Career limiting move

A colleague recently had a car accident. It wasn't his fault - a delivery lorry reversed into his car while he was stationary waiting for a gap in traffic before pulling out into a main road. But the lorry driver didn't want to admit fault, and started abusing our Pravin, calling him a Paki and so on.

(Pravin is, technically speaking, Kenyan born of Indian ancestry, and thus our token African, since we already have Chinese and Indian born employees - we are missing a South American, with our closest yet having been a Guatemalan.)

This is possibly a little foolish on the part of the driver, who was driving a lorry for an Indian company, delivering Indian food to an Indian grocer.

Oops!

Career limiting move

A colleague recently had a car accident. It wasn't his fault - a delivery lorry reversed into his car while he was stationary waiting for a gap in traffic before pulling out into a main road. But the lorry driver didn't want to admit fault, and started abusing our Pravin, calling him a Paki and so on.

(Pravin is, technically speaking, Kenyan born of Indian ancestry, and thus our token African, since we already have Chinese and Indian born employees - we are missing a South American, with our closest yet having been a Guatemalan.)

This is possibly a little foolish on the part of the driver, who was driving a lorry for an Indian company, delivering Indian food to an Indian grocer.

Oops!

... and we're done

The fencing is now complete. The gate has yet to be hung, but a three hour session this evening completed all the rabbit fencing - there must be about 300 metres or so of it in total.

In fact, we all left at 19:45, with 15 minutes of the period left.

(No, we didn't get there till 18:00, so our contribution was a bit under 2 hours. Evening sessions will be like that though: not everyone gets off work at the same time.)

There seems to be a point with fencing where suddenly it becomes much quicker. It's somewhere around the point where a whole length of chicken wire is being held up against the posts: if there are two people left over to staple the top, that bit goes twice as quick as if there's only one.

... and we're done

The fencing is now complete. The gate has yet to be hung, but a three hour session this evening completed all the rabbit fencing - there must be about 300 metres or so of it in total.

In fact, we all left at 19:45, with 15 minutes of the period left.

(No, we didn't get there till 18:00, so our contribution was a bit under 2 hours. Evening sessions will be like that though: not everyone gets off work at the same time.)

There seems to be a point with fencing where suddenly it becomes much quicker. It's somewhere around the point where a whole length of chicken wire is being held up against the posts: if there are two people left over to staple the top, that bit goes twice as quick as if there's only one.