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Don't you just love them- as in the pompous bastards!

Get some plants in. That will help the air quality in your office they say, but you're not allowed to water them as that breaks h&s regs....

 :doh:

Still, it'll be funny handing a req form for a specialist part time plant waterer.

They annoy me - I was sent home yesterday as I was sick in the toilet in the morning (not drink related) and was told I had to stay off today as well - even though I am fine.  I've only been in the job a few weeks and I'm being forced to take a sick day - pisses me off.

How terrible! WOE IS ME, I am being forced to have a nice day off AND BEING PAID

boo hoo hoo hoo

I wasn't looking for sympathy - I'm just saying I wanted to go to work and H&S have told me to stay away when I'm fine to show that H&S is now crazy in this country. 

What sector do you work in?

Public.

We have some random plants scattered around our office.
Every few weeks some guy turns up and feeds and waters them.
That's his job, just driving around companies watering plants.
I can't decide if that would be a good job to have or not.
On the one hand, you get to go out and about and are not stuck in the same place each day, but on the other hand you spend most of the day on your own doing a fucking boring job.

I used to have a job working for IBM in Havant...consisted of moving plants and other furniture about in a massive open plan office. Apparently it isn't very good to be stuck in an office looking at the same view and plants hour after hour, so the team would draw up a little map of where they wanted the stuff putting and me and a couple of others did the humping...which wasn't bad at all, cos there were some well fit birds about.

I don't recall watering duties, think they did their own back then, as a sort of stress therapy.

What's the risk in plant watering? Why is it safer to have a pro plant waterer to do the job than a desk jockey? Whoever made that rule up is a cock!

I'm working for the public sector at the moment. Note the distinction between 'for' and 'in' - god help me if I ever had to get stuck in it, I would go insane. So cushy and wasteful.

Anyway. We had a post on the intranet a couple of days ago. If you want to put up any sort of Christmas decorations then you have to have a risk assessment done. Just in case you injure yourself with tinsel or put a bulb into a recalcitrant set of lights.

Fuck me.

I'm going to set fire to somebody in the office for a laugh and then toss the H&S bods on top to make a proper Christmas bonfire.

While delivering in Bristol awhile back this little twat came running out of his office...in between to arctic lorries in the dark,tapped on my window and hisses....wares your yellow hi viz!
I didnt realise i was leader in the tour de france feller was my reply....right thats it he says ime ringing your boss...well top up your phone i say hes cruising the carribean.
Then he runs back in the dark past the moving lorries with no viz on.....probably back to his book on gestapo manouvers.

Common sense >>> Health & Safety

I work in a state school and we just put the decorations up on Friday, no forms or any of that shite.  We got chocolates and mince pies.  People just claim H&S for any old crap, like hiding behind the Data Protection Act.  It's usually bollocks.

I work in the private sector and we got an exactly similar notification about Xmas lights from our HR mongs. So it's not just a public sector thing, it's any organisation large enough to have an equal opportunities policy that requires them to employ the terminally fucking anal to get in the way of people who are actually doing the work.

God bless the socialists and the EU.  8)

I really enjoyed David Cameron's rant about Health and Safety from a few weeks ago.

There wouldnt be Health and Safety if people didnt sue over every little accident .So its your own faults really isnt it? Not that i blame people for for sueing,ive been trying to stub my tow on a sticky up pavement slab for 20 years, since Stan Ogden got £150 for doing it on Corrie in 1986.