Grumpy old buggers thread

[Milton477]

Makes me grumpy just reading about other's induction woes. Hats off to the younger ones who can embrace this often irrelevant self feeding rort. The demise of common sense is killing people & limiting opportunities.

[Tombie]

Makes me grumpy just reading about other's induction woes. Hats off to the younger ones who can embrace this often irrelevant self feeding rort. The demise of common sense is killing people & limiting opportunities.

The rise is Chain of responsibility which drives most of it.

[rick130]

Ooh, more paperwork!!

I need a Federal Govt security clearance now.

I thought I left Canberra two years ago?

I avoided it there when working at certain secure locations, I was just escorted and under constant observation everywhere I needed to go.

[4bee]

Inductions ???. Did one a while back for one of the larger earthmoving / mining equipment suppliers. It was one of those beauties that are in sections so if you get one question wrong you go back to the start of that section. So anyways I'm being quizzed on how to de-energise the hydraulics on a such and such front end loader prior to commencing work on it. It was at this point that I lost my patience with taking pot luck, getting it wrong and being sent back to the start of the section so I asked old mate that was running the induction what de-energising hydraulics has to do with enlarging the roller door openings on your workshop (the job I was there to do). He replied something along the lines of "Nothing , but we only have one induction for this place but you're going alright, It took some our boilermakers ages to get through it.

****ing crazy eh?

[DiscoMick]

What industry?

Education.
Not much point in inducting students into hospitality if they're going to be in a mechanical workshop.

[RANDLOVER]

Working for Corrections is an eye opener,we do all of them in SE Qld,have for years.
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I've visited similar places where you have to fill in forms describing all your tools and they count them in and out and escorted the whole time.

[Fatso]

All of the above induction claptrap was brought on by Morons and lawyers , all you needed to know in the early days was where everything was located . When i started at Hamersly Iron in the Pilbara in 1968 PPE was a Hard Hat , singlet , stubbies , and thongs , or shirts and boots if you wished , now you have to dress up like Santa Clause .

[scarry]

And another.

Hmm, doing contract work in all the local stations surely precludes me, right?

Working in correctional centres definitely will.

[scarry]

All of the above induction claptrap was brought on by Morons and lawyers , all you needed to know in the early days was where everything was located . When i started at Hamersly Iron in the Pilbara in 1968 PPE was a Hard Hat , singlet , stubbies , and thongs , or shirts and boots if you wished , now you have to dress up like Santa Clause .

Did a heap of work at Newlands,Hay point,etc in the early 80's it was much the same.
Same for the smelter just out of Gladstone.
But we did have to wear steel capped boots.

Building sites weren't much different

[scarry]

I've visited similar places where you have to fill in forms describing all your tools and they count them in and out and escorted the whole time.

They have dropped the 'escorted the whole time',to save costs

That is if you have the full clearances,and are not working in an inmate area.

Excluding youth centres.