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They've built a new BMX track 10 minutes up the road
I like that, a lot
barnsleymitch - Member
"I do, however, live near you...!"
Could this be the start of a beautiful bromance?
Jealous?
Oh no, I was forgetting. You've got jesus... 😛
Yes, and he makes me feel all warm and fuzzy... 😉
Enormous explosions 🙂
tiger_roach - Member
I'm in the village with the squareabout.
Nope... need more clu
Oh and there was me thinking it was a well known feature....
Essentially I am in the Leatherhead suburbs.
Some nice people. We need more women though.
Our place...
Engineers: 10
Managers: 0
Housemartins flying round the yard outside.
Nice country pub just up the road, good pint of Butcombe or Wadworth's 6X with Friday lunch 🙂
Flexible working hours, reasonable commute, and my boss and all my team work in a different office on the other side of the Pennines.
I can walk from my bed to place of work in less than 10 steps.
Same here, although I usually detour via the kitchen and shower.
And being my own boss allows for cheeky midweek rides.
The scenery's spectacular, the people are generally very nice, I go home for lunch/tea with the kids every day, and I ride home late at night through a deserted glen with just the deep for company. Can't grumble.
cheap bike bits
that's about it really, staff are a nightmare, customers are a nightmare, but sure chatting about bikes can't be all bad either
TheGreatApe -I'm pretty sure you live near me, drop me an email sometime if you fancy going for a ride? Being new to the area I'm keen to tap into some local knowledge
A pleasant cycle in, almost road free.
Showers just along the corridors
Awesome 3D rendering technology of people's insides
Saving you, the tax payer, reasonable sums of money and prioviding a better service to patients (I know, how cheesey am I?)
Brilliant bacon rolls in the university canteen
Wandering into operating theatres and seeing people being worked on
Being involved with magnets strong enough to remove tooth fillings and pacemakers
Having my helmet (bike) CT'ed and x-rayed to check it for damage after I dropped it.
the coffee
firestarter - Member
its 100m from home and i get to shoot around with blue lights and sirens
You an Ice-cream man Mick??? 😯 😉
Geographically - not much. Currently about 500yds away from a murder scene (Bradford)
Me too - although im prob 750 yds!
Free Gym, Free Coffee machine, Eye Candy, subsidized canteen ...
I like nearly all of my colleagues, the work is often interesting, they pay me regularly and reasonably well, I get free health insurance and subsidised dental insurance, we get Ride2Work. It's a lovely old building on Lincoln's Inn Fields. Yeah, it's ok here.
Work outdoors often in the countryside and get to play with chainsaws,diggers and sometimes boats.
The only bit pisses me off is i'm not entitled to c2w scheme and I really want a new road bike 😥
Good things about where I work
I get to mess about with bikes all day
It's 1/2 a mile from home
Good banter with the staff
Staff discount
Bad points
The 1% of customers who are ****ts & think they know it all
Having to repair BSO's
Chavs whose entire vocabulary consists of "this ****ing bike's sick mate" whilst squeezing brake levers & trying to nick the grips @ the same time, tossers.
Free Fruit
Free proper coffee
Showers
Sustrans cycle path all the way
STW all day
Spotify all day
Infact internet all day
The occasional cutie in the office
Pay
I get to stay here often (one of my bosses houses)!
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it pays more than the dole.
What I like about where I work....?
A great group of people to work with - helpful, supportive and pragmatic
A great location on the edge of the city centre, alongside a canal, so lots to see and stroll past
It is theoretically possible to pretty much commute the whole 25 mile round trip on decent quality cycle and tow paths to avoid the traffic
Don't start me on what I dislike....only a short step away from getting licenses for a taxi and a shotgun this week...... 👿
I get to sit on my arse all day talking about bikes, there are one or two nice bits of skirt around
I start my new job on Monday so i dont know yet, but it is a family run business and not a corporate hell hole like i just left. Plus i get to make core sampling drilling equipment!!! And i bet the wages clerk doesn't have a bad attitude and a side arse!!!
Only working half the year and only commuting once every 6 weeks.
Boobs- 2 in particular
boss came in 45 minutes late this morning, carrying a tray of decent coffees, and bacon and sausage rolls all round. What's not to like?
Get to ride an hour to/from work each day on off-road route alongside a river. I work in a cycling related job which also allows me out of the office regularly and buy bits at trade price. The people I work with are great and support each other. The money is ok, the last 2 years taught me this is not too important in the grand scheme.
I get to look at surf from my lab windows. Or hills from the other side of the building. Some terrific kids in the school, and the great majority of my colleagues are good to be with. Good pay, great holidays!
Down side- I feel that two, possibly three of senior management are really untrustworthy and sycophantic, and that the whole of the management team are almost entirely out of touch with the feelings of the majority of the staff. Which is a great shame.
I get paid.
I don't work long hours.
Erm...
flexi hours
no unpaid overtime
travel in opposite direction to rush hr traffic
lovely countryside canal bike ride to work
The 50 odd days a year holiday and the view over the Purbecks.
Yossarian - do i work with you?
Nothing ... it's just a job. Don't dislike it nor like it but just got to do it.
i own it.......................and love it
montylikesbeer - Memberi own it.......................and love it
Lucky bar-stewart!
👿
I only have to work 4 days a week, and most of my job is guess work and I love a gamble.
When I'm in the office it's a 6 mile off road commute and when I'm out of the office it might be anywhere, Rome, Orlando and Rhodes for June.
I'm the boss simultaniously the very best thing and the worst
I work with my Dad so get a pretty liberal approach to hours worked and time off 😉 I try to start earlyish, but can also finish early (if all the jobs that I have scheduled for the day are completed I can head for home/the hills)
I get to work in: The Lake District, The Dales, The Highlands... mostly the Lakes though, which is why I relocated down this way from Stirling!
I can bunk off a bit during the day and get some photography done 😉
There are bad sides though - I am usually up to my elbows (or well beyond) in human excrement 😉
What do I like? I can look out the window and see the Quantocks.
What do I dislike? Looking out the window, seeing the Quantocks and being stuck in work 😥
Only thing I like about my job is that it only takes me 5 minutes to get home..
Guernsey. My commute is along the coast, max speed limit is 25mph. Stunning views across the English Channel when on a good day you can see Sark and Herm...on bad day you can see Jersey!