scrubbedexpat091

The previous post was not meant for this thread, wasn't meant for another, but didn't catch it before it was too late to delete, sorry about that.

This judge is fun to watch.

Danny B

Apparently it's to slap so hard that you make your opponent step forward.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ing-craze.html

hg42

Bit late, but...dodged a bullet there, I think. I have cause through work to talk to an awful lot of CP people (in all sorts of positions) and I can count the happy traincrew on the fingers of one hand. I gather it was a nice enough place to work 'back in the day' - once you got a bit of seniority you'd end up with something vaguely resembling a regular schedule and the company itself was generally pretty decent - but over the last couple of decades everything got ultra-corporatized, management turned bullying and hostile and trimmed down to bare minimum staffing, maintenance etc; the joke, that I've heard from a couple dozen train crew separately, is 'they spend $50,000 training us and $100,000 trying to fire us', to the point of the field boss type people having quotas of dismissals they're expected to meet.

CN are by most accounts I've heard not as bad, and to be fair I have heard it put about that CP are a bit better now than they were a few years ago (I gather the big boss that dropped dead a couple of years ago was the major villain) but still a far less pleasant environment than it was a few decades ago, notwithstanding that the pay is good.

scrubbedexpat091

Some of that actually sounds a lot like the airline industry lol...which is where the bulk of my working life was spent.

I was only applying as the pay was good. I have never worked anywhere with a good corporate culture so sounds a lot like most of the places I have worked.

Airline world management was always looking for ways to get rid of work groups and outsource where they could.

BristolUK

My stepdaughter has temporarily lost her voice so she's having to write everything down when she wants to say something.

I wrote "Oi!" in her notebook to use if she needs to call me from a different room.

dave_j

What was that definition of madness?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48607423
"Insanity is doing the same thing over again and expecting different results" and that says a lot about Macron.
RIP Tree.

BristolUK

Tree's a jolly good fellow...

Siouxie

I just twigged what you did.. you got to the root of the problem... Leaf it out mate...

BristolUK

Oink

Do you ever wonder when you get old, you'll have conversations with your breakfast?

caretaker

Sometimes I talk to the people driving around me in traffic, even though I know they can't hear me. I try to offer suggestions on how they might improve their driving.

BuckinghamshireBoy

My breakfast is not really worth talking to.

Supper on the other hand...

BristolUK

Do you mean literally...like talking to your sausage (if that's not too suggestive ) or conversations at the breakfast table?

I'm usually the only one up at breakfast time, unless it's a workday for my stepdaughter. So there are conversations then.

Siouxie

Doesn't everyone?
I also apologise to worms if I squish them when gardening...

scrubbedexpat091

I wonder if he would have gotten the jobs with the federal government if he had not mentioned depression. One example why it's best never to tell an employer about mental health. I made that mistake once, and never again.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...tion-1.5174363