Work lunch - I have been betrayed

[Badgers]

Look at the betrayal on their faces

 

[Kanda]

Middle class people can be poor too, Ed

Can working class people have money? Not rich or wealthy, just have more than what is just required to get by???

 

[Griff]

Look at the betrayal on their faces

I just see lies and deceit.

 

[madzone]

Can working class people have money? Not rich or wealthy, just have more than what is just required to get by???

Oh, you are talking to me.

Most working class people have more money than me and I'm drippingly middle class

 

[Badgers]

Get the park up on Google earth/street thing and get it listed on there.

 

[madzone]

I just see lies and deceit.

I just see a load of people who, quite frankly, should lay off the pies

 

[editor]

Sounds very nice but aren't all tomatoes 'vine' tomatoes? Even the cheapest Morrisons ones? Still off a vine

Of course, but they generally taste much nicer when they're the little ones still attached to the vine. I usually grow my own and they're lovely. And free.

 

[madzone]

Sounds very nice but aren't all tomatoes 'vine' tomatoes? Even the cheapest Morrisons ones? Still off a vine

The difference is they've been ripened on the vine (presumably they mean left on the plant to ripen) as opposed to being wrenched off whilst still green and bullet-hard and ripened in trays or summat.

(((((battery tomatoes)))))

 

[RubyBlue]

Of course, but they generally taste much nicer when they're the little ones still attached to the vine. I usually grow my own and they're lovely. And free.

The difference is they've been ripened on the vine (presumably they mean left on the plant to ripen) as opposed to being wrenched off whilst still green and bullet-hard and ripened in trays or summat.

(((((battery tomatoes)))))

Oh that makes sense - never given it much thought - I shall never buy battery tomatoes again

 

[Gromit]

I am also a woman

I've noticed that when women are left to plan work outings they spend a lot of energy coming up with a plan and then completely ignore it. They like to have a plan to ignore though. You can't not have a plan. There must definately be a plan thats going to be ignored.

Its a woman's perogative to change her mind (constantly) we are told.

Surely as a woman yourself you should be aware of this?

Perhaps its just the women I've worked with mind?

 

[Upchuck]

Oh my head

 

[Kanda]

Tell them to fuck off and go to The Gadget Show v's Gail Porter Dance off @ Somerset House Starts at 1pm.

 

[Badgers]

I was going to stroll through the park on my way to East Putney but now it just seems futile

 

[Kanda]

I was going to stroll through the park on my way to East Putney but now it just seems futile

Are you worried about betraying people?

 

[Upchuck]

Jesus, they are now talking about how great it is Lily Allen has turned her life around and they like her now. This is why I wanted the pub - I could ignore this sort of shitty conversation by pretending to be interested in the menu

Someone shoot me

 

[sojourner]

Jesus, they are now talking about how great it is Lily Allen has turned her life around and they like her now. This is why I wanted the pub - I could ignore this sort of shitty conversation by pretending to be interested in the menu

Someone shoot me

Oh just go the fucking pub on your own you misery-arse! Or even better - start a pool tournament - for money.

 

[AverageJoe]

Women can't go in pubs on their own, they get preyed on by toothless, balding men with beer bellies the size of Camborne

I'll haveyou know that today I am nowhere near Lincoln Inn Fields...

 

[RubyBlue]

Jesus, they are now talking about how great it is Lily Allen has turned her life around and they like her now. This is why I wanted the pub - I could ignore this sort of shitty conversation by pretending to be interested in the menu

Someone shoot me

I do wonder, if this is how you feel about your work mates, why you even decided to go to the pub with them If I hated mine I'd of fucked them off and gone to the park on my own

 

[Upchuck]

I agreed on Monday to the pub so I had the whole week to get used to the idea. I don't mind the pub cos you sit, order, the food in brought, and it is a quick and painless 1 hr and it keeps the peace and is diplomatic. And it is what I agreed to. If it had been the park from monday I would have said no. Now that it is changed to the park (which i only found out after I asked cheerily this morning 'Are we still going to lunch then?') I can't back out cos it will be plain I don't want to spend the time with them. They are not bad people, just if I spend lunch in the park with them it I will have spent the full day in their solid company which is what I don't enjoy. Backing out of lunch will leave a bad atmosphere, perhaps worse than the one I created by bitching and complaining about the change of plans.

I don't hate my colleagues, I just don't want to get close to them. not the ones going to lunch anyway

 

[RubyBlue]

I agreed on Monday to the pub so I had the whole week to get used to the idea.

I would hate to see how you'd react if they invited you to lunch Monday lunchtime on that actual morning probably too much to handle less then five days notice

 

[AverageJoe]

Tell them something has come up and you cant go.

Otherwise, you'll be miserable for an hour, and they will be miserable for an hour, and then it will carry on in the afternoon etc etc etc.

 

[madzone]

I agreed on Monday to the pub so I had the whole week to get used to the idea. I don't mind the pub cos you sit, order, the food in brought, and it is a quick and painless 1 hr and it keeps the peace and is diplomatic. And it is what I agreed to. If it had been the park from monday I would have said no. Now that it is changed to the park (which i only found out after I asked cheerily this morning 'Are we still going to lunch then?') I can't back out cos it will be plain I don't want to spend the time with them. They are not bad people, just if I spend lunch in the park with them it I will have spent the full day in their solid company which is what I don't enjoy. Backing out of lunch will leave a bad atmosphere, perhaps worse than the one I created by bitching and complaining about the change of plans.

I don't hate my colleagues, I just don't want to get close to them. not the ones going to lunch anyway

I can see your point, tbf.

 

[5t3IIa]

What a boring 'dilemma'

 

[Upchuck]

I would hate to see how you'd react if they invited you to lunch Monday lunchtime on that actual morning probably too much to handle less then five days notice

What pissed me off was they had, it seems, conspired together behind my back to go to the park and not the pub. I could see it in their eyes and they all nodded together. Not everyone likes the blasted park ya know

 

[RubyBlue]

What pissed me off was they had, it seems, conspired together behind my back to go to the park and not the pub. I could see it in their eyes and they all nodded together. Not everyone likes the blasted park ya know

it's a conspiracy - ((((upchuck))))

 

[ivebeenhigh]

What pissed me off was they had, it seems, conspired together behind my back to go to the park and not the pub. I could see it in their eyes and they all nodded together. Not everyone likes the blasted park ya know

it's probably best you leave your job. there is no way you can forgive this sort of betrayal.

 

[madzone]

I hate that girly, cliquey, shit though. It's like being back at school.

 

[Upchuck]

it's probably best you leave your job. there is no way you can forgive this sort of betrayal.

It crossed my mind. I was tempted to stand up and say 'to hell with you!'. I am still upset typing this

 

[rutabowa]

if it's lincoln's inn field you can probably score some smack by the east toilets if it all gets too much

 

[Gromit]

/is suddenly reminded of the vianetta dignity thread