So what makes them think that they are the most important people in the
world when there is a bit of snow on the ground and they need to get to
work?

There has been a lot of ******** on Facebook, local radio etc about
people with 4WD vehicles helping nurses get to work as if they are the
most important people in the world.

****ing walk it if think your job is so important. Most of them live
near to the hospital.

The last time I was in hospital it looked like the exercise could have
done some of them a bit of good.


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Adam

On 04/03/18 18:32, ARW wrote:
So what makes them think that they are the most important people in the
world when there is a bit of snow on the ground and they need to get to
work?

There has been a lot of ******** on Facebook, local radio etc about
people with 4WD vehicles helping nurses get to work as if they are the
most important people in the world.

****ing walk it if think your job is so important. Most of them live
near to the hospital.

The last time I was in hospital it looked like the exercise could have
done some of them a bit of good.



In the 90s when I worked in a JobCentre, the Civil Service code was clear:

Walk to your office if you can, and if you can't walk to your nearest
Civil Service office (I think of any department?) and offer yourself for
work. Though to be honest, if you turned up at another department,
there'd have been bugger all useful work you could do, so it might have
been "within the same dept".

I walked 3 miles to work quite happily in snow bad enough to bugger up
most other transport.

These days, I don't bother because my job can be largely done from
anywhere with a mobile internet connection (and I like it that way

On 04/03/2018 19:05, Tim Watts wrote:
On 04/03/18 18:32, ARW wrote:
So what makes them think that they are the most important people in
the world when there is a bit of snow on the ground and they need to
get to work?

There has been a lot of ******** on Facebook, local radio etc about
people with 4WD vehicles helping nurses get to work as if they are the
most important people in the world.

****ing walk it if think your job is so important. Most of them live
near to the hospital.

The last time I was in hospital it looked like the exercise could have
done some of them a bit of good.



In the 90s when I worked in a JobCentre, the Civil Service code was clear:

Walk to your office if you can, and if you can't walk to your nearest
Civil Service office (I think of any department?) and offer yourself for
work. Though to be honest, if you turned up at another department,
there'd have been bugger all useful work you could do, so it might have
been "within the same dept".

I walked 3 miles to work quite happily in snow bad enough to bugger up
most other transport.

These days, I don't bother because my job can be largely done from
anywhere with a mobile internet connection (and I like it that way

Before STWNFI retired from school headship the local authority ruled
that teachers should report to the closest school if they were unable to
reach their own. Despite her last post being in a Yorkshire dales
village school accessible to her only over an untreated moor road she
only closed one day in five years. Thanks to the Subaru Forrester with
winter tyres she always got there. On one occasion the head of a school
she passed reported staff members unable to make it. Her reply was "I've
just driven past their houses I could have given them a lift"

Mike

On 05/03/2018 08:26, Muddymike wrote:

Before STWNFI

OK, I'll bite. STWNFI?

She That Will Not F? I?

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On Mon, 05 Mar 2018 19:37:31 +0000, F wrote:

On 05/03/2018 08:26, Muddymike wrote:

Before STWNFI

OK, I'll bite. STWNFI?

She That Will Not F? I?

She Than Whom None Fairer Is



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On Sunday, 4 March 2018 19:05:28 UTC, Tim Watts wrote:
On 04/03/18 18:32, ARW wrote:
So what makes them think that they are the most important people in the
world when there is a bit of snow on the ground and they need to get to
work?

There has been a lot of ******** on Facebook, local radio etc about
people with 4WD vehicles helping nurses get to work as if they are the
most important people in the world.

****ing walk it if think your job is so important. Most of them live
near to the hospital.

The last time I was in hospital it looked like the exercise could have
done some of them a bit of good.



In the 90s when I worked in a JobCentre, the Civil Service code was clear:

Walk to your office if you can, and if you can't walk to your nearest
Civil Service office (I think of any department?) and offer yourself for
work. Though to be honest, if you turned up at another department,
there'd have been bugger all useful work you could do, so it might have
been "within the same dept".

I walked 3 miles to work quite happily in snow bad enough to bugger up
most other transport.

So if you had of fallen over then no one coud, have reached you or you would have tied up the emergency service trying to reach you.
Obvously it depends on the job you do, but I'm pretty sure it's more important for a doctor or nurse or ambulance driver to get to work than someone serving in starbucks.


These days, I don't bother because my job can be largely done from
anywhere with a mobile internet connection (and I like it that way

I got a bit ****ed off here when they anoucned that those working in reception and those in admin could go home at 3pm because of the bad traveling conditions.

They seem to forget that there are others working in the university that also have to travel on exactly the same roads and rail services and in the same weather coinditions but these sort of things always get forgotten when it come to equality.

On 05/03/18 12:00, whisky-dave wrote:
On Sunday, 4 March 2018 19:05:28 UTC, Tim Watts wrote:
On 04/03/18 18:32, ARW wrote:
So what makes them think that they are the most important people in the
world when there is a bit of snow on the ground and they need to get to
work?

There has been a lot of ******** on Facebook, local radio etc about
people with 4WD vehicles helping nurses get to work as if they are the
most important people in the world.

****ing walk it if think your job is so important. Most of them live
near to the hospital.

The last time I was in hospital it looked like the exercise could have
done some of them a bit of good.



In the 90s when I worked in a JobCentre, the Civil Service code was clear:

Walk to your office if you can, and if you can't walk to your nearest
Civil Service office (I think of any department?) and offer yourself for
work. Though to be honest, if you turned up at another department,
there'd have been bugger all useful work you could do, so it might have
been "within the same dept".

I walked 3 miles to work quite happily in snow bad enough to bugger up
most other transport.

So if you had of fallen over then no one coud, have reached you or you would have tied up the emergency service trying to reach you.
Obvously it depends on the job you do, but I'm pretty sure it's more important for a doctor or nurse or ambulance driver to get to work than someone serving in starbucks.

I'm pretty sure I could manage in a foot of snow (this is the SE
remember - everything else gives up pretty easily).



These days, I don't bother because my job can be largely done from
anywhere with a mobile internet connection (and I like it that way

I got a bit ****ed off here when they anoucned that those working in reception and those in admin could go home at 3pm because of the bad traveling conditions.

They seem to forget that there are others working in the university that also have to travel on exactly the same roads and rail services and in the same weather coinditions but these sort of things always get forgotten when it come to equality.

On 05/03/18 13:54, Tim Watts wrote:
in starbucks.

I'm pretty sure I could manage in a foot of snow (this is the SE
remember - everything else gives up pretty easily).

It's not the foot of snow you have to worry about. It's the thin layer
of ice under it from snow which had melted and refrozen just before the
foot of snow fell.

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Jeff

On 05/03/2018 19:03, Jeff Layman wrote:
On 05/03/18 13:54, Tim Watts wrote:
in starbucks.

I'm pretty sure I could manage in a foot of snow (this is the SE
remember - everything else gives up pretty easily).

It's not the foot of snow you have to worry about. It's the thin layer
of ice under it from snow which had melted and refrozen just before the
foot of snow fell.

For a walker, as long as there are a few inches of snow you get
"traction" from that even if there is ice underneath.

On Mon, 5 Mar 2018 04:00:19 -0800 (PST), whisky-dave wrote:

I got a bit ****ed off here when they anoucned that those working in
reception and those in admin could go home at 3pm because of the bad
traveling conditions.

Doesn't that just show who is doing the real work and those that are
not?

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Cheers
Dave.

On Monday, 5 March 2018 14:33:44 UTC, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Mon, 5 Mar 2018 04:00:19 -0800 (PST), whisky-dave wrote:

I got a bit ****ed off here when they anoucned that those working in
reception and those in admin could go home at 3pm because of the bad
traveling conditions.

Doesn't that just show who is doing the real work and those that are
not?

I doubt it as they work from home technicains can't really do that, but as yet they haven't explained to me how someone on reception can work from home.
In fact when this person sent out the email they were apparently at home working from home, well an email was sent and that is work isn't it ? ;-()

whisky-dave wrote:

they haven't explained to me how someone on reception can work from home.

It's possible to answer phone calls from home using VoIP, if any
visitors do manage to struggle through the weather, maybe they stick a
sign on reception saying "use the courtesy phone" or similar.

On 05/03/2018 15:23, whisky-dave wrote:
On Monday, 5 March 2018 14:33:44 UTC, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Mon, 5 Mar 2018 04:00:19 -0800 (PST), whisky-dave wrote:

I got a bit ****ed off here when they anoucned that those working in
reception and those in admin could go home at 3pm because of the bad
traveling conditions.

Doesn't that just show who is doing the real work and those that are
not?

I doubt it as they work from home technicains can't really do that, but as yet they haven't explained to me how someone on reception can work from home.

A telepresence robot. (Basically a tablet screen on a stick.)

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Max Demian

On 04/03/2018 19:05, Tim Watts wrote:
I walked 3 miles to work quite happily in snow bad enough to bugger up
most other transport.

I walked to school (*) and back for at least a week during the 62/63
winter because all the hills in the south wales town were sheet
ice so no buses were running. That would have been 3 miles each way.

(*) Aged 10, so pre-11plus.

We had no water for 6 weeks and then the 'council' came round
with a portable electric welding set (I think) and connected
it up to the stopcock in the road and in the house and melted
the ice.

Snow drifts were 15 feet high completely filling in some
rural roads and it took weeks to clear them.

"ARW" wrote in message
...
So what makes them think that they are the most important people in the
world when there is a bit of snow on the ground and they need to get to
work?

There has been a lot of ******** on Facebook, local radio etc about people
with 4WD vehicles helping nurses get to work as if they are the most
important people in the world.

****ing walk it if think your job is so important. Most of them live near
to the hospital.

my niece in her new job walked to the Hospital last week to provide her
clinic

But in her old job, she was assigned to a different medical centre every
day, over a 25 mile radius

walking would have been impractical

tim

Mr Grumpy has spoken.
I'll not demean myself by pointing out the generalisations in the post, but
most people who work in Hospitals do not live just around the corner.
There were appeals in some parts off the country for any qualified nurses to
come in to those places.
Brian

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"ARW" wrote in message
...
So what makes them think that they are the most important people in the
world when there is a bit of snow on the ground and they need to get to
work?

There has been a lot of ******** on Facebook, local radio etc about people
with 4WD vehicles helping nurses get to work as if they are the most
important people in the world.

****ing walk it if think your job is so important. Most of them live near
to the hospital.

The last time I was in hospital it looked like the exercise could have
done some of them a bit of good.


--
Adam

On Monday, 5 March 2018 09:25:29 UTC, Brian Gaff wrote:
Mr Grumpy has spoken.
I'll not demean myself by pointing out the generalisations in the post, but
most people who work in Hospitals do not live just around the corner.
There were appeals in some parts off the country for any qualified nurses to
come in to those places.
Brian

Actually most did.
Until stupid re-organisations made then work at places miles away.

In article ,
harry wrote:
On Monday, 5 March 2018 09:25:29 UTC, Brian Gaff wrote:
Mr Grumpy has spoken.
I'll not demean myself by pointing out the generalisations in the post, but
most people who work in Hospitals do not live just around the corner.
There were appeals in some parts off the country for any qualified nurses to
come in to those places.
Brian

Actually most did.
Until stupid re-organisations made then work at places miles away.

It wasn't so much re-organisations, but the selling off of nurses' homes
(and police houses) because of party dogma..

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On Tuesday, 6 March 2018 08:57:36 UTC, charles wrote:
It wasn't so much re-organisations, but the selling off of nurses' homes
(and police houses) because of party dogma..

Even if the nurses lived in cheap housing near the hospital, the surgeons didn't.

Owain

On 04/03/2018 18:32, ARW wrote:
So what makes them think that they are the most important people in the
world when there is a bit of snow on the ground and they need to get to
work?

There has been a lot of ******** on Facebook, local radio etc about
people with 4WD vehicles helping nurses get to work as if they are the
most important people in the world.

****ing walk it if think your job is so important. Most of them live
near to the hospital.

The last time I was in hospital it looked like the exercise could have
done some of them a bit of good.



Some time ago when I went to work in similar conditions the head of the
office block I worked at asked me why I had bothered.

I did not like to tell him the truth which was I just wanted to find out
if I could do it. (I had to use snow chains on my car for part of the
journey.)


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Michael Chare