I'm only visiting in March because I can't get leave any other time of year.
I'm only visiting in March because I can't get leave any other time of year.
I recall there being a fairly efficient airport bus, although that may have been to get to Newark.
I am sure there is but that also costs £70. Uber is showing at £30-£40 but it isn't something I have used before, will have to check it out.Originally Posted by Giggles
I'll ask Lewis then.
I think he’s referring to someone Shinners was living with signing up to the old board to out Shinners as a pissy scroat.
Uber is fine or the yellow cab. Make sure you get the cab though and not hustled by private cabs which I've seen happen. It's a fixed rate on the cab about $75.
Just hop on the subway.
Real smart guys come in from Newark.
Real smart guys avoid going to that dump.
New York is cool but it doesn't hold a candle to Lawndawn
Where are you staying? And what time are you arriving?
When I went a few years ago I just took the Subway. Right outside the airport right into Manhattan
I am staying at the Wyndham New Yorker and arriving around 4PM (NY Time) Wednesday 23rd. The subway would appeal if we weren't carrying suitcases.
You should get a pretty cheap Uber (comparatively) around that time. Likely cheaper than the yellow taxis. It's really straightforward getting an Uber as when you attempt to book it it will tell you where to stand. This changes depending on terminal but often it's the arrivals area.
For less hassle the yellow cabs will sort you out and only around 10 bucks more and will be more familiar. Do not accept any taxis apart from the line for the yellow cabs or your booked Uber!
If you have large suitcases it really is easier to grab a taxi. It will be dark by the time you go through immigration so the subway can be daunting (including at least 1 line change).
Hotel is meant to be really nice - just 10 minutes walk from where I work.
Thanks Josh, appreciated. We will opt for a taxi.
Really don't like my project manager. She seemed to take a disliking to me over a question I asked at the very start of my time here and although there's been periods of her seeming okay, she'll also be a prick and I think it all goes back to that. Or maybe she's just a prick to everyone about everything. I dunno.
We have a junior PM who deals with most of the stuff on my team now though and she can ask you to do things without being a knob.
Really struggling with motivation to get work done outside of lessons at the moment. Know I'll be off for paternity next week so in my head I'm going "fuck it" but still have deadlines for this week. Don't think going to Oxford Uni helped today, and have training 4-6 tomorrow. Really going to have to pull my finger out, especially as I know I'll be observed on Friday as well.
My new 'Senior' is a recently promoted 70 something that knows the job inside out but is completely, and obviously, IT illiterate. She has a go at me for using shortcuts (ctrl+c etc) and can't cope with me using 4 windows across my 2 screens.
It's fucking painful.
Right click copy right click paste must genuinely cost the economy a few billion pounds a year.
"Oh, I'm no good with spreadsheets, me."
Had to teach someone how to add and rename a sheet the other week.
My bosses boss now sits next to me. Says to me last Friday “err are you any good with excel?”
That’s my job, mate. My job that you interviewed me for. I just nodded in confusion.
He then gave me a long winded description of freeze panes, so I did it in a few seconds and then went and made a cup of tea while seething he’s on triple my wage.
I'm a twit
I had a colleague ask me to make her a 2019 version of a spreadsheet, then once I'd made it from the 2018 spreadsheet and started deleting stuff she kept screaming "NO! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!
She was being a prick today again to pretty much everyone.
Was talking to one of the other guys on my team about her and he said he'd heard about that question I asked at the start. He also told me a story about how he'd almost quit because of her about a year ago and how she then didn't speak to him for like three months. Apparently she's clashed with pretty much everyone at some point.
Is it Christmas yet?
Turned down a day trip to London for work tomorrow and opted to dial in from my desk. Sounds like a snooze fest so I'm hoping I can slip away unnoticed.
Curry Wednesday too.
What was the question Boyd?
I asked why we had to pay for our own background checks then have it expensed rather than them just paying for it up front.
Go away and make something better up.
You what?
What he really said was “hurdy durdy CRB durdy me own pockits, so it is.”
I'm a twit
DBS now.
Made a right fool out of yourself there, MATE.
I think they make you pay for it because they figure if your background is fucked up you're not going to pay to waste their time and your money.
If they pay for your background check and you're a complete psycho then it's not their dime.
Probably saves the company a good bit if you really think about it.
Or, ironically, you pay for it and you're a psycho and then they just don't hire you and they still don't waste their money.
All of the above. I had a job do it to me years back, but it was only a shit agency job. What sort of firm are you working for Boyd?
Work just bought me a nice steak and 8 pints.
I was about to complain but I'm literally covering at another facility and they've given me $30/day for food so I could've easily sorted a nice steak if I wanted to go sit at Applebee's by myself.
Took any pictures?
I'be only ever done it once outside my own home and felt like a cunt.Took any pictures?
I was under the impression that Applebee's was the pits.
So are the standards of the average American, which is why they're the perfect match.
Applebees
Come on Bruh!
I'm covering in a very rural town where Applebee's is literally the most exciting thing going on.
Probably should've mentioned that because without context, well, you get what you have above.
Surely they must have a diner that is better than Applebee's though.
Is there not a place like the ones you see on Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives in every town?
There may be, I'm not very adventurous with food to be honest.
I always fear I'll get food poisoning so I just stick with Taco Bell.
They tell me there's a lot of great food trucks but there's something about getting food from a large van that puts me off.
The Mexican food truck I went to in Los Angeles was immense.
LA has nothing going for it other than good food trucks.
Best BBQ I ever had was from a caravan type thing in Austin.
Don't get me wrong, I'm positive that food trucks probably have the best food ever (especially for the price), but I'm a gigantic pussy.
Have you suffered from food poisoning before?
I've had it twice, once from somewhere you'd go "Well yeah that's gonna happen" and once where you wouldn't at all so I've long since decided that unless somewhere is obviously filthy it's not worth worrying about.
Nah, I haven't personally if I'm honest.
I've probably missed out on a lot of fantastic cuisine but idk it seems like a decent trade.
Food poisoning is, generally, a myth.
It's something else.
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