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[jay clock]

This has been fascinating. My offering is an extract from a staff handbook I am writing where I discovered that the non-childbearing partner of a lesbian couple can take paternity leave.....

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• jay clock
• 15 Mar 2017

 

[Haitch]

Shouldn't that be parental leave rather than paternal?

My job today involves a lot of this:

 

[jay clock]

Shouldn't that be parental leave rather than paternal?

No, paternity leave is what I meant. Mums get maternity, Dads (or lesbian partner of woman on maternity) gets paternity and there is a completely separate thing called parental leave for either parent!

 

[gbb]

Big tidy up in the new workshop. Those blue benches weigh a ton,there's 4 there and each one is about 8ft long to five some scale. We'll be lost in there, it's massive. Lots to go in there yet...today was get it all clean and orderly for the first time.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Working from home this afternoon, here's a photo of my co-workers.

 

[gbb]

warning...may contain workshop porn.

Unpacking new equipment. ..
Mig and Tig welders, various power tools, bench grinder and not photographed, a pillar drill,welding acreens and extraction equipment for the welders

 

[Justinslow]

A bit of patch turfing

 

[Justinslow]

[QUOTE 4735928, member: 9609"]thats the wrong shade of green mate - take it back and get some lighter stuff[/QUOTE]
ummm not really sure why they didn't just want to reseed that bit, the rest of the lawn is very rough and the turf will stand out like a sore thumb for many a year!
but hey, they pay the bills.

 

[numbnuts]

Looking after these three

 

[Cuchilo]

ummm not really sure why they didn't just want to reseed that bit, the rest of the lawn is very rough and the turf will stand out like a sore thumb for many a year!
but hey, they pay the bills.

Because they want it NOW AND WILL NOT WAIT !

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Because they want it NOW AND WILL NOT WAIT !

Aha, I see the joinery and gardening trades have the same challenges as the catering trade

 

[GlenBen]

Aha, I see the joinery and gardening trades have the same challenges as the catering trade

And retail

 

[Dayvo]

(not my photo)

Laying decking around the clubhouse at my golf course: 750 metres of it (it'll take all week).

 

[Justinslow]

Lunchtime company

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

NHS 'shop-floor', so cameras not allowed

I am fixing a dent on this car, last time I worked on it I took this picture. I hope that qualifies.

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Ahh, the Vulcan Moth................