Steve_M Posted January 8, 2024 Posted January 8, 2024 5 hours ago, Steve_M said: Good evening. Just checking my life insurance and long term disability insurance policies. I’ve been invited to join in a judo session with a local club and my good lady is encouraging me to go. No problem ten years ago but I’m questioning the wisdom (and ulterior motives) of me going along… That was fun. I need to renew my coaching qualifications, though. 1 Quote
Takanta Posted January 9, 2024 Posted January 9, 2024 Good Morning , The radiator in my office does not work in my opinion I should be allowed to go home. 1 3 1 Quote
Fozzie Posted January 9, 2024 Posted January 9, 2024 2 hours ago, Takanta said: Good Morning , The radiator in my office does not work in my opinion I should be allowed to go home. It's not legally enforced, but the guidance is 16 degrees for office work, 13 degrees for physical work. If it gets to 13 degrees, I reckon you could make a case to go home. If a few of you do the same, you'll see just how urgently a business fixes problems when it hits their productivity! 1 Quote
Takanta Posted January 9, 2024 Posted January 9, 2024 2 hours ago, Fozzie said: It's not legally enforced, but the guidance is 16 degrees for office work, 13 degrees for physical work. If it gets to 13 degrees, I reckon you could make a case to go home. If a few of you do the same, you'll see just how urgently a business fixes problems when it hits their productivity! Temp was sitting at 12c , had a wee moan and they gave me a portable radiator haha. 2 2 Quote
Simon Davey Posted January 10, 2024 Posted January 10, 2024 Good morning, have a good day people. Quote
Grumpy Old Git Posted January 10, 2024 Posted January 10, 2024 I hope so Simon. Good day all. 3 Quote
RideWithStyles Posted January 10, 2024 Posted January 10, 2024 (edited) Lucky Edited May 15, 2024 by RideWithStyles 1 Quote
Steve_M Posted January 10, 2024 Posted January 10, 2024 Good morning. I’ll be offline soon as there’s a scheduled power cut any momen 1 6 Quote
RideWithStyles Posted January 10, 2024 Posted January 10, 2024 (edited) We Edited May 15, 2024 by RideWithStyles 1 Quote
S-Westerly Posted January 10, 2024 Author Posted January 10, 2024 Personally I don't mind if it's cold as I can always put more kit on. My personal hate is when the aircon packs in when it's 40 C outside and I'm sitting in a metal box with sun shining on it. 2 Quote
Steve_M Posted January 10, 2024 Posted January 10, 2024 2 hours ago, RideWithStyles said: We had a PC of over hour and a half last week at work midday... they still whined even more about it (i thought is was really warm and comfortable in their room still) and being dark oh what will HS say..., "oh its so scary in the corridor im not going down their by myself someone help and follow". i came through there just moments before with a coffee....Its arrow straight with nothing to bump into with window doors at both ends that get DAYLIGHT that leads to daylight filled room/outside still. If it was dead of the night, closed their eyes and kept their arms folded walking along the corridor youd still beable to make it out alive. dont know how they drive without full summer sun without crashing if thats the case. I wonder how they’d have coped with 1973/74 power cuts. 2 Quote
Mickly Posted January 10, 2024 Posted January 10, 2024 3 hours ago, Steve_M said: I wonder how they’d have coped with 1973/74 power cuts. Would have been ok I reckon, as long as coal kept being shovelled into the factory boiler Quote
Pie man Posted January 10, 2024 Posted January 10, 2024 7 hours ago, S-Westerly said: Personally I don't mind if it's cold as I can always put more kit on. My personal hate is when the aircon packs in when it's 40 C outside and I'm sitting in a metal box with sun shining on it. That's my hate too. I can layer up when its cold, but when it's hot hot, it can be unbearable. When the temperatures soared above 27c last summer, we had to send our roofers home. Quote
Bender Posted January 10, 2024 Posted January 10, 2024 7 hours ago, Steve_M said: I wonder how they’d have coped with 1973/74 power cuts. We lived across the field from a fecking power station, their lights never went out. Ours didn't either, we had a 45 gallon drum of red diesel and a diesel generator on a trailer, it was probably big enough to power our entire street. 4 Quote
Steve_M Posted January 10, 2024 Posted January 10, 2024 52 minutes ago, Bender said: We lived across the field from a fecking power station, their lights never went out. Ours didn't either, we had a 45 gallon drum of red diesel and a diesel generator on a trailer, it was probably big enough to power our entire street. I worked in the drawing office of a foundry. The gas fired furnaces never went out so the founders kept working anyway. The office staff were doing 3x13 hour days per week. Then they realised we were burning more electricity due to working out of daylight hours and needed the lights on longer. It was madness ! 3 Quote
rennie Posted January 11, 2024 Posted January 11, 2024 Good evening In the bad old days in the foundry I used to dread power cuts! It was actually worse when the power came back on! 1 Quote
Steve_M Posted January 11, 2024 Posted January 11, 2024 Good evening. I’m currently feeling a little worn after a busy few days - the last two chipping plaster and cement render off the walls of our lounge. I’m hoping for a spin out on the bike on Saturday for a bit of a break. Hoping for decent weather… 5 Quote
skyrider Posted January 11, 2024 Posted January 11, 2024 On 10/01/2024 at 13:27, Steve_M said: I wonder how they’d have coped with 1973/74 power cuts. yes that was almost daily around us Quote
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