Off Topic A Place to have a Moan about Anything

Have you tried writing to the company with a CV and reasons for wanting to work with them? Or gone to their website to see if they have a contact?

 

same as agencies in construction , parasites, pimps , add nothing , take plenty , you have to ask how the conditions were created for them to have these pivotal roles , a tax on a worker .... in construction they help keep organised labour at bay , casualisation and low wages ..... they not only take a cut from the employer , they take money from workers via payment companies and ruinous agreements , false self employment , umbrella companies etc ..........what a way to live !

 

Goddamn time and motion study people, who mostly don't know their ass from a hole in the ground. Quite truthfully, we often got pretty bloody busy during a drilling operation, and in all modesty, we did know what we were doing. Then for a week, sometimes, we had these clowns buzzing around like mosquitoes. Very annoying, don't recall them ever contributing much to the improvement in basic procedures.

 

As I said Ron I do all I can to ascertain the company so I can apply direct but sometimes that isn't possible unfortunately.

 

I assumed you had Chan but just thought I'd check

 

strange isn't it , just by cycling it seems to anger those in a motor vehicle , be good when fuel runs out !

 

Bloody cyclists, they think they own the road. And what right do they have to spout off at drivers who's only concern is the welfare of the ignorant dick on the bike.

 

Fight

 

indeed , it's funny how most car occupants feel safe in their micro shell , on a cycle you are acutely aware of vulnerability and your behaviour is often driven by self preservation , hence the term defensive riding , where you take a primary position on the road to stop being close passed , forced into gutter / kerb / pothole , i see many new cyclists who hug the side of the road , erroneously thinking they are safer !

 

indeed oddy , a hard lesson to learn , so keeping three feet is essential , which of course puts you in the middle of the road , and unthinking car people proclaiming " how much room do you want , think you own the road "
For me it's self preservation every time , if that means a motorist is delayed for a few seconds so be it !

 

In my wildest dreams I did not envisage the 'war' between motorists and cyclists would be brought into my living room.

I believe that the participants in and supporters of both forms of perambulation should join together and start assassinating these f****rs who walk aimlessly staring, as if in a drug induced trance, at the screens on their mobile telephones and other modern devices.

Yours.

Ebr. Scrooge.

 

I have no problem with cyclists or horses and always slow down, indicate and give them a wide berth

I think, maybe, the people who have no patience could be taking the view that cyclist and horses don't pay road tax. In France no one pays road tax so that wouldn't apply here

I presume that cyclists and horses have some law that gives them as much right to be on the road as a vehicle; they were there first

People in parked cars or who pull in and throw their doors open without thinking are a bloody pest and shouldn't be allowed to drive

 

indeed ron , people don't pay road tax here either , haven't done for decades but like a lot of misnomers they carry on with proclaiming it as it suits their prejudicial view , for the record it's an emission tax for vehicles , hence electric ones dont pay either . Pedestrians , cyclists and horses do have an inalienable right to use the public highway , motorists are there by permission ( license ) which of course can be revoked . An uncomfortable truth for a minority who think otherwise, and car culture generally reinforces that attitude , perhaps all drivers need to spend a year on probation with a moped , will give them great awareness and a taste of vulnerability whilst educating them about road sense !

 

When I used to ride a bike (as a youngster) there weren't many cars around

 

weren't many cyclists either , more today than since just after the war , and most are leisure rather than commuters , i rode to school every day in the sixties , the road was busy even then , but never felt threatening , was i unaware ? It's funny , i get people asking why i don't wear a helmet , i tell them because cycling is not dangerous , and after 52 years of it i'm not going to change. You won't see many dutch people with helmets , or lycra for that matter !

 

Gaz.
Dr Chris ( alongside brother Dr Xand ) is best known, in our house, for this:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/shows/operation-ouch

Enjoy!

 

Most annoying thing about cyclists is most of them just cycle through a red light and often mount the pavement. Whilst all other forms of transport wait for the red light to change to green! These cyclists are a law unto themselves often irresponsibly weaving in and out of traffic at rush hour. Common sense really should be thats not a safe thing to do!