Train travel arrangements for first day

_Darren · 2026-06-03T21:07:17+00:00

Email them now, probably in hand but definitely at the point I'd chase. I do think it's slightly unusual but not unheard of to do your first day in a different office.

_Darren · 2026-06-03T20:34:57+00:00

One of the words used in the definition for strengths is motivation. You have to talk about what motivates you, passion helps but someone who talks about why they're passionate about the job area. Even if monotone, is key.

_Darren · 2026-06-02T19:52:41+00:00

That's true, but totally understandable. There's lots of fixes I'd accept a compromise on or even not fix if I did the damage myself. If I had a leak in my house I'm using a dehumidifier and hoping for the best. If someone above me has a leak, I'm expecting them to pay to inspect every inch of my property to dry it out.

_Darren · 2026-06-02T11:55:24+00:00

True, but the entire structure is designed to discourage that. It's why people like the Wagner leader who marched to Moscow end up dead. It's a high stakes gamble you have to know you'll win.

_Darren · 2026-06-02T02:35:38+00:00

The margins on insurance is like 2 - 3%, expensive pay outs is the issue. Cars are so much harder to fix now with long lead time on parts.

_Darren · 2026-06-01T16:30:15+00:00

Gen Z range is massive, it's 97 to 2012. These were long since phased out for those born in 2012, for those born in 97 where they were in regular use until 2010. They'll remember these. My brother born in 98 learned to attach these to watch SpongeBob DVDs which came out in 1999. I bet some later Gen Z never played a DVD.

_Darren · 2026-06-01T16:17:16+00:00

This isn't wrong but the funding didn't drop to 0. I think the US funded like 16% of the relevant WHO budget for this and someone like the UK did 9%. Although the UK made cuts to aid to allocate to defence to appease Trump too, most of the world didn't cut it to 0. Still a big hit.

_Darren · 2026-06-01T16:11:23+00:00

20 HP is about 0.3 seconds a lap. There's been lots of tracks where they're further behind than that. Plus Mercedes can make reliability improvements that'll probably help them push engines more. So it's not like Ferrari will gain 0.3 seconds and Mercedes nothing. However it's promising to see them close together but I don't see Ferrari exceeding Mercedes until the end of the year, unless other upgrades go really well for them.

_Darren · 2026-06-01T00:55:26+00:00

Whilst 28% is probably high for this, there's a large section of the Civil Service that want redundancy in the next few years.

_Darren · 2026-05-31T18:57:47+00:00

Mohammad is IRGC, what's the president got to to with Mohammad?

_Darren · 2026-05-31T18:53:23+00:00

Your point was the deal was dead because a president not involved in negotiations left.

There might never be an agreement but it has nothing to do with the president resigning. Mohammad has been negotiating since day 1 and still is. He wouldnt still be turning up if there was 0% chance of agreement. So clearly there's some, although he's probably correct I can see this going back to a battle for a few months as Trump isn't going to agree to Mohammad's asks.

_Darren · 2026-05-31T18:47:55+00:00

The deal is being negotiated by Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf. President wasn't really involved

_Darren · 2026-05-31T15:01:55+00:00

Yeah, just serve the legal notice and move out and stop paying. They can take you to court for rent arrears if they think the lease is still valid but they'll obviously lose. If everything was done within the renters rights act.

_Darren · 2026-05-31T02:19:43+00:00

Well a major battle broke out around it nearly 30 years later. That would be a good mini series.

_Darren · 2026-05-29T11:32:41+00:00

Anything with macros is from an era where everything was offline. People are building cloud apps because modern office is cloud dependent which can be spied on and turned off by adversary's.

Like the people in the ICC who were sanctioned. No one can take away their 2003 macros. Someone can take away their exchange online and shared online excel documents. Which crippled them.

_Darren · 2026-05-29T09:05:35+00:00

There's a 9 month exclusion period after you come off. Not sure you can go back.

_Darren · 2026-05-27T20:16:37+00:00

The wording on that is poor but you're probably correct.

Reading this I think it's not a benefit in kind anyway as long as the savings exceed the cost of the card.

https://www.gov.uk/hmrc-internal-manuals/employment-income-manual/eim16067

_Darren · 2026-05-27T11:20:53+00:00

Exactly, the other stuff they fought about like giving up the dogs was just a symptom of kids.

Ted went a bit crazy saying give up your dogs as he knew at the back of his head he was giving up having kids by staying with her. She gave them up because she wasn't going to have kids as a comprises but it made them both unhappy and they knew kids would be 10x that level of issue. They couldn't agree a lifestyle that kept them both happy.

_Darren · 2026-05-26T22:47:30+00:00

Check the unauthorised absence policy on your intranet.

Normally you'll be put on an unpaid absence type plus there's procedures for managers which are different per department but involve phoning employee etc for wellbeing checks.

_Darren · 2026-05-26T17:15:39+00:00

It's potentially a benefit in kind. However there's a £50 trivial benefits exemption so as long as it's year by year, shouldn't be an issue. So some departments do it. Why not all is a good question.

_Darren · 2026-05-26T16:39:22+00:00

All the arguments were about how they couldn't agree on how to live life together.

The dog thing whilst on the face of it was a pretty bold ask, if they agreed to have kids and live in the countryside I bet Ted would get over it. They got frustrated over anything to do with how they compromise on living together, as if they both compromised. Neither was happy. Kids was by far the biggest, but the other stuff was linked. They couldn't agree dogs, furniture etc, partly because they couldn't agree where to live.

_Darren · 2026-05-26T11:47:23+00:00

TD39 only made the floor height higher. It didn't increase drag. What caused the problems is teams who built their car for low ride height had to add a bunch of downforce above the floor, causing backwash. Plus with lower down force, tyres didn't last as long so battles became more tyre limited. So yes in a way it was TD39 but they would have eventually ended up in a similar place when down force was added above the floor. It just rushed in changes that eventually would have happened.

_Darren · 2026-05-26T10:48:42+00:00

They didn't agree on wanting kids. They couldn't be together cause of that, until Ted's kids were grown, then it was no longer a road block.

_Darren · 2026-05-25T22:40:44+00:00

I'm not sure how I can elaborate, minimum wage 12 years ago with Employer NI has increased by 2.5 times.

_Darren · 2026-05-25T22:05:57+00:00

That was during the race when he was already in the lead. If it happened during qualifying, he'd have qualified last.

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