At one point in my career I was in a small internal technical consultancy team, run by a chap who is still a good friend (we do Bristol, Ascot shows each year and meet for dinner a few times a year). Chris felt that his full team meetings were better for team building events, unfortunately I didn’t agree. I was still carrying a chief architect and 3rd line troubleshooting role for the core data networks. If I saw the telltale signs of a team building I’d excuse myself briefly, ring a friend from a landline and ask him to page me with an urgent operational issue about 10 minutes before the surprise event (to be identified by suspicious lack of clarity on the agenda).
I genuinely think he never realised.
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Great story. Does he subscribe to this Forum?
Luckily not. 
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Second Law of Thermodynamics
“Any stable system will inevitably degenerate into total chaos.”
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Sh*t Happens sums it up.
Phil
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You need to write a weekend published glossy blurb for a well known newspaper.
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To take our Lord Sid’s words in vain…
“Entropy, entropy!.. we’ve all got it, entropy…”
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Actually it was Kenneth Williams:
(but well worth posting anyway. )
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Trying to avoid a second trip for the most part seems to be my issue. To avoid a second 20 foot trip this morning, I dropped and broke one of my favourite coffee mugs. Twit!
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Sounds familiar - just about managed 6 mugs in a trip down to the kitchen - amazed I didn’t try balancing a glass inside one of them, had it been full of squash no doubt I’d have done so and tipped the drink on the stairs.
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Whoops, it was…sigh…all those years watching Carry On and I learnt nuffink!
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Well as far as the smashed watch goes, it is several years old and battery life was waning - too old to even attract a trade-in from Apple and they’d charge at least £229 for an out of warranty glass repair!
Maybe my subconscious was after a new one anyway and allowed it to drop!
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