Six months of preparation, positivism, nerves, nightmares, doubt, determination and DREAMS now come down to this: me against the Sierra Nevada, me against the canyons, me against the clock. In our meetings last night and leading up to this I have been adamant to my crew that my only goal...
It was a stinking hot night, and as he sat at the bus stop, he could smell his own sweat fermenting, drowning out the floral notes from the suburb’s manicured gardens. He wished he could go home and grab a shower before his shift but because the bus timetable had changed, it was ...
Additionally, renewable natural gas production can create jobs and stimulate the local economy. Renewable natural gas can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by replacing fossil fuels in transportation and other sectors. Renewable natural gas is a low-carbon fuel that can be used as an alternative to ...
Its ability to generate jobs as well as income makes it a key part of the drive towards economic growth, and as such it is supported by government through a variety of initiatives. One initiative in 2003 aimed to energise and invigorate practitioners into using internet based technologies more ...
In a year as a picker — retrieving items from vast shelving units — Mr. Pellot said he walked about 10 miles on his night shift, and got two raises that pushed his hourly pay to $14.30. He passed a test to become a forklift driver and has his sights set on becoming a superviso...
Before you say or do anything in celebration of the upsides, just be conscious that there is a bill: the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives; the deaths of precious loved ones, the loss of millions of jobs and the supplementary well-being and progress they bring to individuals, communi...
If for a moment you think of Patek Philippe as Apple a mere 137 years older, the Nautilus in 1976 is Steve Jobs inventing the iPhone, introducing a ground-breaking product that’d eventually have mass appeal. No, it wasn’t the most complicated product Patek would make, but it’d become...
@Timo: just because they’re working at night doesn’t make it a sweatshop. (It might well be, of course; i don’ know.) A buddy of mine works for a local machine tool company, which runs its small batch and custom work on second shift. They do it so they can get an emergency...
When the manager came, [he did not give me his name, [but it was at 9:05pm on Friday night on 6/30, and he was one of two managers, the other being a woman]. I explained the situation to him, and he said he would fix it and went in the back with my receipt. This is ...
A shift in context and environment perhaps? Well, again, yes, to an certain extent. Having moved from London to Lewes has compelled me to exist at a pleasantly slower pace of life some of the time. (At which juncture I’d like to thank Southern Rail profusely for their concerted and su...