Useless adviceAs a new parent, people seem to think it's OK to pass on any and every old wives tale possible. "Don't hug him too much". What? Quite what possesses people to pass on baseless, idiotic, useless advice I don't know.
That said, I quite often give car drivers directions and then, after they've moved off, realise that I've sent them down a bike-only route, so I can give as good as I get.
What useless advice have you been given (or handed out) recently?
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chthonic, Thu 19 Oct 2006, 10:29)
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health and safety at workOur latest 'big campaign' is this. At the top and bottom of each and every flight of stairs is a notice saying 'YOU MUST HOLD THE BANISTER WHILST GOING UP AND DOWN THE STAIRS' This is becuase 7 people last year had time off work as they fell down the stairs.
Recently someone told me off because I wasn't holding onto a banister (WTF?? DO these poeple not have real jobs???. I laughed at them and skipped jauntily off up the stairs
Personally I think time would be better spent employing people with a modicum of spatial awareness and gettign some reasonable H&S people in who are capable of accepting that accidents happen- that is why they are called accidents.
I despair. We're not allowed toasters as they are too risky.
(, Thu 26 Oct 2006, 12:45, Reply)
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