whats your most memorable moment from your working life?

Playing devils advocate he could have been about to turn 20, and only been a day into his second deployment. If you can deploy at 18 there could have been a year between his dates.

Would this not have given the correct timeframe?
 
Definite possibility and even just one tour deserves mucho respect!

I did Basra from Aug 2007 when it was metal rain EVERY day :( They say that period was the biggest onslaught against UK troops of Indirect fire since WWII!!!

But it would be interesting to see tour dates and who the OP was out there with.

On a side note, before all this pink and fluffy stuff ;) I deployed to Op Granby in 91 - I had my 18th birthday someway into the tour - no idea how I was allowed to deploy!!
 
I nearly went to Basra as a contractor. Morally wrong perhaps, but very lucrative.

I didn't go in the end.
 
Being made redundant 10 years ago and walking out with a huge wad in lieu of 3 months notice. Everyone else had to work their notice...
It paid off in the end to be a militant ****! ;):D
 
Gilly said:
I nearly went to Basra as a contractor. Morally wrong perhaps, but very lucrative.

I didn't go in the end.
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My mate has been working as a contractor for the past couple of years. He's holed up In Irbil at the moment and all the contractors within his company have been withdrawn from Bagdad. He was in Mosul on his last stint and reckoned it was more than a tad edgy. Big money though; which is why I can't understand why we've just sent em £5 million in aid. 3 things they are not short of are money, oil and bullets.
 
I think I talked myself out of going by my own reaction to people that were there.

Those that were fighting because they had been told they had to, and those that were volunteers looking to help native populace, had my sympathy if and when something happened to them. Those that were milking the whole situation did not, and that would have been me!

I try to curb my own hypocracy wherever I find it :)
 
I work in I.T. Systems Support.

Got a call one day from the call floor, from a Team Leader who thought there was a bomb attached to the bottom of her desk and wondered if I would take a look...

Turns out somebody had ripped the PCB from one of those talking birthday cards and stuck it to the underside of her desk with chewing gum!!!
 
Installing servers to a 'adult' model agency of which many models were there in London. Of which, going out for drinks with them after. One of the best nights of my life that was... And working days.

My manager and I couldn't even put into words how good it was when we got back the following day.

Oh how I will never forget that night :P Glad we got separate hotel rooms.
 
Mirmo said:
Awkward...
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Sorry completely forgot about this thread.
But thanks for calling me out I'm totally the kinda guy who gets kicks out of making up stories on tinternet.

I joined at 16 smartass as a boy soldier at afc harrogate for 1 year before completing phase two combat infantry training at Catterick.

I was in Basra on op telic 7.Feb 2006.I was shipped up to Baghdad two months into tour.
I was back out in Basra on telic 10 with 2rw (volunteered to go out as they were undermanned)in 2007 which was one of the deadliest tours to date and lost 5 men from our Battalion alone including two of my fellow Black watch volunteers and Craig Barber in my Platoon.

No swearing

Gilly
 
Muzza1875 said:
Sorry completely forgot about this thread.
But thanks for calling me out I'm totally the kinda guy who gets kicks out of making up stories on tinternet.

I joined at 16 smartass as a boy soldier at afc harrogate for 1 year before completing phase two combat infantry training at Catterick.

I was in Basra on op telic 7.Feb 2006.I was shipped up to Baghdad two months into tour.
I was back out in Basra on telic 10 with 2rw (volunteered to go out as they were undermanned)in 2007 which was one of the deadliest tours to date and lost 5 men from our Battalion alone including two of my fellow Black watch volunteers and Craig Barber in my Platoon.
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Don't rise to the know it alls. They have nothing better to do.

Thanks for your service mate :)
 
Even more awkward now.

My most memorable day..?

Realising that my hours are different to most other peoples, meaning that after my boss has gone home I can walk out early. :rolleyes:
 
My old boss hiring someone at a massively inflated rate because he 'wanted to get someone good' and then confiding in me 2 days later that he had made a mistake.

2 weeks later he fired the guy, who then sat in the kitchen all day and refused to leave. My boss told me to physically remove him from the building despite the fact that he spent all his time bodybuilding and was far better equipped for such a task.
 
The day the server room flooded, after the Old Nortel telephone system had dried out(fortuantely it took the brunt of the flood and protected the rest of the servers) I had to get in there and clean any gunk out with a toothbrush surprisingly it still works today :p
 
The Dread Pirate said:
The day the server room flooded, after the Old Nortel telephone system had dried out(fortuantely it took the brunt of the flood and protected the rest of the servers) I had to get in there and clean any gunk out with a toothbrush surprisingly it still works today :p
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Hahahaha! Brilliant! We had a tiny old server room in one of my past jobs, and the AC unit had failed and the over flow pipe (I assume that's what it is) had blocked or something and over the weekend, the server room was transformed into a indoor swimming pool.

The area under the floor was full and water had been pouring out of the room. Thus resulting in most of the racks being in touched. But it was still a sight to see as all the boards had been lifted up and gathered in one corner. So it looked like a bunch of floating racks above water lol.
 
Very!

And the guy who ACTUALLY questioned the honesty of Mr Offensive is staying suspiciously quiet lol.
 
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