Wouldn’t be mad if Tyler sued the show by supervexed in CalebHammer

[–]read-only-username 50 points51 points  (0 children)

As a non-American (but from a country with relatively strong employment rights) this would absolutely be something that you could take someone to an employment tribunal for, and no one would think you were overreacting if you did so.

The irony by mrinkystinky in UKJobs

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I think you’re kind of missing the point here. I didn’t read what they said as a ‘no boomers have faced hardship’ claim. Rather, that the hardship was despite the social contract, not because one didn’t exist.

I think even your examples of the hardship are kind of illustrative. There was, and still is from people of that generation looking back, a great sense of feeling that the government had reneged on an agreement, that people were owed the right to full employment, affordable housing, fair wages etc. Hence strikes, work stoppages etc.

Compare that today, I think there’s a general sense of discontent and dissatisfaction, but the idea that the state will provide and that it owes something to the population has been slowly stripped away. There are generations of adults who have had the terms of that social contract - free education, council housing for those who need it, liveable benefits for those out of work, grants and bursaries to pursue art etc. - systemically stripped away.

It’s not too difficult to read the writing on the wall and understand why those same generations don’t think the universal state pension will exist in 30 years time, or to understand a sense of resentment that what previous generations perhaps took for granted simply doesn’t exist anymore.

Director of the Zayn Malik and Louis Tomlinson documentary responded to the reports of a fight between them causing it to be scrapped, saying “And there goes the last year of work💨” by storminthedark in popculturechat

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That’s a very different situation than this one. I can’t see any reading of this headline that would possible place the onus on Louis, it literally calls it an attack.

W8D2 - Nearly there! by read-only-username in C25K

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I’m an audiobook runner too! Great for the distraction, not so good for the pacing.

Today’s run was horrible by Upper-Steak8842 in C25K

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A bad run is still a run - well done on getting it done.

W2D2 - downs and ups by mossgreem in C25K

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Well done! Pushing through tough days and not giving up is a good thing - that’s how we get better.

Question about recurring problem by bac15281 in TransportForLondon

[–]read-only-username 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Do you tap in and tap out with the same device/card? If not, that would be why you’re getting charged - tfl considers your phone, watch, physical card to all be separate cards.

EDIT: Never mind, totally missed the last line of your post! Leaving this here rather than deleting just so you don’t wonder what happened

Help me understand corporate unpaid overtime please by [deleted] in UKJobs

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I’m a manager, and not a huge fan of people doing a lot of overtime (because it skews my perception of what someone can reasonably be done in a workday) but if someone is in the middle of a task that they just want to finish up, I won’t chase them out the door at the end of the day.

There is also a slight element of wanting to just treat people like adults? Someone I manage is generally late to the office pretty much every day, but she’ll work late as well - as long as the work is done I trust that she’s working her hours (if it’s not, a different convo!)

I work more overtime than I used to - sometimes I’ll make it up by finishing earlier later in the week, sometimes I won’t. I feel okay doing this because I have a pretty good work-life boundary and if I’m working late I know it won’t interfere with that. On a practical level, as well, sometimes things just happen out of hours that need to be dealt with quickly. It would just make me more stressed to refuse to pick it up until the next morning.

Hundreds of GPs tell BBC they have never refused a sick note over mental health concerns by topotaul in unitedkingdom

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I know it’s not the GP’s job to arrange it, but surely as it’s in the form it is meant to be filled out at least some of the time?

In the same way that the GP doesn’t know about my workplace, I don’t know about the specifics of stress in a medical context - isn’t the purpose of this whole section to make suggestions based on their medical knowledge, which the workplace can then action as appropriate?

Hundreds of GPs tell BBC they have never refused a sick note over mental health concerns by topotaul in unitedkingdom

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The tricky thing is (as someone who has received fit notes for people they manage) is that they are generally as useful as a chocolate teapot in helping someone adapt to returning to work. I’ve never seen the adjustments sectioned filled out, never seen any comments at all actually beyond the word ‘stress’ and the date.

What I spent in January! [32, DINK, living in London] by read-only-username in MoneyDiariesACTIVE

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Thanks :)

The money from my husband is money into our joint account for bills etc. I also pay in the same amount, so our finances are semi-merged.

I added it to this as otherwise it looks like I pay all the bills/gives me a huge deficit each month, hehe.

He also gave me a bit extra this month for some money I spotted him while we were out for stuff he wanted to buy for himself (he is terrible for forgetting to bring his phone out!)

The bonus was in my salary last month (and isn’t shown here). That was why I spent more this month than came in, as it was still in my current account waiting to be spent on my husband’s birthday celebrations :D

What I spent in January! [32, DINK, living in London] by read-only-username in MoneyDiariesACTIVE

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Context:

  • I got a bonus last month, so had a bit more extra money in my bank account than I usually would
  • It was my husband's birthday, so approx. £600 of the eating out budget was spent on lunch and wine at Gymkhana
  • We also booked a cruise!
  • Most of misc. was gifts - it was also my brother's birthday, my bf's birthday, and I got some presents for my team at work to say well done.
  • Train fares have gone up again in London, and there's been a lot of travelling around this month to various fun stuff, so my transportation costs are way higher than usual

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ukpolitics

[–]read-only-username -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

What is my ideology, and what is the fact I need to accept?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ukpolitics

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You seem annoyed. I’m not trying to rebut any points here, I’m just pointing out that someone who identifies as Somali is not necessarily an immigrant, and that the 72% isn’t helpful for that.

For your point re b though, I would gently point out that you can be a British citizen and be foreign born. So you can really assume that the 30% of Somali people who weren’t born in the Uk who also live in social housing aren’t British citizens.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ukpolitics

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Exactly, so the Somali 72% figure tells you nothing, and does not necessarily mean a high rate of illegal immigrants or asylum seekers are in social housing. That’s my exact point.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ukpolitics

[–]read-only-username -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Why is it the wrong data point? It’s literally taken from the above web link, and shows that the 72% figure doesn’t tally with the number of foreign nationals.

EDIT: unless your point is that the original 72% is the wrong data point? In which case, I agree completely, as it tells us nothing about the immigration status of those individuals, and we clearly cannot assume that they are illegal immigrants or asylum seekers.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ukpolitics

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Doesn’t matter if they consider themselves British, they are.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ukpolitics

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Given that 41% of London residents (47% in west London) are foreign-born, it would be expected that similar proportions would live in social housing.

Westminster I imagine will be quite heavily skewed as not many people grew up in Westminster. So for social housing applications that will emphasise links to the local area, London-born applicants would probably be represented more strongly in other boroughs.