Posts by Richard Llewellyn
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Dulux paints, circa 1980, my job was to clean out the vats that paint was made in. I had a high pressure hose, and every solvent known to humankind on tap.
Heh - yeah, I remember seeing more than a few guys there who seemed pretty well permanently toasted after many years in the solvent room. The days before OSH I presume.
Also remember the huge poker games on pay-day, when everyone got paid in cash in little brown envelopes, and then the card school would immediately start up and relieve some poor unfortunates of all their dosh before they even got it home to the families.
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for me the BPU (button pushing urge) came with the new Auckland hospital lifts, which have an override button for very-pregnant-mothers-who-might-not-make-it-to-the-ward-otherwise.
Heh - on that note Paul, some close friends of ours, who were prone to extremely quick labours, had their second child in the lift of the Randwick hospital maternity ward. Its a nice little family in-joke to call him 'Otis' occasionally.
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Yeah - congrats to the whole family, and especially to Mum - aint nothing quite like seeing your kids being born (err, except for maybe being the one to actually do the hard work :)
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Then there was the gauntlet of the office Christmas party.
Gawd, I had a similar experience, working for a family owned trading business in Leicester Square in the late 1980's.
Christmas party was held in a tacky Covent Garden pub in a wood panelled function room, and the CFO of the company - early 60's, public school educated, season ticket to Lords, centre court at Wimbledon, pin striped suit and a bowler (truly this man was a walking stereotype) type of guy who seldom deigned to speak to us plebs, who proceeded to get slaughtered on the free booze, tried with varying degrees of success to fondle all the women from the office, was in turn threatened with bodily harm by a small delegation of male work colleagues, and who then fell asleep in the toilet with his immaculately polished brogues poking out the bottom of the cubicle. All before 9.00pm.
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Cleaning out the chocolate vats at Griffins biscuit factory in Lower Hutt, during their annual spring clean.
Involved donning full protective suit and climbing down into these enormous vats with a pressure hose.
The amount of thick, congealed fat/goo was ebough to put me off my mallowpuffs for weeks.
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Heh, when I saw today's Hard News title I presumed it was about the rugby!
Heh - me too!
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Got it, cheers, v.good
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Sorry Joe, couldn't get that link to work.
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Ah, 'arguing' only in the semantic sense :)
Also, just giving my blood pressure a work-out, as any conversation involving Howards political strategies is wont to do.
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clark was a piece of work, but atsic was being gutted by the feds well before geoff took the reins.
Thats what I mean by Clark giving the Rodent the excuse he wanted.