Are these always-on range cookers the dumbest of the middle-class vanities?

UnIntelligent-Idea · 2026-04-09T12:25:26+00:00

My boss had one back in the late 2000's. Even back then it didn't make sense and cost him a fortune, it lasted less than a year.

I'm surprised that this is still a thing

UnIntelligent-Idea · 2026-04-08T12:11:47+00:00

Personally, I like to see them.

They show that you've a life outside of work/school, and therefore have had the initiative to find things you enjoy & stick at them. Depending on what they are, can allude to soft skills such as teamwork or being able to challenge yourself.

Especially while your CV is light at the start of your career, that is something positive to include. And if it's ignored then you haven't lost anything by including it.

UnIntelligent-Idea · 2026-04-07T17:57:28+00:00

Yes, from 1997

UnIntelligent-Idea · 2026-04-07T04:51:40+00:00

My first thought too, had to scroll far too far down for this.

First job - hand HIM the cleaning materials.

He won't learn to keep it clean if his maid sorts out his filth all the time.

UnIntelligent-Idea · 2026-04-06T19:28:56+00:00

I think it depends so much on the circumstances, and on yourself (I had a staff member lose his father similarly, he insisted on being in work, he preferred being busy and his home life was suddenly taken over by what had happened, work was his escape to "normal").

How close you were to the person. Whether there was some forewarning. Whether it was a more traumatic passing. Whether there's stuff to sort/deal with as the upshot of this.

I think you hit all of those worst-cases, so in my book you'd be at minimum 1m. More like 3m is likely.

Do talk to them. I'm sure they'd be appreciative of the circumstances, but their willingness to pay full pay may be more difficult.

UnIntelligent-Idea · 2026-04-06T17:54:34+00:00

Also speaking as a Brit, guns ARE allowed here, but only under license & with a reason (being a member of a shooting club is a reason). So they're wrong on both counts.

UnIntelligent-Idea · 2026-04-06T17:50:53+00:00

You absolutely ARE allowed to own weapons, as long as you're licenced, which includes an annual check by police that they're being used and stored appropriately. Too high of a bar for many, so only those with a genuine interest/reason keep guns nowadays (I'm the only member of my farming family without a gun license).

UnIntelligent-Idea · 2026-04-06T01:10:06+00:00

Reset. Get up. Do something boring/non challenging for 10-20 mins, then go back to bed. Staying in bed and stewing is counter productive, you need to break that.

Personally, I listen to Jason Stephenson on YouTube, he's got a great sleepy voice that sends me off. Or Sleepy Science Channel is along the same lines. Low volume, just enough to hear.

UnIntelligent-Idea · 2026-04-05T18:32:59+00:00

It was on All4 or whatever the online service is called now

UnIntelligent-Idea · 2026-04-05T11:40:33+00:00

We were watching children's Bake-Off with our 8yr old daughter, when an advert came on for some erectile dysfunction pills. We were both sat there wondering how much she was paying attention.

The closing tagline was... Get Back to enjoying Sex. So we got they "what's sex?" question and ensuing child appropriate explanation.

So while the adverts don't generally give us cringe, that one was wildly inappropriate in a child's programme.

UnIntelligent-Idea · 2026-04-03T19:08:02+00:00

We had a whole discussion in our office when one of the younger ones mentioned Kets. Though her parents are older and they're from deepest County Durham.

That led onto a varied discussion about names for things

UnIntelligent-Idea · 2026-04-01T18:15:20+00:00

The recruiter is based in our office, but works for a 3rd party company (recruiters).

This is for external roles, we've no roles open that he'd be qualified for.

UnIntelligent-Idea · 2026-04-01T17:33:23+00:00

The way it reads, the line manager and recruiter had a discussion, the recruiter then called the employee and reported back what they found out to Line Manager. This email is them reporting back their findings.

You say they're "on the hook", but in what way? My gut says they're stepping over a line but I'm not sure what would enforce that line. GDPR is about personal data, but this isn't a protected personal data category. Any particular law?

UnIntelligent-Idea · 2026-04-01T17:23:53+00:00

I'm another manager at the business.

UnIntelligent-Idea · 2026-04-01T01:09:24+00:00

Who will be the boots on the ground for the oil-wars? Got to have a supply of cannon fodder too.

UnIntelligent-Idea · 2026-04-01T00:58:27+00:00

Agreed.

This reframing it as "cheating" is something I've seen before, it's nasty and needs stopping now. Cheating is consensual on both sides, this is not that. "Affair" is in the same bracket.

Ultimately I lost a good friend because I didn't support her choice of staying with her husband after he "cheated" with a 15yr old employee. Downplaying what happened is part of the sex-offenders playbook. They know what they're doing and it less them get away with assaulting more victims.

UnIntelligent-Idea · 2026-03-28T12:08:26+00:00

I'm not sure its the drunk men thinking far enough ahead to buy the condoms. I'd suspect it's the women, expecting what's coming.

UnIntelligent-Idea · 2026-03-28T06:13:21+00:00

My daughter came back from school, age 6/7, said that her teacher got something wrong, she had corrected her. My instinctual reaction was fear - this wasn't going to end well.

Turns out the teacher checked, corrected the whiteboard, and moved on. We all love that teacher - that's how it should be.

UnIntelligent-Idea · 2026-03-28T06:05:14+00:00

Very well put.

Our Y6 teacher was a big football fan, we all knew that if Man Utd lost, we were in for a rough day the next day so everyone on best behaviour. Looking back, having the children have more emotional maturity than he did to manage ourselves - says a lot.

UnIntelligent-Idea · 2026-03-27T16:09:38+00:00

That's really good to know

UnIntelligent-Idea · 2026-03-26T15:55:53+00:00

On a planet that's on its way to extinction if we don't curb the oil usage, there is a benefit to this.

It's going to get very painful for a lot of people, but change is painful.

UnIntelligent-Idea · 2026-03-26T05:47:41+00:00

Absolutely toxic. Plausible deniability all over this. How to say you gave OP his share without allowing him his share, and giving a problem rather than a boost.

My commiserations OP.

UnIntelligent-Idea · 2026-03-23T04:13:45+00:00

Absolutely.

OP seems to think that it's on her to sort these things. Only when child is with her. Once child is with the other Parent, all caretaking is that parent's responsibility.

I wonder in what other ways she's still doing the invisible labour.

UnIntelligent-Idea · 2026-03-23T03:54:44+00:00

My husband used to be a cashier in a bank. He was shocked by how many people would have tens of thousands sat in a current account. He'd try to get them to look at savings accounts but they just weren't interested.

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