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Post by freddiemercurystwin on Jan 19, 2023 10:28:22 GMT
Or hire a car?
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Post by Dougs on Jan 19, 2023 10:29:33 GMT
Expense a one way hire car? Some cockney geezer popped up on my Twitter timeline...was taking a black cab from London to Manchester. Was still cheaper than the train.
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Post by dogbot on Jan 19, 2023 10:58:31 GMT
Expense a one way hire car? Some cockney geezer popped up on my Twitter timeline...was taking a black cab from London to Manchester. Was still cheaper than the train. Blimey (guv).
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2023 12:11:53 GMT
Or move/delegate your meetings for tomorrow and travel back then. You can still work offline on the bus or whatever. These meetings are a consequence of my project suddenly stalling meaning I need to break the news I need an extra 6 months and 500k to the directors, and get the project teams back on track. But that is a whole rant I could fill tge entire forum with. Politically I cannot move these meetings. I think I will just hire a car.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2023 12:13:38 GMT
Some cockney geezer popped up on my Twitter timeline...was taking a black cab from London to Manchester. Was still cheaper than the train. Blimey (guv). I have flown the following transcontinental return flights for less than I paid for a return train journey last week internally uk. (Normal train, not even first class.) Tokyo Orlando Bangkok Hong Kong Train prices in the UK are a disgrace.
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Post by pierrepressure on Jan 22, 2023 9:11:34 GMT
Took a new job internally last May and signed the contract which officially made me a remote worker.
A couple of months into the role and the new manager wanted us in every Tuesday, we grudgingly agreed as we could see some benefit to gathering the team together (easier to share best practice, etc).
Now he and upper management are threatening to increase this to two, maybe three days a week and all hell has broke loose as he's confirmed to the guys who travel between 1.5 to 2.5 hours away they can just do the one day still.
I've kicked up a bit of stink and said I'm not sure you can give preferential treatment to those that live further away, we're all on a remote worker contract after all. Think they see me as a trouble maker now when all I wanted was to make sure we're treated equally.
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Post by dfunked on Jan 22, 2023 10:42:58 GMT
Cunts. Brush up the CV asap! You're probably not in danger, but that's the kind of thing that'd make me move jobs on principal.
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Post by Dougs on Jan 22, 2023 10:59:06 GMT
"don't make me point to the contract".
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Jan 22, 2023 11:21:32 GMT
‘I sold my car on the basis of this role being fully remote. Happy to take a car allowance if the job requires transport’
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Post by 😎 on Jan 22, 2023 15:16:49 GMT
I just got an email from Walmart asking me how I enjoyed the frozen pizza I bought the other day. All fine except for the fact I didn’t use anything connected to a Walmart account or personal details to buy it. My Walmart account has a different payment method linked to it and you don’t sign into any account or have any club card to scan or anything. So it must have been facial recognition linking to my account which is all sorts of creepy.
It was Lil Yachty’s pizza too.
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Post by sport✅ on Jan 22, 2023 15:44:50 GMT
Did you enjoy Lil Yachty's or not?
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Post by 😎 on Jan 22, 2023 15:58:31 GMT
Not as good as Rick Ross’ Sweet Chili Lemon Pepper crisps
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2023 17:08:31 GMT
Annual rant I know, but fucking motorcycle insurance.
Last year was 240 odd, renewal quote is 580.
Comparison site got me down to 144. I know these businesses rely on people being too lazy to switch, but 4x the amount is just ludicrous.
When I phoned them up they have even stopped with a pretence of caring or customer service. Their response was "we no longer quote or renew by phone, those departments are gone. All is done via computer now and no longer any discussion or price matching."
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Post by cubby on Jan 22, 2023 17:22:21 GMT
Weird, my car insurance goes down quite a lot each year so that's why I never bother to switch. Though that's ever since I started using Churchill, before that I was regularly switching. So maybe it's just that Churchill are good.
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Post by EMarkM on Jan 22, 2023 19:01:22 GMT
We use a local broker for the Jimny, the Hyundai, the motorbike and the house insurance, and our renewals decrease pretty much every year.
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Post by sport✅ on Jan 22, 2023 20:29:38 GMT
It's yoon-day btw.
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Post by cubby on Jan 22, 2023 20:33:39 GMT
Highland Dry?
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Post by Blue_Mike on Jan 26, 2023 11:03:08 GMT
DHL can go fuck themselves.
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Post by Aunt Alison on Jan 26, 2023 11:04:02 GMT
Lucky
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Post by Blue_Mike on Jan 28, 2023 22:45:37 GMT
Deliveroo can get to fuck as well.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2023 23:00:20 GMT
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Post by Blue_Mike on Jan 29, 2023 0:01:39 GMT
For fucks sake. Me and the missus each had stressful days at work, and we had very little of substance in the fridge so we decided to get a takeaway. Ordered from the Nandos app at just after 8.30 this evening. Estimated delivery time was 21.29 to 21.39.
By 5 to 10, according to the tracker it was still being prepared, so I phoned them and asked for an update. The guy said it had been ready and waiting for a Deliveroo driver to collect it at 21.43 (after the estimated delivery time), and to just hang on for a while.
Given that they closed at 10, I figured the latest the staff would be there cleaning would be 10.30, so by that time we ordered a McDonalds instead.
That turned up, but 20 minutes late. One item missing from my meal, and the two large fries were each about half full.
I just checked the Nandos app again, and now at midnight it still says the meal is being prepared and will be delivered between 21.29 to 21.39.
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Post by nexus6 on Jan 29, 2023 9:12:13 GMT
Any update on this meal?
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Post by Aunt Alison on Jan 29, 2023 9:20:24 GMT
Doesn't sound like the McDonalds delivery driver had to wait for his dinner
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Post by Blue_Mike on Jan 29, 2023 9:24:51 GMT
actually just checked the app, and it's still the same estimate.
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Post by nexus6 on Jan 29, 2023 9:26:12 GMT
actually just checked the app, and it's still the same estimate. Can you get your money back on the Nando’s order? I’m invested now and need to know
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Post by freddiemercurystwin on Jan 29, 2023 11:44:26 GMT
It was your own fault for ordering from Nandos to be fair.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2023 12:12:54 GMT
Cheeky.
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Post by RumMonkey on Jan 29, 2023 12:15:21 GMT
Nandos isn't too bad. And Peri Peri sauce is banging.
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Post by Blue_Mike on Jan 29, 2023 12:16:41 GMT
Nandos isn't too bad. And Peri Peri sauce is banging. The maple and orange one they had over Xmas was phenomenal.
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