Really, are you so helpless.......

[Brandane]

......that you need the services of the works maintenance team (i.e. ME!) to put up a length of string with 2 drawing pins to display Christmas cards? I am but one person, and a part time employee with more than enough to do as it is. I am sorry if you didn't like my response to your request; but come on - it's not really difficult. What next if I take that on board? Come and flush the toilet for you?

 

[Drago]

Have you not been on the string stretching safety course? You're therefore not trained to do the dynamic risk assessment (ie, you're not trained to make it up as you go along).

 

[Brandane]

Have you not been on the string stretching safety course? You're therefore not trained to do the dynamic risk assessment (ie, you're not trained to make it up as you go along).

Ahh; but none of the workforce have; so as per usual it falls into the lap of the one man maintenance team whether he is trained in the task in hand or not. Come to think of it, none of us have been trained in the safe opening of envelopes without putting ourselves at risk of nasty, career threatening, paper cuts - so should we even be opening cards on work premises?

 

[petek]

Peel me a grape!

 

[Globalti]

We had the same problem here with putting up the frame to hang the Sasco year planner. So I came to work extra early one day armed with my trusty battery drill, drilled the holes, popped in the Rawlplugs and hung my planner. Nobody ever queried it.

 

[annedonnelly]

Can you still get those tiny little plastic pegs to clip the cards to the string? Ours were cheery little red & green ones.

 

[welsh dragon]

Men are so useless. "Tut".

 

[Specialeyes]

Often heard 'round these parts:

"How many Sales Consultants does it take to change a lightbulb?"
"None. "

 

[cyberknight]

Our place has you filling in a risk assessment form,mind you most of the extra curricular stuff involves grinders, drills and welding .

 

[BoldonLad]

Can you still get those tiny little plastic pegs to clip the cards to the string? Ours were cheery little red & green ones.

Yes, they are still available. Bought a pack of them recently, on a whim, for my grand-daughter (8) who loves all things office / stationery / craft.

 

[MontyVeda]

......that you need the services of the works maintenance team (i.e. ME!) to put up a length of string with 2 drawing pins to display Christmas cards? I am but one person, and a part time employee with more than enough to do as it is. I am sorry if you didn't like my response to your request; but come on - it's not really difficult. What next if I take that on board? Come and flush the toilet for you?

Is it a policy thing? I'm not allowed to change a light bulb at work. We have to call a maintenance company, which seems like a huge waste of time and money to me.

 

[Dave7]

Our place has you filling in a risk assessment form,mind you most of the extra curricular stuff involves grinders, drills and welding .

What if, while filling out the risk assessment form, you slip and stab the pen into your hand?

 

[classic33]

What if, while filling out the risk assessment form, you slip and stab the pen into your hand?

You get a fresh sheet!
You can't file bloodstained paperwork.

 

[midlife]

Is it a policy thing? I'm not allowed to change a light bulb at work. We have to call a maintenance company, which seems like a huge waste of time and money to me.

Same here, we call Interserve who run our Hospital......at vast cost!

 

[MikeG]

Some people have funny thumbs which don't bend backwards at all, so they end up trying to push a drawing pin in with the end of it rather than the "ball". Combine that with the arm strength of a 2 year old, and no sense of symmetry or level, and.........well, let's just say that I don't mind doing the job because it will at least be done only once, and done properly.