Well I think you’re alright

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You think you’ve got problems? I don’t like biscuits! Or cakes!

But do you fill this void in your life with pies and beer?

And some jobs won’t work being ‘open’ only 4 days a week.

But some jobs don’t work on being open only 5 days a week and we get round that.

If businesses were open 4 days a week, then you’d only need one to open 5 days to get ahead of the others…

Fair enough. So basically trying to make the world a nice place would just result in somebody using it to gain an advantage and make more cash.

Yes, but only for a small number of really skilled jobs.

For many jobs, skilled or not, there are plenty of people out there looking for work.

We have just put an advert out for 2 band 6 nurses and the shortlist is 19 experienced and qualified people so it is likely that we will have to reject people who would have been good.

I’ve never experienced it personally, but honestly, how bad is this “harassment” ??
They send you a letter every now and then, which you throw in the bin.

Then they send a big bloke like thesanityassassin.

I often wonder if we , as a country, would be happier if more people were in work but everyone worked less hours.

Sure someone cleverer than me will be along soon to tell me why it’s a crap idea.

On the plus side I met ‘thesanityassassin’ off here for the first time when he was collecting for TV licencing and I didn’t have a licence.

His version of mountain biking and mine bear as much resemblance as me nipping to the shops in my Transit does with Word Rally Driving.

There are lots of people who provide their childrens with meals who don’t qualify for free meals. Unfortunately what some of them provide is rubbish, Waitrose sells unhealthy food as well as Lidl, it is these children that the proposed scheme will help.

And a lot of schools provide poor food too despite that celebrity chefs efforts.

At my son’s school you have to bring money in each day (in little brown envelopes) you want school lunch and give it to the teacher first thing. It doesn’t take a genius to work out that some kids have school lunch but don’t ever hand in envelopes. My son noticed last year when he was 4 and asked why.

I would call that poor practice by the school.

At our lads school money is sent in weekly/monthly/termly (up to you) and the kids has an account they can draw on for their meal. No-one ever gets to know who actually puts the money in the account be it parent, LEA or little green man.

I love that we have a news headline and story about widespread drug abuse in rugby based on what some mates of a 19 year old said to him.

Then, right near the bottom, we have the results of 800 random tests in 3 years which showed one bloke took a slimming pill and another took a weight gain supplement.

Now that’s widespread.

Mind you, whenever I see a documentary on Everest or one of the poles they do all their cooking indoors.

I’ve seen the reports from the supermarkets of a 90% reduction in use which looks really impressive. I still, personally can’t see why an extra 20 or 30 pence on a £100 shop has had such a large effect.

I would have thought that with changes in public behaviour like that we could half car use by putting fuel up by 10 pence a litre.

Not really, no.

a quid a bag might. Or no bags at all.

See w3hat ohnohesback said for a start.

I think we all need to think about our usage of resources and the impact we have on the environment.

Polystyrene for a start should be banned, I reckon.

Paper bags for fruit and veg.

Less packaging generally.

EDIT: I doubt that 5pence will be enough to dissuade most folk.

I’m not opposed to using sustainable bags (and I do). It’s just importance that FREE plastic bags seem to have had assigned to them.

If it costs me 5pence it will still kill seagulls just the same as the free one.

But only from free plastic shopping bags? All purchased bags will be OK? What about the free ones that the veg goes in? The clingfilm over the meat? Etc.

When I go shopping the majority of plastic waste isn’t the bags.

How dangerous exactly is raspberry jam, IM? Another death conserve?

Call it a **** and see what happens.

It’ll be crap. Sell it to me cheap.

Its a load of tosh though, isn’t it?

Someones going to drive a big car to the out of town shopping centre, buy goods which have been shipped thousands of miles around the world, all wrapped in tons and tons of packaging before driving home again.

And not using a carrier bag is gonna save the planet?

Depends on how much you want some income. According to the usual suspects on here there are no jobs out there so surprising people aren’t biting the OP’s arm off.

I think that this type of work is ok if it’s a second income whether you are doing it on the side, cash in hand, as and when there’s work or declaring and paying full deductions.

For some one out of work it gets complicated. Do you come off benefits, work for righty (using you as an example) for 2 days only to find he has no more work for you for a week or two or longer – then spend 6 weeks resiging on. Or do you do it on the side and hope you dont get caught.

I would suspect that many people doing this work whether employed or not will not be declaring it (again not aimed at righty, just at the daily rate/here’s the cash type of job).

As an aside – do all your employees declare the income and pay full tax and NI?

so all of my guys have full time jobs as well like me, so for all of us this an extra income that we all enjoy, we work really hard and play hard and enjoy the rewards

If that’s true for most of your workers then maybe you just have to accept a percentage who are crap and not offer them any other work. Difficult for you, maybe, but seems the only solution.

Just thinking out loud in response to your original post.

Didn’t think you were talking about it mainly being jobs on the side from their full time roles.

I wonder if they are equally poor in their main job then?

Places I have worked where we use agency/temporary staff to cover single or multiple days work that way for a number of reasons.

The main two I see are that they are really good at their job but want/need the flexibility of that way of working OR they really want a full time job but, for some strange reason, no-one ever wants them full time.

I think you’ll have to accept that offer work on a cash in hand day to day basis it’s quite likely you will get quite a few of the latter type in the mix.

EDIT: So you are talking about self employed piece work?

Capitalism, isn’t it?

Maximise income, minimise output.

Some people are shits and no mistake.

Year before last I was doing CPR on an old lady who’d been hit by a car and was forced to move cos some stupid cow needed to drive past, mounting the kerb and blaring her horn at me to shift.

However, there were also loads of folk looking to help, calling 999, etc.

I like to think that the majority are not self obsessed ****.

Was more thinking of the level of support the Tories get from people who think they are in the club but will probably find out their not when they come in the firing line.

Another great Tory success, remove all the well paid secure jobs with pensions and benefits etc and replace them all with insecure low paid jobs

Although on the plus side this will make us more internationally competitive thus increasing profits and strengthening the economy.

Not much good for most of the population but I suppose you can’t have everything.

wages rising fastest since 1997

Hands up if this is you.

Being able to go to the Alps is far more important to me than how shiny the status symbol is that takes me there.

Which is my point exactly.

If people damage my stuff so I have to spend money on it to maximise its useful life then I don’t get to take my old Transit van to the Alps.

I’m not talking about keeping a set of 20 inch alloys polished or having £100’s worth of detailing done, I’m talking about treating damage so it doesn’t rot through and cost me even more.

I suppose people with more spare cash than me can be a little more relaxed about such things but I want this van to do me another 5-6 years without looking so shabby my work suffers.

I’ve yet to come across a situation where there isn’t a car parking space within walking distance of someones home/work

Depends on your definition of walking distance I suppose but I reckon some areas of Huddersfield you could have to walk a mile or two. Lindley, for instance, has permit parking where there are wide enough roads and a free for all every where else. The hospital is there so even greater pressure for parking as the hospital car park is well over capacity for both staff and visitors.

Just a consequence of people living in long rows of terraced houses on narrow lanes that were not designed with cars in mind.

Some roads I encounter on my rounds have cars parked at both sides on the pavements with barely a gap through the middle for one car let alone two. Some I know I won’t get through in the Transit and I avoid.

Will need to either ban cars or pull all the houses down and rebuild with parking spaces.

I’m not convinced so we will have to differ.

If I buy something irrespective of what it is then I like to extract maximum value from it which means ensuring it stays in as good a condition as possible so I get the longest use and highest resale value.

Anyone damaging my property whether accidentally or intentionally might as well be stealing money from my wallet.

And accidental damage due to not exercising proper respect for others property (a dont give a **** attitude) is as bad as doing it intentionally eg. the woman who flung her car door open into my van and then said ‘well it’s only a van’ when I complained – it wasn’t accidental she just didn’t care.

I meant damaged by some one else. Such as when you leave it locked up outside.

As an example someone recently slashed my mates saddle with a knife and scraped paint off his frame, it still works as a bike so he shouldn’t be too precious about it?

Is that the same as when a bike gets nicked or damaged then?

Its just a bike, a machine to move you around, you’re being way too precious about it.

8) :lol:

I think two different frames are being talked about here right?

The new Dialled Alpine and the Orange Alpine.

Spoilsport.

Thanks Orange for ruining what’s left of my summer.

Yup, what feels like a lifetime but is in fact no longer than has been promised from day 1. Arriving next week and can’t bloody wait.

Thanks Dialled, gonna be one hell of an Autumn.

Made me chuckle

db – one offers a NHS pension – so that suggests to me it’s public

It might suggest it but it doesn’t make it so, if you open up the advert it says:

Leading company requires Clinical Advisors to provide support to the new 111 service based in Peterborough. This is a 24 hours a day 365 days a year call handling service, that will enable call handler to triage and match the patient with the service in their local area that can deliver the care they need.

As a tip if it’s NHS then it will have a payband in most instances eg. Paramedic Band 5, not a salary.

Note this is not true for all NHS jobs but most of them, and it would be for clinical posts such as these.

I also think it’s very dangerous to draw conclusions based on assumptions.

No idea on the NHS pension, mind – probably agreed between the private provider and the Trust.

No idea with the other stuff tbh.

can you tell me which are private vs public here
http://www.reed.co.uk/jobs/paramedic

They all look to be private sector serving the NHS for over the phone diagnosis and triage.

Are they graduates ?

Registered with an external governing body ?

Do they work autonomously ? ie lone working ?

I answer yes to all of them but not a FF. :D

Think this comparison and division is damaging to all and unfair to many. I couldn’t do my wife’s job, she will readily admit she cant do what I do, I could never be a soldier, my dad couldn’t hack being a salesmen.

Yet most of us are needed to make our world go round.