USER1999
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Jeez, Corey Pavin, just no. Not for me either.
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Amazon are doing my head in atm.. must be just one of there driver does it because it’s not all time.. little sorry we missed you cards.. the normal non retarded ones put it in the letter box.. this one puts it in the door frame so everyone can’t see your not home. Emailed them twice about it already
MegaSteve
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Some of the outfits being worn by the blokes at Roland-Garros...
MegaSteve
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Over the top celebrations for being third best...
Bazz
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Derby County.
Slime
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Any celebrations involving John Terry.
Slime
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John Terry.
AmandaJR
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Simon Cowell's inability to button his shirt.
Wolf
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Going into work today finding our region operations director there and all staff being made redundant including myself a shutting down a large portion of our Gym businesses...
Not helped by fact tomorrow is Mrs Wolf's birthday and Wednesday she due to go away for 5 days on her hen do as we get married in less than 3 months...
Not helped by fact tomorrow is Mrs Wolf's birthday and Wednesday she due to go away for 5 days on her hen do as we get married in less than 3 months...
Sorry to hear that. I take it from the tone that this was unexpected. What reasons did they give? Have you been there long so what will the redundancy package be? Hope you find something soon
Wolf
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It was a little Homer indeed, reasons are purely the amount of low cost competitors that have opened in the local catchment areas. Fraction of the cost, yes less to offer but the impact has been significant. Haven't been here long enough to get anything decent as I moved to this company from my old one when we relocated. I was effectively their last chance at saving this particular one, we steadied the ship significantly but just been announced yet another competitor to open within spitting distance has seen the business decide its simply not going to be able to compete with the overheads..
Have a few days off, work on my golf that disappeared yesterday. Enjoy half term with the kids and find something new. In the meantime maybe do some more self employed stuff on the side.
IanM
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The confirmation that the CSS was one below SSS meaning I missed the buffer by one shot! And my birdie putt on the last horseshoed out grrrr
And sorry...I posted that before reading the posts above about job loss
And sorry...I posted that before reading the posts above about job loss
Beezerk
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Pub bores.
Orikoru
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Wife being a miserable cow and ruining my evening.
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A train completely dying (technical term lol) on the northbound around 22:00.. its now 02:30 and we just managing to get it away to the depot.. what an evening.
On the plus side my mate (golf PP) was working the station it was stuck at so I knew I had good guys on the ground however BLOOMING heck. that was awful.
On the plus side my mate (golf PP) was working the station it was stuck at so I knew I had good guys on the ground however BLOOMING heck. that was awful.
Can you do me (us) a favour. We are often left standing on platforms with announcements saying a train has broken down and in this case of it "dying" what happens to cause it and how does it get moved so services can continue etc. Whenever I ask station staff what's going on they never seem to have a clue what to do, when things are going to happen and what choices we have as to whether it is best to wait, find another route or use buses etc.
Slab
Occasional Tour Caddy
Yeah but maybe we expect a tad too much outside their scope of work.
It's like working in a hospital and not having a clue how to adjust the height of an operating table or amputate a leg
I can do the first part.... and more than happy to give the second part a go if you would like to volunteer!!! My point is there never seems to be any cohesive plan by station staff and they seem as devoid of information from track staff, head office etc and so fail to deliver any useful information to the stranded passengers. On the plus side, at least a train dying at 22.00 isn't likely to impact as many passengers as in the middle of a rush hourYeah but maybe we expect a tad too much outside their scope of work.
It's like working in a hospital and not having a clue how to adjust the height of an operating table or amputate a leg
We were travelling from Manchester airport to Newcastle last year via train. There was a fault between the airport and Picadilly (Manchester's hub) so it was carnage. Scores of tired holidaymakers getting off flights and no trains to take them to the hub where they could make the remainder of their journey. It was a time I expected staff to hide but the train company put half a dozen people on the platform in high viz jackets. They told people what the fault was, that it was being dealt with but they had no idea when it would be resolved. They then told people what trains they needed to take to get to Picadilly the scenic route. No one got angry because there were plenty of staff, the staff were upfront and honest, they gave us the info we wanted as best they could. They also gave us alternatives.
That is how these things should be dealt with, I made a point of thanking the person I spoke to and told them what they were doing was spot on. It just needs to happen that way all of the time as breakdowns will happen, it is inevitable.
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I'm sure it's come up before.....the excessive use of the following words:
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literally
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like
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