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"I don't know" is not an answer
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11 years ago
Naah. He isn't Polish. The bloke who put my new windows in was, though.
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11 years ago
Gawd I donno, they come over here doing decent work for a good price then they go around smashing new windows. What is the world coming to?
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11 years ago
One of the few problems with working from home is that you've got to be
*properly* ill to take time off sick. That and keeping away from Usenet.- Vote on answer
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11 years ago
*grin*
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You could have offered to sell his mobile phone on ebay.
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The trouble is, it's so rare to find one that both shines, and *continues* to shine. You try to treat them nice in the hope that they will appreciate that they *are* being treated nice, but suddenly, they just turn round and kick you in the teeth. We had a smashing young girl working for us. She was great with the customers, always had a ready smile for everyone. She was brilliant at her job, and had the very rare quality that when she needed to step up the pace, she could. Great at multi-tasking too. A good all round brilliant employee. We really looked after her. It's a family business, and she was treated like one of the family. Then she started to take the piss, texting in 10 minutes before she was supposed to start, claiming that she had been sick all day, yada yada yada - all the usual crap. Trouble is, all of them spend half of their day on Faceache or whatever it's called, and you only had to read her 'status' to find out that she'd been out on the razz all night and had only got to bed at 7 am. Doesn't take a genius to work out that she's only just woken up, and now can't be bothered to come in.
We let it ride for a couple of times, but it got to the point where you just couldn't trust that she was going to turn up, so eventually, she received the grand order of the boot. My daughter who was about 11 months pregnant at the time, had to go back to working every day.
The kid was actually sorely missed, and as it happened, a few weeks later, she came crawling back, begging to have her job again. She was having a bit of a hard time of it from what we could make out, having lost her digs, and one or two other problems, so the missus took pity on her, and took her back. She promised on her life that she would never let us down again, and so it was for the next couple of months. The missus looked after her, and found her somewhere else to live, and even got her another part time job with the people that bought one of our cafes a year or so back, so she would earn some extra money. They were delighted with her. Thought she was the best employee that they had had. Then it all started again. She let them down, she let us down, so she was fired again. You just can't help some people, and it seems like the kids now are some of the worst for that.
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11 years ago
LOL !!!!! Cracker !!!
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11 years ago
8 years ??! Is that all ? Get your arse back in there immediately, otherwise, it'll be the sack for you ... :-)
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11 years ago
That'll be me then.
Not that I'm working from home as in getting paid but do have the business paperwork to do, VAT return, checking that overdue invoices have been paid, etc.
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As you know it's not just the soaps that use the "10 hours on camera"(*) day. Virtually all drama and film production does. There might *just* be some justification for it on a short (4 to 6 weeks) drama for film shoot but not for the soaps.
(*) That's two 5 hour long sessions of work with an hour between for lunch. Travel to unit base is not included, neither is getting the kit ready to "turn over" at the scheduled "on camera" time or putting it away when the "wrap" is called. So that's normally about 1 + 5 + 1 + 5 + 1 =
13hrs/day before the over runs start and assumes the travel isn't very far and will fit in the hour each end...- Vote on answer
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It's a factory, and like all factories you don't want it standing around idle as the standing costs then become a larger proportion of the total.
I quite liked getting the week's work done in 4 days rather than 5 when I was staff. The problem now is pay rates per hour haven't kept up meaning 'we' have to work longer hours just to stand still. Basically, your 60 hour week should be paid at +50% (at least) over the old weekly sum. So you could make up the lost non working time by taking one week in three off.
Theory is fine...
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11 years ago
That almost seems akin to a drug addiction or mental illness behaviour pattern .. seen it before a few times..
Bloody shame 'tho:(.....
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11 years ago
Judging by all the outtake programs on TV, they need better trained widget makers, not more.
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Wow. And I do tend to agree with Andy. Or maybe boyfriend trouble.
And what is the usual gestation period in your family? 11 months is rather a long time:-)
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I did go back into work when they called. Bloody food poisoning from the next door neighbours bonfire night food IMHO.
BTW I showed the Harry and Paul sketch to a friend and he said "that's not a comedy sketch, that is a fly on the wall documentary"
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11 years ago
Maybe that's the boyfriend trouble - she dated a llama.
Or a seal.
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Funnily enough, we thought that. She has got a pretty rum crowd for 'friends'. The missus even had a go at her about it, but she swore that she was not into drugs, and never would be. Trouble is, they smoke their spliffs, but don't consider that to be drugs. At the end of the day, it was a shame, but what can you do ? Anyone in business will say the same - there's just so much you can take before you have to just throw in the towel. Whilst it's sad to have to give up on someone like her, in the current economic climate, the good of the business has to come first. As a father myself though, I still worry for her welfare ...
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Nah, Just the usual 9 ! But it seemed a lot longer. It was her first, and the poor kid had a really rough time of it virtually from day one. She was sick just about every day of the pregnancy. She's only tiny, and was frontally massive by the end, so between being that size, and not feeling too well most of the time, the last thing that she needed was to be stuck back behind the counter every night, trying to be pleasant to the customers, some of whom are real arses ...
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11 years ago
A very valid comment ... :-)
I guess that's actually what makes it ' Harry Enfield comedy '. All of his sketch characters tend to be real life observations that we all recognise.
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