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  • Lefen
  • May03 '06
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Leaving on a jetplane

Hay, so friday I'm going to conference in Crete for a week.

This trip promises to have all the fun of sitting on a plane next to my boss for 6 hours, staying at a remote hotel with no local nightlife (the internet told me so) and a full schedule of talks.

I'll be sure to make a little photoblog to post when I get back (you lucky ducks), but in the meantime, how do you guys cope with conferences?

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  • qwerty
  • May03 '06

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When I have one of my quarterly meetings I like to imagine that I'm on a saucy remote beach filled with hawt young waitresses and pretty beach meepes(oh yeah this is making me so hawt!!!!) even though I know that the room is full of bald bouncers discussing security procedure I get hard just day dreaming.

  • dent
  • May03 '06

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Liquor. That and thinking of my yearly review.

i make sure the first thing i do is put the hotel remote control into a ziplock bag. they ae the filthiest things you can ever touch.

HAHA, I can think of five more icky/delicious things, lighten up Mr. Hughes.

  • vasudeva
  • May03 '06

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Sometimes I make a point of leaving those five ickier things in hotel rooms, or at least wiping them on the pillows and toilet seat.

Well, maybe I don't.

But you don't know.

My worktravel must-have list:

  • Free broadband internet.
  • Free Breakfast (Holiday Inn Express yo).
  • Decent full-sized rental vehicle, preferably a truck to make donuts with.
  • A light schedule :).
  • Lots of vender freebies (this meep will save yr meep, dropping a meepload of goodies on the Bossdesk disguises the amount of work you didn't do).

Helpful hints to help you cope:

  • If you can, be a speaker during the seminar, once you get over the public speaking yuckiness you will discover the world of the VIP (and you will get a lot of your meep comped).
  • Reciepts, I cannot stress this enough, get all the reciepts you can meeping lay your hands on, even if they are not yours (PM L0ki, I understand he is the Ayatolla of rockandrola when it comes to reciepts).
  • Taxis are a great source of reciepts, and they are usually ALWAYS blank kaching
  • Don't be a meepgot, carry-on is your only option when flying.
  • Develop professional relationships with new people, don't hang exclusively with the meepers you know (ensuring that a stripper doesn't walk away with one of your new friends' wallet makes him indebted to you, like a wookie life debt).
  • Drink, alot.
  • Dance like no one is watching.

I hope this helps.

  • Gustaf
  • May04 '06

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You're going to crete? Make sure you take a yarn of wool and watch out for the Minotaur!

  • Lefen
  • May04 '06

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Looks like I could get a bus from the hotel to see the Palace of Knossos so that could be pretty cool, Gustaf :>

LK, thanks for the tips. If nothing else this trip might be a good oppertunity to meet some prospective new employers so we'll see how it goes.

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