What did you do today...

[sunshine229]

I stayed home sick today thanks to a head cold.

MOG - very good question, I'd have to agree with Blues, ask the family. I doubt you'd be the only one taking pics anyways. It's as much as a day for friends & family to remember so I don't see why a pic or two would hurt... as long as it felt right at the time.

[sv-wolf]

I regretted not having my bike today to ride to work. My neighbour is repairing his roof and I said he could put his scaffolding across my access. Both bikes are stuck in my garden for a couple of days. I had a hard time at work; there were lots of redundancy interviews. I escaped the axe - just - but I'm not sure that I'm pleased. As the union rep, I spent most of the day supporting people, accompanying them to interviews and talking to them afterwards. I took a lot of notes. For some, it came as a shock. I could have done with the bike to clear my head on the ride home. When its not giving me an adrenalin rush, the Daytona functions as therapy. I feel very subdued.

[blues2cruise]

I regretted not having my bike today to ride to work. My neighbour is repairing his roof and I said he could put his scaffolding across my access. Both bikes are stuck in my garden for a couple of days. I had a hard time at work; there were lots of redundancy interviews. I escaped the axe - just - but I'm not sure that I'm pleased. As the union rep, I spent most of the day supporting people, accompanying them to interviews and talking to them afterwards. I took a lot of notes. For some, it came as a shock. I could have done with the bike to clear my head on the ride home. When its not giving me an adrenalin rush, the Daytona functions as therapy. I feel very subdued.

Dealing with job losses is never easy. I used to be a union rep and had to deal with discipline and helping people to try to keep their job.

Lucky for you your job is secure for now...too bad they didn't offer you a buy out....then you could retire, collect your pension and go riding. You'd have time to come to North America.

[blues2cruise]

After work I went with soe folks from work to the gambling for dinner. Then I watched a couple of them play black jack. One woman was up $400.00 and the other was up about a hundred....I left to go home...I'll find out tomorrow what the end result was by the time they left.

[mogster]

As the union rep, I spent most of the day supporting people, accompanying them to interviews and talking to them afterwards. I feel very subdued.

I spent last night working with a union rep. He is currently in the same position as you & has to attend formal meetings on Friday. Looks like there will be redundancies & we work in a hospital!

Well done for supporting others & I hope you can offload some of the stress

[jstark47]

I had a hard time at work; there were lots of redundancy interviews. I escaped the axe - just - but I'm not sure that I'm pleased. As the union rep, I spent most of the day supporting people, accompanying them to interviews and talking to them afterwards. I took a lot of notes. For some, it came as a shock.

I remember in 1993 my company had mass layoffs- they cut 250 people in one day, which was about 10% of the workforce then. I too escaped the ax then - just - but was so stressed that I had an auto accident on my way home. So the day cost me several thousand $$$ regardless, as I elected to pay out of pocket to fix the car I hit instead of doing an insurance claim.

[Wrider]

Took a bit of a chilly ride back home this morning...
17 F when I set off.

[Johnj]

Frosty...

[sv-wolf]

I remember in 1993 my company had mass layoffs- they cut 250 people in one day, which was about 10% of the workforce then. I too escaped the ax then - just - but was so stressed that I had an auto accident on my way home. So the day cost me several thousand $$$ regardless, as I elected to pay out of pocket to fix the car I hit instead of doing an insurance claim.

Ouch! Bad luck JS. I wouldn't like to draw a moral from that.

I spent last night working with a union rep. He is currently in the same position as you & has to attend formal meetings on Friday. Looks like there will be redundancies & we work in a hospital! Well done for supporting others & I hope you can offload some of the stress

Hi Mog. Yes it's happening everywhere in the public services at present. I got put in this position because all the other more-experienced reps were made redundant in the last round of bloodletting. I'm on "a steep learning curve" as they say. I'm surprised I survived.

Lucky for you your job is secure for now...too bad they didn't offer you a buy out....then you could retire, collect your pension and go riding. You'd have time to come to North America.

Ha! I did have quite a big twinge of disappointment when I discovered that the only change they are making to my post is to hook me up to a new line manager. Contractually, they would have had to give me about £13,000 to get rid of me - enough for that long holiday I've been promising myself in your attractively large corner of the world. Ah well!

Even so I could do with a change. I applied today to do a course to retrain as a London tour guide. Apart from anything else I'm sick of working in an air-conditioned office (full of fake air and viruses). If ever you are over here, I'll be able to give you a professional tour of Lunnon.

What else?
Here in the UK, I think we have more employment protection rights than you do in the US and there are various possible legal grounds for challenging redundancy notices or forcing employers to the negotiating table. I'm probably making that sound more positive than it is, but there are some reasonable come-backs - especially if the redundancies were made for anything other than legally defined business reasons. I spent today discussing next steps with those affected. I'm thoroughly exhuasted with the process. This sort of thing really takes it out of you (me, that is). Fortunately, the guy next door has finished on his roof and I can get the bikes out again, tomorrow. At least I'll have a chance to blow the cobwebs away.

[jstark47]

Mid 40's here, sunny, and clean dry roads. Stepdaughter won't ride if it's colder than about 68 degrees so I took her Hardly Ableson out for a jaunt. Wife followed on her Beamer. I give the Harley one thing- it's goofy fun to be able to go around corners at 30 mph in top gear and not need to downshift!

Getting ready to take one of the Triumphs out now on a longer ride with some RAT pack members. No destination in particular, think we're just gonna point the bikes down the road and go.