Whats the worst job in this heat

Andy_W said:
Yup, been there (Ali Al Salem) and heard the same, we used to make a joke of it and every time they rang up the desk it was 49.9.

In our little shelter/ shade bit it got over 50, think it was up to 55, but when we were on days we were out in the sun, impossible to avoid, would be surprised if that was under 65 degrees.

We were in tents for the first month as well, and the air con only ran for an hour or two once the sun hit the air con unit, before shutting itself down. Coming back off nights and into the cool tent was ace, until we all woke up in pools of sweat three hours later (it was like a sunny day in a glasto tent x10), and repeated that for about a month. It's funny looking back :LOL:
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Worked in Dubai and Qatar and always laughed at the way the rules were never adhered to as the official temp never exceeded 50. I worked in portacabins on the NDIA job in Doha and thank Allah the AC was good. I always wondered how the site labourers fared. They were treated like dirt as it was.
 
Littlejimmy said:
Worked in Dubai and Qatar and always laughed at the way the rules were never adhered to as the official temp never exceeded 50. I worked in portacabins on the NDIA job in Doha and thank Allah the AC was good. I always wondered how the site labourers fared. They were treated like dirt as it was.
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Worked at Doha too, it actually sometimes seemed worse there than Kuwait because of the humidity, even though the temp was always lower by about 5 degrees.
 
48°c was a measured temperature in one part of the kitchen at 2pm this afternoon. People have been ordering some weird stuff today aswell.
"Hey it's mafting outside, should we order 4 steaming hot steak and ale pies?

"Go on then Gladys"

Maniacs.
 
Andy_W said:
Yup, a lot of other countries have an internal heat limit for a working environment, but here doesn't. I expect this will be "hot" on the agenda soon mind.

We do have a cold limit though, but you can put extra layers on to get warm in a lot of jobs, not like they're going to let people work in the nude or their pants, and most places won't even let people wear shorts, bonkers.
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Its only advice though, not set in statute.
 
Randy said:
48°c was a measured temperature in one part of the kitchen at 2pm this afternoon. People have been ordering some weird stuff today aswell.
"Hey it's mafting outside, should we order 4 steaming hot steak and ale pies?

"Go on then Gladys"

Maniacs.
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You should have only served salads and ice cream, and told anyone asking for hot food to **** off. :LOL:
 
1finny said:
I run a small bakery - you can’t have air con for obvious reasons.
It been 46 degrees for most of the afternoon

Doing lots of things to help them and they are doing a frickin great job
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We've heard a lot recently about the infamous 1976 heatwave. That summer, after my first year at Uni, I worked at Sparks Daylight Bakery in Stockton by the park. I worked 12 hours shifts hoiking bread out of the ovens. Every hour they brought round gallons of orange juice and salt tablets. It was brutal and for sweatshop wages. It was alright for me, a student with virtually no overheads, I'd never had as much money in my life before. But for the people for whom it was their only full time job, it must have been grim. It features as a chapter in my great unpublished "masterpiece" of life in Teesside and York 1975 -78, "Sky Jump". I liked it but nobody else did!

After working there, I could never face that radioactive yellow cake pastry that most cheap cakes are made of. I saw what went into it. I'm sure your small bakery is an artisanal delight in comparison. But still very hot
 
Spikelangelo said:
We've heard a lot recently about the infamous 1976 heatwave. That summer, after my first year at Uni, I worked at Sparks Daylight Bakery in Stockton by the park. I worked 12 hours shifts hoiking bread out of the ovens. Every hour they brought round gallons of orange juice and salt tablets. It was brutal and for sweatshop wages. It was alright for me, a student with virtually no overheads, I'd never had as much money in my life before. But for the people for whom it was their only full time job, it must have been grim. It features as a chapter in my great unpublished "masterpiece" of life in Teesside and York 1975 -78, "Sky Jump". I liked it but nobody else did!

After working there, I could never face that radioactive yellow cake pastry that most cheap cakes are made of. I saw what went into it. I'm sure your small bakery is an artisanal delight in comparison. But still very hot
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used to love those Sparks custard slices back in the day.
we used to get them in the shop at Yarm and occasionally, if there was one left….. a good shot would see it splat a teacher
 
Working on the charger on the battery top on a coke oven plant, or removing and cleaning nozzle plates in the gas alley. Both brutal in this weather.
 
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