I cant believe no one has commented on the passing of the legend that was Cheetah.

Gone to the big banana tree in the sky.

not to make stupid resolutions.

Damn. 🙂

How do you do that one without breaking it already?? :confused:

With me apart from maybe the first and second time I was made unemployed I now have a redundancy radar and can tell when its coming.

The second last job I had I tried to tell the immediate staff that I was working with that we were losing our jobs or some of us at least and the rest were going to other branches. This was because a big meeting we were all to attend was called but apparently this was their normal way of working and a three monthly meeting thats all. Imagine the strange look on my face when we were told and came out the office. The smug grin on my face and the pain of being told I was losing my job after only 4 weeks on the books.

When my latest boss told me he was shutting the doors he gave me a very decent payment that set me up for a few months which was more than I expected having only been in the job for 2 1/2 years but the redundancy came as no surprise and I completely supported his decision and we both spoke calmly and constructively about what should now happen as we had about 3 days to close an entire branch. Without a doubt probably the best redundancy I have had as there were no hard feelings only understanding.

I myself had looked into starting up a business once and have started other peoples businesses for them and with the latest job I was in I dealt with the accounts side of things daily so I saw incomings and outgoings and on such a tight budget we were treading water.

I have respect for anyone who starts a business and wish them lots of success.

Some bigger businesses I dont really have any respect for as its simply financial cuts they are making for whatever reason without a care for the remaining staff or those going they are simply complying with any rules that they have to while making their cuts.

I seem to remember somewhere information that a B-17 could be looped once but not twice and that this act and the trying to fulfill this act had resulted in the destruction of some b-17’s and I believe their crew.

But as most people know with altitude and speed it is possible to loop any aircraft but not perhaps survive the procedure.

I have been all through that system several times.

I couldnt go on with a job as it was making me physically ill. All the stress of the job etc so I found myself another job which came along at the right time. I was taken on as there was only 1 other person working in the sales department and there should have been 3. Anyhow I was taken on with a view to expanding the company and providing long term illness cover. I was made redundant the next year along with 1 of the warehouse staff because there were too many staff. It was a big multinational company and they simply didnt care it was all just cost cutting. We all knew the company would have problems as there wasnt enough staff to do all the task as it was. 6 months later they employed another staff member again and then they eventually sold that part of the business because it was underperforming.

I have been unemployed since july this year. It was a small company who only worked to pay the bills no profit and the boss decided enough was enough and closed the business to go and work out of his van so he had little overheads. Basically there was no help for a young business just starting out and the landlord was just after as much money as possible. So rather than have a building in use it is now sitting empty with no rent coming in.

Hopefully I find a job soon but I just take it day to day.

Living on a farm our gang was just really the 2 of us but we did all the usual nonsense. Including climbing trees and jumping from tree to tree. I remember the year we had to clear a local barn for other uses and we moved all the old dusty bale (square type) and made a kind of fort out of them and then burst some so we could climb up into the rafters of the other barn and jump into the burst bales. It was quite a height as I remember.

This and loads of other stuff. We had skateboards and enjoyed street skating around our local village. We always had bikes and I remember the jumps we made. My mates dad had bricks around the place as they were building onto the house and I remeber the only factor that limited us was the length of the wooden boards we could find at the time. I seem to remember that we did get a long board once and got up to several bricks high. My mate and I were quite good at the jumps as we used to do it all the time but it was a laugh when you invited the local lads down to jump who all thought they were dead hard. Soon sorted the men from the boys. I dont think we ever had a serious spill ever. We left that up to the locals.

What a big bunch of old women you all are.

Where is your sense of adventure?

Its guys like this and many others that inspire people to become involved in any kind of sport. It could be this one or equally having seen what this guys does a young lad then decides if this guy can do this then he can play guitar well.

While I am all for safety and doing things the right way if possible sometimes things just have to be broken to do this kind of thing. Whether that is rules or bones is up to you. I think the saying sometimes is “No pain – No gain” there is something in it.

After all nobodys asking you to go do these things but for those who would like to do this sort of thing and others. Leave the elf and safety crew behind. Maybe check out the local paramedic service first though 🙂

ok mini rant over I will leave all you old ladies to your knitting now.