Typhoonftm
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I often turn up for things that require a long drive etc hours early!
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Dave Herbal
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It's not really absent minded, it's trying to juggle too many balls and occasionally dropping one. Well, more than occasionally.
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The Hunt
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Mate of mines missus is on the sick at moment, has been since start of July, supposed to be going back end of August, got a 2 week holiday booked in September.
Met up with them after work last week (i was at work), "I'm loving my time off, get to see lots of my daughter" was a phrase she used.
Sneech
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Many years ago I used to work with a complete tosser who always deliberately turned up for his flight minutes before they closed the gate. The daft knacker used to hide outside the airport until the very last minute so he could run in playing the harassed businessman
Same idiot always used to 'hide' work on a Friday so he could produce it last minute and then made a show of coming in at weekends to catch up
Glad I don't work in offices anymore, I'm sure snivelling arsoholes like him must still exist......
Once had to persuade/argue/plead with the lad on the gate at the airport to keep it open just a couple of minutes longer whilst I retrieved Dave Herbal (amongst others to be fair to him) from the duty free shop. It was literally drop any baskets of shopping you have and leg it for the gate.
The rest of the passengers weren't best pleased that we had managed to delay their flight, in fact it didnt help when the little shuttlebus put us on the flight to Birmingham in the gate closing confusion, then we had to wait five minutes for another little shuttlebus to take us the 100 metres across the tarmac to the Newcastle flight instead.
So in fact Herbal managed to delay two flights that day.
Fred Secrets
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Ok, I'll explain how it's avoidable. Put the coats & jumpers into the car before you go to bed at night. Same goes for your sunglasses. My wallet is always in my pocket. It's never, ever just lying around. So, that leaves 2 kids & a lunch to bring to the car. Yeah, I think that's just about manageable.
It's fairly basic stuff, actually. Being on time for things.
Weed. Lots of it.
Sneech
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You've never seen Herbals kids then, and the monumental effort it takes to get them into a car.
I suppose the same could be said for his lunch for that matter.
Dave Herbal
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Sensible advice that. Almost as sensible as making your bait the night before and not while you're rushing about on a morning.
It took Sam 20 minutes to put a sock on this morning.
And Oi!
Sneech
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Unsurprisingly, as he's never had a sock before....etc....etc
Dave Herbal
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I don't smoke weed. Thank fuck.
Just the occasional low grade hash.
Anyway, I was like this long before I even knew what that was.
Hongkongphooey
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I set 3 alarms for the morning, clock, watch and phone because I'm shit scarred of sleeping in. I'm always turning up early for stuff, better that than being late. I'm ex military anarl.
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j.w
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I set 3 alarms for the morning, clock, watch and phone because I'm shit scarred of sleeping in. I'm always turning up early for stuff, better that than being late. I'm ex military anarl.
Chef?
I bet the men kicked off if the bait was late tbf
Hongkongphooey
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Wilfy
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Sparky then?
Chef ffs, Aircraft Electrical/Avionics technician
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j.w
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Chef ffs, Aircraft Electrical/Avionics technician
You did that thing where they wave paddles about to direct them in?
Charmless Man
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All these people claiming it's a disease or body clock issue or whatever, I'd love to see them try topple that in front of the RSM of they were in the military. Funny how the forces lads always seem to be punctual. It's learned behaviour not some kind of genetic trait.
I used to manage a Cardiology department and fired two lasses for constant lateness. This wasn't me being a stick-up-the-arse wanker (honest!
The first lass couldn't turn in on time despite me being able to see her house from the office window. She lived literally 100 yards from the job. The second was late every day without fail, but even as we went through the quiet word - serious conversation - stern lecture - written up - final warning hierarchy of discipline she still turned in with a Starbucks every single day. Which brings me to another issue I have with pathetic twats who can't operate without coffee. In her case she couldn't manage work without coffee so guess what? She doesn't have to worry about work any more and has all day to contemplate how lovely her coffee is!
Good.
Why do any of that? He seems happy enough, it's the other mob getting stressed.
Fred Secrets
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He gave me a scenario & asked me how could it be avoidable & I gave him an answer.
Tex
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I had a room mate who was like Herbal. Every day he came in and threw his keys down somewhere. So that meant every time we went anywhere there was a delay of anything from five minutes to half an hour while he turned out his pockets,turned over the settee cushions, checked every drawer, shelf, cupboard, countertop, nook and cranny. He took the piss out of me for being organized but I know which way I'd rather be. It's a simple habit to put your gear down in the same place every time so you don't have to go through that rigmarole every time you leave the gaff.
I had a boss who worked in a building which, if traffic was good and all the lights were green was twenty minutes from my department. She called a weekly meeting at my office. Her assistant who worked with her would leave 30 minutes before and always be on time. She would always be 45 minutes late because of 'traffic' even though strangely her assistant never encountered traffic. I would sit there with 15 other people waiting for her, many of us PhD professors, calculating the wasted productivity in man hours while we all waited for her ignorant arse to show up.
Hongkongphooey
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