MAC CHAT:A thread to post anything and everything

[steve k]

Morning All, Strange that I thought the girl was Australian so was more likely to be on the news in Aus, maybe not so much New Zealand perhaps but it made it on in the UK!

Where's Crocodile Dundee when you need him???????? ohhhhhhh thats right, still in the USA tring to work out what toilet does what!!![img]smileys/smiley36.gif[/img][img]smileys/smiley36.gif[/img][img]smileys/smiley36.gif[/img][img]smileys/smiley36.gif[/img]

[Aviation Delight]

For me just a 10.5 hour work day.


mark

[steve k]

Long day at the office Mark, or just real busy at the moment???? Hope you get paid well for the extra time you put in, damn, last job I had never got paid for the countless extra hours, nor got time off in lieu of the extra time= double whammied!!! Then people said to me why did I leave!!!!
Iwas an employee, not a volunteer was my usual response!!! I will never work for SALARY again, trust me!!!

[Aviation Delight]

Yes I am hourly so I get paid for what I work. We are currently preparing for inventory. I am on the inventory prep team. So I pick up extra hours for that. Then in February will go on overnights for inventory. So my work schedule is wacky for January and February.

Mark

[steve k]

That should pay well, but will affect your social life and sleep pattern a bit, lucky its just a temporary situation!
Just messaged a couple former menbers from SAF, so hopefully we get em back here soon[img]smileys/smiley25.gif[/img]

[Aviation Delight]

I was just informed at work that I will not be on the overnight inventory team. I am to valuable to the store to be away for a month.

Mark

[Aviation Delight]

Unfortunatly compassion can be hard to find with companies sometimes, I see I've reached a nice achievement today my feedback on ebay has reached 1234 and still at 100% positive which is something nice to wake up too, hope everyone has a good day.

That is quite the achievement. I dropped to 98.6% because of one person. They thought they had paid too much for shipping. I tried explaining that after the exchange rate and E-bay fees the difference was only $1.50 but that didn't seem to satisfy him and he left negative feedback about shipping charges.

Mark

[steve k]

I guess good news Mark about not having to work nights to do stock inventory! My experience with night work was working on Darwin airport in AUG 1984 as a trainee Lines man, The night work we did was re locating the T-VASIS landing system lights beside the main runway. Due to the busy movements of domestic and some INTL's, also military aircraft, we could only work at night. Trenches for the cables had to be about 5-ft deep, and cables laid in trench, then 2 ft of soil, then aluminium strip a few inches wideplaced on top, when the strip off the huge roll ran out, the join to the next strip had to be rivetted together, and away you go again, another layer of soil, say 2 ft, then Yellow warning tape was laid across the top(Bit like crime scene ribbon-tape the police use) and the the trench finally backfilled and compacted! periodic concrete slabs-small, also warning of cables below also had to be placed every 50 metres or so had to be embedded at ground level!! Did this for 2 weeks, sleeping was hard for me during daylight, and the humidity and temps up there were very taxing (I left Adelaide airport on a Monday morning, it was 8c, arrived Darwin, 32c, just 3.5 hrs later!!)
We finished the job in 2 weeks, and we got outa there before the wet season started!!! Glad I missed that!!

Wonder if anyone has guessed why aluminium strip is laid in the trench over the electrical cables?????

[Polynesian Airlines]

My guess would either be for protection or used as a conduit..... just guessing and if im wrong would like to know the answer.

Afternoon all, hope all are well. Whats everybody up to today... was planning on going to the beach but not the best of days here in Auckland so just going to stay home and do some cleaning.

Oh that news story of the lady whose bungy had snapped did make the news here in NZ, saw the bruises she got and OUCH but still she is very very lucky.

[MAC Admin]

Unfortunatly compassion can be hard to find with companies sometimes, I see I've reached a nice achievement today my feedback on ebay has reached 1234 and still at 100% positive which is something nice to wake up too, hope everyone has a good day.

That is quite the achievement. I dropped to 98.6% because of one person. They thought they had paid too much for shipping. I tried explaining that after the exchange rate and E-bay fees the difference was only $1.50 but that didn't seem to satisfy him and he left negative feedback about shipping charges.

Mark

<div></div><div>Yeah i've had to work with some customers who have left negative feedback straight away without contacting me, critism on ebay for sellers can be harsh an quite unjust yet buyers especially those that don't pay and ruin auctions get off scott free. But theres not much of an alternative at the end of the day.</div>

[robertjon5]

well, i am up to 875 pos. feedback! just one negative 2 years ago. posted 12 packages in two days, and put wrong address labelson two boxes. so one of them left neg. feedback wothout telling me till aftetrwards. even though they got the right model in the end, they would not change it!!! never got two models mixed up since!!!! lol.

[MAC Admin]

The best one was the guy that left negative feedback after failing to pick his parcel up from the post office..... how that was my fault I'm yet to determine anyway he got his refund and agreed to change it to neutral eventually

[steve k]

[QUOTE=Polynesian Airlines]My guess would either be for protection or used as a conduit..... just guessing and if im wrong would like to know the answer.

Well heres the answer jase!!!!!!!
Darwin airport has the highest by far of direct LIGHTNING HITS than any other airport in Australia!!!!!

By having the cables buried deep, insulated by soil, then aluminium strip over the top, then more soil, then warning strip, then more soil, the cables are protected from future earthworks as machine-digger operator would uncover the warning strip first, then if digging deeper, would then snag the aluminium strip.
The MAIN purpose of the aluminium strip is when lighning hits ground level, it continues deeper into the soil, earths out on the aluminium strip and dissipitates harmlessly and well clear of the cables a further 2 foot below!!!
most other airports just bury the cable with no aluminium strip!!!!! just so many times cables had to be repaired/replaced, it was decided aluminium strip would be used to help shield the cables, and rarely after, would a cable need to be repaired if ever.Quite a simple solution to a once regular problem they had there!

[Polynesian Airlines]

[QUOTE=steve k]

My guess would either be for protection or used as a conduit..... just guessing and if im wrong would like to know the answer.

Well heres the answer jase!!!!!!!
Darwin airport has the highest by far of direct LIGHTNING HITS than any other airport in Australia!!!!!

By having the cables buried deep, insulated by soil, then aluminium strip over the top, then more soil, then warning strip, then more soil, the cables are protected from future earthworks as machine-digger operator would uncover the warning strip first, then if digging deeper, would then snag the aluminium strip.
The MAIN purpose of the aluminium strip is when lighning hits ground level, it continues deeper into the soil, earths out on the aluminium strip and dissipitates harmlessly and well clear of the cables a further 2 foot below!!!
most other airports just bury the cable with no aluminium strip!!!!! just so many times cables had to be repaired/replaced, it was decided aluminium strip would be used to help shield the cables, and rarely after, would a cable need to be repaired if ever.Quite a simple solution to a once regular problem they had there!

Cheers mate...

How are things in ADL today??

Bit cloudy over here at the moment.

[steve k]

Cloudy with sunny patches mate, quite pleasant with a gentle breeze, low 20's atm.
just got back from a small shopping trip, found at last Masterfoods Sweet n sour sauce, love it on chick nuggets and asian savoury snacks, stupid supermarkets near me dont stock it- crazy!!! So travelled a few K's and finally found it! 2 jars i got, also got sesame oil, Pickled calamari rings-delish, and small crab meat-prob little crab meat in a ring, had it before, its nice!! weird how some supermarkets stock really nice things I like, and would buy regular, but I gotta make an 8km round trip to get them!!!
Damn frustrating!