Things you hate IV

Yeah not bad. You?

Anyway, if anything the Council was saving taxpayers money by not collecting your bin this week!

 

Not bad either, thanks. Getting ready for the first T20 cricket match of the new season tonight.

On my way to the ground, I’ve just driven around to the Council HQ and left my uncollected recycling waste in their foyer, so I’m rid of it now!

We can move on

 

When you start a new role you are usually under a probation period and have no real rights. A company can just let you go after a few days with negligible notice and no reason needs to be given (though could be subject to racial/religious/sexual/disability etc claims). If you are left hanging by a potential employer for a week or two it could always be the case that they are waiting to see how their first choice, who has started, is working out while they keep you on the back-burner !

 

@ForzaWatford I’m sorry to hear about your unsuccessful job hunting, and hope you find something very soon, hopefully a job you will really like and enjoy too. Good Luck and easy though it is to say, try not to get dispirited.

 

The bloke who says "made in Chelsea" on the TV advert.

Especially the way he says Chelsaaaaay, all stupid and affected. What atwat.

 

It’s because slim fit and skinny fit are for grandad millennials, you’ll find regular or baggy fit wherever the Gen Z-er’s shop now.

 

Fraid so. Was debated in Parliament recently and unions very unhappy with it.

https://www.newstatesman.com/politi...weeks-unpaid-dwp-universal-credit-hidden-data

https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2021-01-18/debates/21011824000027/BanningOfUnpaidWorkTrials

 

Along with anybody who appears in it or promotes it. Horrific.

 

Some firms are terrible. I know of two massive places near me that are well known to advertise jobs and interview continuously, when they know there's no vacancy. They do have a high staff turnover so each time someone leaves they can match it back to people they've interviewed.

Keep persevering, having been made redundant in Dec, I've had one 3 month contract, then "sorry we feel youre more suited to a better job than us" type stuff. But today have had 2 offers of work in jobs I'd enjoy.

 

I've had a few people tell me they pay my wages. Not sure where they wanted the conversation to go. Shall we just say the speed and quality of the service offered deterioated much further.

 

@Hornpete I feel quite relieved I never used that expression then in my dealings with my local council today. Hopefully I’ve escaped your wrath as a result. For the record, the standard of service I received today was good. The call handlers were professional and helpful. It’s not the staff members’ fault that they work under such a stupid system.

 

Good to hear! I work on the bin route planning and will skip your street again next week though.

 

Vacuum shrink pack plastic bags for loft / cupboard storage.

Never ever stay in the vacuum sealed state for long.

 

should of asked 4 a pair of slacks m8

 

That's disgusting.

I have been told previously (on a couple of occasions) that I 'could' 'work' in the lab while I waited, at least, 6 months for a grant proposal to go through as that 'might help' me in becoming a permanent member of staff. In fact it's not that uncommon an experience for scientists in UK (and US) academia (some London Universities have a very bad reputations for this)...

Actually one university was pretty upfront about it: Birmingham once advertised a PDRA position (2 years FT in psychology on jobs.ac.uk) for the grand salary of £0k pa. It only took a few days for the ad to be pulled.

 

Just watch the Great British Sewing Bake-Off and you’ll be making your own in no time. This contestant made himself a very comfy pair.

 

They did actually have to make ‘Oxford Bags’ on last night’s episode.

Oooh it was exciting.

(I genuinely and unironically enjoy the show)

 

To me it seemed like the most boring idea for a show ever. Mrs Moose wanted to watch it so I huffily said Ok fine! But I’ll be looking at my phone the whole time! She replied Yeah chatting with your daft Watford mates you loser! No, no, one’s even a Leicester fan, so hahaha to you! I countered. This went on for a bit.

Now I’m completely hooked. Genuinely interesting and the sewers are amazing.

Serena to walk it in the final.

 

'Local character'

 

Yes, amazing.

 

To be fair those are very good sewers.

 

I have had that same conversation several times. Usually when I look up part way through a thriller and ask who all the characters are and what’s just happened. Filbert has also been referenced to prove “it’s not just watford fans”. I used to also mention “there’s even a politics section” but no more ......
Mrs TuT is probably on here. Maybe Moog...hopefully not RC...

 

Bucket lists.

 

Not dying is on mine.

 

Wild flower grass verges being a very handy reason for the local council not to cut them anymore.

 

Wild flower grass verges are great. Cut them just once in the autumn. No need to now. Kills all the flowering dandelion and buttercups etc.

 

Totally agree, but grass going to seed isn't the same thing

 

It isn’t the same thing, but it’s also great. Food for birds and wildlife. What have you got against grass seed ? Hay fever ?

 

I watch a fair bit of American TV programs and of late most of them seem to be adding a George Floyd type racist element into the show regardless of whether it fits into the storyline or not. For instance I have been watching station 19 and currently they have introduced an incident of the police harassing black fire fighters, as if that would happen, I somehow doubt it.

Then I was watching the new series of The Prodigal Son, and completely out of the blue and unrelated to the storyline some uniformed cops arrived at a crime scene and immediately went for a Black plain clothed detective for no apparent reason, and one of them pinned him to the wall with a baton across his throat and despite the fact he told them that he was a police officer the uniformed cop continued to do so until the black officer fought back and pushed him to the floor. The other cops then looked as though they were going to shoot him until the black officers female partner came out of the building and flashed her badge telling them to back off. The inference of all this is that white cops were racist and treated the black officer badly just because he was black.

I have seen similar storylines in a lot of American TV shows recently and it is just getting to be a joke in my humble opinion

 

Apps .
Everything needs an app.

Went to a Haven site last week and collected 3 more apps .
A general Haven app , a drinks order app and a interactive app
How did we do stuff in the dark ages ?

 

That’s insane.

 

People who say " I told you England were ****\not gonna win it " after we lose on penalties in the q/fs to the eventual winners . Hrumph.

 

TV is in a constant dialogue with the audience about the World around it. It’s not surprising that the second largest news story of the year is going to feature heavily.

What really counts is how well it’s done. The one time it’s really grated on me was watching Lovecraft County, an awful programme from a good premise, exploring the almost Invasion of the Bodysnatchers like feel of you ain’t from around here are you boy Middle America to black people. You wondered whether they could top each lazy stereotyped white racist before the next one came around.

But in fairness, how weird would white supremacists seem to you, whether in 50s countryside or in the 2020s Police? What sort of portrayal of this real problem would satisfy you?

It comes down to the drama. If you take something like Homicide:Life on the Street you get a brilliant portrayal of police, who sometimes do wrong, where some characters lose their moral bearings, but seem real, flawed people you never completely lose sympathy with.

Choose your dramas well and there is also an ‘off’ button.

 

England's top order batsmen

 

We won’t win a game and I doubt we will score. Scotland will knock us out. Never been less interested in a football tournament. Genuinely don’t know when we are playing though I believe it is later today ?
The Euro champs were never of much interest anyway but playing the 2020 champs now amid covid and crazy plans like Wales playing Switz in Baku makes it utterly meaningless.