You Must Never Give BIBs a Bollocking In Public Ever

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AndyBrew said:

mybrainhurts said:

jimbop1 said:

At the end of the day you don't swear at the police and call them idiots!

Just at the beginning of the day, then..?

and anybody else is fair game, I can't remember the last time I called a total stranger a "fking idiot" let alone a serving Police officer lol!

I do. I work on construction sites. If I see someone do something dangerous I'll shout and swear. It doesn't happen often, last time I remember was at an apprentice jumping from the scaffold round one block of flats to the scaffold round the flats next door to save himself running downstairs out the door of the flats he was in then over to next door, through the door and up those stairs. Not a big jump but a hellova drop if he arsed it. On the odd occasion I see someone not wearing their hard hat on site I point at the offending party shout something like "for fk's sake" and knock with my knuckles on top of mine. Next time I see the same head bare he gone. Foremen, Site Agents and Banksmen are bad for swearing. If a police officer in the course of his duties walked into the path of plant under a banksman's guidance he'd better have a thick skin.

I notice Police seem to think in such circumstances the guys shouting are getting a kick out of getting one over on BIBs. They have a default attitude that everyone who crosses them a badun. It's not the case. It's cultural and automatic. Seniority is not an issue. Even as a commercial manager walking around a site I am not immune from getting hollered and sworn at by a labourer if I inadvertently walked into an area where I put myself in danger. If it puts a jet up my arse and I get to hell out the road then the guy has my thanks. There's another thing going on. If I as a commercial manager get sworn, bked by an individual of much lower seniority I lose a lot of face. That loss of face is more of an incentive to be safe than the possibility of suffering harm on site (we all suffer a bit from it wont happen to me syndrome)

The following clip sums up attitudes to safety in a dangerous environment culture very well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mu51rszgotI

I'll tell you another thing and it'll be interesting to hear a plod perspective. In the odd occasion where a serving police officer finds himself in the situation where someone has to tell the BIB "I'm the fking boss here" it's not the word fk that's the police officers main issue.