mel b
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I've been very lucky. I've had two mother in laws , and they've both been the nicest people that you could ever meet. I've thought the world of both of them.
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Happy new year everybody . I've just heard the first police sirens of the night.
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A lot of truth being spoken on this thread gents. It seems that I'm not the only one seeing the world around me turn to rat shit .
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It's only the money that keeps me getting up at 4am every day . I absolutely despise the job now. I'm of the lucky ones , that earns a decent rate , because I've been there for so long. The turnover of staff is massive these days. Despite the fact that I've been doing the job for years , and know it inside out. New bosses that have been doing it for two weeks , always feel that they know more than me .
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I mentioned them in an earlier post gl. It makes your working day very uncomfortable to know that one minor slip could lose my job and pension.
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I've thought about it a few times , but it's the money that puts me off . I'd be taking a 13k pay cut
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Life takes some funny old turns mate , and it's good that you're still here to talk about it .
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I'm envious . It's great to do something that you enjoy .
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I've only ever been to London a few times (as a visitor ) , and its really not the place for me. i find it all very sad , and personally very embarrassing . My default setting, is polite , pleasant, and helpful . I'm a public servant, and having to refuse help to members of the public makes me very uncomfortable. Doing things that 15 years ago would have got me a thumbs up and a pat on the back , will lose me my job and pension now. It's probably made worse , because I know how it should be done , because I've done it the proper way , but now I have some pen pusher , w
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It just all depends on the trucks mack. With our trucks , the office can see everything that you do , and hear every word you say . They can track you to the nearest couple of metres , from the second you put your key in the ignition. It's a f***ing awful atmosphere to work in .
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Yep , it's absolutely awful . I feel pig ignorant when i dont have time to spend with members of the public now, especially the old people . I know only too well that youre probably one of the only people theyll have contact with all week , but for every 7 seconds I spend talking to them , someone at the end of the round doesn't get their bin emptied that day. It's a real sorry state of affairs. People are changing as well . The old lads that I started with were proper old hard nosed feckers. They'd slog 15 miles through the snow or high temperatures all day , and throw 30 tons of shi
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You can't blame the blokes for not taking your extra rubbish away. Most trucks now have cameras on them , that are being watched by someone sitting in an office , and if you collect anything that you shouldn't, you'll be signing on before the end of your shift. We only get 7 seconds to empty each bin now , so the days when we could stop and have a chat to some of the oldies , or help them out sometimes , are long gone. I've spent many a tacho break parked outside some old ladies houses , cutting hedges , and taking the cuttings away . If I got caught on camera doing that now , my jo
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It used to be quite well paid years ago , and in all honesty , I'm on decent money because I've been there a long time , and im a hgv driver , but following a 10k pay cut and well below inflation pay rises for the last ten years , its pretty poor now. I think my loaders earn about £11.50 per hour now , and most of them are agency workers that get laid off for around two months every year( a few days here and there). They also get spoken to and treated like absolute shit by the supervisors and management . They constantly get threatened and bullied. It's an absolute disgrace. It's certain
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I'm thinking more and more about drawing my council pension and calling it a day . We also own a small business. It does very well , but theirs still the worry that it could go tits up at any time with the way things are at the moment . I suppose the fear comes from being comfortable for a few years.
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It's hard to feel sorry for him. He started a fight , and he came second.
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I've been a binman for the last 23 years . It used to be a great job , with decent money , decent hours , and a great bunch of lads to work with . I'm unbelievably bored with it now and i feckin hate the place , but I'm just too old and knackered to look at retraining. Financially I'm sound , I was mortgage free before I was 40 , but I always worry , just incase things go tits up. I've been poor , and I really don't like it.
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I'm 55 , and I've just about had a gut full of working.
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Nowt wrong with a chewy ringpiece
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What can I say , you just make me horny you old Christmas stallion you .
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You'll be making me blush like a virgin after her first kiss .
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We're you getting a card for a special friend mack .
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Where do you live king ?. We've got enough turkey to feed another 6 or 8 people if you're stuck mate.
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Reminder for ditchman.
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I can tell by your grinch like demeanour, that you didn't clip the hamsters nails this morning .ho ho feckin ho santa claus .
