Jobs-worth LOLs

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Johnnytheboy said:

My neighbour told me this one yesterday, concerning our kerbside recycling service (like binmen only more jobsworth).

I had one involving them. I got a note on our recycling bin one day to say that they hadn't emptied it because there were "non recyclable items" in it.

When I queried it with the council - they sent somebody round to inspect the contents.

The offending item was a small aluminium tray.

Guy from the council: "we can't recycle that"
Me: "but its made from aluminium"
Guy from council: "exactly"
Me: "but you recycle aluminum cans"
Guy from council: "it's not a can though"
me: "so you can recycle aluminium......but only if it's can shaped"
Guy from council: "Yep"
me: "..........."

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Wife had a good one yesterday.

She went into the Doctors surgery for a routine check-up that they had requested she attend - they then berated her because according to her medical records she wasn't due that particular check-up for at least another 18 months

Edited by Moonhawk on Tuesday 28th October 10:04

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Johnnytheboy said:

Funkycoldribena said:

Chap I know put his bin out but they didnt empty it as it was just inside his gate (slightly blocks the pavement if put right out).According to the council bloke when he rang up, "they're not allowed on the property".Come Christmas time he pinned an envelope to his front door with "Happy Christmas Binmen" on it.They took it.It was empty.

Same neighbour - who is disabled - has found out she doesn't have to drag her wheelie bin outside her gate if she is put on a special list. If you're not on "the list" they won't step on to your property for "health and safety" reasons.

Unless (it seems) it's to pick up what appears to be a tip

Edited by Moonhawk on Tuesday 28th October 10:03

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Pebbles167 said:

Me: Hi, I haven't received my licence back yet, after having category A added.

DVLA girl: I can confirm it has been sent to you, and signed for.

Me: By who?

DVLA: You.

..................

Me: I've never lived anywhere else, you have sent it to the wrong address. Can I please have that address so that I may have them send it to me?

DVLA: No, that's a security breach. We take security seriously.

So they wouldn't give you the address it was sent to despite insisting it was signed for by you (and so as far as they were concerned was sent to what they believed to be your address)

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HereBeMonsters said:

StottyEvo said:

She told me that she needed to see the IDs of my friends as we were in a group -_- despite them being and looking older than me and one having a particularly large beard. Awkward old bint

Er, no. Following the law, actually. And if she's a personal licence holder, she could lose her licence for not doing that.

For not IDing people who clearly look over the age of 18. Which law states that?

http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/l_to_o/licensing_of_al...

She could be prosecuted if she supplies alcohol to somebody under 18 - or if the person buying the alcohol does so (especially if she suspects it may be being bought for that purpose).

But a licence holder cannot be prosecuted for supplying alcohol to somebody who is and appears to be over the age of 18 - just because they didn't verify that the person they were supplying were actually over the age of 18. The minimum requirement for licence holders is that they implement an age verification policy which requires people who appear to be under the age of 18 to be challenged for ID. Whether somebody appears to be over the age of 18 or not is highly subjective.

Also - it's not actually illegal for under 18s to consume alcohol bought by an adult. Children over the age of 5 are allowed to consume alcohol at home under the supervision of a parent or guardian. Also 16-17 year olds can legally consume alcohol on a licensed premises as long as the drink (beer, wine or cider) accompanies a table meal and has been bought by somebody over 18.

Shops and supermarkets refusing to serve adults just because they have a child with them goes directly against what the law allows - unless the shop/supermarket suspect the alcohol is going to be given to the child to consume unsupervised.

Edited by Moonhawk on Wednesday 29th October 10:14

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omgus said:

This

One of the company sites was marked down for an audit in April for having no COSHH on hand soap and then in June a different audit pulled aside the manager and told him that he was going a bit OTT on the HSSE and used the example of the hand soap COSHH sheet he'd been told to make 10weeks earlier.


Some H&S is brilliant but so many (normally jobs-worthy) people have managed to create jobs for themselves because of 'elf'n'safety and they don't have a fking clue about how to actually implement or use it sensibly.

Yep. If H&S rules are implemented in a silly way - people lose respect for them overall and so instead of making the situation safer, by over egging the pudding, people may actually be making things worse.

The application of H&S rules should be commensurate with the risk.

I'm still waiting to find the fist example of a "Caution - Wet Floor Sign" sign. Such a sign would be placed next to the actual "Caution - Wet Floor" sign - in response to somebody tripping over said "Caution - Wet Floor" sign.

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omgus said:

How about



b.b.but........?!?

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handpaper said:

As the younger will gleefully tell anyone who might comment, the minimum age for the consumption of alcoholic drinks at home and under adult supervision is......
Five.

Even in a licenced establishment it's 16 as long as it accompanies a table meal and is actually purchased by somebody over the age of 18.

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Don't know whether this belongs here but:

I booked a van to move house. Booked from 10am this morning until 10am thursday (specifically to miss the morning rush hour at the place i'm dropping it off).

Just arrived at the van hire place a little early (45 mins) because my wife had a hospital appointment and dropped me off first - so I thought i'd go into the office and get things moving.

Guy behind the desk says that although the van is already here sitting waiting to be collected - if I take it now, I'd have to drop it off at 9:15 or be charged a whole extra day's hire.

Surely it's no skin off their nose to let the van go a few minutes early if it's just sat there?

Anyway - i'm now sat in the office, looking at the van waiting for 10 o-clock to roll around.

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philmots said:

If I was the guy at the hire place I'd explain something along the lines of that to you with the hope that I wouldn't get called a jobsworth!

I didn't call the guy a jobsworth. I already explained why I stated that this particular example may not belong here.

Even if there is an insurance issue - surely they don't have to charge you a whole extra day's hire just because you turn up half an hour or so early, especially considering this particular hire company do hire by the hour, so their systems are obviously geared up to handle it.

Fine - charge another £5 or £10 to cover the extra insurance - but to not even be given the option......

Perhaps it's just me.

Edited by Moonhawk on Tuesday 31st March 17:06

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STW2010 said:

That defies common sense. How stupid can some people (bin men) be?!?

Not stupid - jobsworthy.

The difference between a stupid person and jobsworthy one is that the stupid person doesn't know what rules/guidance are in place or what they should be doing - whereas the jobsworthy one knows only too well and follows them to the letter even if it means being bloody minded and defying common sense in the process.

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speedyguy said:

I suppose it's unfair for people who live in apartments etc to subsidise your green waste.

By that same argument - should single people or people without kids etc get a rebate on their brown/black/recyclable bins?

Me and my wife pay the same council tax as the couple with three kids across the way. They generate loads more rubbish than we do as evidenced by their larger bins and often multiple bags of additional rubbish.

Unfair also?

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Chris Type R said:

Moonhawk said:

We go to the Broadway Cinema in Letchworth quite a lot (an independent cinema - funded from the Letchworth heritage fund) - Its a great cinema with a fantastic screen, £5 a ticket for mid week showings (even at that price you can still get 2 for 1 on orange Wednesdays) ........and they have a bar

Only reason we didn't go there last night was because they only have 3 screens and had stopped showing this particular movie.

Where is the bar ? Can't say I've ever noticed it

It's right outside the entrance to screen 1 (the large one upstairs). It only opens at certain times (8pm onwards I think) and has a screen pulled down at other times.

We have just moved away from the area - gonna miss it. It had so much more character - like the old city centre cinemas of old. Not like the new 'paint by number' multiplexes

Edited by Moonhawk on Wednesday 15th April 13:24