Teamwork...

[Steve Maskery]

 

[woodbloke]

Remember the song....'so there I was, digging this hole, hole in the ...' Rob

 

[Paul Chapman]

Great, Steve - many a true word spoken in jest, eh :lol: :lol: :lol:

Cheers

Paul

 

[Colin C]

:lol: :lol: :wink:

 

[filsgreen]

That is a typical scene of the Council working in Liverpool

 

[GCR]

I must be getting old, I remember the days (long ago) when it was ten workers and one "supervisor".

Bob

 

[Barry Burgess]

The Pole is now discussing subcontracting the work to a citizen of one of the new EU members about to join in 2007 so there will be one more to the picture

 

[SketchUp Guru]

You know, if those guys were wearing blaze orange vests and had an orange dump truck in the background, that would be a dead ringer for a county road construction crew here in the States.

 

[mailee]

I didn't know you had visited outr company Steve? :lol:

 

[Anonymous]

A friend of mine used to be a driver for norfolk county council roadworks division and his proudest boast was that his works pickup truck had never ever been in top gear!!!!

 

[PowerTool]

In the days of the National Dock Labour Board,the dockers at Teesport got to choose their jobs for the day.They had a 7.5t truck for driving round the dock,moving chains,picking up sleepers etc.

One day,the truck was broken..

Foreman - "What job do you want to do today ?"

First docker - "I'll drive the truck that's broken"
Second docker - "I'll be drivers mate on the broken truck"

So they both clocked in,went home,and got paid for a full days work.. :shock:

This was also when tank containers were lifted by quayside crane and chains (before they got a toplifter) - so to lift a tank off,you needed:-
One crane driver
One man to guide the crane driver
Four dockers (one to fasten each chain on a corner of the tank)
One tug driver
One foreman

No wonder the NDLB was abolished... :wink:

Andrew

 

[sliver]

That is a typical scene of the Council working in Liverpool

Typical scene of Council workers ANYWHERE. :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[LyNx]

thats like the office staff here, watching someone changing the toner for the fax machine :twisted:

 

[Newbie_Neil]

ROTFL :lol: :lol:

 

[RogerM]

That is a typical scene of the Council working in Liverpool

Typical scene of Council workers ANYWHERE. :lol: :lol: :lol:

About 20 years ago I remember reading a news story in a broadsheet about an old lady who had been watching a gang of council workmen digging up the road outside the postoffice opposite her flat. Late in the afternoon she called the police and asked them to come and investigate what was going on. When they asked her "why" she said "I've been watching them all day and they're like no council workers I've ever seen. They arrived at ten to eight, and got stuck into work straight away. They haven't stopped once for a tea break - they didn't even stop for lunch. There's been no swearing, no wolf whistles at passing girls - just work, work, work. They haven't even paused for breath and I've not seen one of them lean on his shovel once. It's not natural!".

So the police sent a car round and it turned out that they were a team of robbers burrowing their way into the Post office in the guise of council workmen!