NIMBY's

As I’ve said I work in construction for a company who will, like me, remain strictly anonymous.

As part of my job I have to meet people on a monthly basis who do not want me to build my projects. Some people, but very few, are directly affected by the project in question. So, this means that I seem to get the world and his wife complaining about things that are not going to directly affect them.

My main bug bear is that these people don’t say Not In My Back Yard...They give me every reason under the sun why I shouldn’t build what and where I’m proposing. At a meeting recently I was accused of being a murderer. I have, despite knowing how to strip, clean and reassemble an SA80 in the dark (SA80 ), never killed anyone to the best of my knowledge. I would much rather the comments they give be constructive but say that there main objection was NIMBYism. We could hold a reasonable debate that way. I did actually have one sensible conversation with a NIMBY and I did a few tweaks to the project to help him. Nether of us were particularly happy but we reached a sort of compromise.

I know that this situation will never change; it is something that, as part of my job, I just have to live with.

Anyway, today is Friday which means the weekend is ahead of us. Have a good weekend folks