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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2010 21:53:48 GMT
I've had a pretty good week at work this week which will culminate tomorrow with a night out with my workmates for a few beers. Unfortunately however, I can't say the same baout my brother. He still works at my former workplace and he came home yesterday pissed off over what had happened that day. It's a gem of a story ....
My brother finishes work at 2pm so imagine his annoyance when the company director asks him and all of his workmates to attend a meeting in the canteen at 2.30pm. They all just wanted to go home but decided to attend the meeting anyway. In hindsight they wished they hadn't. The company director was annoyed that food waste was being disposed of in the changing room rubbish bins rather than the canteen rubbish bins and he brought the bins out of both the male and female changing rooms into the canteen to show them. The company director then tipped the contents of both bins out over the canteen floor and told the workers to pick up all of the rubbish before he himself walked back to his office! Outraged, the workers quite understandably went home as they considered this an insult.
I'm glad that I no longer work there. The place has been getting steadily worse since the gaffers kicked out the union in a ballot to get the union recognised due to persuading some of the workers that the union was full of fatcats who wanted to close down the factory and put everybody on the dole!
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Post by Hero on Nov 19, 2010 22:32:58 GMT
That really is a gem of a story. What kind of waste are the bins meant to be used for? I don't blame the workers for just walking home. I am surprised the whole workforce has'nt walked out completely. I feel sorry for whoever but the director had to pick the rubbish up in the end. I have an assumption this saga will continue. Do post some updates and gossip . ===KEN
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2010 10:07:40 GMT
I was also questioning what the changing room bins are used for as well. Food waste is not allowed in them and neither are disposable work gear such as hairnets (these go in the bins in the white overall changing facilities downstairs next to the factory interior entrance.
Laughably, after the director tipped the rubbish onto the floor and told the workers to pick up the rubbish he also excused one individual from doing the job claiming 'this isn't her job!'. The excused individual in question was a woman whose job is to empty all of the bins in the factory but, because she is one of the elite gaffers informers (or 'brownnose' to give the title its more common - and some would say derogatory term), she was excused.
Because I no longer work there I can only garner information from what my brother brings home. If anybody is actually questioning if this news sounds a little far-fetched (I wouldn't blame you if you did because a company director throwing rubbish all over a floor sounds almost fairy-tale) I must stress that I worked there for seven and a half years and know exactly what little respect the gaffers have for their workers so something like this is entirely plausible.
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Post by Hero on Nov 20, 2010 13:16:36 GMT
To be honest, Zudobug, I don't find this news surprising or far fetched to say the least.
I've witnessed plenty of workplace corruption, playing favourites and abuse of position for myself. It does happen.
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 20, 2010 18:40:15 GMT
An afternoon of window shopping and catching up on comics being followed by another assault on the unwatched DVD pile.
-Ralph
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Post by Hero on Nov 21, 2010 0:49:58 GMT
Dug out all my Christmas Star Wars Galactic Heroes stuff. Candy Cane Lightsabers are a genius idea! ===KEN
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 21, 2010 0:51:16 GMT
wide awake here at 1am for no discernable reason!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2010 9:37:54 GMT
Got up this morning with a slight hangover after last nights pub crawl. We all started off in our local Wetherspoons pub where I had five pints before we quickly crawled over to a pub across the road. This second pub - although a favourite with the 'young uns' is now considered by me as the worst pub I have ever been in. I went to the bar and asked for a pint of Guinness to which the bargirl said they didn't do it at this pub. I then asked what kind of bitter they sold and I was told that they didn't sell bitter either! I asked her what exactly did they sell and she ran through about five brands of lager and three brands of cider. I can't stand lager while cider is far too sweet for my liking. I begrudgingly ordered a pint of Carling but left half of it before we all headed off to another pub where I downed two pints of Guinness and 1 pint of bitter before I staggered off home.
All in all it was a good night and I'm out again tonight for the pub quiz down my local pub!
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 21, 2010 11:00:13 GMT
My brain took control of my body and shut it down at 11pm last night, which was annoying as I had just put a Doctor Who audio on. Apparently, I needed the system crash.
Been in Edinburger for a year as of this week. I needed to move from my usual stomping grounds for my own good and though I like it here the first year did not at all go the way I wanted it to. Let's hope things are turning around.
Belly is getting flabby again, but that's to be expected after the lengthy daily walks dropped off when work started and my diet has been all over the place. Easily sorted. Moderate the crap a bit better between now and Chrimbo and build up the exercise again.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Nov 21, 2010 19:58:36 GMT
I am unimpressed by the cost of travel sometimes. I was booking a forthcoming trip down to my mothers new home and I was somewhat horrified to find out that to get one of me from London to Heathrow will cost me more than it did to get two folk down to Cardiff in the recent past. And that is before I work out the cost of getting from the airport to London and then out again to my mothers new neighbourhood. I'd invest in transport of my own but I guess the parking permits, insurance and fuel tax on a fusion-powered transformable mecha would probably come out about the same.....
I've been enjoying a very quiet weekend after an incredibly stressful week (one in which it is fair to say my brain went into meltdown by the end). It has been nice to have been able to put my feet up, watch some cartoons and some tosh DVDs and do some reading.
I went for a walk today and noticed the swans on the canal looking at me in high dudgeon. It didn't take long to work out why. The visitor centre at the Falkirk Wheel is closed at the moment as part of the winter stoppage works, the first year they have done this as they usually just shut down the boat lift and drain the basis, so there are no busloads of tourists coming..... And as the swans normally hit up the tourists to get them to provide them with food they are not quite living in the style to which they have become acumstomed. The fact that I did not have food on my person for them did not impress them one little bit I can tell you.
Karl
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Post by Jaymz on Nov 22, 2010 0:20:24 GMT
I am unimpressed by the cost of travel sometimes. I was booking a forthcoming trip down to my mothers new home and I was somewhat horrified to find out that to get one of me from London to Heathrow will cost me more than it did to get two folk down to Cardiff in the recent past. Was that Heathrow Express? You can just take the Piccadilly Line tube instead. Will take about an hour from Central London, but is only £4.50 for a single [or with an Oyster card it's £4.20 peak or £2.40 off peak].
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2010 6:53:33 GMT
The pub quiz last night went well with my team winning it but undoubtably the funniest part of the night came with the bonus round at the end of the quiz. In a parlour game that can only be called 'grape snogging' three people from each team had to pass a single grape from mouth to mouth to each other and then drop it in a glass behind the third player. This caused a little hilarity as most of the contestants were male! The team that went first tried to cheat their way out of it by first putting their grape on a plastic fork and passing that from mouth to mouth before trying to spit the grape out of each others mouths so that they again wouldn't have to get too close to each other. In the end they played fair (as did the other two teams - of which I was one of the nominated players in my team) and the photographs and videos that were taken of the event are nothing short of hilarious that makes the contestants look like they are genuinely kissing each other! Fortunately, a photo wasn't taken of my participation (or at least I was told one wasn't) but the others weren't so lucky and they were uploaded to Facebook in double-quick time!
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