Weird Granny Slater wrote:Mm. I worked a few summers in the 80s & 90s unloading baggage or directing traffic at the Eastern Docks. On one occasion on a quiet night bosses tried to make us temps paint black and yellow lines on the barriers and concrete bollards. I certainly would have made a bad job of that, intentionally, as the DHB had painters for such work. Thankfully the unions told them where to go, and we went back to the rest room. But DHB were ever full of such cheap tricks.
Same at the cruise terminal in recent years when a port of call ship was in, they also got told were to get off. They also refused to refurbish the passenger access, so regularly had to use stepped gangways while awaiting mechanic or electrician to come out and fix it, at least twice in my time it blew hydraulic lines and dumped the whole tank of fluid in the harbour.