Re: Stepbacks and Meal Reliefs

["Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au>]

"Roy Wilke" <"roywilke"@ DELETETHISbit.powerup.com.au> wrote in message
> Tezza wrote:
> >
>
> > Cityrail Drivers get a paid 20minute "crib" break, plus a minimum 5"
each
> > side walking time.
>
> Ummm, did you know that the correct apostrophic abbreviation for minute
> is ' , while the one for second is " ?

I've been using " for minutes and ' for hours for over 30 years and never
been pulled up on it, so of course I didn't believe you and looked it up. My
teachers have a lot to answer for. Bloody public school system.


> I hope you meant "a minimum 5' each side walking time", because the
> other interpretation would mean that Cityrail drivers would be a shoe-in
> to win *all* of the foot-races in that big sporting carnival down in
> Sydney.


We'd probably come close, being the fine physical specimens that we are, but
they wouldn't give us any leave. I just hope they can cope without us.