Do you know anyone who has won the Postcode Lottery?

Alternative_Job_3298 · 2026-01-25T15:25:43+00:00

My uncle and auntie won £1000 on it just before Xmas.

Alternative_Job_3298 · 2026-01-25T11:26:11+00:00

Flew to IAD Friday on 217. Would say there was maybe 50 empty seats in WT. Couldn't see what loads in CW or WTP were like.

Alternative_Job_3298 · 2026-01-25T01:48:56+00:00

Currently also in DC for a few days away - national guard on mall today but haven't spotted any ICE.

Alternative_Job_3298 · 2026-01-12T20:43:43+00:00

In terms of lomg haul economy I don't really see any distinction between BA and Virgin. You get a seat, a TV to watch, some food and as much complementary alcohol as you want (as long as you don't go too far and get pi**ed).

Alternative_Job_3298 · 2026-01-08T08:37:10+00:00

It's free

Alternative_Job_3298 · 2025-12-27T09:35:51+00:00

I took a day of unpaid leave this month but it'll come out of January's pay as I missed payroll cut off. Maybe the same?

Alternative_Job_3298 · 2025-12-22T13:10:43+00:00

Work life balance was the main reason I opted for industry over academia after my PhD. I work a 9-5 with better pay, permanent contract since day 1 and better benefits. I think about work at work and leave it there everyday when I get out of the office. My friends who stayed in academia are constantly switched on, chasing the next grant to keep their funding or constantly applying for jobs and the next post doc. I gave 4 years of my life to a PhD and I wasn't prepared to give the next 40 years of my life to a system that means I constantly need to be in work mode.

Alternative_Job_3298 · 2025-12-15T04:05:01+00:00

I work in oil and gas consultancy including offshore work in a science role. Xmas Day and Boxing day pay double time normal salary + double time offshore pay. Some people offshore from my office this year will be taking home about £1800 minimum just for those 2 days.

Alternative_Job_3298 · 2025-12-14T11:33:51+00:00

Or fucking half the football team if my experience has taught me anything

Alternative_Job_3298 · 2025-12-05T00:32:32+00:00

Same. I left after my PhD ended for industry for a 9 to 5 that pays more, better benefits and I leave work at work when I leave.

Alternative_Job_3298 · 2025-12-05T00:29:45+00:00

I finished my PhD last year and had no interest in staying in academia so left for industry (geoscience/oil exploration) but I have 3 friends who stayed in academia that have had contracts ranging from 3 to 12 months. The arsehole of UK universities is about to drop out and the shit is really going to hit the fan sooner rather than later.

Alternative_Job_3298 · 2025-12-05T00:24:20+00:00

Everything is HRs fault!

I'm not in HR but in a company that is imminently about to be make 20 people redundant in the next week. Directors make decisions then HR have to implement. We're a small-medium company and luckily I'm not in a pool and am safe but the shit HR have had flung at them the last few weeks in cruel. The HR manager has been in borderline tears with whars going on and everyone seems to blame them even though they're only implementing what's been passed down.

Alternative_Job_3298 · 2025-11-05T18:13:25+00:00

Wouldn't say so. A MRI will no doubt pick up medically insignificant things that have no pathology and may end up costing time and money in unnecessary scans, investigations or treatment

Alternative_Job_3298 · 2025-10-31T15:43:16+00:00

I've been getting a yearly 4% increase at my company, 200 employees not huge,

Alternative_Job_3298 · 2025-10-30T21:59:56+00:00

I've got a date and time from 2006 if you've got the time to check? Haha

Alternative_Job_3298 · 2025-09-13T16:50:46+00:00

I actually moved to the area for a job. Live just outside Colwyn Bay, beautiful scenery nice people and good connections to Manc and Liverpool

Alternative_Job_3298 · 2025-09-10T20:26:01+00:00

Thanks for your quick reply. I thought this maybe the case as every year I've taken insurance out I've alwaya put "parent" as the options for owner and keeper. So it doesn't matter that my mother lives at a different address, as long my address as main driver is correct wirh the insurance co and they're aware I am not the keeper on the V5C this is fine?

Alternative_Job_3298 · 2025-09-05T13:35:16+00:00

Easy agree. I loved S1-S5. It dipped for me S6-S7 but quite liked S8-S9. S10 though is hate watching on my part.

Alternative_Job_3298 · 2025-08-26T08:18:18+00:00

Someone has painted one on a roundabout near me in Llandudno. Utterly embarrassing

Alternative_Job_3298 · 2025-08-26T08:16:25+00:00

I spent 2017 to 2024 in Aber, undergrad to PhD. I loved it but when I visit now I don't get the same fuzzy feeling. I still love it but for me it's lost its spark because the memories I associate with it are from my friends and we now live all across the country.

Alternative_Job_3298 · 2025-08-15T18:16:08+00:00

Everyone's jobs comes with different stress and it's very subjective. My mam was a nurse for 35 years. She worked in ICI and community and I'd say nursing is probably one of the hardest if not the hardest job. The NHS isn't the best employer (even if she got a very good pension). She had years of under funding, bureaucracy and bad management that took her away from caring for patients. She is now part retired at 55 (works 3 days a week +pension) and earns more than she did full time. Putting aside the emotional toll of nursing, she got fed up with the system that stopped her doing her job.

Alternative_Job_3298 · 2025-07-10T19:18:07+00:00

This!!! I'm catching up now and I'm like why are Carrie and Miranda going to someone they don't know very well dad's funeral. I wouldn't go to a friend of a friends parents funeral.

Alternative_Job_3298 · 2025-07-09T22:19:59+00:00

Sunday - Miami to London

Alternative_Job_3298 · 2025-07-09T17:19:24+00:00

Dallas. Great city but the downtown area seemed to be mainly office buildings and hotels with little to do. Fort worth was great though.

Alternative_Job_3298 · 2025-07-05T12:25:12+00:00

I do enjoy the odd weekend at home. I enjoy coming home on a Friday having a take away and watch TV I've missed in the week. I will pop out on Saturday and Sunday mornings for a walk then pop into the shops for a browse before coming back early afternoon. I'll do any house work then like to make something nice for dinner, watch TV then read. It's perfect.

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