10th September 2011, 02:46 PM
kevin wooldridge Wrote:I'd be happy to start a 40+ BAJR self-interest group so that we can exchange memories of the good old late 80s, getting beer for less than a fiver a pint, poultice recipes to relieve pain in places that younger folk dont even have places and encouraging talk about the days when education was (almost) free...
Can we include the late 70s/early 80s? - personally I enjoyed those more
(and had more hair then, although not certain that's relevent?)I've been complaining to the management for years that I keep getting workforces who are all older than me, and I'm definitely straining the credibility of '40-something'
Think the claim that older diggers are more likely to press for better conditions doesn't wash - after all we're the generation who used to have to spend 6 months at a time living out of a mouldy tent and surviving on 'subsistence', so from our point of view we already have hugely improved conditions right now? Surely it's the youngsters who've never had to survive any of that who have the inflated expectations from the digging profession? :face-stir: