How many other companies are being affected by the strike.
I have been advised not to go collect equipment from the wholesalers due to the strikers intimidating people and blocked roads.
So i must loose a days turnover and have to pay my staff to sit around in the workshop. Maybe i should tell them to go home and not pay them for the day, can i do it? Unpaid leave?
Got to love living in africa. So much to offer, pity about the people.
Our courier company could not collect yesterday. Had to phone our customer who collected as it was for a wedding on the weekend.
Only stress when you can change the outcome!
All of the transporters we use are on strike or have been intimidated. One had a shot fired at him and another was pelted with stones. Drove to Pietermaritzburg in the car yesterday - although there were trucks on the road they were drastically reduced.
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. - Aesop "The Lion and the Mouse"
People starving to death, but billions are spend on arms and aids "research". Why not use the money to feed the starving kids and keep them alive.
a truck was attacked today in kings avenue and cooldrinks and stuff stolen off the truck. strikers rob street venders of goods.
As the collapse intensifies the looting and marauding, I mean liberating and freeing capitalist goods for populist consumption will mean a more equitable distribution of wealth. When everyone is poor everyone is equal.Originally Posted by ians
Best cities to live during times like this is slow inter-mediation ergo very autarchic(the wiki definition is not that great it, I am using it as self-sufficiency)(autarchy) cities will do better. By autarchic I mean those cities near food production and value added aspects. Ergo cities where there is lots of food production and small machinery chops in the near vicity with close communal togetherness and low transportation necessary for it to function. Basically agrarian/value add centers.
The biggest problem I see is if water infrastructure gives way in a very densely populated part of country gives way and nobody cares to fix it. Then you will get complete clusterf##k since the entire mountain of population will transform into roving nomads seeking basic necessities. Never quiet got this far in Russia because water infrastructure is fairly widespread(bad or not it works), but in countries like Egypt if a neighborhood water gets shut off you get the point.
I could totally see infrastructure failure be the next wave. Ergo think Eskom cuts capacity to certain portions of geography and it accidentally cuts off power to water utilities that have catastrophic failure due to lack of maintenance in their backup generators and then due to that you get complete breakage down the chain. For example the water treatment backflow stops working and contaminates the entire water supply up and down the chain for a few weeks.
(AM I just the most positive person ever or what)
Infringement of another man's rights!How many other companies are being affected by the strike.
I have been advised not to go collect equipment from the wholesalers due to the strikers intimidating people and blocked roads.
So i must loose a days turnover and have to pay my staff to sit around in the workshop. Maybe i should tell them to go home and not pay them for the day, can i do it? Unpaid leave?
Got to love living in africa. So much to offer, pity about the people.
“Ubuntu is the essence of being humane" Desmond Tutu
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I empathise with non striking workers. No work no pay, may be too much to bear for them. If your very own work colleagues can’t understand that you support them in spirit but need to work because you’ve got a family and wife and kids, then who will really understand.
It’s exceptionally dispiriting to go to work as a truck driver not knowing if you’ll come back from work alive!
“Ubuntu is the essence of being humane" Desmond Tutu
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sabbaticus
Our one truck driver was hassled in Pinetown yesterday by a crowd.I have just put all deliveries on hold for now.
We need Maggie Thatcher to sort out the unions.......
Truckers stike, petrol stations are running dry. Dont forget to fill up.
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