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The bike test that shows what we're really like at work
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Posted 11 years ago #
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The idea could have been extended to include caring professions and empathetic, considerate cyclists. Not sure what professional traits are displayed by audaxers or people who ride more unusual bikes.
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Reused, too - I'd definitely read it somewhere else before!
Posted 11 years ago # -
I've always fancied you can tell a bit about a person by how and what they cycle.
Are you the sort of person who faced with a hundred mile cycle starts looking for a group to keep them company and help with the work or are you the kind of person who thinks for 7 hours of peace and quiet I'll happily do all the work or who relishes the challenge of pushing into the wind for a day probably on a fixed with ice tyres on. A “team player”, a “lone thinker” or a masochist...
Posted 11 years ago # -
The first had his right trouser leg rolled up to reveal a meaty calf.
Such resourcefulness in the absence of a clip impressed me - I'd hire him as a problem solver.
Really? I mean really?
She is very easily impressed.
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It was only two months later she realised he only rolled his trouser leg up because he'd seen a messenger doing it and he was trying desperately to be hip. She should have realised that the strange moustache and carrot-top jeans actually meant that rather than being a problem solver he simply peppered meetings with soundbites and references to bands that she was sure he was making up. He did make good coffee though.
Do you think having mudguards on the bike for when it rains is problem solving?
Posted 11 years ago # -
What a pile of "cycling's popular, isn't it? Can we have a few more pointless filler articles about cycling please?".
Posted 11 years ago # -
[i]Reused, too - I'd definitely read it somewhere else before![/]
Yes. Was on the FT website last month.
Reduce, reuse, recycle.
Posted 11 years ago # -
Journalists are busy people, what with having to listen to all those recordings of other people's phone conversations and everything. So once one of them writes a piece about the cycling behaviours of bank employees then its to be expected that it will get reused. Or am I making a generalisation ?
Posted 11 years ago # -
Lucy Kellaway is a good writer and the piece was well written, if light. It isn't her fault it appears on the front page of a BBC website.
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He did make good coffee though.
Lol. He must have had a gear grinder then. ;-)
Posted 11 years ago # -
"Lucy Kellaway is a good writer and the piece was well written, if light. It isn't her fault it appears on the front page of a BBC website."
Good writer, yes. Well written, in the sense that it 'read well', yes, but... Light, which includes making some odd assumptions. Certainly not her fault where it appears on the site. It does feel like a bit of a lazy (on behalf of the requester) 'give us a story about cycling, anything about cycling' piece. Can't blame Lucy for taking the gig when you're offered cash for it.
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