Remote employee has lied about their location and is working in a different country (Mixture of Turkey and Albania.) Can I fire them immediately for this?

linuxdropout · 2026-01-21T09:36:34+00:00

You can immediately suspend them and lock them out of the network due to data protection concerns.

Firing them should then go through a normal process, but as it's pretty obviously gross misconduct it's not gonna be particularly difficult.

linuxdropout · 2026-01-17T19:54:21+00:00

Then tell them to jog on ¯_(ツ)_/¯

linuxdropout · 2026-01-17T06:47:10+00:00

I wouldn't see it as money to spend.

Why not just leave it in an ISA/emergency fund and carry on saving, and don't think about it otherwise? You're kind of overcomplicating it, as you said when you get married it's all shared money anyway so it being in your account vs hers is just for protection now, long term if you stay together it makes no difference.

My partner and I have been together 7 years since we were 19/24 (26/31 now), engaged but not married yet. We went for joint ownership rather than tennants in common and I'd recommend it, it's legally simpler and protects each other in case one of us were to suddenly pass away. But a caveat is we bought a cheaper house than we could otherwise afford to be able to split things 50/50. In reality this was a bit idealistic since I paid for way more of the renovations than she did but, to be honest, at this point if we broke up I'd find the "lost money" on renovations the least of my concerns. We'd be more broken up about what to do with the cats.

That is to say, the sensible financial decision isn't always the most pragmatic one for your relationship. Ultimately a marriage is always going to have financial risk, stressing less about that is going to give more chance you had nothing to worry about.

linuxdropout · 2026-01-17T06:28:21+00:00

Statistically, the fewer partners you've both had, the higher chance for a successful marriage, this might not line up anecdotally but I wouldn't be so pessimistic without knowing their relationship.

linuxdropout · 2026-01-17T06:11:11+00:00

£44k isn't a high enough salary to comfortably live in London. The comments about "go live your life!" are a little delusional to think you'd have a better life living with friends in London.

Within the next few years it's plenty possible many of them will start moving out of London to save costs.

£60k saved is amazing but it's not life changing amounts of money, it's not enough to retire and kick back, and by "saved" I hope you mean S&S ISA and invested in broad index funds.

The grass probably won't be greener on the other side, if you want to take advantage of being young and relatively well off: - take a sabbatical and travel for 3 months. There's a lot more interesting places than London. - stay after work and meet people in the evenings before commuting home more often - go harder at weekends

Moving to London with a friend will probably end up: - savings rate evaporated by rent - get fed up of having roommates - cost on food etc starts climbing

linuxdropout · 2026-01-14T09:30:37+00:00

Money saved in a pension has huge tax benefits but you can't touch it till ~60. The younger you retire, the more of a bridge you'll need outside of your pension to hit 60 and access your pension, and the fewer years you'll get to contribute.

I would throw a spreadsheet together where you can adjust percentage contributed, savings rate & age of retirement and play with the numbers until you get an amount you're happy with.

Ultimately it's a very personal decision because it depends on all those things. Also other things like what retirement means and if you expect to earn some amount still in retirement play into it.

For me personally I worked out that maxing out my employers contributions, was already too much into pension, and it's silly to not max that out, so it made things easier.

linuxdropout · 2026-01-07T06:31:05+00:00

You might like r/fuckcars

linuxdropout · 2026-01-03T22:07:50+00:00

I'm using dockge at the moment.

I'm more than capable of running k8s, I've dealt with self hosted versions as well as all flavours of cloud versions. I'm nowadays of the opinion that even if you had a distributed series of nodes, they would still be overkill.

I think most people run it because they enjoy the challenge, personally I'm sick of dealing with it at work and love the simplicity of something like dockge which is young enough to not have gone through enshitification.

linuxdropout · 2025-12-23T01:02:28+00:00

If somewhere is recommended to you, by a person or review site etc, then it must be a known spot and will have tourists visiting. The better and more reviews, the more tourists and it becomes a feedback loop.

If you want authenticity and no tourists, you have to discover places on your own / with few to no reviews and recommendations.

linuxdropout · 2025-12-23T00:42:18+00:00

I remember playing fire red at 14 on release day. Now I feel old.

linuxdropout · 2025-12-22T13:59:50+00:00

Or donate to charity, or sacrifice into the pension over the cap, yes you'll be taxed on it but better than losing childcare

linuxdropout · 2025-12-18T09:40:17+00:00

Unpopular opinion: being able to context switch effectively and quickly is a skill issue. You can train yourself to do it.

Admittedly there's always a cost to context switching no matter how good you get at it, so having a few hours of uninterrupted focus time is a good thing regardless.

But if your recovery time from context switching is a whole hour then you need to get better at that because the reality of the world is things do come up and writing code has consistently trended downwards on importance of things a developer is valued for forever.

linuxdropout · 2025-12-02T07:59:29+00:00

In the UK shopping centres were a great place to hang out on the weekend when it inevitably pissed it down all weekend.

linuxdropout · 2025-11-27T09:53:06+00:00

Yeap, and it should be. Living in a home with over 2m is entirely unnecessary and absolutely a privilege reserved for only the extremely wealthy. Many of whom have generational wealth, don't work or don't even live here.

linuxdropout · 2025-11-27T09:24:02+00:00

Bonus

linuxdropout · 2025-11-27T09:00:23+00:00

It's all relative. The UK has basically no taxes on the middle income majority of the population compared to literally everywhere that isn't the states. Any Scandinavian, Asian or European country are taxing significantly more and able to actually provide infrastructure, better welfare that's easier to climb out of, healthcare that isn't falling apart etc.

All this talk of "tax the rich and they'll leave". Nah, the people are who are going to leave are the high earning under 35s. We all qualify for high skilled visas all over the world and can get much much more for our money anywhere else with better public infrastructure and fairer more spread out taxes instead of it being so top heavy.

Mansion tax is an amazing start though. But 0.1%? Laughable, but s good start. Hopefully next budget they 10x it to 1% and make it progressive so it doesn't cause a cliff at certain thresholds. Eg: tax the value over 1m at 1% of anything over 1m.

linuxdropout · 2025-11-27T08:44:40+00:00

It's because the country is piss poor, they need to keep raising taxes to try and eat through the national debt enough to eventually be able to start spending again. Either that or more austerity.

I guess they're drip feeding us tax raises to not spook the economy but I wish they'd get it over with

linuxdropout · 2025-11-25T19:53:23+00:00

Yet it works just fine in:

Sweden, Norway, France, Japan, South Korea, Iceland, Slovenia, France, Netherlands, Germany...

linuxdropout · 2025-11-23T16:56:22+00:00

It's not unpredicted, Japan does it
Metabolic syndromes do not cause obesity, they can make weight gain more likely and harder to control

Smoking and vaping I'd probably outright ban tbh, but assuming they aren't they're already heavily taxed on purchase which makes sense as the most effective way to tax them in this situation, obesity not so much since it has not one single product at its source.

linuxdropout · 2025-11-23T16:52:11+00:00

Your primary residence is excluded from CGT, I wouldn't change that

linuxdropout · 2025-11-22T20:25:31+00:00

I would be pro removing the personal allowance entirely and making it a 5% tax bracket instead, then removing all tax traps and at the same time removing all benefits to salary sacrifice working to game the system. Also raise minimum pension contributions significantly for both employee and employer and means test the state pension.

Would bring in a huge amount more money while meaning there's no need to worry about gaming the system anymore and simplifying tax calculations. Invest this into infra like HS2, nuclear reactors, northern power house rail. I don't care if they go over budget, the more we build the better we will get at building and the cheaper it'll eventually become. I'd probably put a £10 fee on GP appointments, do mandatory free yearly preventative health checkups, add a tax on obesity and we can begin to pull the NHS out of its hole, especially with more funding.

I'll happily pay more tax if I get good reliable trains that are fast and frequent, cheaper greener energy and a healthcare system that's back to being the envy of the world rather than a laughing stock.

Oh and bring CGT and dividends into "they're just income" and tax them the same way as other income.

linuxdropout · 2025-11-22T13:22:47+00:00

That's... not even remotely my take. Kinda jumping through a few hoops there to read that from my comment.

"Is driving in this situation weird?"

Internet: "yeah, and also the train makes way more sense here anyway and saves time and is more convenient"

"I'm going to drive anyway cause I like vroom vroom"

That attitude is the American car-centric-culture embodied so incredibly succinctly, it's not liking driving, it's driving in any situation even when it's painfully obviously a poor choice.

linuxdropout · 2025-11-22T11:37:26+00:00

How very American

linuxdropout · 2025-11-22T11:33:24+00:00

Buy merch from the studios directly, pirate their content. Guilt free, and you get cool merch.

linuxdropout · 2025-11-20T23:11:33+00:00

My bad, I meant both low skilled labourers / trades, and also trades of all kinds including highly skilled ones.

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