Last One to Post Wins

[The Tinker]

Bonsoir mes amis - je gagne.

[Silver_Shiney]

ce n'est pas souvent que vous avez raison, mon cher petit pois, mais vous avez tort nouveau

[Not so ancient mariner]

Et maintenant, le chef réel est revenu!

[Silver_Shiney]

, mehriban əfəndim mənə elan üçün təşəkkür edirik

[The Tinker]

我是贏家

[Not so ancient mariner]

Usted sabe muy bien que soy el líder

[Not so ancient mariner]

我是贏家

没有你是不是

[Silver_Shiney]

By heck, Google/Bing translator's been getting a hammering!!!

[Not so ancient mariner]

errr........and who started it with the Azerbaijani???

[Silver_Shiney]

where I lead, others follow...

[Silver_Shiney]

which reminds me of a comment I read on a junior officer's annual appraisal a while back: This man is not so much a leader of men, more a follower of women"

Either way, I still win!

[The Tinker]

Not today you don't shiney

[Not so ancient mariner]

I don't expect the promotion board would have been particularly impressed by that one!

[Dark Knight]

Afternoon all

just a quick peek to see if the usual level of banter is up to snuff

and sadly it is

[Silver_Shiney]

I don't expect the promotion board would have been particularly impressed by that one!

or the one for the police dog-handler, whose line manager said "this man is impeding the career of a perfectly good policedog"

[Not so ancient mariner]

I am too near retirement to have to worry about promotion boards. Appraisals are still done, and I have just had my last 5 years of CPD records reviewed and evaluated by my professional body, who seem quite happy with my efforts.

[Dark Knight]

hey ho slackers

just spent a very productive afternoon doing manly things such as putting up shelves and tool racks in the mancave (garage)
we can now get one of the cars in there and have got rid of a load more cardboard boxes

happy days

[The Tinker]

I am in the lucky position of being second-in-command in the organisation I work for - so usually write my own - but I used to hate them. Don't you find they tell you that you are doing everything wonderful BUT you should also be doing something else as well

[Silver_Shiney]

what I object to with ours is that we have to say a) how we think we are doing performance-wise (give examples) and b) how well we get on with our colleagues (give examples).

It's not for me to say how I'm doing (who is going to 'fess up and admit they're crap at their job?) or how well I get on with my colleagues. Nor (as happened a couple of years back) should I be told that I stepped out of line a few months ago but the details can't be remembered so I don't know what to avoid doing in future....

[Dark Knight]

My boss has all but given up with this type of stuuf, at an appraisal a couple of years ago, I told him I was a genius and superb at my job and if there are any negatives in this appraisal, it was his fault coz he should have discussed them sooner, not wait for a once a year chat
and he had to provide examples of areas where I was under perfoirming
quickest appraisal ever

mind you the bugger had me the year after in a 3 hour marathon appraisal

[Not so ancient mariner]

In my previous job, my line manager had decided that until the divisional head gave him an appraisal, he wasn't going to bother doing any for the other staff.

[The Tinker]

Afternoon my losing friends

[Dark Knight]

and to you also loser

had a rather nice morning, with AOTH, trying to get a little white ball into a hole and on several occasions I even managed to do so

[Silver_Shiney]

great! now that you have all acknowledged that you are all the losers, you may now acknowledge me as the winner.

[Not so ancient mariner]

Should it ever occur, such an event is likely to be accompanied by the sound of much flapping and oinking