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burntcopperThis time, venue: BMA. Which is very nice, but the big hall we were in is so not that conducive to giving talks - apparently you can hear bugger all at the back, and anything on the screen? Hah.
Not actually that bad this time. Started with the videos we'd done, which varied from deeply odd to boring. Our team went for safe, short, and not at all memorable aside from no-one embarassing themselves and no-one being afflicted with mumbling. And so much shorter and attention-getting than the usual speech from senior manager. To the point that we were running ten minutes early. And then came the Springer guy... who although it was interesting at the beginning, hadn't edited his speech for time and content, and abused powerpoint. Everyone was zombied by the end of it which ended up being 20 minutes over. Fortunately, it was followed by some bloke talking about companies who were known for interesting/leader of the field innovations in their areas. Which he'd chosen by relevance to audience, (Lego, Apple, Google) so everyone was going 'ooooo'.
Lunch : oh dear. catering company fail. it was seriously tasty, but they hadn't thought to give a veggie/halal/kosher/allergies variation. Cue one of the Jewish girls going 'I can't eat anything on this plate. It's got shellfish in it.'
Afternoon. Where we decided that the team building exercise, although surreal and interesting, was grounds for deaths. We were given a box of props and made to come up with plays about open access/review process/etc. using all the props. Some have been scarred onto people's brains. We say nothing about the nappy and bib one lot were forced to use. Yours truly stupidly picked up the pink sparkly skipping rope and tried it out to see if it was long enough for a grown-up to skip with. MISTAKE. Cue everyone turning on me with shit-eating grins and going 'We have our firstvictim actor.' BASTARDS. Had to learn how to trip on cue. Which is seriously fucking difficult if you can skip. And no, the random skipping comments have not stopped since. Then a science paper talk which we weren't quite sure why it was included except for the bit about re-submitting an article post-reviewer comments, but the author was funny, clear, and won serious points for minimal and *useful* use of powerpoint.
After, adjourned to bowling place across the square, where much fun was had in the way of being very very silly - karaoke, bowling, pool, and ping-pong.
Not actually that bad this time. Started with the videos we'd done, which varied from deeply odd to boring. Our team went for safe, short, and not at all memorable aside from no-one embarassing themselves and no-one being afflicted with mumbling. And so much shorter and attention-getting than the usual speech from senior manager. To the point that we were running ten minutes early. And then came the Springer guy... who although it was interesting at the beginning, hadn't edited his speech for time and content, and abused powerpoint. Everyone was zombied by the end of it which ended up being 20 minutes over. Fortunately, it was followed by some bloke talking about companies who were known for interesting/leader of the field innovations in their areas. Which he'd chosen by relevance to audience, (Lego, Apple, Google) so everyone was going 'ooooo'.
Lunch : oh dear. catering company fail. it was seriously tasty, but they hadn't thought to give a veggie/halal/kosher/allergies variation. Cue one of the Jewish girls going 'I can't eat anything on this plate. It's got shellfish in it.'
Afternoon. Where we decided that the team building exercise, although surreal and interesting, was grounds for deaths. We were given a box of props and made to come up with plays about open access/review process/etc. using all the props. Some have been scarred onto people's brains. We say nothing about the nappy and bib one lot were forced to use. Yours truly stupidly picked up the pink sparkly skipping rope and tried it out to see if it was long enough for a grown-up to skip with. MISTAKE. Cue everyone turning on me with shit-eating grins and going 'We have our first
After, adjourned to bowling place across the square, where much fun was had in the way of being very very silly - karaoke, bowling, pool, and ping-pong.
