MadModder
The Breakroom => The Water Cooler => Topic started by: Artie on March 23, 2010, 07:29:00 PM
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Never being one to look a gift horse in the mouth.... but this time I did take a second glance.
I just had DELIVERED TO MY DOOR... some brass.
2 pieces 10mm by 34mm by 2000mm (2 metres) long
1 piece 25.4mm by 19 mm (1 inch by 3/4 inch) 400mm long
plus various short bits
It cost me...nothing.... why?
OH&S or Occupational Health and Safety regs sent it to me...in a round a bout fashion.
A local engineering shop has been told by the OH&S committee that once they cut a piece of brass they cannot keep the remaining strips in stock. IT HAS SHARP EDGES and the stores people and machinists MIGHT CUT THEMSELVES while handling it. So they had to give it away, sell it for scrap.... or machine all the sharp edges off, which they now do with the larger bits.. the 'smaller' bits such as they dropped off in my front garden are too small for them to worry about.....
Like I said..World Gone Mad... but if I HAVE to receive such stuff... I suppose I had better accept it......
Crazy huh?
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Somebody is pulling their plonker.
Why brass, why not steel or stainless, what stops the scrap man cutting his dainty paws ?
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it probably is for all stock John, we were just discussing brass at the time. I know my friend is pissed about it. I cant disagree with you but Im certainly not going to put my hand up and say NO, dont give it to me...... :wack:
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I think it's about time that we take the OH&S committee and dump them down a deep bottomless pit to protect the world from their kind. Just when you think you have heard about everything weird, someone comes along with something to beat it. Where will it all end? :lol: :lol: :lol:
Cheers :beer:
Don
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This can't be true ... soon we will not be allowed to get out of bed incase we hurt ourselves :doh:
This is way beyond stupidity ..... even for the H&S drones ...
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Welcome to the nanny state.
We're not to far behind with Obama Care passing. Nuf' said. :(
Bernd