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[Andy in Germany]

I once had something like this sprang on me in an interview complete with being given flip chart paper , pen and 10 mins thinking time.

I think that's the point I'd tell them to find another applicant, but I'm aware the job market here works very differently to the UK.

 

[DCLane]

This afternoon I went on a brief ride and, as I've been living in the area for 25 years but haven't visited, climbed up to Castle Hill near Huddersfield . My overall view was 'decidly unimpressed'. Particularly as I'd got to it via the steepest route.

But ... someone had clearly been throwing coins off the top. I found 21p, a pair of glasses (left on the wall nearby) and this odd coin:

Any clues? - solved below by two CC'ers. Unfortunately it wasn't worth much.

 

[Mike_P]

Clueless managers conducting interviews already having made up their mind regardless of what is said is the problem with many interviews. Especially when it's a restructure.

Last restructure I had interview for two jobs completely different which I failed to gain either being in a near complete state of confusion on how to answer for one job without being negative to the other.

Then an interview for what was basically my old job that had been axed in the previous restructure 7 years before in which it was that obvious they had made up their mind before the interview not one single answer I gave resulted in any response other than the next question. Admin looked at me gone out when I reappeared so quickly.

Another restructure looming. Might be time to retire.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Today I rode to the lowest land point in Great Britain. Not far from @HLaB

 

[Illaveago]

Here is the Lotus 49 that was at Castle combe yesterday.

 

[oldwheels]

Dreadful day of wind and pouring rain.
MV Isle of Mull decided to make an early run for Oban taking whatever vehicles had turned up.
At least we got a useful text and I paraphrase " get here within the next 15 minutes and we go regardless of timetable". No further sailings today.
Still windy for the next few days and some have been causing confusion by posting that there is a massive vehicle queue at Lochaline.
In fact there was no queue there but on the Mull side at Fishnish there was a massive queue of people trying to escape.
Not a route I would currently want to travel as we have to go by Fort William adding 40 tortuous miles to an already overstretched route.

 

[tom73]

This afternoon I went on a brief ride and, as I've been living in the area for 25 years but haven't visited, climbed up to Castle Hill near Huddersfield . My overall view was 'decidly unimpressed'. Particularly as I'd got to it via the steepest route.

But ... someone had clearly been throwing coins off the top. I found 21p, a pair of glasses (left on the wall nearby) and this odd coin:

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Any clues?

i've rode past it a few times and been on walks around the area very near it geocaching. But never been up to it or inside it.
As for the coin it looks like a Thailand baht.

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[Andy in Germany]

This afternoon I went on a brief ride and, as I've been living in the area for 25 years but haven't visited, climbed up to Castle Hill near Huddersfield . My overall view was 'decidly unimpressed'. Particularly as I'd got to it via the steepest route.

But ... someone had clearly been throwing coins off the top. I found 21p, a pair of glasses (left on the wall nearby) and this odd coin:

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Any clues?

Thailand?

 

[Andy in Germany]

Clueless managers conducting interviews already having made up their mind regardless of what is said is the problem with many interviews. Especially when it's a restructure.

Last restructure I had interview for two jobs completely different which I failed to gain either being in a near complete state of confusion on how to answer for one job without being negative to the other.

Then an interview for what was basically my old job that had been axed in the previous restructure 7 years before in which it was that obvious they had made up their mind before the interview not one single answer I gave resulted in any response other than the next question. Admin looked at me gone out when I reappeared so quickly.

Another restructure looming. Might be time to retire.

Seems a rather expensive and unproductive process for the company.

 

[tom73]

Seems a rather expensive and unproductive process for the company.

It's sadly very common in the shifting sand of funding in public sector. Nearly every year we had a one restructure or another reapplying for your current job was part of the course.

 

[Andy in Germany]

It's sadly very common in the shifting sand of funding in public sector. Nearly every year we had a one restructure or another reapplying for your current job was part of the course.

"Deckchairs on the Titanic" comes to mind.

 

[Speicher]

Sounds like a 'Field Vole' to me. I may be wrong though.

Thank you

I have looked up Field Vole on https://www.mammal.org.uk/species-hub/full-species-hub/discover-mammals/species-field-vole/

It certainly looks very similar.

 

[tom73]

"Deckchairs on the Titanic" comes to mind.

Over seen by expensive external bean counters and management consultants. Each time told budgets ect been checked by them so all is well. Can't be that good as every year they repeated it.

 

[DCLane]

Well done @tom73 & @Andy in Germany

It appears to be a 2 Baht coin from Thailand. Worth about 4.5 pence. I'll not get rich on that, but it makes 25.5p found, which helped pay for my coffee and cake in the lovely The Turntable café in Huddersfield.

 

[classic33]

i've rode past it a few times and been on walks around the area very near it geocaching. But never been up to it or inside it.
As for the coin it looks like a Thailand baht.

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Not an Ilkley Moor Baht?