@tryptameanie 982872 wrote:
You bastard GL, you worked for the government?
Even today about 40% of me technically belongs to the NHS (to keep the computers working, not as an experimental subject)
I wouldn’t work for Whitehall today with todays muppets in charge – maybe if Corbyn got in I’d reconsider if the job was for anything useful although even if they renationalised British Telecom paid me double it would still take a lot of persuasion.
To be fair the Civil Service were the only ones who would employ me after a taking a year out helping the squatters (which I still carried on doing even afterwards) and I did help sort out some useful stuff there. It was also why the cops couldn’t prove I was training the cat in surveillance techniques as I had a 100% legit alibi; I’d even been discussing my plans to start meowing with the cat myself with two official govt zoologists (the Profs said it was a perfectly valid experiment and some of their colleagues did the same).
I’d also tell them about any interesting creatures I noticed whilst out cycling or wandering around rave sites; even saw a real black adder in South Oxfordshire.
– in early 2000s I did turn down a transfer to “somewhere in the West of England” – I told them I’d be perfectly happy to stay with Defra and help København count the bears and other wildlife but “this time round Tony has made a balls up in the Middle East and what he does today is going to bite us all in the arse 10 or so years later”.
