The Old Team
I received an invite to a reunion through Facebook recently for the place I used to work at 18 months ago. I’m not going to go, it’s in the past now and that’s where I’d like to leave it. I do still keep in contact with a number of people and I do have fond memories of the place but the last 3 years of it were quite emotionally draining.
There were 2 rounds of redundancies and many people left bitter. It bred a ‘Union’ type attitude where people thought they deserved this and expected that and that the root cause of redundancy was someone’s fault, other than their own.
The first 10 years were great though. There was great comradery in a good team and we had many laughs. I came across the following photo and it brought back a few memories.
The guy on the far right is the ‘Grey Man’ I wrote about in my ‘Gay!’ post. Fat Dan is next. I remember ‘cupping’ him in a big open plan office and he screamed louder than a fire alarm. He used to eat curries at 6 in the morning and watch porn at his desk. Paul is next, one of the most intelligent people I’ve ever met and certainly the best coder. Zahid is sat behind Simon, he looked like Alan Yentob from the side. Simon looks like he’s in a wheelchair, what a lovely fellow. I called him ‘Shaggo’ for a year, he thought I was calling him ‘Shadow’, and I’ll always remember the time he passed me coming out of a night club in St. Helens, I was walking down some stairs and Simon overtook me on his arse emitting a warbled scream. Jacko is centre, the guy who’s being sucked off in the ‘Gay!’ post and Jason is to the left of him. Jason often joked about keeping a roll of carpet, a screw driver and tape in the back of his car just in case he needed to dispose of a body! Despite that he was a lovely and funny fellow too. Ben is elevated and the best DBA I’ve ever met, a lovely kind and considerate man. Garth was very much a “Spade is a Spade” kind of guy and I’ll remember him for calling Carl ‘Cark’. Pank with his infectious smile and Sam. Sam was a very talented and capable girl who had her tits felt by Dan whilst she was holding a heavy printer.
We were all consequences of the 2nd round of redundancies and we’ve all gone on to bigger and better things.
There were 2 rounds of redundancies and many people left bitter. It bred a ‘Union’ type attitude where people thought they deserved this and expected that and that the root cause of redundancy was someone’s fault, other than their own.
The first 10 years were great though. There was great comradery in a good team and we had many laughs. I came across the following photo and it brought back a few memories.
The guy on the far right is the ‘Grey Man’ I wrote about in my ‘Gay!’ post. Fat Dan is next. I remember ‘cupping’ him in a big open plan office and he screamed louder than a fire alarm. He used to eat curries at 6 in the morning and watch porn at his desk. Paul is next, one of the most intelligent people I’ve ever met and certainly the best coder. Zahid is sat behind Simon, he looked like Alan Yentob from the side. Simon looks like he’s in a wheelchair, what a lovely fellow. I called him ‘Shaggo’ for a year, he thought I was calling him ‘Shadow’, and I’ll always remember the time he passed me coming out of a night club in St. Helens, I was walking down some stairs and Simon overtook me on his arse emitting a warbled scream. Jacko is centre, the guy who’s being sucked off in the ‘Gay!’ post and Jason is to the left of him. Jason often joked about keeping a roll of carpet, a screw driver and tape in the back of his car just in case he needed to dispose of a body! Despite that he was a lovely and funny fellow too. Ben is elevated and the best DBA I’ve ever met, a lovely kind and considerate man. Garth was very much a “Spade is a Spade” kind of guy and I’ll remember him for calling Carl ‘Cark’. Pank with his infectious smile and Sam. Sam was a very talented and capable girl who had her tits felt by Dan whilst she was holding a heavy printer.
We were all consequences of the 2nd round of redundancies and we’ve all gone on to bigger and better things.
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