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admin · 26-07-18, 07:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Luckypants

Called out to a non-problem at 5:30am today. Too late to go back to sleep by the time I'd done checks etc. Normally being on-call gives me a lie in on Thursday until 6:45.

Bloody yanks.

I don't miss being on call. As well as waking me up at silly o'clock it also disturbed the misses. BT were also getting stingey with the callout pay rates too.

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SV650rules · 26-07-18, 08:23 AM

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Originally Posted by admin

I don't miss being on call. As well as waking me up at silly o'clock it also disturbed the misses. BT were also getting stingey with the callout pay rates too.

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Used to be an engineer working for company that supplied high tech production equipment to car companies. After final installation and proving / commissioning there was a six month period of 'cover' - this meant designated engineer could be called on 24/7 to fix any problems that slowed or stopped production. It was the short straw for any of us, a £35 callout payment did nothing to soften the effect of a call at 2AM and a longish car journey along deserted roads to fix something that one of the car company maintenance people had broken / crashed ( robots). Our company made a mint from such contracts, but we didn't.

Luckypants · 27-07-18, 12:08 PM

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Originally Posted by admin

BT were also getting stingey with the callout pay rates too.

You were lucky! No on-call pay, no callout payment, no overtime pay. 30+ hours this month. This can be today's gripe

27-07-18, 01:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Luckypants

You were lucky! No on-call pay, no callout payment, no overtime pay. 30+ hours this month. This can be today's gripe

Luxury!

When I were a lad, we had to get up 2 hours afore we went to bed, crawl over broken glass to get to work, spend 26 hrs at work then come home and sleep in't wardrobe!

Oh and when we were kids there was 10 of us that had to sleep in't drawers of our mam's dresser!

SV650rules · 27-07-18, 01:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Teejayexc

Luxury!

When I were a lad, we had to get up 2 hours afore we went to bed, crawl over broken glass to get to work, spend 26 hrs at work then come home and sleep in't wardrobe!

Oh and when we were kids there was 10 of us that had to sleep in't drawers of our mam's dresser!

And when you tell the millennial generation that they don't believe it

ophic · 27-07-18, 02:49 PM

I'm sure there's a reference to rolled up newspapers in't middle o't road heading this way.

admin · 27-07-18, 04:44 PM

Managed to un-brick my TomTom after a failed update. The PC tool used for the update is rubbish. No error message, no clues and it then tells you that your device was successfully updated even though no maps are installed.

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Heorot · 27-07-18, 10:06 PM

On the epic day of the blood moon, we have a massive thunderstorm in South Norfolk that has blocked out all visibility.

andrewsmith · 27-07-18, 10:30 PM

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Originally Posted by ophic

I'm sure there's a reference to rolled up newspapers in't middle o't road heading this way.

And a cup of cold tea

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punyXpress · 28-07-18, 08:27 AM

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Originally Posted by andrewsmith

And a cup of cold tea

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They've been using flag signals on the railway near here !
And whose idea was it to save fifty quid by deleting the lightning conductor at the multi-million signalling centre for the whole of the LNER line ?
He / she deserves a gong!

27-07-18, 02:49 PM	#6066
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27-07-18, 04:44 PM	#6067
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27-07-18, 10:06 PM	#6068
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