Work Surprise

[kustard (Simon)]

As you may or may not know (or remember or even care), I recently left work. In the last week of work I hurt my back and took time off with the proviso that I return to work for a couple of days to perform a "handover".

Well today I was in work and they threw me a "leaving" party. I kinda knew they would but though it would be tomorrow.

Anyway, after a nice lunch they presented me with a gift...


... not a watch...


... not a pen...


... but a 16GB WiFi iPad!!!

In the past 9 months I've gone from having no apple products to now having 3!

It was a big surprise and I was quite blown away. Am currently playing around with it, SkyVoyager and DSS Browser run beautifully on it... *drool*

[Matt Wastell (Matt)]

Excellent farewell!

[dugnsuz (Doug)]

RESULT!!!
Nice one Simon - sorry to hear about your back injury though.
Doug

[Octane (Humayun)]

iPad for great justice.

Congrats, mate.

H

[kustard (Simon)]

Thanks guys, not bad for 22 years of service

Thanks Doug, the back is a lot better now thanks to a few weeks resting and vegging. I did it at an astro open night funnily enough, I lifted and twisted when setting up my scope even though I don't remember doing it differently from how I normally lift it, legs bent, back straight and no sidewards twisting.

[Kevnool (Kev)]

Great parting gift Simon.
Must still be in shock after that.
Hope all goes well in the future.
Cheers Kev.

[Jen]

Wooohooo on ya buddy maybe if i leave work i might get one of those

[Barrykgerdes]

Hi Simon
You must have been a good employee (or were they glad to get rid of you). Congrats on your retirement?.

When I left work 20 years ago after 25 years they gave me a party, The standard aerial picture of the place (not a gold watch and chain), a golf bag and accessories.

In my retirement speech I made the mistake of volunteering for some part time work(big mistake). They took me up on that so I worked part time for another two years.

Then I got another leaving party and more golf accessories

I also got called back for a couple of three month periods on contract work. That was good money!

Barry

[mozzie (Peter)]

nice going what a nice leaving gift
those employees that do the wright thing to there bosses are sometimes rewarded!!!!

[lacad01 (Adam)]

Quite a thoughtful and useful going away presi, good stuff. Hope you're on the mend

[kustard (Simon)]

Thanks guys, back is almost back to normal, no heavy lifting yet but I don't have anything heavy that needs lifting

Hehe Barry, they've asked me to do some contract work for them which I may take up the offer if I don't end up finding another job before Christmas. A bit of extra cash is always handy. I hope you liked golf