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Steph3n Sep 21, 2009 8:51 am


Originally Posted by ConciergeMike (Post 12413067)
It's expensive, but I hear the ALCO Beer of the Month Club is the best one to join. If you select the ALCO Beer Platinum package, ALCO flies the beer to the recipient him/herself.

There is an ALCO store about 30 miles from me, I keep meaning to stop and take a pic but every time I go by it is dark....

kingalien Sep 21, 2009 8:54 am

Somehow an email from a with a weird name regarding my "compensation fund is ready and need to contact the office immediately" does not inspire me to act on it :rolleyes:.

jrzyshawn Sep 21, 2009 8:55 am


Originally Posted by gbryan84 (Post 12411280)
If any of you are going to ZRH on the DL mistake fare beware that you may spend more money on food while you are there than you paid for the ticket :eek: Soda's were $5 just about everywhere. Also, if you have facebook look at my lunch and tell me how this buffet style food was worth 16 CHF? Rolov posted the link above.

Expensive is an understatement. You should have seen the look on my face when the waiter at the restaurant brought out three bottles of S. Pellegrino water at $6.50 a pop with dinner.


Originally Posted by rolov (Post 12412505)
good morning box

Good morning all!

Originally Posted by COFlyerCLE (Post 12412707)
**BLECH****

That sums up the day so far.

kingalien Sep 21, 2009 8:56 am


Originally Posted by ssullivan (Post 12413097)
Crap. I just yawned out of total boredom with this phone call, and wasn't on mute. I know people heard me. There was an audible pause in the conversation afterward.

Hope they don't figure out who it was.

I once was pounding on the keyboard typing a Box post and someone on the conference call asked whoever that was to put the phone on mute. :o

ssullivan Sep 21, 2009 8:56 am


Originally Posted by Hartmann (Post 12413114)
Plus, the shipment may not make it to its destination intact and unopened ;)

That too.

Anglo Large Clawed Otter Sep 21, 2009 8:58 am


Originally Posted by ConciergeMike (Post 12413067)
It's expensive, but I hear the ALCO Beer of the Month Club is the best one to join. If you select the ALCO Beer Platinum package, ALCO flies the beer to the recipient him/herself.

There have been lots of complaints about orders coming up short upon delivery. The product doesn't always seem to make it to its destination intact. :-:

Anglo Large Clawed Otter Sep 21, 2009 8:59 am


Originally Posted by Hartmann (Post 12413114)
Plus, the shipment may not make it to its destination intact and unopened ;)

Beat me to it. :D

ssullivan Sep 21, 2009 9:01 am


Originally Posted by kingalien (Post 12413152)
I once was pounding on the keyboard typing a Box post and someone on the conference call asked whoever that was to put the phone on mute. :o

That has happened to me before as well. Someone asked who was typing so much, and when the other three people on the call all responded "Not me," I was busted. I lied and said I was taking notes. That came back to haunt me two days later when someone e-mailed me and asked if they could have my notes from the call (which of course didn't exist). :eek:

windwalker Sep 21, 2009 9:03 am

Wirelessly posted (treo 6OO: BlackBerry8310/4.5.0.110 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/102 UP.Link/6.3.1.17.0)

Morning box.
Sitting in a Training class in the Pit(stafford)
4th identical class this year

ssullivan Sep 21, 2009 9:05 am


Originally Posted by gbryan84 (Post 12411280)
If any of you are going to ZRH on the DL mistake fare beware that you may spend more money on food while you are there than you paid for the ticket :eek: Soda's were $5 just about everywhere. Also, if you have facebook look at my lunch and tell me how this buffet style food was worth 16 CHF? Rolov posted the link above.

Is this an active mistake care? Or an old one you just recently flew?

sbm12 Sep 21, 2009 9:17 am


Originally Posted by ssullivan (Post 12413197)
Is this an active mistake care? Or an old one you just recently flew?

Old one just flown. Same one that I'm taking to BCN for NYE, IIRC.

Over the weekend my wife mentioned that she is pretty sure she gets the week between Christmas and New Years off. The BCN trip is already set but now we're looking at options for another trip the weekend/week prior, either to Northern Africa or somewhere else that they don't really celebrate Christmas so much. Any suggestions form the Box?

Xyzzy Sep 21, 2009 9:19 am


Originally Posted by jrzyshawn (Post 12413150)
Expensive is an understatement. You should have seen the look on my face when the waiter at the restaurant brought out three bottles of S. Pellegrino water at $6.50 a pop with dinner.

That's cheap. I've paid for $13 bottles.:(

gbryan84 Sep 21, 2009 9:20 am


Originally Posted by sbm12 (Post 12413241)
Old one just flown. Same one that I'm taking to BCN for NYE, IIRC.

What are the prices like in MAD. I belive you said you have been there. If its anything like ZRH, Im packing a some PB&J and bread :rolleyes:

Xyzzy Sep 21, 2009 9:20 am


Originally Posted by Anglo Large Clawed Otter (Post 12413164)
There have been lots of complaints about orders coming up short upon delivery. The product doesn't always seem to make it to its destination intact. :-:

Well, there is a testing requirement... ;)

ssullivan Sep 21, 2009 9:21 am

Whinny woman from recently ended conference call just sent an e-mail reminding us how she's been up since 4:30 AM this morning and working on this project since 5:00 AM this morning. I have no sympathy for her. She's not traveling to a client this week, and is part-time. She only works two weeks a month and is only assigned to this one project, so on her two working weeks, she's either home working on this project, or at the client (usually it's one week of home, one week on site per month for her). So cry me a river. I got up early this morning too, because I have to fly to LAX. I'm also actively working with five projects at the moment. So I don't want to hear this crap from her.

The best part of this e-mail is that it's about two pages long, but could be summed up in one sentence: "I don't know how to post my work this week to our time billing system." The e-mail is also to the Project Manager, who is the only person, other than the Account Manager (who was a cc), who could answer this for her. But then she included everyone else on this project as a cc.


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