22nd December 2011, 09:51 AM
Oxbeast Wrote:telling stories of their glory days when they dug with tea trays and spoons and sheltered in a paper bag. Or whatever.
A paper bag?! Luxury!
In my day our site accomodation was in a rolled up newspaper in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the tank, go to site for 18 hours a day and when we got back, out Project Manager would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt.
It is shocking how some firms still won't provide. You usually don't mind if its for a day or three and there's only two of you in a van, but anything more than that is just not on. When I worked for an awful unit a few years ago and toilets were not forthcoming we used to drive in the works van to the closest loos we could find. Usually about half an hour away we thought was reasonable, in the works truck and on their petrol.
