i hate work.

Why do they always have to change hours and days off?  I got wed and thurs off next week, that was until theres bloody training with some Halfwit from sharp coming to tell us how good (crap) there tvs are, i wouldnt mind but its in the evening too, and they also say theres food and drink after. thats a trip to the pub for a pint with the pratt that owns the company, that also means will be finally finished for about 10pm. If i said i wasnt happy would you believe me?  the best bit is that now they taken the wednesday off me too and give me whatever they can be arsed with.  I wouldnt mind but i made plans for those days, wed being the only day i can get to work on the mk1.  

Any Jobs going anywhere in donny?

rant over

Sorry

chris  

P.s. the good news is the sun is out here and the roof was down  

If it's work ranting here we go . . . . . . . . .

A colleague and someone I've known and worked with for over 5yrs has this week made a complaint about me, not generally bothered as I more often than not do my job to the satisfaction of all concerned. On this occassion though the person concerned has deemed it serious enough to email the Chief Executive of the company, not my MD but the main man in the company as a whole. It's the equivalent of a police officer going directly to the Home Secretary of the United Kingdom to lodge a complaint about a colleague  :roll:  I'm off in tomorrow for a bit of a ding dong  

ooh sounds abit nasty, fingers crossed for ya, i hate people who have to report everything u do especially if you done nowt wrong

chris

This makes me realise how lucky I am to not have work!! As much as I need/would like to! Kavlfc, hope everything works out for ya and Chris hope you get some time soon to work on your car

Rich

See, there's rants coming from all areas of the spectrum.

I work at rolls-royce aerospace making parts for airplane engines. Now you'd've thought that a company like that would have a decent upholding for a work standard, but i've just lodged a complaint about someone admitting that they left their amchine running and fell asleep on the night shift.

I guess once i go onto nights i may feel tempted, but if you worked at a company like that would you sleep on the job whilst roughly 100k of inconel metal was happily burning itself through??

In my working life I've found that people who throw spurious unfounded allegations around about other people are generally hiding their own shortcomings and are deflecting the attention away from themselves. What the person in question seems to have forgot is I'm the kind of person that if I get it wrong I own up as I've nothing to hide and secondly all calls are recorded to protect the guilty   I certainly won't be losing any sleep but it's really naffed me off, especially when I thought (wrongly) they were a half decent person. Hey Ho, you live and learn  :roll:

You're all puffs. I probably have to do stuff far harsher than you desk dwelling townies, not everyday but here is an example of the less glamorous tasks:

- Check for sick calves and other animals in the morning. If I come across a dead one, if its not too heavy, physically drag it out the pen to an area it can be lifted onto a wagon; if its heavier then tie baler twine in a hoop onto its back legs so it can be removed by telehandler.
- If there's a sick/dying animal, very carefully confirm its eartag and liase with the knacker man who will shoot it in front of me then drag it onto the truck with a winch. Obviously not an area you'd want to make an admin error on, with the wrong cow.
- Drag 2 week old calves from under their mum's noses onto a trailer, to be sent to market, possibly to their death about 24 hours later.
- If any drains become blocked, put on an AI glove and reach in to unblock it. I'll give you a hint what its blocked with, its brown but its not soil.
- Strip down and clean out a fuel tank on a broken down tractor, outside, when its -22°C.
- herd cows around even if its heavily raining/snowing/beating down with sun, Occasionally they're lame, so I'll have to beat them with a stick to goad them into going where they need to go.
- put about a million old lorry tyres onto a silage pit, the tyres are invariably full of murky green water and are filthy. Oh, and it will be beating down with sunshine, or maybe a howling gale.
- clean out the water troughs if they've "done a little present" in it overnight
- very occasionally I get to stick my entire arm up the arse of a cow.


So if you think you work with stupid people, I bet they're a little more intelligent than cattle. At least they have cute floppy ears though.

PS Forgot to mention 99% of the time my job is great fun and I'd not swap it for the world!!!!

aircooled, it's a pity about that stomach bug you've come down with on Wednesday, eh? Nah, I've never done that, but I would have, by the time they finished explaining why my day of was retracted, desperately come up with some reason why I absolutely couldn't miss the day off (appointment with a specialist in London for a 'health problem' who has a waiting list months long, picking someone up from the airport right in the middle of the day etc.).

Reading all these stories makes me really relieved that I get to work from home on a fortnightly deadline without meetings, office politics or cows' bums.

rants about works

i've got the head of cosmetics company coming to see his site that i designed tomorrow

only problems is it isn't finished and i'm going in at 3 to finish it

he's also coming to veiw 5 more sites in the design stage as there the next jobs

to much stress for my liking!!!!

almost the weekend tho

i get to play with cars all day,mot them pass or fail,repair them which is always different,today was a fiesta diesel with blown injector seals  :wink:
i get a bone china cup with earl grey T in it all day,
get expensive manicures and moisturiser (5w40)
get a company car (which ever has been left overnight  8) )
and all the benefits of working in zero temperatures with very cold spanners in the winter
Bert

paul_c said

- very occasionally I get to stick my entire arm up the arse of a cow

Has a Fresian heifer ever emailed the Chief Exec of the world's largest transport provider  in a malicious attempt to get you dismissed  :dontknow:

Doubt it, and you get to do the above  8O If you've got some baggy wellies and a stool I believe it's called a Turkey in 10 pin bowling circles or a 'StttttttttttRIiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiKE!!!!!!!' in baseball!


 :wink:

kavlfc said

paul_c said

- very occasionally I get to stick my entire arm up the arse of a cow

Has a Fresian heifer ever emailed the Chief Exec of the world's largest transport provider  in a malicious attempt to get you dismissed  :dontknow:

A cow or bull wouldn't be able to email, their hooves are useless on a conventional computer keyboard, even before we get into the lack of provision of rural broadband etc. However, if you don't respect them and do something that inadvertently upsets them (like double tagging their 3 day old calf, for example) the more agressive types will have a good go at killing you. Plenty of people have died or been seriously injured by livestock.

I used to run pubs for a living    

The cows there came at you with stillettos and broken bottles  8O  8O  8O

I like my job and I'm good at it but sometimes you just couldn't make it up  :roll:   :roll:

Just having a bad day   :boohoo:

 :wink:

I work with computers all day… I often have to fiddle with their input/output slots, wipe their hard drives  :redfaced: and because they have mega bites I have to make sure I've topped up my anti-virus  8O ….. paul_c you got it easy.

The hardest bit about my job…. office politics, people taking credit for other peoples work, Teflon coated people where no crap sticks to them but slides onto others just complete self absorbed egotistical half-wits… I often let them dig a hole for themselves, give them an extra spade then walk away while the heavens open on them…. I'm a team player and like kav I hold my hand up to mistakes.. after all it's human to make mistakes you just don't do it twice.

I like my job but I find it difficult to work in an office sue to the people who are out for themselves and the external politics which affect you.

Spudfingers said

I work with computers all day… I often have to fiddle with their input/output slots, wipe their hard drives  :redfaced: and because they have mega bites I have to make sure I've topped up my anti-virus  8O ….. paul_c you got it easy.

No  8O  You have it easy Spud, at least you can get in there with a torch, sonic screwdriver and packed lunch just in case you have a stop off at the graphics card for a breather on your travels. Some of us have to ring up a 'dedicated' help desk where they haven't a bloody clue  8O

I P.D inspect and repair bus' and coach's for a living.

I'm up at 5am to get to Leeds every day. Sit in traffic on my way home from Leeds after a 10hr shift.
The pits are never deep enough so my heads always on it's side an hurts the neck.
I find a fault, order the parts but they never actually get ordered.
My tool chest contents always seem to go on mini adventures into other peoples tool box's.
The otherday, some drove idiot drilled through a cooling pipe right at the back of everyother component you can think of. Took me hours to strip the bus down, repair the pipe, re fit the parts and re pressurise the air tanks.
Also, my sandwich us always late after I order it an hour before.

oh god what have i started, machine i feel for ya, i used to drive buses for first and that was a nightmare, never again

chris (having a day off yet working on a MR2)

You poor lot :tlc:

I must be quite lucky, I quite enjoy my job.

on the plus side only 40 more year till retirement!! :cry: