captainsasquatch – Member
No good interviewer would ever ask such a stupid question. If they ask you that you know they are a bit weak on ideas.

I was asked this question last year at an interview. I looked at him, I hesitated, then asked hin if he was being serious asking me this question.

Rephrase it slightly and it’s useful though – we often ask “what do you see as your areas for development”. This is about whether you meet the whole job description, what you see as career development and how we’re going to help you to develop. We rejected an otherwise strong candidate last month as we couldn’t meet any of his aims/ development areas so in all likelihood he would get bored and move on quickly.

“allthegear – Member
If turning off at Richmond, surely popping into the Dales Bike Centre near Reeth has to be an option? Especially as Friday is the best cake day…”

This, and cut the corner off and go Ripon > Masham > Leyburn > Reeth > Tan Hill > A66?

I’d recommend Kettlewell in the Dales. Nice B&Bs and the pie of the day in the Blue Bell is always amazing.

For rides I’d have a day exploring round Grassington, Malham and Halton Gill and another day to the north, taking in Fleet Moss, Aysgarth and Coverdale.

Lovely!

If it’s a customer-facing role it might also be about how you would represent the company and brand. I’d expect they’d want someone professional but personal too as you might need to build good relationships with people in and outside the business.

I feel that I’m sometimes the critical one with my son. He’s awesome (and younger than your daughter) but I sometimes feel the need to ‘help’ him with things he seems to struggle with before he asks for help.

I’m trying to do more of this:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/pride-and-joy/201203/criticism-part-i-the-harmfulness-criticism-0

A friend of my wife told us a very weird one.

She overheard her ~3 year old daughter talking in her room. She went in and asked who she was talking to and the girl said ‘Grandma’. Grandma had died recently so the friend played along and asked what Grandma had said to the girl.

The girl reported that Grandma had said ‘tell mummy not to worry. I’m holding the baby’.

The friend had had a miscarriage that week and hadn’t yet told the girl.

Lots of potential interpretations but certainly a weird coincidence.

nPower did this to a friend’s Dad. Friend mentioned that he was going to take them to the ombudsman and it was like a magic word. All sorted double-quick.

It seems so crap and unnecessary. Good luck.

I have a CRM specialist PM at the moment. He wanted £400 per day, we’re paying £350/day for a 6-month contract

That’s brilliant! (The infographic, not the trend…)

My 5 year old got one last weekend. Antihistamine and ice on the sting seemed to work. Sounds like she handled it better than some on here 😉

I’m going through cvs right now. One I just rejected had 4 pages of cv and 4 pages of covering letter and still couldn’t get to the point.

I’m interested in:
– Can I see what relevant experience you have had and what, specifically, did you do in the role/ on the project?
– Can you demonstrate that you have experience in the things I’m after in the job description? Very few of the cvs seem to be tailored to what I want which leads me to suspect that individuals or recruiters are basically spamming potential employers (and this is after filtering by my HR team!)
– Can you communicate this clearly and concisely? (important as it’s also a requirement of the job description)

Edit: I’ve just had a 4-page cv which is brilliant. I’ve also got a 2-pager that gives me what I need. I’m not bothered by the length but the content is critical.

Love the camper van idea! We had a Talbot harmony as kids and set the brakes on fire descending the galibier. Wife works lots of weekends but starting with a hire van might be a winner.

Great ideas. Thanks.

I like this:

ourmaninthenorth – Member
Pay some of it forward – say a charitable donation, or keep it to one side and do the same as she has done for someone who shows you a kindness.

Sensible head says mortgage but it’s probably not going to have a huge impact for us.

I like the longer-term kids rainy day fund idea.

molgrips – Member
Instant coffee. It’s quick, no doubt about that, but it’s not instant. You have to wait to boil the kettle and all

It’s not bloody coffee either

DNF is bad but I find that DNS is worse.

Three days before the 3PCX I was on a last tapering ride. It was going dark so when I rejoined the road I turned to check my light, veered onto the verge and fired myself over the bars onto a wall. Bruised ribs and elbow, knackered chainring and couldn’t race.

Watched the 3 Peaks nearly in tears with frustration!

Ah, Melchett. Still worshipping God? Last I heard he’d started worshipping me.

I find it interesting that all the advice is from a personal annoyance point of view.

We have a nest ~10feet high in a cavity in the exterior garage wall. They don’t annoy us and the kids like watching them so I was wondering what benefit wasps bring. I can’t really find much info, except that they eat lots of flies and caterpillars.

I think wasps need to hire the branding agency that bees use and get some positive spin out there.

Very little suspicious noise about him around at the moment, and even Ross Tucker says “no evidence for skepticism” – https://twitter.com/Scienceofsport/status/765093392640569344?lang=en-gb – unlike Mo and Rupp

While we’re on the subject, this is a great read: http://sportsscientists.com/2016/08/world-records-fossils/

What TallPaul said.

Bear in mind that it takes 3 weeks for a stress fracture to appear so don’t jump into doing loads because you’re feeling great as you can do real damage.

I’d suggest a weekly diet of:
– one longer steadier run to get you used to time on your feet
– one run up to 6km at race pace to build endurance (start at 4*1km with a minute’s rest between, then build towards 1*6km)
– two easy runs to work on being light on your feet and good running style

poisonspider – Member
a ‘nice one mate’ if the guy next to me farts.
Oooh that’s another thread entirely!!

Best I heard was an old boy who let out a massive fart and said “Good hole Jack!”

I did laugh!

Ha! The 80-year-old owner of the company I work for farted loudly in the gents and said “better here than on the bus”. I chuckled for an inappropriately long time.

Beat me to it. And much more concise too!

Saw you typing and thought I’d get in there first.

(Sinister cackles)

On returning to work, both our managers took us aside and said if we’re off together again we’d get a written warning.

I’m a bit annoyed by it. We were both genuinely Ill.

Have a chat with them. <Some> Managers are people too.

jambalaya – Member

Principled opposition is what the Green Party do, to absolutely zero effect.

And Labour under Corbyn, it seems, to similar effect.

Edit: And it seems that the party members are happy with that.

No one worries about reality, only rhetoric.

They could at least pretend.

molgrips – Member

After all, the Labour message – help the poor, help the working classes, invest in public services and so on – shouldn’t be a particularly difficult concept to sell, should it?

Maybe not but the Tories did a stunningly effective hatchet job on the government spending and undermined voter confidence in any Labour economic policies.

Labour seem to have responded to that by not actually having any economic policies.

I think DazH and Junkyard are right.

The biggest question for me is:

Does the party want to be principled opposition (but unelectable by anyone outside the party hardcore) or electable but slightly less principled (to appeal to the masses)

The party members obviously want the leader to represent their views. The PLP want to get elected to government so they can actually get some stuff done.

Uno, Top Trumps, a magic set, battleships. It’s like I’m 7 again.

perchypanther – Member
Any stats on library deaths?
Nope. They like to keep it quiet.

That’s a pity. I think they should ssssshhhhare

I thought that was a show & tell

I’ve just been invited to a “business hangout”. It’s a conference call.

Sykes-Pigot and Churchill played a big part, though there has been fighting around the Middle East for ever.

None of the powers recognise the legitimacy of any of the others, and those in power are protective of all the oil revenues.

Religion is the fuel for a lot of it. I think the only solution is to find a way to use religion to end it too. Maybe for once it could do some good.

Did this go through Rydal Hall grounds? I was staggering around after the Fairfield Horseshoe race and was quite envious of all the bikes!

Overheard at work yesterday:
“Why do you think you shake hands with your right hand?”
“Dunno”
“To show you don’t have any weapons and you’re not a threat”
“Oh, right”
“It’s good for me – I’m left-handed. I can f*** them up”
“Hmmm”
“It’s all about the right to bear arms. I need to protect myself and my home”

He’s like the ‘military’ guy in The Office

If it needs to get back on track, it has gone wrong.

You need to find out why it has gone wrong or you will fix the wrong problems.

Too complex? People challenges? Too expensive? Poor estimating? Poor planning? Lack of buy-in from decision makers? Lack of consistency? Poor comms? etc etc

I’d talk with all the key stakeholders, find out what went wrong from their perspective and find out what’s of most value to them. Try to work out which bits are critical and which bits are not and focus on the critical ones.

We viewed a house in Holmfirth. The owner was heavily pregnant and moving for an extra bedroom. She hadn’t been up the stairs to the top floor for a while as the stairs were too narrow and steep for her bump but that’s where her two teenage daughters’ rooms were.

That floor was like a dirty protest – dirty underwear everywhere, used ‘sanitary products’, broken windows and internal doors, graffiti on the walls etc etc. When we went to the lounge, the daughters were sitting there in their underwear.

We suspected that the girls were somewhat reluctant to move.

Oh – and the owner told us that the kitchen never got any daylight and the parking was a nightmare.

I think most people are missing the point.

theotherjonv – Member
+1 to what ‘more visible’ really means. I suspect it means that if you want to make the next step to board level then you need to actively be spending time getting face to face time with other board members just for the sake of being seen. Attending the right meetings, being a big noise. I’ve done big corporate too, and I want out of it.

Is closest for me, but still not quite there.

I’ve told two people to be more visible recently:
– One is really smart, does a good job and doesn’t get the credit for what they do because nobody really sees it – the work is contained to a team and would have huge value across the business if he communicated it better.

– The other is about influence. He was brought in to do a transformative job but, to do this, he needs to influence and change Board behaviour. He’s doing that at the moment through his Director, rather than by himself, so it’s nothappening. The visibility he needs is one-to-one relationships with Directors not just to be seen but to actually lead the transformation that the CEO wants.

I have some Helly merino boxers. They’re ace, but a little warm.

I had almost the exact same criteria, except that I also wanted something that I’d actually enjoy – I didn’t want to feel like I was driving the same box as everyone else.

I looked at a 1-series coupe (can get the bike in), Mini Clubman, some Volvo and bought an Alfa Giulietta which is ace.

One that I wear (Giro Savant)

One that I wore about 5 times before realising that it’s slightly too small so I need to get around to selling it on here (Lazer 02).

If it was a deal would it have been on the site for a “while”

It’s a fairly rare car and is definitely overpriced. The dealer said that the seller is unrealistic and isn’t in a rush to sell.

As for the VAT question, my understanding is that dealer sales are VAT-able and dealers either pay VAT on the full value of the sale or on the profit and have to choose the relevant scheme. Obviously private sales are not VAT-able so it may be in their interest to offer a private sale instead.