GBP, he asks me if this is a cheque from the UK…
@konrad Oh well there’s no chance of that happening yet, this is one job I’m happy to set aside once I leave the office.
// @matigo
@matigo Ha, I hope not.
It’s not that I don’t want to become CEO of something one day, more that I only want to become CEO of something I really believe I want to put every waking hour into…
@matigo I’ll ride it for a while. Chances are my role will be revised/improved as we’re losing people but not hiring.
Damn, I thought our current CEO was going to transition out by September. Turns out, he’s handing over in a matter of weeks.
It’s all going to the dogs now, there’s no doubt about it. One has resigned already.
But I had drinks with a more experienced person outside of this company tonight and he suggested I let this guy hang himself. Which he’s already doing exceptionally well, so…
"For example, in much of Kansas, a word like “hand” would be pronounced in the European-American way, with the tongue high up in the mouth. In Liberal, it might instead be pronounced with the tongue lower down, so that it rhymes with “hat.”" (source [atlasobscura.com])
This is why IPA was invented…sigh.
@hazardwarning Hmm. They claim a no-refunds policy because everything is made to order. Not sure how much that’s true but always worth asking…
// @matigo