What is hacking you off today?

[MK Shrimper]

People who try to get back into work after the fire alarm has gone off.. used to be a guaranteed 3 Pinter back in the day

A - it was 930am
B - no pubs were open.
And mostly C - I'd get very sacked. Immediately. It's not 1974.

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

A - it was 930am
B - no pubs were open.
And mostly C - I'd get very sacked. Immediately. It's not 1974.

That's another thing I liked about the 70s. When it was quiet at work, people used to go down the pub, Lol, and no one got sacked for it.

 

[MK Shrimper]

That's another thing I liked about the 70s. When it was quiet at work, people used to go down the pub, Lol, and no one got sacked for it.

When I started as a BR apprentice at Ilford in 88 it was the done thing for management to go down the pub a neck as many as they could in 45 minutes at lunchtime. How times have changed!

 

[SARF]

45 minutes... when did lunch stop being. 11.30 till 1.30 .....?

 

[OldBlueLady]

45 minutes... when did lunch stop being. 11.30 till 1.30 .....?

We get half an hour, well, the full time staff do Me, being hourly paid, I work through and eat at my desk.

 

[rigsby]

On top of The Alps and it is ****ing it down with rain.

Global warming in full effect. The locals have never seen as little snow in February

Did you fly, or drive there?
Was your ski gear ordered via Amazon and delivered to your door over several visits by one of those handy Eastern European slaves in a white van?

 

[rigsby]

That's another thing I liked about the 70s. When it was quiet at work, people used to go down the pub, Lol, and no one got sacked for it.

Since they closed the Fire Station bars, the job has never been the same.

 

[Mad Cyril]

Did you fly, or drive there?
Was your ski gear ordered via Amazon and delivered to your door over several visits by one of those handy Eastern European slaves in a white van?

I walked, raising awareness on the way...

 

[rigsby]

I walked, raising awareness on the way...

I will be flying from Southend in a few weeks with a luxury transfer, courtesy of some marine insurance broker/underwriter type bloke. (So really the British tax payer)

Nothing personal but hope you end up stuck in your chalet for the next 5 days because of some record snow storm......If not enjoy the sunshine.

 

[MK Shrimper]

45 minutes... when did lunch stop being. 11.30 till 1.30 .....?

There were two "shops" at Ilford. A & B, A had an unpaid lunch and had to work 45 minutes longer than B, B's lunch was a paid 20 minute break (IIRC).

B finished on a Friday at 2.30 whilst A had work through until 4pm. This is in the days of clocking in & out.

You can imagine that every apprentice wanted to work in B - it was lighter, electrical work whereas A was the heavy duty bogies & wheelsets (including working on trains with an open **** pipe that we got 50p a day working on). You got absolutely flithy in A shop, your hands and arms got covered in thick black oily gunk.

Happy days (not).

 

[RobM]

Since they closed the Fire Station bars, the job has never been the same.

Tilbury power station, years ago, had a social club on site!

 

[Blueronron]

Tilbury power station, years ago, had a social club on site!

Police bar in Tilbury was the best when working in there

Always remember drinking in there and one of the police dogs was laying down licking his bolloxs

My friend said "I wish I could that " quick as a flash a copper shouted across the bar "Give him a biscuit and he will let you "

 

[SARF]

Since they closed the Fire Station bars, the job has never been the same.

Yup.. everyone knows beer breeds bravery. They need to bring them back ASAP

 

[Steve Giles]

Since they closed the Fire Station bars, the job has never been the same.

You was only there for the dregs at least I had a few pints??? and not that fizzy lager you like

 

[SARF]

That same poxy picture that is wheeled out every time it rains a bit out west .
where the church and all the original village are high and dry and all the new stuff is under 3 feet of water .. also it’s not an effing disaster. It’s a bit of a bad day

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Espanyol's predicatable 4-0 defeat at Wolves yesterday.Shouldn't have played the second team.

 

[Billy Bests boot laces]

Anyone get caught up in the traffic chaos earlier, after the A127 was closed near Rayleigh Weir, due to a fatal accident?.
I didn't personally, but live on the A13 in Leigh, & traffic was crawling by till about 7.30pm. It usually eases up after 6,30pm.

 

[Steve Giles]

Anyone get caught up in the traffic chaos earlier, after the A127 was closed near Rayleigh Weir, due to a fatal accident?.
I didn't personally, but live on the A13 in Leigh, & traffic was crawling by till about 7.30pm. It usually eases up after 6,30pm.

Wife left Basildon at 1645, she got home to Foulness 3 hours later, normally takes her just over an hour !

 

[Billy Bests boot laces]

Wife left Basildon at 1645, she got home to Foulness 3 hours later, normally takes her just over an hour !

Dear me, just what you need at the end of the week??. Hopefully she's got the weekend to recover!.
But looking ahead around 3 years, when all those homes are built opp the Kursall, & 100's more in Rochford, Ashingdon & where-ever, that journey will be a shocker every day?.

 

[Steve Giles]

Dear me, just what you need at the end of the week??. Hopefully she's got the weekend to recover!.
But looking ahead around 3 years, when all those homes are built opp the Kursall, & 100's more in Rochford, Ashingdon & where-ever, that journey will be a shocker every day?.

Agree there, were not far off gridlock