I do think sometimes there’s an argument for not giving companies the means to screw people over in the first place, but as you say there are also times where this rule can benefit. If I’m honest I can’t see myself wanting to take 11 hours between parking up and setting off again if I could finish a couple hours earlier instead and beat the traffic home.
But either way I’m not the type to chuck the keys on the desk and walk out. I’m just a bit too conscientious at times I feel, which is odd because I’m not the type to stand for outright rudeness etc and would find it hard to bite my tongue in those kinds of situations. I guess it’s more a case that I’m prepared to pull my weight and take one for the team sometimes and ideally you’d expect it to be a two way street.
But often it’s not and the drivers that will help out get repeatedly screwed and the piss takers get away with murder time and time again because the girl in the shipping office isn’t paid enough to care about doing the right thing and is happy as long as the load goes.
In previous places I’ve considered playing the game and just putting myself on a break or going to get fuel to avoid taking the make up, but I refuse to do that as I hate those kind of individuals. So eventually at previous places I’ve just said “sorry, not my turn” and been prepared to to die on that hill. But it thankfully never came to that and now things are generally good at my current place.
But it’s easy to agree to something and think “oh, well I’m getting paid for it”. And of course the shippers will thank you profusely for saving the day. But then having agreed to take the load, and once it’s been confirmed with site, the builders sometimes can’t agree on how much they need so they keep you waiting an hour while they measure again. At this point shipping are gone so all hell will break loose if I refuse to take the load as we don’t have the customer’s number to tell them it’s not coming.
And then you finally load but it takes 40 mins to do the three mile drive as it’s now rush hour. Then site keep you waiting for 45 mins while they faff around with the metal brackets they should’ve put in earlier. And although you thought this job was going to take 1.5 hrs, it’s suddenly three hours later and you’re still stuck in traffic on the way back. And you still need to wash out, get out of your dirty gear and drive 45 mins home.
And then just as you’re getting ready to leave plant at 8pm you notice a message on your phone from 5pm and you realise that in all your rushing about you haven’t checked the rota for the morning. You open the message to be greeted with the nice surprise of a 5am loading slot. And sometimes the guy that refused to take the load and left three hours ago at 5pm has the nice cushy 8am start.
Maybe I need to man up a bit but this is the kind of stuff that has me wanting to descend from the cab like the angel of death and kill a Deliveroo driver with my bare hands on the way back.
As someone else who likes to train in the gym, for convenience and time saving I decided to put together my own gym at home and equipe it with the machines that I regularly use. This all started during lockdown and snowballed from there.
This enabled me to save time by not having to commute to the gym, and always having the bars, dumbbells, and cardio machines available to use and setup.
So now I can get home, put dinner in the oven, do my 1-1.5hr workout, shower and then sit down to eat. The only downside is that I’ve spent over £10K so far on equipment
I really do wonder if there has been a concerted effort by someone high up to sow hate and misery among ALL road users. The police know the law, that’s their job, to know it so they uphold it. (Though sometimes when they’re talking to you, you wonder if they know how to even tie their laces up) So there is no reason for them to let cyclists on footpaths ride by, riders of electric bikes whoosh by. Any cyclist bomb straight through red lights. But the police also should know about the lighting regulations, the exhaust rules. But how often do they pull over a car with a loud exhaust or blinding lights.
As a youngster I got pulled a few times for things like baffles falling out of my motorbike exhaust. Back then the law seemed to be policed reasonably. You’d only get nicked for speeding if you were stupid about it. But now, other than speeding which is largely policed by cameras anyway, there seems little enforcement except for HGV weights.
Councils and highway departments know how roads, and cycle paths should be built. But time and again they are creating crap. Cycle lanes that aren’t even fit to walk on let alone cycle at a proper cycling speed. Road junctions that cause unnecessary congestion. Land markings that make zero sense and road signs that are either too late or plain wrong.
So we all end up complaining at the person in front of us, whether a cyclist using the road because the cyclepath is rubbish, the driver who cannot see where to go, or whatever. We’re getting mad at the wrong people. But modern politics seem to be designed around conflict and aggression, rather than cooperation and improvement.
I got nicked when I was a young lad for driving my Yamaha trails bike for having excessive noise, the copper didn’t have a decibel measuring device so it was just his opinion.
I think I bought the bike as it was so the baffles in the exhaust may have been removed or it came with a power pipe to make it go faster.
He also nicked me for no L plates,I did have them fitted but the one on the front was too high up at angle he cited.
Then how the police never pull over the cars with bang bang exhausts, to get that ridiculous noise the car owner pays to have the engine modified,it’s not the exhaust backfiring.
The sound is so loud it could shock a pedestrian or cause another driver to be distracted and cause an accident.
One can only hope that if they do it often enough, the engine will explode, or at least blow a few holes into the piston crowns sending debris throughout the engine.
sorry that is wrong your getting muddled with pinking or predetination. backfiring is where the fuel ratio is too rich so it doesnt all get burnt properly and ignights on the hot exhaust hence the flames out the exhaust. Its done by slowing the reaction of the map to the throttle pot
agreed, I’m no engine expert, but would have thought - hoped that if the mixture was so rich they’d blow themselves up. I was thinking how with a lean mixture that gets hot and blows holes in pistons, that too rich a mixture would also, but on checking it actually cools the engine down a tad. Guess it’s time to invite the vicar around
