View Full Version : 1st day off in ages...
NovaLad
03-03-11, 09:54 AM
and i've got nothing to do!
I'm so bored!
Anyone in the NorF off:?
I thought the whole of the Norf was unemployed? lol
NovaLad
03-03-11, 10:57 AM
LOL...
Officially yes but you know what they are like for doing odd jobs on the side.
brainsnova
03-03-11, 12:21 PM
If your that bored you may as well go into work.
NovaLad
03-03-11, 12:25 PM
I can't go into work.
This isn't a day booked as a holiday it's a day off because they are over staffed at the moment.
Danny s-p
03-03-11, 12:32 PM
am in the north and off am off till i fined a job there crap all going up here
brainsnova
03-03-11, 12:47 PM
I ve been off for years as starting my own company is the only way I want to go and it's £2000 to go gas safe. Maybe this year
I can't go into work.
This isn't a day booked as a holiday it's a day off because they are over staffed at the moment.
Oh oh pay offs next :wtf:
NovaLad
03-03-11, 03:01 PM
Oh oh pay offs next :wtf:
No chance... lol...
Already been through this with my area manager/ manager and if hours run short then i can head to another area within the company.
LOL...
Officially yes but you know what they are like for doing odd jobs on the side.
Those are known as foreigners......
lol @ jack,although in a way its not really funny as lots are unemployed through no fault of their own.the rest are on sick and/or on Jeremy Kyle lol
LOL...
Officially yes but you know what they are like for doing odd jobs on the side.
Odd jobs? You mean stealing?
:p
Odd jobs? You mean stealing?
:p
:roll: get it right..
Drug dealinglol
mk1nova_rich
03-03-11, 05:39 PM
Half of Yorkshire is still unemployed from the mid-80s when nationalised industry was shut down lol they were costing too much... look how much they are all costing now in social security... :wtf:
i've never understood why when for example, the pits closed, the people stayed there, unemployed & miserable.....until the 1940's, people regularly moved around the country following the jobs. we have the crazy situation of millions out of work, and millions of foreign workers, but we also have millions of unemployable people..i met quite a few of them recently when i advertised a job..
MK1_Ben
03-03-11, 08:07 PM
but we also have millions of unemployable people..i met quite a few of them recently when i advertised a job..
This is it.
I'm an IT tech for a fairly large company, we get alot of people in through "agencies" when it's busy and we require emergency staff, and the job center send people in when they are made to apply for a job else they lose their benefit. And I don't know if they do it on purpose, but 90% of them are untidy, don't pay attention, can't follow simple instructions etc.
We had one lad who got to work in our "main" office building, dirty clothes, mumbled at everyone. Assigned him the simple task of inputting some customer data onto a system. He somehow managed to do everything wrong and cause us two days of phoning up clients apologising and correcting figures for them...
On the positive though, some of our best staff have come in from Agencies :)
Agencies are great. When the MoD can't afford to hire an E1 grade on £16k a year, they get an agency contractor in at £30k a year.
....and they wonder why the country is broke lol
blue_peg_16v
03-03-11, 08:31 PM
Agencies are great. When the MoD can't afford to hire an E1 grade on £16k a year, they get an agency contractor in at £30k a year.
....and they wonder why the country is broke lol
sounds about right
sage words jack, i wish i knew the way to fix it....
nova_stee
03-03-11, 08:36 PM
I own a garage best job in the world been hear since eight still hear now but eating mc dougals listening to music and playing with cars and earning loads its a dogs life but some one has to do it lol
thinking about it, if i took on a worker for £16k wages, it would actually cost more than £30k to keep them in the job. with holiday, sick & all other benefits & then admin costs & equipment damage etc, it soon gets up there....
Self employment is the answer these days.
If you cant find work,make work
the previous govt made it all but impossible to sack a bad worker, so lots of small businesses simply won't take people on...
self employed is a fantastic idea & the main way of working in the building trade for ages, so blair & brown decided to make developers actually fully employ their tradesmen........ so many new layers of admin.... so many layers of fail.
The trouble with being self employed and starting since New Year like myself,the cost of fuel is just killing me/everyone.
But then customers expect the same prices as this time last year......
And when your just starting out,you cant risk losing owt so just bite ya lip and crack on......
i know jobbing builders who do 3 trips a day to the merchants, when with a bit of planning, they could have the stuff delivered FOC....
we are spending thousands a week on fuel...but such is haulage.. we have a constant battle with our drivers to get them to go the right way & save fuel...it is not easy.
im a window cleaner so trying ways to save fuel etc isnt an option,my round is my round and thats the way it is.
It makes you laugh when you hear tree huggers and green heads say "bike to work or bus it"
How many buses do you know that will let you take on a set of double 17 ladders and all my gear???
Or how can i carry all that on a bike.
People need to get real
The likes of MKM,Jewsons and trav perkins round here deliver for free most of the time,espescially if your on account???
simply drive more carefully & avoid congestion hotspots... why do you think we go to london in the trucks at 4am??? then sit for an hour outside the job... cos it saves us 2 hours of jams.
simply drive more carefully & avoid congestion hotspots... why do you think we go to london in the trucks at 4am??? then sit for an hour outside the job... cos it saves us 2 hours of jams.
lol Youve never been to Scarborough i take it..
Its all congestion from 8-6 all day,50x worse in summer when the whole of south,west and east yorkshire descend here....
I have a 1.8D Escort van,if you have ever driven one,you will understand driving carefully is not an option,you simply have no choice,but thats fine as its good economy which i like.
When i was recovering/transporting,i used to set off to essex etc from here at 3am for that very reason.....
nova_stee
03-03-11, 09:16 PM
The trouble with being self employed and starting since New Year like myself,the cost of fuel is just killing me/everyone.
But then customers expect the same prices as this time last year......
And when your just starting out,you cant risk losing owt so just bite ya lip and crack on......Yeah thats one of my problems insurance and public lieability goes up parts go up but people dont come back when the labour bill goes up.
Luckly for me my garage is 4 mile from my house and doesnt take long on my bike
i have driven escort 1.8d vans.. they are a plodder...hinckley is notorious for slow traffic, we have the third highest driving test pass rate, after minehead & newport IOW... simply because it takes half the test just to get out of the road the centre is on...
i assume you have to clean the windows during normal work hours just so someone is there to pay you....
i have driven escort 1.8d vans.. they are a plodder...hinckley is notorious for slow traffic, we have the third highest driving test pass rate, after minehead & newport IOW... simply because it takes half the test just to get out of the road the centre is on...
i assume you have to clean the windows during normal work hours just so someone is there to pay you....
Its a plodder alright lol
i work usually from 8-1/2pm
More often than not,they arent in due to work commitments etc so i collect once or twice a week on a night.
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