Comments on Becky's T-Blog: Training strain

IT? Aspergers the lot of 'em. True autistic end of...

2006-11-17T23:42:00.000Z

IT? Aspergers the lot of 'em. True autistic end of the "spectrum" (joke there!) know that Software Development is where it's at! IT training courses? Are they extensions to "man" pages?
Hey Becky, why don't you create some BeVuX "girl" pages for the rest of us. Oh you already have...cool! ;)

To be honest hun, if you're a PL team type, you ar...

2006-11-17T01:36:00.000Z

To be honest hun, if you're a PL team type, you are bound to feel like this. You're aloof from the group (remember: your country needs loofs), but the group will often look to you for the bright ideas. Just be careful not to alienate them. x

Becky, I've just realised - you work in IT too.It ...

2006-11-17T00:15:00.000Z

Becky, I've just realised - you work in IT too.

It must be a tranny thing

My first reserve comprised of over 900 acres of sa...

2006-11-16T23:05:00.000Z

My first reserve comprised of over 900 acres of saltmarsh, and I spent the winter months policing the wildfowlers; sometimes removing them from the site, sometimes just chatting with them. The next year I was sent on an assertiveness course (apparently, facing down groups of armed men in the dark, on my own, wasn't being assertive enough). I arrived late at the training centre, and walked into the middle of a session. The trainees were mostly office staff, and a rather firey political lobbyist (I think he was sent there to calm down), and I was the only person there who was field staff - and I stood out like a sore thumb.
Just before lunch we had to role-play a confrontation we'd had, and my example of a run-in with a wildfowler was selected: I got to play the unruly gun-wielder and everyone else took it in turns to try to, er, diffuse the situation.... (I exploded, verbally, in a most spectacularly evil manner). I found the experience to be very theraputic, cathartic even. I had to take a lot of deep breaths to calm down though. One of the secretaries facing me had ran out of the room in tears (and as I later discovered, had requested couselling to deal with the experience)and I managed to bring the whole course to an awful juddering halt. Dinner arrived early, it seems.
Over the usuall abysmal sandwiches, I was asked by a few people if I was a plant - was I a surprise part of the course, there to test them?
"C'mon, you can tell me. You're an actor, aren't you?"

Next course for me in three weeks. Kuala Lumpur at...

2006-11-16T22:54:00.000Z

Next course for me in three weeks. Kuala Lumpur at the Hilton in the city centre.

And yes, I'm a smug get.

(btw I've transferred to Beta Blogger & can't post comments on your blog when logged in to Blogger..?)

Air Quotes...grrrrr I hate that. We had a consulta...

2006-11-16T22:10:00.000Z

Air Quotes...grrrrr I hate that. We had a consultant in about an IP Telephony project and after an hour watching him doing that I felt like climbing over the desk and throttling the annoying git!

Apparently a large proportion of the people in IT ...

2006-11-16T13:29:00.000Z

Apparently a large proportion of the people in IT are more than just borderline autistic.

A friend of mines a clinical psychologist, and when we first met she took great delight in pointing this out. "Aha, you work in IT! I know all about you, you're autistic! Thats why you struggle in social situations!"

My response? "You know f*k all about me! I'm a trannie and I'm struggling because I'm bored to tears!"

I suspect they don't offer their facilities for co...

2006-11-16T11:42:00.000Z

I suspect they don't offer their facilities for corporate training courses - although perhaps they should, given their finances - but it's worth visiting Ratho Adventure Centre outside Edinburgh just to experience the magic of their hand dryers. Think 'Tim "The tool man" Taylor' having a go at building one.

"Ar ar, I supercharged our shop hand dryer!"
"Tim, is that your skin on the floor?"

Yeah. I'm instructing a lot of IT, and I could be ...

2006-11-16T10:26:00.000Z

Yeah. I'm instructing a lot of IT, and I could be bugged to insanity by those (and many other issues), if I wasn't too busy talking (and waving the guns? ;) all the time.. Maybe I should change to instructing makeup, should be a couple of girls participating.

The wonders of "delete comment". For those of you ...

2006-11-16T07:23:00.000Z

The wonders of "delete comment".

For those of you who missed it, it was some long pseudo-scientific religious babble which some nutcase had decided to spread via other people's blogs.

I didn't even bother to read it.

The wonder of copy and paste.

2006-11-16T06:44:00.000Z

The wonder of copy and paste.

Hell, you need a pint of Guinness to get through t...

2006-11-16T05:19:00.000Z

Hell, you need a pint of Guinness to get through that.

Uhhh....Guiness record for longest blog comment?

2006-11-16T02:01:00.000Z

Uhhh....Guiness record for longest blog comment?