Got to site this morning to be greeted by my contracts manager.

He said the main contractor on site had warned him of a high risk HR issue....

And that one of their joiners was about to arrive on site after being off 'sick' and any piss taking or prejudice attitude would result in instant dismissal.

Wondering what the fuck was going on...the joiner tipped up and low and behold..

 

Its a tranny!....got little man boobs and long hair....awaiting the operation next month!!

I work with a few lads from the Barrow / Walney Island area and they are absolutely spot on.

 

 

Roanhead site?

No.. they are drivers who ship waste to Carlisle, Penrith or Workington which are the 3 landfills that I cover.

 

I have been to Barrows tip (dunno it's proper name) and the redundant one on Walney island, but only to do quick jobs there.

Barrow's tip (WRC) is at Roanhead.

Surgeon who conducted the first ever sex change has now repented and realised that he has invented the state sponsored mutilation of the mentally ill.

True story

 

A mate of mine was driving into Barrow a couple of evenings back, when he spotted 3 lads in their early twenties at the side of the road.

 

They were all sharing what looked like a meat pie my mate said, but they were throwing bits of the crust into the road.

 

Each time they did this a flock of seagulls (not that one) would swoop down for the crust

 

They were choosing to do this every time a car approached.

 

This is what passes for evening entertainment up there it would seem. I'm half hoping we don't get the contract.

True story

 

A mate of mine was driving into Barrow a couple of evenings back, when he spotted 3 lads in their early twenties at the side of the road.

 

They were all sharing what looked like a meat pie my mate said, but they were throwing bits of the crust into the road.

 

Each time they did this a flock of seagulls (not that one) would swoop down for the crust

 

They were choosing to do this every time a car approached.

 

This is what passes for evening entertainment up there it would seem. I'm half hoping we don't get the contract.

 

Thats sick. But fucking funny!!

Barrow's tip (WRC) is at Roanhead.

 

 

That's the Household Waste Recycling Site I believe, I think have been there too but just delivering some equipment.

 

The landfill I was talking about is at Bennett Bank (the one that's still open) and is operated by a company called WRG. I don't work for them but we were asked to do a bit of work for them. The one that I've been to on Walney Island is closed down but it must be maintained and monitored for 30 years after it closed.

Anyway, what happened to site banter?

 

Nobody on a building site is so important to be immune from pisstaking (not bullying or blind prejudice - they are totally different issues), it's what makes it a brilliant environment to work.

 

Ripping the piss out of each other in the brew cabin is what builds a team spirit.

 

It's happened since Pontius Pilate built the Chester New Road with Paddy, Mick, and Thor. If you can't take that how the fuck are you going to take a bollocking from a site manager? Theres no airs and graces there, it is what is is, melt and you should be working in a fucking library or sommat.

 

Tip toeing around some fucking freak in the brew cabin....fuck that. She's either washing the pots or he's dealing the cards. One of the other. Make its fucking mind up and move on.

 

To become accepted, it gives and takes the same stick as the gingers, fatties, baldies, sambos, Scots, micks, taffs....otherwise it is well and truly a fucking social outcast.

Anyway, what happened to site banter?

 

Nobody on a building site is so important to be immune from pisstaking (not bullying or blind prejudice - they are totally different issues), it's what makes it a brilliant environment to work.

 

Ripping the piss out of each other in the brew cabin is what builds a team spirit.

 

It's happened since Pontius Pilate built the Chester New Road with Paddy, Mick, and Thor. If you can't take that how the fuck are you going to take a bollocking from a site manager? Theres no airs and graces there, it is what is is, melt and you should be working in a fucking library or sommat.

 

Tip toeing around some fucking freak in the brew cabin....fuck that. She's either washing the pots or he's dealing the cards. One of the other. Make its fucking mind up and move on.

 

To become accepted, it gives and takes the same stick as the gingers, fatties, baldies, sambos, Scots, micks, taffs....otherwise it is well and truly a fucking social outcast.

 

 

In one!

 

edit... I'm pleased to see you gave us Scots a capital S in our title.. shows some respect sadly lacking on here.

Edited June 22, 201115 yr by jazza

In one!

 

edit... I'm pleased to see you gave us Scots a capital S in our title.. shows some respect sadly lacking on here.

 

They're not a bad bunch. Mad drunkards, but I suppose thats what makes them what they are

Building sites are full of gays and grasses these days.

 

On Carillio sites they award cash prizes every month to snitches.

 

I bet some builldings are being completed without a single sparky's turd lodged in the cable trays nowadays.

 

Farcical.

Anyway, what happened to site banter?

 

Nobody on a building site is so important to be immune from pisstaking (not bullying or blind prejudice - they are totally different issues), it's what makes it a brilliant environment to work.

 

Ripping the piss out of each other in the brew cabin is what builds a team spirit.

 

It's happened since Pontius Pilate built the Chester New Road with Paddy, Mick, and Thor. If you can't take that how the fuck are you going to take a bollocking from a site manager? Theres no airs and graces there, it is what is is, melt and you should be working in a fucking library or sommat.

 

Tip toeing around some fucking freak in the brew cabin....fuck that. She's either washing the pots or he's dealing the cards. One of the other. Make its fucking mind up and move on.

 

To become accepted, it gives and takes the same stick as the gingers, fatties, baldies, sambos, Scots, micks, taffs....otherwise it is well and truly a fucking social outcast.

 

A fine post

Building sites are full of gays and grasses these days.

 

On Carillio sites they award cash prizes every month to snitches.

 

 

Done correctly, this can work.

 

If someone is working in an unsafe environment then they have every right to complain. Otherwise we'd be back to killing two a week. Why should your wife feed your kids because someone else left an unsafe environment that caused your death?

 

It's how the reporting is managed thats the problem.

 

Elf and Safety Police often think thats what they are, there to dish out punishment. Wrong. They are there to plan and prevent, but some of them fucking love it. I suspect most of these people were bullied at school.

 

What fucks me off most is these who come out of the forces, do a 6 week Nebosh and all of a sudden they are telling me how to install sheet piles in running sand in the middle of a highway. Fuck off. I wouldn't let some of them fill the fucking kettle.

 

But if they were doing their job proactivley instead of reativley (and there are some evil bastards out there who take pride in red carding folk off site when they dont know shit from clay), there would be no need for punishment in the first place.

 

A quick chat, tool box talk, but more importantly decent communication and planning, risks can quite easily be illiminated before they fester into something more serious.

My last workplace was ruthless.

It's like natural selection isn't it?

You still on Furness College?

 

Think we're going to be doing that one soon.

 

Now Barrow is VERY fucking wierd.

Barrow is a fucking great place, i blended in straight away.

'kinell mate, must be tha same in Barrer as the Ale House in Leyth

Done correctly, this can work.

 

If someone is working in an unsafe environment then they have every right to complain. Otherwise we'd be back to killing two a week. Why should your wife feed your kids because someone else left an unsafe environment that caused your death?

 

It's how the reporting is managed thats the problem.

 

Elf and Safety Police often think thats what they are, there to dish out punishment. Wrong. They are there to plan and prevent, but some of them fucking love it. I suspect most of these people were bullied at school.

 

What fucks me off most is these who come out of the forces, do a 6 week Nebosh and all of a sudden they are telling me how to install sheet piles in running sand in the middle of a highway. Fuck off. I wouldn't let some of them fill the fucking kettle.

 

But if they were doing their job proactivley instead of reativley (and there are some evil bastards out there who take pride in red carding folk off site when they dont know shit from clay), there would be no need for punishment in the first place.

 

A quick chat, tool box talk, but more importantly decent communication and planning, risks can quite easily be illiminated before they fester into something more serious.

 

Health & Safety is quite OTT where I work (not my business the day job).

 

Had to issue a risk assement the other day on walking up and down stairs whilst carrying anthing... Apparently if someone orders a 2kg drill we have to put the item in the goods lift walk downstairs then go back to the lift.. Daft..

 

Unfortunalty though as the claims culture continues companies have to cover their backs.

 

Ive been told by one company issuing public liabilty that I have to be doing risk assesments for my own business beforehand.. I'm a sole trader with no employee's.. Just daft !

You still on Furness College?

 

Think we're going to be doing that one soon.

 

Now Barrow is VERY fucking wierd.

 

 

No mate, off it thank fuck, that place is like chernobyl, all fuckin mutants. Gotta to a day or two in a few weeks when they test it but that's it, another 3 lifts to go in but knocked them back.

What you doin on there?

Health & Safety is quite OTT where I work (not my business the day job).

 

Had to issue a risk assement the other day on walking up and down stairs whilst carrying anthing... Apparently if someone orders a 2kg drill we have to put the item in the goods lift walk downstairs then go back to the lift.. Daft..

 

Unfortunalty though as the claims culture continues companies have to cover their backs.

 

Ive been told by one company issuing public liabilty that I have to be doing risk assesments for my own business beforehand.. I'm a sole trader with no employee's.. Just daft !

 

So you have a manual handling issue. Easy.

 

Prepare a generic RA listing what could go wrong and what the control meausres are, and what the residual risks are. Eg, lifting and carrying an item can cause injury - medium risk of occurance and injury, control measures are as simple as 'dont lift anything too heavy or bulky (set some weights nd dimensions if you like), keep access and egress clear of obstructions, residual risk is now low.

 

Fucking about up and down lifts with a drill is fucking nonsence and whoever said that is a cunt.

 

There is no law, contrary to what any of these numb cunt will tell you that there is a maximum lifting limit (the 25kg rule for example)

 

The rules are, to paraphrase, 'lift only what you are comfortable lifting'. We have lads who can pick up a 45kg kerb with one hand, we have office folk who struggle with a 3kg box of paper.

 

PM me your email address and I shall send you a Manual Handling Tool Box Talk when I get back from getting wankdered in France.

 

Fucking about up and down lifts with a drill is fucking nonsence and whoever said that is a cunt.

 

It really wouldn't surprise me if the lift thing is right. We're not allowed to carry anything of any weight here up and down the stairs here, even if we're completely comfortable doing it. We have to use the lift.

 

Health and Safety has it's place, however, some of the stuff is ridiculous. We have monthly reports sent out of ANY/ALL recordables that have happened at any of our plants across the world. Once saw one entry that said "Employee stabbed self with pen".

 

Some of the entries on there I'd be too embarrassed to tell anyone I'd done. At what point does the law simply say, "That was down to you being a clumsy bastard!"

 

 

PM me your email address and I shall send you a Manual Handling Tool Box Talk when I get back from getting wankdered in France.

 

I sincerely hope you've undertaken a full risk analysis of getting wankered in France.