Bad romance.

[reddragdiva]

• Sainsbury's are lazy fucking turds. Tell everyone you know.

• NewsTechnica: The astounding world of the future! Tech predictions for 2010; Special trains introduced for the wrong type of snow; Google Nexus One failed to revive my dead grandmother.

I am finally worn out of bouncing up and down and shouting "SNOW!!!" Thankfully my workplace have an excellent work from home policy, which I availed myself of yesterday and today. One day my boss, who moved to Cambridge and discovered that suburban living isn't actually all that convenient when the trains and local buses don't work, will show up to the office rather than being a voice on IRC.

I got horribly smashed with my coworkers on Wednesday (one of us is off on six months' leave, travelling southern Asia) and discovered they're actually really nice and I like them. Which is good. Myself and the office lesbian are considering forming a queer staff association. Let's see if this idea gets beyond drunk.

Comments

[vatine]

"the office lesbian"? Sounds a bit, you know, "designated person" or "fire marshal".

"We do not have any lesbians in the office. You have been selected by random poll. We've booked you on a 3-week lesbianism course, you're off tomorrow."

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

That's ridiculous about Sainsburys. Asda couldn't deliver to us this week, but all the buses were cancelled in Liverpool and there'd been no gritters on the main road and our street had about 6" so it was quite understandable..

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

I suspect Sainsburys & Tesco might have been cutting their deliveries because a lot of their drivers couldn't make it in...?

[reddragdiva]

This was the driver calling!

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

Sure, but were they maybe very understaffed and hence unable to cover everyone's deliveries? Just speculation. Also, I don't know how the safety standards at the shops compare to those of the bus companies, or what the existing regulations they had about driving in inclement weather were.

It's annoying as hell, but I can't get too angry about being concerned for the safety of their employees if that *is* the reasoning. (After all, they would be losing sales.)

[reddragdiva]

Did you look at the post, with a photo of the "dangerously icy" road? And the Tesco, Asda and Ocado trucks spotted making deliveries at around the time our Sainsbury's order was supposed to arrive?

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

Yes, but *shrug*, I have no expert knowledge here, particularly not about what S's existing protocols before the snow would have set out as acceptable driving conditions.

I know some friends who were unable to get Tesco deliveries earlier this week, for similar reasons.

[mouseworks.livejournal.com]

You get home deliveries? What kind of capitalism is that? I think the only places that do home deliveries in the US are really expensive places and health food coops. In America, we are expected to fight public transportation and collectivism by driving our very own personally owned cars with insurance we pay for, to stores that are now opening at 8:30 or staying open 24/7 so we can shop before we drive ourselves to work, if we have work.

I think I remember my mother getting home deliveries when I was a child in the 1950s, before every American had two cars or at least a car and a very expensive bicycle.