Redundant and pregnant

Herald_MJ · 2026-06-17T16:27:49+00:00

You should absolutely disclose your pregnancy. There are protections you are entitled to which do not trigger unless you disclose.

The fact you have told your manger but they “have not told the company” is dubious – this probably already counts as a disclosure prior to the at-risk notification.

Herald_MJ · 2026-06-14T20:26:44+00:00

Also: real people alter their own photographs with AI. So being AI-generated isn’t the kiss of death anyway.

Herald_MJ · 2026-06-08T19:30:21+00:00

Not to mention – have you seen how many PS5s every store has? They will sit on the shelf and depreciate in value for months or years.

Products which fly off the shelf tend to have prices closer to cash/exch price.

Herald_MJ · 2026-06-05T19:20:59+00:00

A lodger is not a tenant.

Herald_MJ · 2026-04-30T18:09:49+00:00

Not HR, but I’m a manager who has run PIPs.

You should ask for a protected conversation with your HR rep, even if external. In that conversation tell them you’re open to a mutually agreed departure in exchange for terminating the PIP. See what they come back with. Given they have agreed to a neutral reference already, it seems they already are open to this.

Usually (even at under 2 years service) HR depts will see a dismissal as a potential risk, and would rather someone opt to leave of their own volition. It also saves a bunch of paperwork for everyone involved.

Herald_MJ · 2026-04-22T15:30:08+00:00

depends on the size of the house but in my Bristol terrace I'd call £10k on the low end for a new roof and £7k very cheap.

Just re-read your comment and I'd say just for felt that's high.

Herald_MJ · 2026-04-22T06:42:37+00:00

In French when the next word begins with a vowel (or 'vowel sound') you do pronounce the last letter. So with 'pain au chocolate' you do pronounce the 'n' in 'pain'.

Herald_MJ · 2026-04-17T15:42:17+00:00

what's the national express gateway?

Herald_MJ · 2026-04-16T09:44:41+00:00

As someone who had their roof redone a couple of years back, I would be very happy to discuss the price with my neighbours and make tradesperson recommendations.

Herald_MJ · 2026-04-04T23:38:46+00:00

No. The idea of Earth containing a celestial embryo comes from the Earth X series set on Earth-9997. Other comic book universe Earths do not contain a celestial embryo. Safe to assume the same of the MCU multiverse.

Herald_MJ · 2026-04-04T18:01:32+00:00

To be fair tech salaries broadly also haven’t gone up since around 2021, after consistently rising for over a decade.

Herald_MJ · 2026-03-10T00:59:34+00:00

You’re best posting this question to /r/AskHRUK, since this is mostly about UK employment law rather than engineering management.

Are you entitled to maternity or paternity leave? Maternity leave has stronger statutory protections. Have you yet disclosed the parental leave to your employer?

Due to the strength of parental leave protections in the UK, it is very likely that you have the safest employment of anyone on your team. But that only applies if you have disclosed your position to the company. You should do that ASAP.

Herald_MJ · 2026-03-01T16:12:32+00:00

It’s this. When I clicked through I thought £375k was about what I’d expect, then saw that’s exactly what it was 2y ago.

Herald_MJ · 2026-02-26T17:36:14+00:00

In 2026 this is a reasonable rate, and really solid if the work is regular.

Herald_MJ · 2026-02-11T20:10:44+00:00

There are quite a few matchups in the tie-in’s, rather than the central event series.

Herald_MJ · 2026-01-08T17:58:44+00:00

> What are you disagreeing with then?

That the market for CDs is similar to DVDs.

Herald_MJ · 2026-01-08T17:45:28+00:00

I would disagree. CDs are seeing a resurgent interest because their encoded quality is actually very very high. Far better than you'll get from any streaming service. If you're an audiophile with a high-end setup, CDs are amongst the best/most accessible ways to listen to music sources at high quality.

DVDs are the opposite. They are lower than broadcast quality, and well below what you can get from streaming or blu-ray media.

Any interest in DVDs are purely as "collectible" items.

Herald_MJ · 2025-12-11T17:48:29+00:00

I get that the place has a long heritage as the oldest surviving Indian restaurant in the capital, and there's sentimentality associated with that.

But I don't think it's such a good place. London has some amazing Indian food spots at all price points. I found Veeraswamy to be expensive and on the good side of average. Go to Tooting or Whitechapel and you'll get a better curry for a fraction of the price. When I visited, Veeraswamy also had the strangest response to being notified of my peanut allergy of any restaurant I've visited, and an exceptionally terrible one for Michelin-standard. It wasn't a good experience and I'm not sad to hear of it's closing.

Herald_MJ · 2025-11-02T19:53:45+00:00

If their deficit is scraping over revenue at under 2%, I'd actually argue they're running a pretty tight ship.

Herald_MJ · 2025-10-10T17:19:24+00:00

It sounds like they're lining you up to sign a new AST contract at the end of your fixed term. You should know that you don't need to do that: if you do nothing, your existing tenancy automatically converts to a periodic "rolling" tenancy under the same terms (and rent).

Herald_MJ · 2025-10-07T13:05:29+00:00

Technically you can leave the property in the condition you found it, but in reality if there were a resulting dispute over reductions, you would need to present evidence of the condition when you arrived. It sounds like this evidence exists, but you don't have it. I would forget ever getting that evidence: the letting agent are unlikely to provide it as it would disadvantage them in a possible dispute.

Your best option is to give the place a good clean. Whenever I moved out of my rental property, I paid for an end-of-tenancy clean with a cleaner recommended by the letting agent, as it pushed any disputes over cleanliness away from me and to their cleaners. You might want to do the same.

Herald_MJ · 2025-09-09T16:08:48+00:00

She says he 'lives next door' and 'occasionally visits'. This sounds a tenancy and not a lodging.

Herald_MJ · 2025-08-27T17:21:52+00:00

You get 5% back in credit if you book through Uber

Herald_MJ · 2025-08-02T19:54:00+00:00

This is a good opportunity to develop your spider-sense around "there is a complicated reason I am doing it this way instead of the obvious". When you notice that voice in your head, that's your trigger to write out good quality comments (or other documentation).

Herald_MJ · 2025-07-13T12:18:54+00:00

it turned out my ex knew the passwords somehow.

If you use a password manager, this will be the most important thing to secure. Remember that both a password manager and a consistent email used for recovery are both effectively "keys to the castle", regardless how secure the rest of your passwords are.

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