And so the End of 2008 Awards beanfeast took place last night in sunny Hammersmith, west London.<\/p>\n
Of the 750 staff employed about 680 turned up. Many wore glittering evening dresses which were immaculately accessorised – Steve, Darren and Kevin are worth highlighting for their efforts in the glitzy glamour off-the-shoulder stakes.<\/p>\n
The red carpet was rolled out; the limousines (not French cows!) rolled up and discharged their precious cargoes in to a hail of retina-burning flashlight photography.<\/p>\n
Once the meal had been eaten and cleared away the awards ceremony began.<\/p>\n
The evening began with the lower-key awards and gradually built to a climax with the eagerly awaited, more highly prized presentations.<\/p>\n
Runner up in the category: Best Use of Chaos Theory in a Business Case<\/strong> Winner in the category: Best Use of Chaos Theory in a Business Case<\/strong> Most Imaginative Project Implementation Document<\/strong> Best Use of Creativity in Performance Indicators<\/strong> Most Subtle Use of the Word Aardvark in a Team Meeting<\/strong> Highest Scoring Aggregated Management Bingo<\/strong> And then we came to the coveted Top Table awards which were presented by the CEO.<\/p>\n Most Stubborn Floater<\/strong> Best Smell in Trap Two<\/strong> Most Consistently Late Meeting Attendee<\/strong> Shortest Skirt<\/strong> Best Poker Hand<\/strong> Longest Snot Bunny in a Meeting<\/strong> Most Times Observed with a Finger in a Nostril<\/strong> Best Hangover<\/strong> Best Sleep in a Meeting<\/strong> Best Use of Irony<\/strong> Best Supporting Role And finally…<\/p>\n Best Comedy B<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" And so the End of 2008 Awards beanfeast took place last night in sunny Hammersmith, west London. Of the 750 staff employed about 680 turned<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nCharles Stanhope with; A project to prove the existence of alien lifeforms<\/em> in traffic signalling systems on the Brixton High Street<\/p>\n
\nCharles Stanhope with; A project to prove the existence of self-developing artificial intelligence<\/em> in traffic signalling systems on the Brixton High Street<\/p>\n
\nJacki Inverness with the; CRM Is Fun!<\/em> project<\/p>\n
\nSharon Orme with; Read Them and Weep Boys<\/p>\n
\nIzzy Ziba with; Well it’s one thing for you to sit back and do nothing but I can assure you that our supplier is doing lots of very Aard Vark to meet these deadlines…<\/em><\/p>\n
\nMike Flex with his groundbreaking;\u00a01,018 points<\/p>\n
\nDick van den Rose<\/p>\n
\nHarriet Elms (second year running)<\/p>\n
\nMary Osborne, Aug – Dec 2008 (and counting)<\/p>\n
\nDave Thomas; November 2008<\/p>\n
\nKim Guan Chong; Full House, Aces over Kings, September 2008 – hand winnings \u00a3274.14p<\/p>\n
\nKaren Richards; 8.14cm<\/p>\n
\nKaren Richards; 46<\/p>\n
\nSimon Green;\u00c2\u00a0 14th – 23rd November (inclusive)<\/p>\n
\nVincenzo Giovanni<\/p>\n
\nSally Masters with; Well that sounds nice and simple. Would you like us to do it this week?<\/em>‘<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>The Bar in the Pub<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Brennig Jones (who else?)<\/p>\n