General News Chat

[57vintage]

I’ll say cheerio to this discussion now, given that we’ve regressed to Macmillan’s ‘never had it so good’, Joseph’s ‘the market will ultimately decide’, and the apocryphal ‘let them eat cake’ remark by some 18th century Gallic monarch.

[donsdaft]

She was Austrian.

[Mason89]

Valid points but I guess my argument is that their conditions aren't as bad as they are sometimes made out. Plenty other folk would kill for that job. I was watching a thing about the new crossrail project and they had 20,000 applicants for their train drivers jobs.

My mate was one of the lucky applicants who got one of the ScotRail drivers jobs advertised a few years back. He chucked it. The conditions drivers work under are horrendous. Apparently no matter how old they are, they can tell you in the exact number of days when they’re due to retire.

[mondo_notion]

‘let them eat cake’

There you go, a possible solution. Scoff their piece whist still driving the trains. They could get paid for their lunch hour.

[donsdaft]

My mate was one of the lucky applicants who got one of the ScotRail drivers jobs advertised a few years back. He chucked it. The conditions drivers work under are horrendous. Apparently no matter how old they are, they can tell you in the exact number of days when they’re due to retire.

Lucky lucky b'astards.

[Donanddusted]

the apocryphal ‘let them eat cake’ remark by some 18th century Gallic monarch.

Tsk.
I'm pretty sure that was Paul Hollywood, the preening b@st@rd.

[InversneckieDob]

Of course hours worked doesn't include lunch breaks, why would it?

You could say " I work a seven day week" if you included weekends.

When I first left school, I worked a 40 hour week.
Monday - Friday
08.30 -12.30....13.30 - 17.30 (with 2 x 10 minute breaks)

That lasted almost 2 years, I've worked much longer hours than that ever since.

You should've joined a union Bud.

[donsdaft]

First job was well within rules.

After that, oh aye, some arsehole shop steward was really going to help.

[redscot]

My mate was one of the lucky applicants who got one of the ScotRail drivers jobs advertised a few years back. He chucked it. The conditions drivers work under are horrendous. Apparently no matter how old they are, they can tell you in the exact number of days when they’re due to retire.

Mason always knows a victim.

[InversneckieDob]

First job was well within rules.

After that, oh aye, some arsehole shop steward was really going to help.

Aye, Trade Unions are cu nts, fighting for pay and conditions and workers' rights.
Absolute w@nkers.