"...Floating in the summer sky. 99 red balloons go by..." Nene
Another business trip to Dusseldorf again this week. Another chance to wait and wait around Stansted Airport for nothing much to happen. Why must airports be so tiresome? Of course, as I travel cattle class I dont have the luxury of sitting around plush BA departure lounges reading the FT, trying to look important like my other IT collegues. No I travel with the great unruly, unwashed public. I am with the people. Here I can observe the evolution of the trolley bag, which has got smaller and smaller and their only function in life is a) to be as small as possible and b) to trip up as many people as possible. I dont do trolley bags. I do rucsacs. I carry it all. I rough it. What is it with everyone ? Are they too frightened to carry just 1 kilo of weight on their back these days? Wimps!
When you work in IT, everything is grey; the offices, the projects, even the people. IT in Germany takes grey to another dimension. For example this was the view out of my hotel window.
Another business trip to Dusseldorf again this week. Another chance to wait and wait around Stansted Airport for nothing much to happen. Why must airports be so tiresome? Of course, as I travel cattle class I dont have the luxury of sitting around plush BA departure lounges reading the FT, trying to look important like my other IT collegues. No I travel with the great unruly, unwashed public. I am with the people. Here I can observe the evolution of the trolley bag, which has got smaller and smaller and their only function in life is a) to be as small as possible and b) to trip up as many people as possible. I dont do trolley bags. I do rucsacs. I carry it all. I rough it. What is it with everyone ? Are they too frightened to carry just 1 kilo of weight on their back these days? Wimps!
When you work in IT, everything is grey; the offices, the projects, even the people. IT in Germany takes grey to another dimension. For example this was the view out of my hotel window.
Thank heavens for the Red car is all I can say. At least someone has a bit of colour in their lives.
Meetings, Meetings and more meetings. Meetings full of serious people. Meetings where everyone comes to disagree. "How long have you worked on this (boring) project?" I enquire of one IT consultant afer the long meeting. "For 4 years" he replies. "4 years? Oh you really need a change. Get yourself transfered to a new project. Go find the Playboy Project" I tell him.
He finally smiles and laughs.
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