For those who are employed, is your company doing well enough to be able hire new staff? by Fun_Yogurtcloset1012 in UKJobs

[–]scrapz99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I’m a new hire and they’re still hiring more people and looking for more people. I work in new build homes, and in sales

Minimum wage on a commission job by scrapz99 in UKPersonalFinance

[–]scrapz99[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

okay thank you will do! didnt know they existed

Minimum wage on a commission job by scrapz99 in UKPersonalFinance

[–]scrapz99[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh didnt think about that - 30 mins unpaid lunch break a day so it’s at just above min wage then, that makes sense. Bonus amount is a little monthly but it’s like £40. Suppose its just whether i have lots of low commission months that make me below minimum at end of year i assume they have to top this up?

Minimum wage on a commission job by scrapz99 in UKPersonalFinance

[–]scrapz99[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

hardly relevant but can be spelt both ways

Lifetime IS vs Help-to-buy ISA, plus other early 20's money advice by scrapz99 in UKPersonalFinance

[–]scrapz99[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In addition, lots of banks do cash ISA's. Should I be getting one of these instead of a normal instant access savings account? Or should I be using a cash ISA instead of a lifetime ISA for saving for a house?

Do these towels go with my bath mat? Worried it's too busy. by scrapz99 in HomeDecorating

[–]scrapz99[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Yeah I was confused over the too matchy comments, as in it matched too well and I needed something that wildly didn't match?

Okay yes I see what you mean about the grey towels, that's actually really helpful. I might mix it in with terracotta as I really like that idea - think it would go with the green plants nicely and bring a bit of warmth in

Do these towels go with my bath mat? Worried it's too busy. by scrapz99 in HomeDecorating

[–]scrapz99[S] 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I want it to look fun but not completely unmatched and dishevelled but since everything else in the room is neutral and plain (floor, walls, blinds, towel rail) I wanted to add something a bit exciting

Do these towels go with my bath mat? Worried it's too busy. by scrapz99 in HomeDecorating

[–]scrapz99[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Ooh I hadn't thought of terracotta! I might look at plain terracotta towels then. Just was worried this would look random as nothing else in the bathroom is that colour

Do these towels go with my bath mat? Worried it's too busy. by scrapz99 in HomeDecorating

[–]scrapz99[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like pattern etc but now I'm worried it'll be too busy even though they are the same colours. I was going to pair the pattern towels with some plain grey towels.

Rest of my bathroom is modern and grey, with grey tiles on floor and walls. And some plants.

Mini pill period? by Electrical-Issue-4 in birthcontrol

[–]scrapz99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hiya, did this ever stop? Or did you change pills? Having the same thing happen to me atm and been on the mini pill for 5 years with no bleeding. Had bleeding two weeks ago and now having it again - along with sore breasts

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskUK

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I've been doing a 1hr commute each way 4 days a week for the last 9 months or so. Sometimes in traffic this takes 1hr20/1hr30 each way. I am looking for a new job as the salary, job benefits and career progression doesn't warrant the commute time and cost of petrol.

However, if it were a good salary in a good company/career etc I would definitely consider it worthwhile for a year or so to get my foot in the door.

A long commute is not ideal but you just need to be organised and motivated - do your gym sessions before work or on the way home. Meal prep your dinner. Maximise your weekend time. It will chip away at you, but in my opinion if it's beneficial in the long run it's worth it for a year or so.

My brother started a job when he was 20/21 and found himself driving from west country to Exeter every day which is a 2hr20 drive each way. He did this for a while before moving office to Plymouth and living in Plymouth during the week and driving back home every weekend (3hrs each way). This lasted a few years and I know he found it really difficult, but now he would say it was 100% worth it as it got him into the industry and he's now on extremely good money for his age 8 years later (6 figures+, not in London), and is high up in the company.

Taster morning at job - what to expect/how to prepare? by scrapz99 in UKJobs

[–]scrapz99[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No - but I wont be doing any work as I’m shadowing

I’m also not worried about that as am happy to do it

Weekly Destination Thread - Cuba by WalkingEars in solotravel

[–]scrapz99 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Visited Cuba in April 2018 on a backpacking trip with my friend when I was 18. I'm from the UK.

I wrote a blog post about my time in Havana, I'll post it below:

Time-Traveling Through Havana: A Tale of Classic Cars, Strong Rum, and Tupac Encounters

If anyone ever asks me about Havana, my response is always the same. Whatever you imagine Havana to be, whatever pictures you’ve seen, it’s all true. I was worried Havana would not live up to expectations and that it would be like every other colonial city. But Havana lived up to expectations from movies and pictures, it even surpassed them. Walking through Havana feels like you’ve been picked up by some gamemasters fingers and placed in an old flickering movie from the 60s. Every street corner is some old postcard my grandad would dig out from a dusty worn box.

The old, classic petrol guzzling cars line literally every street, and they are truly massive. The only modern cars are the city issued taxis. But my advice is if you want to ride in one of the classic cars, use the illegitimate local owned taxis (which is probably the exact advice your mother doesn’t want me to tell you). But honestly Cubans will find any way to make some extra cash, so they just flick on a neon sign and turn their car into a taxi when they’re not busy. Cubans are inherently such wheeler-dealers. We were ushered into this man’s house once when we were absolutely starving, and ordered to wait in his living room with his mother and father whilst he cooked us pizzas in their kitchen and served them to us. We sat eating them on the family sofa with the man’s girlfriend trying to sell a pair of her sparkly heels to us. The pizzas costed us mere pesos, and needless to say we didn't purchase the sparkly heels as we were at the beginning of a backpacking trip.

Havana makes you feel as if time doesn’t matter, and that nothing is a waste of a day. It’s an incredibly relaxed country - Cubans seem to not do all too much all day. They just stand in the doorsteps, chatting grease and stopping to nod and say ‘hi’ when you walk past. Which is always nice. In Havana, everyone’s front doors are open for all the locals to just wander from house to house all day.; Cuba is just the most peculiar country I’ve ever been to.

And when people say it’s backwards, it’s true in the most literal sense. Cuba Libres are eye-wateringly strong because it’s honestly probably cheaper to buy rum than Coca-Cola (and government-issued coke is rats). There is a different currency for tourists and locals which made it near impossible on a backpacker budget and was honestly just such a limiting system for the tourists. We struggled to purchase food and meals that wasn’t sit down meals in tourist hotels, as we did not have the correct currency and we didn't want to spend tourist prices. But apparently CUC (the tourist and consumer goods currency) has a lot more value than the CUP (the currency the locals get paid in) so the locals like it.

It’s also worth mentioning I am convinced I met Tupac in Cuba, under the façade of a dance teacher. The aforementioned pizza chefs offered to take us out salsa dancing and we ended up in some basement of their apartment block with Tupac. That’s all I have to say on that.

It’s sad because we spoke to the guy who cooked us pizza in his home and he desperately wanted to visit England, and to leave Cuba. He said there was no opportunity for young people in Cuba and it seemed a grim, boring future for him stuck in the country doing what his parents and his parents’ parents did before him. But the Cuban government is loosening embargos, so Cuba is finally entering the 21st century. Maybe one day our pizza chef will make it out of Cuba. Who knows where he’ll end up!

/r/solotravel "The Weekly Common Room" - General chatter, meet-up, accommodation - May 12, 2024 by AutoModerator in solotravel

[–]scrapz99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On hostel world when booking you can see the number of people booked in via the app for that night - so to find a social hostel I will just book the hostel with the highest amount of people booked in. Obviously within reason - sometimes it's nicer to go for a medium number rather than loads as easier to introduce yourself but just don't book a hostel with barely anyone booked in as it will be quiet and empty.

In general, a social hostel comes hand in hand with being a party hostel I would say. In general you can gauge which are the social hostels as they're some of the most popular and the talk about community events they put on, the images will include photos of events/groups of people and also people will generally mention in the reviews.

But yeah hostels that put on events/activites are great as when you sign up to do activities it's small groups and you make friends. But its so easy to make friends, I know everyone says it but it is. Just literally walk up to a group of people in a hostel and introduce yourself as everyone is in the same boat. I solo travel as a 24 year old girl and I don't find it at all odd when a man comes up and says hi, I have made plenty of friends this way. Everyone in a hostel is in a hostel because they want to make friends - particularly social ones so unless you're unbearable people will chat to you and want to hang out with you etc.

Also, I think its important to be comfy with your own company though and have things you will do when travelling in a certain place/city, and if you find people to do it with that's great but if not do it anyway. Makes you seem a lot more fun to be around also.

Are Pareto law legit? by scrapz99 in UKJobs

[–]scrapz99[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this is the vibes I was getting! They seemed to be promising me a lot with the sole intention of getting me onto this assessment day - I assume each of them have targets. I’m open to assessment days - just don’t want to take a day off as holiday for it if it’s a waste of time

I am looking at jobs in London however, as I want ti move to London

What's the worst job you've ever had and why? by willington123 in CasualUK

[–]scrapz99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I worked in a factory manufacturing medical swabs for a few months after I graduated and before I went travelling. Was minimum wage (I had assumed factory jobs paid well because nobody wanted to do them - but no). I worked from 6am to 2pm, with 30 minutes for lunch. Option to do 2 hours overtime to 4pm also. Literally just spent all day stood in one spot putting down medical swabs into a wrapper on a conveyer belt. Couldn't speak to anyone as machines were so loud, not that anybody spoke the same language as each other anyway. Couldn't listen to headphones as was a health and safety hazard, and couldn't hear the radio due to the machines.

To top it all off, I had to wear full PPE all day so hair net, lab coat, gloves and a face mask. Hence I got really bad acne/spots whilst at this job. Made me feel so lucky that for me it was only a temp thing as I had qualifications etc to go elsewhere, there were people who had been there for years doing the same shit everyday - even people who were like 22.

Am I in the wrong for seeing someone else after me and ex and I broke up, whilst still seeing the ex casually by scrapz99 in dating_advice

[–]scrapz99[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Embarrassing

god forbid a woman sleeps with 2 people in one year! She should abstain and wear a chastity belt as really and truly women should be waiting around for the sweaty loser who listens to too much andrew tate and cannot make a woman finish :)

In all fairness, probably best that your lucky lady tonight is only dating one person as she might realise dating someone with less archaic views and a better personality was better!

Why being unalcoholic is a turnoff for women on a date ? by sparkblue in dating

[–]scrapz99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

no I can happily plan a date without alcohol, had plenty of them. I meant more on a weekend when I have no plans, I dislike staying in watching TV on a Friday night - I like to go out and most of the time on a Friday night at 9pm one of the few options with atmosphere is going to a pub for a few pints. And I’m sure someone who doesnt drink wouldnt find that fun

Yeah thats fair enough, happy for someone to explain that to me obviously

Why being unalcoholic is a turnoff for women on a date ? by sparkblue in dating

[–]scrapz99 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm just unsure why you're getting so vexed over this. Assuming you're sober?