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Come Inside... => Saloon Bar => Topic started by: TG on July 04, 2008, 06:27:28 PM
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Well it's been a week and and I still don't know if I'm redundant or not.
Heres the deal, Monday morning we are all gathered together and 38 letters are handed out saying 7 of the 38 will go.
There will be a day for people to volunteer then 'meetings' with each employee.
We have all been marked by our bosses. We we given our score at the individual meeting. there are 5 people in my dept. 3 had the same score plus 1 with a higher and 1 with a lower score.
They tell me this (yesterday) and tell me the following:
You are in the middle so that doesnt mean you are in the group who go into the 7, however, even if you were last that wouldnt mean you were automatically in the drop zone, also, if you were top it doesnt mean you are safe either. In fact there may be no-one from your dept in the drop zone because we need you all. And even if you are in the 7 that means nothing because we will need to consult further with all the 7 that are selected and things may change. We have to follow the letter of the law. Thsi may take another week and may go into the following week.
Now I'm not the sharpest tool in the box and I understand employees have to be protected. But by Christ, 2 weeks to decide and action the redundancy of 7 out of 38 is a fucking joke.
I'm sure you can imagine the atmosphere at our place at present.
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Tsk noooo:
Raise your hand and say "Please sir, I'll save you the grief but it will cost you twice the statutory redundancy"
Settle for no less that one and a half times the legal entitlement, clear your desk and have a holiday.
They are going under and when they do there may not be generous terms to be had but whilst they are deluding themselves you might as well get what you can.
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They do handle these things badly.
I was notified in January 1997 that a restructuring menat that I had to reapply for my own job. About 10 of us were in the same boat (but there would only be 5 jobs). During Feb, March and April I received a range of conflicting informatin from the Personnel numpties. I wanted to take redundnacy and go, but was told that failure to apply for my own jobb (which I didn't want) would be deemed to be resignation.
The union were very helpful (clandestine meetings in hotel lobbies!) and we reached an agreement in June 5 minutes before the scheduled job interview. My solicitor had to countersign the agreement and I had arranged for him to sit in the local pub to which I had to run!
The deal done, my union rep then said "I must see my next client now." And who was that. The Head of Personnel.
SHe left the next day.!
I was required to go on doing my job for a further three months.I got a sick note and pissed off on holiday.
It was a fiasco that lasted for 6 months. (The process NOT the holiday, that is)
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I am not in the same earning bracket as some.
I asked about voluntary redundancy and was told the amount will be the same regardless. It will be the government minimum, which is about 7.5k. Plus 3 months severance pay.
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I am not in the same earning bracket as some.
I asked about voluntary redundancy and was told the amount will be the same regardless. It will be the government minimum, which is about 7.5k. Plus 3 months severance pay.
Chin up lad ~ everything happens for a reason. This could be just what you need.
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Wot he said ^^^
Come and join the ranks of the self employed. I haven't taken a wage in over 20 years, duckin' 'n' divin', up 'n' down like Tower Bridge. Bit chilly out here at the moment though cry:
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Snoopy speaks sense. I too will be out of work soon, but the nearer it comes the happier I feel.
Time to start afresh - I'm damn sure that I can make a go of it on a self employed basis.
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Board meeting going on now as MD and wife (also a director are back).
It seems there was a break in here last night. MD's and personell directors offices trashed. point:
Weren't me guv, 'onest. surrender:
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Speaking from years in the Security Industry this is following a familiar pattern.
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here darling our puddies could make us some dosh, or better still take em to work and lure the customers in... rubschin:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/expats/expats_news/article1208669.ece
( i do apologise for the source of story, it was lou that sent me that link) noooo:
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here darling our puddies could make us some dosh, or better still take em to work and lure the customers in... rubschin:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/expats/expats_news/article1208669.ece
( i do apologise for the source of story, it was lou that sent me that link) noooo:
You could breed and sell cats (if you didn't keep having their nuts chopped off that is)
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Would that be by mail order? rubschin:
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No ~ via the local pet shop.
I knew a guy who had a python ..... the guy got fed up with having to visit the pet shop to buy one white mouse a week to feed it on so started breeding white mice, fed some to his python and sold the rest to other python owners via the pet shop. Shop owner and he split the profit 50/50. Until he told me about it I had no idea that so many people kept pythons and thet they fed them live mice. Apparently it gives the snake exercise. eeek:
rubschin: Come to think of it I have known some strange people in my time.
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I find my mind turning towards crocodiles rubschin:
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It's started. One gone that we know of. scared2:
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Is this gong to be quick and decisive? Are you being called in one by one? FFS Man we need to know your fate!
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You need to know? I bloody well need to know! cussing:
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QUite
Well?
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shrugs:
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happy100
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Four down now I think.
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Four down now I think.
That PS3 is getting closer by the minute!
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Come to think of it I have known some strange people in my time.
You say the sweetest things. redface:
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TGs is still employed, no ps3 for a few yrs but at least we can pay our rent for time being.... cloud9:
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rubschin: Frankly I would treat this as a deferment of the inevitable and take the time to seek better employment anyway.
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I have to agree.
You're in the right mindset now for a change of job. I say seize the opportunity.
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Thirded
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Fourthded
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The Ayes have it happy088 You know it makes sense.
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i agree too, so TG get your CV typed up an sent out as the company not out the danger zone yet noooo:
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Makes sense. All that means is I missed out on 10k if i had taken voluntary redundancy! noooo:
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i agree too, so TG get your CV typed up an sent out as the company not out the danger zone yet noooo:
Seconded...
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Makes sense. All that means is I missed out on 10k if i had taken voluntary redundancy! noooo:
But they probably would have not paid that to you because thats covered completely what they have had to pay the seven that have gone. point:
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Makes sense. All that means is I missed out on 10k if i had taken voluntary redundancy! noooo:
Plus a PS3... whistle:
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Makes sense. All that means is I missed out on 10k if i had taken voluntary redundancy! noooo:
Plus a PS3... whistle:
evil:
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I've been thinking about this and part of me would wish something similar would happen to me.
<omit several lines of self pity>
I need a change of 'lifestyle' but I don't have the impetus to do it.
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I've been thinking about this and part of me would wish something similar would happen to me.
<omit several lines of self pity>
I need a change of 'lifestyle' but I don't have the impetus to do it.
Just buy a PS3 and pretend?
Or...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J4PGiJl2dQ
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Mrs Nick has suggested I "get out more". She thinks I should do a course and go for a "change of career".
I don't have a career, but my mate Ian is doing a course at the moment and reports it is "chock full of top totty". eyes:
SO I will perhaps obey Mrs Nick for once eveilgrin:
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BM - Empty box (blocked at work)
Can you describe the video please. (you may use more than 5 words ;) )
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BM - Empty box (blocked at work)
Can you describe the video please. (you may use more than 5 words ;) )
The opening sequence of “The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin” whistle:
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Reggie Perrin fakes own death
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/steven_tyler_laid_off_from (http://www.theonion.com/content/news/steven_tyler_laid_off_from)
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I've been thinking about this and part of me would wish something similar would happen to me.
<omit several lines of self pity>
I need a change of 'lifestyle' but I don't have the impetus to do it.
How about a sex-change?
"Aunty Mortina" has a certain ring to it.
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Don't know about a sex-change ~ sex would be good cry:
Anyway Aunty Mortina sounds like something from the 'Addams Family'
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Don't know about a sex-change ~ sex would be good cry:
Anyway Aunty Mortina sounds like something from the 'Addams Family'
Go bisexual then. Remember what Woody Allen said!
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Is this gong to be quick and decisive? Are you being called in one by one? FFS Man we need to know your fate!
It gets worse before it gets better..if thats the right word....i wont mention TG's work at mo, as this week we been nearly killing divorcing screaming being nice to each other... Banghead NOT!
Gota stay calm, just got some chocolate i need it.... cloud9:
on a positive note..
got my lovely sons 21st party to attend in scallypool in three weeks time, something nice, but got the ex an his family there...ooooo errrrrr! rubschin:
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Get yerself to Ainsdale
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Get yerself to Ainsdale
whistle: "She'll be coming round the Eccles cake when she comes" whistle:
whacky115
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Get yerself to Ainsdale
you nearer, and you convinced you seen this in a shop. so get there an get some evidence please...it to far for me an i dont drive... whistle:
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Eh? rubschin:
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Eh? rubschin:
tell fellow drinkers your companies new cost cutting tactics.... Angry9:
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This has nothing to do with train sets in bakeries for some reason rubschin:
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This has nothing to do with train sets in bakeries for some reason rubschin:
nope but someone brought it into this thread... point:
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Two and a half days to go cloud9:
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Planning a party?
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Two and a half days to go cloud9:
Three and a half days for me. Fortunately (?) I am TUPE'd over so my terms and conditions go with me to the new employer. That said, the incoming employer does seem to have a lacksadaisical approach to things. It's going to be a interesting ride
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Two and a half days to go cloud9:
Three and a half days for me. Fortunately (?) I am TUPE'd over so my terms and conditions go with me to the new employer. That said, the incoming employer does seem to have a lacksadaisical approach to things. It's going to be a interesting ride
Well done you happy088
I had to do a long course on TUPE when it was introduced so that I could draft quotations etc as we were in the contracting business. Best advice I can give is "Sign nothing" in your new employment EVER ~ that way you keep all the accrued rights, terms and conditions you have carried over. Anything that can be deemed as acceptance of a "new contract" is dangerous, get your union to check anything like that, even a letter. Some employers are very devious in getting transferred staff to sign away their rights ~ although in theory even if you do you can insist on having your old T&Cs reinstated but that involves a lot of legal activity..
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No party planned, I will probably just slip out quietly about lunchtime.
I can't be doing these "big farewells", I'd probably end up blubbing.
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sad24: I'm there already.
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Two and a half days to go cloud9:
Three and a half days for me. Fortunately (?) I am TUPE'd over so my terms and conditions go with me to the new employer. That said, the incoming employer does seem to have a lacksadaisical approach to things. It's going to be a interesting ride
Well done you happy088
I had to do a long course on TUPE when it was introduced so that I could draft quotations etc as we were in the contracting business. Best advice I can give is "Sign nothing" in your new employment EVER ~ that way you keep all the accrued rights, terms and conditions you have carried over. Anything that can be deemed as acceptance of a "new contract" is dangerous, get your union to check anything like that, even a letter. Some employers are very devious in getting transferred staff to sign away their rights ~ although in theory even if you do you can insist on having your old T&Cs reinstated but that involves a lot of legal activity..
Ta for the sound advice Snoopy. That's more or less what the union guy said when I had a meeting with him a few months ago
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Quite right. Sign nothing. I am lucky enough to just walk away with a decent sum. Many of my colleagues are not so lucky, as their areas are being outsourced with the option to sign the new terms or receive a redundancy package far less favourable than I have. It's wrong.
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I have started to pack my chattels sad24:
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Black bin liner? noooo:
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Boxes. Of stuff :-)
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Boxes. Of stuff :-)
Stuff... ;)
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Cables!
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Cables. And stuff.
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Cables. And stuff.
Stuff eh...? eyes:
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Cables. And stuff.
Stuff eh...? eyes:
Well, if it's not nailed down...
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Cables. And stuff.
Stuff eh...? eyes:
Well, if it's not nailed down...
Indeed Uncle...
When I left my first employer the staff clubbed together and bought me a huge suitcase because I was going on holiday the next day... happy001
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We used to deny outgoers entrance to the building for their last day by cancelling their security passes, office manager and a security guard would pack up their personal stuff. The first they knew was when their pass failed to work at the staff entrance and they went into reception to ask to be allowed in where they would find two guards standing there with the desk emptyings ready packed and waiting to go. By the time they got back to the car park their company car had been removed using the spare keys and was already on its way to the dealership. eveilgrin:
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We used to deny outgoers entrance to the building for their last won their last day by cancelling their security passes, office manager and a security guard would pack up their personal stuff. The first they knew was when their pass failed to work at the staff entrance and they went into reception to ask to be allowed in where they would find two guards standing there with the desk emptyings ready packed and waiting to go. By the time they got back to the car park their company car had been removed using the spare keys and was already on its way to the dealership. eveilgrin:
Snoopy, the early years. . .
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drumroll:
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The first present has landed on my desk. A bottle of Bushmills 10 year old malt, from my old mucker Andy H.
sad24:
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happy100
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I have an interview tomorrow - the person who will carry this out is named Torquil.
Can't say I have ever met anybody with this name before.
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Surname is Romero, by any chance?
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Fraid not.
Perhaps I should tell him to address me as Terence?
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happy100
And he wrote some touching words:-
"It's been a blast! We've known each other with hair, with bellies, with hangovers, with everything really! Thanks for all your help, humour and Brown World view. Keet in touch, you old cu*t."
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Clearly written from the heart ;D
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Clearing out my desk, I found a pile of my old "Rants" (I used to do one every fortnight, it made Friday afternoon go quicker...). Here's once circa 1992:-
Law and order
A policeman is shot dead in Clapham, the Anti-Nazi league tear parts of East London to shreds and a wealthy woman is rammed off the road and robbed of all her jewellery.
There does not appear to be much law and order about.
I have a solution. Some may think these measures extreme, however, it is the only way to rid the world of murderers, rapists, bank robbers and life assurance salesmen:
At the age of 17 every human being is to be given an IQ test. Anyone who achieves a score of less than 95 will either be vasectomised or sterilised, depending on their dangly bits.
A generation or two will pass before the benefits become apparent, but just imagine if this had been done 50 years ago.
1. The arse wipe who snapped the side mirror off my car would be no more than a wank stain on his father's sheets.
2. Lloyd Grossman would not invade my living room on an all too frequent bases.
3. The Suzuki GSX550EF would never have gone into production. Becuase it's slow. And girls ride it.
4. Referring to 1 above, cretinous halfwits who do not have the intelligence to earn their own living and see fit to take the fruits of normal peoples endeavours, would be eradicated. Car and building contents insurance would fall to more reasonable levels. And my brother would get paid so much.
5. I wouldn't have to listen to Natalie's inane ramblings.
6. Or Andy H's.
7. Customer service would be much simpler to us all.
8. Deferred Interest mortgages would never have been invented.
"There must be down sides, mustn't there?" I hear you shout, "...who'll sweep the roads or work for London Underground if there are no stupid people about?"
This popular belief is, to be honest, bollox. There are already too many people in Britain to ever make full employment possible again and I certainly wouldn't mind working for London Underground if the calibre of the passengers improved to my level.
But, I must concede, there will be disadvantages:
1. I woun't keep winning lots of money on Trivia Quiz machines.
2. Arsenal Football Club would go bust.
3. Most of Wales would be incapable of propogation (is this a disadvantage?)
4. As would most of our Accounts Department.
Get your knitting needles and scissors out, we have work to do...
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;D ;D
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lol: lol: lol:
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I also have rants on "Alcohol", "Smoking" and "Consistency".
I may type them up this afternoon, but now lunch beckons.
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Would that be an old lunch you found at the back of a drawer which has now developed vertebrae?
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Liquid lunch. Yoda Tel, Mrs Tel and Father of Tel are in the pub too.
Tomorrow may be the last time I go to my lunchtime Boozer. Profits will fall!
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Two girls I have worked with for over 18 years won't be in tomorrow. They came to say goodbye. They cried. They started me off.
Not good. Tomorrow will be "interesting".
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happy100
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It's hard. I'm struggling to hold it together. "Mr Nasty IT bloke" is going to look like one right soppy bastard tomorrow.
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sad24:
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This is it then.
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Stiff upper lip old boy. ;)
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Fear not lad.
Remember, one door shuts and another one closes. ;)
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This is it then.
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happy100
It's a bit early for the fat lady to sing isn't it...? rubschin:
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Where is that zipped-mouth emoti-thing?
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Where is that zipped-mouth emoti-thing?
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Where is that zipped-mouth emoti-thing?
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Thats the one. ;D
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My leaving message:- sad24:
18 years, 2 months and 25 days. It doesn’t sound much if you say it quickly.
6657 days. After holidays and weekends, it ends up as about 4900 days. Or 34,300 hours. I think I even managed to do some work during these hours – or at least the impression of work. Most of it PICNIC related.
It is extremely hard to put into words how I feel about this company. The English language (as taught in Grammar Schools) is expansive and more than adequate for most situations. But not this one. The pleasures and pains I have had whilst here would leave the most fervent Sado-Masochist an open-mouthed drooling wreck.
The memories can never be erased and nor would I wish them to be. From the great people I have worked with (The wonderful Robin T, Mary O’H, Andy Harris, the two Steve’s (D & G), Dee, Debs, Chris J, Jason L, Paul “Yoda” Richards, Martin Ball, the Burbs, the mad Welsher Chris Davis and the mad Howard Agard, to name but a few) to the ever changing business – record New Business, then record default (1991) to …erm…record New Business, then record default (2008)…it has been a journey that I was glad to be on. I have gained wisdom and lost some hair (although not as much some, eh Mr Harris...?).
The NBS bunch also have some good eggs – Mr Clueless, Colin, Debs, the two Ian Welshers - Williams and Taylor -(look you, Boyos), Peter B, Judith, Matt, Christine, Pamela – the list is long and I’m starting to sound like an Oscar winner, thanking all and sundry, so I’ll stop now. Suffice it to say that all the aforementioned, and loads others, have made daily life at UCBHL better and more fun. Despite their IT systems…
Anyhoo…enough of my ramblings…I wish each and every one of you all the very best for the future; you will realise your true worth once outside these doors as having this company on your CVs is a valuable commodity.
Should any of you feel the inclination to contact me, please do so at www.unloveditguruwhosweatedbloodandtearsforabunchofungratefulhalfwits.co.uk
See ya
happy100
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Bravo my boy, they will never forget you I am sure.
happy100
I was so moved I even had a tear in my glass eye.
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Excellent!
The link doesn't work tho... noooo:
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Excellent!
The link doesn't work tho... noooo:
point:
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Excellent!
The link doesn't work tho... noooo:
point:
razz: Just kiddin'
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Excellent!
The link doesn't work tho... noooo:
point:
razz: Just kiddin'
You'd be surprised how many of my users have phoned up saying the link doesn't work. lol:
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That's it. I'm out.
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That's it. I'm out.
Yay! happ096
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Get to the pub!!
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There since 12. I think I should drink 18 pints, to align with the number of years worked.
On number 6 so far.
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Welcome to the club.
See you later (maybe).
Off to see Torquil in a minute.
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Mind your back!
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9. Food break. Too many people crying (including me) so exit stage.
Awful.
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happy100
Sounds frightful.Whenever I left a job I was always jubilant. ANd if, by chance, I had got to know any nice people, I managed to stay in touch with them.My boss of 20 years ago is currently working for ME ( eeek:) following her early retirement
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I'm welling up... sad24:
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I'm swelling up... sad24:
So we heard . .
Do you think TMR, like Nick, will wake up in 20 years time and find a lady from work under him?
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I'm a bit pissed.
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Shame on you!
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The white flag is waved, I can take no more. Bed beckons, 3 short of tthe target of 18. Goodnight all.
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Goodnight mate. Glad your last day is over, now you have something to look forward to. ;)
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Day 1. Bored.
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Oh dear! this doesn't bode well. noooo:
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Don't worry, you will soon be able to savour the sumptious delights of the Jobcentre.
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Wednesday at 2! I can't wait!
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They are easily confused. Use some big words. They will soon leave you alone
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I have just volunteered for redundancy. eeek:
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happ096 happy088
And now start planning your next move.
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I have just volunteered for redundancy. eeek:
I missed that.
It is an excellent move. Really.
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Good luck TG.
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Assuming they accept it.
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Fingers crossed then!
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Accepted. I am now at home.
Back tomorrow to work 3 weeks of 3 months notice period.
eeek:
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Three months pay for three weeks work
Long hols
Redundancy payoff (tax free)
Time to find summat else
Cats to play with
HOnest. It will be excellent!
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And more time to post on the pub too... cloud9:
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Sounds marvelous.
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Poor wenchy happy100
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Three months pay for three weeks work
Long hols
Redundancy payoff (tax free)
Time to find summat else
Cats to play with
HOnest. It will be excellent!
And poor me working extra hours in three weeks, while tg loafing around...he can do housework, cook my tea, play with cats, not loafing on wii or his new ps3! noooo:
He is going to buy me nice xmas prezzy now, but firstly he has to get cv writing to sell himself to new employer. whistle:
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And more time to post on the pub too... cloud9:
And maybe a PS3 onto which I can install linux and connect to the TG home network so I can be abused by you lot as I fight the alien hordes. cloud9:
Mrs TG has just installed Chrome on the V$sta laptop. It doesnt seem to like Facebook. eeek:
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And more time to post on the pub too... cloud9:
And maybe a PS3 onto which I can install linux and connect to the TG home network so I can be abused by you lot as I fight the alien hordes. cloud9:
Mrs TG has just installed Chrome on the V$sta laptop. It doesnt seem to like Facebook. eeek:
Look just let them take Nick back with them, I'm sure he's been homesick. whistle:
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And more time to post on the pub too... cloud9:
And maybe a PS3 onto which I can install linux and connect to the TG home network so I can be abused by you lot as I fight the alien hordes. cloud9:
Mrs TG has just installed Chrome on the V$sta laptop. It doesnt seem to like Facebook. eeek:
cussing:
Well it better had or it going...
Tg wont let me put the fire on as i am freezing, i an huddled up to laptop with the warmth of that, he said it a new economy drive... angry041:
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You can have more than one browser on a computer, dont panic.
I'm sure TG's booze supply would burn nicely and as its already been purchased it wont affect his economy drive... whistle:
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I'm not looking forward to the last day as per TMR.
31 years is a long time. A lot of good times shared with some of these people.
When I allowed Mrs TG to marry me in Liverpool some of them made the trip. All a bit surreal as some of them were at my first wedding in 1984! eeek:
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Was Big Brother watching that one? whistle:
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The only person who attended both of my weddings was ..................................... me.
Somehow I just couldn't come up with a plausible excuse on either occasion. noooo:
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I'm not looking forward to the last day as per TMR.
31 years is a long time. A lot of good times shared with some of these people.
When I allowed Mrs TG to marry me in Liverpool some of them made the trip. All a bit surreal as some of them were at my first wedding in 1984! eeek:
Did you have to lower the tone by mentioning the very short lived 1st ex witch wife ..... cussing:
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scared2:
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I'm not looking forward to the last day as per TMR.
31 years is a long time. A lot of good times shared with some of these people.
When I allowed Mrs TG to marry me in Liverpool some of them made the trip. All a bit surreal as some of them were at my first wedding in 1984! eeek:
Did you have to lower the tone by mentioning the very short lived 1st ex witch wife ..... cussing:
I'm sure she must have had some redeeming features.
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I'm not looking forward to the last day as per TMR.
31 years is a long time. A lot of good times shared with some of these people.
When I allowed Mrs TG to marry me in Liverpool some of them made the trip. All a bit surreal as some of them were at my first wedding in 1984! eeek:
Did you have to lower the tone by mentioning the very short lived 1st ex witch wife ..... cussing:
I'm sure she must have had some redeeming features.
Wind up merchant! You! Not her! cussing:
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I'm not looking forward to the last day as per TMR.
31 years is a long time. A lot of good times shared with some of these people.
When I allowed Mrs TG to marry me in Liverpool some of them made the trip. All a bit surreal as some of them were at my first wedding in 1984! eeek:
Did you have to lower the tone by mentioning the very short lived 1st ex witch wife ..... cussing:
I'm sure she must have had some redeeming features.
dont get me started on her i tell you....kids = meal ticket to life long social security, to be shown the door wen it runs out when they 18!
not adding the 7 kids by three differant dads..and not keeping em all, choosing the ones she wants unbelivable...meeeeeeeoooooooooooooowwwwwwwwww Banghead
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I think this is a family matter ~ I'll just get some popcorn and watch whistle:
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I think this is a family matter ~ I'll just get some popcorn and watch whistle:
Pervert. eyes:
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Jerry Springer time? whistle:
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My money's on Mrs TG by a submission or a straight KO (https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Fsmileys%2Featdrink033.gif&hash=0dc66da5e6c6cd57ddbc96b4e9028b22c4830e97)
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My money's on Mrs TG by a submission or a straight KO (https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Fsmileys%2Featdrink033.gif&hash=0dc66da5e6c6cd57ddbc96b4e9028b22c4830e97)
Nah no fight just my way of seeing it as it is..and makes me blood boil i tell you....
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Awwww! And I'd just got comfy too. confused:
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We were at a party once. Daughters 21st. both of em (Mrs TGs's past & present that is) in the same room. Strange feeling.
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Oh yes ~ I know that feeling.
I mentioned it at the time to Mrs S#2
I said "Strangest feeling knowing I am the only one here that's f*cked both of you"
And Mrs S#2 said "Don't be too sure of that matey" eeek:
Twenty years later I am still not sure if I was being firmly put in my place or if she meant it.
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Oh yes ~ I know that feeling.
I mentioned it at the time to Mrs S#2
I said "Strangest feeling knowing I am the only one here that's f*cked both of you"
And Mrs S#2 said "Don't be too sure of that matey" eeek:
Twenty years later I am still not sure if I was being firmly put in my place or if she meant it.
Good for her
the ex looked like something from a timewarp same hair etc as she had 25 yrs ago, just bit more downtrodden an well worn...lol
At my sons 21st party other week the my ex was there as well as mr tg, wonder wether they thought the same...mmmmm eyes:
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And more time to post on the pub too... cloud9:
And maybe a PS3 onto which I can install linux and connect to the TG home network so I can be abused by you lot as I fight the alien hordes. cloud9:
Mrs TG has just installed Chrome on the V$sta laptop. It doesnt seem to like Facebook. eeek:
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Well it better had or it going...
Tg wont let me put the fire on as i am freezing, i an huddled up to laptop with the warmth of that, he said it a new economy drive... angry041:
I'm not allowed the heating on unless you can see your breath in the air. noooo:
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Hang on Wenchy ~ You pay half the friggin' bills. Heat one room, claim it as yours and ban him from it. He'll soon learn. Tightwad Welsh censored:
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Hang on Wenchy ~ You pay half the friggin' bills. Heat one room, claim it as yours and ban him from it. He'll soon learn. Tightwad Welsh censored:
rubschin:
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And more time to post on the pub too... cloud9:
And maybe a PS3 onto which I can install linux and connect to the TG home network so I can be abused by you lot as I fight the alien hordes. cloud9:
Mrs TG has just installed Chrome on the V$sta laptop. It doesnt seem to like Facebook. eeek:
cussing:
Well it better had or it going...
Tg wont let me put the fire on as i am freezing, i an huddled up to laptop with the warmth of that, he said it a new economy drive... angry041:
I'm not allowed the heating on unless you can see your breath in the air. noooo:
Is that only big breaths?
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Yeth and I'm only thixteen.
redface: I am ashamed that I am older than that joke. (McGill Postcard c 1950)
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Yeth and I'm only thixteen.
redface: I am ashamed that I am older than that joke. (McGill Postcard c 1950)
True, but you can still remember it. happy088
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Hang on Wenchy ~ You pay half the friggin' bills. Heat one room, claim it as yours and ban him from it. He'll soon learn. Tightwad Welsh censored:
rubschin:
Alternatively, the next few times he is 'in the mood' tell him that you arent because its too bloody cold. That should soon give him the hint.
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Hang on Wenchy ~ You pay half the friggin' bills. Heat one room, claim it as yours and ban him from it. He'll soon learn. Tightwad Welsh censored:
rubschin:
Alternatively, the next few times he is 'in the mood' tell him that you arent because its too bloody cold. That should soon give him the hint.
In my experience the Welsh don't do "Hints" ~ even Baa they take as "Yes please big boy"
I do hope he never looks in here or the bloody Taffia will be knocking at my door. scared2:
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The hammer is falling here. 5 more people redundant. noooo:
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Get the bank to do a special clearance on your redundancy cheque
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Get the bank to do a special clearance on your redundancy cheque
I don't get that till 3 month notice period done. scared2:
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I should "borrow" the MD's Merc then. Give it back when you've got the money. whistle:
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You could always arrange something similar to what happened to someone down here. He downsized his company laying a load of people off who promptly 'visited' another one of his offices and completely cleared it out. whistle:
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Get the bank to do a special clearance on your redundancy cheque
I don't get that till 3 month notice period done. scared2:
Another 10% off "Slurry Surprise" if ordered 3 months in advance. . .