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The man who mistook his job for a LOLcat

20 Jan 05:55am

Filed under: Ct, Employment, Jobs, Working

The English novelist Jerome K. Jerome was of the opinion that it is impossible to enjoy idling unless one has plenty of work to do.

“There is,” he said “no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one.”

What, one wonders, would Jerome have made of the case of “Developer Bob” whose heroic efforts at idling have apparently been the talk of American work places for the past few days.

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tez says:

06:14pm | 20/01/13

@ Duh; Don’t be such a dick, but has always not been, it is not only dictionarys that change but also grammar apparently. ‘‘In the past, English teachers used to preach that one should never start a sentence with conjunctions like and or but. Does this rule still apply today?’‘… Read more »
LJ Dots says:

04:25pm | 20/01/13

And I think Duh is correct here (although it still sounds a tad weird). Read more »

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