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I worked for BP for a while (well, as a contracted coder) and I got quite used to the UK spell check correcting everything to its idiom. Everything seemed wrong
by aksss 3y ago
I worked for BP for a while (well, as a contracted coder) and I got quite used to the UK spell check correcting everything to its idiom. Everything seemed wrong once I returned a world that dismissed the value of the letter 'U' and preferred the letter 'Z' over 'S'. Also missed the normalizing of drinking beer at lunch.
- denton-scratch 3y ago> Also missed the normalizing of drinking beer at lunch. Perhaps you're an old-timer? I worked in the city in the early 80s; lunch in the pub was routine, and sometimes required. By the end of the 80s, that was at best frowned on. Over the last 20 years, having alcohol on your breath after lunch would have been a disciplinary issue, unless you were entertaining a client, at least in the places I worked.
- aksss 3y agoIt's likely because I was in the exploration frontier of Alaska. This was late nineties, probably an operation run by people who worked in the city in the '80's and who could continue the old ways far away from the social glare of the head office. :D