Unhappy Thread

[Newportnobby]

We used to have great fun with the card they give you to write your name on and place on the table in front of you. It was a constant source of amazement and amusement that these folks attended.....

Ed Winchester
Unlucky Alf
Dave Angel
Jesse
Carl Hooper

(If you missed the entire Fast Show series you'll not have a clue what I'm blathering about)

[railsquid]

Though come to think of it I work from home anyway, probably means I'll have start creating some imaginary co-workers to hassle

Could always get a cat ... or dog 

Yeah, but that would mean I'd have to find space on the desk for an additional keyboard for the cat to sleep on (in the olden days it was less of a problem because the cat could just plonk itself on the CRT monitor and occasionally swipe its tail across the screen, but these days it would just fall off, unless it was a very 2-dimensional cat).

[jpendle]

I currently work for the Ambulance Service, I'm not in a front line role but work in the IIT Team as a Radio & Data Systems Engineer, so can someone please explain to me why my ' Compulsory Training' includes:

Safeguarding Adults
Safeguarding Children
Preventing Radicalisation
Infection Prevention & Control
Dementia
Identifying & Supporting Victims of Modern Slavery

Did point all this out when I joined, but was told that it was standard NHS Training Package!!!

Regards

Neal.

Most of those courses should come in useful in your interactions with the other members of this forum

Safeguarding Adults                 How to prevent our significant others finding out how much we spend on trains
Safeguarding Children              How to get our children/grandchildren playing with trains instead of video games
Preventing Radicalisation          Stopping conversions to 2mm
Infection Prevention & Control   Not allowing any Orribly Overscale to infect the site
Dementia                                Nuff said
Identifying & Supporting Victims of Modern Slavery



John P

[Malc]

We too had the usual courses - time management, disability awareness etc, but the best one I did was fire officer training. We got to set things alight and play with hoses and fire extinguishers.

[Newportnobby]

I currently work for the Ambulance Service, I'm not in a front line role but work in the IIT Team as a Radio & Data Systems Engineer, so can someone please explain to me why my ' Compulsory Training' includes:

Safeguarding Adults
Safeguarding Children
Preventing Radicalisation
Infection Prevention & Control
Dementia
Identifying & Supporting Victims of Modern Slavery

Did point all this out when I joined, but was told that it was standard NHS Training Package!!!

Regards

Neal.

@Calnefoxile @Tank
Sounds the perfect induction to becoming a Moderator

[guest311]

We too had the usual courses - time management, disability awareness etc, but the best one I did was fire officer training. We got to set things alight and play with hoses and fire extinguishers.

best couple of days when I was in the RAF was the GDT training every 6 months IIRC, ...
watch the film on the Dakota crash with all the fake injuries and blood
first aid training, with resussi annie amongst other things
then fire fighting
and lastly, the range and a chance to brass up targets with your designated weapons 

first aid was good
fire fighting was good

range was  great, as long as you didn't get the idiot whose weapon jammed, and then turned to tell the instructor 

[Calnefoxile]

range was  great, as long as you didn't get the idiot whose weapon jammed, and then turned to tell the instructor 

Going completely OT here, but.....

On my Mechs Course at Locking we had a WRAF who did that with her SMG.

After we'd blatted away with our SLR's, killing those nasty Soviets from 25 yards  She calmly walked up to the firing point with her SMG (Sterling Sub-machine Gun based on the WW2 Sten gun) and started loosing off at the Target, not getting anywhere near it because 25 yards was probably too far even for that, anyway the damn thing kept jamming on her, not unheard of for that type of weapon, so she was getting quite angry with it.

Me and one of the lads where still on the range counting brass when the weapon jammed again and she just turned round with it and shouted "This  gun has jammed again!!" Me and my oppo just hit the deck shouting her name followed by "What the  are you doing!!" Which was also what the the Rock Cpl shouted, however this didn't have the desired effect of her turning round to face down the range again, oh no!!! What she did was just drop the weapon on the floor and go into full female scream & cry mode!!!

Needless to say she was escorted off the range and stayed as a Non-Combatant member of the WRAF, of which Females in the WRAF had the choice in those days.

Right I'll get off the sandbag and stop the lantern swinging now, back to normal service if you please 

Cheers

Neal. 

[Malc]

We had a training film about electrical safety which was called "don't let him die", suitably renamed by the course,"don't let him fry". The health and safety film was a bit gruesome with lots of fake blood and bandages, so much so that one lad fainted.

[guest311]

counting brass  :'(

and of course the

"I have no live rounds or spent casings in my possession, Corporal"

before you could leave the range.

[TrevL]

The "spent cases" blurb always amused me, as a rigger for a time on VAS, canberrra starter cartidges were always available.  They do look nice polished up, one either side on the fireplace hearth.

[RailGooner]

The "spent cases" blurb always amused me, as a rigger for a time on VAS, canberrra starter cartidges were always available.  They do look nice polished up, one either side on the fireplace hearth.

Trev, as a fellow Rigger, you must've shared my enthusiasm for the flight safety quote "Not me Chief, I'm Airframes!" 

[guest311]

The "spent cases" blurb always amused me, as a rigger for a time on VAS, canberrra starter cartidges were always available.  They do look nice polished up, one either side on the fireplace hearth.

might be my memory leading me astray, but didn't the Hunters have a cartridge starter as well ?

seem to remember trying to get hold of a couple when I was out in the Gulf, but they'd all gone home by the time we started patrol along the Hunter line, and of course none left laying around as FOD 

[Calnefoxile]

Trev, as a fellow Rigger, you must've shared my enthusiasm for the flight safety quote "Not me Chief, I'm Airframes!" 

You need to be careful here, because to me a Rigger is an Aerial Erector 

Regards

Neal

[RailGooner]

Trev, as a fellow Rigger, you must've shared my enthusiasm for the flight safety quote "Not me Chief, I'm Airframes!" 

You need to be careful here, because to me a Rigger is an Aerial Erector 

Regards

Neal

And in the West End they put up stage lighting. But which came first though Neal?! 

[stevewalker]

We had a training film about electrical safety which was called "don't let him die", suitably renamed by the course,"don't let him fry". The health and safety film was a bit gruesome with lots of fake blood and bandages, so much so that one lad fainted.

Ours was a 1 hour long (IIRC) programme, featuring a guy deciding to check a few measurements on a railway bridge that his office was preparing for work on, on his way home. The wind caught his steel tape, dropped the end over the parapet and onto the OHLE. The difference with this film was that the whole story was true, the guy was an employee of the company (although in a different office to us) and the last half was about him being in hospital, in a coma and his wife having to give permission for his limbs to be amputated, one by one as infection set in. He still died in the end. His wife took part in the filming. Very nasty.

On a lighter note, we all get the corporate management speak in emails and presentations, so:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyV_UG60dD4