WARNING FOR BRICKLAYERS
Jul 7th 2010 | 11:53 pm
#32
Lost in BE Cyberspace
Joined: Sep 2005
Posts: 10,959
From: Somewhere South... Not Telling YOU
Re: WARNING FOR BRICKLAYERS
did you ever write and say thank you?
all the hospitals keep statistics of thanks and complaints... written thankyous are the most prized
ED staff dont appear to get the choccies and flowers other nurses seem to...
coz sick / damaged people go on elsewhere to get better, if you've just totalled yer car you probably don't have a box of black magic to hand even if you do walk out of the dept after we finished patching you up...and drunks are seldom grateful...
we get the abuse
all the hospitals keep statistics of thanks and complaints... written thankyous are the most prized
ED staff dont appear to get the choccies and flowers other nurses seem to...
coz sick / damaged people go on elsewhere to get better, if you've just totalled yer car you probably don't have a box of black magic to hand even if you do walk out of the dept after we finished patching you up...and drunks are seldom grateful...
we get the abuse
Jul 8th 2010 | 12:00 am
#33
221b Baker Street
Joined: Jun 2010
Posts: 14,125
From: Miles from anywhere, Victoria, Australia.
Re: WARNING FOR BRICKLAYERS
Sorry if my reply seemed a bit flippant. I have been in to hospital twice on the public system. All free and a service second to none.
If you take the nurses out of hospitals, what have you got left? Doctors, machines and beds. You wouldn't stand a chance!
Thanks to all nurses.
Buggered if I could do it.
And yes, I wrote and said thank you.
If you take the nurses out of hospitals, what have you got left? Doctors, machines and beds. You wouldn't stand a chance!
Thanks to all nurses.
Buggered if I could do it.And yes, I wrote and said thank you.
Jul 8th 2010 | 12:02 am
#34
Crazy Cat Lady
Joined: Apr 2004
Posts: 65,493
Re: WARNING FOR BRICKLAYERS
did you ever write and say thank you?
all the hospitals keep statistics of thanks and complaints... written thankyous are the most prized
ED staff dont appear to get the choccies and flowers other nurses seem to...
coz sick / damaged people go on elsewhere to get better, if you've just totalled yer car you probably don't have a box of black magic to hand even if you do walk out of the dept after we finished patching you up...and drunks are seldom grateful...
we get the abuse
all the hospitals keep statistics of thanks and complaints... written thankyous are the most prized
ED staff dont appear to get the choccies and flowers other nurses seem to...
coz sick / damaged people go on elsewhere to get better, if you've just totalled yer car you probably don't have a box of black magic to hand even if you do walk out of the dept after we finished patching you up...and drunks are seldom grateful...
we get the abuse
ED staff are a step beyond. The crap that has to be dealt with is horrendous and the 'good' people you care for move onto other parts of the hospital and you don't get to see the rewards.
Jul 8th 2010 | 12:03 am
#35
Lost in BE Cyberspace
Joined: Sep 2005
Posts: 10,959
From: Somewhere South... Not Telling YOU
Re: WARNING FOR BRICKLAYERS
Bloody nurses... get paid to do a job... you dont get bricklayers whinging coz they dont get thankyous and flowers do you?
Jul 8th 2010 | 12:09 am
#36
Crazy Cat Lady
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Re: WARNING FOR BRICKLAYERS
Jul 8th 2010 | 1:58 am
#37
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Re: WARNING FOR BRICKLAYERS
One of my customers is an Aussie Brickie. He recently went to the UK. When he came back he said, "Aussie houses are crap aren't they."
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We had a little work done at home recently, mainly carpentry. The actual work is now covered in render so you can't see the main job. I watched them do it however and their accuracy and attention to detail was fantastic. I wasn't trying to tell them what to do but they were interested to hear about different methods.
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I do agree with the OP in regards to the warning he gives.
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When I was setting up my office, I discussed it with my wife (Aussie) and she would often say things like, "You don't need that kind of quality" or "no one will notice, don't bother" etc. etc. I stuck to my guns and did things to MY standard (not British or Aussie). I was looking for a finished result that pleased me. Every customer who has come in to the place has said, "It's nice in here isn't it."
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I seem to remember (correct me if I'm wrong) while I was still in the UK, if immigrants into the UK dared to criticise anything, we'd come down on them like a ton of bricks and remind them that they were free to leave. You can't really blame your Aussie hosts if they get a bit pissed off being told that their country isn't up to scratch.-
I live in very regional Victoria. I have never met more welcomig people or more pleasant trades persons.
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One last thing. I have acqs. who came out on skills visas. Neither of them has taken up their trade, nor does there seem any requirement for them to do so. Any one have an answer to that?
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We had a little work done at home recently, mainly carpentry. The actual work is now covered in render so you can't see the main job. I watched them do it however and their accuracy and attention to detail was fantastic. I wasn't trying to tell them what to do but they were interested to hear about different methods.
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I do agree with the OP in regards to the warning he gives.
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When I was setting up my office, I discussed it with my wife (Aussie) and she would often say things like, "You don't need that kind of quality" or "no one will notice, don't bother" etc. etc. I stuck to my guns and did things to MY standard (not British or Aussie). I was looking for a finished result that pleased me. Every customer who has come in to the place has said, "It's nice in here isn't it."
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I seem to remember (correct me if I'm wrong) while I was still in the UK, if immigrants into the UK dared to criticise anything, we'd come down on them like a ton of bricks and remind them that they were free to leave. You can't really blame your Aussie hosts if they get a bit pissed off being told that their country isn't up to scratch.-
I live in very regional Victoria. I have never met more welcomig people or more pleasant trades persons.
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One last thing. I have acqs. who came out on skills visas. Neither of them has taken up their trade, nor does there seem any requirement for them to do so. Any one have an answer to that?
When I pointed out that we have English shops in Australia and there is even a magazine called the Whinging Pom, she told me that was different.
Except it isn't and yes, a foreigner that slates the UK would more than likely be told to 'go home' in no uncertain words and can you imagine if they dared to compare it to Iraq/Poland/India?
Yet the comparisons happen here all the time and I have done it myself with some things and then realised just how hypocritical it sounds.
