Sheffield Exchange, Toy trains, music and fun!

[5BarVT]

Forty years ago wasn’t a Trainee Assistant Store Manager just a shelf stacker?

Paul.

[Northmoor]

Once upon a time, celebrities endorsed products.  Now they are "Brand Ambassadors".  Give me strength....

 

Don't get me started on managers who call themselves "Six Sigma Black Belts".  They should be locked in a room with a Karate Black Belt.

[TheSignalEngineer]

6 minutes ago, Northmoor said:

Don't get me started on managers who call themselves "Six Sigma Black Belts".  They should be locked in a room with a Karate Black Belt.

Along with 5S.

It amused some people that the 5th S was "Shitsuke".

As the 5th S was supposed to mean make sure you always do 1S, 2S, 3S and 4S it doesn't take much imagination to guess what  5S became known as in our organisation.

[5BarVT]

BINGO!

Paul.

[Clive Mortimore]

14 hours ago, Stubby47 said:

If I told you, it would bore the pants off you.

 

But I write software to manipulate data being moved between systems, validate data that needs to be migrated into our systems and test software that's written to migrate the validated data into our systemzzzzzzzzz..........

Hi Stu

 

How much simpler is was just to photo copy the files and send them in the internal post for someone never to read them but leave then in that grey filling cabinet in the corner of the office with the spider plant that needed watering. Progress they call it, and I bet the spider plant still needs watering. 

 

Well I am driving trains we have a stopper to Leeds via Doncaster being pulled by a Brush type 2. There is a parcels going to Preston where a portion will be added to a Glasgow bound train , another section to a Barrow train and the remaining BG will find its way to Blackpool, with a BR Type 2 hauling it.  

Edited June 13, 2020 by Clive Mortimore

[Clive Mortimore]

Off one of the best LPs ever.

[Bogie]

I bought a car last year and the guy working in the showroom handed me his card on which he was described as "Guest Experience Specialist".

 

No idea what it meant, and although curious I resisted asking him to explain.

[Gibbo675]

6 hours ago, Bogie said:

I bought a car last year and the guy working in the showroom handed me his card on which he was described as "Guest Experience Specialist".

 

No idea what it meant, and although curious I resisted asking him to explain.

Hi Bogie,

 

I thought such cards with such a description were to be found in phone boxes............or so I have been told.

 

Gibbo.

[Gibbo675]

9 hours ago, Clive Mortimore said:

Hi Stu

 

How much simpler is was just to photo copy the files and send then in the internal post for someone never to read them but leave then in that grey filling cabinet in the corner of the office with the spider plant that needed watering. Progress they call it, and I bet the spider plant still needs watering. 

 

Well I am driving trains we have a stopper to Leeds via Doncaster being pulled by a Brush type 2. There is a parcels going to Preston where a portion will be added to a Glasgow bound train , another section to a Barrow train and the remaining BG will find its way to Blackpool, with a BR Type 2 hauling it.  

Hi Clive,

 

If you a driving steam trains you could sprinkle some coal dust on to the soil of the pot of said spider plant and then be a sport and water it. That way the white stripes on the leaves turn purple.

 

I would have thought that the parcels for Preston and Glasgow would be combined with a Manchester-Glasgow at Bolton with the Preston potion later detached and exchanged with a portion from Liverpool to go on to Glasgow after the re-configuring of the train. Some of the vans from Liverpool may be destined for Edinburgh and would be split off at Carstairs and would be toward the rear of the formation. I don't suppose that little lot makes much difference to what leaves Sheffield all the same.

 

Gibbo.

[john new]

16 minutes ago, Gibbo675 said:

Hi Bogie,

 

I thought such cards with such a description were to be found in phone boxes............or so I have been told.

 

Gibbo.

What’s a phone box?

[Gibbo675]

32 minutes ago, john new said:

What’s a phone box?

Hi John,

 

I did use the past tense of were and not present tense of are, any way I though this was a silly old bloke's thread so you ought to know or are you beyond your years somehow ?

 

These days in my village the phone box has been fitted out with shelving and is used as a miniature library in which books are placed for exchange.

 

Gibbo.

Edited June 13, 2020 by Gibbo675
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[john new]

11 minutes ago, Gibbo675 said:

Hi John,

 

I did use the past tense of were and not present tense of are, any way I though this was a silly old bloke's thread so you ought to know or are you beyond your years somehow ?

 

These days in my village the phone box has been fitted out with shelving and is used as a miniature library in which books are placed for exchange.

 

Gibbo.

As an old geezer myself, I do know, even remember the button type. Thought it might generate a smile! Always pitied someone who followed the lead from one of the cards because they actually needed their furniture to be french polished! Perhaps we should ask the lady in boots, or was it Timothy Whites?

[Gibbo675]

1 minute ago, john new said:

As an old geezer myself, I do know, even remember the button type. Thought it might generate a smile! Always pitied someone who followed the lead from one of the cards because they actually needed their furniture to be french polished! Perhaps we should ask the lady in boots, or was it Timothy Whites?

Hi John,

 

Phew, I thought I was a whipper snapper at only 50 !

 

I once checked out the selection of books in the phone box and it was mostly Mills and Boon type stuff, nothing about wood finishing !

 

Gibbo.

[Enterprisingwestern]

 

I like my job title.

Retired covers all options and explanations!

 

Mike.

[Clive Mortimore]

55 minutes ago, Enterprisingwestern said:

 

I like my job title.

Retired covers all options and explanations!

 

Mike.

No Michael, when I try to remind Mrs M I am retired she retitles my job to Lazy Sod. keep up with modern terminology.

[Clive Mortimore]

3 hours ago, Gibbo675 said:

Hi Clive,

 

If you a driving steam trains you could sprinkle some coal dust on to the soil of the pot of said spider plant and then be a sport and water it. That way the white stripes on the leaves turn purple.

 

I would have thought that the parcels for Preston and Glasgow would be combined with a Manchester-Glasgow at Bolton with the Preston potion later detached and exchanged with a portion from Liverpool to go on to Glasgow after the re-configuring of the train. Some of the vans from Liverpool may be destined for Edinburgh and would be split off at Carstairs and would be toward the rear of the formation. I don't suppose that little lot makes much difference to what leaves Sheffield all the same.

 

Gibbo.

Hi Gibbo

 

It takes the Burnley, Accrington, and Blackburn route to Preston. It is there it meets both trains from Liverpool Exchange and Manchester Victoria which go on to be formed into the trains for Glasgow, Barrow and Blackpool.

 

 

[cheesysmith]

That reminds me of when they introduced self assessment yearly reviews at work. When asked about my work ethic I put path of least resistance, knowing it went upto head office.

[Clive Mortimore]

59 minutes ago, cheesysmith said:

That reminds me of when they introduced self assessment yearly reviews at work. When asked about my work ethic I put path of least resistance, knowing it went upto head office.

They use to end up unread or skimmed over once (if you were lucky) in that grey filing cabinet with the dying spider plant on top. I suppose now Stu spends days moving them from one type of system to another for no one to read because their computer is on the wrong system. But they still don't water the spider plant even after Gibbo has turned it purple.

 

As I typed this I reminded myself about one place I worked were they would do a yearly survey on the ethnic mix of the staff. I always use to put down Sioux Indian until the year they changed the form and I had to sign on the back. I then became Anglo-saxon, Celtic, Roma, and Norman/Norse, my boss said I couldn't  be that and he was going to put be down as White British. We then had a argument because if I wasn't allowed to be what my tissue type showed (I was working for the National Blood Service and had been tissue typed as a possible match for a bone marrow transplant and one the doctors used me as an example in a lecture he gave us) then I wanted to be White English because I am English not British. I lost.

Edited June 13, 2020 by Clive Mortimore

[Gibbo675]

2 minutes ago, Clive Mortimore said:

They use to end up unread or skimmed over once (if you were lucky) in that grey filing cabinet with the dying spider plant on top. I suppose now Stu spends days moving them from one type of system to another for no one to read because their computer is on the wrong system. But they still don't water the spider plant even after Gibbo has turned it purple.

 

As I typed this I reminded myself about one place I worked were they would do a yearly survey on the ethnic mix of the staff. I always use to put down Sioux Indian until the year they changed the form and I had to sign on the back. I then became Anglo-saxon, Celtic, Roma, and Norman/Norse, my boss said I couldn't  be that and he was going to put be down as White British. We then had a argument because if I wasn't allowed to be what my tissue type showed (I was working for the National Blood Service and had been tissue typed as a possible match for a bone marrow transplant and one the doctors used me as an example in a lecture he gave us) then I wanted to be White English because I am English not British. I lost.

Hi Folks,

 

This just proves the insanity that abounds in what passes for reality in 2020.

 

We are now desperately in need of a thread in Wheel Tappers that is dedicated to;  "Clive's Heritage Matters", so that all of the SJW's that comment upon such threads can mock both our and their own heritage, following it up by throwing it all into the docks at Bristol.

I would hope they might include some GWR locomotives as part of that destruction of combined cultural and railway heritage, perhaps chuck some of those awful diesel hydraulics in there while they are at it.*

 

Anyway, once the funding from George Soros arrives, I'm off to build a wall around the county and declare it a loony free zone. Either that or jump into the docks at Whitehaven, its much nearer than Bristol form my house.

 

 

As may be seen my heritage it is that of a fair haired Slav not one of those swarthy Italian types that forced me to join their army of imperial conquest, what with their spelt wheat bread and fermented fish sauce.

 

Gibbo.

 

*  I feel that this sentence is swear box exempt due to the disposal method of said green locomotives which would make a much bigger splash than any statue.

[Clive Mortimore]

 

Do we pull this statue down, after all he was a thief (stole from the rich), a marxist (gave to the poor), an anarchist (an out law) and was Islamophobic (he fought in the crusades)?  No cos he is part of our heritage a member of the landed gentry, he was a lord after all, the Earl of Huntingdon. 

[Flying Fox 34F]

Many customer relation job titles now have ,”Experience” in them, because you can have a good or bad experience, but the customer still has an experience!!!!!!

 

As for ancestry, my DNA claims I’m 3/4 Polish with a dash of Finnish, with the remainder from Strathclyde???????

So, I’m definitely White Other!

 

Paul

[Flying Fox 34F]

Just now, Clive Mortimore said:

 

Do we pull this statue down, after all he was a thief (stole from the rich), a marxist (gave to the poor), an anarchist (an out law) and was Islamophobic (he fought in the crusades)?  No cos he is part of our heritage a member of the landed gentry, he was a lord after all, the Earl of Huntingdon. 

Makes a change to see Robin with his Bow and Arrow. They usually disappear on a Friday night

 

Paul

[Bogie]

6 hours ago, Gibbo675 said:

Hi Bogie,

 

I thought such cards with such a description were to be found in phone boxes............or so I have been told.

 

Gibbo.

 

When my wife and I took up our first lodgings in the inner city of Brisbane our randomly assigned phone number [that is what the phone company said] was actually written on a wall in the public toilet in the nearby public park.  The callers used to hang up when my wife answered the phone.

 

I complained to the phone company and its solution was to delist our number.  The result was for the next six months we never got a phone call from anyone!

[Dr Gerbil-Fritters]

I don't like any statues and would happily throw them all into the nearest harbour.... especially those 'living' ones that infest public spaces these days.

[Gibbo675]

25 minutes ago, Dr Gerbil-Fritters said:

I don't like any statues and would happily throw them all into the nearest harbour.... especially those 'living' ones that infest public spaces these days.

Hi Dr Fritters,

 

You just wait until he describes "The Miley Cyrus" you will love it,

 

 

It 2020 and don't we know it !!!

 

Gibbo.