The Hot Weather Madness
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Andy_W
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Probably have a duty of care to not make people work outside when it's 30+ degrees, when they're not used to it, but I thought Mon/ Tue were the hot days?
I'm wondering if the construction sites to close Mon/ Tue, but they probably won't and will still be insisting on all the guys wearing overalls, hard hat, gloves, boots and full high viz and put in a 12 hour day, so I'll be telling them to F off.
wilkos_perm
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Probably because that sort of thing attracts old people who'll turn up in their winter coat "just in case".
dooderooni
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Better safe than sorry, especially given how stupidly some people behave despite warnings.
You can guarantee that roads will be jammed, seaside towns overrun and the Sun will run a variation of a "Scorchio" headline while the Express predict snow storms
You can guarantee that roads will be jammed, seaside towns overrun and the Sun will run a variation of a "Scorchio" headline while the Express predict snow storms
wilkos_perm
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Absolutely. There's no real respect for the dangers of high temperatures in this country
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rbmfc1985
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So true. After spending time working in India just after the hottest time of the year, but still around the kind of temperatures we're looking at next week, working in high temperatures isn't the same as laying on the beach in high temperatures.
Especially if you're not used to it.
I'm glad we're missing the worst of the heat up here, but I am concerned how unaware so many people are of the dangers.
My son is a bricklayer. His boss has no plans to lay them off Mon and Tues.
Im stocking up the freezer with frozen water and pulling out the pop up gazebo for him. Worried for him.
Randy
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People would do well to remember respect when they are chasing waitresses who then chase me up for an order that they've only been waiting 15 minutes for when the temperatures in our kitchen last week were between 40°c and 45°c.
I did a fluff piece for Radio Tees during the heatwave we had a year before covid. The nice but equally a little dim reporter asked me what it was like working in a kitchen during those temperatures. As the piece was going out on local radio during the morning I just replied "hot".
Please remember if you do go out for food over the weekend that the kitchen staff are more than likely working just as hard as normal but in, at times, unbearable heat.
dooderooni
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Well said Randy.People would do well to remember respect when they are chasing waitresses who then chase me up for an order that they've only been waiting 15 minutes for when the temperatures in our kitchen last week were between 40°c and 45°c.
I did a fluff piece for Radio Tees during the heatwave we had a year before covid. The nice but equally a little dim reporter asked me what it was like working in a kitchen during those temperatures. As the piece was going out on local radio during the morning I just replied "hot".
Please remember if you do go out for food over the weekend that the kitchen staff are more than likely working just as hard as normal but in, at times, unbearable heat.
Andy_W
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That sounds crap, but his boss might be concerned about getting hammered by the client, it's no excuse mind and he should take the hit if he thinks it's unsafe.
It's daft as with a lot of standard contracts on construction sites there's clauses for excessive rain, extreme cold or snow but absolutely zero for heat, and most of our lads say the heat is by far the worst.
I'll just say it's a safety risk and pull them off site, I don't expect much of a challenge but don't expect to be covered for the time/ cost, as we would sometimes be for excessive rain, extreme cold or snow.
Transitarmy
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I survived Summer1976 and Winter 63
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FabioPorkpie
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I’ve noticed the likes of James Melville and plenty of the other manipulators of simpletons and misinfo grifters downplaying and mocking the forecasted heatwave on social media. It‘s a thinly veiled part of their climate change denial/ridicule angle, but evidently people fall for it.
’Yeah back in my day we’d just put a knotted hanky on t head and get on with it. We’d pay to go abroad for this kind of weather, stop moaning and eat a jubbly and get a lovely tan‘ type of guff.
’Yeah back in my day we’d just put a knotted hanky on t head and get on with it. We’d pay to go abroad for this kind of weather, stop moaning and eat a jubbly and get a lovely tan‘ type of guff.
Andy_W
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It's crap that you don't get adequate ventilation/ air con etc, can your boss not do anything about that? Have you acclimatised to it over the years?People would do well to remember respect when they are chasing waitresses who then chase me up for an order that they've only been waiting 15 minutes for when the temperatures in our kitchen last week were between 40°c and 45°c.
I did a fluff piece for Radio Tees during the heatwave we had a year before covid. The nice but equally a little dim reporter asked me what it was like working in a kitchen during those temperatures. As the piece was going out on local radio during the morning I just replied "hot".
Please remember if you do go out for food over the weekend that the kitchen staff are more than likely working just as hard as normal but in, at times, unbearable heat.
Do you know any keen cyclists? You could maybe borrow one of those massive fans they use on their indoor trainers, mines like a helicopter taking off, might not do much for your presentation mind! I'm going to blast the dogs with mine as they really struggled with the last bad one, a couple of years ago (think that was the same one you're on about).
I've had to work outside in over 40 degree heat for a few months, it was beyond ridiculous.
People should be treating waitresses and kitchen staff better anyway, but no doubt you will still get some d*ckhead complainers.
Boro in Devon
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It must be time to take off my body warmer and turn off the central heating 
NorthumberlandBoro
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Must be getting hot, our lass is down to two layers.
Erimus74
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We'll have wear all that gear for up to 12 hours, most of that period stood outside for hours on end & at times wearing green chemical suits when loading certain tankers
Plenty of refreshments mind, it is what it is
jeff_potato
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Those kinds of things really get my goat. 'We got through it in 1976, we weren't snowflakes!'
Is it too much to ask that half a century on, we might expect to change outlooks or way of living? Those people are cultural luddites.
FabioPorkpie
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People would do well to remember respect when they are chasing waitresses who then chase me up for an order that they've only been waiting 15 minutes for when the temperatures in our kitchen last week were between 40°c and 45°c.
I did a fluff piece for Radio Tees during the heatwave we had a year before covid. The nice but equally a little dim reporter asked me what it was like working in a kitchen during those temperatures. As the piece was going out on local radio during the morning I just replied "hot".
Please remember if you do go out for food over the weekend that the kitchen staff are more than likely working just as hard as normal but in, at times, unbearable heat.
Nobody should have to work in those conditions. Historically it’s been rare that temperatures get so high in the U.K. but over the last few years it’s getting more and more frequent and if it continues, which it will, businesses are going to have to address the big hot sweaty elephant in the room and start implementing plans to provide AC/adequate environments for staff. Even Northern European houses are going to need updating (just what the environment needs….more A/C
)I always have sympathy for service/kitchen staff when it’s hot. It’s time the workforce was better looked after.