C Block - there's no place like it.

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JustDistracted (JD)
JustDistracted (JD)
Jul 2015
4:00pm, 15 Jul 2015
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I think I know where at least one Wally is...
ChrisHB
ChrisHB
Jul 2015
4:03pm, 15 Jul 2015
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ChrisHB
You've made that up, haven't you?

Please post the whole text of the joyful announcement in order that we should believe it.
DoricQuine
DoricQuine
Jul 2015
4:03pm, 15 Jul 2015
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DoricQuine
Do it McG. That is the main reason I opted to WFH. I get paid to do a job to deadlines not dress up, bake cakes or generally 'have fun' I do that in my own time ;)
McGoohan
McGoohan
Jul 2015
4:35pm, 15 Jul 2015
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McGoohan
That was the sum total of it. It was an all-day meeting invite. There were some photos of people dressed as Wally. I extracted the text and that was it, above.
Duchess
Duchess
Jul 2015
6:04pm, 15 Jul 2015
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Duchess
I have today discovered that my employer has a corporate song. A colleague sent me the mp4 file and within seconds of starting to listen, I collapsed in semi-hysteria. (I can't share it without identifying said employer). Suffice it to say that it's some kind of Mexican-Japanese mash-up. There is a second song. It is the ***** Rap. It is many million times worse than you can possibly imagine.
McGoohan
McGoohan
Jul 2015
6:11pm, 15 Jul 2015
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McGoohan
Okay. That knocks where's Wally day into a cocked hat
GlennR
GlennR
Jul 2015
9:47pm, 15 Jul 2015
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GlennR
I remember reading about that organisation Duchess. I don't think I'd last very long if I was working for them.
ChrisHB
ChrisHB
Jul 2015
10:51pm, 15 Jul 2015
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ChrisHB
So this is how it was. Top executive says to middling executive, "Hey, the workers are getting restive*. One of your objectives this year is to organise a fun day by the end of June."
Ambitious middling executive says, "Sure thing, boss," but thinks to himself he'd rather go back to coding than demean himself thus.

Come the end of June and the half-yearly reviews, the top executive by intense interrogation ascertains that no fun day has been organised. He gives the middling executive two weeks to come up with something. So on the night of the 14th of July the poor soul (or should that be soulless creature) asks his mum what fun is. She replies that he always enjoyed Where's Wally as a kid.

And the rest is or soon will be history.
ChrisHB
ChrisHB
Jul 2015
10:58pm, 15 Jul 2015
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ChrisHB
the * was:

* if top executive knows such difficult words
McGoohan
McGoohan
Jul 2015
10:58pm, 15 Jul 2015
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McGoohan
That's probably only 80% true. 90 tops.

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