General Chit Chat

[CrazyHorse]

Good housekeeping and a tidy desk saves lives.

[Montreal Wanderer]

Good housekeeping and a tidy desk saves lives.

Since you work in an installation capable of co-firing biomass, I would think one couldn't take enough precautions....

[CrazyHorse]

Biomass smiomass. It's just 1% peanut shells and the odd Albanian immigrant mixed with normal coal.

[Montreal Wanderer]

Biomass smiomass. It's just 1% peanut shells and the odd Albanian immigrant mixed with normal coal.

Ah, too few Albanians so not likely to solve the energy crisis then...

[Bruce Rioja]

We also have to wear blue overshoes when inside, we can't carry anything over 1kg without wearing gloves and nothing over 10kg at all. I also have to wear a high vis, hard hat and safety glasses when not inside and steel toe caps at all times. There's no lifting, running, making any mess or using the stairs without holding the hand rail. Oh and we have to reverse park in the car park. Y'know, just in case.

I'm not knocking it though. These precautions are here for everyone's health and well-being.....

Are they not more interested in what's coming out of the stack? They should be.

[boltonboris]

Sounds like you could fvck all these H&S dicks off and with the preposterous sums saved, your firm could, you know, employ people who don't need molly coddling...

Do they not trust the staff to not be idiots, or are the union a militant bunch of ambulance chasers?

[Gary the Enfield]

I took receipt of a new car on Monday. Nothing special (Mondeo Estate 1.6) but nice additions like integral sat nav, hands free phone, cruise control etc.

My beef? No spare wheel. According to our HR bods (morning Bobo) I am not competent to change the wheel as I haven't been trained. If I suffer a puncture/ blow out I must now inform the recovery firm who will tow me to the nearest garage for repair. That should be fun in mid-Wales at 7 in the evening. Or if I go abroad.

Now the car is designed to have a spare wheel. There is a well under the boot floor to accommodate it. Without the wheel the boot floor sags and so they have installed a rough cut piece of ply to fit over the well to support the floor.

TwoA few things:

I am 45 years old and have been changing tyres on my own car and my company car for the last 25 years.

As a lone adult male I can expect to wait up to 6 hours for recovery as single women or single women with children receive priority on emergency calls (justifiably imo)

If you need to find something to support the floor of the boot why not try, erm THE fecking THING IT'S DESIGNED TO HOLD? LIKE THE fecking SPARE WHEEL?

Stop treating me like a fecking child. We all have to die sometime and the reason we learn from our mistakes is that we're allowed to make them in the first place. I have a very healthy sense of self preservation and believe me when I say that if I think I'm in danger I will desist from that particular activity. If I don't realise I'm in danger well, that's Darwinian theory in practice isn't it?

[Lost Leopard Spot]

I took receipt of a new car on Monday. Nothing special (Mondeo Estate 1.6) but nice additions like integral sat nav, hands free phone, cruise control etc.

My beef? No spare wheel. According to our HR bods (morning Bobo) I am not competent to change the wheel as I haven't been trained. If I suffer a puncture/ blow out I must now inform the recovery firm who will tow me to the nearest garage for repair. That should be fun in mid-Wales at 7 in the evening. Or if I go abroad.

Now the car is designed to have a spare wheel. There is a well under the boot floor to accommodate it. Without the wheel the boot floor sags and so they have installed a rough cut piece of ply to fit over the well to support the floor.

TwoA few things:

I am 45 years old and have been changing tyres on my own car and my company car for the last 25 years.

As a lone adult male I can expect to wait up to 6 hours for recovery as single women or single women with children receive priority on emergency calls (justifiably imo)

If you need to find something to support the floor of the boot why not try, erm THE fecking THING IT'S DESIGNED TO HOLD? LIKE THE fecking SPARE WHEEL?

Stop treating me like a fecking child. We all have to die sometime and the reason we learn from our mistakes is that we're allowed to make them in the first place. I have a very healthy sense of self preservation and believe me when I say that if I think I'm in danger I will desist from that particular activity. If I don't realise I'm in danger well, that's Darwinian theory in practice isn't it?

Well said. Top ranting sir!

[Gary the Enfield]

I took receipt of a new car on Monday. Nothing special (Mondeo Estate 1.6) but nice additions like integral sat nav, hands free phone, cruise control etc.

My beef? No spare wheel. According to our HR bods (morning Bobo) I am not competent to change the wheel as I haven't been trained. If I suffer a puncture/ blow out I must now inform the recovery firm who will tow me to the nearest garage for repair. That should be fun in mid-Wales at 7 in the evening. Or if I go abroad.

Now the car is designed to have a spare wheel. There is a well under the boot floor to accommodate it. Without the wheel the boot floor sags and so they have installed a rough cut piece of ply to fit over the well to support the floor.

TwoA few things:

I am 45 years old and have been changing tyres on my own car and my company car for the last 25 years.

As a lone adult male I can expect to wait up to 6 hours for recovery as single women or single women with children receive priority on emergency calls (justifiably imo)

If you need to find something to support the floor of the boot why not try, erm THE fecking THING IT'S DESIGNED TO HOLD? LIKE THE fecking SPARE WHEEL?

Stop treating me like a fecking child. We all have to die sometime and the reason we learn from our mistakes is that we're allowed to make them in the first place. I have a very healthy sense of self preservation and believe me when I say that if I think I'm in danger I will desist from that particular activity. If I don't realise I'm in danger well, that's Darwinian theory in practice isn't it?

Well said. Top ranting sir!

Cheers. I sent something similair to our Fleet and HR departments and guess what? They've listened! Apparently I was the latest in a long line of complaints and they have revised their stance.

We are now to have wheels AND jacks installed in the cars but if we are on a carriageway with a speed limit of 50 MPH or over it will be reccommended we call the rescue/ recovery service.

I can live with that. Literally.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

A woman at work asked what the latest Google logo banner was about. I said it's "International Women's Day". She said something about how crap because usually it at least said Google as well as showing relevant pictures of things. I said, "But it does".

I've tried to point it out to her but she's just not seeing the google. Is she alone? It's pretty obvious to me!

[CrazyHorse]

It quite clearly says Google in that picture. Stupid bloody woman.

Does anyone know when it's international misogynist's day?

[Montreal Wanderer]

It quite clearly says Google in that picture. Stupid bloody woman.

Does anyone know when it's international misogynist's day?

http://www.google.ca" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; doesn't have that picture - just the usual logo. Perhaps we are a country of misogynists who do not recognize International Women's Day so feel free to visit, CH.

[thebish]

It quite clearly says Google in that picture. Stupid bloody woman.

Does anyone know when it's international misogynist's day?

that's every other day except this one!

[bobo the clown]

I took receipt of a new car on Monday. Nothing special (Mondeo Estate 1.6) but nice additions like integral sat nav, hands free phone, cruise control etc.

My beef? No spare wheel. According to our HR bods (morning Bobo) I am not competent to change the wheel as I haven't been trained. If I suffer a puncture/ blow out I must now inform the recovery firm who will tow me to the nearest garage for repair. That should be fun in mid-Wales at 7 in the evening. Or if I go abroad.
.............

fckg hell .... don't blame me, just because 77.58% of HR are wankers.

19% are, at any one time, on maternity leave btw

3.41% are off with stress .... again

Oh, and 0.1% are me and my mate Steve.

... & to be honest Steve can be a bit of a tosser at times.

[Gary the Enfield]

I took receipt of a new car on Monday. Nothing special (Mondeo Estate 1.6) but nice additions like integral sat nav, hands free phone, cruise control etc.

My beef? No spare wheel. According to our HR bods (morning Bobo) I am not competent to change the wheel as I haven't been trained. If I suffer a puncture/ blow out I must now inform the recovery firm who will tow me to the nearest garage for repair. That should be fun in mid-Wales at 7 in the evening. Or if I go abroad.
.............

fckg hell .... don't blame me, just because 77.58% of HR are wankers.

19% are, at any one time, on maternity leave btw

3.41% are off with stress .... again

Oh, and 0.1% are me and my mate Steve.

... & to be honest Steve can be a bit of a tosser at times.

He speaks very highly of you.

[malcd1]

I took receipt of a new car on Monday. Nothing special (Mondeo Estate 1.6) but nice additions like integral sat nav, hands free phone, cruise control etc.

My beef? No spare wheel. According to our HR bods (morning Bobo) I am not competent to change the wheel as I haven't been trained. If I suffer a puncture/ blow out I must now inform the recovery firm who will tow me to the nearest garage for repair. That should be fun in mid-Wales at 7 in the evening. Or if I go abroad.
.............

fckg hell .... don't blame me, just because 77.58% of HR are wankers.

19% are, at any one time, on maternity leave btw

3.41% are off with stress .... again

Oh, and 0.1% are me and my mate Steve.

... & to be honest Steve can be a bit of a tosser at times.

He speaks very highly of you.

Only to his face. Behind his back, he he says Bobo is one of the 77.58%.

[TANGODANCER]

I took receipt of a new car on Monday. Nothing special (Mondeo Estate 1.6) but nice additions like integral sat nav, hands free phone, cruise control etc.

My beef? No spare wheel. According to our HR bods (morning Bobo) I am not competent to change the wheel as I haven't been trained. If I suffer a puncture/ blow out I must now inform the recovery firm who will tow me to the nearest garage for repair. That should be fun in mid-Wales at 7 in the evening. Or if I go abroad.

Now the car is designed to have a spare wheel. There is a well under the boot floor to accommodate it. Without the wheel the boot floor sags and so they have installed a rough cut piece of ply to fit over the well to support the floor.

TwoA few things:

I am 45 years old and have been changing tyres on my own car and my company car for the last 25 years.

As a lone adult male I can expect to wait up to 6 hours for recovery as single women or single women with children receive priority on emergency calls (justifiably imo)

If you need to find something to support the floor of the boot why not try, erm THE fecking THING IT'S DESIGNED TO HOLD? LIKE THE fecking SPARE WHEEL?

Stop treating me like a fecking child. We all have to die sometime and the reason we learn from our mistakes is that we're allowed to make them in the first place. I have a very healthy sense of self preservation and believe me when I say that if I think I'm in danger I will desist from that particular activity. If I don't realise I'm in danger well, that's Darwinian theory in practice isn't it?

Do I read this right? So, in this era of cost-cutting, the company want to pay a breakdown service to tow you into a garage to change a wheel, ie fit a new tyre, (unless of course they just happen to have your spare wheel there, or are they just mending a puncture and sending you off till it happens again? ) instead of something you'd normally do yourself for no cost? Brilliant.

[Bruce Rioja]

I have a spare wheel, but I'll be fecked if I'm getting out and changing it when I get a flat.

[bobo the clown]

I have a spare wheel, but I'll be fecked if I'm getting out and changing it when I get a flat.

Yay.

[seanworth]

I have a spare wheel, but I'll be fecked if I'm getting out and changing it when I get a flat.

Wrong thread.