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drinking while sorting

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Re: drinking while sorting

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pickaname wrote:
tragictramp wrote:stools could cause a hygiene problem tho so i inderstand his point lol :funneh
Toilet humour is soooo 1980's
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Re: drinking while sorting

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health and safety or royal mail fact are we allowed drinks at our frame!? i dont drink coffee but some guys in my office come down with a tray o coffees for work mates in sorting time! :roll:
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Re: drinking while sorting

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norfolk n chance wrote:
mclovin wrote:We have food, drink, talking, dancing and generally messing about.
same in our office as long as the work is done our dom is happy,
in fact our dom will even make us a cup of tea and bring it to the sorting frame :Applause
Eh? I want a transfer.
If my DOM brought me a cuppa, I'd assume it was laced with arsenic!
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stokes11eg wrote::crazy: Legally, they must supply the Access to clean drinking water-so if they do not allow you to drink at the frames, just leave the floor. Seriously, because of all the dust flying around, I have to take constant sips of water all the time,
or else I choke and cough my way through the sorting.I would also remind them of guidlines that came down during the heatwave.
As for talking, we have been forcibly discouraged for years,what fun it is working for this company.Ditto stools--just after we had the new frames put in, we were told by the Union, we couldn't use them, as the height was wrong!
perhaps the compant could supply us with those bottles you hang round your neck?
You mean like a nose bag but with water in - good idea :Very Happy
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Re: drinking while sorting

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:d'oh! Trust you!Too early for a whitty response.but just thinking, might start up a chorus of "All day i faced the barren wastes etc' whilst at frame .
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stokes11eg wrote::d'oh! Trust you!Too early for a whitty response.but just thinking, might start up a chorus of "All day i faced the barren wastes etc' whilst at frame .
You need to be innovative here stokesy - now picture this, and I would think it only works in summer, because it could be uncomfortable with something hot down your trousers, bottle/can of water/pop/cordial and a long piece of hosepipe threaded up your shirt as far as the collar you can then take a, and I hesitate here, I'm struggling to find the right word, use it like a straw - problem solved.
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Re: drinking while sorting

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:oops: HOI!All this talk of dangly things and hosepipes down trousers, and the inhilation of liquid subsatances might be O.K. for you and he-- not me(I feel sorry for D.G.P now) I though it was him leading you astray, but now I'm not so sure.
Have you actually tried out your invention? Wht not take it in to the "Dragons Den"?
Have a nice day.
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stokes11eg wrote::oops: HOI!All this talk of dangly things and hosepipes down trousers, and the inhilation of liquid subsatances might be O.K. for you and he-- not me(I feel sorry for D.G.P now) I though it was him leading you astray, but now I'm not so sure.
Have you actually tried out your invention? Wht not take it in to the "Dragons Den"?
Have a nice day.
TBH it's six of one and half a dozen of the other :shock: :shock: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy:

And my thing doesn't normally dangle :shock: :nervous
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disgruntledpostie1 wrote:
stokes11eg wrote::oops: HOI!All this talk of dangly things and hosepipes down trousers, and the inhilation of liquid subsatances might be O.K. for you and he-- not me(I feel sorry for D.G.P now) I though it was him leading you astray, but now I'm not so sure.
Have you actually tried out your invention? Wht not take it in to the "Dragons Den"?
Have a nice day.
TBH it's six of one and half a dozen of the other :shock: :shock: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy:

And my thing doesn't normally dangle :shock: :nervous
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Re: drinking while sorting

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disgruntledpostie1 wrote:
stokes11eg wrote::oops: HOI!All this talk of dangly things and hosepipes down trousers, and the inhilation of liquid subsatances might be O.K. for you and he-- not me(I feel sorry for D.G.P now) I though it was him leading you astray, but now I'm not so sure.
Have you actually tried out your invention? Wht not take it in to the "Dragons Den"?
Have a nice day.
TBH it's six of one and half a dozen of the other :shock: :shock: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy:

And my thing doesn't normally dangle :shock: :nervous
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Re: drinking while sorting

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stokes11eg wrote::oops: HOI!All this talk of dangly things and hosepipes down trousers, and the inhilation of liquid subsatances might be O.K. for you and he-- not me(I feel sorry for D.G.P now) I though it was him leading you astray, but now I'm not so sure.
Have you actually tried out your invention? Wht not take it in to the "Dragons Den"?
Have a nice day.
The dragons den people are far too critical, if I wanted criticism I'd just sit in the armchair with the headphones off whilst Mrs Dv regales me with a catalogue of my failures, of which there are many.........................thousands. :Very Happy
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dvbuk55 wrote:
stokes11eg wrote::oops: HOI!All this talk of dangly things and hosepipes down trousers, and the inhilation of liquid subsatances might be O.K. for you and he-- not me(I feel sorry for D.G.P now) I though it was him leading you astray, but now I'm not so sure.
Have you actually tried out your invention? Wht not take it in to the "Dragons Den"?
Have a nice day.
The dragons den people are far too critical, if I wanted criticism I'd just sit in the armchair with the headphones off whilst Mrs Dv regales me with a catalogue of my failures, of which there are many.........................thousands. :Very Happy
It's not nice that your 'failures' are brought up all the time but as Teebs said 'take the blue tablet as required' and it's not just to stop you from rolling of the bed in your sleep. :shock:
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Re: drinking while sorting

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disgruntledpostie1 wrote:
dvbuk55 wrote:
stokes11eg wrote::oops: HOI!All this talk of dangly things and hosepipes down trousers, and the inhilation of liquid subsatances might be O.K. for you and he-- not me(I feel sorry for D.G.P now) I though it was him leading you astray, but now I'm not so sure.
Have you actually tried out your invention? Wht not take it in to the "Dragons Den"?
Have a nice day.
The dragons den people are far too critical, if I wanted criticism I'd just sit in the armchair with the headphones off whilst Mrs Dv regales me with a catalogue of my failures, of which there are many.........................thousands. :Very Happy
It's not nice that your 'failures' are brought up all the time but as Teebs said 'take the blue tablet as required' and it's not just to stop you from rolling of the bed in your sleep. :shock:
Let me say, without fear or favour, "that" wouldn't stop me falling out of bed - no no - we are definitely talking a blind cobblers thumb here :chuckle :chuckle
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Re: drinking while sorting

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ImageGentlemen?? I think you mis-read the original title------
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Re: drinking while sorting

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stokes11eg wrote:ImageGentlemen?? I think you mis-read the original title------
Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa - and it's not often I am referred to as a gentleman - in fact it's never.