Litter picking for the olympic torch

Carnt beat litter picking (not) bank holiday weekend cos folk will be stareing at the rubbish at the side of the motorway on there way down the m1 carnt wait to get back driving done this for 4 years and had enough so if your driving by j25 to j29 of the m1 gis a pip and keep them bottles in your cab till you’ve gone by

Gullyman:
Carnt beat litter picking (not) bank holiday weekend cos folk will be stareing at the rubbish at the side of the motorway on there way down the m1 carnt wait to get back driving done this for 4 years and had enough so if your driving by j25 to j29 of the m1 gis a pip and keep them bottles in your cab till you’ve gone by

What and do you lads out of a job ?

Cheers mate jobs done from 1st off august the pretend police (hatos) are taking our jobs

Gullyman:
Cheers mate jobs done from 1st off august the pretend police (hatos) are taking our jobs

I thought the HATOs were brought in to respond to incidents…not litter picking

Yes just like our job was incident support unit but were out litter picking

Up here in scotland amey do both incidents and litter picking! Hatos do incidents and sit about on their arse waiting for incidents, so getting them to pick litter sounds like a good idea to me!

Well they’ll have a shock if the same happens up there like it is down here they’ll be having to clean up the mess after accidents clean up road kill Pot holes the lot cos the incident support will soon be no more.looking forward to going back driving

Gullyman:
Carnt beat litter picking (not) bank holiday weekend cos folk will be stareing at the rubbish at the side of the motorway on there way down the m1 carnt wait to get back driving done this for 4 years and had enough so if your driving by j25 to j29 of the m1 gis a pip and keep them bottles in your cab till you’ve gone by

I went both ways on the M1 between those junctions today, and i have to tell you…
you missed a bit! :stuck_out_tongue: :laughing:

toowise:
I thought the HATOs were brought in to respond to incidents…not litter picking

The whole country is being run like Stobart’s; the fireman at Stobart Airport also double up as baggage handlers when there’s no plane crashes or fires to put out and toilet cleaners when there’s no baggage to handle.

I think it’s called efficiency.

That’s how many “old fashioned” firms do it. While you are hanging around in the yard - hop on a forklift and giove the loaders a hand. The yard’s looking scruffy - there’s the broom.

If you were the boss, would you be happy to allow one set of blokes to sit around on their arses while another set are grafting their socks off?

We wouldn’t want to go back to the “good ole days” of demarkation disputes like at Longbridge where they needed a carpenter and a metalworker to drill a hole in a metal plate glued to a wooden panel.

As for airport firemen - I remember some guy who had worked at Bristol Airport for 40 years and never fought a real fire.

I wounder how many off you would be so keen when your being made redundant in
6 weeks As the government thinks that the roads will look after them selfs

Gullyman:
I wounder how many off you would be so keen when your being made redundant in
6 weeks As the government thinks that the roads will look after them selfs

Welcome to “Broken Britain”.
No one likes losing their job or income or losing 28/30k per annum collecting pish bottles.

Think of it this way, it beats being TUPED every 2 yrs and getting sweat f-a .
At least you might get a little pay off, and the chance to find/search a job you wish to do and would be happy doing instead of coming on here and whinging about no longer having to collect pish bottles anymore :laughing:

And by the way ,
you did miss one :laughing: :laughing:

Gullyman:
I wounder how many off you would be so keen when your being made redundant in
6 weeks As the government thinks that the roads will look after them selfs

first off, i’m sorry you’re losing your job, on a personal level.

i thought you said hato’s will be looking after them.

a lad i work with was telling me his dad does the incident support gig, 42k and spends a lot of time parked up in lay-bys, this is in yorkshire. now don’t get me wrong, i’d love to be on the gig, but it’s ridiculous that the country is paying that level of wage.

You could always apply to be a Traffic officer due to policy changes their will plenty of vacancies shortly! everyone’s ■■■■■■ off and leaving. I’m off to VOSA

Yes the hatos will be looking after the roads but how much equipment will they get in the back of the land rovers we have a 26 tonne merc and it’s loaded upto the max don’t mind litter picking its just the crap they come up with to make you do it

criminals that are sentenced to community payback. now do painting, litter picking, grass gutting, grave digging, and many more jobs that used to employ people by the local council.
the government call this sort of thing efficiency, the private sector will have a similar name, but i call it slavery.

limeyphil:
criminals that are sentenced to community payback. now do painting, litter picking, grass gutting, grave digging, and many more jobs that used to employ people by the local council.
the government call this sort of thing efficiency, the private sector will have a similar name, but i call it just deserves .
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fixed that for ya :wink:

If they cant serve the time ,
don`t do the crime :imp:

They are better off doing jankers than us tax payers having to keep the scum on their `arris in clink.

trux:

limeyphil:
criminals that are sentenced to community payback. now do painting, litter picking, grass gutting, grave digging, and many more jobs that used to employ people by the local council.
the government call this sort of thing efficiency, the private sector will have a similar name, but i call it just deserves .
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fixed that for ya :wink:

If they cant serve the time ,
don`t do the crime :imp:

They are better off doing jankers than us tax payers having to keep the scum on their `arris in clink.

i think you’re missing the point. people used to be employed to do this work.
the marshalls at the jubilee celebrations were all unemployed. they had to do the work for their dole money. why didn’t they get offered the same work on full pay? slavery.
where will it end? in order for people to be able to collect unemployment benefit, will they have to drive a bus once a week? will they have to do a night trunk every friday?

Gullyman:
Yes the hatos will be looking after the roads but how much equipment will they get in the back of the land rovers we have a 26 tonne merc and it’s loaded upto the max don’t mind litter picking its just the crap they come up with to make you do it

No one has said they’re sticking to ‘land rovers’ :wink: and anyway asc’s (asset support contractors) who you work for are moving from ‘big’ trucks & crash cushions in many areas to 7.5t vans & transits, many never went off them.
Oi Lightnin why will they recruit rather than single crew :wink:

No need to pay for anyone to collect bottles of pish & litter if the filthy lazy f@ckers (or should that be truckers :smiling_imp:) didn’t throw them out :slight_smile:

Nope ,
I dont think i missed the point at all.
Companies have/are made/making quick rich schemes from others dirty inappropriate habits.
Some people in UK feel it /find it too demeaning to do those operational cleanup duties (as the op has indicated) for whatever payment.
Lets face it , people treat streets and roads and carparks in the UK as a litter dumping ground, we see it daily. It`s a shoit hole.

Food outlet car parks and surrounding areas are streaming with used cartons/containers/bags where the vehicle occupants have not bothered whatsoever to walk to the bins and dispose of properly - they just eat their food + open the car doors and dump it on the floor then drive off - This is NOT satisfactory nor sanitary.
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If you are happy with keeping a long term percentage of people paid for nothing and sponging on the dole for the rest of their remainder , then so be it, some of us aren`t.
Before you say it, yes i have been unemployed at some point, to me - i found that more demeaning than actually taking the cash for doing sweat f/a and cashing the cheque, but hey- ho thats life.

If the dole-ites/ community service attendees have dutifully donated say eg. 5 hours of their time to litter pick,
then they have earned their money/paid their pennance in my view.
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If people have travelled across 9 countries/2 continents + 1 sea, to get into Britain, and set up a “car wash/ bucket + sponge” to offer a service - (to which the locals flock to and are fully prepared to pay for such services) then fair play to them ,
BUT i ask - why haven`t the long term unemployed already beaten them to it i wonder ■■?
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Dispose of ones pish bottle appropriately - NOT just lob it out of the window/door anywhere where one feels one says …
I dont go pishing outside someones front door step everytime i want leak -

Why would people think it is acceptable to pee in a bottle and throw it anywhere they feel ■■? :question: Inappropriate + unacceptable behaviour :imp: .