robroy:
You can guarantee on this forum some sad [zb] with no life will come on and say…‘‘Sick of these hols,.I’d rather be back at work’’
I’d sooner be working this week but not because I don’t have a life, rather because I’d prefer to have more time off in the Summer.
I’m one of them sad [zb] I’m 57 and after a couple of days off I start getting itchy feet and start looking forward to getting back to work.
As for wanting to retire in my 50s not a chance, if my health there I plan to keep going till I’m 70.
After writing this I even think what a saddo but it’s one of my hobbies As well as my living.
There’s nothing wrong with choosing to work but the government’s plan is to rob is of our pensions to do it which is totally different.
Having said that working into retirement adds to the labour supply reducing wage levels and or the situation of the old and infirm being expected to keep working to support the lifestyles of the workshy younger generations.
I kinda ■■■■ ed up big style on all this. …story of my life.
When I went bust many years ago the first thing ‘they’ took was my gold plated top of the range type pension, if things had gone to plan I’d be retired years ago and well away from all this crap.
I kinda missed the boat.I thought I’ll.get round to sorting a pension, plenty time, I ain’t old enough yet,.so ■■■■■■■■ to it for a while.
Knob !! , I never got round to it.
So now I’m getting to time of life when jacking will be somewhere a bit closer than it was sort of situation
Only pension in pot to speak of ain’t a great lot, state pension waste of time,.so if I want to maintain a decent standard of social life,.I need to keep plugging away at the only thing I’m good at…this ■■■■ game.
A bitter sweet ‘‘good news & bad news’’ situation is that I have some elderly loved ones who have made me promises, but I ain’t the kind of guy to hang around like the grim reaper. nor will I ever be.
However I have a cunning plan
Just need to pick 6 correct numbers.
As you can maybe detect,.as with every other thing I ain’t too fussed nor worried, I’ll just sit back,.carry on,.hope some kind of health situation does not bite me on the arse, and see what life chucks at me.
We currently have a number of drivers who are winding down towards retirement, doing two or three days a week, while still getting company benefits like sick pay etc.
I believe the average age at our depot is 54, so company might have a problem soon, if more drivers go part time or retire early.
Carryfast:
to support the lifestyles of the workshy younger generations.
that made a snot bubble come out. At the risk of repeating myself irony isn’t something that mummy does to your shirts.
No irony is being told to apply for suitable work with a knackered back and over 60 let’s say like operating a supermarket till.
Then being told that you’ll also have to do warehouse labouring as part of the job because doing all the easy work isn’t fair to the under 30s.
At least the ones who can be bothered to work and aren’t out joyriding on their bicycles or sitting around, claiming UC, or student loans with no intention of paying them back.
robroy:
There is far more to life than spending it in a [zb] truck …with spotlights.on the roof and such crap
GASP! Now thatis blasphemy!
Given the keys to a nice new or near new Range Rover and told to get it to its lucky owner anywhere in the country and getting paid for it is my idea of ‘work’ and as good as life gets.Them spend the cash on a summer foreign road trip for my hols is just a bonus.
Who needs retirement.
The problem with getting people to return is the current work environment, in that all the joy has been sucked out of employment and to some degree running your own business.
All sectors are over regulated and all with targets, we are humans, we are not robots and the final straw is a camera in your working environment, we are not mentally attuned to this.
I had many occupations in the UK and they were all ruined by paperwork and those who thought it very important, the controls and the regulations, this means the craic with your colleagues was gone, as who can you really trust?
The UK is akin to a Stalinist regime in my opinion in many ways, but not as severe as yet!
I did run my own business in the UK, but Brexit put paid to that, however EU regulation meant I was operating illegally in the last few years, but the many EU agencies and Govts. that I supplied never seemed to bother! Including Interpol!
Anyways I now live in Portugal because I saved my money and realised I could buy my freedom and my last day of work in the UK was Sept. 2020 at the age of 56, I moved to Portugal in Oct. 2021 and having been here for 14 months I can quite categorically state that I would rather be euthanised than have to return to the UK, I also feel as though I have been conned for most of my life by successive UK Govts.
The UK will never see long term investment, it will never ever look after it`s employees in any meaningful way and the chickens are now coming home to roost as most have lost faith in the country and what it has to offer.
The UK is finished in every way as far as I am concerned.
The irony class 1 driver involuntarily exitted the industry because of the health damage caused by being used for heavy manual handling ‘other duties’ in the rush to minimise truck miles.
As opposed to being thanked by employer and customers for car delivery service levels throughout the country.
The irony class 1 driver involuntarily exitted the industry because of the health damage caused by being used for heavy manual handling ‘other duties’ in the rush to minimise truck miles.
As opposed to being thanked by employer and customers for car delivery service levels throughout the country.
No irony, you retired in your early 40’s so you can hardly say ‘who needs retirement?’ after a lifetime of hard work now can you Bravo on being able to drive cars places though, that’s quite some achievement well done. There is of course a little irony in me saying that tho to be fair
The irony class 1 driver involuntarily exitted the industry because of the health damage caused by being used for heavy manual handling ‘other duties’ in the rush to minimise truck miles.
As opposed to being thanked by employer and customers for car delivery service levels throughout the country.
No irony, you retired in your early 40’s so you can hardly say ‘who needs retirement?’ after a lifetime of hard work now can you Bravo on being able to drive cars places though, that’s quite some achievement well done. There is of course a little irony in me saying that tho to be fair
Loads of irony in being given the keys to a near new Range Rover and asked politely if I’d like to run it up to Glasgow, night out at decent hotel.Return with almost as new pex for just one example.
As opposed to drive an artic a couple of hours each way to/from Midlands hub and instructed to spend the rest of a 10 hour shift working as a warehouse labourer.
You seem to have some attention deficit disorder in your understanding of the definition of retirement in my case.
On that note I’d happily do this job past the age of 66.It far better reflects the job description of ‘driver’ than the ‘other duties’ increasingly expected of truck drivers to reduce truck miles.
Carryfast:
Loads of irony in being given the keys to a near new Range Rover and asked politely if I’d like to run it up to Glasgow, night out at decent hotel.Return with almost as new pex for just one example.
As opposed to drive an artic a couple of hours each way to/from Midlands hub and instructed to spend the rest of a 10 hour shift working as a warehouse labourer.
You seem to have some attention deficit disorder in your understanding of the definition of retirement in my case.
On that note I’d happily do this job past the age of 66.It far better reflects the job description of ‘driver’ than the ‘other duties’ increasingly expected of truck drivers to reduce truck miles.
You were medically retired for many years and now you are claiming you weren’t? Everyone struggles with Carryfast definitions because you make them up as it seems you have your life story. Seems we can’t trust a single thing you say.
Carryfast:
Loads of irony in being given the keys to a near new Range Rover and asked politely if I’d like to run it up to Glasgow, night out at decent hotel.Return with almost as new pex for just one example.
In other words your disastrous personality hasn’t destroyed how they see you. Yet. Nice that you are finally getting to experience work in the same way that 99% of us alway have. Long May it continue. Happy new year
Iv,e read some deppressing threads on this site but this one is up there with the worst. A few days off work at xmastime and some of you so called drivers can,t cope. Its seems to me you can,t hack the solitary life without getting so negative, try a job on a production line or on a machine in a factory. I can,t read any more I,m off to the boozer.
Merry Christmas.
Carryfast:
Loads of irony in being given the keys to a near new Range Rover and asked politely if I’d like to run it up to Glasgow, night out at decent hotel.Return with almost as new pex for just one example.
As opposed to drive an artic a couple of hours each way to/from Midlands hub and instructed to spend the rest of a 10 hour shift working as a warehouse labourer.
You seem to have some attention deficit disorder in your understanding of the definition of retirement in my case.
On that note I’d happily do this job past the age of 66.It far better reflects the job description of ‘driver’ than the ‘other duties’ increasingly expected of truck drivers to reduce truck miles.
You were medically retired for many years and now you are claiming you weren’t? Everyone struggles with Carryfast definitions because you make them up as it seems you have your life story. Seems we can’t trust a single thing you say.
Carryfast:
Loads of irony in being given the keys to a near new Range Rover and asked politely if I’d like to run it up to Glasgow, night out at decent hotel.Return with almost as new pex for just one example.
In other words your disastrous personality hasn’t destroyed how they see you. Yet. Nice that you are finally getting to experience work in the same way that 99% of us alway have. Long May it continue. Happy new year
By definition involuntary termination of employment on medical grounds is in no way shape or form ‘retirement’.
However early retirement can then obviously be a resulting knock on effect of it, after the fact, depending on available options.
Ironically I don’t think that I’ve ever judged anyone’s personality just based on what they’ve posted on a forum.
That obviously says more about your personality than mine.
WaggerWagger888:
Iv,e read some deppressing threads on this site but this one is up there with the worst. A few days off work at xmastime and some of you so called drivers can,t cope. Its seems to me you can,t hack the solitary life without getting so negative, try a job on a production line or on a machine in a factory. I can,t read any more I,m off to the boozer.
Merry Christmas.
It’s precisely because being out on the road driving places, is the antithesis of being shut up in a factory in which every hour seems like 2 or 3, is what provides the incentive to miss the job while sitting at home watching Tele and eating turkey sandwiches.
Assuming anyone could actually find a turkey this year and if they did the thing hadn’t gone rotten in the country’s basket case supply chain.
WaggerWagger888:
Iv,e read some deppressing threads on this site but this one is up there with the worst. A few days off work at xmastime and some of you so called drivers can,t cope. Its seems to me you can,t hack the solitary life without getting so negative, try a job on a production line or on a machine in a factory. I can,t read any more I,m off to the boozer.
Merry Christmas.
Maybe some of us dont want to be stuck at home in the bad weather when we know that theres work out there needing done. I would rather have free time in the summer.
Carryfast:
As opposed to drive an artic a couple of hours each way to/from Midlands hub and instructed to spend the rest of a 10 hour shift working as a warehouse labourer.
Where do you get the idea from that this actually happens? It’s never happened to me nor anyone I know. Just like your inability to secure Continental work, you seem to extrapolate your own experiences across the entire industry when it just isn’t so.
Carryfast:
As opposed to drive an artic a couple of hours each way to/from Midlands hub and instructed to spend the rest of a 10 hour shift working as a warehouse labourer.
Where do you get the idea from that this actually happens? It’s never happened to me nor anyone I know. Just like your inability to secure Continental work, you seem to extrapolate your own experiences across the entire industry when it just isn’t so.
Got to admire how determined he is with this view despite literally no one ever sharing the experience If he’d driven a lorry in the past 25 years he’d realise that as time goes on companies get ever more strict about drivers in the warehouse. So many places don’t allow it these days
Carryfast:
As opposed to drive an artic a couple of hours each way to/from Midlands hub and instructed to spend the rest of a 10 hour shift working as a warehouse labourer.
Where do you get the idea from that this actually happens? It’s never happened to me nor anyone I know. Just like your inability to secure Continental work, you seem to extrapolate your own experiences across the entire industry when it just isn’t so.
Got to say I’ve never experienced it either tbh.
Nor had any probs getting Euro work in the distant past…In fact I was offered a run while I was off just last week by someone I know, who does fridge work, but declined, …I put it on my ‘Reallly couldn’t be arsed anymore’’ list. despite him offering to overpay me.
If the wife said she would come,.I may have went after saying…
Extra Crimbo prezzie pet,.a holiday abroad.
But she sussed me.
I’m 57 and after a couple of days off I start getting itchy feet and start looking forward to getting back to work.
…story of my life. 
