Welcome to School 4 the Gormless!
It's a wonder the human race has lasted this long. Every day I find myself a victim of people lacking even an ounce of common sense. If you are one of those people, welcome! Here we are going to write an array of articles to train you to be a respectable, fully-functioning, human being.
Most recent blog posts
Ken's problem theory [posted by onlyHuman 58 days ago ]
This weeks gormlessness prize goes to none other than our London Mayor Ken Livingstone. This week he has come to the conclusion that all the problem youths today are due to the simple fact that their parents who grew up in the 1980s didn't teach them rig...read article 0 comments | 53 views
tags: benefits, ken livingstone, foot in mouth, gormless, problems, society, morals, moral code,
Legacy code, dumbasses and WTF? [posted by onlyHuman 59 days ago ]
By day, I'm a web developer, which means I get to build stupid, pointless functionality into a website for people who know absolutely nothing about technology, yet somehow running a profit making business. So is the way of business. Anyhow, I was checki...read article 0 comments | 44 views
tags: web development, comments, bad code,
Beyond manners and decency [posted by onlyHuman 63 days ago ]
Re-reading my post from this morning on today's london underground fiasco, I just remembered a similar event from earlier in the week. It's only fair to post it and share my woes. Whilst waiting for the train every morning, unless I'm running madly up t...read article 0 comments | 56 views
tags: rudeness, london underground, people
EWWWWW!!!! [posted by CatalogueG 63 days ago ]
We have a nice shiny new building to work in all the mod cons even a shower and gym as it's "Corporate Head Office". So why in the hell can my manager not wash his hands after using the toilet, I've walked in on at least two occassions and seen him zip a...read article 1 comments | 35 views
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How many times do I have to tell you??? [posted by CatalogueG 63 days ago ]
I spend my day monitoring the fleet for a large car rental company and make sure cars are back for service or sold on to manufacturers. My departments ruling of using a car is meant to be law, the people in branches are meant to be clued up degree educate...read article 1 comments | 23 views
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Urinating 4 dummies [posted by onlyHuman 63 days ago ]
Just gone 11am, and I'm back from my obligatory mid-morning slash. The company where I work has approximately 50 staff, and a pretty even split of men/women. Therefore I can approximate that I share a loo with about 25 other guys (not all at the same ti...read article 2 comments | 48 views
tags: basic human rights, violation, fail, incorrect, need more practice, grow up
Don't be lazy, I'm not your slave! [posted by onlyHuman 64 days ago ]
It's only 9:30 am. I'm a web developer. Support chapppie is seated 2 desks away from me, but shouldn't even be bothered for something this daft. I get a call... caller: "Printer is broken" me: "is it...?" caller: "can you come and fix it please?" me: ...read article 1 comments | 47 views
tags: printer out of paper, not, mongo mongo, laziness, help, IT helpdesk, app support
Umberellas on the underground [posted by onlyHuman 64 days ago ]
On this lovely morning of grey skies and pissy rain weather, I was happy to get on to the dry tube train, get a seat and sit in 'relaitive' comfort for the next 40 minutes. I should have known better. Before long, the train was packed and some gormless ...read article 0 comments | 34 views
tags: umberellas, london underground, politeness, gormless