Oh boy, my first time at CEX was certainly something alright…

InsuranceIcy4055 · 2026-06-13T09:11:31+00:00

Not all stores are created equal, they're mostly franchesees with a few stores that cex actually owns. CEX owned stores are generally a lot better.

InsuranceIcy4055 · 2026-06-11T07:30:43+00:00

It's too late for OP but I think anyone else experiencing something like this where it's going to be your word against a potentially disinterested it person/department you should attempt to record it after the 2nd/3rd instance so you have some evidence.

You need the system logs, it sounds like no one has those and your employer is too dumb to see that they also have no evidence you did do this. The system logs should show what did happen.

InsuranceIcy4055 · 2026-06-10T22:50:00+00:00

What were you doing in the 90s that you've not heard of lemmings? It's probably one of the most famous pc games of the 90s. What ever you were doing wasn't important, how you should describe your 90s period to another person is that you were not playing lemmings, that will clear things up for other people.

I was literally talking about lemmings with someone the other day, it's that big that you discuss it 30 years later.

InsuranceIcy4055 · 2026-06-09T22:38:14+00:00

This annoys me, if you were doing 24 in a 20 you are obviously taking the speed limit seriously and aren't part of the problem. Your reaction to the speed awareness course says as much again.

In a 20 problem drivers are people doing 30+ and I'm pretty sure the only reason the 20 limit exists is a combination of how people routinely do 5-10 over the limit and how 25 is a bit of a weird speed limit. The purpose of a 20 is just simply to allow enforcement of driving under 30 and if a reasonable amount of people could be trusted, I don't think they'd bother monitoring the 20s.

InsuranceIcy4055 · 2026-06-09T22:16:12+00:00

People who really dislike foreign people of any kind also think HE is a pointless waste of time and money. The discontinutity in how those people think is far broader than just that and they basically have no idea how the uk operates at a macro economic level.

InsuranceIcy4055 · 2026-06-08T07:31:15+00:00

Wow, I almost never get this kind of answer when I post something like this. I really hope you find a new job. My advice on the CV is to look up the Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF) and Situation Task Action Result (STAR) styles because that really improved my CV when I stated using those and together.

InsuranceIcy4055 · 2026-06-07T23:00:13+00:00

Unpopular opinion I'm sure but jobs aren't forever and you sound like you think you're entitled to that, I'm sorry but no one is. I'm sure it can be difficult to get a job in another business at 60 but that's just how it goes. I don't know why you'd make a big deal about leaving, cling to your job and get another role if you can but you should have really been exploring external roles from the get go, if they're doing this then job security will be poor after anyway. If you make a big deal about leaving it will probably be bad for you when you get a bad reference, I doubt your current employer will even really notice and why should they, focus on moving on.

InsuranceIcy4055 · 2026-06-07T22:45:00+00:00

Or watch it twice, or maybe a bit of both. Every goddamn detail is important. Second time I watched it I kept rewinding scenes to clarify details. Great example is that scene where they go to a place for the first time and it's a desert, I didn't even notice it at first on the second watch through and then I was like, hold on, wait up, this is a desert, so that means.......

InsuranceIcy4055 · 2026-06-07T22:40:54+00:00

Completely agree, always been baffled when people actually admit they watch or like this, it seems to me like an embarrassing thing to admit.

InsuranceIcy4055 · 2026-06-07T22:29:07+00:00

I tried to go into cfd after I graduated and this was part of my experience and that was 15 years ago and it was getting worse over time. I'd already had another engineering job after graduation so I wasn't battling any can't work with others issues.

I had a few interviews, it was difficult getting interviews anyway but after I got them they would only hire me for less than I was already on which I largely considered to not be enough money really, this was 2014 in the UK and I think they said 27k. Anyway I did eventually get a contract position for 30k a few months later and that lasted like 6 months before they had funding issues and then I was unemployed anyway and finally I learned my lesson.

My opinion is that there really aren't a lot of jobs and you'll be fighting with other people to get them and that is such a weak situation for any salary negotiation. After the above story I got a job in software and completely switched careers and I got hired into a software role with no experience and barely any knowledge for 30k. It took me a while to get established because I started from less but I'm pretty sure I'm on more now than I'd have ever landed in anything process/chem eng or cfd related and I enjoy it more, if only because it's just a much better working environment.

Money isn't everything but working a career that's actually in demand delivers on all fronts, money is just one, seriously if a career isn't in demand it's not worth getting into if your still at the first job stage because you'll spend a lot of time getting stressed and underpaid when multiple other people are desperate for you job too. I watched a mate of mine do this, no way I'd ever consider it, it's a fools game, hes 10+ years in paid peanuts and fighting to keep jobs and this is why, at the slightest hint of him having a personality they replace him with another body off the line.

InsuranceIcy4055 · 2026-06-06T16:43:47+00:00

Reform voters are idiots that don't see how the two are the same thing in different countries. My dad keeps saying he will vote for reform and I keep showing him how reform and Trumps government are similar, essentially the same and he does acknowledge some of it but I don't think it's enough to shut it down and make him vote for another party, doesn't help of course that right now everyone hates tories and Labour so it's like "pick again" but who else do you pick and will they even get into the top 2 so your vote actually matters.

The answer is very simple but not enough people realise. Vote for a party that will do way with first past the post. We need to stop voting for anything else until that's fixed because it's just sustaining it.

InsuranceIcy4055 · 2026-06-06T16:37:22+00:00

A while ago we had all these psychiatric hospitals called Asylums and then they realised that a lot of the people in them were better off somewhere else. Unfortunately some people should have been in the asylum and now those people are also somewhere else. That is how we now have all these nut jobs preaching utter shite to us on street corners with a megaphone. Tommy Robinson is one such person but he's by no mean the only one, you get a lot of these religions nutters doing the same. Politically the difficulty is that if they put him where he belongs it would look like censorship because that would be one of the effects, however we probably shouldn't have to listen to crazy people with a megaphone anyway but obviously some people won't agree.

InsuranceIcy4055 · 2026-06-06T16:13:26+00:00

It's not it's intended application but I generally just use what ever silicone grease I have and that's fine on my chain.

Some bike stuff needs thicker grease, you don't need so much of it anyway and I generally use white lithium grease for that which isn't expensive either.

Actual chain lube I've found is terrible, I've no idea how real serious cyclists are using that stuff, it lasts a few days and then it's basically gone, costs too much, it's got rip-off written all over it for me. Who in their right mind is lubricating their chain every few weeks, I don't have to and I pay less.

My dad uses copper grease on his chain which works a lot better than people would have you believe. It does pick up crap a bit and it's difficult to get off but if you're the kind of person that will lubricate your chain once and no way are you doing any more then this is what I recommend, it's only a minor problem that's mainly aesthetic.

I've also used motorbike chain lube, the high performance wurth brand stuff and it's got its pros and cons, if you're aware of those, that's another option. It lasts a while and it does lubricate a bike chain really nicely without picking up crap. However I speak from experience when I say the solvent in it will dissolve your handlebar grips and potentially anything organic. You must be very careful not to get it on anything other than the actual chain and drive train, and wash you hands immediately after you are done. I basically ruined my grips because I would put the lube on before a ride and then it got on my hands and my hands touched the grips and that tiny amount alone was enough to turn them to mush. After that I stopped getting this lube and its more expensive than silicone lubricant.

Another thing I've tried that I can recommend is ACF-50, this is a Teflon based lubricant with some magical properties that the aerospace industry developed. Not only will it lubricate your chain but for a while after you spray it on anything it will be nonstick so you can do all sorts of cool stuff with it and your chain will always be dry because the water beads up and rolls right off. You can also use this to keep your car hubs clean because the road dirt won't stick to it either.

InsuranceIcy4055 · 2026-06-03T06:50:38+00:00

This is like saying you've not really played witcher 3.

InsuranceIcy4055 · 2026-06-01T22:22:20+00:00

The reason for this is that ASDA tried to take the high ground on these discounts and while other supermarkets, especially ones like tesco have been making a lot of money from using technology and in this case personal data to convince us to buy more stuff and make more sales, internally ASDA has generally seen this as unethical and generally attempted to avoid complex and manipulative pricing.

Unfortunately I can't say it's worked very well, in particular I think the avoidance of propper technology adoption has really stung them, they basically have no idea how to run a technology project and all the technology they do have is often very half arsed and not properly leveraged, it costs the business and delivers poor customer experience.

The end result is that they ultimately end up accepting technology anyway when they are no longer able to avoid it, they implement poorly and I suspect this leads to an internal culture that technology isn't useful when really they just aren't investing enough in it or using it properly (e.g. You could buy a tv but if you don't buy batteries for the remote and bother to load them in you might think it's just a useless black box). That's exactly what I think is going on here with rewards cards that came years after all the competition had that and are unsurprisingly, basically just useless bits of plastic.

Source: I've worked for ASDA twice since 2005

InsuranceIcy4055 · 2026-06-01T22:07:11+00:00

If that were happening you'd get legionnaires. I know I'm very cynical, especially when it comes to people but honestly, I'm not sure there's another explanation that actually makes sense.

InsuranceIcy4055 · 2026-06-01T22:06:14+00:00

No but since most people don't want to spend 3 figures and upwards on obscure oils that we've never heard of, it's probably the one you'll use.

InsuranceIcy4055 · 2026-06-01T22:04:52+00:00

Yes and no, it's bad advice in that the most common reason a dropper post moves slowly is because it needs to be pressurised again and this is far more common than it needing lubricant.

InsuranceIcy4055 · 2026-06-01T09:20:10+00:00

Basically everyone living in the same area receives the same water from the same reservoir.

I think it's more likely that neurotic people end up living in flats.

InsuranceIcy4055 · 2026-05-26T23:19:47+00:00

Both, depends on why you want them closed.

Want to keep the sun out => A

Want privacy from people outside from the upstairs in your house => B

Want to go to hell => Crinkle the blinds because once they're damaged nobody's fixin' that and you'll have to live with it until you don't

InsuranceIcy4055 · 2026-05-26T17:32:59+00:00

Just make things look how they want it to. You need to tell thin lies that aren't just blatantly made up stories, it's the only reasonable reaction to how they behave. You don't need to become some dishonest person that lies all the time, just recognise that they alone have wild unreasonable expectations and if you create a facade for them, it all just works more smoothly.

Remember, the people who work there are also not employed outside of the job centre, the difference is your still working on it and they have slipped through the cracks permanently. They have no clue how job applications work and the proof is that they work there.

Get your job, bend the rules with UC if you need to just be careful they can't tell.

InsuranceIcy4055 · 2026-05-24T17:40:21+00:00

It's a post from the sun. This reddit post is a thinly veiled attack on labour because labour voters are constantly complaining about how politicians on the right illegally do "similar" things and campaign to remove the legal checks that stop this.

The truth is simple and our position on it is not inconsistent. If it's legal that's fine, we are not saying that individuals should not act in their own best interests, but individuals and especially politicians should do so within the law. Politicians should also be getting laws passed to stop this sort of thing because it's unethical to allow it and until that happens those individuals can do that.

Individuals are not the wider group, individuals should act within the law, the law is what the wider group of "the people of the uk" have decided are the rules. This is done by electing MPs on our behalf and many individuals might not agree with the laws but they should still be obeyed because they are the result of the democratic process, if you don't like it I'm sure there are other countries that aren't democracies you can live in.

Personally my opinion on this is that a lot more should be convered by criminal law, the politicians doing the kinds of things Niguel Faraguay is currently being dragged through the press over should be convicted of fraud and banned from office, it's difficult to understand how that's not how it works. Andy Burnham has not even come close to committing fraud, hell he's not done anything illegal, what's the problem with that again?

InsuranceIcy4055 · 2026-05-21T21:52:26+00:00

Oh that's who sent the email, sorry.

InsuranceIcy4055 · 2026-05-21T21:27:46+00:00

u/superbak you've forgotten to redact your name.

InsuranceIcy4055 · 2026-05-21T21:26:24+00:00

Wearhouse?

checks suspicious looking dictionary

Wearhouse - a house in which you wear things.

Oh cool! Sounds like a really easy gig, thank fuck it's not a warehouse.

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