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Winseer:

fonzi:

Winseer:

tmcassett:
I’ve not got a clue what any of the above means or what you are going on about now!

However I have tried to give you some friendly advice about finding a good job but as per usual its gone straight over your head and set you off on one of your rants about … well I don’t actually know, although I did detect a little bit of “the world is against me” and “its not my fault” within your post.

Who’s ranting? I’ve explained myself, I’m not prepared to compromise who I am to fit in, and I’ve got another job for the past two months already. What I don’t have any longer, is any hassle at work from people resenting me for being there, and trying to get rid of me the moment I rub them up the wrong way. I leave politics, religion, and socializing at the door, (Easier during Lockdown btw) and the knowledge that I don’t carry a smart phone means no one pesters me for my number neither. I’m “hidden in plain sight” you might say, as I make no secret of who I am still, with my online prescence under the “Winseer” name being for rather longer than I’ve held even a car licence, let alone one with LGV entitlements on it.

I’m now dug-in for the deep recession to come… If I was to be written off as some kind of “Loadsamoney” character, duly run over and got rid of in due course, then presumably everyone else is going to duck and dive just to maintain their own positions from here on… Now that they realize what a cushy but inherantly fragile work position they might be clinging onto in these ever-deepening times of Austerity that we continue to face…

Hahahaha Winseer You must be an absolute joy to live with. Very funny to read your posts, but please do not park up next to me as I would be Suicidal within twenty minutes of listening to you depressing look on life.

Au contraire, Blackadder - by preparing for “s…t happening”, I actually take a far more optimistic view on life than most other people.
There’s always another angle, and I continue to look forward to my ship coming in one day…
“Setbacks” I’ve found are most often the machinations of other people. “Get too far ahead, too correct, or too cheesy-smile “correct” on ANYTHING” - and there will always be someone else out there playing “Sheriff” who’ll take you down a peg or two… I’ve no doubt that I might have been sucked in at an early age myself, and totally corrupted by those more upmarket early life experiences… You know, the ones where people “have it all”, only to then want to pull the ladder up so others cannot share that prosperity. We laughed when people like Nick Leeson brought down the bank because we ordinary folk didn’t lose out personally as a result… Not so the case with Bernie Madoff. We’ll laugh if some driver were to smash up so many vehicles at their yard that an unpopular yard goes under - but we won’t be laughing if we’re one of those workers at the same depot who then couldn’t find employment elsewhere, due to the now-bad reputation of that firm.

It isn’t “Depressing” then, not to me at least - if one prepares for an oncoming recession where a lot of us will choose to take early retirement, consider a complete career change, or even lucks up and can afford to completely turn over their life for the better… The ones that to ME would seem “depressing” are those who will eagerly accept downward moving T&Cs in their jobs, rather than risk losing those jobs to the next person in line who’d now be prepared to do it for even LESS.

If you are too eager to compromise youself - you WILL be compromised at any and every opportunity.

I’m post-lockdown ready now, like I’ve been post-Brexit ready for the past 4 years.
The main worry left to me - are those criminals who’d attack me and my family because I don’t support their politics…
We don’t have any “2nd ammendment” in this country, which leaves us all vulnerable should home invasions come later in this forthcoming economic depression we now face. Who are we gonna call?

NOT “Ghostbusters”, clearly…

I’ve seen gangs of youths wandering around parked cars on the streets of late, as if looking for something to either nick in one of the cars (they seem to be looking in different car windows…) OR steal the entire car.
To date though, a resident coming out to their front porch, glaring at the perps, and folding their arms as if to say “I’m keeping an eye on YOU”… - no outbreaks of violence and/or theft/vandalism have taken place - YET.

Because I don’t drive a flash car, I worry less about such “crimes” myself of course.
These youths are all masked, meaning that one benefit of the lockdown ending officially now - will be that criminals can’t hide in plain sight any longer.
Curfews meanwhile, don’t apply to “Protestors”, so they will hardly apply to criminals going about their daily business neither - will they?

Despite living in a neighborhood with a fairly high crime rate - the only aspect of it that bothers me is having to pay more for my car insurance premiums, just to park my car at my house at night now that I’m not working the graveyard shifts at agency any longer.

Winseers Version of war & piece comes to mind. But I still stand by my previous post. Please do not Invite Winseer to the party as Party pooper would be the outcome. “But you are missing the point” Life is what YOU make it. Not what others make for you. And if you are that Pi**ed off with it, then do something about it. Its your life and if you are happy to sit back and cry into your milk about everything that you are not happy about. Then you clearly are not Living your life but a life that you do not want… " Everything thing will be alright in the end " And if it is not then it is not the End"

How on Earth could this government take on an economic project with no end - seemingly an even loftier task than “Getting Brexit Done” now?

I can’t see any way of getting Teachers and paid sick/furloughed people back to work for the forseeable future now.
Without those teachers going back to work - the rest of us that used to hold down a job with kids in tow - cannot return to work neither - can they?
My kid’s school has offered her a position in class as a “child of a key worker” for instance. Not much good though if the general curriculum is currently under mothball until further notice though - is it?
She can’t very well attend lessons in the Sciences for instance, if some supply teacher of Flower Arranging Expertise is called in to take those lessons that would and should have been in Labs with practical experiements for instance, but the usual highly qualified teacher in times of norm - is currently self-isolating through no fault of their own?

I onced defined “Brexit Done” as being “When we don’t pay them any more” rather than “When our government told us it was done”. AT present, Brexit was done “poltiically” on 31st January THIS year. Brexit has yet to be done “Financially”, but we’re told it happens on December 31st THIS year. We’ll see… At the moment, we’re losing money all over the place as a country, - but as far as I know, we’re STILL paying the ten-figure sum per month to the Brussels Coffers…

I now define “Lockdown Over” as being when the kids ALL are back at school. Not “half classes”, not “Some teachers still self-isolating”… not “When exams are no longer suspended”…

Sorry, off topic that one above…

I know a couple of ASDA checkout girls who have currently got their other half at home looking after the kids off school.

One of them has a husband who’s getting furloughed from his sports center where he was working before, and the other has a long-standing boyfriend (dad to two of her three kids) who is long-term unemployed, but used to be a welder over a decade back.

What happens to furloughed family when the furlough ends? Does mum have to chuck her job in to go back home to be Mum again? There’s no “Child Care” to be had, these days don’t forget, and arranging the council supplements for external child care - are just as hard as well, even if a registered child minder could be found that is available to be employed at this time.

Then there’s the issue of “mundane income” to take into account.

It seems to me that the long term unemployed bloke - is in a better position going forward than the other guy - doesn’t it?
She gets to keep her job, he gets to stay at home with the kids, and the benefits they are already getting - keep on going, automatically by this point.
PLUS there’s less pressure on him at home to be always “looking for a job”, because we all know that finding a job these days - is as hard as it’s ever been - right?

Back to ASDA - and let’s hope they don’t get all abusive to their staff (I spoke of “contractual abuses” in other threads) putting people under pressure to either work family-unfriendly hours, or quitting outright when one can least afford to lose that job.