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Title: The joys of Education! Post by PJDavis on Jul 1st, 2011, 5:42pm Seven weeks of holidays starting right now!! ;D ;D |
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Title: Re: The joys of Education! Post by Baz on Jul 2nd, 2011, 6:52pm d**ned teachers..... need to get a proper job and a private sector pension....thenthey'll know what it is like in the real world! |
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Title: Re: The joys of Education! Post by PJDavis on Jul 2nd, 2011, 7:26pm ;D I have a private pension. I in common with a lot of my colleagues have 'opted-out' of the pension. My pension is property. Anyone that says anything about how hard I work, I ask them to stand-up in front of twenty students and Lecture them. Age sixteen upward, they all know 'Their-rights', they can call you a W++k+r, a P++f, anything they like, the management call it spirited, and "they must have another chance". When I was an apprentice many year ago working on heavy diesel engines for BR, if you stepped out of line you were taken around the back of a shed and booted. You've no idea how many times I wish I could give-out that kind of justice. Then at the end of the year, (just about a week ago) you have to put up with the phone-calls from wee-Jonny's Mum or Dad asking why their boy hasn't passed this year. When Mummy or Daddy complains to my boss, he then asks what I did the full year to help wee jonny! That's the real side of our pathetic, 'namby-pamby' Educational system, starting from FIVE years-old!!! But I love it, and wouldn't do anything else, why? The lovely long holidays ;D Oh, and I've easily had a proper job, working outside in the North of Scotland in all weathers lying underneath Diesel Locomotives and their carriages (at nearly every stop on a journey between Fort William and Mallaig) un-freezing brakes in a foot of snow and minus 20 degrees 'C', pumping two-stroke oil by hand in inside an engine room whilst 110db 4000hp Napier engine is screaming beside me, and standing all day in front of a forge forming 'white-metal' bearings inside an old glass-roof shed in the height of summer. Now, I prefer to take it easy! He he. ;) |
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Title: Re: The joys of Education! Post by Andycan on Jul 2nd, 2011, 9:47pm Hi Baz I am and was never a teacher but I did have a public sector pension as I worked as a diesel engine mechanic for BR and mainly the national bus company. My pension is worth nothing and the reason is because Margret Thatchers government stole our pension before selling off the NBC. A pension I paid into and now this government want to do a similar thing with everyone else now. I might add that they also did the same with a lot of other pensions of people in other government owned industries. |
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Title: Re: The joys of Education! Post by Baz on Jul 2nd, 2011, 10:28pm Gordon Brown stole my pension, so they are all as bad as each other..... I don't pay into a pension any more. I used to put £600 a month into a private pension but when I get statements telling me how little I can expect to get back every month, I decided to start buying property and renting it out.... at least I'll have something to sell in twenty years time! |
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Title: Re: The joys of Education! Post by Baz on Jul 2nd, 2011, 10:31pm and I'm guessing class 27 or class 33 diesels at Fort William??? ;D |
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Title: Re: The joys of Education! Post by gozz on Jul 2nd, 2011, 11:45pm Dozies rather than Deltics eh PJ ? it really is incredible how times have changed,in my youth a thick ear was expected if you were too clever or c-cky,tardiness was not tolerated and you had to actually do something.The country has gone t-ts up due to all the modern attitudes,I would rather dig the roads than attempt to drive anything through the thick skulls of SOME modern youngsters ::).One of my daughters is a teacher,and another one is a university lecturer,they are both hamstrung from both sides by inept hierarchy and impossible students. Enjoy your break PJ and any therapy to hold you in readiness for the next foray into virtual impossibility :o GOZZ. |
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Title: Re: The joys of Education! Post by PJDavis on Jul 3rd, 2011, 12:06am Baz:- Aye 27's. Not 33's, infact it was the Sulzer engines that were in the old type 2's, (25/26/27) and their Westinghouse brakes. I also worked out of Edinburgh on the big type 9's, (class 55) They were Two-Strokes and had terrific power. My favourites were the Brush type 4's with the Sulzer LDA engine, loads of power and very reliable, some still going after 50 years! I finished my work on the old Type 3's from Swindon/Crew, (mainly because all the real engineers had gone by then) proper Diesels with Voith Transmission, those lovely sounding Maybach engines, beats a blasted Diesel-Electric any day. Pity the transmission wasn't up to the Maybach power! Aye Gozz....."virtual impossibility", but the reward is just one or two really good students that make the grade and go out to earn a lot of money. |
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Title: Re: The joys of Education! Post by Baz on Jul 3rd, 2011, 2:25am PJ, check this out if you like the type 9's.... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13592652 |
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Title: Re: The joys of Education! Post by Scorpio_Mike on Jul 3rd, 2011, 9:37am on 07/03/11 at 02:25:28, Baz wrote:
Cool ! Almost makes me want to get my train set out from the attic ;) |
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Title: Re: The joys of Education! Post by PJDavis on Jul 3rd, 2011, 8:55pm Aye I've seen that. I've worked on that type 9 before when it was in service between Waverley and Penzance on the night mail-train. They were bloody noisy and terribly unreliable contrary to what is stated about reliability! |
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Title: Re: The joys of Education! Post by gozz on Jul 3rd, 2011, 10:37pm on 07/03/11 at 09:37:09, Scorpio_Mike wrote:
Are you saying there's no room in the shed Mike? ;D GOZZ. |
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