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Post by dfunked on Aug 26, 2022 8:09:59 GMT
Geefe logic
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Post by askew on Aug 26, 2022 8:20:27 GMT
RIP fish and chips
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Aug 26, 2022 8:27:11 GMT
We have a continuity planning meeting this afternoon for a general strike scenario. I have let it be known that I am not a scab, so Im quite looking forward to it.
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Post by starchildhypocrethes on Aug 26, 2022 8:40:04 GMT
What’s the best union option for a chair-spinning office worker / home worker?
I feel like becoming one of these militant unionists the Mail loves so much.
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Post by askew on Aug 26, 2022 8:48:11 GMT
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Aug 26, 2022 8:49:18 GMT
We are so big we have our own union (fancy like), so I dunno.
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Post by mcmonkeyplc on Aug 26, 2022 8:53:48 GMT
I propose we create an Excel workers union...globally.
The only requirement is that you use Excel for atleast 70% of your work.
We could bring down the entire economy World.
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Post by drhickman1983 on Aug 26, 2022 8:54:20 GMT
What’s the best union option for a chair-spinning office worker / home worker? I feel like becoming one of these militant unionists the Mail loves so much. Unite seem like they might be appropriate?
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Post by starchildhypocrethes on Aug 26, 2022 9:01:16 GMT
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Post by brokenkey on Aug 26, 2022 9:01:36 GMT
oh, I got a pair of those for Christmas last year, they are great.
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Post by starchildhypocrethes on Aug 26, 2022 9:02:42 GMT
We are so big we have our own union (fancy like), so I dunno. That’s pretty cool.
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Post by nazo on Aug 26, 2022 9:18:58 GMT
Fancy Like is a great name for a union.
Does watching TV instead of doing actual work from home count as solidarity? Asking for a friend.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Aug 26, 2022 9:19:44 GMT
Yeah, it actually is. We are pretty well protected, certainly in comparison to most non-union places. Like nobody can ask us to work over our contracted hours and if they do, its immediately paid overtime or TOIL. No wage theft allowed.
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Post by drhickman1983 on Aug 26, 2022 9:39:48 GMT
Looking into it, the largest union in my organisation was actually derecognised by HR a few years ago, but remain the largest within the group.
I'm more tempted to join them than Unite now.
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Post by Saul1138 on Aug 26, 2022 9:42:46 GMT
I propose we create an Excel workers union...globally. The only requirement is that you use Excel for atleast 70% of your work. We could bring down the entire economy World. If you will forgive my indulgence, I work with a complete cunt that insists on making every Excel file a shared document when he starts his shift, roughly an hour or less before my shift ends. It can then take me two minutes or more to save it after a couple of entries. I have told him, I can save it and let him do the work, but no. He is resolute he knows what is best. Yet he cannot get the driver’s packs out of the relevant trays without assistance. I am not saying it is bad, but a few weeks ago, whilst drunk, I told my Mam, that I feel like ending it all. An exaggeration, but I fucking hate everything about my current employment situation.
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Post by mcmonkeyplc on Aug 26, 2022 9:50:19 GMT
Why aren't you cheapskates using Office 365?
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Post by Saul1138 on Aug 26, 2022 9:55:01 GMT
Why aren't you cheapskates using Office 365? I get two days off out of seven. I want a product to reflect my circumstances in its title.
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Post by jeepers on Aug 26, 2022 10:23:07 GMT
It'll cost me 14 quid a month to join Unite. That's a tad more than I'd like to pay tbh. Need to consider it more. If it was like, 5-10 quid Id possibly not question it. 🎵 The Union forever defending our rights Down with the blackleg, all workers unite With our brothers and our sisters Together we will stand There is power in a … Wait. FOURTEEN pounds? I mean, a tenner, yes, but FOURTEEN POUNDS?! 🎵
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Post by Saul1138 on Aug 26, 2022 10:40:12 GMT
It depends on what cock of a company you work for, but I used to work for Wincanton, and as they are cunts, I couldn’t give a shit about naming them. I had three occasions where they stopped money from my pay, with no notification. Each time I went through the route of asking why this was, and being ignored continuously. My last email would always I would escalate this further, and the union gave me their support. Each time it was resolved in my favour. Because they they were cunts that thought bullying worked.
To give you an example of when they deducted pay from me. I had all the symptoms of COVID, and had to go into the mandatory isolation. I got this after coming into contact with someone who had tested positive for COVID. I don’t know why my spell checker capilitises that. They argued that I couldn’t say whom I had been in contact with. Despite the fact that a manager had come into work, took me into an office, and explained that he tested positive and had came in to pick up the fuel card so he could get home. I mean, type one diabetic isn’t the highest risk category, but it is up there. They on,y relented when I pointed out that it was me that notified the NHS that I had been in contact with someone that’s tested positive, and developed symptoms, that I took the time off. Cunts, I was shitting myself the whole time that I was going to die, and they stopped my wages as if I was a puss taking twat.
Fuck anyone that opposes unions.
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Post by Reviewer on Aug 26, 2022 10:44:10 GMT
Our work union is awful. They thought they’d been clever this year and got a good pay rise agreed for everyone but it turns out it was 50% of what they thought + 50% up to managers who were encouraged to not give it.
They asked for 15% last year and got 2.1%.
Unions are good, they need to not have morons running them though.
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Post by drhickman1983 on Aug 26, 2022 12:04:17 GMT
I've not been that close to the news, but it appears Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi's earth shattering suggestion is that people should look to cut down for much energy they used.
Fucking cunt, he'll be one of my first targets once I snap*
(*Unlikely as I'm lazy but I'll damn well imagine unspeakable things happening to him)
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Post by TheSaint on Aug 26, 2022 12:19:09 GMT
Big words from the guy who asks the tax payer to heat his stables.
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Post by mcmonkeyplc on Aug 26, 2022 12:39:00 GMT
I want the heating in Westminster set to 18C. All winter.
10 and 11 downing street the same.
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Post by Gruf on Aug 26, 2022 13:04:28 GMT
This is just the start of it I know, which is fucking frightening, but looking at the MSE cap calculator and taking into account the Tory fucks £60 odd quid loan I will be paying slightly less than I am now I know I am on the low end, single and 2 bed flat, pay 89 a month with Octopus, MSE calculator guesses £77 total from their approximation of £140 after the rise, then minus £60 odd loan. I tend not to use a ton more during the winter, I am an extra layers guy, but make no mistake this will kill a lot off, maybe that is this so called governments only commmited policy "covid and freeze the poor to death, that will learn them" Have a go if it helps. www.moneysavingexpert.com/utilities/what-are-the-price-cap-unit-rates-/?bcode=73b72985-4aa8-4213-833d-c12037d516ba#tool&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=CEC_Subscribers&utm_campaign=PriceCapAug22&utm_content=account1
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Post by Jambowayoh on Aug 26, 2022 13:09:01 GMT
Well Boris did want to let the bodies pile up in the streets. He may soon get his wish.
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Post by X201 on Aug 26, 2022 14:30:16 GMT
I'll be paying 80% more
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Post by mcmonkeyplc on Aug 26, 2022 14:50:07 GMT
My monthly rate has gone up 109% since Jan 21.
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Post by Zomoniac on Aug 26, 2022 14:58:59 GMT
Well Boris did want to let the bodies pile up in the streets. He may soon get his wish. Between removing the covid restrictions and making all the poor people freeze to death it will resolve the housing crisis though. A few million new vacant properties by the time spring comes around. Everyone's a winner. Unless you're dead.
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Post by clemfandango on Aug 26, 2022 15:04:01 GMT
Yey I go up 87% and hit £6k per annum
Glorious....
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Post by henroben on Aug 26, 2022 15:04:06 GMT
Well that was depressing, a 78% increase apparently. Have just ordered some coal for the first time in a decade and am planing to spend the weekend sawing up the remains of a tree that came down a couple of years ago. Should be nice and dry now... Still some back of an envelope calculations tell me that it should be around 20p an hour for gaming on a PS5 + LG OLED tv from October 1st, which doesn't seem too bad... although possibly something I should keep in mind before picking up the next 100 hr + rpg
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