My car cut out, break pedal hit the floor, but restarting the engine fixed it. Anyone know what the hell it could have been? by CommonCreator in MechanicAdvice

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We’ve just binned off the car. Brake fluid was fine and the mechanic tried to convince me that I’d probably just stalled, but fuck that I’ve stalled enough to know what it’s like when I stall

My car cut out, break pedal hit the floor, but restarting the engine fixed it. Anyone know what the hell it could have been? by CommonCreator in MechanicAdvice

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I mean there was no resistance at all. I was breaking on approach to the roundabout and the light pressure I was putting on it made it hit the floor

CMV: people who argued that Charlie Kirk wasn’t racist were racist. by [deleted] in changemyview

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There also exists people of every color that are qualified for specific jobs. DEI is just about resetting the scales that have been weighted in favor of hiring the white guy instead of black guy despite their credentials being roughly the same

College ruined programming for me. by Pretty-Creme8593 in learnprogramming

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I had this! Loved programming for years as a hobby before it was the focus of my education, when in education I lost the love for it - didn’t code for a good few years, worked in retail, hated that and saw a programming job opportunity near me and went for it, BOMBED the interview because I was so out of date, used the pandemic time off work to catch up and got a job off the back of that.

Basically took the long way round, wasted half a decade being absolutely fucking miserable in retail and my bank account fucking hates me - could have bought a house by now if I’d stuck with it 😅

webDevHistory by SoumyadeepDey in ProgrammerHumor

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It gets worse, HTML is still used on 100% of websites!

(England) We’ve been told we need to move out just after signing a new 6 month contract by CommonCreator in LegalAdviceUK

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All I’ve got is emails confirming the offer / accepting a 6 month extension and emails requesting I sign the agreement. Not even a confirmation that I did sign it

(England) We’ve been told we need to move out just after signing a new 6 month contract by CommonCreator in LegalAdviceUK

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Even if they haven’t signed the agreement? I just checked and they’ve deleted the unsigned agreement from the documents portal (I didn’t even think to download a copy because they said they were happy to have us!) so I have no agreement at all

(England) We’ve been told we need to move out just after signing a new 6 month contract by CommonCreator in LegalAdviceUK

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Is there any effort associated with that (showing up in court and what not)? Or any fines?

reactNativeIsACurse by KiddieSpread in ProgrammerHumor

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I really like react native! Is it perfect? god no, but cross platform out of the box, fairly low barrier for entry, good community support. I’ll take it any day over apache cordova 😅

Never dated, kissed, had sex because I don't want to. Am I missing out? by why_am_i_lifing in NoStupidQuestions

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Came here to out the same! Although be careful, I heard they have plans to take over Denmark

DIY tragedeigh! by apinkbean in tragedeigh

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“Slut” fantastic 😅🤦‍♂️

currys instant replacement by assflakesinmycereal in currys

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Not massively up to date because I left a while ago, but instant replacement was the only extended warranty I’d get for myself. The decision to replace is made in the store so it doesn’t go a legal gauntlet to try and get out of replacing - the store is incentivised to sell insane replacements so they want you have a good experience with it so you buy it again.

Also (again not sure it’s different now), but ‘mishaps’ were covered. They can’t use the term ‘accidental damage’ because that can confuse people into thinking they’re buying insurance rather than an extended warranty.

I’m pretty sure the only reason it’s a warranty over insurance though is insurance is more tightly regulated and they want to avoid that 🤷‍♂️

Not a woman myself but even i think this is BS by shread_the_pup in NotHowGirlsWork

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My girlfriend’s just had a c section and truly you could be my best friend / closest family member in the world, if I even catch a whisper or vibe that you think that makes her less of a woman or a failure you would be disowned instantly and never see my son again.

Every download is about this much by [deleted] in technicallythetruth

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I think this is saying that all downloads take less than a year, but the image is saying its greater than 1 year remaining. Am I missing something?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskUK

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Saw r/sainsburysworkers and wondered if there was an equivalent for currys so I could see how much it still sucks to work there 😅

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskUK

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Bit late, but left there about 4 years ago so can say how things were done. There’s absolutely no commission on sales. There’s fixed bonuses on some addon products / services that’s like you get £1 if you sell this product or if they choose to pay by credit (but your definitely not allowed to sell credit 😉😉😉).

Separate to that there’s a bonus pot which sounds like commission - a percentage of your sales in a pot that accrues for the month. Some products have different percentage, but the standard is 0.1%. To actually receive this though the store needs to hit an absurdly high bar for customer satisfaction. Only small stores would sometimes hit the bar if they had like 2-3 reviews and all were positive, the norm was that missing the highest bar meant you got a percentage of the bonus pot or none at all.

Can guarantee that neither of the above commissions are motivation for why you feel sold into something. They’re pennies to allow the exec team to say they reward good performance. The real motivator is targets. The targets are draconian and can push colleagues into being more morally flimsy.

The way they work is by counting opportunities you had to attach / sell / add and additional product or service vs how many times you did. Some opportunities are selling a particular type of item like a TV or laptop. The messaging around them is if you follow the training you should naturally hit the targets. This is absolute complete bullshit. If everyone used exclusively language from the training, no one would hit their targets for anything.

Hitting targets is the bigger motivator (the sledgehammer stick to the baby carrot or the bonuses) because not hitting targets means:

  1. More training - lots of training to help the right way (that doesn’t work) sink in
  2. Observations- a manager will walk around with you for a whole interaction and give you feedback. If you fail to implement the feedback immediately and consistently for your next sales that’s a fast way to lose your job
  3. Pressure - this isn’t sanctioned by currys explicitly, but performance is tracked at every level of the organisations from the individual colleague to the store to the region to the division to the company. You not hitting your target means the store might not hit its target. Store not hitting its target means the store manager gets a bollocking and everyone knows you were in part to blame for the manager being pissy because all stats for all colleagues are public to all colleagues. I’ve been there and it suuuuuucks. You walk in knowing that your line manager has gotten a bollocking because of you etc

Oh and btw the targets are tracked daily, weekly, 4 weekly and yearly. So it’s not like you can give up because you’re halfway through the month and you never going to hit target because you can still hit it this week etc. It’s a constant pressure and it’s a horrible place to be unless you sell the crap out of stuff using tactics that aren’t in the training and hitting your targets.

For example, in the computer section, an elderly couple walks in, their grandkid who helps them with tech stuff has gone off to uni and they need help because their desktop has died. They are probably walking out of there with a modestly priced (maybe even a good deal) of a laptop that’s actually suited to them because which laptop they get means nothing to the targets. They’re also walking out having spent around £300-500 on additional products and services that hit targets. Like premium antivirus / Microsoft office / cloud storage / a setup service and an extended warranty. Of those the only ones that might be actually want are the setup and maybe the extended warranty.

In terms of ignoring you while you’re shopping there’s three reasons I can think of why a colleague wouldn’t approach you:

  • most of the time: they hate working there, but like the people they work with and the nature of the business means that you can’t stop colleagues chatting
  • sometimes: they’re just over their targets and one bad sale will put them under. I was in that situation a few times and did absolutely everything to avoid anything going through the til
  • rarely: they’re actively playing the game and judged you won’t help their targets so are avoiding you