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OT - You're Terminated. Fantastic.
Andy P
6-Sep-2016
5:17:35 PM
Pretty sure I did this Araps route in '92.

Funny, somehow never thought I'd hear the words spoken in my direction on getting to work this morning at V*rt*go (after 23 years loyal service). No written warnings, nothing ,, but ,,,
Woo Hoo, am free, am free!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! At last!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Never have to enter that awful place again. YIPPEE (Sorry to shout but the relief is palpable).
A. xxxxxxxx



widewetandslippery
6-Sep-2016
5:29:43 PM
That sucks, i know your uk skills helped them a lot..

Wanna come to rwanda?

IdratherbeclimbingM9
6-Sep-2016
9:16:52 PM
On 6/09/2016 Andy P wrote:
>Pretty sure I did this Araps route in '92.
>
>Funny, somehow never thought I'd hear the words spoken in my direction
>on getting to work this morning at V*rt*go (after 23 years loyal service).
>No written warnings, nothing ,, but ,,,
>Woo Hoo, am free, am free!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! At last!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>Never have to enter that awful place again. YIPPEE (Sorry to shout but the relief is palpable).
>A. xxxxxxxx
>
Hmm.
I'm not sure if you are taking the micky, or putting a positive spin on a less than desirable situation.

Here is some sideways info for you in light of that recent event that might put yet another slant on the situation...

I recently skim read your book, and am savouring the opportunity to return to it and absorb greater detail at my leisure.
During that skim-read I picked up on the fact (and resisted posting a public rocket your way), that I probably have you to blame for my application to work with Vertigo not even acknowledged way back when; due your being appointed to them about the same time!

I suppose I should feel half-ok with your final demise in light of that ancient circumstance, but I don't, as I reckon 23 years loyal service is worthy of greater respect than you have been shown.
I agree with ww&s...
>That sucks, i know your uk skills helped them a lot..

2nd hmm.
If life circumstances can change so radically (a first world problem?), does this mean that you might take up actual-climbing again as a similar suitable passage of time has elapsed re PITG?
;-)
Andy P
7-Sep-2016
3:49:40 AM
>
>I recently skim read your book, and am savouring the opportunity to return
>to it and absorb greater detail at my leisure.
>During that skim-read I picked up on the fact (and resisted posting a
>public rocket your way), that I probably have you to blame for my application
>to work with Vertigo not even acknowledged way back when; due your being
>appointed to them about the same time!
>
>I suppose I should feel half-ok with your final demise in light of that
>ancient circumstance, but I don't, as I reckon 23 years loyal service is
>worthy of greater respect than you have been shown.
>I agree with ww&s...
>>That sucks, i know your uk skills helped them a lot..
>
>2nd hmm.
>If life circumstances can change so radically (a first world problem?),
>does this mean that you might take up actual-climbing again as a similar
>suitable passage of time has elapsed re PITG?
>;-)

All part of life's rich tapestry M9 and to be perfectly honest I left that Toxic, Utterly Miserarble place that it has degenerated into with a smile on my face, Integrity, Honesty, ethics, morals and Pride in my job intact and a Very Happy heart. Seriously now, I honestly did.
'Word is already out' within the construction industry and the 'Main Players' are calling my new nunber eagerly awaiting details of where to contact me for their next tenders ...
I can't apologise if I 'got the gig' over you in 1993 - not my choice, but hope something better eventuated for you.
Odd, funny (not ha ha - or is it?) but am now 52. I started there at 29. Feels like a blink of the eye. Age huh!
Climbing? Is that mountains n stuff? Ooh no, scared of heights me and have been asked to rite anovver book - wot mite actuaaly make some bollox prize show in Breat Gritain.
Told 'em to f*ck off ... Bstrds, bstrds.
Toodle pip,
(Ta mate),
A. x









IdratherbeclimbingM9
7-Sep-2016
10:18:03 AM
>I can't apologise if I 'got the gig' over you in 1993 - not my choice, but hope something better eventuated for you.
>Odd, funny (not ha ha - or is it?) but am now 52. I started there at 29. Feels like a blink of the eye. Age huh!

Ahh the colourful threads of the tapestry!
Age indeed! .., though you still have a ways to go youngun... However it certainly dims memory amongst its mists, as upon reflection, I think my verti-knockback was actually a tad earlier than '93, maybe even late 80's??!
Whatever, I've no regrets (or grudges!), about it.
Yes to all three; odd, funny, and ha ha.
Cheers.


Jayford4321
7-Sep-2016
10:51:06 AM
Ap. Ur gonna need a hotel as one room to share is clearly not enuf 2 satisfy Ur recruitment drive.

Wide. Ur gonna die.
>river that whatever season has flow
phfff
Leave rwanda for the noobs an aim longer harder.
1st pakrft (with ascents along the way), of the 'great Aust Bight?
an if U survive the Great Whites . . .
1st pakrft Oz to NuZeelund?
Karl Bromelow
7-Sep-2016
10:25:08 PM
Hey Andy,

Have you heard this? Now you've got a bit of time to kill you might enjoy listening:

http://www.niallgrimes.com/jam-crack-podcast/jcpc-016-glenn-robbins

He tells some stories about you starting around 40 minutes in.

Cheers, Karl
Andy P
17-Oct-2016
11:50:41 AM
On 7/09/2016 Karl Bromelow wrote:
>Hey Andy,
>
>Have you heard this? Now you've got a bit of time to kill you might enjoy
>listening:
>
>http://www.niallgrimes.com/jam-crack-podcast/jcpc-016-glenn-robbins
>
>He tells some stories about you starting around 40 minutes in.
>
>Cheers, Karl

Bump, apols.
Yes, classic Glenn - and JR's after is ace too.
Ha! Started at a new company this week and collect my brand new company car from the showroom on Thursday. Ex-clients, suppliers, engineers, architects & fabricators are hurriedly migrating their new projects so all works out in the long run eh!
All rather sad about 'the old joint' really but they made their bed ,,,,,



Ithomas
17-Oct-2016
6:10:08 PM
Howdy Andy P.
You may like to get a copy of the novel, 'Such is Life' by Tom Collins (Joseph Furphy). It is an old Australian bush classic with an extremely optomistic first sentence that is very pertinent to your situation and which ranks (in my opinion) with the greatest opening lines in ALL of literature.
Ian

ajfclark
17-Oct-2016
8:02:27 PM
https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/f/furphy/joseph/such_is_life/
mikllaw
17-Oct-2016
8:39:31 PM
Or "A Fortunate Life" A B Facey
Ithomas
17-Oct-2016
8:44:51 PM
Thanks for that ajfclark. The electronic version reads the same but has no second hand bookshop smell! Furphy was a teller of improbable stories and his name has entered the Australian lexicon as an early version of what climbers call a 'sandbag'.
BA
18-Oct-2016
11:51:26 AM
And there I was thinking a "Furphy" was a rumour - a piece of gossip - spread whilst standing around a Furphy water tank during the First World War, where sandbags had a different meaning.
Andy P
18-Oct-2016
3:04:39 PM
On 17/10/2016 Ithomas wrote:
>Howdy Andy P.
>You may like to get a copy of the novel, 'Such is Life' by Tom Collins

Many thanks Ian, shall trawl the 2nd hand bookshops when next in town.
Cheers,
Andy P.
ithomas
18-Oct-2016
5:11:37 PM
Ever the pedant Bill. Most sandbags are rumours.
Ian
Karl Bromelow
18-Oct-2016
9:07:25 PM

>Ha! Started at a new company this week and collect my brand new company
>car from the showroom on Thursday. Ex-clients, suppliers, engineers, architects
>& fabricators are hurriedly migrating their new projects so all works out
>in the long run eh!
>All rather sad about 'the old joint' really but they made their bed ,,,,,

Nice one Andy. Best of luck with the new venture.

Cheers, Karl

MisterGribble
19-Oct-2016
7:40:39 AM
Don't you just love a happy ending !

IdratherbeclimbingM9
19-Oct-2016
8:35:05 AM
On 18/10/2016 BA wrote:
>And there I was thinking a "Furphy" was a rumour - a piece of gossip -
>spread whilst standing around a Furphy water tank during the First World
>War, where sandbags had a different meaning.

I was thinking the same BA, but after doing some homework it appears that Tom Collins (Joseph Furphy) died in 1912, two years before WW1, ... so I now consider myself a bit more educated thanks to ithomas!

Back on OT, great to hear things are working out well for you AP.

IdratherbeclimbingM9
19-Oct-2016
8:40:31 AM
On 18/10/2016 ithomas wrote:
>Ever the pedant Bill. Most sandbags are rumours.

Scientifically, such a contingency can never have befallen of itself?
Heh, heh, heh.
hero
19-Oct-2016
11:17:46 AM
The furphy, as in a rumour comes not from Tom Collins (Joseph Furphy) but from his brother John who made the water carts that went to WWI. Popular conjecture is that it was yarns told about the cart but there are other theories.

A sandbag is a much more deliberate and often malicious (I looking at you Queenslanders) falsehood, designed to scare the shit out of someone (or sadly in tamer times to make them fail).

One theory is that it comes from the theatre, when a sandbag fell from the rigging it could kill you.

Pedant rule!

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