villa4europe Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 2 hours ago, mjmooney said: I was on 35 days holiday (plus several gratis days added on to bank holidays, and a week at Xmas) at a UK university. Admittedly, that wasn't universal, but based on pay grade and years of service. Think my mom is the same at the council, after 5 years of service they start adding 1 day per year extra holiday up to a max of 35 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 One of my mates was Inland Revenue before he retired. They had a perpetual backlog of work, but weren’t allowed to pay over time. So they would offer time and a half of in lieu if staff worked a weekend. Now, I’m not a numbers expert, but I can see quite an issue there... 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted February 10, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted February 10, 2020 (edited) 52 minutes ago, villa4europe said: Think my mom is the same at the council, after 5 years of service they start adding 1 day per year extra holiday up to a max of 35 Yeah, that exactly how it worked. I think I started on 25, went up to 30 over the next five years, then got a promotion that gave me another five. EDIT: But no paid overtime (or even TOIL), except in exceptional circumstances. One of my last bugbears was doing a massive amount of overtime to meet a deadline that would have cost the uni a hefty fine if missed. Got my boss out of the shit, and she assured me that she'd sort out a generous ex gratia payment. Never heard any more about it. Edited February 10, 2020 by mjmooney Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 (edited) Joys of being in the construction industry "I've done my week" Now I'm on proper flexi time, surprised me in that I'm now actually earlier to work every day, can take a max of 10 days off from accumulated time too (I'm currently at 23 hours in the bank) but I tend to knock Friday afternoons on the head to which the Portuguese construction director shakes his head and laughs "you english" which also cheers me up Edited February 10, 2020 by villa4europe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 I get 1 extra day off per 5 years, I actually get in on the 5th year, so actually do 4, get extra day in year 5, 10, 15 etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Genie Posted February 10, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted February 10, 2020 (edited) An ongoing source of amusement for me and the wife is screenshotting and laughing at some Facebook listings. Whether it’s absolute junk they think they can sell, or the incredible lack of basic English in the descriptions. I just discovered this Facebook group with 80,000 members. Edited February 10, 2020 by Genie 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 This is marvellous. You may want to edit for swears though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 1 minute ago, Seat68 said: This is marvellous. You may want to edit for swears though. Just done it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 Some spillage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted February 10, 2020 Moderator Share Posted February 10, 2020 Mattress with slight elephant cum stains. It's memory foam because elephants never forget Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 (edited) Edited February 10, 2020 by Genie 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 There we go, 10:50pm and the fox that’s wider than the distance between bars on my side gate has just crashed through my side gate at jogging speed. World’s worst ninja. Every **** night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post snowychap Posted February 12, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted February 12, 2020 1 hour ago, chrisp65 said: There we go, 10:50pm and the fox that’s wider than the distance between bars on my side gate has just crashed through my side gate at jogging speed. World’s worst ninja. Every **** night. Baseball bat and the wife's kimono? 2 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted February 12, 2020 Author Share Posted February 12, 2020 Long tailed tits, pretty uncommon in my area, using the bird feeder right outside my front window. Lovely to watch. And yes, put this one in the calendar; a post about tits that's non-sexual 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted February 12, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted February 12, 2020 1 hour ago, rjw63 said: Long tailed tits, pretty uncommon in my area, using the bird feeder right outside my front window. Lovely to watch. See 'em quite often here - they usual go around in gangs of about 20. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted February 12, 2020 Author Share Posted February 12, 2020 25 minutes ago, mjmooney said: See 'em quite often here - they usual go around in gangs of about 20. Only a pair here, must be harder tits here as they don't go out mob handed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mottaloo Posted February 12, 2020 Share Posted February 12, 2020 1 hour ago, rjw63 said: Only a pair here, must be harder tits here as they don't go out mob handed What ? You'd be disappointed if i didn't post a KW pic 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post bickster Posted February 13, 2020 Moderator Popular Post Share Posted February 13, 2020 Everyone needs an office idiot to cheer them up The female idiot (female is to distinguish her from the male idiot, for there's one of those too) in the IT team has just done this... We bought some new barcode scanners to speed up inventory. She was tasked with setting them up The rest of the department are knee deep in some quite important issues that need resolving but one of them notices that she's put the USB for the scanner into a wall USB (They are not networked, merely charging ports) They think nothing of it, presuming that the scanners might need charging and anyway they are busy She then starts playing with the scanners and complaining loudly (as she does) that they are shit and they don't work and that they'll have to be sent back. "Moan, Whinge, Gripe....ad nauseum" Then it suddenly dawns on her what she's done so she very sheepishly and quietly tries to pull the USB out of the wall so that no-one will notice... Except one of the lads who had his back to her just blurts out... "You didn't plug that into the wall and try and test them did you?" She tries to blame everyone and everything under the sun and denies that's what happenned Room falls about laughing and she storms out. Funny as F*** 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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