HoardingWillenium says: I had to bring some floppy disks into work which I had been saving for 10 years "in case I might need them". Tell us when your hoarding skills have come in useful (or not, as the case may be)
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 3 May 2012, 14:03)
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Foreign pressWhile teaching Spanish at an FE college, I rose to the dizzy heights of Head of Languages. The department had its own resources centre (otherwise known as a library), and had subscriptions to Le Monde, El Pais and Der Speigel going back at least 10 years. Not only had no one ever had a clear out, staff were horrified when I even suggested doing such a thing. Some insisted they would go through the pile of papers and cut out interesting articles "when they had time".
I had to insist that we were a languages department, not a history department, and no one was going to motivate 21st century A-level students with articles on Reagan and Gorbachev in French. When I finally unilaterally binned everything that was more yellow than white, no one batted an eyelid.
(, Mon 7 May 2012, 20:26, Reply)
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