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Post by Stranded Hatter on Sept 23, 2024 11:29:54 GMT
She walks in on the first day A group of civil servants: “here’s this plan to reduce the winter fuel allowance, that was rejected by several Conservative chancellors and is deeply unpopular across the political spectrum”. RR: “you son of a bitch I’m in! Let’s even work over the weekend on it so I can set a good example to all the plebs”. It ain’t great but this government should be judged in the round. Let’s see how they do on the economy, improving infrastructure, moving to green energy independence (including EVs, insulation, lower energy bills), stopping the water companies ruining our seas, rivers and lakes, alleviating child poverty (and poverty in general), getting the trains running on time at reasonable cost, countering foreign threats, improving health (mental and physical) and social carethat is an awful lot to go at and isn’t even an exhaustive list. They have 4 and a half years left, I will judge their whole term based on that. However that doesn’t mean I’m going to sit quietly and not comment on where I think they’re failing. So far they’re falling depressingly short.
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Post by The Real Exile on Sept 23, 2024 11:30:20 GMT
Actually did that job myself for a few months in the summer before moving down to norfolk. I also enjoyed it. Was in daventry and loved giving the non tipper their meals last if you had a number to deliver all at the same time on a busy night. Will never forget the night i had to use my Opel Monza to do the job getting 50p per drop. Does make you scratch your head though when entering estates the houses start at no.250 and no.1 is right at the centre of the estate with other numbers being just random. After 4 months i never worked out that estate numbering system and must be a nightmare for todays buy on line and the home deliveries. Yeah, it's a great job. Was before sat nav too, unless you had some big clunky Tom Tom thing, so used to memorise the whole delivery area. I could tell you literally every single road in Hale, Hale Barns, Bowdon, Altrincham, Timperley and Broadheath. I used to pride myself on it. Learned it from an A-Z map and from doing the drops. Infuriates me now when you see delivery drivers getting lost because they just blindly follow a sat nav. Pathetic. We used to get £1 per delivery, plus tips plus wages. The wage was whatever minimum was but the tips and commissions used to add up, especially if you could do multiple in one outing, as you say. You'd sometimes get lucky on a busy night and be able to take 3/4 out at the same time. Most I ever did was 8 in one outing, and about 60 in one shift. Glorious days. Helped dig Paul Dickov out of the snow on Bradgate Road once, he gave me £20. He lived more or less next door to Freddie Flintoff. Caroline Aherne was a regular. She'd order 2/3 big orders every week and I assume pretty much lived off those. She was lovely. Dead friendly, would always give you a massive tip (at least £20). I used to carry a Christmas card round in my car for her from about August onwards 😂 Darren Fletcher was another who'd order regularly. Micah Richards was only young but had a ridiculous house on Stanhope Road in Bowdon. He must only have been 18/19. He had a Coke vending machine and a big pool table as you walked in. He'd always say keep the change, regardless of whether it was 50 of £49, if he was paying with a £50. Ishamel Miller lived down the road and 8 Stanhope, I think. Beautiful modernist property. I absolutely loved it. I did quite a bit of Domino's at Wilmslow once I decided the Airport food chiller was just too bloody cold, ace job. Brian McClair was a regular, a very young Darren Ferguson invited me in to join his party at his dad's house, I had 3 more deliveries so had to sadly decline but it looked a cracking party, he had 2 girls on his arm who seemed quite enamoured 🤣 for some reason there were lots of Americans in the area at the time and they were by far the best tippers., did a favour and did a few shifts at Swinton, did a delivery to the knocking shop/sauna, I'll never forget the smell of that place!! Made loads of friends working at the pizza places too, some for life.
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Post by Mozzer on Sept 23, 2024 12:00:31 GMT
I worked in the NHS. Asking for a day off from my boss was a pain . She always wanted to know why, like you had to justify what you were doing. Once I asked for a day to go to my uncle's funeral. It was at midday so there was no way I could take a half day. She grudgingly admitted that "as it was a family member I suppose you can have the day off". Shouldn't matter what the reason is, even if I'd spent all day lying in bed you shouldn't have to justify your reason if staffing can be covered. I worked in a dead end call centre job about 15/16 years ago while I was finishing my MA, a friend of my mum's died and I said I'd take her so she wasn't on her own, reliant on a lift from others etc. Told the supervisor at work that I needed to take half a day leave for a funeral, he said I needed a copy of the death certificate. I said I didn't really know them, was going for my mum etc and no way I could ask for a copy, so he said no. I then asked if I could take the day off as holiday, and he started asking what I was going to be doing, had I considered the impact on the company etc. Staff turnover was ludicrous, two new starters every week in a team of 12, long service was about 6 weeks. I managed about another fortnight there and then f*cked it off. Was on the tram one morning heading in and just stayed on and went to town instead. Went Koffee Pot for a breakfast and sat there reading the paper. The sense of freedom was glorious. As was knowing how agitated he'd be getting. He rang asking where I was and I said I'm not coming back, impossible to work for you etc and he started shouting that I HAD to go back, I wasn't allowed to not go in. Hung up and ignored him for the rest of the day. Worked in a call centre for just over 5 years, 3 or 4 of them also as a union rep, in the mid-late 90s. People were treated like shit. I had a lot of fun at times with HR as the union rep, because they were hopeless at remaining within the company's own guidelines, never mind wider employment law. But it was a desperate place to work. It did at least spur me to do something else and then became a means to that end. But in the way people were treated, I reckon they were contemporary versions of cotton mills, just without small children dying under the desks as they tried to fix a broken cable...
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Post by mattyovrio on Sept 23, 2024 12:24:20 GMT
Good to hear that RR is going after those that profited from the dodgy Covid contracts under the Tories. Let’s see how it pans out.
No doubt Michelle Mone and others have sweaty palms.
Let’s see how much of the taxpayers money comes back into the kitty. Hopefully, some prosecutions as well.
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