shmook Posted October 16, 2012 Report Share Posted October 16, 2012 Quit and get on benefits My rant, health and safety. I'm working on a National Grid site, where a new substation is being built. No knives at all are allowed. Ever. Someone WILL DIE if you have one in your tool box. Part of my job requires I use a Stanley knife, so after talking it though with my site supervisor, health and safety lady on site, her boss, my boss, and National Grid head office, I can use one... Providing I can supply cut resistant gloves, including data sheet showing specs, rewrite my RAMS to allow the safe use of one, have that approved by head office, bring/assemble a work bench for cutting on, barrier off the cutting area, clamp the item I'm cutting, that's fine. So far, it's taken all morning to get this far, and the rest of my day is now written off getting gloves, bench and risk assessment/method statement re-write. I've been doing my job for 16 years now, never once cut myself with a knife doing it, yet am treated like I'm a 4 year old running around a crowded shopping centre with a machete. I truly can appreciate sensible measures, but sometimes things just get silly, which has just cost my company a days work for 2 men and 150 miles worth of fuel. Edit, and I've been up since 5am to get there early for a site induction. Which the health and safety lady was 45 minutes late in starting. Link to post Share on other sites
FireKnife Posted October 16, 2012 Report Share Posted October 16, 2012 Ah H&S, they screw with you an never have the decency to turn up on time Though clearly on a power grid up here H&S doesn't exist, as when we had a slight surge they just cut all the power to the mill, all of the machines just went dead, not good at all when these things are mechanically and electrically operated and are running at something like 5000 revolutions a minute on some of them, only for them to just go dead. Still it meant I got a day off and a lie in the next as they sorted it. 'FireKnife' Link to post Share on other sites
Mike_West Posted October 16, 2012 Report Share Posted October 16, 2012 I have to meaninglessly punch in numbers for a stuttering lazy sod who can't be arsed to show up at work on time. That's one thing. I get alarmist e-mails from some German kook claiming that the new standard will be the death of ham radio, power lines, birds an *fruitcage* knows what else. And it's not me who should get it in the first place. That's another. I got like 50 quid on my account til the end of the month, and my fridge is almost empty. That's one more. And RSOV can't pack my order for the third day now. Now excuse me, I'm off to puke laser beams of death. Link to post Share on other sites
Wild_XIII Posted October 16, 2012 Report Share Posted October 16, 2012 Remembering from my drunken birthday night out that "Never Gonna Give You Up", was removed from the jukebox after the time I rick rolled the pub. The price of trying to bring internet memes into reality. Link to post Share on other sites
FireKnife Posted October 16, 2012 Report Share Posted October 16, 2012 Remembering from my drunken birthday night out that "Never Gonna Give You Up", was removed from the jukebox after the time I rick rolled the pub. The price of trying to bring internet memes into reality. Damn those people, unless you can now re-wire it (digital one is easy enough) to play Never Gonna Give You Up half way through each song just to truly *rickroll* roll them. That would be win and justice, well all except for the bloke that put about £5 in the machine. 'FireKnife' Link to post Share on other sites
shmook Posted October 16, 2012 Report Share Posted October 16, 2012 I got like 50 quid on my account til the end of the month, and my fridge is almost empty. That's one more. And RSOV can't pack my order for the third day now. There's your problem right there. Buying airsoft stuff and then not having food money. Priorities dude. If your too weak and starved to move, how can you play airsoft?!! Link to post Share on other sites
FireKnife Posted October 17, 2012 Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 There's your problem right there. Buying airsoft stuff and then not having food money. Priorities dude. If your too weak and starved to move, how can you play airsoft?!! Do I have to put up the picture of the Lidl's weekly bargains leaflet again? 'FireKnife' Link to post Share on other sites
Mike_West Posted October 17, 2012 Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 Do I have to put up the picture of the Lidl's weekly bargains leaflet again? 'FireKnife' Nah, it's cool, turned out I had to spend only 5 quid on yesterday's shopping that should last for a week.However, I really need to get a lot of sleep and some antidepressants. Waking up at 6AM when it's n***er-*albatross* dark outside is not the happiest sight in the morning. Link to post Share on other sites
FireKnife Posted October 17, 2012 Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 E-hem, N-word is a no. £5, what, where did you go for a weeks food that cost £5? That must be some bad, bad food. 'FireKnife' Link to post Share on other sites
Mike_West Posted October 17, 2012 Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 Well, all I needed was some ham, a pack of frozen veggies for the stir-fry, two packets of stir-fry sauce, four yogurts and a large coke. Also, prices in Poland are pretty low, ie. it's a pound for a large, 2L bottle of Coke. Link to post Share on other sites
FireKnife Posted October 17, 2012 Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 Well it is £1 for a bottle of Pepsi, If you buy 2 for £2, Plus it is Pepsi, Coke is about £1.80-£2 a bottle average. Still I suppose compare what I earn to the equivalent position in Poland and it will be lower. 'FireKnife' Link to post Share on other sites
Mike_West Posted October 17, 2012 Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 Of course it is, I get like 450 quid a month now. A shelf stacker at Tesco in the UK gets what, three times that? Link to post Share on other sites
FireKnife Posted October 17, 2012 Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 A shelf stacker gets about £6.50 an hour if he is lucky. That works out at £247 a week and £988 a month, so lets say £1050 with an extra day or two to make it a month. Now times that by 12 so you get £12600. So you get £8,100 per year tax free so that leave £4,500 to tax, of which they will lose a quarter, so £3,350 roughly, add back in the £8,100 so then that is £11,450, divide by 12 that gives a monthly salary of £954.17 a month, so say double Either way it is not a good comparison. 'FireKnife' Link to post Share on other sites
Mike_West Posted October 17, 2012 Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 Yes. That's a bad comparison actually, especially if you consider that a shelf stacker can get 250 quid a month here, IF he's lucky. That's somewhere near minimum wage these days, by the way. Makes me wonder where does the tax money go, since not much is improving, but somehow there's no week without a scandal involving government money being pocketed in weird and creative ways. For example, the city hall signed 20K (100K in local money) worth of contracts they don't want to say for what, even if the regulations (and the court) say they have to. Of course, the city hall officials all claim it's someone else's problem, even the guy who was the deputy head of so-called "Anti-Corruption Bureau" (previous govt's secret police, very busy with half-assed attempts of bringing down political opponents, not really big on fighting real corruption) before he got a cushy position in the city council. And yes, he's in the opposition now, so bringing down the mayor and her party would fit the party line. Link to post Share on other sites
FireKnife Posted October 17, 2012 Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 And I thought we were bad. My local council just sits in big offices, moaning and doing the same thing all other Scottish councils are doing, building bigger and nicer buildings for themselves and inviting the Queen to open a library that has been open for a year. It does suck, it really does but clearly not as bad as others so can't complain 'FireKnife' Link to post Share on other sites
WhiteHawksan Posted October 17, 2012 Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 don't forget calimingthat independance will make scotland great again Just like it did last time Soctland was a world leading superpower Link to post Share on other sites
FireKnife Posted October 17, 2012 Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 I have no issue with independence. If the Scottish people knew what they wanted and Alex Salmon could come to a decision over exactly how it is going to work then great, but at the moment it is just a word with no political meaning here. 'FireKnife' Link to post Share on other sites
kojak Posted October 17, 2012 Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 Does anyone else remember when Radio Shack was the most bad *albatross* shop in existence? I'm sure part of it is nostalgia for my lost childhood, but I distinctly remember wanting practically every item in that store. Now it's a sad mobile phone kiosk where I occasionally buy switches and wires that aren't quite what I need, but don't feel like driving twenty minutes to Frye's for. Link to post Share on other sites
scorch Posted October 17, 2012 Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 Johnny5 rebuilt himself in a radio shack, THAT'S how badass it used to be. Link to post Share on other sites
Tinkerton Posted October 17, 2012 Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 Johnny 5. best film evar. (yes i know its called short circuit) Link to post Share on other sites
Baddbaz Posted October 17, 2012 Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 I am standing beside myself in amazement ;;!!! Always remember that line from short circuit 2 Link to post Share on other sites
FireKnife Posted October 18, 2012 Report Share Posted October 18, 2012 All I remember from Short Circuit is the white guy going Indianface. That was messed up. Oh and Johnny5, possible the most win robot, well aside from 80's robot in The Muppets, damn that was a good film. 'FireKnife' Link to post Share on other sites
Mike_West Posted October 18, 2012 Report Share Posted October 18, 2012 So I wanted to ask the fine folks of Arnie's for help with finding a missing girl in the UK. However, I have second thoughts as it may turn out to be pretty messed up. Link to post Share on other sites
FireKnife Posted October 18, 2012 Report Share Posted October 18, 2012 Erm, ok I am confused? You want our help or not, or have you just been suckered in by another King of Nigeria style scam ? 'FireKnife' Link to post Share on other sites
shmook Posted October 18, 2012 Report Share Posted October 18, 2012 One mention of a missing girl, and fireknife pops up...! Edit, missing as in you've lost contact, or missing as in no one has seen her? Apologies for jokes if the latter Link to post Share on other sites
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