Thank you for coming home, sorry that the chairs are all worn.
So businesses are being encouraged to let their staff work from home during the Olympics. I dunno if you have ever had a Business Continuity event at your work (where you get half the staff to log in from home at once and watch your infrastructure collapse around your ears) but over the years I have - in other workplaces...and just one firm doing it on one day is chaotic. Let alone all firms. I find it hard enough logging in from home during the day on Orange Broadband as it is without every mother's son (sorry - I can't stop the Shakespeare at the moment) joining in at the same time.
I'm okay, I can walk into work. As long as the weather is relatively good. Which - let's face it, it is bound not to be as it is a UK sporting event.
I would like it to be a glorious experience, really I would, I remember watching the Moscow 1980 Olympics and being part bored, part mesmerised and suspecting that I would be a grown up woman with children of my own by the next time they came to London...and I was right. And despite paying extra money on my Council tax to pay to build sporting facilities that I will never use, the one time I might actually like to, I couldn't get tickets, I refuse to spend several hundred pounds on transport (people attending last night's Wembley introduction training event had to pay £22 to park at the stadium) on volunteering for an event where I will be trained by Macdonalds. I dropped out of the opening ceremonies because I figured it would cost me 2-300 quid in transport costs and mean that I have to turn down paid acting work if there were rehearsal clashes.
I remember once calculating the sheer scale of London's Roman amphitheatre (which if you scaled it up by population levels would need to seat 2 million people today). The Olympics are too small for the modern age and they don't seem to have worked out that the cost per individual is too high
I'm okay, I can walk into work. As long as the weather is relatively good. Which - let's face it, it is bound not to be as it is a UK sporting event.
I would like it to be a glorious experience, really I would, I remember watching the Moscow 1980 Olympics and being part bored, part mesmerised and suspecting that I would be a grown up woman with children of my own by the next time they came to London...and I was right. And despite paying extra money on my Council tax to pay to build sporting facilities that I will never use, the one time I might actually like to, I couldn't get tickets, I refuse to spend several hundred pounds on transport (people attending last night's Wembley introduction training event had to pay £22 to park at the stadium) on volunteering for an event where I will be trained by Macdonalds. I dropped out of the opening ceremonies because I figured it would cost me 2-300 quid in transport costs and mean that I have to turn down paid acting work if there were rehearsal clashes.
I remember once calculating the sheer scale of London's Roman amphitheatre (which if you scaled it up by population levels would need to seat 2 million people today). The Olympics are too small for the modern age and they don't seem to have worked out that the cost per individual is too high