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ozzybmx

ozzybmx

Not a tree-hugging earth muffin
rockmoose said:
The 'just have a think' guy would not be classified as a strong opinionated person in anyone's worldview.
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Mate I'm 50, I have 20 good years left hopefully, maybe my kids will live their life here, great grandchildren that I don't know and never will...

There's nothing 25 'have a think' Rotorburners are going to do to make a difference.

Just ride your bikes boys... and enjoy.
 
Flow-Rider

Flow-Rider

Burner
ozzybmx said:
If I have 25 minutes to watch videos, I'm looking at servicing shocks and forks, shit that affects me in my quality of life. Russel Brand, Thon UFC guy, Trump, whoever else people here thing is a genuine bloke... Zero fucks. Never watched one of them and never will. I have never watched a quoted video in a thread about climate, EV, Politics ect... quote me a DH race and I'm in there.
No wonder people have 'black dog' days.
Concentrate on you own shit, fuck the rest.
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I worked with a bloke once for 2 years and he would backstab workers and roadblock jobs he never had any part in with health & safety issues. I turned a blind eye to it a fair bit as did the managers of the company for a while. Within reason, we needed to get the job done without worker conflicts and these blokes weren't amateurs, most of them had 20+ years of onsite experience, so they had a fair idea of what would really be fatal.

Jumping from job site to job site you soon realise how political and contradictive this all gets because safety protocols vary like chalk and cheese, competing companies and individual workers soon weaponise this against companies and individuals for their own personal gain to remove them from site to either take their work or job position. Anyway, back to this bloke I worked with, I always suspected him to be a bit of cock in the back of my mind, always bringing up trivial shit in toolbox meetings, things that had nothing to do with him, and half the time you'd catch him out doing the same wrong but the last job I was on with him just proved how two-faced he was.

Due to more worksite politics with authorising vehicles to enter sites, no one in this contracting company was allowed to drive their personal vehicle to the work sites, this became company policy for many reasons, most people were fly in and fly out workers in any case. This bloke goes behind the contracting company's back and gets his vehicle authorised to enter the site from the site manager and decides to drive into work. On the way to work he picks up another local worker, then the coppers in another town manage to pull him over for speeding, then book him for bald tyres and then realise he has no license to start with and has a 2 year driving suspension for driving under the influence. This was the same person reporting everyone for minor safety issues just about every day.
 
Dales Cannon

Dales Cannon

e i π + 1 = 0
Staff member
Flow-Rider said:
I worked with a bloke once for 2 years and he would backstab workers and roadblock jobs he never had any part in with health & safety issues. I turned a blind eye to it a fair bit as did the managers of the company for a while. Within reason, we needed to get the job done without worker conflicts and these blokes weren't amateurs, most of them had 20+ years of onsite experience, so they had a fair idea of what would really be fatal.

Jumping from job site to job site you soon realise how political and contradictive this all gets because safety protocols vary like chalk and cheese, competing companies and individual workers soon weaponise this against companies and individuals for their own personal gain to remove them from site to either take their work or job position. Anyway, back to this bloke I worked with, I always suspected him to be a bit of cock in the back of my mind, always bringing up trivial shit in toolbox meetings, things that had nothing to do with him, and half the time you'd catch him out doing the same wrong but the last job I was on with him just proved how two-faced he was.

Due to more worksite politics with authorising vehicles to enter sites, no one in this contracting company was allowed to drive their personal vehicle to the work sites, this became company policy for many reasons, most people were fly in and fly out workers in any case. This bloke goes behind the contracting company's back and gets his vehicle authorised to enter the site from the site manager and decides to drive into work. On the way to work he picks up another local worker, then the coppers in another town manage to pull him over for speeding, then book him for bald tyres and then realise he has no license to start with and has a 2 year driving suspension for driving under the influence. This was the same person reporting everyone for minor safety issues just about every day.
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I have seen similar shit with a safety rep reporting the lamest of 'breaches' and then seen working with both hands 5m up an unrestrained ladder. I have worked with companies espousing their safety records and safety initiatives. One had no lost time injuries on a remote site, but did have two fatalities, the employees were taken off the books before being pronounced dead. Utter arseholes. Another also reported no LTIs to a client in an industry safety conference. I was at their office the week before. The carpark looked like a set from MASH with employees hobbling around on crutches, arms in slings etc. Safety is important and a very serious subject but only if it is in the interests of making a safe work environment not for statistics management.
 
Flow-Rider

Flow-Rider

Burner
Dales Cannon said:
I have seen similar shit with a safety rep reporting the lamest of 'breaches' and then seen working with both hands 5m up an unrestrained ladder. I have worked with companies espousing their safety records and safety initiatives. One had no lost time injuries on a remote site, but did have two fatalities, the employees were taken off the books before being pronounced dead. Utter arseholes. Another also reported no LTIs to a client in an industry safety conference. I was at their office the week before. The carpark looked like a set from MASH with employees hobbling around on crutches, arms in slings etc. Safety is important and a very serious subject but only if it is in the interests of making a safe work environment not for statistics management.
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This guy was a total dick and just spent his life looking at what everyone else was doing but himself, part of his problem is that he liked getting paid for standing there and doing nothing.

The worst I recall we had in over 10 years of records was a bloke who used a small worn grinding disk on a 4" grinder as a cutting wheel, it somehow gripped and cut all the tendons in his hand because he was too lazy to walk to the store and get a cutting disk.
 
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Mattyp

Mattyp

Cows go boing
Flow-Rider said:
part of his problem is that he liked getting paid for standing there and doing nothing.
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People like this should be forced to work for themselves... money doesn't come in if work isnt getting done.
I've worked with guys who would do fck all all day, and still somehow manage to convince the bosses they need to do 12hrs everyday OT and Saturdays to get it done... absolutely taking the piss, then wondering why the company goes under a year later.
 
beeb

beeb

Dr. Beebenson, PhD HA, ST, Offset (hons)
Mattyp said:
People like this should be forced to work for themselves... money doesn't come in if work isnt getting done.
I've worked with guys who would do fck all all day, and still somehow manage to convince the bosses they need to do 12hrs everyday OT and Saturdays to get it done... absolutely taking the piss, then wondering why the company goes under a year later.
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More than 10 years now luckily... ;)
 
Flow-Rider

Flow-Rider

Burner
Mattyp said:
People like this should be forced to work for themselves... money doesn't come in if work isnt getting done.
I've worked with guys who would do fck all all day, and still somehow manage to convince the bosses they need to do 12hrs everyday OT and Saturdays to get it done... absolutely taking the piss, then wondering why the company goes under a year later.
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They did get rid of this guy eventually.
 
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Jabubu

Jabubu

let you google that for me
So we're in for a couple of years of hot, dry, fucking hot weather. I wonder at what point do we start posting about our new Zwift setups because it's too dangerous to ride outside..
 
ozzybmx

ozzybmx

Not a tree-hugging earth muffin
Jabubu said:
So we're in for a couple of years of hot, dry, fucking hot weather. I wonder at what point do we start posting about our new Zwift setups because it's too dangerous to ride outside..
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Feel free to read the 81 pages and get some good tips on a decent Zwifting setup.

Any Zwifters out there?

Still cancelled under 'I'm riding outside' but doesn't run out till 21/10. You might have that tyre on by then....
www.rotorburn.com
 
Flow-Rider

Flow-Rider

Burner
Fortescue Metals Group cans voluntary carbon credits to offset millions of tonnes of emissions

Fortescue Metals Group — the world’s fourth-largest iron ore producer and a major greenhouse gas emitter — is ending its use of voluntary carbon offsets.

WA billionaire Andrew Forrest’s company, which generated 2.55 million tonnes of scope 1 and 2 carbon dioxide pollution in the 12 months to June 30, confirmed it has begun implementing a policy to end the purchase of credits from the current financial year.

“We are the only heavy emitter in the world to stop purchasing voluntary offsets,” Dino Otranto, chief executive of Fortescue’s metals business, said.
 
pink poodle

pink poodle

私の性器はピクセル化されています
But but but...we can trust the corporations to do the right thing without the need for regulation.


It also reads like they are proud to do this.
 
Haakon

Haakon

greenbean counter
Flow-Rider said:
Fortescue Metals Group cans voluntary carbon credits to offset millions of tonnes of emissions

Fortescue Metals Group — the world’s fourth-largest iron ore producer and a major greenhouse gas emitter — is ending its use of voluntary carbon offsets.

WA billionaire Andrew Forrest’s company, which generated 2.55 million tonnes of scope 1 and 2 carbon dioxide pollution in the 12 months to June 30, confirmed it has begun implementing a policy to end the purchase of credits from the current financial year.

“We are the only heavy emitter in the world to stop purchasing voluntary offsets,” Dino Otranto, chief executive of Fortescue’s metals business, said.
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Interesting. To be fair, the “quality” of offsets (especially internationally sourced ones) is highly… ummm. variable… Given Fortescue is at least publicly keen on actually reducing emissions it may not be a bad thing they’re redirecting funds. Assuming those funds don’t go straight to dividends and actually are invested in their future low emissions tech.

Also, there are Safeguard Mechanism obligations that now actually have teeth so the need for the PR value associated with voluntarily buying credits is vastly reduced.
 
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