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Sherrel - Boy! What I wouldn't give for nine hours sleep with only one trip to the loo! That's at least a triple shot here for me.
Amen brother, amen. Say it again! Amen!
Sherrel - Boy! What I wouldn't give for nine hours sleep with only one trip to the loo! That's at least a triple shot here for me.
It staggers me you don’t get half decent free health care,and that you don’t get sick days in the manner we do,I guess paternity leave is not common there either.Yes, amazing concept.
Except in our case it was medical debt. Some of the stories over the years was so heart breaking. It is why I am a huge believer in changing the American medical system.
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don’t get sick days in the manner we do,I guess paternity leave is not common there either.
I was only on one of these locos once. I can't even remember why but I do recall not being able to see the engineer from the fireman's seat. I hope he's awake over there. I was new fireman working a freight when around 4am I dozed off. We we're going through the interlocking at Woodlawn. As we went over all the interlocking switches my head hit the side cab window and I woke up. I noticed the engineer and headend brakeman asleep. In 1969 you were allowed to work 16 hours. Dumb rule. That was not changed until 1975. From then on I tried to get as much rest as possible. GeorgeGood morning. 33° with mixed sun and clouds, going to 47° This time tomorrow, accumulating snowfall, and declining temperatures. Of course, I have an appointment scheduled for tomorrow. Today, we are going to drive over towards the Ocean, just to get out of the house for now.
Spent a lot of time in the train room yesterday, I ran several operations scenarios, switching every industry, and making up several transfer runs. While doing this, I was looking at what improvements I could make to the existing layout. For instance, a city street, that could be moved 6" to the right of its existing ROW. Never noticed this flaw until last night. Considering this portion of the layout has been in place since 2016....I am not very observant.
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July 1970 WB PC passenger train, either #33 the Juniata to Pittsburgh, or #23, the Manhattan Limited to Chicago, passing Overbrook Tower. FWIW, Walthers makes a model of that tower in HO.
The US also have little if any (paid) Holiday's unlike the UK.It staggers me you don’t get half decent free health care,and that you don’t get sick days in the manner we do,I guess paternity leave is not common there either.
probably because you spend so much money propping up the rest of the world,or peace keeping, I believe the Europeans are not good at paying their bills, and I think it took us - the UK, half a century to pay off the debts for the 2nd world war. We winged and wined off the spams over here with sir silk stockings boffing our girls whilst we were fighting around the world, which happened, but with Europe a waste land and much of the other agricultural countries devastated without the us food we would have starved. Yes we did do a lot more farming the woman started working but we had the leeway because of the back up. I might not have lived then,but my dad really liked his American brother in law, and was quick to remind people just how lucky they were, and let’s be honest our fighting boys wheee ever they were were not eunuchs, which reminds me of Good Morning Vietnam and MASH.
The US also have little if any (paid) Holiday's unlike the UK.
My apologies not sure where that came from then. The UK is 28 day's Paid, that includes Bank and Public Holiday's for everyone in full time employment (5 day week) by law, any extra vacation you take is unpaid. Part time employees are on a pro rata basisNot sure where you got that information. Most companies provide normal paid holidays. While they are not required by law, every company provides them for the most part (there are probably exceptions -- again with part time, or non career jobs like fast food or similar). I've never worked at a company that did not have paid holidays. I've been working almost 40 years after HS graduation.
My current company has around 11. According to a stat I read the average in the us is 7.6 paid holidays (across all employee types) while professional and technical average 8.5. (see https://www.thebalancecareers.com/paid-holiday-schedule-1917985)
Of course, if you are use the "British English" meaning of "holiday" for "vacation", the answer is different though meaningful the same -- every company I have worked for and every non fast food/non part time job company I've ever seem (except maybe Terry's) has offered paid vacation time or paid time off. Most places start around 10 days and go up from there with tenure. My current company gives "unlimited" time off -- just work it out with the boss and get your job done -- though up to about 20 days a year is the limit without a good reason/explanation/excuse, ie, they will approve without issue up to about 20 days a year (that is the unwritten rule). https://www.zippia.com/advice/pto-statistics/
My apologies not sure where that came from then. The UK is 28 day's Paid, that includes Bank and Public Holiday's for everyone in full time employment (5 day week) by law, any extra vacation you take is unpaid. Part time employees are on a pro rata basis
To answer the question about tramsAfternoon All,
Spent the morning go to multiple grocery stores and the Dollar twenty-five store. It used to be the dollar store, but they raised their prices to $1.25. After lunch I put in the freight doors and cut out the very fragile freight house roof braces. I need 27 and have 1 extra. It was more of cutting the wood sprue away than cutting the parts out. I ordered some micro-LEDs from Amazon. I need to install them before adding the roof bracings to the walls.
I got some foam board today and tack glued the build on it for stability for the rest of the build.
Thank you for the likes on the photos yesterday.
Jaz- I learned something from you today . You appear to have a plethora of buses. Are there really double decker rail buses?
Patrick- We had a feel like temp yesterday morning of 39 which is quite cold for central FL. I wouldn't survive in a cold weather state.
Sherrel- MOH is the HOA president and she asked me to join the board and I said not only no, but h**l no.
Willie- Thank you. Nice photos. Are you going to weather the roof?
Joe- Nice photo.
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I hope everyone has a good night.
We even have buses that run between concrete rails.
I used to work for this company, they use single and double deck buses on this Guided Busway.
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There are two small guide wheels situated just under the body at the front, that are connected to the steering, and run along the inside of the concrete "rails" (imagine a high kerb) The bus can also be used on normal roads. The one in the picture is from Cambridge which is the longest guided busway in the world at 16milesSo exactly how does this work? The driver just needs to keep within the side "rails"? Or is there a physical interface that prevents the bus from leaving the track?
Ha ha ha… paid time off and holidays…
Real funny, guys…
Twelve years in a technical job.
Paid holidays: 0
The business is closed one day— Christmas.
If I want to be paid and take a day off, I get to use a vacation day.
That’s the only good thing, after 12+ years, I get 22 of them, but can only take up to 5 at once. No two week vacations here.
Smudge, you are correct sir!The US also have little if any (paid) Holiday's unlike the UK.
Ha ha ha… paid time off and holidays…
Real funny, guys…
Twelve years in a technical job.
Paid holidays: 0
The business is closed one day— Christmas.
If I want to be paid and take a day off, I get to use a vacation day.
That’s the only good thing, after 12+ years, I get 22 of them, but can only take up to 5 at once. No two week vacations here.