Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 5]

[Evoluzione]

HTP99 said:

Why do big companies, employ people who have never done the actual job, to come in to tell you how to do the job, usually implementing new procedures that just aren't possible in the real world, when they have no real knowledge of exactly what the job entails and the day to day trials and struggles?

Because they both have different qualities.
You don't have your best worker sat at a desk telling people what to do.

[Abbott]

HTP99 said:

Why do big companies, employ people who have never done the actual job, to come in to tell you how to do the job, usually implementing new procedures that just aren't possible in the real world, when they have no real knowledge of exactly what the job entails and the day to day trials and struggles?

This is a favourite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeF1XtlXmqA

[nonsequitur]

Johnspex said:

I would have thought that a man of your infinite jest would have stored that answer amongst the witless puns to pull out at dinner parties should you ever be invited to one.

[basherX]

HTP99 said:

Why do big companies, employ people who have never done the actual job, to come in to tell you how to do the job, usually implementing new procedures that just aren't possible in the real world, when they have no real knowledge of exactly what the job entails and the day to day trials and struggles?

The (valid) theory is that an impartial, external perspective often sees things that are lost to management in a fog of assumption and overriding need to manage daily priorities. It’s also an effective way to glean insight into how other companies have solved similar challenges, given consultants will often have undertaken similar projects elsewhere.

However, your criticism also is valid. I have that observation frequently with audit- there’s a limit to the amount of insight that can be brought by people who’ve only ever spectated and have never played the game. And the fact that external consultants/auditors are not (as) bound by the cost and organisational burden of the things they propose is a significant problem in yielding solutions which are effective and proportionate.

[Johnspex]

nonsequitur said:

Johnspex said:

I would have thought that a man of your infinite jest would have stored that answer amongst the witless puns to pull out at dinner parties should you ever be invited to one.

Hey, Good come back Nono. Perhaps stupid puns aren't your only talent.

[Doofus]

If you're an 'agent', and you get turned, you become a double-agent. If you get turned again, you are a triple-agent. If you get turned again then do you go back to being a double-agent? I've never heard of a quadruple-agent.

[Exige77]

Doofus said:

If you're an 'agent', and you get turned, you become a double-agent. If you get turned again, you are a triple-agent. If you get turned again then do you go back to being a double-agent? I've never heard of a quadruple-agent.

Yoyo agent ?

[Doofus]

Exige77 said:

Doofus said:

If you're an 'agent', and you get turned, you become a double-agent. If you get turned again, you are a triple-agent. If you get turned again then do you go back to being a double-agent? I've never heard of a quadruple-agent.

Yoyo agent ?

Yoyo to you too. But we're probably not supposed to ackowledge each other in public.

[nonsequitur]

Doofus said:

If you're an 'agent', and you get turned, you become a double-agent. If you get turned again, you are a triple-agent. If you get turned again then do you go back to being a double-agent? I've never heard of a quadruple-agent.

George Smiley may know. He posts on PH.

[Jader1973]

Why can’t I put broken drinking glasses in my glass recycling bin?

Bottles and jars only, and no other type of glass allowed.

[V8mate]

Jader1973 said:

Why can’t I put broken drinking glasses in my glass recycling bin?

Bottles and jars only, and no other type of glass allowed.

Lots of glass products, like drinking glasses and glass ovenware aren't recyclable in the same way bottles and jars are, as they contain chemicals which make them tougher, so they don't melt as readily as 'recyclable glass'.

[coppernorks]

Amazed you have a glass recycling bin.

Our council will have no truck with uplifting glass, you have to schlep up to the communal bottle bank with your empties.

[HTP99]

coppernorks said:

Amazed you have a glass recycling bin.

Our council will have no truck with uplifting glass, you have to schlep up to the communal bottle bank with your empties.

Our glass goes into the normal recycling bin along with the cardboard, plastic and tins.

[Doofus]

coppernorks said:

Amazed you have a glass recycling bin.

Our council will have no truck with uplifting glass, you have to schlep up to the communal bottle bank with your empties.

If we had to do that I'd have to buy a Transit.

[glenrobbo]

Doofus said:

coppernorks said:

Amazed you have a glass recycling bin.

Our council will have no truck with uplifting glass, you have to schlep up to the communal bottle bank with your empties.

If we had to do that I'd have to buy a Transit.

Whatever happened to the old bottle deposit return scheme years ago, where you were refunded for each bottle returned to the retailer?

Surely it would be beneficial, less wasteful, and cut out a lot of use of plastic bottles in these environmentally challenged modern times?

[glazbagun]

glenrobbo said:

Doofus said:

coppernorks said:

Amazed you have a glass recycling bin.

Our council will have no truck with uplifting glass, you have to schlep up to the communal bottle bank with your empties.

If we had to do that I'd have to buy a Transit.

Whatever happened to the old bottle deposit return scheme years ago, where you were refunded for each bottle returned to the retailer?

Surely it would be beneficial, less wasteful, and cut out a lot of use of plastic bottles in these environmentally challenged modern times?

Barr used to do that since time immemorial. They stopped it a few years ago as even at 30p/bottle not enough people were returning them for it to be worthwhile!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-wes...

[Exige77]

glenrobbo said:

Doofus said:

coppernorks said:

Amazed you have a glass recycling bin.

Our council will have no truck with uplifting glass, you have to schlep up to the communal bottle bank with your empties.

If we had to do that I'd have to buy a Transit.

Whatever happened to the old bottle deposit return scheme years ago, where you were refunded for each bottle returned to the retailer?

Surely it would be beneficial, less wasteful, and cut out a lot of use of plastic bottles in these environmentally challenged modern times?

We got a lot richer and it’s not so interesting to take stuff back sadly.

[V8covin]

What do Royal mail delivery staff do when they need the loo while on their rounds ?

[Hugo a Gogo]

If they've got a regular route, they'll know which offices, pubs or shops etc on the route have a loo they can use

[snowandrocks]

V8covin said:

What do Royal mail delivery staff do when they need the loo while on their rounds ?

I spotted our postie having a pee in a passing place a few months back - we are in the middle of nowhere though so maybe not quite as acceptable if he had an urban round!