BCM Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 How many of you lot travel on business? My boss would probably argue I don't do enough of it and should get out to see customers more often, but as I work from home and have video conference and WebEx facilities etc, then I tend to use that wherever possible. I hate leaving the house really. Anyway sometimes it can't be avoided and I have to drag myself somewhere and stay in a hotel. To that end, I have to attend a Sales Conference tomorrow at Cisco and am currently residing in the Holiday Inn, Reading South. I'm writing this in the restaurant surrounded by other men at tables for one with their laptops out trying to look important and pretending to work on an Excel spreadsheet. Why would you bring your laptop to dinner at 8pm and fire up Excel? Nothing is that important surely. I don't go in for such shenanigans. Without fail every time I end up at a hotel on business, I get totally streaming at the bar, hang around in the car park smoking biftas and looking dodgy, and turn up at whatever function the next day with a terrible hangover and complete lack of conviction. I'm on my 3rd Stella already. Gonna go roll a sneaky spliff in a sec and slip out the back to smoke it. Good times.Share your work related travel experiences here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr lopez Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 i once went to DC for work and spent the night in a fancy hotel. i just got drunk by myself. it was fun actually Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCM Posted April 23, 2018 Author Share Posted April 23, 2018 It's 99% businessmen in here but I have spotted a lone businesswoman with a couple of male colleagues. She looks bored. Keeps glancing over. She isn't really. Or IS she? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olo Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 she is. bag it and tag it. then dap knuckles with the other suits tomorrow after you finish bragging about your exploits Walk up to her & ask "What do you think of synth patches". No matter how she responds, she's yours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cichlisuite Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 she is. bag it and tag it. then dap knuckles with the other suits tomorrow after you finish bragging about your exploits Walk up to her & ask "What do you think of synth patches". No matter how she responds, she's yours. But only after you take out your newly ivory embossed business card. If that was a subtle American Psycho reference, otherwise I'll see myself out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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BobDobalina Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 Is it business time yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zkom Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 Working mostly with Finnish engineers there's shit ton of drinking involved on any business trip. My previous team leader used to have several bottles of liquor in his luggage so that once the hotel bar would close the after party was in his room.. Once ended up skinny dipping in the Baltic sea with the rest of the team. I feel I've spent most of my business trips in hangovers. But anyway, I actually haven't traveled for work that much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leon Sumbitches Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 How many of you lot travel on business? My boss would probably argue I don't do enough of it and should get out to see customers more often, but as I work from home and have video conference and WebEx facilities etc, then I tend to use that wherever possible. I hate leaving the house really. Anyway sometimes it can't be avoided and I have to drag myself somewhere and stay in a hotel. To that end, I have to attend a Sales Conference tomorrow at Cisco and am currently residing in the Holiday Inn, Reading South. I'm writing this in the restaurant surrounded by other men at tables for one with their laptops out trying to look important and pretending to work on an Excel spreadsheet. Why would you bring your laptop to dinner at 8pm and fire up Excel? Nothing is that important surely. I don't go in for such shenanigans. Without fail every time I end up at a hotel on business, I get totally streaming at the bar, hang around in the car park smoking biftas and looking dodgy, and turn up at whatever function the next day with a terrible hangover and complete lack of conviction. I'm on my 3rd Stella already. Gonna go roll a sneaky spliff in a sec and slip out the back to smoke it. Good times. Share your work related travel experiences here. I've stayed in the other Premier Inn in Reading a few times, funnily enough; they did a wicked steak. Lol @ the pints and biffs, better that that being an utterly dull LinkedIn business wanker, IMO. I travel very occasionally for academic conferences, usually fairly low-key stuff. Heading to Santiago de Compostela in Autumn for a ting, looking forward to doing my bit and then getting out of the venue to wander about and soak up the vibes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCM Posted April 23, 2018 Author Share Posted April 23, 2018 I'm on the Tanqueray gin now... Feeling a little light-headed... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCM Posted April 23, 2018 Author Share Posted April 23, 2018 Check out these dudes at the bar, cool as fuck man. One on the left has got some kind of utility belt. Wicked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh Mughnus Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 One on the left has got some kind of utility belt. Wicked. maybe he's batman I have to travel for work. Appr 10% of my time I'm offsite? so not much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr lopez Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 Working mostly with Finnish engineers there's shit ton of drinking involved on any business trip. My previous team leader used to have several bottles of liquor in his luggage so that once the hotel bar would close the after party was in his room.. Once ended up skinny dipping in the Baltic sea with the rest of the team. I feel I've spent most of my business trips in hangovers. But anyway, I actually haven't traveled for work that much. woohoo finland Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwmbrancity Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 isnt Ricky Gervais from Reading? pls firebomb his family's manor asap, it'd be much more fun than regaling you with tales from various excavation trenches across the continent besides, its nearly 10pm, anything less than 40%booze is a waste at this moment in time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCM Posted April 23, 2018 Author Share Posted April 23, 2018 you dark bruv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh Mughnus Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 yo stop looking at boring looking men's behinds and save us in the burger thread u gettin' drunk where's the burgers at Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tricone RC Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 I spend about a third of the year travelling for work, most of that to dumb out-of-the-way bush towns or camps. It has its highlights e.g. I've had a close encounter with pretty much every animal that lives in Canada, got to fly low over a herd of thousands of caribou David Attenborough stylee while listening to the Humpty Dance, had a few lols watching stoned guys sink bulldozers into swamps and seeing cocky helicopter pilots nearly kill themselves doing dumb stunts to impress girls. But mostly it consists of staring at rocks in the bush while being eaten alive by bugs, or screaming bloody murder to the heavens while you try to dig out a stuck ATV by hand for the 18th time that day, or sitting in an idling truck at 3am putting up with endless shit pop-country music on the radio while gradually working up the courage to hop out for a piss when it's -45 outside Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCM Posted April 23, 2018 Author Share Posted April 23, 2018 That sounds fucking mental mate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Candiru Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 I spent 3 months in Raleigh, NC and then 3 months in Copenhagen pretty much back to back. It was trippy as balls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCM Posted April 23, 2018 Author Share Posted April 23, 2018 Copenhagen's meant to be alright innit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Candiru Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 Copenhagen's meant to be alright innit. I went back again last year. It’s a magical place. Christiania is well worth going to like 1000 times and the surprise festivities and Tivoli and oh the joy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruising for burgers Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 the war on spreadsheets goes on... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usagi Posted April 24, 2018 Share Posted April 24, 2018 Christiania https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-uf9dO3a9k Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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