OT - if you're going to use your laptop in public...
Apr 20, 2006, 2:16 pm
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OT - if you're going to use your laptop in public...
Then for goodness sake, make sure you're not exhibiting a powerpoint slide with such enlightened bullet points as
"wide selection of negative externalities"
on it...
...especially if you've got a blatantly obvious company logo in the corner of the screen
(i hope no one else is as bored as me on the way home...)
"wide selection of negative externalities"
on it...
...especially if you've got a blatantly obvious company logo in the corner of the screen
(i hope no one else is as bored as me on the way home...)
Apr 20, 2006, 3:36 pm
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Originally Posted by Swiss Tony
"wide selection of negative externalities"
(duck, run, cover)
Apr 20, 2006, 3:42 pm
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Originally Posted by Swiss Tony
Then for goodness sake, make sure you're not exhibiting a powerpoint slide with such enlightened bullet points as
"wide selection of negative externalities"
on it...
...especially if you've got a blatantly obvious company logo in the corner of the screen
(i hope no one else is as bored as me on the way home...)
"wide selection of negative externalities"
on it...
...especially if you've got a blatantly obvious company logo in the corner of the screen
(i hope no one else is as bored as me on the way home...)
Could have earned him a good bonus had it been for a certain geographic region...Don't some people have laptop screens with those polarising devices so you can only view the screen at very slight angles from being perpendicular to the screen?
Apr 20, 2006, 4:53 pm
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Originally Posted by Fraser
Don't some people have laptop screens with those polarising devices so you can only view the screen at very slight angles from being perpendicular to the screen?
Apr 21, 2006, 12:55 am
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While flying to Orlando - I went for a walk to the back - and saw someone in WT+ viewing porn on his laptop!!
Was not sure if I should say something - or report him - in the end I just left it. There is a time and a place - but surely not on a flight to Orlando which is full of kids!!
Was not sure if I should say something - or report him - in the end I just left it. There is a time and a place - but surely not on a flight to Orlando which is full of kids!!
Apr 21, 2006, 1:21 am
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Originally Posted by blawson
While flying to Orlando - I went for a walk to the back - and saw someone in WT+ viewing porn on his laptop!!
Was not sure if I should say something - or report him - in the end I just left it. There is a time and a place - but surely not on a flight to Orlando which is full of kids!!
Was not sure if I should say something - or report him - in the end I just left it. There is a time and a place - but surely not on a flight to Orlando which is full of kids!!
Ideally this should have resulted in a quiet word to the CSD... followed by the captain coming on and saying ' would Mr. XXXX please shut down his laptop, your pornography is disturbing the other passengers... that would humiliate him.
Even better would be a ban on ever flying BA again for the stupid idiot!
Apr 21, 2006, 3:13 am
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Originally Posted by Swiss Tony
"wide selection of negative externalities"
"Finessing the proposition to achieve maximun lucidity."
Apr 21, 2006, 3:21 am
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My god. Back on topic!
Without a doubt whoever wrote that ppt was using this handy little app...
http://makeashorterlink.com/?D26B5575B
Without a doubt whoever wrote that ppt was using this handy little app...
http://makeashorterlink.com/?D26B5575B
Apr 21, 2006, 3:35 am
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Writing presentations on the aircraft.
I wonder why the odd nervous passenger gets worried when I start hooking up the video clips for my presentations? Why do they stare open jawed when I am trying to find the right photo from amongst a couple of thousand crashed aircraft pictures? "I know there is a picture of last week's flight somewhere in here"
If only we were allowed to have such fun ....
If only we were allowed to have such fun ....
Apr 21, 2006, 6:56 am
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Originally Posted by blawson
While flying to Orlando - I went for a walk to the back - and saw someone in WT+ viewing porn on his laptop!!
Was not sure if I should say something - or report him - in the end I just left it. There is a time and a place - but surely not on a flight to Orlando which is full of kids!!
Was not sure if I should say something - or report him - in the end I just left it. There is a time and a place - but surely not on a flight to Orlando which is full of kids!!
Apr 21, 2006, 9:56 am
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Originally Posted by Swiss Tony
My god. Back on topic!
Without a doubt whoever wrote that ppt was using this handy little app...
http://makeashorterlink.com/?D26B5575B
Without a doubt whoever wrote that ppt was using this handy little app...
http://makeashorterlink.com/?D26B5575B
^
Apr 21, 2006, 10:22 am
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in response to the porn post a mate of mine found a porn mag in the seat pocket. In the interests of protecting the innocent he put it in his brief case only for his wife to find and hve a lot of explaining to do
Apr 21, 2006, 10:55 am
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A Senior Partner at a Big 5 consultancy I worked for told a good story. He was travelling in First Class on GNER from Newcastle to London to pitch for a substantial piece of business. The train was relatively busy and a group of three others sat beside him. He was snoozing slightly but suddenly switched on when he heard his new companions talking. They were from another Big 5 company travelling to London to deliver their pitch to the same client. He kept quiet and pretented to be asleep but took in everything they were saying.
Later that day when he was at the client site waiting for his turn the other party were getting ready to leave. When they saw him he look on their faces said it all. In the intervening period he had been able to adapt his pitch to counter and better some of the arguments being put by his competitor.
It was a good lesson.
Later that day when he was at the client site waiting for his turn the other party were getting ready to leave. When they saw him he look on their faces said it all. In the intervening period he had been able to adapt his pitch to counter and better some of the arguments being put by his competitor.
It was a good lesson.