Royal Navy training of midshipmen: you don't know the answer to a question, you say "I don't know, but I'll go and find out now, sir!" Edit: (Assuming it's not something they're always expe… (View Post)

Mopped up? (View Post)

Thanks. How utterly extraordinary. (View Post)

Wooden replaced with permanent was indeed a very strong element of Brunel's work - modular prefab designs where you could take out a single element and replace it during maintenance. Wasn't just the … (View Post)

The other issue is that the redundo has to be clawed back if the employee gets another job with the NHS before a certain period is up. Very different from being made redundant from Widgets'r'us and g… (View Post)