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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - tommyardin - 06-12-17
(06-12-17, 01:24 PM)Hugh Mungus link Wrote: It is legal because I've only been there for 18 months - I think the official term is "Laid off" but it amounts to the same thing.
I'm being paid until the end of the week + my holiday entitlement.
Yep, it's crap but it's a small family business and I think he's going to go down the pan altogether before too long.
I liked the boss, he is also a biker, and I feel sad for both of us. He is facing a larger financial ruin than I am.
[size=1em]I guess no one will be taking on new staff now until after the New Year. [/size] :'(
[size=1em]Good luck with the job hunting. [/size]
[size=1em]What is it you do or did? Some shops are really busy up until Christmas you might get a job in a big store or Supermarket, even if its stacking shelves it would be some dosh coming in.[/size]
[size=1em]Help keep the wolves from the door.[/size]
[size=1em]Now he is going to tell me he is a Barrister or a Solicitor and has had people headhunting him for years. That's a Barrister as opposed to a Barista working at Costa Coffee. [/size] :lol
Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - Hugh Mungus - 06-12-17
I am a lorry driver. I would not make a very good Barista as I would be too tempted to drink the fine cuppa that I'd just made :rollin
I have spent the day hawking my CV to all and sundry. One definite maybe, one maybe, one maybe after xmas and plenty of nothing available.Came home a bit dispirited but got on the internet. Several applications sent.One phone call asking me to attend interview on Friday from one of the internet applications.Then I finally got through to a chap my boss had given me the phone number for and after a nice chat, where he said my boss had already rung him, I have been offered work for tomorrow and Friday - this may well lead onto full time work.So I'm going to have to email the nice lady in Edinburgh to say I can't attend the interview - I'm not going to miss out on the chance of full time work for a local firm (the chap lives at the other end of my lane).
Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - BBROWN1664 - 06-12-17
(01-12-17, 07:25 PM)steve 10562cc link Wrote: That was my point you have to use 2 now to get a half decent cuppa were as a few years ago 1 would do the trick.
Stick to PG Tips.
Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - darrsi - 06-12-17
(06-12-17, 03:10 PM)Hugh Mungus link Wrote: I am a lorry driver. I would not make a very good Barista as I would be too tempted to drink the fine cuppa that I'd just made :rollin
I have spent the day hawking my CV to all and sundry. One definite maybe, one maybe, one maybe after xmas and plenty of nothing available.Came home a bit dispirited but got on the internet. Several applications sent.One phone call asking me to attend interview on Friday from one of the internet applications.Then I finally got through to a chap my boss had given me the phone number for and after a nice chat, where he said my boss had already rung him, I have been offered work for tomorrow and Friday - this may well lead onto full time work.So I'm going to have to email the nice lady in Edinburgh to say I can't attend the interview - I'm not going to miss out on the chance of full time work for a local firm (the chap lives at the other end of my lane).
Fingers crossed fella :thumbup
Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - YamFazFan - 06-12-17
Home owning pensioners who claim...'It was just as difficult for us to buy 50 years ago!'
Around this way average house prices are now over 14 times average salary.
Don't think that was the case in 1967 :rolleyes
Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - crickleymal - 07-12-17
Highways England. Nuff said.
Yesterday a lorry broke down where the M5 Northbound joins the M42. Now being a good driver and due to the absence of a hard shoulder he tucked his lorry into the start of the cones which close off the fast lane (and that's another gripe). So what do the HE do? They have the signs for the preceding 5 miles saying fast lane closed due to obstruction. So everyone gets into the remaining 3 lanes which of course then grind to a halt. Why on earth couldn't they just have a 1 mile warning? It's not like he was causing an obstruction in any case.
Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - darrsi - 07-12-17
(06-12-17, 08:58 PM)YamFazFan link Wrote: Home owning pensioners who claim...'It was just as difficult for us to buy 50 years ago!'
Around this way average house prices are now over 14 times average salary.
Don't think that was the case in 1967 :rolleyes
I'm in London, you can multiply that quite a bit more.
Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - YamFazFan - 07-12-17
(07-12-17, 01:03 PM)darrsi link Wrote: [quote author=YamFazFan link=topic=17546.msg272073#msg272073 date=1512590280]
Home owning pensioners who claim...'It was just as difficult for us to buy 50 years ago!'
Around this way average house prices are now over 14 times average salary.
Don't think that was the case in 1967 :rolleyes
I'm in London, you can multiply that quite a bit more.
[/quote]
I'm Cambridge. I think we are 2nd or 3rd behind London in the bonkers prices league along with Oxford.
Contrary to popular belief not everyone in Cambridge is a university don or a company director.
This horrible old witch phoned into Nicky Campbell's Radio 5 show last week claiming the reason younger people can't get on the housing ladder is because they won't cut back and go without like they did all those years ago (when purely by coincidence prices were a fraction of what they are now, even allowing for inflation).
That generation had the best of the lot.
Secure jobs, affordable housing, final salary pensions, free university education, retirement at 65 (and in many cases earlier).
Contrast that with what the young generation now have to look forward too.
Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - darrsi - 07-12-17
(07-12-17, 03:32 PM)YamFazFan link Wrote: [quote author=darrsi link=topic=17546.msg272120#msg272120 date=1512648199]
[quote author=YamFazFan link=topic=17546.msg272073#msg272073 date=1512590280]
Home owning pensioners who claim...'It was just as difficult for us to buy 50 years ago!'
Around this way average house prices are now over 14 times average salary.
Don't think that was the case in 1967 :rolleyes
I'm in London, you can multiply that quite a bit more.
[/quote]
I'm Cambridge. I think we are 2nd or 3rd behind London in the bonkers prices league along with Oxford.
Contrary to popular belief not everyone in Cambridge is a university don or a company director.
This horrible old witch phoned into Nicky Campbell's Radio 5 show last week claiming the reason younger people can't get on the housing ladder is because they won't cut back and go without like they did all those years ago (when purely by coincidence prices were a fraction of what they are now, even allowing for inflation).
That generation had the best of the lot.
Secure jobs, affordable housing, final salary pensions, free university education, retirement at 65 (and in many cases earlier).
Contrast that with what the young generation now have to look forward too.
[/quote]
Cheaper beer too :lol
Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - Skippernick - 07-12-17
Know it alls who criticise others for asking questions!!
See other thread!
Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - VNA - 07-12-17
Quote:Don't think that was the case in 1967 [img alt=:rolleyes]http://foc-u.co.uk/Smileys/efocicon/rolleyes.gif[/img]
1967 you could get something known as a council hoose. But then the Tories got rid of em, or bought em up to rent out.
With variable interest rate of 15% or above all my money seemd to go on my mortgage in the early to mid 90's.
Anyway as the economy tanks due to the Brexit mess, you might find some bargains, that's if you are lucky to hold onto a decent job through this mess.
What gets my Goat? >: - fucking scum bag theiving bloody Tories
Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - agricola - 08-12-17
(07-12-17, 03:32 PM)YamFazFan link Wrote: [quote author=darrsi link=topic=17546.msg272120#msg272120 date=1512648199]
[quote author=YamFazFan link=topic=17546.msg272073#msg272073 date=1512590280]
Home owning pensioners who claim...'It was just as difficult for us to buy 50 years ago!'
Around this way average house prices are now over 14 times average salary.
Don't think that was the case in 1967 :rolleyes
I'm in London, you can multiply that quite a bit more.
[/quote]
I'm Cambridge. I think we are 2nd or 3rd behind London in the bonkers prices league along with Oxford.
Contrary to popular belief not everyone in Cambridge is a university don or a company director.
This horrible old witch phoned into Nicky Campbell's Radio 5 show last week claiming the reason younger people can't get on the housing ladder is because they won't cut back and go without like they did all those years ago (when purely by coincidence prices were a fraction of what they are now, even allowing for inflation).
That generation had the best of the lot.
Secure jobs, affordable housing, final salary pensions, free university education, retirement at 65 (and in many cases earlier).
Contrast that with what the young generation now have to look forward too.
[/quote]
I fear you have been mis-informed, and that the old witch has a point, to a degree. Secure jobs - I was made redundant 3 times in the 70s-80s-90s, I never had a pension scheme until 1990 let alone a final salary scheme, and lost a significant amount due to lack of government regulation. Affordable housing, it was called Council housing and properties were allocated to local people until the system was swamped by the failure to control immigration. I frequently walk the dog through one of those modern estates where the taxpayer part funds the cost of purchasing the property cos the owners cant afford it. The money saved by the occupants clearly goes on new audis and bmws, so they can drive the kids 200 yards to school, and the local nail bar and tattoo parlours weekly
We have never had anything that we didnt have to work for. Someone else on here calls todays lot the Snowflakes, and I think hes right
Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - tommyardin - 08-12-17
(07-12-17, 01:03 PM)darrsi link Wrote: [quote author=YamFazFan link=topic=17546.msg272073#msg272073 date=1512590280]
Home owning pensioners who claim...'It was just as difficult for us to buy 50 years ago!'
Around this way average house prices are now over 14 times average salary.
Don't think that was the case in 1967 :rolleyes
I'm in London, you can multiply that quite a bit more.
[/quote]
My house was 9 times my salary when i bought it 26 years ago.
Trouble is for first time buyer its not just the house its all the other stuff you need as well, like a bed, a certain amount of furniture, cooking pots, cutlery, curtains, carpets, lampshades, condoms, well you cant afford to have children for a few years.
Homeowners moving, upsizing or downsizing on do not have the same expenses, I feel sorry for young folk trying to get their foot on the house buying ladder today.
Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - Billy Balthorpe - 08-12-17
Ive just had a think, and I bought my current house in 2001 for just over twice my salary. And I thought I was taking a massive risk!
Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - YamFazFan - 08-12-17
(08-12-17, 12:10 AM)agricola link Wrote: I fear you have been mis-informed, and that the old witch has a point, to a degree. Secure jobs - I was made redundant 3 times in the 70s-80s-90s, I never had a pension scheme until 1990 let alone a final salary scheme, and lost a significant amount due to lack of government regulation.
That was unfortunate and I wish that hadn't happened to anyone. Then or now.
But it still doesn't alter the case that a significant proportion of the home buying population did have those benefits and that house prices now are stratospheric by comparison.
Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - YamFazFan - 08-12-17
(07-12-17, 11:27 PM)VNA link Wrote: With variable interest rate of 15% or above all my money seemd to go on my mortgage in the early to mid 90's.
I'd have thought that you were opposed to home ownership.
Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - fazersharp - 08-12-17
Pedestrian crossings, how is it that 1 person pressing the button is able to stop 40 cars -20 in each direction, ticking over then accelerating away then stop again because 10 seconds later 1 more person has pressed the button- so now its 60 cars. Also the person is halfway down the street when we get the green light.
Whats needed is smart crossings that monitor how many people are there and only stop traffic once a certain number of people are there and can "see" when the person has crossed and so can let the traffic go sooner.
Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - Dudeofrude - 08-12-17
(08-12-17, 01:57 PM)fazersharp link Wrote: Pedestrian crossings, how is it that 1 person pressing the button is able to stop 40 cars -20 in each direction, ticking over then accelerating away then stop again because 10 seconds later 1 more person has pressed the button- so now its 60 cars. Also the person is halfway down the street when we get the green light.
Whats needed is smart crossings that monitor how many people are there and only stop traffic once a certain number of people are there and can "see" when the person has crossed and so can let the traffic go sooner.
Or just replace it with a pelican crossing? The ones with a flashing yellow light that you only have to stop for when there's somebody waiting and can go as soon as they're clear
Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - darrsi - 08-12-17
(08-12-17, 02:11 PM)Dudeofrude link Wrote: [quote author=fazersharp link=topic=17546.msg272184#msg272184 date=1512737867]
Pedestrian crossings, how is it that 1 person pressing the button is able to stop 40 cars -20 in each direction, ticking over then accelerating away then stop again because 10 seconds later 1 more person has pressed the button- so now its 60 cars. Also the person is halfway down the street when we get the green light.
Whats needed is smart crossings that monitor how many people are there and only stop traffic once a certain number of people are there and can "see" when the person has crossed and so can let the traffic go sooner.
Or just replace it with a pelican crossing? The ones with a flashing yellow light that you only have to stop for when there's somebody waiting and can go as soon as they're clear
[/quote]
Or handlebar mounted machine guns.
“Coming through.....” :2guns
Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat" - Dudeofrude - 08-12-17
(08-12-17, 02:22 PM)darrsi link Wrote: [quote author=Dudeofrude link=topic=17546.msg272192#msg272192 date=1512738697]
[quote author=fazersharp link=topic=17546.msg272184#msg272184 date=1512737867]
Pedestrian crossings, how is it that 1 person pressing the button is able to stop 40 cars -20 in each direction, ticking over then accelerating away then stop again because 10 seconds later 1 more person has pressed the button- so now its 60 cars. Also the person is halfway down the street when we get the green light.
Whats needed is smart crossings that monitor how many people are there and only stop traffic once a certain number of people are there and can "see" when the person has crossed and so can let the traffic go sooner.
Or just replace it with a pelican crossing? The ones with a flashing yellow light that you only have to stop for when there's somebody waiting and can go as soon as they're clear
[/quote]
Or handlebar mounted machine guns.
“Coming through.....” :2guns
[/quote]
Mad max.... ??