- Location
- Westish Suffolk
Explains your interest in briefs....Yes, Mrs teslacoils is a solicitor. I merely provide the niceish house in the country.
Explains your interest in briefs....Yes, Mrs teslacoils is a solicitor. I merely provide the niceish house in the country.
That is usually why I left. Uriah Heape types who fawn around the upper management, saying and doing the right things in plain view but the opposite when out of sight. Try to tell the boss the truth and you are immediately the bad guy. No problems since going self employed and not nearly as difficult as I expected once I'd taken the plunge.But I disgress
Back to topic- seems a familiar theme that poor/nasty/self serving middle management is the main cause of folk leaving a role. I wonder if companies are aware of this - the top banana, or boardroom, are usually OK, its just the cretins in the middle that create most of the unrest?
Well done I wish I could have done the same. i managed to cobble together a bit of land but still have to do the 9 to 5I left because I bought a farm.
Most top management are probably at least partially aware of this, but as I suspect this whole situation is part of the human condition, they realise that it's almost impossible to solve, and if profit are at least okay, they aren't going to rock the boat in order to make others lives better. Depressing but true.But I disgress
Back to topic- seems a familiar theme that poor/nasty/self serving middle management is the main cause of folk leaving a role. I wonder if companies are aware of this - the top banana, or boardroom, are usually OK, its just the cretins in the middle that create most of the unrest?
Just...wow. The money must have brilliant, but I couldn't have worked like that even when I was 20.I started at the last shower on 4 til Midnight 6 days.... then 3 til Midnight.... then 3 til whenever... then 12- Whenever Then I found the works phone ringing 24-7 and I lived out of my car or Transit service van. Started having every other Sat off but was still not enough.. Having that Saturday off was giving them the earth.
Money was good ... Paid every minute on the card.... But there is more to life than lying under a bus at 4 AM in the rain.
I'll be dead honest that job right f**ked my head up and I reckon it gave me some sort of PTSD.... I know of a couple of others who worked there far deeper in than me and they arent normal.
i think my son might agree with you.I started at the last shower on 4 til Midnight 6 days.... then 3 til Midnight.... then 3 til whenever... then 12- Whenever Then I found the works phone ringing 24-7 and I lived out of my car or Transit service van. Started having every other Sat off but was still not enough.. Having that Saturday off was giving them the earth.
Money was good ... Paid every minute on the card.... But there is more to life than lying under a bus at 4 AM in the rain.
I'll be dead honest that job right f**ked my head up and I reckon it gave me some sort of PTSD.... I know of a couple of others who worked there far deeper in than me and they arent normal.
Similar tale?i think my son might agree with you.
yes, similar. he works for the biggest breakdown firm in the area. he is workshop foreman (sole mechanic) and is on call for road side repairs and has his hiab ticket. does everything from wheel changes, lockouts etc to repairing flash cars. he likes the job but has had about 6 days off in the last 8 weeks. when he is off his phone is always ringing. very stressful and as you said it f++++s your head. 80hr (paid) weeks are common but he treats it like his own business so can't see him changing. it has already cost him his marraige.Similar tale?
There's more to life... One Manager I got on with is driving for a big company loves it... 40 Hours plus Overtime or days off, was doing 100 + Where we worked together.
Continental shift?Did nearly six years as a shift manager in a steel section rolling mill on continental shifts...could never get used to them. One of the most jaw dropping and dangerous jobs I've ever done. Luckily the steel price dropped and the place shut down and made me redundant. H&S was a laugh.
It could all be gone tomorrow.... Then what? Was it worth it? Dragging something of the M20 at 3am? When you started at 11am.yes, similar. he works for the biggest breakdown firm in the area. he is workshop foreman (sole mechanic) and is on call for road side repairs and has his hiab ticket. does everything from wheel changes, lockouts etc to repairing flash cars. he likes the job but has had about 6 days off in the last 8 weeks. when he is off his phone is always ringing. very stressful and as you said it f++++s your head. 80hr (paid) weeks are common but he treats it like his own business so can't see him changing. it has already cost him his marraige.
Can assure you printing isn't easy either. Our main press was £500k back in year 2000, and it was all about buying kit to print stuff cheaper than the next printer.well done , cant put a thumbs up because of your health, do you ever think how easy printing was?
Week 1 6-2,Continental shift?