Helen Griffiths {Capgemini} Rising Star

Love Ear Hustle! Nigel has a voice I could listen to all day. Do you listen to any other true crime podcasts? I could recommend a few...(and i'll take any recommendations you have too! 😊)

WOW you're organised @Andy - PTC Redundant ! I didn't go down the Trello route, but I did get all my Christmas shopping done by the end of October for the first time ever - I'm usually one of the ones desperately trying to find 'things' in the shops the days before Christmas when the good stuff has gone. I started planning…

It's OK that I read BRIAN BLESSED in BRIAN BLESSED's voice, isn't it? 

Most famous person i've met is Rupert Grint (most famous as being Harry Potter's best friend) - he was really lovely. I've met lots of 'celebs' that work for the BBC - David Dickinson (on more than one occasion), Jeremy Paxman, a couple that do a show called Homes under the Hammer etc. None that match yours though @Monique…

Happy belated birthday for Friday! 

My friend used to think it was hilarious to make me watch horror films when I was a teenager. Jeepers creepers still gives me the creeps. My sister lives about 20 miles from me and depending on which way I come home, there are fields. I kid you not, I do not look into the fields. I'm 33. This is nearly 20 years of torture.…

Oh gosh! It's definitely worse when your mind is playing tricks on you and you're more sensitive to ANY noise. I'm like that when i'm in the house by myself. Any sort of noise and i've got to find the source - whether I like the consequences or not 🕵🏻‍♀️

What was your neighbour doing in your cellar?! How did she get in there?! 😄

The worst, and it continues. There's no getting away from it. The clocks went back an hour in the UK last weekend, who wants an extra hour of 2020?! Not me...!

LOVE THIS! Reminds me of the time I was around my friends house and it was the first time I watched Scream. You know at the very beginning when you first see him? My friends electricity cut out at that very moment. I ran faster then I could imagine outside and back to my house. Her parents thought it was hilarious, me? Not…

As I was reading your story (which is excellently written!) I imagined it would look like that, with some small office off one of the corridors. Places of nightmares!

Voices?! Oh no. Would not eat at that McD's if you paid me (when it was open of course!)

@Monique vdB my Friday fun is up! 🎃👻

If I had to pick someone to play me, it would either be Melissa McCarthy or Rebel Wilson. Let's hope their British accents are up to par 😊

Question is, do you go for someone who looks like you, or someone you feel would represent your personality (or both if you're lucky enough...) This is a lot of thinking for a Friday afternoon 

Seems all drawbacks are overruled by the lovely Peggy 😍 I've been working from home for the last six months, and I had the same struggles in the beginning. Although, quickly overcome by plugging my spare TV into my laptop with a HDMI cable - works wonders! We could order monitors through our Stores, but they're not as wide…

Completely agree @Kat Warner - if someone else is making it, i'm not that fussy...and it always tastes better. Here's a question that stirs debate in the office - milk in first, or after? I'm an after person, but whilst the tea is still brewing (which also causes looks of 🤨)...but it's how I like it. Milk before water is…

I'm with your Mom 😁 milkier the better.

I don't like the smell, and therefore the taste, of coffee. I've seen the fancy frapalatachino's you can get with the nice syrups - but I just can't bring myself to drink it. It has to be a nice cuppa tea - medium brew, milky, no sugar (but not Yorkshire tea, that's too strong). In a morning, it goes in the bowl cup -…

No problem Forgot to mention, if your teams don't currently use Jira and want to learn the basics, check out the free Atlassian University training offerings here (https://training.atlassian.com/free-training-catalog). These are really great for those who don't have a lot of time, but want to understand a concept of Jira…

Hi @William Naughton Have you thought about running an internal Atlassian User Group? I run our internal Capgemini Atlassian User Groups, and they're great for showing casing the applications - not in a 'look at this Jira functionality' way, but in a sense of showcasing how to use the Atlassian applications to help your…

I tried making a 'crying tiger beef' dish the other week, and the relish included things like fish sauce (🤢), Worcester sauce (YUM!), spring onion...and coriander. It was absolutely vile. I tried to put on a brave face after convincing my boyfriend it was nice (I didn't think it was too bad in the beginning) but I had to…

Hi @Najjar _Innovura_ It's difficult to define a specific job, given the many practices you learn through ITIL can be applied to most aspects of many job roles - in my opinion that is why most job descriptions within industry usually put ITIL as a 'desired' certification. If you start with ITIL4 Foundation, you'll touch on…

Boomerangs. Not the beautifully designed traditional Aboriginal hunting weapons - the Instagram video 'blips' that EVERYONE seems to share these days. I posted one once, hated it. Food wise...vegetables. Give me salad or fruit, and i'm fine. Veggies, as in by themselves on a Sunday Roast? No thank you. My adult-self…

Agreed! What's your favourite JSD plugin @Gavin Barnes ?

It seemed to be a 'thing' here in the UK, that when lockdown hit, everyone hit their gardens. As we continued at work as normal (which i'm super grateful for!) I was late to the party. I've never done any sort of gardening before - I have a few IKEA bought succulents around the house but as Andy said above, you can forget…

Any reality TV, and i'm not even embarrassed to say 🤣 We have a weekly quiz at work, and I was gutted I missed one two weeks ago as it had my specialist subject - The Kardashians. My ultimate ultimate guilty pleasure is true crime though. True crime anything. Currently reading the 'Mindhunter' book about the real people…

The weather sounds very British. However, coming from someone British, we've had a fab spell of sunshine recently - which is great for finishing work and getting out in the garden! Lockdown has been lifted slightly in England (not so much elsewhere around the UK), so we can now exercise as many times a day as we like, and…

David Attenborough. I find him absolutely fascinating. It's really hard to watch a nature documentary that isn't narrated or presented by him. All the places he's been, things he's seen - amazing!

Do you think people are more likely to work longer hours and get more done? - i.e. people's commute has been lessened from travelling to the office to a walk to another room, so they're using that time more productively? Personal opinion, but as people get more relaxed with working from home and a routine is formed, that…