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11th August 2009, 07:11 PM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by lucy78green
I reduced the amount of time I spend here out of paranoia
Lucy
Just cos you're paranoid doesn't mean they're NOT all out to get you. Luckily I don't think I need to worry about employers knowing who I am (I'm not even IN archaeology at the moment), but I prefer to be able to say what I think without it affecting my professional relationships. I self-censor and I'm not rude - on the whole.....
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11th August 2009, 07:23 PM
I have been logging your absence Lucy.. and will send round some trained Badgers, to sit down with you and get you to consider the error of your ways!
Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.
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13th August 2009, 10:47 AM
Unfortunately in a past life (pre archaeology) I worked for the procurement executive of the MOD. I cannot tell you more other than I had to sign the Official Secrets Act (1986) and as such cannot divulge any information about my former job.
For some reason this included divulging any details contained in the act but as my name was on the top of the form I would appear to be legally forbidden to divulge it here or anywhere. Hence the pseudonym.
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13th August 2009, 10:54 AM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by amiable drudge
Quote:quote:Originally posted by oldgirl
I prefer to be able to comment on here without people automatically knowing who I am.
and besides, revealing my true identity would play havoc with my part-time job as a masked vigilante...
Oh no, you too? I seem to be getting through the pairs of tights too fast at the moment.....
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13th August 2009, 11:49 AM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by afarensis
Unfortunately in a past life (pre archaeology) I worked for the procurement executive of the MOD. I cannot tell you more other than I had to sign the Official Secrets Act (1986) and as such cannot divulge any information about my former job.
For some reason this included divulging any details contained in the act but as my name was on the top of the form I would appear to be legally forbidden to divulge it here or anywhere. Hence the pseudonym.
I worked for the DTI after I left school and had to sign the Official Secrets Act too. If you told anyone what was on the canteen menu, you'd breached it. Very stringent. So stringent in fact, that I'll probably have to kill anyone who reads this post now. Tough luck on all the anonymity-haters I guess... [xx(]
"I'm a time traveller. I point and laugh at archaeologists."
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13th August 2009, 02:31 PM
'and I recall in the olden days, when I had to sign the Official Secrets Act, you didn't actually get to see the terms of the Act itself, just a form saying that you understood that if you breached it...now that was secrecy!'
Wow that must have been fun
Im not sure now if I actually saw the act itself as it was a fairly long time ago (late 80s) but it was on the form that it mentions you couldn?t discuss the content of the piece of paper you were signing. I?ve probably just breached it now
Ironically due to the policy of need to know i didn?t actually know what it was I was building until years after I had left so i couldn?t have told the Russians anything even if I wanted to.
Actually I prefer to be anonymous so that I don?t have to think about the quality of what im posting.
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13th August 2009, 03:14 PM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by afarensis
'and I recall in the olden days, when I had to sign the Official Secrets Act, you didn't actually get to see the terms of the Act itself, just a form saying that you understood that if you breached it...now that was secrecy!'
Wow that must have been fun Im not sure now if I actually saw the act itself as it was a fairly long time ago (late 80s) but it was on the form that it mentions you couldn?t discuss the content of the piece of paper you were signing. I?ve probably just breached it now
Ironically due to the policy of need to know i didn?t actually know what it was I was building until years after I had left so i couldn?t have told the Russians anything even if I wanted to.
Actually I prefer to be anonymous so that I don?t have to think about the quality of what im posting.
Thinking about it, I signed it too (in 1990). And I gor 'negatively vetted' - always sounded rather more painful than it was......
Amiable drudge - Sounds lovely.... No chafing? Wash well? What colours can you get them in?
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13th August 2009, 05:15 PM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by amiable drudge
[quote][i]well, there's beige, then there's beige...and if i really want to wow 'em down the disco, i slink around in my lucky taupe pair...
They probably don't show the mud then, always a plus! [8D]
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14th August 2009, 10:28 AM
Even posties have to sign the official secrets act. I'm not sure why, they won't tell me.
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14th August 2009, 12:14 PM
You ar probably in beach of the officia serets act if you tell people that you have signed it. And as a rsult Mr Hosty is probaby in trouble under some of the recent "anti-terrrism" legislation for allowng yu to tell people ta youahve signed it on his forum - so, oder a consigment of orange boiler suits chaps and chapesss, extraordinary rendition proceedings coming up!!
(Mind you Dom Powlesland used to wear an orange boiler suit to dig at West Hes - very fetching particularly when he sprayed his air silver to go with it!!)
