• 24 Apr 2025, 5:42 p.m.

    For the playoffs I was living in London, but I'm now up North, so very different routine for me.

    Our office have started tracking attendance using the gate we have to beep in at, so I'm going to swing by there first thing and beep my card at 10am before hitting the pubs. Keep my stats up.

  • 24 Apr 2025, 6:10 p.m.

    Good 'work'. Have you considered training a pigeon, or perhaps a rat, for these purposes?

    Not me. I am the worst fan. Keep up!

  • 24 Apr 2025, 6:23 p.m.

    So, not going to the game then?

  • 24 Apr 2025, 6:26 p.m.

    Think we are heading to Kilburn area so different to the play off final. If I see Jim's unicycle outside a pub we may change our plans though.

    I think we may be unbeaten on Sundays at Wembley

  • 24 Apr 2025, 6:33 p.m.

    Going in on a Sunday is going to look well suspicious.

  • 24 Apr 2025, 6:35 p.m.

    You've been on here long enough to know I wouldn't be going to the cockney smog pit for any other reason. I'm in charge of trains, someone else is in charge of Madri venues.

  • 24 Apr 2025, 6:51 p.m.

    Not a chance that anyone is going to dig into the data that much. There's just a dashboard where it shows how many days we've been in the office each month. It's fed from a monthly download of the gate data, passed to HR, then loaded in.

    Honestly the 2-3 levels of management above me couldn't give a monkeys. My immediate boss has even offered to keep swipe my pass a couple of times each week as she's very anti the level of monitoring - but that didn't seem like a good idea so I politely declined.

    It might be that they filter out weekends from the data, but this will be a good test of it. It's only just gone live so nobody seems to know.

  • 24 Apr 2025, 6:52 p.m.

    Ignore. Quote function dipshittery happened.

  • 24 Apr 2025, 6:52 p.m.

    One of my old haunts. Where are you planning? There are (well there used to be) a good number of slightly rough Irish pubs along the high street, with 1-2 slightly nicer places.

  • 24 Apr 2025, 6:54 p.m.

    I hope there's not a fire alarm or somesuch.

    Looking forward to Jim's 'disciplinary at work' thread in 6 months or so.

  • 24 Apr 2025, 7:04 p.m.

    Playing it by ear. Trying to strike a balance between a few beers and food with a bit of atmosphere vs standing toe to toe drinking Madri out of a plastic cup while singing sweet Caroline with ingo.

  • 24 Apr 2025, 7:17 p.m.

    Caroline.

  • 24 Apr 2025, 9:06 p.m.

    Gay bars or strip clubs (or both)?

  • 24 Apr 2025, 10:14 p.m.

    Jim in “using barriers correctly” shocker.

    I don’t think anyone else is being tracked. They just know your propensity for jumping.

  • 25 Apr 2025, 11:10 a.m.

    Talksport just saying City have sold 26k of their 34k allocation.