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Archive for May, 2009

Email posted round the office this morning:

Hello:

During my absence my coffee mug seems to have gone walkies. If anyone has seen or is in possession of a retro print mug with the text “I need more money and power and less shit from you people” on it, please give me a shout.

Thanks

The ragged trousered archaeologist

I once worked with a Project Manager whose stock response to all requests for more resources was uncompromising.

‘People live, people die, get over it,’ he’d grumble in his thick Scottish accent, like a Yorkshire man with all the generosity squeezed out of him. Read more