Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

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Yorkie1 wrote: »

At work there's a list of which of the computer-based bits gets top priority. Front-line applications obviously can't go down, and I can understand that sites you browse at lunchtime are low priority, but the nrest of the sites which are core business for my team are not on that high priority list. So at times we just can't work.

Hardly effective. Yet when we complain and ask to be added to that top list, we just get told that there's no more capacity to be had for at least another year, when the contract renewal process starts ... :mad:

I don't think I could stand working in those conditions. I'm the sort of bloke who will drive a ten mile detour to avoid a ten minute traffic jam. I hate queues. So, if unable to do the job because of restrictions like you have to labour under, I would first complain VOCIFEROUSLY and make myself thoroughly unpopular, and then leave.

vivatifosi

Just checked in to make sure michaels and family got there ok. Glad you are all safe at destination though agree with others it was an appalling way to be treated. Hope you are all tucked up in bed and resting now. Have a lovely weekend once the break finally starts.

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silvercar wrote: »

What sort of breakdown service abandons the job and walks away?

I suspect an insurance based breakdown service that subcontracts the work to independent breakdown companies, each with a handful of trucks. Nobody has a commitment to the work in that sort of setup. The breakdown company just bids on different jobs for the night, and there were richer pickings elsewhere apparently.

I also suspect that the average brawny garage mechanic hauls on the handbrake a good deal harder than the average management consultant, but I could be wrong about that. The cable ought not to snap, though, if it is in good condition, and possibly Michaels has been spared a true calamity later on. This was all thoroughly annoying and inconvenient, but a handbrake that fails could have killed people.

lostinrates

I've had a couple of hand brake fails ( and real/ foot brake fails in one car)

I always park in gear. . I suspect I am to blame.


Horrid, horrid start to the holiday.

PasturesNew

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

I saw this property on Right Move earlier today... There's something strange about it... Why is the house all surrounded by that tall nettingy metal cage stuff? (You can see it round the back in the back garden picture too) And the back garden it looks as if it's all been strimmed and then just left. It's not very far along the road from where DD2 lived till last summer, but can't say I remember driving past it. I finally spotted it on the satellite map, it seems to be at right angles to the road, but with another building attached to it? Also on the satellite map there appears to be a large patch of red in the garden that looks weird. Generally it looks like a suitable location to film a Hammer Horror Film! :eek:

It was bought in 2007 for £150k and is the Old School House .... definitely looks like a murder scene

Fencing's just to deter squatters, robbers and idle kids as it's Grade II listed.

It's this bloke's house http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/failed-national-front-liverpool-mayoral-3345741

Tierney, of High Street, Hale village, was among four people there to face public order charges after being arrested outside a high-profile sex grooming trial on May 1.

He's also in the BNP.

lostinrates

We looked at a farm with security fencing all round it. DH loved the idea of fencing me in all week, lol.

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vivatifosi wrote: »

Just checked in to make sure michaels and family got there ok. Glad you are all safe at destination though agree with others it was an appalling way to be treated. Hope you are all tucked up in bed and resting now. Have a lovely weekend once the break finally starts.

I remember my father driving us all down to Torquay for the summer hols. 5 of us packed into the Austin A55. Great excitement when, on a nice straight bit of road, we got up to 60MPH!

Then something went wrong. I can't remember what it was. Probably we kids in the back asking when we were going to arrive. Anyway, father stopped the car, and threw the keys out of the window. After a few minutes, he calmed down, and we all spent a pleasant ten minutes looking for the keys in the undergrowth.

In those days, all the roads went from one town to the next. Very few bypasses, and you had to drive through the town centre. Very slow going.

PasturesNew

It's crispy/cold, but the sun's come out. Weather says it'll rain tomorrow ... be dry overnight, then rain harder on Monday.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

It's crispy/cold, but the sun's come out. Weather says it'll rain tomorrow ... be dry overnight, then rain harder on Monday.

We're planning on jam making on Monday. Today is some gardening.

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Oh, that's a lovely story, PN. Why wouldn't you want it quoted? Of course, holidays can be stressful at times. The journey is often stressful, for a start.