Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
That's my default setting.
Bicycle lights at station
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- Location
- Inside my skull
I find if you flick the dynamo light to off as you arrive at the station then the lights are off by the time you reach the platform.
Hover Fly
Lazy so and so
- Location
- Besides the lake, beneath the trees
Any light, even green, can be an emergency stop light on the railway if shaken up and down.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Mr Fly is wise. A driver won't waste time peering at it and trying to figure out what it might be - seconds wasted doing that could cost lives.
If they see an unexpected light and it isn't immediately apparent what it is they'll emergency brake first, ask questions later.
Drago
Legendary Member
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- Suburban Poshshire
Perhaps because the safety rules and culture of the railways don't apply outside of rail premises and DT isnt prone to being wilfully obtuse?
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
I wouldn't go that far
Hover Fly
Lazy so and so
- Location
- Besides the lake, beneath the trees
This is exactly why all people, no exceptions, should be made to work for 6 months in a public facing role so that they can see what arrogant, self-centred, know-all, ignorant donkey-pits the public can be.
Yes I’ve been called an “officious jobsworth” for telling someone, who was more interested in posting on the internet, to pay attention to the important safety brief I was trying to give him. He reacted by throwing a tantrum and reporting me to management. Guess what? The boss had met his sort before and gently and diplomatically told him on a public website, what a divvy he was.
Smokin Joe
Squire
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- Bare headed cyclist, Smoker
Having worked in several public facing roles I wholeheartedly agree. "Jobsworth, Jumped up little Hitler, etc etc, I've heard them all.
After a while it just rolls off your back and on the next meal break you have your colleagues giggling when you describe the *Shakes imaginary Coke bottle* you
had to put up with.
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
Top ranting! You should get a prize of some sort for that.
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
Has he come back yet ?
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Has he come back yet ?
He's proactive in the cells.
matticus
Guru
Oooh. I seem to have found a magic word. Let's see if it works every time. Here we go:
"Jobsworth!"
"Jobsworth!"
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
did you take him some soap ?
Hover Fly
Lazy so and so
- Location
- Besides the lake, beneath the trees
My thoughts were usually along the lines of “ I’m getting well paid to do what you are paying to do. “ I may have thought aloud occasionally.
matticus
Guru
So, jobsworths ....
Went to vote last night. Stupidly I'd registered for postal vote but left it too late. So I went in person, with photo-id and the bit of paper with my ballot/voter/wotever-number on it.
First bloke behind the desk told me I couldn't vote in person!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Luckily his two colleagues realised this was absurd, so one found a manager-type, and they came up with a solution (which involved sellotape, and took me much longer than doing my bit properly would have done
)
#isitok to call the first guy a Jobsworth?
Went to vote last night. Stupidly I'd registered for postal vote but left it too late. So I went in person, with photo-id and the bit of paper with my ballot/voter/wotever-number on it.
First bloke behind the desk told me I couldn't vote in person!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Luckily his two colleagues realised this was absurd, so one found a manager-type, and they came up with a solution (which involved sellotape, and took me much longer than doing my bit properly would have done
)#isitok to call the first guy a Jobsworth?
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