Random Irritations

[Fromtherough]

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What’s wrong with a meeting during the day? Teachers never get paid overtime so any meeting in the evening is in their time for nothing.
Same as caring for your kids 24/7 on a trip. Never given a penny extra.

Surely for the majority of parents (including those who are teachers) it would be better if meetings/parents evenings were outside of usual work hours. I’m not having a dig at teachers. Their job isn’t easy. But I’d imagine a productive meeting/parents evening would require parents to be there… Plus, as my friends who are teachers tell me, teaching is not a 9-5 type job. I’d imagine their attendance at parents evening in particular would be a requirement.

 

[cliveb]

I've probably posted this before but...
A few years ago I listened to a radio interview with a tarmac specialist.
The main theme was " why do roads wear out so quickly "
He said that he could make you a tarmac that would never wear out....but you'd be changing your tyres every 3 months....

Roads shouldn't be made from tarmac. Tarmac is a cheap, easy to lay material that is not suitable for heavy traffic. Asphalt is what roads should be made from (and my guess is that they are).
Problem of course is that pothole repairs are typically done on the cheap with tarmac, which lasts next to no time.
I'm pretty certain that the expert on the radio must have been talking about asphalt.

 

[Lucifer MorningStar]

Sorry, but why you are funding both trips is beyond me.
They only run trips if there are enough people to make it viable.
Just say no!

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What’s wrong with a meeting during the day? Teachers never get paid overtime so any meeting in the evening is in their time for nothing.
Same as caring for your kids 24/7 on a trip. Never given a penny extra.

Your 1st point. Regardless of costs there will always be some parents who say yes,
So even with some (most) of these trips not full they go ahead anyway(at least they do at my kids school). These expensive trips are based on the Per person cost not overall cost so as long as they have the minimum number they won’t be cancelled.

Your 2nd point. Problem with meeting during the day is an issue for a lot of people getting time off work or even location. For me it’s about location I cannot physically get the time off for 3 separate parent/teacher meetings (I’m sure a lot would struggle to convince employers the same). In addition being a separated family means added distance issues, would take me a full day off work and a 2 hr drive each way for a 15min meeting, factor in doing that 3 times and that’s a lot of lost time. Fortunately the one good thing my kids school does is, parent teacher meetings via Teams video call. So both myself and my ex wife can be on video link with the teacher at a time that suits the teacher so nobody loses out.

 

[Red devil]

Jim Ratcliffe - crying about the uk whilst living in the tax haven of Monaco

Utd have form for having idiot owners. Apart from the Glazer thieves we were also blessed with the imbecile, Martin Edwards.
A man who's main hobby it appears was a strategically placed mirror under cubicles of female toilets. And the charging to the club the expenses of accommodating young ladies who kept him company on lonely trips abroad on club business

 

[Fade and Die]

I, against most, think toilet brushes are the worst invention ever!

People find it odd I wipe my own skiddies with loo roll

Mate I’m drinking a lot of Guiness this weekend. That bog brush might be the difference between a lovely Valentine weekend or Divorce

 

[Crazyface]

Why can't billionaires just enjoy their money? Always have to come out with some nonsense.

Also, the MP for Clacton coming out telling us wfh doesn't work. I've saved a 3 hour commute and can spend that time with my children. It's working for me...maybe he's just worried about his mate's office blocks.

Hmmm. Depends on how you look at it. If I had a comapany I wouldn't allow it. You cannot build cameraderie by working from home. Also, a quick shout round the office when a query come up can resolve it quickly, etc etc etc.

 

[Crazyface]

Beer, and by beer I mean proper beer. Please don't get into an arguement what beer is. We stayed in a lovely little pub on Friday night that sold THE BEST PINT OF BASS I've had in 10 years, sheer bliss. But lord in heaven it don't half mess with your insides the next day.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

You have just given me an idea. Why don't the countries these people are coming from, to the UK, let the UK run their countries, and we can develop them and make them great places for them to live in so they don't need to leave? But no they don't want this. They want to attempt to impose their lifestyles of us. Oh well when our ladies are forced to wear the Burka in areas which they dominate, don't say you weren't all warned.

Who are “our” ladies ? And why would they be forced to wear a burka

Shall we force all the ladies to wear flower dresses and hats ?

 

[Crazyface]

Who are “our” ladies ? And why would they be forced to wear a burka

Shall we force all the ladies to wear flower dresses and hats ?

If you don't know what I mean then you are part of the problem. Stop being argementative.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

If you don't know what I mean then you are part of the problem. Stop being argementative.

Oh I think everyone knows what you mean ( maybe for once ) but it’s your standard scaremongering based on very little fact

 

[Lucifer MorningStar]

You have just given me an idea. Why don't the countries these people are coming from, to the UK, let the UK run their countries, and we can develop them and make them great places for them to live in so they don't need to leave? But no they don't want this. They want to attempt to impose their lifestyles of us. Oh well when our ladies are forced to wear the Burka in areas which they dominate, don't say you weren't all warned.

What an absolutely bizarre comment. Someone posts stating it’s hilarious brits complaining about colonising. Yet your response is to essentially state we should go to other countries and effectively colonise them again and run them how we want them to run. Whilst complaining about people coming here imposing their ideals.

Might wanna get off that beer you’ve been saying is so great. Perhaps your political leanings about this subject might better off of a golf forum and better voiced at a Tommy Robinson rally!

 

[Hobbit]

Oh I think everyone knows what you mean ( maybe for once ) but it’s your standard scaremongering based on very little fact

On the issue of what women wear in certain areas of London, certain ‘groups’ have street marshals who will approach women who they believe need to cover up/longer dresses/higher collars etc. The street patrols also approach people who are drinking alcohol saying, “this is a Muslim area.”

The local Muslim mosque, its Imam, is against these patrols. The local police are confronting the street marshals.

Both the BBC & CNN have shown footage of this happening.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

On the issue of what women wear in certain areas of London, certain ‘groups’ have street marshals who will approach women who they believe need to cover up/longer dresses/higher collars etc. The street patrols also approach people who are drinking alcohol saying, “this is a Muslim area.”

The local Muslim mosque, its Imam, is against these patrols. The local police are confronting the street marshals.

Both the BBC & CNN have shown footage of this happening.

I have no doubt there is isolated areas around the UK where groups will be forcing people of certain religions to “follow” certain “traditions”

But the idea that “our” women - will be forced to follow the same traditions or women of other religions is complete nonsense and the sort of stuff you see Robinson spouting

 

[Bazz]

Hmmm. Depends on how you look at it. If I had a comapany I wouldn't allow it. You cannot build cameraderie by working from home. Also, a quick shout round the office when a query come up can resolve it quickly, etc etc etc.

I've got my mates for camaraderie, and everytime I've been in the office most of that is just gossiping about the rest of the team.

Also, if it was your company, you'd want the best people doing the job, with wfh, that might be some bloke sat in Scotland with your office in Southampton.

Pros and cons to both I guess.

 

[Bazz]

You have just given me an idea. Why don't the countries these people are coming from, to the UK, let the UK run their countries, and we can develop them and make them great places for them to live in so they don't need to leave? But no they don't want this. They want to attempt to impose their lifestyles of us. Oh well when our ladies are forced to wear the Burka in areas which they dominate, don't say you weren't all warned.

Isn't that what already happened for many many years?

 

[D-S]

On the issue of what women wear in certain areas of London, certain ‘groups’ have street marshals who will approach women who they believe need to cover up/longer dresses/higher collars etc. The street patrols also approach people who are drinking alcohol saying, “this is a Muslim area.”

The local Muslim mosque, its Imam, is against these patrols. The local police are confronting the street marshals.

Both the BBC & CNN have shown footage of this happening.

Weird and extremely unusual things happen in tiny, fractional areas in every country - thre are odd unacceptable people across the world (many of whom are powerful in national institutions).
I don’t know anyone who has heard of anyone they know having such things happen to them. To have this sort of occurrence bandied around as if it is any realistic issue in almost everyone’s daily life is pure scaremongering of the worst kind designed to exacerbate division and hatred. It needs calling out every time it raises its ugly head.

 

[RichA]

On the issue of what women wear in certain areas of London, certain ‘groups’ have street marshals who will approach women who they believe need to cover up/longer dresses/higher collars etc. The street patrols also approach people who are drinking alcohol saying, “this is a Muslim area.”

The local Muslim mosque, its Imam, is against these patrols. The local police are confronting the street marshals.

Both the BBC & CNN have shown footage of this happening.

Where is this alleged to be happening?

 

[Tashyboy]

So am just talking to Missis Tash re school trips and she mentions a woman in one of her fitness classes. Daughter has just come back from a skiing trip. During school term. Now let that bit sink in. Not during school Holidays. So who gets the fine.
The next point is, it’s not a trip where it is part of the learning curriculum. It is a holiday, plain and simple. Which then begs the question. Why?
Now some of those holidays or trips, whatever one wants to call them. You can get a family holiday for the same money.
I have lost count the amount of times we have taken the grand kids abroad and let me tell you a week lay on a sun bed proudly showing the locals my bulging speedos and crocs is my idea of a week of hell. The kids know we will be out at some time exploring.
Lanzarote is not complete without taking the kids to Timanfaya national park, Mirador del Tio, Cueva de los Verdes, Jamos del Agua. And for a kid walking through lava tubes that loves volcanos it is heaven.
April is Ibiza with the grandkids and we will be out again.
Schools are very good at banging on about peer pressure, asking kids to go on thousands of pounds holidays is the ultimate in peer pressure.

 

[irip]

Hmmm. Depends on how you look at it. If I had a comapany I wouldn't allow it. You cannot build cameraderie by working from home. Also, a quick shout round the office when a query come up can resolve it quickly, etc etc etc.

The best thing I ever did was allow staff to work from home if they wanted to.
We still have our office and all meet once a year there.
As a company we have found productivity to be up and people actually working longer than they need to finish a certain job where previously they may of had a train or bus to catch.
It also means we have people having less time off for hospital/doctors/dentist etc and less sick days across the board.
We have a WhatsApp for any questions which works perfectly well and zoom meetings if required.
Also if for some reason we have a power cut at the office it’s not a problem anymore.
We now have people working for us in different countries who are extremely good at their jobs that previously wouldn’t have been able to work for us.
And the best bit is like this week if I’m away I just take the laptop and can do what I need to at a time that suits me which allows me to go away whenever I want.

 

[Crazyface]

The best thing I ever did was allow staff to work from home if they wanted to.
We still have our office and all meet once a year there.
As a company we have found productivity to be up and people actually working longer than they need to finish a certain job where previously they may of had a train or bus to catch.
It also means we have people having less time off for hospital/doctors/dentist etc and less sick days across the board.
We have a WhatsApp for any questions which works perfectly well and zoom meetings if required.
Also if for some reason we have a power cut at the office it’s not a problem anymore.
We now have people working for us in different countries who are extremely good at their jobs that previously wouldn’t have been able to work for us.
And the best bit is like this week if I’m away I just take the laptop and can do what I need to at a time that suits me which allows me to go away whenever I want.

I get your reasoning. But surely working on your own brings mental health questions.