Tree hugging recyclers of the word, fuck off.

My work management are heavily into the greenie tree-hugger thing, as as such we have four sorts of bin around the place - green for organic, yellow for recyclables, red for landfill, and blue for paper and carboard.
Sounds reasonable, right?
Hah.
You can put paper towels in green bin, fair enough.  You can also put tea bags in, despite the fact they have a steel staple in them??  You can also put "food" in there - but specifically not meat.  And you can't put wooden paddle pop tea stirrers in there, despite the fact that wood was organic the last time I looked.
The blue bin isn't supposed to have waxed paper put in it.

The yellow bin isn't for glass, but is OK of for plastics - but only some plastics.

The red bin - landfill - isn't supposed to have *any* plastic in it, so where do I put the plastic I can't put into the yellow bin?  Aerosol cans are also a no-no, but I can't put them into the yellow bin either.  Apparently they are supposed to vanish into limbo.  Or more likely into some other poor bastard's bin where it's their problem.

So, like any red-blooded bloke would do when faced with a situation like this, I say "who fucking cares" and sling the lot into the red bin and be done with it.  I think they should consider themselves lucky I deliberately aim for the red bin and don't just shove it in the first bin I come to, colour be damned.

This is what gives me the shits in general when it comes to recycling.  It's too hard, and I just can't be bothered.  When I need a multipoint checklist to figure out which of 4 possible bins I fling a random piece of office crap into, it's not going to happen.

The same goes for councils who bitch about things like not wanting pizza boxes in the recycling.  Same reason as the mob we have here at work only wanting certain plastics.  It's either too hard to deal with the ones they don't want, or there's no market for the end product - probably because it's more expensive than new material.  This also gets filed under the heading of "things I don't give a damn about", because as far as I'm concerned, you're either recycling - or you're not.  I'm not going to stand her and sort what to me is garbage for a recycling company's benefit, if they want to recycle - they can do it.

I'm not enough of a troglodyte (yet) to stick lawn clipping in the recycling, or the contents of the cat litter tray, but if anyone things I'm gonna sort plastics by chemical composition they're in for a rude shock.

News clippings from the UK

Irish police are being handicapped in a search for a stolen van, because they cannot issue a description. It's a special branch vehicle, and they don't want the public to know what it looks like. (The Guardian)

After being charged £20 for a £10 overdraft, 30 year old Michael Howard of Leeds changed his name by deed poll to Yorkshire Bank PLC Are Fascist Bastards. The bank has now asked him to close his account, and Mr. Bastards has asked them to repay the 69p balance, by cheque, made out in his new name. (The Guardian)

Would the congregation please note that the bowl at the back of the church labelled 'for the sick' is for monetary donations only. (Churchtown Parish Magazine)

At the height of the gale, the harbourmaster radioed a coastguard on the spot and asked him to estimate the wind speed. He replied that he was sorry, but he didn't have a gauge. However, if it was any help, the wind had just blown his Land Rover off the cliff. (Aberdeen Evening Express)
Mrs Irene Graham of Thorpe Avenue, Boscombe, delighted the audience with her reminiscence of the German prisoner of war who was sent each week to do her garden. He was repatriated at the end of 1945, she recalled. "He'd always seemed a nice friendly chap, but when the crocuses came up in the middle of our lawn in February 1946, they spelt out Heil Hitler". (Bournemouth Evening Echo)

Commenting on a complaint from a Mr.Arthur Purdey about a large gas bill, a spokesman for North West gas said "We agree it was rather high for the time of year. It's possible Mr.Purdey has been charged for the gas used up during the explosion that blew his house to pieces." (Bangkok Post)

Slow news day, is it?

Captain Obvious is apparently writing for The Australian now.  What a surprise, house prices dropping in an area that's just been through a huge flood?  Who woulda thunk it...

This bloke is a nutter, but I like the idea.

Zzzz

Well there's fuck all heppening here.  Night shift #2, had a sleep from about 8:30am to 3:30pm today and I feel pretty good.  The drive home this morning did demand a little more concentration than normal but I'm running against the traffic so so dramas.

I've just realised that I have a 45m corridor here.... I wonder if anyone would go crook if I brought my bow in?  Biggest problem is that a bad shot from one end puts an arrow through a glass wall and out into the Docklands yacht basic, and from the other it goes through a plaster wall into the NOC, and assuming it misses everyone the $1.8m video wall pulls it up.  I might have to bring one of the tier 1 staff up and use them as a backstop - they're not much use for anything else...

First overnight shift

An hour to go to the end my first ever overnight shift.

 

An interesting experience, I walked in on the tail end of a complete cockup by a cast of thousands who had taken about 8 people, 12 hours and who knows how much expense to fix what was ultimately a very simple problem.  It took about 15 minutes to fix the issue and two hours to clean up the resulting mess.

 

I made an attempt at getting a bit of kip yesterday afternoon that failed miserably, got about an hour I think, so I decided I’d just tough it out and crash when I got home.  Don’t feel too bad really, but I won’t be doing much in the way of a wind-down I assure you.  This ought to set the pattern nicely.

 

Had lunch about 3am, and only had three (large) coffees the whole night, the biggest problem I think was boredom?  I’ve basically finished the internet, *no* news gets posted overnight, I’m bored with reading my book and man am I sick of reading processes and pointing out all the errors.

DON'T PANIC!!!

Today is the day that Skynet becomes self aware.  Just sayin'.