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foxy - 2013-01-15
In response to Re: On hacking from the outside (San Migs)

If you mean drinking chinese beer, eating chinese food, then yes, that can't be done in the UK.The wife I can agree on however.

Okay, San Migs. Back in 1994, I had signed off the bru after 2 years of unemployment to go to China to teach for 10 months along with my first wife. She taught too despite never having done so before. My father gave me 1,000 GBP and paid for two single air tickets to Beijing.

In Scotland, I'd taught high school maths for approx 9 years, and after packing it in, I got a lowly job as a clerk controlling GKN pallets on behalf of a beer manufacturer after 4 months on the dole. Eventually, I was promoted to Company GKN Pallet Control Manager, and saved lots of money for my company by turning pallet losses into pallet gains. Of course, that was the net situation. Truth be told, blue pallets will always be lost, but I was gaining more than were being lost by diddling fellow GKN pallet hirers/hauliers/GKN Admin on paper year after year until finally my company was in the happy situation of using on average 12,000 blue pallets rent-free. That saved my company approx 2,400 GBP/ day every day of every year in pallet rental fees. Sales were rising, but the pallet population was falling. However, I wasn't benefiting salary-wise and was refused a company car though my incompetent predecessor had had one.And I was just a junior manager, so I wasn't earning more money than a maths teacher!. Eventually, I cheated on overtime by taking overlong lunch hours in the pub and doing loads of work at night/weekends for about 2 years. At last I was fired, but I had no regrets. I had been employed by that company for 8 years. Then two years doing nothing before China. My favorite foods were Indian and Chinese curries, and I was a beer drinker since my university days, as well as a smoker.

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Re: On hacking from the outside -- Dragonized -- 2013-01-11
Re: On hacking from the outside -- John O’Shei -- 2013-01-22
Re: On hacking from the outside -- Dragonized -- 2013-01-22
Re: On hacking from the outside -- San Migs -- 2013-01-22
Re: On hacking from the outside -- Mancunian -- 2013-01-11
Re: On hacking from the outside -- Dragonized -- 2013-01-12
Re: On hacking from the outside -- Mancunian -- 2013-01-12
Re: On hacking from the outside -- Dragonized -- 2013-01-12
Re: On hacking from the outside -- Mancunian -- 2013-01-12
Re: On hacking from the outside -- Dragonized -- 2013-01-14
Re: On hacking from the outside -- foxy -- 2013-01-15
Re: On hacking from the outside -- Dragonized -- 2013-01-15
Re: On hacking from the outside -- ASTF -- 2013-01-15
Re: On hacking from the outside -- foxy -- 2013-01-15
Re: On hacking from the outside -- Dragonized -- 2013-01-15
Re: On hacking from the outside -- San Migs -- 2013-01-15
Re: On hacking from the outside -- Dragonized -- 2013-01-15
Re: On hacking from the outside -- foxy -- 2013-01-15
Re: On hacking from the outside -- San Migs -- 2013-01-21
Re: On hacking from the outside -- foxy -- 2013-01-21
Re: On hacking from the outside -- Dragonized -- 2013-01-15
Re: On hacking from the outside -- ASTF -- 2013-01-16
Re: On hacking from the outside -- Dragonized -- 2013-01-17
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