Thread: Restructure & Redundancy

Originally Posted by cjc_td5

Ha, was there last November!
Cheers.

Hello CJC,

We must have taken a different perspective of the view! Did you take pause to review things and then had the rug pulled out from under you by any chance?

My photographs were taken from the Peace Pagoda at Pokhara. The stretch of water is Fewa Lake. The red flowering plant in the foreground of the first photograph is Rhododendron arboreum. A Rhododendron which is native to Nepal. I had to leave my chosen vocation as a Amenity Horticulturist when I went blind. Not blind as in cannot see anything - just blind as in totally dependent upon very specialist scleral rigid gas permeable lenses to be able to see properly. Being able to see a plant growing in its natural surrounds was very - very special to me.

So too was seeing the terraced gardens cradling such steep mountain sides. I still see visions of highly decorated Tata trucks barrelling around blind corners while they are on my side of the road and they are coming straight at me! These are blind corners with switch backs that are on a mountain side and it a long, long way down.

Kind regards
Lionel

Originally Posted by Lionelgee

Hello CJC,

We must have taken a different perspective of the view! Did you take pause to review things and then had the rug pulled out from under you by any chance?

My photographs were taken from the Peace Pagoda at Pokhara. The stretch of water is Fewa Lake. The red flowering plant in the foreground of the first photograph is Rhododendron arboreum. A Rhododendron which is native to Nepal. I had to leave my chosen vocation as a Amenity Horticulturist when I went blind. Not blind as in cannot see anything - just blind as in totally dependent upon very specialist scleral rigid gas permeable lenses to be able to see properly. Being able to see a plant growing in its natural surrounds was very - very special to me.

So too was seeing the terraced gardens cradling such steep mountain sides. I still see visions of highly decorated Tata trucks barrelling around blind corners while they are on my side of the road and they are coming straight at me!

Kind regards
Lionel

Damn photo can't decide which way it wants go display..... The photo was taken from the Peace Pagoda also.
Did you go any higher? We walked to Annapurna Base Camp etc. An amazing country, people, scenery etc.. I can totally see how people get hooked on Nepal.

Originally Posted by cjc_td5

Damn photo can't decide which way it wants go display..... The photo was taken from the Peace Pagoda also.
Did you go any higher? We walked to Annapurna Base Camp etc. An amazing country, people, scenery etc.. I can totally see how people get hooked on Nepal.

Hello Chris,

We only went about one range closer to the Himalayas. Our main purpose was to accompany our son who got married to a Nepalese girl - including full traditional ceremony. We did have some time barrelling along roads of various descriptions. The shortest trip was from Pakhora back to Kathmandu. The bulk of the time our family were the only white people in the whole town where my daughter-in-law was raised. The trip we had can only be described as a trip of a lifetime. It is going to be damn hard to beat.

Yes, working and being able to pay for the trip was the best thing that came out of my two years in my soon to wind up job.

The photograph is one of the Tata trucks that are really nice when they are parked on nice flat ground.


Kind regards
Lionel

Hello All,

By the way I am a 56 year old vision-impaired Aspie doing a part-time PhD, while I have been working on a full-time basis. I have nothing to be worried about re-entering the career market.

"I'm an excellent driver" - rock backward and forward, "I'm an excellent driver". Sorry sometimes it is hard not to play to stereotypes. (Dustin Hoffman - Rain Man).

"I'm not nervous at all..." "I'm not nervous at all..." Rock backward, rock forward....

Kind regards
Lionel

Originally Posted by Lionelgee

Hello Chris,

We only went about one range closer to the Himalayas. Our main purpose was to accompany our son who got married to a Nepalese girl - including full traditional ceremony. We did have some time barrelling along roads of various descriptions. The shortest trip was from Pakhora back to Kathmandu. The bulk of the time our family were the only white people in the whole town where my daughter-in-law was raised. The trip we had can only be described as a trip of a lifetime. It is going to be damn hard to beat.

Yes, working and being able to pay for the trip was the best thing that came out of my two years in my soon to wind up job.

The photograph is one of the Tata trucks that are really nice when they are parked on nice flat ground.


Kind regards
Lionel

I think I'll stick to Western Star, thanks Lionel.

Don't be so sure about being made redundant, I know a guy who went through a re-apply for jobs scenario, applied for a job and didn't get it, but got a job he didn't even apply for!

Pine Gap spy base contractor Raytheon locked in redundancy payout dispute - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Watch out for this trick of offering a person an inferior job, then refusing to pay a redundancy when they don't accept it.

Lost my job last Friday as my role disappeared as part of a “business transformation”.

It has now transpired the role is still there and will filled by someone that got off the plane on Sunday. Hmmm