. . . . and then there's this chap who works in the maintenance team. Only a workman you know, but in his lunchhour he plays this really "ethnic" sort of music on some sort of primitive flute sort of thingy. He's really quite good at it. Shame no one ever taught him to play properly you know . . . I bet he could have been quite good with the right training . . . .
Some of us in Durham know a chap who worked in that sort of capacity in a fruity theological college here back in the Seventies.
He soon acquired a working knowledge of its inmates and a cordial detestation of most of them, because they threw bread rolls at him and regarded him as a curiosity.
Ensconced in his cubby-hole, like some hermit in a c18 folly, he devoted himself to turning the college plumbing into bits of flute. He regularly plays one of the results.
The Principal then was like Father Jack, only he was large, at the height of his powers and running the place. He was another eccentric, and therefore OK. Actually he was totally bonkers, but that was still OK.
The next one was a bit of a p*llock and wanted to Clean The Place Up, so our friend fled or got turfed out. This Principal shortly had to get out too, due to money irregularities. Maybe this was the Curse of Cedric. The next Principal turned out to be a thoroughgoing impostor with a sheaf of bogus degrees.
This ridiculous college was eventually ploughed with salt and normalised. It may or may not still house a minority of students who believe they are the true King of Britain on account of escapades of Charles the Second. It used to.
I would offer a re-look at the original advertisement; remember, this is for the maintenance team on what is now quite an old building in an area where there is no local cheap housing. So, both, you would be worked off your feet, and, it would involve expensive housing or a long commute.
Seriously.
Even after all the jokes.
Maintenance Officer RCM
Maintenance Officer RCM
Nice little number this job:
http://www.rcm.ac.uk/?pg=1728&path=7159
# Posted on February 25th 2010 by Rudall the time
Re: Maintenance Officer RCM
25k to look after a conservatory?
# Posted on February 25th 2010 by gam
Re: Maintenance Officer RCM
Here's one possible applicant:
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/3103
# Posted on February 25th 2010 by Mix O'Lydian
Re: Maintenance Officer RCM
. . . . and then there's this chap who works in the maintenance team. Only a workman you know, but in his lunchhour he plays this really "ethnic" sort of music on some sort of primitive flute sort of thingy. He's really quite good at it. Shame no one ever taught him to play properly you know . . . I bet he could have been quite good with the right training . . . .
# Posted on February 25th 2010 by showaddydadito
Re: Maintenance Officer RCM
Some of us in Durham know a chap who worked in that sort of capacity in a fruity theological college here back in the Seventies.
He soon acquired a working knowledge of its inmates and a cordial detestation of most of them, because they threw bread rolls at him and regarded him as a curiosity.
Ensconced in his cubby-hole, like some hermit in a c18 folly, he devoted himself to turning the college plumbing into bits of flute. He regularly plays one of the results.
# Posted on February 25th 2010 by nicholas
Re: Maintenance Officer RCM
The Principal then was like Father Jack, only he was large, at the height of his powers and running the place. He was another eccentric, and therefore OK. Actually he was totally bonkers, but that was still OK.
The next one was a bit of a p*llock and wanted to Clean The Place Up, so our friend fled or got turfed out. This Principal shortly had to get out too, due to money irregularities. Maybe this was the Curse of Cedric. The next Principal turned out to be a thoroughgoing impostor with a sheaf of bogus degrees.
This ridiculous college was eventually ploughed with salt and normalised. It may or may not still house a minority of students who believe they are the true King of Britain on account of escapades of Charles the Second. It used to.
# Posted on February 25th 2010 by nicholas
Re: Maintenance Officer RCM
I would offer a re-look at the original advertisement; remember, this is for the maintenance team on what is now quite an old building in an area where there is no local cheap housing. So, both, you would be worked off your feet, and, it would involve expensive housing or a long commute.
Seriously.
Even after all the jokes.
# Posted on February 27th 2010 by Guernsey Pete
Re: Maintenance Officer RCM
Trust London to bite you in the bum.
# Posted on February 27th 2010 by nicholas
Re: Maintenance Officer RCM
You weren't expect a cushy job out of this, were you ?
# Posted on February 27th 2010 by Guernsey Pete