BlueTangerine
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If they give a convincing argument.
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Can you legitimize your job?
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If they give a convincing argument.
BlueTangerine
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We had some horrible jobs too. Drive to Glasgow and spend 12 hours straight taking window cleaners up to clean the windows on tower blocks. 12 hours in the pissing rain, keeping the cage no more than a few inches away from the window so they could reach it and keeping the cage in constant motion so they could get through it all as quickly as possible. Then when the shift was over we had the easy bit of driving back to Manchester.
The easy jobs were very fucking easy though. 3 of us once spent two weeks doing 18 hour nights(including travel to and from Birmingham) and all we had to do was raise the boom with a load of lights on, and then bring it back down in the morning. We clocked up about 240 hours in a fortnight. The depot manager even got a bollocking from one of the directors who had clocked our wage slips for the week.
Man.. pressing those buttons must be hard :) No I can imagine the monotony.. all too well.
Up and down a triple today painting soffist and fascias,34 rungs, and still can't reach the top. Gotta get a 40 rung ladder on the job :/ Up's and downs..as with every job.
Man.. pressing those buttons must be hard :) No I can imagine the monotony.. all too well.
Up and down a triple today painting soffist and fascias,34 rungs, and still can't reach the top. Gotta get a 40 rung ladder on the job :/ Up's and downs..as with every job.
No buttons mate, two joysticks. Are you working off a ladder? That was illegal the last time I checked. I thought ladders are for access to and from and not to be used as a working platform.
Just checked and it has indeed changed, but if you fall off the likelihood is that your company will get fucked by health and safety.
BlueTangerine
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No buttons mate, two joysticks. Are you working off a ladder? That was illegal the last time I checked. I thought ladders are for access to and from and not to be used as a working platform.
I have no idea of the 'official' rules.. but i've worked off ladders almost exclusively. Self employed and now through a 1 man business. Can't stand podiums/booms or scissor lifts anyway. You should see the contraption we have for spanning awkward roofs/conservatories. obviously it would be disallowed on 'site' work. Health and safety would wet their knickers :) The 'bounce' in the ladder helps us reach sometimes. Terrible really. Practicality I suppose, if you feel safe enough you do it, the odd risk you take.
Some parts of a job you simply can not get a cheery picker in, you are left to your own intuition.
Barcon
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I build houses so that people don't have to sleep in the snow bank and freeze to death in the winter or get eaten in their sleep by wild beavers and mooses.
I build houses so that people don't have to sleep in the snow bank and freeze to death in the winter or get eaten in their sleep by wild beavers and mooses.
I thought mooses just fucked you? I didn't know they killed you afterwards, sick fuckers.
foetus
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The first thing we do on site is check the safety showers and eye washes in case we get covered in hypo. The neat hypo we use will blind you in seconds and burn your skin pretty badly. Dangerous stuff.I remember manually chlorinating my first ever fresh water tank. I couldn't remember if it was one eighth of a teaspoon or tablespoon. I ended up putting a whole tablespoon in (to be on the safe side) People running out of the showers screaming their skin was on fire and they'd gone blind.
trotsky
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You must be a tax man. The 'respected' bit is in your own headRespected and loathed in equal measure. That'll do me.
Barcon
Well-Known Member
I thought mooses just fucked you? I didn't know they killed you afterwards, sick fuckers.
Nope, they go straight for your cock and balls, leaving you to bleed out in the snow.
Nope, they go straight for your cock and balls, leaving you to bleed out in the snow.
My cock and balls are a listed fucking monument. You need a pass from English Heritage just to see em.