Hard nosed b*stard

Roads were quieter, tyres were narrower, so gripped better through the snow. No driver aids. Better standard of driving then too IMO. Everybody used to clear the pavement outside their house. Kids were allowed to flirt with danger.

[Dave20046]

Originally Posted by petevtwin650

Roads were quieter, tyres were narrower, so gripped better through the snow. No driver aids. Better standard of driving then too IMO. Everybody used to clear the pavement outside their house. Kids were allowed to flirt with danger.

Talking of flirting with danger did you know you can be sued if you clear the pavement outside your house and some trips. sickening aint it.

Originally Posted by Ping

That not be what I asked, mister. :P

What if the trains weren't running or running with severe delays? Would you have managed to complete that job?

Well, Missy

My orginal response was refering to yesterday, when Ed said he checked the buses were running and one person decied they weren't coming in to work despite the fact they could have.

There were no 'what if's' to consider yesterday, it was a clear cut case of transport being available yet they didn't bother to use it.

If, and this is a big if, the trains were delayed I would still have made my trip yesterday. We set off an hour later than planned because I procrastinated about whether we should go or not. Once I'd found out the trains were running on time we set off. Had all trains been cancelled then the decision would have been out of my hands, because there was no other transport available.

[Luckypants]

Originally Posted by Dave20046

Talking of flirting with danger did you know you can be sued if you clear the pavement outside your house and some trips. sickening aint it.

yeah but in the 'gold old days' we didn't have the blame and claim culture.... If you had tried suing someone for being public spirited, you would most likely be reprimanded for wasting the court's time! I still grit the road outside my house, allows a safe breaking area before the hill.

Originally Posted by petevtwin650

Roads were quieter, tyres were narrower, so gripped better through the snow. No driver aids.

Yesterday I was driving with no ABS, no traction control and on 225/45 - 18 tyres. It did help that I had mud and snow tyres though

Originally Posted by Luckypants

yeah but in the 'gold old days' we didn't have the blame and claim culture.... If you had tried suing someone for being public spirited, you would most likely be reprimanded for wasting the court's time! I still grit the road outside my house, allows a safe breaking area before the hill.

Yep, back in the day, there was always a hopper at the bottom of a hill filled with salt/grit. Certainly on main roads at least.

Originally Posted by Lozzo

Yesterday I was driving with no ABS, no traction control and on 225/45 - 18 tyres. It did help that I had mud and snow tyres though

That sounds fun.

I couldn't get to work Monday. Riding the bike would've ended up with me inhospital, no question of that. I live 2 mins from a train station and all trains were cancelled all day. There were 12 accidents on the roundabout near my house. While I knew it would snow I don't have a laptop so how can I plan ahead? Unless I decide to take my desk PC home with me. So I called the boss and got nothing but grief, he made it in so there was no reason I couldn't apparently. No taxi firm would come out, no buses, no trains. I couldn't actually afford a taxi 32 miles to work anyway but was trying to get to a station that may be open but turns out none were anyway. He is now saying he will dock a days wages and I am fighting this with HR. He said it's not the companies fault I could not make it to work, only 3 people in our office out of 250 made it in on Monday. This is after I actually ended up working on Monday anwyay as I asked him to send me work to my home email address. I fecking hate this place.

Originally Posted by DanAbnormal

I couldn't get to work Monday. Riding the bike would've ended up with me inhospital, no question of that. I live 2 mins from a train station and all trains were cancelled all day. There were 12 accidents on the roundabout near my house. While I knew it would snow I don't have a laptop so how can I plan ahead? Unless I decide to take my desk PC home with me. So I called the boss and got nothing but grief, he made it in so there was no reason I couldn't apparently. No taxi firm would come out, no buses, no trains. I couldn't actually afford a taxi 32 miles to work anyway but was trying to get to a station that may be open but turns out none were anyway. He is now saying he will dock a days wages and I am fighting this with HR. He said it's not the companies fault I could not make it to work, only 3 people in our office out of 250 made it in on Monday. This is after I actually ended up working on Monday anwyay as I asked him to send me work to my home email address. I fecking hate this place.

will they not let you take it as holiday?

[Dave20046]

Originally Posted by DanAbnormal

I couldn't get to work Monday. Riding the bike would've ended up with me inhospital, no question of that. I live 2 mins from a train station and all trains were cancelled all day. There were 12 accidents on the roundabout near my house. While I knew it would snow I don't have a laptop so how can I plan ahead? Unless I decide to take my desk PC home with me. So I called the boss and got nothing but grief, he made it in so there was no reason I couldn't apparently. No taxi firm would come out, no buses, no trains. I couldn't actually afford a taxi 32 miles to work anyway but was trying to get to a station that may be open but turns out none were anyway. He is now saying he will dock a days wages and I am fighting this with HR. He said it's not the companies fault I could not make it to work, only 3 people in our office out of 250 made it in on Monday. This is after I actually ended up working on Monday anwyay as I asked him to send me work to my home email address. I fecking hate this place.

He should dock it from you pay with no complaints, if he pays you then he's very generous for a boss. I agree though you had no way of getting in, if I was you boss and understood that you'd genuinely tried to get in then I'm probably give half pay.

Originally Posted by petevtwin650

That sounds fun.

I forgot to mention 365bhp and 4WD to play with too.



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