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I went to London for a meeting this week. This is not unremarkable, except that I had completely forgotten about it and went into the office instead. It was only when I started reading my emails and read one from my boss that said "...we will discuss with the client at Monday's 10:00am meeting with Jim from Glasgow..." that I knew the next few hours would be interesting to say the least, mostly because I was wearing all my safety gear (PPE) required at my place of work and a fluorescent jacket - I certainly didn't have time to go home and change into my suit. I got a lift to the station and missed the Cannon Street train by seconds. The next one in was the High Speed one to St Pancras. I got a return ticket, got on the train and wondered how to explain the fact that I was going to be unfashionably late and still wearing PPE. I was exactly and hour late, however the client never batted and eyelid - "Don't worry, welcome to London, the trains are always awf...

Nothing much is happening so I thought I'd share this email I received today. It was all about someone hinting that they might turn off a legacy system that we still use because it inadvertently caused a major issue and I suggested we moved the documents to a more modern system. Here is the email trail between me, Jim, Dave and our Boss (all CC'd together). Mr Turner is a resource we can call upon : Subject: RE: Account lockout issue - post issue report.   I’m in agreement with your thinking here PTV. Hey Boss, as we employ Mr Turner on an ad-hoc basis – I wonder if it is worth using him as a librarian to set up share point or the likes and get the docs moved across. If we lose that database, the IT department will struggle. Just a thought. Kind Regards Jim Subject: RE: Account lockout issue - post issue report.   Jim, I think the loss of the doc’s would be the least of the business’s worries. As PTV points out, the Plant would lose system f...