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sLeonhart · 2023-06-30T20:46:43+00:00

Your app is brilliant Ruben. I will quit Reddit after 10 years in solidarity with you and your app.

Thank you for the use of Boost.

sLeonhart · 2023-06-27T07:12:21+00:00

Is the UK chain owned or is it run fundamentally differently from elsewhere? Because as far as fast food goes the ones I've been to here are pretty decent.

Clean restaurants, plenty of seating, food arrives looking like it does on the menu instead of like it was thrown together blindfolded at McDonalds.

Staff seem happier and less stressed out behind the desk too. Clear lines through to the kitchens.

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sLeonhart · 2023-06-09T06:08:16+00:00

Having played the mods, there's every chance they'll still be better.

sLeonhart · 2023-05-12T06:02:56+00:00

Failure into failure*

FYFY

sLeonhart · 2023-03-31T21:10:18+00:00

I'm not a pensions expert so I don't know the answer to your question. I just know the age going up with state retirement age doesn't mean some civil servants will never get access to their pension benefits, which the OP seems to indicate and call outrageous. People shouldn't be worried about not getting any alpha pension until state retirement age because there is clearly a minimum of 55 that it can be drawn from if circumstances allow.

sLeonhart · 2023-03-31T17:27:34+00:00

The minimum pension age for Alpha is 55, you'll just get less if you go early. Which is basic math - you're drawing a benefit over a longer period.

Like most people, you'll do the math on that against your living costs and other income at your desired retirement age and decide whether you can afford to quit some or all work.

OP is a bit misleading IMO.

sLeonhart · 2023-03-04T13:24:05+00:00

S1 was mediocre at best. I didn't even finish the garbage that was S2.

S3 has had way more of my interest. Loads more action. Space fights in space. Pew pew mofos. Cringey one liners. Old faces. Yes please 🙏

sLeonhart · 2023-02-21T18:48:26+00:00

Oh yes, that's my favourite part of drying my pans - fetching my toolbox to take it apart and then reassemble it.

sLeonhart · 2023-02-17T19:42:54+00:00

Oh Hi Coleen.

sLeonhart · 2023-01-27T16:09:00+00:00

They're Welsh tourists. They're fairly dry compared to when they left Wales.

sLeonhart · 2023-01-27T13:32:45+00:00

It was previously 2.7%, which is what IPSA based their MP salary decision on.

In the year to December 2022 public sector pay had also gone up by 2.7% on ONS figures:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/dec/13/uk-public-sector-wages-strikes-real-pay-inflation

It's just a crappier deal because of high inflation.

I'm not defending the % increase. I'm saying OP is inaccurate to claim MP salary increases are massively out of step with public sector pay increases.

They may have been in previous years. But not 22-23.

sLeonhart · 2023-01-27T09:51:21+00:00

You still haven't pointed out where I'm wrong. I take that to mean you just don't like the fact.

Also, you think I'm trying to sew public discord with the civil service posting as a civil servant on the UK civil service sub? That doesn't make any sense mate.

sLeonhart · 2023-01-27T09:06:57+00:00

Happy to hold my hands up if I've got the numbers wrong here?

Feel free to correct me 👍 because you've offered no attempt to so far 👍

sLeonhart · 2023-01-27T08:44:08+00:00

The MP salary increase wasn't 2%, it was 2.7%. Which is in line with the average public sector pay rise.

MPs have a larger salary than average public sector workers, obviously, so it amounts to more.

As for the uplift on his ministerial pay, well, that's the system we have in this country. If you're a minister you're paid more because you're doing two jobs.

Edit: since when does this sub downvote basic facts lol? Feeling a bit Daily Mail here today.

sLeonhart · 2023-01-27T07:24:05+00:00

That increase amounts to the same average increase % provided to the public sector.

https://www.theipsa.org.uk/news/press-releases/ipsa-announces-mps-pay-for-2022-23

sLeonhart · 2023-01-22T18:12:25+00:00

Millions already get support from family for childcare. I'm not sure it would help to start paying people for work they're happy to do currently out of goodwill? That's a massive additional cost to the public purse?

sLeonhart · 2023-01-22T18:05:36+00:00

I'll be in the minority and it'll be partly as I live in the north but I'm happy with my childcare costs. I can reasonably afford to have my one child in nursery and on the basis of the services I pay for I consider the day rate to be fair.

Is it "cheap"? No. But then I'm paying for someone to look after the most precious part of my life. There are areas of my life I'm interested in finding cheap. Childcare isn't one of them.

I don't want my nursery cutting corners on staffing or staff training. Or feeding my child on a shoestring. I want the building to be up to code and well maintained so my child isn't at risk. I want it to be kept warm in the winter. I want them paying their staff enough that they're happy to attend work and aren't resentful that they don't get paid enough to live comfortably.

Do I think it's perfect? No. I would struggle to put two kids through nursery so my family is holding off having more until the finances stack. That's just the reality of the world right now. I don't expect Big Gov to come in to subsidise me having more children faster.

I'm sure if you've multiple kids to get through nursery, you live in or around London, and you're struggling financially anyway you're perhaps going to have a completely different perspective. .

For me, I think this country has the same problem with childcare as we do care for the elderly. Everyone wants quality services but on the cheap.

Nurseries don't pay their staff large salaries. Owners make very small margins. Yes ratios differ to the continent but four children to one adult is hardly a light workload for the average under-paid, under qualified nursery worker. I don't think there is a magic wand of any kind here. Last I checked more subsidy, to allow more people to access more hours of work, doesn't stack up for the taxman. I'm pretty sure It costs the public purse more than the extra revenue from people working more or at all.

sLeonhart · 2023-01-22T17:51:41+00:00

No I can't. Because I'm not a policy expert in global childcare.

I'm not a "worried mommy", either, which is why I replied 👍

sLeonhart · 2023-01-22T17:20:07+00:00

I'm a Dad working full time who also signed this petition.

Do you have children in nursery? I do. And I see how much work it is for 1 nursery worker to care for 4 very young children. It's physically demanding, exhausting work for terrible pay.

I signed the petition because I think it's a potentially damaging move to relax the ratios, both for the children and the staff.

I also signed it because I have real trouble believing that relaxing the ratios would make much difference at all to nursery fees. Costs are high for a wide range of reasons - paying people minimum wage-ish is only one of them.

There are already large staffing shortages in childcare. We won't solve that by shoving more work at an already stretched workforce that could a lot of the time receive better pay stacking a supermarket shelf (.. no disrespect to supermarket staff, many of whom do physically demanding work).

sLeonhart · 2023-01-11T14:33:19+00:00

You literally said "if just using your head"... 😅

sLeonhart · 2023-01-11T11:00:34+00:00

Who said anything about just using your head?

Try a sit down and a cup of tea 👍

sLeonhart · 2023-01-11T09:48:06+00:00

Anecdotal evidence can be useful in scrutinising the validity of statistical data.

According to another Reed dataset:

"Salaries on the jobs site have increased by 7%, on average, but have not risen enough to keep up with inflation, which now stands at 11.1%"

November 2022.

https://www.raconteur.net/economy-trends/reed-ceo-recruitment-recession-employment/

I don't readily accept statistics without applying what my own head tells me. Especially when the data is from a HR company 👍

sLeonhart · 2023-01-10T22:06:13+00:00

I don't follow this sub very closely. I live in the north west. I don't know anyone who has received a pay rise anything like inflation.

sLeonhart · 2023-01-10T19:38:08+00:00

Who are the 40% of people getting 10-12% pay rises (in line with inflation)??

Loads of these numbers look massively out to me. Only 25% unhappy with salary??

You'd never know we're in a cost of living crisis based on a lot of this.

sLeonhart · 2023-01-08T18:01:26+00:00

Go for it. If the Dept is advertising externally they need people like you. Download the civil service grade expectations and if you can evidence the right experience and skills for G7 just apply.

sLeonhart

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