How long would it take paint on a tree to dry?

Doubleme

So I started watching the training videos from work at home because they want you to complete all the training videos at work and the kitchen get annoyed at you not been in the kitchen and their laptop is slow and awful. So I worked on the training videos at home which are highly relevant and interesting to my job.

However I could not help but notice there are other areas far more interesting and far more relevant to my Job such as paint drying.

Which got me to thinking how long would it take paint to dry, on a painted tree outside. I got talking to my girlfriend about this as I watched the videos of course such topics came up as is it breezy or windy that could affect the drying what is the temperature outside? how humid is it what brand of paint would we be using what type of tree is this? how many coats would we use.

I think by completing a multivariate analysis of this we could solve this potential question.

stokefc

Shouldn't you be watching your training videos rather than taking about paint drying , ever likely you think you might be out of a job

Doubleme

stokefc said:

Shouldn't you be watching your training videos rather than taking about paint drying , ever likely you think you might be out of a job

you would think but the reality is I am likely to be out of a job anyway and then people who read this will say I have only myself to blame because I didnt pay attention to the training videos and that would appear very convincing but it would be very misleading here is why.

the training videos have no relevance to my job, they insist you watch all training for all positions, even though most staff will only ever have one position. There is little utility in me watching videos teaching me how to be a head chef or how to serve drinks or take orders from customers when that is not my job and likely never will be. I did pay great attention to and watch the videos teaching me how to cook their dishes because that is relevant. Then I was told yeah the videos are just going through the motions and useless you will learn how to cook by doing and been shown. So you can imagine my excitement on the topics of how to take an order from a customer when I dont work as waiter. or how to use systems irrelevant to my role which I will never be shown or expected to use.

goldon

Jack of all trades is better than one.... you could be asked to fill in for someone.... the waitress is off sick your chance to take an order wear a dress .... the Barman didn't show you watched the video and know not to give short measure ... strings to your Bow the hero saves the day..... hic!

stokefc

Doubleme said:

stokefc said:

Shouldn't you be watching your training videos rather than taking about paint drying , ever likely you think you might be out of a job

you would think but the reality is I am likely to be out of a job anyway and then people who read this will say I have only myself to blame because I didnt pay attention to the training videos and that would appear very convincing but it would be very misleading here is why.

the training videos have no relevance to my job, they insist you watch all training for all positions, even though most staff will only ever have one position. There is little utility in me watching videos teaching me how to be a head chef or how to serve drinks or take orders from customers when that is not my job and likely never will be. I did pay great attention to and watch the videos teaching me how to cook their dishes because that is relevant. Then I was told yeah the videos are just going through the motions and useless you will learn how to cook by doing and been shown. So you can imagine my excitement on the topics of how to take an order from a customer when I dont work as waiter. or how to use systems irrelevant to my role which I will never be shown or expected to use.

Don't you think that's a bit defeatist David , i know you think like that now but what in the future you've no job , on your ar$e financially and you get offered a job waiting , at least you would have some insight for the job
I did my awareness courses a few weeks back , i've done them many times before it took me 4 hours to do them but i went through them with a fine tooth comb even though a lot of the stuff in them i will never use , i just feel i should be educated on the stuff i may come across in the construction industry even if i don't

goldon

Don't be a one trick Pony...... !

Essexphil

A left sided defender may lack the abilities to be a right sided attacker. And the same hold true for the right sided attacker. Although both have the abilities to play their current role.

However, once the left sided defender understands the role of the right sided attacker, learns the pressures of the other role, learns the strengths and weaknesses of the particular person in the other role, the left sided defender not only understands how other roles work, he can do his own job better.

That's what being part of a team is.

TheEdge949

When I first started working, I worked at Trentham Gardens as a full time bar person but when necessary I would do silver service waiting, pot duties, short order cooking, cellar duties and so on.

When the redundancies kicked in after busy season guess who wasn't let go.

I moved up the ladder and spent several good years there over 2 spells.

The more strings to your bow, the more indispensable you become.

One more thing, when the evening was over and we were bottling up, washing glasses, arranging the tables and chairs etc. Guess what the Food and Beverage Manager did ?

Yup, he took off his dinner jacket, grabbed a brush or a mop and pitched in. He was respected by every member of staff.

rabdeniro

In ma last job ah was a delivery driver, ma contract was drive the van, deliver, keep the van maintained, but ah mucked in, helping out if anybody needed a hand in the warehouse, it got the day in quicker.

We got took over by a multi - national company, they appointed the rep as manager, he didnt know the job but was a yes man.

A month into the job he let a couple of the warehouse boys go who had been there for years ( ah worked there for 15 years, ah was last in the door ).

Next was the old boy who did the cleaning, next the receptionist, gone.

The manager arranged a meeting with us, there was about a dozen workers left, he said we will be going on a rota to clean the office, staff toilets, public toilets and general area.

Ah asked the manager, are you going on the rota ?, no came the reply.
Why ?, ah asked, I'm the manager was the reply.
Don't put me on the rota ah said, am a van driver.

A month down the line got ma redundany notice, put on gardening leave, they were going to out source the deliveries to dpd and the like.

Am out the door a month and they have got 2 of the warehouse boys doing the deliveries.

There must be a moral to this, but ah can't find it.

Tikay10

@rabdeniro


Love your stories Rab.