Factory Work: Two Days In The Life Of A Midlander

[kinkme]

6street asked on a chulu chat once what I really did when I said "I worked with wires". I'm sure she doesn't actually give a shit to want this much of a detailed reply, but when I realised I would have to work the HARDEST four day stretch of cabling, patching, IT setup and cat5ing of my freaking life this week (I am currently on day two), I decided to

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[captlebubbles]

Kinkles Kinkles, I LOVE it that you work at a place called Dave's because everything on ST_D is called Dave's now- Dave's House of [instert food type here] and recently we've moved on to non-food things too.

Also I love that you talked about Top Gear. Top Gear ftv! \o/

[kinkme]

gotta admit, I never thought that I'd ever agree with jezza when it came to green issues, but his stance on not dumping old but working cars just to get priuses (sp?) is completely correct - I hate douche bags in apparently 'green' cars who lord it up over those who've stuck with their old ford focus because, netly, the prius owner has jacked the environment far for than those still filling up on leaded petrol -.-

[captlebubbles]

Jezza's my favorite of the three presenters (though my love for Stiggy surpasses everyone and everything else, except maybe Jeff Murdock. Maybe.

[kinkme]

MAY FTW

[vforvegan]

I wish I was a 'normal recycler', my mum's still got a VCR and two old, dying tellies hanging around. Also I am not allowed to throw out the laptop until it dies a DEATH, despite the massive crack on the back, and the falling-apart monitor bit.

*lives in fear of electrocution*

Oh, and well done you for doing such a hard job :D

"Who's machoer" contests in a whole new form.

[captlebubbles]

Oh, please, not only do we still have our (broken, casette eating) VCR's, but I was seven before we replaced the telly with the knob because it still worked (and then it was just given to me to put in my room). And I'm pretty sure our computer was made at the turn of the century.

The twentieth century. (Okay, okay, the twenty-first, but it's still a piece of junk. My brother did some stuff to make it move faster so that it now only takes five minutes to load a page. Thank fuck I've got my own lappy or I'd have gone mad long ago.)

edit: Also your icon highly amuses me.

[kinkme]

Hahaha okay to be fair I wouldn't have a go at anyone dumping a VCR, I'm more mad at companies which buy bulk VCRs for security cameras but ditch ALL of them when they get a digital system.

It's actually really a fun job. I know a few people who hate it and others who think they're doing a great -environmental service- by working in a recycling factory (usually management) but I really love it for the insanely brummie people and the stories and all the union socialism stuff in the brotherhood of men. Solidarity! Solidarity! Solidarity forever!

Basically, I now understand why people want labour to be more socialist. socialism is fun!

[kinkme]

1. DUDE I JUST DIDN'T WANT TO FORCE YOU TO READ THIS EXCEEDINGLY LONG ENTRY IFYOU DIDN'T WANT TO

2. It's ma huge huge manly baby. And it's now providing me with the internets to type this!

3. Hahahaha well, windows is still shit, but the problem would be if your workplace decided to switch to a better os Microsoft will have it in their evil, evil contract that you can't just install it into the computers you have - you'd have to get new ones. And the perfectly good current ones would go...? Yeah. /hates Microsoft

4. No more asbestos for me! At least, we think...

[citruses]

This is such a fucking interesting and excellent post. A+++ :D:D

Also, I love this sentence dearly:
we use "FOR I AM MAN" because manlyness is a genderless quality which embodies strength and stupidity in roughly equal amounts.)

[kinkme]

Awww, thanks! Tbh I didn't expect anyone to read this, but thinking about writing it kept me a love so :|||||

MANLYNESS. I DO THIS FOR I AM MAN *breaks off arm in waste disposal machine*

[kinkme]

* alive

Fucking iPAD and standard account

[hsavinien]

Eegh... On multiple counts, but particularly on the recycling!fail.

[kinkme]

Reduce, REUSE, recycle! It's really disturbing how many people think just because they dump their shit into a recycling bin they're doing the best they can do to protect the environment - the stuff still ends up in the ground half the time!