Who's at work despite the snow?

[Darren B]

Thought you'd have a kite attached to one of those sleds.

Duncan that hill is so steep i would only want one to pull me back up. My 7 year old actually found a jump someone made near the bottom, twice he managed to get more than 4 feet in the air.
http://twitpic.com/1axjt

[grantglendinnin]

Are you going to try and tell me that's a power pylon and not a ski lift?

[Darren B]

Are you going to try and tell me that's a power pylon and not a ski lift?

Hmmmm, well i can tell you i wont be trying it anytime soon

[Benjamin Dyer]

Well I would reply to this thread with the details of my less than perfect day, however as a few of you are my Twitter friends you have already had a blow by blow account.

TODAY = EPIC FAIL

I did take a cool pic though: http://twitpic.com/1aocb

[TraceyHand]

Well I would reply to this thread with the details of my less than perfect day, however as a few of you are my Twitter friends you have already had a blow by blow account.

TODAY = EPIC FAIL

LOL
Master of Understatement and a classic example of "should have stayed at home"!

[Paul Bulpit]

Hilarious thread, thanks for the light entertainment.

On a more serious note, a customer who ordered supplies on Friday (in preparation for a funeral - you can't change the date of those) for delivery today (Monday) complained that Citylink had abandonded deliveries in her area.

Would we pay for a taxi to go to the depot to collect it for her?

Answers on a postcard.....






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[jont]

If you are interested what's going in the Actinic office the attached pic may give a clue. :-)

Is that v10 in the box?

[Goz]

Not sure if this has been posted yet.... you up for this Darren?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/bristol/...00/7872008.stm

[completerookie]

Luckily, I run the computers for our company, and so I can work from home when I need to and remote control, as I did on Monday and today. All other staff turned up for work.

every day, we send out 23 lorries overnight (John Deere tractor spare parts service) from Nottingham.
we cover all dealerships from near Lands End to Inverness every night.
we even collect out of Coventry airport at 23:00 as well.

Up until now, we've done all deliveries each night despite the weather, but last night, one of our vehicles got shunted into a ditch when the snow plough driver forgot to look where he was going, another one broke down on the A1 for six hours (yup he was cold) but unfortunately, while waiting for the breakdown truck, some one was killed a few hundred yards further along the road.
Got going, and the last delivery up at inverness was done at 3pm.

[Darren B]

Not sure if this has been posted yet.... you up for this Darren?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/bristol/...00/7872008.stm

I was watching this on the news earlier, would have been better with a snow board

[Rich Brady]

You're right Darren, it would have been funny seeing some guy catching an edge and being dragged off by his kite.

[Darren B]

mind you im just a little peaved i was not out doing it

[Sean Williams]

Well, we're still stuck in the house. Infact, the whole area is stuck.
The 6" snowfall wasn't a problem, until some berk ordered up a force 6 easterly which promptly blew all the snow off the lanes and piled it up in to 4 and 5 ft deep drifts.

A local farmer came through with the post yesterday in a large front wheel tractor and said even that had some difficulty getting through.

Carmarthenshire council are of no use - it seems they only have 1 snow plough and that's busy keeping the council office car park free of snow in preparation for the unlikely event one of the office bods actually shows up for work.
Did that sound cross?

Having to pay someone now to dig out our lane, so we can all get to work and school.

I've been talking to some of our customers in Scandinavia and Germany - they're incredulous at the chaos not much snow has caused in this country

Thank goodness for the satellite broadband though as the phones are going on and off so it's the only reliable means of comms.
Most of our customers are OK about the delayed shipping, but one is getting desparate.
The Missus is getting cabin fever now, so I've tasked her with digging out the car in preparation for the digger arriving

[george]

some one was killed a few hundred yards further along the road.

Kinda puts the `oh no the kids are at home again` comments into perspective.


PS Thats great going by your company rookie, hope your drivers are appreciated by your customers.

[Darren B]

PS Thats great going by your company rookie, hope your drivers are appreciated by your customers.

If they are anything like some of the customers we had earlier in the week, they are still not.

One guy moaned for 15mins saying he understood the problems with the deliveries but he was told it would be tuesday and he had time off work - clearly he does not understand that getting a lorry down a country lane aint going to happen i bit my tongue and was going to tell him that as he was home he could go sledging but thought better of it.