#43

When I was a kid my dad got a super 80s promotional calendar that was a black plastic triangle with a little stand on the back with the day names, numbers and month on each side in transparent text. There was a neon pink slider on each side you could put under the relevant text. I thought it was the best thing I’d ever seen and was thrilled when he gave it to me. He was quite bemused as he thought it was a tacky piece of crap.

#44

My desk calendar last year was some corporate freebie that came through the post, the picture for November was one of David Cameron and Francois Hollande

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#45

Current job:

  • free entry to Oxford Botanic Gardens

New job:

  • wellbeing allowance (gym membership, massages, personal trainer, whatever I want)
  • working from a villa in the med for 2 weeks every year
  • breakfast
  • tea and coffee (have to bring my own at current job)
  • beer
  • laptop
  • iphone (can use for personal use)
#46

Quite like this weird ruler I got sent:

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#47

My dad ended up with loads of them with building supplier’s names on. He was a surveyor, and you use them for building plans (each side has a different scale on)

#48

Sometimes I use it to make sure that the capital letters on the graph legends of formal drawings are at least 3 mm tall, in accordance with point 20 of Part 3 of Schedule 2 implementing Rule 14 of The Patents Rules 2007 (as amended).

My job is very interesting, thank you for asking.

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#49

this all sounds genuinely hellish

#50

Make sure that some of them aren’t accidentally 25m tall because you used the wrong side of the ruler.

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#51

Worked at Costa briefly during uni. At the end of the day we’d get to take home all the about to be out of date paninis. Great stuff.

Now I get salary sacrifice pre-tax child care, which financially is excellent, but it’s hard to beat that sweet, sweet mozzarella pesto panini wedged in to a domestic toaster.

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#52

this seems excessive

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#53

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#54

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#55

yeah for real. o_O

#56

Free lunch every day.

#57

What’s the desk calendar situation like?

#58

Everyone has their own desk. In fact, in our London office we currently have 8 desks and 3 meeting rooms between the two of us…

#59

Are they all adequately provisioned with novelty calendars though?

#60

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I was going to β€œYSC” you, but in trying to take that picture on my phone I chose β€œCalendar” instead of β€œCamera”, so

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#61

Outed myself as having not read most of the thread here, haven’t I? Assumed Eps was commenting on the likelihood for a hot-desking system. I have no desk calendar.

#62

Ahm oot.