And that was that....

Yes.
Some people are motorcyclists, and some people just know how to ride
motorcycles.
Clem
(and that's why cars were invented)

 

<aol> Me too! Actually, $4000 N14 Pulsar, 274,000Km last time I
checked. Better built than an N15 too. Independant rear for a
start.</aol>

G

 

No more so than open plan is to start with. Open plan orifices
are products of deranged minds, ones that invariably operate
from within a perectly nice enclosed orifice of their own.

I've knocked back job offers on the basis that they were
completely open plan. I take it as a sign: if the higher-ups
think like that with regard to accomodating workers in
comfortable and conducive-to-productivity surroundings, then
it's a clear indication of the existence of more fundamental
flaws in the organisation.

One-Tel is (was!) a case in point. Obviously full of shinybum
MBAs, got it in their heads that open plan (in an environment
where half of the floor was doing call centre stuff, and the
other half were trying to work) would encourage 'teamwork'.
A bit of first-semester MBA "managing people" type psychology
gone horribly wrong right there, and look where it got 'em!
Truth be known, half of them *still* haven't found their
cheese! (And it's probably better if I don't get started
on cheese!)

</rant>


So where's your self respect man! Anything less than 4.5 foot
high cubicle walls is a walk!!!


G

 

Yes that would work for one suit, however the suit wouldn't be in good
nick for very long...how does that work for multiple suits ? I don't
think 3 or 4 jackets on the back of the chair is going to be terribly
conmfortable and having a stack of suit pants in the drawer both takes
up space and is going to leave them wrinkled. Leaving me looking like a
scruff which isn't a good look. If it's leave one suit and work then
we're back to square one, I'd have to drive in each evening to drop the
next days suit off...

If you want to badly enough, yes you could, but the compromises are a
fairly long list - I'd have to want to ride to work pretty badly to
accept those compromises and quite frankly it's a bloody boring ride -
3km of multi lane divided road, chockas full of cars and with no good
corners, why WOULD you break your neck to ride it ?

I'm more likely to follow the drop a suit off and get changed at work in
order to be able to jog to work - at least there's a fitness health
benefit of the inconvenience.

JL

 

So what's the difference Clem

JL
(suspecting I may be the latter)

 

In aus.motorcycles on Wed, 26 Oct 2005 09:02:34 +1000

Hmm.. a bike with a full size suit rack on the back, charging a fee to
drop off suits for jogging/cycling suitwearers.

I See A Great Need.

What would you pay to have tomorrow's suit picked up tonight, and
delivered to your work in the suitbag you supply, guaranteed hung full
length all the time? Ironing of shirt before delivery extra, shoes and
tie extra, shoe polish extra?


Zebee

 

In aus.motorcycles on Tue, 25 Oct 2005 22:48:57 GMT

My self respect is where my bank account lives...

Besides, if all the offices are enclosed, you can't throw beanbags or
shoot nerfguns at the bastards who are annoying you.

Zebee

 

It's a tough one actually, you can couple that with a whole list of
other reasons why I should walk (a long list I won't bore ausmoto with),
but then if I change jobs now I'll have to stay in the new one for 2
years which doesn't suit my plans, unless I go for a 12 month contract
of course, which I'm starting to debate doing.

JL

 

I thought it had more to do with Darwin's law...

Bill

About to go for a ride unencumbered by a couple of hundredweight
worth of luggage, shall be nice for change

 

A reasonable amount - I'd have to think about it and get back to you,
but $30-50 a week would probably be max, still there's a profit in that
if you could get some volume.

JL
(I suspect a transit van would be more practical than a bike though)

 

Hat stand ?

 

I have a nice 91 N14 Pulsar SSS that needs a good home. 147,000km, goes
very nicely indeed.
$6,000 or offers. It's in Tas.

--
Conehead
"Every day I think about dying.
About disease, starvation, violence,
terrorism, war, and the end of the world.
It helps keep my mind off things."
McGough

 

The difference is that some people just can't live without a motorcycle and
would always just automatically factor the bike in as 1st choice in their
plans.
Others are far more "normal".
Clem

 

SSS, eh.

I read today that while Nissan are applying the SSS tag to sportier
versions of a number of models, they balked at releasing an SSS version
of the Tiida.

(Thought that might appeal to you Coney!)

Moike

 

In aus.motorcycles on Wed, 26 Oct 2005 09:58:30 +1000

I was thinking a bike for delivery, a van for pickup.

But to make it viable, it would probably have to be a van for both.
Racks on wheels, park the van in a spot local to several deliveries and
push the rack to each dropoff.

Viability would depend on where your customers were, and when you could
deliver. Even if you had 20 customers in the city, you'd have to be
able to have the suit waiting when they got to work, meaning work has to
accept packages at that time.


Zebee

 

You need to speak to your employer about the crappy conditions you work in.



Theo
With an office, with a real door. I have a large glass area looking into the
next office, but I can close the venetians if I want.

 

OK, I'll nibble. What's the cheese about?

Theo

 

Nope. Does *ANY* office still have one of those ?

JL
(I think the last time I saw anyone wearing a suit and a hat I was at
the local RSL and both the suit and the hat looked older than me)

 

That'd be a yes.

OK somewhat yes.

definitely a no to being normal.

JL
(still not sure if I'm a "motorcyclist" though - I won't ride to work if
it's too hard)

 

Could be tricky logistics wise, but quite do-able - I don't think
there's enough money in it to tempt me to quit my job, but for someone
with a bit of entrepeneurship and a minimal skill set it'd be a better
earner than some options.

JL