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A misplaced reputation.J.R. wrote:Factory workers have never been known to be particularly tidy ????
The most extreme I have seen is where my nephew works: the McLaren F1 works. The entire work area is spotless and everything is immaculate. Even the pit area at each race is so clean that it almost looks like a faked set-up just for promotional shots.jhopgood wrote:A misplaced reputation.J.R. wrote:Factory workers have never been known to be particularly tidy ????
At the end of every shift, the whole place was swept, machinery cleaned and tools put away.
It's all right being untidy at home, but not in place where accidents cam happen caused by untidiness.
I still have my apprenticeship papers somewhere along with some of the tools that I made!!
Perhaps it is...LongGone wrote:. Even the pit area at each race is so clean that it almost looks like a faked set-up just for promotional shots.
which of course is now illegal if there is a rest room, canteen or equivalent. Of course if the tea lady has her radio on then the business must buy a licence because a second person just might hear the noiseNEILL THE NOTORIOUS wrote:It never crossed my mind, as to where Miss Watts and her maids for Barnes, ate their meals, they were all accomodated on the top floor --- probably still are.
Apropos meals in "Factories" --- As I was promoted, during my time with Plessey, on first promotion,
I achieved a table with a tablecloth, in a separate part of the canteen and the ability to order wine, and then, on next promotion, Joy of joys, a lady came round to my office, with a menu, I ordered my meal, wich was then delivered on a trolley, from the kitchens.
YEARS later -- I realised what a clever scam this was ---- I ate my meal at my desk, and then continued to work, without leaving my office.
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Not at all: even during the races they are scrupulous about keeping it spotless. In part I am sure it is because the cars are built to such fine tolerance that it is important to keep out even the slightest contamination.michael scuffil wrote:Perhaps it is...LongGone wrote:. Even the pit area at each race is so clean that it almost looks like a faked set-up just for promotional shots.
Oddly enough, my better half and I were discussing just recently how attitudes have changed towards alcohol consumption at work. When I first started working in the mid 80's at a publishing house in Oxford, there was a social club in the basement run by, and for, employees. Virtually everyone would regularly congregate there for their lunchtime sandwich and a drink or two from the well-stocked bar, before tottering back upstairs for a little light post-prandial work. A few of the heavier drinkers were well known for taking a nap in the afternoons, which seemed to be indulgently tolerated by the management (although come to think of it, most of them were the management!).Apropos meals in "Factories" --- As I was promoted, during my time with Plessey, on first promotion,
I achieved a table with a tablecloth, in a separate part of the canteen and the ability to order wine, and then, on next promotion, Joy of joys, a lady came round to my office, with a menu, I ordered my meal, wich was then delivered on a trolley, from the kitchens.
In Germany up to about the late 80s, staff canteens did a brisk trade in alcoholic drinks at lunchtime. In fact, if you had workmen in to do things around the house, they would be insulted if you didn't provide a crate of beer. It was a common complaint among apprentices that they spent all their time lugging beer crates around. And then things fairly suddenly changed.ailurophile wrote:Neill wrote:
Oddly enough, my better half and I were discussing just recently how attitudes have changed towards alcohol consumption at work. When I first started working in the mid 80's at a publishing house in Oxford, there was a social club in the basement run by, and for, employees. Virtually everyone would regularly congregate there for their lunchtime sandwich and a drink or two from the well-stocked bar, before tottering back upstairs for a little light post-prandial work. A few of the heavier drinkers were well known for taking a nap in the afternoons, which seemed to be indulgently tolerated by the management (although come to think of it, most of them were the management!).Apropos meals in "Factories" --- As I was promoted, during my time with Plessey, on first promotion,
I achieved a table with a tablecloth, in a separate part of the canteen and the ability to order wine, and then, on next promotion, Joy of joys, a lady came round to my office, with a menu, I ordered my meal, wich was then delivered on a trolley, from the kitchens.
Happy days... I wonder whether this relaxed approach still operates anywhere in the workplace nowadays? (And if anyone knows where it does, can you kindly point me in the right direction!)
When I arrived in Buenos Aires (1992), the senior staff in the bank, 7 of us, had waiter service lunch in a private dining room at the top of the building. When we sold that building, all managers had lunch together in a dining room, and when I left in 2001, even that had finished and we were all having self service lunch together in the building canteen.ailurophile wrote:Happy days... I wonder whether this relaxed approach still operates anywhere in the workplace nowadays? (And if anyone knows where it does, can you kindly point me in the right direction!)
(I removed the ruler, and the Reactor shut down ! ) 