[fatkid2000]

I cycle to work most days, the usual things that stop me are when I am on nights or just can't be arsed.

Anyway due to the complete lack of cycle facilities I leave my bike in a disused room (I don't have an office - being a junior doctor). There are 5 bike lockers at the hospital I work at, which are all in use by the time I get to work at around 7:30.

So yesterday I get reprimanded by my consultant about where I leave my bike - the cleaner has complained. The place I leave my bike is in a non-clinical area and does not an inconvience  to anybody else - the room is in part of the department where we have on-call rooms. The cleaner is the size of the house and spends most of her day smoking. In a rather school days way I have been told off - this is something I will ignore at the moment. Every other department I have worked for had groups of consultants that cycled & you often found bikes littered around departmental rooms and offices. I was told riding a bike was not a doctor like activity, which pissed me off slightly - what am I suppose to do - play fucking golf! Anyway only 2 months left - then I can leave the pathetic world of hospital medicine for good. It's not like it affects my ability to do my job, unlike fatdoc who is always injured.

[slackline]

I was told riding a bike was not a doctor like activity, which pissed me off slightly - what am I suppose to do - play fucking golf!

That is fucking retarded.  Tell the twat to look at the fact that the government run a cycle to work scheme to encourage people to use healthy, less polluting methods of getting to work.  Government advise recommends daily exercise to help people live health lifestyles and avoid diseases in turn lessening the burgeon on the NHS (in theory!).  In fact the NIHR actually have an open call for research into the benefits/pitfalls of employers encouraging cycling to work.

Did this guy ever take the Hippocratic oath?

[fatdoc]

I cycle to work most days, the usual things that stop me are when I am on nights or just can't be arsed.

Anyway due to the complete lack of cycle facilities I leave my bike in a disused room (I don't have an office - being a junior doctor). There are 5 bike lockers at the hospital I work at, which are all in use by the time I get to work at around 7:30.

So yesterday I get reprimanded by my consultant about where I leave my bike - the cleaner has complained. The place I leave my bike is in a non-clinical area and does not an inconvience  to anybody else - the room is in part of the department where we have on-call rooms. The cleaner is the size of the house and spends most of her day smoking. In a rather school days way I have been told off - this is something I will ignore at the moment. Every other department I have worked for had groups of consultants that cycled & you often found bikes littered around departmental rooms and offices. I was told riding a bike was not a doctor like activity, which pissed me off slightly - what am I suppose to do - play fucking golf! Anyway only 2 months left - then I can leave the pathetic world of hospital medicine for good. It's not like it affects my ability to do my job, unlike fatdoc who is always injured.

You've only got 2 months, you'll fall into job at the end..

call the BMA for harassment.

Or tell to come round to mine, and I'll throw him down fastrack at wharncliffe

[galpinos]

I was told riding a bike was not a doctor like activity, which pissed me off slightly - what am I suppose to do - play fucking golf!

Better tell the missus she needs to stop cycling in. The facilities for cycling staff are really poor at her hospital too, but that's only the tip of the iceberg of "issues with the hospital"!

Anyway only 2 months left - then I can leave the pathetic world of hospital medicine for good. It's not like it affects my ability to do my job, unlike fatdoc who is always injured.

Quitting medcine?

[jfw]

on our site we have contracted security - they hate bikes.

its quite a big site - if we were in germany or denmark we would bike between buildings, but here bikes are banned and have to be walked (on the designated walkways) to the bike shed.

their biggest fear is that you have the audacity to walk through the open car barrier, instead of through the narrow pedestrian gate at the side. once in a rush to get train home i was jogging my bike towards the gate; when the security guard saw me he pressed the button to close the barrier. similarly in the morning the gate is normally open to let in cars as everyone is arriving - when they see a cyclist coming they close the gate.

we had a contractor who wheeled his brompton round to the office, to fold it and stow it under his desk. this caused a security guard uproar for bringing a bike on site. when told he had to leave it in bike shed, he said he wouldn't as he didn't have a lock.

this prompted a formal complaint to a manager, they tried to say his folded bike was a fire hazard, they then conceded he could take his bike on site as long as he folded it and carried it as well as his heavy panniers across site - so as not to give people the impression that it was ok to wheel a bike about. ffs

[mrjonathanr]

Next you'll be telling me that doctors smoke and drink to excess and all forms of healthfulness are deemed unacceptable on NHS premises. Whoa... hang on a sec..

PS I quite like the idea of Fatkid's more doctor-like commute to work wearing check plus-fours, wielding a club and shouting 'Fore!' at regular intervals.

[fatkid2000]

Quitting medcine?

Not quite - just jumping out to the world of GP - Long story.

Anyway, I've ignored my encounter with the head teacher and continuing to ride in.

[Mark Lloyd]

On your last day ride it down the corridor and into his office and thank him for all his help.

[Will Hunt]

On your last day ride it down the corridor and into his office and thank him for all his help.

Do this. Do this. Do this. Do this. Do this. Do this. Do this. Do this. Do this. Do this. Do this. Do this. Do this. Do this. Do this. Do this. Do this. Do this. Do this. Do this. Do this. Do this. Do this. Do this. Do this. Do this. Do this. Do this. Do this.

[fatdoc]

yeah..

DO THIS.

[GCW]

In MRI there used to be a bike in the mess for use to get to cardiac arrest calls.

Of course, this was banned by health and safety etc.  If you've ever been to MRI you'll know why the bike was necessary.

[fatdoc]

same in doncaster