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Riddle me this...
#1585908
03/10/2016 20:10
03/10/2016 20:10
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Jim_Clennell
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Since July, I've been doing a job I really dislike for a boss who is a rude, over-bearing bully. Last Friday I handed in my notice (1 week, as per my contract). I made sure that my body language was clearly stating that I wasn't to be intimidated (I'm not - he has always backed down when I've challenged his behaviour) and he accepted it meekly and with none of the expected rage. This morning I arrived at the office first (as usual) and realised after a few minutes that my reading glasses were not on my desk, where I had left them on Friday. I asked my boss if he had seen them and he said "Don't you usually leave them on your desk?" I hunted all around the office, but they were nowhere to be found. Normally, I'd have put it down to a lapse in my own memory, but this time I clearly remembered deliberately leaving my glasses on the desk, in the open case, as I was heading out to the pub. The only person, other than my boss, who had been in the office was the cleaner, so I rang her and she said that she hadn't seen my glasses either on my desk or anywhere else. Puzzled, I got on with the (slightly out-of-focus) day. At lunch time, I went downstairs to the kitchen and noticed the bin liners full of the rubbish that the cleaner had collected, waiting for the bin men. On a hunch, I opened the bin bag and after a few close encounters with mouldy tea bags and banana skins, I found my glasses case. Curiouser and curiouser...
I kept looking, but couldn't find my specs. I went back up to the office with my prize and observed my boss's reaction - not much. However, when I said I hadn't located my glasses, he said "Well, there's no need to search the other bag, as that is downstairs rubbish". Well, obviously, I searched it, but alas, no glasses.
So, what do I believe?
Was it the cleaner, by accident binning the case, yet somehow managing to lose my specs?
Was it me, suffering a massive lapse of memory and taking my glasses with me, possibly losing them in the pub?
Or was it my volatile boss, furious that I was leaving at short notice and unable to bully me, taking or smashing my glasses then throwing away the case?
Motive, means and opportunity...
I won't be leaving anything else lying around - roll on Friday!
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Re: Riddle me this...
[Re: Jim_Clennell]
#1585914
03/10/2016 21:29
03/10/2016 21:29
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Enforcer
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The fact that he responded with "Don't you usually leave them on your desk?" seems fishy to me.
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Re: Riddle me this...
[Re: Jim_Clennell]
#1585937
04/10/2016 07:32
04/10/2016 07:32
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magooagain
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I think you are reading in to it to much Jim. Try to focus on this Friday and all will seem clear.(hopefully)
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Re: Riddle me this...
[Re: Jim_Clennell]
#1585940
04/10/2016 08:16
04/10/2016 08:16
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glenn1960
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it was the cleaner in the office with her own hands !
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Re: Riddle me this...
[Re: ali_hire]
#1585952
04/10/2016 11:18
04/10/2016 11:18
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Posts: 16,603 Corridor of Uncertainty
Jim_Clennell
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Pettiness is usually best responded to with pettiness*
Take a massive dump in a box and mail it to him.
*This is not true, but it will be funny. Better make sure it arrives after Friday - I open the post at work!
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Re: Riddle me this...
[Re: Jim_Clennell]
#1585964
04/10/2016 14:02
04/10/2016 14:02
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Jonny
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Thanks people!
I'm intrigued by what appears to be the childish actions of a man (and a leading local Rotarian, Parish Councillor and practitioner of amateur dramatics, cricket and golf) in his late sixties!
He is guilty beyond any doubt.
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Re: Riddle me this...
[Re: oxfordSteve]
#1585991
04/10/2016 21:59
04/10/2016 21:59
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amateur dramatics, cricket and golf - throw the book at him!
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Re: Riddle me this...
[Re: Jim_Clennell]
#1585992
04/10/2016 22:20
04/10/2016 22:20
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ali_hire
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All will be revealed, Joe. Hopefully after tomorrow, when we will be visiting Kidderminster...!
I had heard the Harriers were on the hunt for a new mascot!
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Re: Riddle me this...
[Re: ali_hire]
#1586011
05/10/2016 08:33
05/10/2016 08:33
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Posts: 16,603 Corridor of Uncertainty
Jim_Clennell
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All will be revealed, Joe. Hopefully after tomorrow, when we will be visiting Kidderminster...!
I had heard the Harriers were on the hunt for a new mascot! As a lifelong Owl, that would ruffle too many feathers!
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Re: Riddle me this...
[Re: Jim_Clennell]
#1586028
05/10/2016 12:46
05/10/2016 12:46
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kev_megadon
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Yes agree, +1 for guilty. Look forward to reading about your new venture Jim All will be revealed, Joe. Hopefully after tomorrow, when we will be visiting Kidderminster...! Nobody visits Kidderminster unless they absolutely have to!
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Re: Riddle me this...
[Re: kev_megadon]
#1586029
05/10/2016 13:21
05/10/2016 13:21
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Yes agree, +1 for guilty. Look forward to reading about your new venture Jim All will be revealed, Joe. Hopefully after tomorrow, when we will be visiting Kidderminster...! Nobody visits Kidderminster unless they absolutely have to! I've lost track of where Kidderminster actually starts and stops as it's grown so much over the past few years, makes travelling through it so much longer
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Re: Riddle me this...
[Re: Jim_Clennell]
#1586230
07/10/2016 21:57
07/10/2016 21:57
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HiraethHuw
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How was your last day, Jim? Did he give you a Good luck in your new job card, and a Specsavers voucher? Sorry to hear the job was a bad 'un. Good luck with your new venture
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Re: Riddle me this...
[Re: kev_megadon]
#1586407
10/10/2016 22:02
10/10/2016 22:02
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Posts: 135 Leicester
mungo
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Yes agree, +1 for guilty. Look forward to reading about your new venture Jim All will be revealed, Joe. Hopefully after tomorrow, when we will be visiting Kidderminster...! Nobody visits Kidderminster unless they absolutely have to! I bought my coupe from Tanc Barratt in Kidderminster. Can't be all bad.
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Re: Riddle me this...
[Re: mungo]
#1586429
11/10/2016 08:28
11/10/2016 08:28
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Yes agree, +1 for guilty. Look forward to reading about your new venture Jim All will be revealed, Joe. Hopefully after tomorrow, when we will be visiting Kidderminster...! Nobody visits Kidderminster unless they absolutely have to! I bought my coupe from Tanc Barratt in Kidderminster. Can't be all bad. Tanc is DY14 which is near Kidderminster on his address, so yes close but more Worcester
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