Watching people work

[deptfordmarmoset]

Over the years I've arrested most of our bin men!

Trespassing on your land again? I know, they just come round again and again, regular as clockwork.

There's a bike café near me. The coffee tastes particularly good when there's mechanic working at the back of the room.

 

[Drago]

Nah. For some reason the buggers keep sneaking in and stealing my dustbin. Every Tuesday.

 

[Piemaster]

Every Tuesday

Every Tuesday? Not every 2nd or 3rd, except when theres an 'r' in the month and it's not some sort of holiday, like Lent? Where is this mythical place in which you live?

 

[mybike]

Last time I was in I actually ended up showing the nurse how to make up a bed with proper hospital corners. In some hospitals now they're using duvets and fitted sheets...

There's nothing quite like a nice tightly made bed with HC. I spent a fair bit of time doing them in my teenage years.

Anyone else enjoy watching cabin crew doing the safety briefing?

 

[Hill Wimp]

They're round ours on a Monday.... They must move north by the day.

Snap, Mondays is bin day on the beach too. Since i have been off work for the last 3months i have now trained my bin man to return my bins to MY driveway rather than half way down the road.

My tip at Xmas obviously helped

 

[Cubist]

I like watching the cleaner at work. She's a nice Eastern European lady and seems a bit in awe of being in an office full of Gene Hunt types but she damn well works hard. I like to watch her, and I'm probably one of the few that appreciates her effort.

What a coincidence! Our cleaner is East European. It took her two hours to Hoover the briefing room, and it was then I realised she was a Slovak.

 

[slowmotion]

I tiler from Poland finished our shower cubicle a few years ago. He was well into his Sixties and looked like he had had a very hard life. Every night when I got home, I would have a look at his workmanship, and wonder. In the morning, when he reappeared, I thanked him for being such a craftsman. A rare breed.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Grave digging by hand spade seems to have disappeared. Being brought up next to a cemetery we'd( on our school holidays)watch them spend all day digging down, then wait in anticipation to see if they hit the "rotting coffin" below. Now it's done by a mini JCB thingy.

 

[AndyRM]

Not something I'd particularly considered to be honest. I like restaurants with open kitchens so I suppose I like seeing a chef at work.

As a designer I cannot stand people looking over my shoulder. For every person who appreciates my abilities, there are another 3 who reckon they know what to do better than me, which is incredibly irritating.

Anyone who's watched The Apprentice will recognise the look of impotent rage and despair on the face of a designer being dictated to by a numpty.

 

[slowmotion]

Not something I'd particularly considered to be honest. I like restaurants with open kitchens so I suppose I like seeing a chef at work.

As a designer I cannot stand people looking over my shoulder. For every person who appreciates my abilities, there are another 3 who reckon they know what to do better than me, which is incredibly irritating.

Anyone who's watched The Apprentice will recognise the look of impotent rage and despair on the face of a designer being dictated to by a numpty.

If you don't mind a lot of very rude words, this little cartoon might ring a few bells...

WARNING: RUDE WORDS AHEAD
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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfprIxNfCjk
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[AndyRM]

If you don't mind a lot of very rude words, this little cartoon might ring a few bells...

WARNING: RUDE WORDS AHEAD
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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfprIxNfCjk
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Heartbreakingly accurate.

 

[slowmotion]

Heartbreakingly accurate.

I know. Especially the hollow promises of further work in the future!

 

[jefmcg]

Work that's hard to watch? Film making. Or at least Kung Fu/action movies. I once went down to get my lunch in the shopping centre below my office block, and Jackie Chan was making a movie. I stayed to watch for more than an hour, but nothing happened except Barry Otto getting hit in the face and dropping. Over and Over and Over again. Less than than a second of screen time. The only interrupted it on the hour to film the clock doing it's thing, which of course was worse than Barry Otto getting hit repeatedly.

 

[gbb]

If you don't mind a lot of very rude words, this little cartoon might ring a few bells...

WARNING: RUDE WORDS AHEAD
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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfprIxNfCjk
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Reminds me of a guy at a previous company who always wanted odd jobs doing...and I was supposed to know exactly what he wanted while he proffered the very minimum of information. Such as...
'Do you think you could make a motorcycle stand ?'
'..ive got some material that might do (steel, welder etc etc)...have you got something I can copy...or a drawing, a picture maybe ?'
'Nah, you don't need a drawing, its simple, it just hooks under the rear axle' (or something like that he said )
'I can't even visualise that, ive never seen one...do us a sketch with some simple measurements, width etc etc'
'Nah....its simple, you don't need a drawing....you could make one...easy'

I was polite....deep inside (actually only just skin deep) I wanted to be the robot above and give it him both barrels.

 

[gbb]

I hate watching people work. I'd sooner take the tools off them and do it myself. If i'm working with someone who's perhaps stripping something down with me, I always end up thinking....c'mon FFS, i'd have had that off by now....jeez, WTF are you doing.
The worst of it is...i'm serious. I work fast, most other people are just 'normal'...it's me that's the problem