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Don't ask if I'm ok when I could have f***ing killed you last week when you were so rude to my team. Didn't your line manager have that word?
Dear friend,
My finger has been hovering over the "unfollow" button for a while now as I've read your updates about being at various shopping centres, football stadiums and boy band concerts. The picture of the Beckham boys and the "You're Never too Old for Disney" link finally clinched it.
Bearing in mind that there's a lot of people under the age of 70 who are still working, it's fair to say that a lot of those succeeded simply because the avenues of success were there to be walked down. All they had to do was the basics.
Take your average kid in school now and lets see where average gets them. It sure as hell won't be an average like someone got in the 1970's.
It might still actually work for the majority for the simple reason the majority had a better set of conditions in which to operate.
Take your graduate who's now wondering why their parents were ushered into a great career whereas they are looking at flip burger land.
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The graduate still has the advantage over the unqualified.
For pity's sake do some training... please do some training! Outside... in the real world... on the road. It's going to hurt - hurt a lot - mainly because you haven't done enough training.
Remind me, how many refugees are Saudi Arabia taking?
Mr Orban has a point.
All this fuss about 50 goals. It's only football ffs, it's nothing that matters. And anyway, penalties don't count. If you miss a penalty you shouldn't be playing at all.
All this rubbish about the queens time on the throne is ridiculous. She was gifted the best job in England.
You wish!
Just wait until you lose your job at 45 and see where it gets you.
Minimum wage beckons.
Bloody sad when oldies are still up dating their CV's and trying to add qualifications when economically speaking they're dead in the water.
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You are waiting in a queue at a shop checkout counter when suddenly a new one opens. The lady says " next please " Then all those behind you go running like rats into the empty space. They don't look into your eyes when they do it. Head down, march forward and pretend they don't know that it would of been courteous to say "you was here before me"
Don't agree being queen is the best job. Do this, be there, smile. don't fart. Gee a bloody death sentence if you ask me and who's this Wayne Rooney, is he in coronation street ?
Ricf. I am planning on robbing a bank if you are interested. There are 6 of us that have been thrown onto the dump heap because we was classed as intellectually disabled, We will show them. Just don't tell anyone.
O dear.. Looks like a disagreement about the queen has upset old VD.
I think you need to get out more.
Yodel, your delivery driver is a lying little shit. I can assure you that he did not attempt to deliver to my office at 11.05am, despite his promise to you that he did.
How you stay in business as a company is beyond me, as this sort of thing happens all the bloody time. I shudder when I realise that whatever I may have ordered online is being placed into your care for safe delivery.
Knobs.
Not always the case. One of my best staff is a lady who was 54 when I employed her 6 years ago. She reduced her hours last year because she had been expecting to retire at 60 all her life, but now can't afford to. Hopefully that'll mean that she'll stay until she's 65 - so I'll have had 11 very productive years from a lovely person. Not a lot of people stay in a job that long, so why choose someone younger with less experience. A lot of employers are very short sighted.
I live on the outskirts of London and can confirm - buses are c**p here too. I live 5.3 miles from work, on the bus at best it takes 45 minutes but often well over an hour. Drivers often not much better either. Oh, and it never takes more than 20 mins by car..
Generally, very hard! It takes two buses for me to get to/from work, they are never on time and on the way home the second bus reduces to one every half an hour and I always get to the stop just after one has gone! Hate them!!
My trains to/from London are on time more or less every day (it's a 1 hour commute in each direction). I would say that - at worst, once a month I suffer a delay in excess of 15 minutes.
Driving meanwhile, well it's a 7 mile door-to-door trip from home to my track, taking in an A road and 3 or 4 roundabouts. At weekends with little traffic, it takes around 15 minutes. Training nights midweek take on average 30 or 40 minutes. It has taken over an hour before. I imagine it is the same for buses. Too much road traffic.
I take it you don't mean me personally because I am older than that. But it depends on the job. The area of the business I work in is expanding. Can't throw enough people at it. Specialism is the key in my case.
The only thing I see expanding in our economy is debt.
Aiming to use wages (primary income) to live on in perpetuity is risky. The idea only works while you do. And if those wages are used to pay interest on loans taken out to give you a higher standard of living, then you're doubly stuffed.
Or loans to survive on, and you're trebly stuffed.
When the work stops, you may well have to give it back. That's debt.
Still, the employer gains. As long as their work force is up to it's neck in debt, they can take any liberties they like. Long hours, low pay. What can you do about it, you need the job?
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Thing is Ric, for every person for whom that is true there is another for whom it isn't.
I don't work long hours for low pay and neither does anyone I know. I'm not in debt either.
But anyway, I think we have had this conversation on here about seventeen times now, so....
So... tomorrow is Monday. Once more into the breach!
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Have worked for a low wage most of my life, but have been very frugal with what I earned, now own a few homes and hope / plan to retire next year aged 60 and live in France.
So its NOT always down to a good education or degrees.
I started with one house. I watched the competition closely, I evaluated and quickly equipped myself with the weaknesses and strengths of my competitors. I invested wisely and bought and sold at the right time. My profound and unique ability held me together when at times I thought I was just moving in circles. My portfolio grew and I quickly progressed into the hotel sector.
I was on top of the world but then it all fell apart. It was not because of any economical recession or rising interest rates. No, I had to keep going to jail.
Asitis what can I say ! what did all of that teach you ? My possible lack of education has held me back ! Good or bad thing ?
It taught me not to play monopoly.
The conventional route to financial security via education and employment has massive support for its success, when the reality is that this security is merely a byproduct involving luck, timing and running out of ideas of what to waste salaries on.
Even the business of 'buy to let' has bypassed those not already in it.
Sure, education helps. But only in the way that you're not guaranteed life in the gutter without one. Education gives you a chance, that's all. But the chances are becoming ever so slimmer.
It all comes down to money in the end.
There's a women down my road who four years ago was crowing about this wonder job she had got. Paid a fortune. It was in my opinion a scam.
It was!
Two days ago she was trotting out the same lines for exactly the same kind of set up. "Look there's no risk, my friends and family have gone into this etc etc."
All I'm going to do is call the Police. From the sound of things the job seems to be money laundering. Big money for doing nothing but existing. Forget it.
That's the extreme end of finance. Get rich quick.
She's desperate to be rich, but can't hack a conventional job, can't wait, and won't get her hands dirty. Beneath her.
So compared to this nonsense I'll give education/employment 10/10. With those doing it contributing something useful to society.
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