[Closed] Well that's my 6 months of lying around finished, back to work.

Brilliant, hope it all goes well with the new job, and your wife’s recovery continues.

Congratulations on the new job.
Hope things start looking up for you and the wife.

I'm surprised they let you drive at your age!

I give it 6 months before you explode from eating all the cakes, biscuits and sweets you're given.

Great news!

Good news on the job and on your wifes recovery.

Well done! More to life than a thankless job and attitudes like that

Excellent news, hope the new job and wife's recovery continue you raise your spirits.

Heartwarming thread alert.

Congrats.

🙂

Well done, I hope Mrs EGF continues to improve.

Time for a no holds barred prison service exposé for C4?

Fantastic 😆

Congratulations on the job. And hope your wife continues to get better.

I'm looking forward to the first time you help an an old dear into the car and as soon as she's sat in the seat, years of habit kick in and you slam the door and lock the car with the key as she stares through the window, aghast.

Well done on the new job front, that last job is well behind you.

Hope you wife continues on the road to health and happiness.

Nice one!

Right on. Look after your family 1st. Enjoy the new life.

Thanks for sharing, glad you’re both getting back on your feet so to speak - I think I’d enjoy driving old people about a lot more than working in a prison.

I’ve been sat wallowing in self-pity a lot of late and reading about real problems is bucking up my ideas.

Nice work! I love working with old people, soooo rewarding 🙂

Excellent and good luck 🙂

Good luck and best wishes.

it will be nice to be working with people your own age mate......enjoy 😆

😀

Nice, enjoy. Hope your wife is on top form shortly.

Meanwhile over on mumsnet: [i]that bastard's cleared off again, I'll have to make my own tea![/i]

Congratulations to you both.

it will be nice to be working with people your own age mate......enjoy

& I bet some of those will be walking without a limp! Cheeky git!

Thanks for the good wishes up to now everyone, It's really heartwarming for an old gobshite like me!

If It's any consolation PJay, I actually thought we'd been cursed somehow. Both went part time last year, got a gorgeous Red Fox Lab, (now re-homed) got a caravan (that may be the curse) paid the mortgage off, then WHACK! The biggest kick in the teeth wev'e ever had comes along.
You just never know what's round the corner.

& the 1st old person who doesn't put their seat belt on gets bent up! I'm still in my C&R ticket!

Brilliant news.

Result!!!! Fingers crossed this is the start of things picking up for a brill new chapter mate!!!!!

Great to hear that things are looking up.

Work in bowel cancer field and very tough to on people (not that offer cancers aren't) ago the best to your wife

Good luck with the new job Jim,hope everything works out for you & the misses!

Where is the bloody like button! 😉

Good stuff EGF 🙂

Great news! I can just see you pottering about in a minibus!

Good news, hope that's you very much on the up now.

Very pleased to hear it. All the best to you and Mrs EGF, hope she's properly well soon.

Excellent EGF! Best of luck in new job and for ongoing recovery of Mrs EGF.

Nice one. Best of luck.

Good start to my day reading that.
Well done for standing up for your family over work.

Well done for standing up for your family over work.

It was never going to be any other way TBH. & I didn't like her anyway, she uses bullying tactics & has almost had a vote of no confidence put in by the union & members.

(The governor of the jail, not the Mrs!)

Mind you don't get mistaken for one of the punters

And best wishes to both of you.

Thanks Mary, your'e as bad as Ton! 😀

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Well done! More to life than a thankless job and attitudes like that

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This + a million.

Brilliant news mate, well done, you've earned an easier life after your previous role. All the best to you and Mrs Gruntfuttock.

Good news all around 🙂

I don’t know you fella, but that’s chuffin ace. Best of luck fella

nicely done!

You're gonna love it.

Sounds a bit like my uncle in fact - spent years (decades) as a Securicor driver/general security guard, putting up with more and more crap until one day he finally left and got a job helping at a local disabled school - a lot of which was driving the minibus. He loves it, loves the kids, and hasn't been held up by a smackhead with a syringe in ages 😀

Great news.

Aye, congratulations from me too. Family first, everything else 2nd.

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Congrats, enjoy your freedom from you previous job and many warm wishes on the continued recovery of the Mrs.

Congrats. Bet you'll have some great stories to scare the shit out of the old dears as you drive them around.

I won't miss that crap that's for sure!
I haven't been held up at syringepoint but I've been threatened/approached with a hefty metal tube (baton came out) & had a telly launched at me from a landing above. Plus the daily barrage of personal abuse of course!
& I've been lucky compared to a lot of HMP staff.

61 eh? Time to start planning how you're going to get your hands on that retirement house in Onich!

Delighted for you that your out of the prisons, must be worse than my lot.

Congratulations!, resist the temptation to handcuff them and lead them on one by one 😉

Time to start planning how you're going to get your hands on that retirement house in Onich!

It's still on my list! What do you reckon that's worth? 750K + ?

It's got to be heading that way. Although you can get a lot for your money up here, that's got some compelling features!

I looked at grad entry to the prison service when I was hating teaching...sod that! Good on you getting away from that.

Genuinely pleased for you and well done for sticking to your guns!

Congrats. My Father in law in his late 60s does this and loves it.

Good news! Congratulations on the new job and glad your wife is getting better.

Thanks again for all the replies & good wishes everyone!
Appreciate it/them!

bloody civil servants make me sick 😉 congrats btw

Wait until one of the clients comes at you with a full colostomy bag.

All the best.

I'm surprised they let you drive at your age!

Wait till one of the clients comes at you with a full colostomy bag

Ha! Except in my OP I said...

Went off sick back April when Mrs Egf was diagnosed with bowel cancer,

I've helped her change it twice today. (she calls it 'Percy' Percy the shitbag)

It's ok, you weren't to know.

Good luck with the new job and all the best to your Mrs

It's ok, you weren't to know.

I assumed one of the better outcomes for Mrs EGF.

Good for you family first.

Dunno what it's like in prison service but everyone assumed you would back down at the last minute when I played the family card on a very important family funeral and had to come back from foreign climes leaving company in a sticky situation.

Only you and yours have your back be sure you have theirs.

Well done for seeing it through and not being one of the spineless.

Hope things pick up for you all

I assumed one of the better outcomes for Mrs EGF.

She didn't have a stoma straight after the initial operation, that was done on the 2nd op (3 days after the 1st) due to the join in the bowel giving way & peritonitis/sepsis/whatever it was taking hold. Then it was found her gall bladder had ruptured, causing a different infection again! So she had a 3rd operation to clean that out, 7 days after the 2nd one! Lordy my, what a ****ing year.

Anyway, if any old folk come at me with a full colostomy bag, I'll be ready! 😆
(at least I'd be a good help in changing it for a new one)

Percy the shitbag

If I had a quid for every time I've been called that... 😉

I N R A T S but did you get your legals looked at re a claim?