I doubt wether computacenter staff could really tell the difference between being there and video conferencing, in between all the dribbling and scuffed knuckles...

Its probably best they are kept locked in Birmingham..keeps the rest of us safe...


You're old fashioned.

If the travel opportunities are less abundant, maybe we'll see the travel whores abandon ship and get replaced by managers that actually get work done.
Yeah, traveling can be fun, to be sure, and in my little way I've had my share. But frankly, a good night out is just as well achieved without a plane, and I'm getting a bit old to content myself with bad beds in impersonal environments, along with the massive hangover necessary to put up with the blandness in the first place.

AH yes, the anal probes, foot wear exams, getting arrested for having only carry on baggage after coming through Heathrow... how romantic.

I never been there, I'd go for a lookabout.

Can't argue with that =)

What ever happened to perks of the job?

I wish I could agree that business travel of any sort is a real perk these days. Mr Hanson by the way is based in Computacenter Hatfield and spends most of his time there. I think you will find him practising what he preaches.

Sounds like a laugh, but I think the focus (of those kinds of cutbacks in general) is on precisely that issue you raise:

our surroundings are ****, and spending more money trying to escape that by using archaic and frankly also **** forms of travel, and therefore adding to why things are so utterly **** here in the first place, needs to be widely and openly acknowledged, in the vague hope that we can perhaps begin to have environments to live in that look nice, smell nice, are safe & pleasant to be about in, and - don't look like Birmingham.

I "love" (ie - HATE) the way places like Brummy try to claim they now look nicer...by getting yet more soul-less development projects, destined to be deserted in years to come also, built.

I want every built up area in the UK looking like the National Trust declared it a World Heritage Site. Everything else has to be converted to woodland or some kind of agroforestry / permaculture.