Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 4)
Discussion
ClockworkCupcake said:
The email I just had from a recruitment agent that started with "I have a copy of your CV in front of me and I am very keen to discuss an opportunity with you" and concludes with "Please send me a CV ASAP" 
Forget this recruitment agency as they are obviously retards/a
holes and couldn't organise a shag in a brothel!!mickk said:
Train carriages. How hard would it be to mark out exactly where the doors open on the platforms, doesn't matter where I stand the doors open either to the left or right of me.
Two marks on the platform that's all I'm asking for!
The Singapore mass transit railway trains always stop with the doors exactly by the passengers waiting to board. And there are no drivers! it's all automatic. (copy to ASLEF).Two marks on the platform that's all I'm asking for!
are businesses allowed to burn stuff in a drum? behind our row of houses about 100m away are various industrial buildings. This 1 place seems to burn things on almost a daily basis. Doesn't smell like wood or coal, almost plasticy, rubbery almost electrical burning smell. in any case the smell wafts so far you have to close your windows. annoys me all the time.
nonsequitur said:
The Singapore mass transit railway trains always stop with the doors exactly by the passengers waiting to board. And there are no drivers! it's all automatic. (copy to ASLEF).
and the doors/carriages are all numbered, so you can tell someone you are meeting that you are "by door 16" or similar. ambuletz said:
are businesses allowed to burn stuff in a drum? behind our row of houses about 100m away are various industrial buildings. This 1 place seems to burn things on almost a daily basis. Doesn't smell like wood or coal, almost plasticy, rubbery almost electrical burning smell. in any case the smell wafts so far you have to close your windows. annoys me all the time.
Probably worth reporting to the Environment Agency and/or local councilnonsequitur said:
mickk said:
Train carriages. How hard would it be to mark out exactly where the doors open on the platforms, doesn't matter where I stand the doors open either to the left or right of me.
Two marks on the platform that's all I'm asking for!
The Singapore mass transit railway trains always stop with the doors exactly by the passengers waiting to board. And there are no drivers! it's all automatic. (copy to ASLEF).Two marks on the platform that's all I'm asking for!
mikal83 said:
nonsequitur said:
mickk said:
Train carriages. How hard would it be to mark out exactly where the doors open on the platforms, doesn't matter where I stand the doors open either to the left or right of me.
Two marks on the platform that's all I'm asking for!
The Singapore mass transit railway trains always stop with the doors exactly by the passengers waiting to board. And there are no drivers! it's all automatic. (copy to ASLEF).Two marks on the platform that's all I'm asking for!
Shakermaker said:
Makes you wonder who is the moron in this situation sometimes...
In related news, my response to permies banging on about what an easy life contracting is, and how I'm earning so much more money than them for doing the same job, is to offer to help them start up in contracting, citing the fact that I have mentored several permies into freelance in the past, and to ask what is stopping them from entering into the same easy lucrative life as mine allegedly is.
ambuletz said:
are businesses allowed to burn stuff in a drum? behind our row of houses about 100m away are various industrial buildings. This 1 place seems to burn things on almost a daily basis. Doesn't smell like wood or coal, almost plasticy, rubbery almost electrical burning smell. in any case the smell wafts so far you have to close your windows. annoys me all the time.
It will be someone burning electrical cable to get the plastic off. The EPA I believe covers it. Report it to the council.
MartG said:
ambuletz said:
are businesses allowed to burn stuff in a drum? behind our row of houses about 100m away are various industrial buildings. This 1 place seems to burn things on almost a daily basis. Doesn't smell like wood or coal, almost plasticy, rubbery almost electrical burning smell. in any case the smell wafts so far you have to close your windows. annoys me all the time.
Probably worth reporting to the Environment Agency and/or local councils.
[Baldrick sits down next to George.]
George Ah, here we are: Twenty Minuters. Oh, damn! Haven't got
the card yet. Ah, but the caption says `Twenty minutes is
the average amount of time new pilots spend in the air.'
BA Twenty minutes.
George That's right, Sir.
BA I had a twenty hour watch yesterday, with four hours
overtime, in two feet of water.
[George, then Baldrick, rise from the cot and move to the table.]
George Well then, for goodness sake, Sir, why don't we join?
Baldrick Yeah, be better than just sitting around here all day on our
elbows.
BA No thank you. No thank you. I have no desire to hang
around with a bunch of upper-class delinquents, do twenty
minutes work, and then spend the rest of the day loafing
about in Paris drinking gallons of champagne and having
dozens of moist, pink, highly-experienced young French
peasant girls galloping up and down my . . . Hang on!
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