What's so bad about being a rat?

ruth...less · 19-10-2023 08:38PM

I had the most strange and fascinating interaction with one a few years ago. I was out in the garden and I was taking out the bin and out of nowhere he ran out towards me...we both looked at each other..all in a split second...and I screamed and he turned around and ran back. It was quite funny like you could see his/her thought process. We were both scared of each other.

19-10-2023 11:28PM

I remember working on a fairly ancient electronic organ in a church years back. When I unscrewed and removed the back panel there was a badly singed rat inside on the main power supply chassis. One front paw on the live terminal of the transformer, all other three paws on the grounded metal chassis.

21-10-2023 11:28AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121256114#Comment_121256114

Beta behaviour.. where did I hear that phrase used frequently before 🤔🤔

Paterson Jerins · 24-10-2023 08:48AM

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Why did the doc (big rat) disappear because he was upset about ryan, but then come back to lie and spout nonsense?

Day Lewin · 24-10-2023 08:51AM

Telltale tattler. It will come back to bite you in the arse. Mind your own business. Least said soonest mended. Etc etc etc etc etc

Akrasia · 24-10-2023 09:12AM

Rats are smelly, my son had pet rats for a few years. Glad when they died TBH

In terms of ratting out on lazy bus drivers. I'm 99% sure the bus operator has software and hardware on the guys bus that measure how fast they go, how rapidly they accelerate and brake and will be able to see them driving around in real time.

If they consistently drive slowly or pass out bus stops without stopping then the transport manager should have plenty of evidence available to them without having to get other drivers to turn states evidence

Electric Gypsy · 24-10-2023 10:28AM

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The bus is visible on screen in real time but I think they turn a blind eye to this sort. The traffic office seems quite incompetent actually. Management might care but they would be too far removed from this. How well someone makes progress on the route has got little to do with speed, and more to do with how quickly they load passengers, and read the traffic. If they were going to tackle this, they'd never bother reading his tachograph. There is after all CCTV on the bus, so they could catch him out loitering very easily that way if they wanted to.

Electric Gypsy · 24-10-2023 10:31AM

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Not necessarily. Have you first hand experience of that? It depends on how you go about ratting them out. If their behaviour affects you then it's only right that you tell. In this case he's messing up the service so much that there must be people out there thinking "feck this, I'm buying a car".

BrianD3 · 24-10-2023 01:45PM

I have ratted and would rat again. I work to do a job and get paid - not to make friends and cover up someone else's incompetence. Also, anyone working in a publicly funded body (e.g. CIE as per the OP) should rat and consider whistleblowing. We all end up paying for the likes of bus drivers who drive slowly so they have less work to do.

As well as work situations, I have ratted "travelling salesmen" to Revenue, providing van reg numbers etc. probably didn't do any good.

Irish people do not like rats or ratting as a lot of us are low level dodgy ourselves and even those who aren't have low standards and an apathetic it'll do/don't make a fuss mentality. If you do rat you'll often get nowhere as the peopel you rat to don't give a crap and would rather bury their heads in the sand.

Electric Gypsy · 24-10-2023 03:28PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121278100#Comment_121278100

It's very interesting how, on boards, the first comments in are the childish sarcastic ones (more often by the users who live on the site), and the genuine ones take a while to come in.

Day Lewin · 24-10-2023 06:05PM

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Fair point, of course it depends.

Naturally I would "tell on" a crime or serious misconduct. But over my decades of life I've learnt to let other people's misdemeanours slide away; I too have misbehaved - as who has not?

I wouldn't make bad feeling unless there is a serious issue at stake. Just disapproving isn't enough, at this stage.

What's so bad about being a rat?

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