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| Thread ID: 98910 | 2009-04-12 17:41:00 | Why do shops close on easter? | Ninjabear (2948) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 764319 | 2009-04-13 10:30:00 | 12 hours a day, 7 days a week Sounds a lot like the hours I do - but no second weekend Off - Time off when work eases down. Mind you - working on / with computers is not quite as dangerous as the demolition business,the demolition business needs skills, not any one can do it and do it safely |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 764320 | 2009-04-13 10:34:00 | Seen Ward demo here pull down buildings, amazes me seems like an accident waiting to happen. Never seen a cool wrecking ball like the movies though. | prefect (6291) | ||
| 764321 | 2009-04-13 10:43:00 | We used to use wrecking balls, But you don't swing them like in the movies, well very rarely, and it takes a massive amount of skill (blind luck) to hit anything. Generally you lift them above the building,let the rope brake off, and let her free fall straight down. They have a habit of wearing through the steel cable and flying off god knows where, Its a wickedly dangerous job to climb into a smashed to bits building to try and find the ball and attach the rope, you can hear the crap creaking around you, floors are missing, beams broken, entire sections collapsed. Its normally dark,wet, cramped. One interesting one I done became engulfed in fire. Great fun though. Another one I enjoyed was climbing up up onto buildings,attaching a wire rope to the structure, then the machine it was attached to would reverse pulling a section of the building down, If the rope came off you had to climb back up with it, drag it back into the structure and reattach it, The thing was the rope weighed a couple of ton, and the "structure" could now be hanging out in space. Of course none of these methods are used today....... |
Metla (12) | ||
| 764322 | 2009-04-13 10:57:00 | Of course none of these methods are used today.......Uh huh :rolleyes: I know what tends to happen when the boss aint around ;) [assuming you're referring to the dodgy work practices that can happen at persons risk] |
Myth (110) | ||
| 764323 | 2009-04-13 11:07:00 | Well, I am one of the bosses, and the company health and safety type person, and when **** goes wrong then the company (and myself) is held accountable. So any stunts as described earlier just don't happen, we have new stunts instead, besides, The wire ropes were used when we used bulldozers/trackscavators for demolition, before excavators became common place so that era has pretty much finished apart from a few mad cockies..... |
Metla (12) | ||
| 764324 | 2009-04-13 11:17:00 | I just realised that New Zealand is different to overseas. While places overseas tend to open their shop thru easter New Zealand has a law that fines people if they open their outlets but why? A lot of places overseas don't open Sunday - Pacific Islands, Hong Kong, Germany, Austria, in fact most of Europe. Why don't we close up on Sunday because "they do it overseas" Why can't New Zealand "be different to overseas" Easter, ANZAC and Christmas day are about the only time we can get our family together. Stuff opening retail outlets because "they do it overseas"!! Other public holidays my wife has to work, because if she doesn't they cut her hours.... |
porkster (6331) | ||
| 764325 | 2009-04-13 11:25:00 | Well, I am one of the bosses, and the company health and safety type person, and when **** goes wrong then the company (and myself) is held accountable. So any stunts as described earlier just don't happen, we have new stunts instead, besides, The wire ropes were used when we used bulldozers/trackscavators for demolition, before excavators became common place so that era has pretty much finished apart from a few mad cockies.....Yeah a lot has changed. I remember some of the **** we used to get up to in FCF. Half of them now-a-days very sack-able offenses You still get the occasional cowboy, especially where forklifts are concerned |
Myth (110) | ||
| 764326 | 2009-04-13 11:25:00 | New Zealand closing for Easter has nothing to do with religion really, USA is more religious than New Zealand and they all go to work on the Friday and Monday. The whole protecting workers thing is a nonsense, you can argue that same line for any day of the year. Shops should be able to open at Easter if they want to, and make whatever arrangements they want to with their staff. Bad employers won't keep good staff, simple as that. YEs and we all know how well adjusted the Yanks are, no crime no postal worker shoot outs, no violence, and they all get pay a wonderful wage and don't need to work long hours or for tips. |
porkster (6331) | ||
| 764327 | 2009-04-13 11:27:00 | Why is it not fair?. Do you ground all planes so pilots can eat easter eggs on Sunday? The argument for people to have specific days off don't hold water, if you don't want to work those days get a job that doesn't work them, or own the shop and make your own decision. Pilots work about three days a week get paid over $40 bucks an hour and don't need compulsory holidays. Unlike those working in retail.... |
porkster (6331) | ||
| 764328 | 2009-04-13 11:33:00 | A lot of places overseas don't open Sunday - Pacific Islands, Hong Kong, Germany, Austria, in fact most of Europe. Why don't we close up on Sunday because "they do it overseas" Why can't New Zealand "be different to overseas" Easter, ANZAC and Christmas day are about the only time we can get our family together. Stuff opening retail outlets because "they do it overseas"!! Other public holidays my wife has to work, because if she doesn't they cut her hours.... Pretty sure Hong Kong and other European countries open on Sunday unless the last time you visited there was 1904 or something. |
beeswax34 (63) | ||
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