wednesday is not what it says, but what it means
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I was furloughed for 2 months and spent the time with my little boy (was 12-13 months at the time). I took him out almost every day for walks in the country and picnics etc. Was brilliant and would never have had that time with him if I had been working.2
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You'll not last.johngti said:... the next 15 years!
@seanoconn : fcuk off.
I am not retired anyways. I work part time. Anyway, it's a (full time) job being me.
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Ah bu ggerseanoconn said:The local milkman retired recently after 45 years in the job. He was dead inside two months. Must have been a shock to the system, no routine or reason to get out of bed.
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Nope, best thing I ever did.seanoconn said:
It does make you wondered how many oldies in BB would fall off their perch if the had nothing to do/felt useless.seanoconn said:The local milkman retired recently after 45 years in the job. He was dead inside two months. Must have been a shock to the system, no routine or reason to get out of bed.
Pinno and Wheelspinner must be clinging onto their perches by their fingernails/claws.Open One+ BMC TE29 Seven 622SL On One Scandal Cervelo RS0 -
From what is posted on here, Wheelspinner works harder in his retirement than i do in my full-time job...0
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Lack of sh@gging?seanoconn said:The local milkman retired recently after 45 years in the job. He was dead inside two months. Must have been a shock to the system, no routine or reason to get out of bed.
https://youtu.be/LEipG31iAC4 "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Since when did spannering old cars and building stuff with lego count as work?pinno said:
You'll not last.johngti said:... the next 15 years!
@seanoconn : fcuk off.
I am not retired anyways. I work part time. Anyway, it's a (full time) job being me.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
I negotiated 8 weeks "gardening leave" after taking voluntary from my previous job (having already got a new one in the bag the day before and having been there 15 years meant a year's salary was my goodbye - luckiest b@stard timing ever). It coincided with school summer hols (mini was 8, and the boy was just 12/13 - before he got all adolescent on us), it was amazing - a real wrench to have to go back to work. A miraculously hot week in Devon, then day trips and general mucking about, then 3 weeks "backpacking" in Andalucia. I suppose you don't appreciate the good, if you don't intersperse it with the mundane and the downright annoying, sprinkled with some genuinely interesting work.elbowloh said:I was furloughed for 2 months and spent the time with my little boy (was 12-13 months at the time). I took him out almost every day for walks in the country and picnics etc. Was brilliant and would never have had that time with him if I had been working.
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General chores and home schooling toots (being in the house while they have live lessons with the teacher) count as work apparently 😕Stevo_666 said:
Since when did spannering old cars and building stuff with lego count as work?pinno said:
You'll not last.johngti said:... the next 15 years!
@seanoconn : fcuk off.
I am not retired anyways. I work part time. Anyway, it's a (full time) job being me.Pinno, מלך אידיוט וחרא מכונאי0 -
No choice but to get as close as possiblepinno said:
You'll not last.johngti said:... the next 15 years!
@seanoconn : fcuk off.
I am not retired anyways. I work part time. Anyway, it's a (full time) job being me.
I can get about £1400 pa from 60 but that’s it. State pension and the rest of the teacher’s pension won’t kick in until 67 so absolutely booger all chance of surviving on the meagre amount I’ll get.0 -
Of course, if my ex drops off the mortal coil before that then it’ll instantly double to a whopping £2800 pa plus £9k lump sum. Hmmm. Wow.0
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Pinno, מלך אידיוט וחרא מכונאי5 -
My first redundancy coincided with a trip booked for Portugal Euro 2004, had an interview for a job before i flew, got a phone call to say i got the job whilst i was away and started a little bit after I got back. the money leftover served as the deposit for my first flat.hopkinb said:
I negotiated 8 weeks "gardening leave" after taking voluntary from my previous job (having already got a new one in the bag the day before and having been there 15 years meant a year's salary was my goodbye - luckiest b@stard timing ever). It coincided with school summer hols (mini was 8, and the boy was just 12/13 - before he got all adolescent on us), it was amazing - a real wrench to have to go back to work. A miraculously hot week in Devon, then day trips and general mucking about, then 3 weeks "backpacking" in Andalucia. I suppose you don't appreciate the good, if you don't intersperse it with the mundane and the downright annoying, sprinkled with some genuinely interesting work.elbowloh said:I was furloughed for 2 months and spent the time with my little boy (was 12-13 months at the time). I took him out almost every day for walks in the country and picnics etc. Was brilliant and would never have had that time with him if I had been working.
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Sounds perfect.elbowloh said:I was furloughed for 2 months and spent the time with my little boy (was 12-13 months at the time). I took him out almost every day for walks in the country and picnics etc. Was brilliant and would never have had that time with him if I had been working.
I know some people at work asked to be furloughed because they had children they couldn't send to childminders or relatives but I think it probably worked out really well for a lot of them.0 -
Did you sort that dodgy rear mech?seanoconn - gruagach craic!0
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Whoever recommended Chernobyl. Thanks. It's utterly brilliant and terrible. Up to episode 5.1
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See, this. As well as improving my academics, seeing more of the country on foot or bike, a bit of giving back. Pro bono accountancy/book keeping/ tax. Though by then it'll all be automated.oxoman said:LD just ignore the naysayer's and do some volunteer work or something. Mate does a day a wk for CAB as employment advisor / expert as an ex HR director he's pretty good at it,
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Tax avoidance/evasion won't be automated. I'm sure there's plenty of Ruskies in London who need creative accountants.hopkinb said:
See, this. As well as improving my academics, seeing more of the country on foot or bike, a bit of giving back. Pro bono accountancy/book keeping/ tax. Though by then it'll all be automated.oxoman said:LD just ignore the naysayer's and do some volunteer work or something. Mate does a day a wk for CAB as employment advisor / expert as an ex HR director he's pretty good at it,
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Just lost a minion again..35% increase in pay to go to a fintech. She's young and sparky. She's going to feed logic and knowledge to app developers to help small businesses have a bank account that also does their VAT compliance. It's the future.
For the sake of GBP 13k we've lost a good person.
Temp cover as she is compliance/business as usual critical, recruitment fees, likelihood of losing her manager who is already p!ssed off. The company will be 10's of thousands down, with disruption and annoyance to the business sky high. She was offered more money, but would have stayed with us for less than she was being offered as long as we were close. I was offered 2 grand. I said I would not even mention it to her, it would be an insult.
For 13k. My materiality level for group reporting? USD 18m.
It's not even rounding.
Gaaaah. Ballcocks. At least its not only my problem. Non rotating staff, i.e. non Japanese expats are leaving in droves.
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I do “work” hard round here, but that was the point of retirement. We’d not have bought this place and moved here if I was still going to be working for a long time.elbowloh said:From what is posted on here, Wheelspinner works harder in his retirement than i do in my full-time job...
It’s nothing like an extended holiday, that’s for sure. 😁
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A large part of me hopes tlw hasn't over-refreshed himself with apple-based rehydration fluid and passed out in the sex pond... 
