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I like and agree with what you say, Steve. This though is not what I meant.

I was meaning, that these people are withdraw from the mainstream early and their intelligence and success aside.

The environment they live in is so rarefied,that they no longer function in every day norms - no matter what their background - their immediate needs are quickly met and so the every day needs of the "normal" individual, no longer mean anything to them and never really did.
These differences are encouraged and so ,in many, many ways these people begin early on, to live different lives, separating not only their goals, targets, attainments and experiences, also their measuring sticks of success.
These differences become the reasons we ( the electorate / population) feel that we are not being represented.
How many times have we all said, " I dont understand what the government are doing." What I mean to say is perhaps its, They dont understand what we are doing.
And let me be really clear, I have not axe to grind ,its just the way it is...
I truly cherish the " coming up through the ranks and prospering by hard work ,notions of success, and indeed this is the very experience these clever future leaders should be gaining instead are missing out on.
Unfortunately so many forgo the climb and instead " parachute in from some far off achievement and although landed safely, their first priority seems to be to look up.
Why put a man, at the top of a system, that has been trained too only look too ascending to the next.
I want my boss to be fully engaged in the present looking around the environment he is part of and integrating and engaging with it.
Not against engagement and looking up only at his superior and looking only to join him on the next step.
We seem to believe ambition is about getting on, to the next level.
I believe your ambitions should be placed in improvement, tuning,aiding, nurturing, your present.
In many ways, years ago, when you waited for your boss to retire and you moved up, then you knew you were in your present position for a while, and may as well get stuck in at catering to the immediate needs around you, this was a more productive environment for the whole.

One trick ponies that many of them are, climb climb. Please @dilligaf make something, and that might stop me bleeting on.

 

Ive got two across the road that have taken advantage for the last 27 years.

 

Wow, @Dozers Dad, I'm really sorry to hear about how scared and anxious your father-in-law is. That certainly adds stress upon stress. I do hope that he can learn to manage it so that he can continue to enjoy life at some level through all of this.

Over the past few days when I go out for a walk on my own or when Mr. Sandi, Annie, and I go out on the walking path, I've noticed a definite change in how people are behaving. As recently as a week ago, even if people stayed 6 feet apart, most would smile, say good morning, and generally interact positively. Now people are starting to look away, not greet one another, and generally behave in very paranoid ways. There's so many more ramifications to this pandemic then just the virus itself. The ways that we think about and treat one another and may for sometime to come is just one of those.

 

I work in Transport, so we are working as normal, I have had a couple of chats with our drivers who are really quite concerned that they will get the virus & take it home to loved ones.
I try and ease their concerns, they work for 95% of the time on their own, when they arrive to complete deliveries they are told to use disposable cloves we supply along with hand sanitiser, to maintain the 2 metre distancing, paperwork no longer needs to be signed, just asking the name of the guy receiving the goods & writing it on the delivery note themselves is fine.

But I have been constantly outraged by the way our guys are treated while out trying to do their deliveries, first thing a couple of weeks back was many Distribution Centres refused drivers access to toilets & hand washing facilities
Hauliers stuck together & with the help of the RHA lobbied the HSE & Dept of Transport who issued a general letter for us to issue drivers, this stated that refusing visiting driver access to toilets & hand wash facilities was breaching HSE rules, any company refusing to allow the driver access would be prosecuted, we had already decided that any company not complying would be blacklisted & get no further deliveries.
When they return shipping containers to the ports they are subject to both cab & personal random searches in order to comply with the rules on international maritime safety, both of these searches breach social distancing guidelines, I have reported this to the RHA who are lobbying again to get these searches suspended.
Then today I hear that the BP stations that we use are now refusing to sell drivers a cup of coffee when they stop to refuel , emergency services only! So my next crusade is to contact BP & tell them I will be switching to a more driver friendly fuel bunker network, we will spend our £20 grand a week with Shell or Texaco ... FFS!

Sorry should have put this on rant of the day!

 

Definitely a complex issue.....

 

Here you go mate

 

Well there I was singing their praises not so long ago, I still think it's a great thing giving emergency services free fuel but to shun others is not right, your drivers are just as important in keeping the country going

 

The gesture to the emergency services is great, but for our drivers I am not asking that they get free anything, just that they can buy a cup of coffee when they stop to refuel, I have a feeling this stupid ban will not last long, one of the good things about membership of the RHA is that they jump all over stuff like this, I predict of U turn by this time tomorrow!

 

That is really piss poor mate. It is hard to understand some peoples/business behaviours....

 

If I'm correct in your meaning of this then I agree with you Sprinter, if your trying to say some folk a lot of whom are in the government are born with a silver spoon in there mouth and they have no real meaning of hardship or working your way through and maybe up the system and dont appreciate difficulty or the hard work it takes then yes I agree.
They are because of there inherited wealth title or upbringing on another planet to the rest of us. [/QUOTE]

 

There really are some fuckwits about aren't there.

 

Absolutely....

 

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In a nutshell.

 

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Afraid I'm a man of few words Andy one normally being F--k the other OFF
but yes Hopefully I got his drift admittedly in way fewer words

 

Wouldnt it have been easy to fire up the welder?

 

I dropped of a bus at the Mercedes Dealership yesterday, only got into the porch, where I found a pad a pen and a list of questions, and a box for the key.

 

They must have known it was you

 

Geez, @Bad Billy! This is outrageous. This shouldn't just be on Rant of the Day, it should be on the evening news and the front page of the newspapers. Unbelievable......

 

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Trump commented awhile back that people had to show a photo ID to buy groceries. Hmmm, think he buys his own groceries? Or ever has? I'd say that's a good example of "being brought up on another planet", @TEZ 217.