RANT TIME!

[Matt-Rallye]

Can you put this in laymans terms for me to understand please?

Out of interest, what do you do for a living? I see above you claim your job is twice as hard as driving a train, yet you receive half the pay. 

I just feel it necessary to defend something for which I spent considerable time training.

No problem

I run the AutoBreakers section of a massive recycling facility. Also responsible for buying / managing stock & making sure all end of life vehicles are depolluted properly. Bear in mind its a 40 Acre site, not a small operation by any means.

Also have to do A LOT of health and safety as we are a full recycling facility dealing with any and every kind of material from household waste & wood right through too precious metals. Every department has different risks and different risk assessments (asbestos on the household waste side of site is a common example as opposed to scrap fuel containers going on fire when being crushed by the shear on the metal processing side)

Im also being trained to operate the weighbridge, deal with payments / customer accounts and be responsible for A lot of money / stock etc but thats because i like to be able to turn my hand to pretty much every job here if im required Also got in house tickets for most of the machinery etc so im just as handy too them in my office, their office or down the yard unloading lorries, depolluting cars or performing risk assesments.

My pay isnt particularly relative to my job, more relative to the hours i do and the area i live. Which is where i form my opinion about driving a train for a living.