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Well my kids never needed to be supervised by the nanny state and neither will my grandson or any that come along in the future mate.
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"3. Blame and claim culture
Did you chip a fingernail at work? Or did you sit down on the loo at work and momentarily experience discomfort because the loo seat was a bit cold? Even worse, did someone wilfully injure your feelings by calling you a 'div' at work? Sue those buggers! Phone our hotline now, and we'll get you millions of pounds!You know what used to happen if you fell over in the street? Everyone would laugh at you. Certainly they wouldn't offer you money.
Disclaimer – we will not get you millions of pounds. We will get you up to and including five hundred new pounds, of which we will take up to a hundred percent.
Everyone everywhere is scared of everything. Even I have days where I don't want to leave the house in case a meteor falls on my head, or in case a terrorist comes up and tries to do terror at me.
But when I was growing up, getting injured was not a career. It was a vocation, at best. We did not expect to have our clumsiness rewarded with money. That's what clowns and Eddie The Eagle were for.
Now, if you're short of money and don't want to ring WONGACASHNOW4U, you can simply claim you were tripped over by a member of Al Qaeda, or that someone looked at you funny, and all your financial problems will disappear!
Our equivalent – looking where you were going -
Of course, work accidents did happen, and they were generally quite serious, but back then people tried to avoid getting injured. They didn't like being injured, what with the pain and all. Getting injured was seen as a bad thing, not as an equivalent to winning the lottery.
When I was growing up, if you tripped over in the street you were unlucky, or a div. If you broke a nail or had your 'feelings injured' while at work, then you were a crybaby, and didn't deserve the job in the first place.
By the way, I wrote these last paragraphs on the toilet. Just thought you'd like to know."
On one site I worked on the procedure on discovering a fire was to shout 'fire' 3 times. We were told the Polish for 'fire is 'ogień', pronounced 'oggy', so to go to the fire muster point upon hearing 'oggy oggy oggy', and not simply reply 'oi oi oi'.Some many foreign " trades " on site nowdays you would have to shout fire in 7 languages !!
Thomas De La Rue were pretty strict, they print money (for those who don't know)
Searched on the way in, several layers of security on the way in. Accompanied at all times, the same layers of security on the way out and searched again on the final one.
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