This is why I couldn't stay in retail - the scripting!

And why we were rejected for a mortgage application: the mortgage advisor and the manager said that they would lend to us, would lend more than the computer said (which we didn't need), but as "computer said no" they had to go with it (because I didn't have 3 months' worth of payslips).

DH is very dissatisfied with all the computer stuff at work - they don't want a thinking engineer, they want a monkey who can push buttons. And it annoys him.

It's also why I'm now a bit dissatisfied with work: I need to write my own scripts and stick to them. I can't go off on a tangent. I plan them as loosly as possible because I hate having to tell people their questions are off-script so I won't answer them.

I'm a chemistry teacher who has included the Napoleanic wars, science-fiction films and religious festivities in recent classes (albeit briefly when no-one was watching). I don't get how science can be taught in isolation and to a script without killing enthusiasm for the subject.

Then we wonder why countries whose industry leaders do think do better than we do in the world market.