![Image](https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/18268513_792806824217949_5679306992906703670_n.jpg?oh=2811b8f9f6f4b469b61a3eb55312364f&oe=598B7348)
Or maybe it's because there's an election underway, therefore the purdah convention applies and civil servants are restrained from promotional activity?
Moderator: ArthurWankspittle
As the old joke goes, "Some people age like fine wine. He aged like milk".notorial dissent wrote:My susposing is that unless Baron Boring had a full personality transplant that has since worn off, that even for an IT drone, he was unemployable. I have worked for companies whose existence depended on their IT people, and while eccentric was tolerated, and for the most part expected, there were limits, and I have a feeling that unless he was markedly more pleasant and well nice/civil come to it, that he wouldn't have lasted anywhere for more than a very short time, and that depending on his actually being able to do what they wanted, which is problematic. Some people mellow with age, most don't, I rather suspect he's a didn't.
Keyboard warnings please. I just spit my sip from my cup of Earl Gray all over my screen.noblepa wrote:As the old joke goes, "Some people age like fine wine. He aged like milk".
VERY old milk, but yeah. I will have to remember that one.noblepa wrote:As the old joke goes, "Some people age like fine wine. He aged like milk".notorial dissent wrote:My susposing is that unless Baron Boring had a full personality transplant that has since worn off, that even for an IT drone, he was unemployable. I have worked for companies whose existence depended on their IT people, and while eccentric was tolerated, and for the most part expected, there were limits, and I have a feeling that unless he was markedly more pleasant and well nice/civil come to it, that he wouldn't have lasted anywhere for more than a very short time, and that depending on his actually being able to do what they wanted, which is problematic. Some people mellow with age, most don't, I rather suspect he's a didn't.
Need a like button, now more than ever.notorial dissent wrote:VERY old milk, but yeah. I will have to remember that one.noblepa wrote:As the old joke goes, "Some people age like fine wine. He aged like milk".notorial dissent wrote:My susposing is that unless Baron Boring had a full personality transplant that has since worn off, that even for an IT drone, he was unemployable. I have worked for companies whose existence depended on their IT people, and while eccentric was tolerated, and for the most part expected, there were limits, and I have a feeling that unless he was markedly more pleasant and well nice/civil come to it, that he wouldn't have lasted anywhere for more than a very short time, and that depending on his actually being able to do what they wanted, which is problematic. Some people mellow with age, most don't, I rather suspect he's a didn't.
Thanks, I just spilt my tea everywhere!letissier14 wrote:
No, he certainly isn't any sort of geek. Perhaps he once had the mental capacity for focused and creative analytical curiousity, but there's no evidence of that now. Perhaps he isn't aware of how his mind has declined, a tragedy which will come to most of us eventually in our later years.notorial dissent wrote:The more I read of Baron Boring the less I am inclined to extend to him the accolade of geekdom.