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The holiday accrual is weird. I really can’t understand why you have a leave entitlement when not working. I’ve heard stories (not sure if they’re true) of people deciding not to return at the end of parental leave and then having to be paid for accrued leave.
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Yes, legally they would need to be paid for it.
It was an EU thing, so could now change.
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Obviously it's only anecdotal, but I do think the employer benefits from supporting staff to have children if they want to.
Anyway Badenoch is now engaged in the usual denial that that is what she said despite it being recorded.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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It does sound a bit like she might have unfortunately carried on answering the question she wanted to be asked, and didn't listen to the question she was actually being asked. She needs to learn to just plough on with her speech, without putting in things that sound like direct answers like "Yes".
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A bit off topic but, assuming its an office/desk chair what chair did you buy? I know this might sound a bit daft but I have had a few over the past few years that seem to wear out/break way sooner than they should and I'm looking to buy a new one at the moment - looking for something that I think is usually termed an "executive chair" (with height and lean adjustment etc. if that's what you bought) for my home office.
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Truss still insisting on trying to prove she is completely delusional.
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Yep, if only they'd stuck with her and abolished the OBR, everything would be fine. Certifiably nuts, but since that's worked out so far for Trump, why not?
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Anecdotal story loosely related. I once worked with someone who had 6 months off with pay due to stress. Came back only to put in for all their accrued holiday leave. Came back and successfully applied for 3 months paid notice voluntary redundancy. I'm almost tempted to work out their hourly rate for the year.
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
I can't find the exact model now online but it was from Costco, so over 4 years ago as it was an initial lockdown purchase, and still in use today as good as new.
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I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.1 -
Look at refurbished Herman Miller Aeron, very expensive, but worth it if you spend a lot of time in it.
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Hey, good luck with that, Bob. Nothing if not ambitious, given that to be a 'young Conservative' now you only have to be under 60.
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Yep, these are good and are repairable, should you break something.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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If one needs any more evidence that the Tory Party has collectively lost its marbles... what has the Star of David got to do with the UK?
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Is it possible she thinks it's just something nice in the run up to Christmas?
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I might take issue with your use of the word 'thinks' there.
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Not my joke, but soon Labour will have to declare Truss as a gift.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Having alienated mothers, Badenoch is now going for the youth vote by arguing against the minimum wage now. I think Labour will be delighted with any of them.
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She's just so thin-skinned. She says something - that she thinks employment legislation is too onerous for employers - but in a slightly clumsy and opaque way. People then ask her to clarify and elaborate and she immediately jumps to aggressively accusing journalists of confecting a row and deliberately misrepresenting her. She doesn't think ahead.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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It's not quite the Johnson gambit of saying whatever's needed to make it past today's headlines - in some ways it's worse, as she does actually seem to have planned the first utterance that she then has to pretend doesn't mean exactly what she said. Johnson just didn't plan anything.
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Not thinking ahead? Surely a prerequisite to be leader far less PM*. Won't win.
*Or at least fake a bit of forethought.
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I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Wonder why Stevo didn’t post that one in the silly thread?
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Looks like they will pick Jenrick when they should pick Cleverly to go up against Starmer in 5 years time.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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I'm sure he's been very busy. Maybe he's spent the day at Birmingham advising on how to declare £75k donations from companies in tax havens.
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5 years is a long time for a tory leader.
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If whoever wins does last that long, I suspect Starmer will have plenty of ammunition already lined up. I wonder what gifts they accepted whilst in government and didn't declare...
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I see Badenough has praised Israel for the 'amazing thing they did with the pagers'. Does this mean Rick's conversion to the
Dark SideTories is complete and is that why his head exploded?0 -
Just once in a while our Sherelle writes something quite funny, though I'm not sure that obituaries are supposed to be funny.
"Currently, both friends and enemies of Kemi Badenoch are whispering in their cliques about her “car-crash” claims over maternity pay – and quite rightly. That Badenoch had a point on the perversity of working people having to subsidise other people’s children is irrelevant. What matters is her struggle to upgrade herself from a mere scrapping culture warrior to an epochal leader who can win the national argument on the need for change that is anchored in conservative values.
Badenoch’s inspiration, Mrs Thatcher, had a knack for selecting emblematic and winnable battles – from the radical deregulation of the financial sector to her focused legislation to curtail union power. If she was alive today, one wonders whether she would have quizzed Badenoch on why she had chosen to pick on pregnant women as the symbol of feckless Britain, particularly amid a fertility crisis.
When it comes to a choice between brain-dead radicalism and brain-dead centrism, most people in truth would choose the latter – if only to kid themselves that sticking with bland technocrats maximises national stability and the chance of a quiet life.
In its moments of humility the Tory machine likes to pronounce that it has “no divine right to exist”. The truth is much worse. At the moment, it has no infernal reason to exist at all."
There's an easy answer to her observation "What is particularly worrying for the party is that the leadership contest is failing to inject new life into the party. Their confected radicalism is not so much stirring things up as adding ambivalent flavour to the bland affair, like synthetic sweetener in airport tea." All four candidates were failed parts of a disaster of a government, and they can't disown it without admitting that and their failure.
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I'm puzzled. If the Tories are all washed up and irrelevant, why are you lot still bitching about them so much? 🙂
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]1 -
"All four candidates were failed parts of a disaster of a government, and they can't disown it without admitting that and their failure."
...and therein lies the rub.
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I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Coz they fucked us all up good and proper over past 14 years?
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