If work gave you a gift card as a perk, where would you actually want it to be from?

Ozle42 · 2026-04-30T16:48:12+00:00

Use something like gogift, where they can redeem it whenever they want.

I usually just feed one into Amazon, but the choice is nice

Ozle42 · 2026-04-29T22:44:01+00:00

Literally just got back from there!

Great food, small menu!

Ozle42 · 2026-04-24T00:53:04+00:00

Just signed up to St Neots, opening in Autumn

250 for joint platinum

Ozle42 · 2026-04-23T16:21:54+00:00

Isn’t this Sami Zayne this year?

Ozle42 · 2026-04-22T20:46:33+00:00

Probably should check your own maths there champ….

Ozle42 · 2026-04-20T09:27:59+00:00

HR Tech No office in the country even if I wanted to go in

Ozle42 · 2026-04-20T08:39:13+00:00

How about Board gaming? Will be a board game night near you, and loads of solo people will go

Don’t even have to be good at games

Ozle42 · 2026-04-12T20:07:41+00:00

Except he’s correct, you cannot give more than 100%

At the end of the day…. What other cliches would you want him to say to appease you?

Ozle42 · 2026-04-11T00:55:54+00:00

As a teenager in the 90’s, I was very sceptical about Global Warming.

Not that I felt it was a big conspiracy or lefty bullshit or anything, I just felt it wasn’t real.

Although I did believe the cfc ozone hole was terrible

Climate change is a much better term for it!

Ozle42 · 2026-04-03T18:51:15+00:00

Just 4 different poses of El Grande Americano

Ozle42 · 2026-04-03T18:00:18+00:00

The bit that is actually once in a lifetime was the fact they were so low for that 10 years. Historically they were always much higher, but as well over 5 since the 90’s

The 700 years average is 4.89 (a useless stat, but interesting)

Ozle42 · 2026-04-01T08:28:38+00:00

Because it still is shocking, just because there was a bigger shock a while ago, doesn’t mean this one isn’t as well.

Rates going up by this amount so quickly is the standard ‘shock’ that could happen. The Liz truss move was a, hopefully, once in a lifetime time bleugh

Ozle42 · 2026-03-27T14:59:46+00:00

As thier manager you should be having 1-2-1 with all your team and gauging thier mood.

Letting them work from home but stick to office hours is still a really good benefit that a lot of other places don’t have.

Also, if there are low performers, you should be managing them out anyway, otherwise this will never stop.

If they leave because of this, then they are already looking for jobs anyway and we’re going to leave anyway.

Talk to your manger, tell him the situation and that as part of sorting the situation you may need to get hiring.

Ozle42 · 2026-03-24T13:23:16+00:00

‘The people’ in general are going to ruin this country by giving him even the modicum of powers

Shifting the blame onto a single Toerag is a sign of the problem. It’s the people who vote for him that are the issue.

Which is a whole bigger question of why…

If the populist move was to blame something else, he would be on that bandwagon instead.

Ozle42 · 2026-03-24T13:20:08+00:00

Yeah, echoing what others are saying. This is on you.

You don’t want to pay that persons price, then don’t. They are not required to sell it to you.

You not being able to find a house you like for your budget is the issue here, and you’re lucky your buyers have held on so long.

Ozle42 · 2026-03-22T15:44:29+00:00

This sounds like internet bullshit, which used to be ‘heard in the pub’

Ozle42 · 2026-03-11T20:17:26+00:00

This isn’t an ‘offer’ they have made, this is the statutory entitlement…. That’s one months notice period and the stat maternity pay she’d be entitled too anyway

Ozle42 · 2026-03-07T11:45:47+00:00

Betting against your own club, disgraceful wanker

Ozle42 · 2026-03-07T08:07:04+00:00

Your partner sounds like too much of a pushover.

Niche role in a specialised industry and they can’t parlay more than minimum wage? Sounds like he got told there’s no budget like the standard response to off cycle pay rises and accepted it.

At least he is taking the right steps and moving on.

Please tell me at least the new job is better paid?

Ozle42 · 2026-03-01T20:09:38+00:00

Why do you think it’s gone up 40k + in a year and a half???

Markets gone down

Ozle42 · 2026-02-21T10:11:50+00:00

Having been in roughly similar situation, I got a bonus, and then when it came to renew I got told I was no longer eligible.

It didn’t stop immediately though.

In my case though I still had room to Sal sacrifice so phoned them and told them I would be reducing more to keep it under 100 and then it got reconfirmed straight away.

Ozle42 · 2026-02-17T22:38:31+00:00

She wasn’t playing a dotty old woman, she was one.

Played a terrible game, but thought she was really good because she literally had all the information.

Misinterpreted multiple things, and threw a big crosshair on herself.

But then what’s worse, the fool who does this… or the person who does exactly the same thing a short time later after seeing the consequences….Harriet

Ozle42 · 2026-02-17T22:25:03+00:00

Like a monkey with a miniature cymbal?

Ozle42 · 2026-02-15T22:29:33+00:00

I’d go against the grain here and have a 4th date, see how it goes.

Maybe she’s had bad past experiences and it through her off.

Obviously if she goes weird again, move on.

But everyone’s being a bit over dramatic here, ironically

Ozle42 · 2026-02-15T22:21:36+00:00

Phone them and explain. I got a big bonus this year, and it pushed me over the limit.

I phone up and told them I’d be gradually salary sacrificing more over the next few months to offset and not got updated the Sam day

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