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UK/R.O.I GAF - Thread of geopolitical confusion
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Turned down the job I was meant to be taking.
- Changed the deal from "around 18k a year" to £100 a week (I know, that's 1/3 the minimum wage).
- The area is shit. Fuck Leeds-Bradford.
- The woman who was interviewing me was 15 minutes late in from a lunch break when I'd spent £10 in petrol and more than an hour to get there from York.
- Changed my job role from consultancy to basically data entry.
Fuck them, they moved all of the goalposts and wasted my afternoon. What a disgrace.
- Changed the deal from "around 18k a year" to £100 a week (I know, that's 1/3 the minimum wage).
- The area is shit. Fuck Leeds-Bradford.
- The woman who was interviewing me was 15 minutes late in from a lunch break when I'd spent £10 in petrol and more than an hour to get there from York.
- Changed my job role from consultancy to basically data entry.
Fuck them, they moved all of the goalposts and wasted my afternoon. What a disgrace.
This is sign of one of three things:
1) A company that doesn't respect their employees
2) A company in financial difficulty and trying to rapidly cut costs
3) Both of the above.
Last company I worked for was #2, which swiftly led to #3. With all my heart, I recommend you don't consider them anymore.
Quite how they can justify paying £100 a week is curious though - is there a commission element to the job? Did you raise the fact that they were suggesting paying you a wage that would be illegal?
J Tourettes
Banned
That's a shitter but better to have found out what a useless bunch of bastards they are now instead of after you'd started/moved etc.
They tried to justify the £100 a week (37hr week) by saying that it was an unpaid "placement" rather than a job and that the wage was for living cost expenses (lol, that £100 would be spent on rent alone).
I didn't bother suggesting the wage was illegal because I knew I didn't want to work with them.
As soon as the lady arrived 15 minutes late from a lunch break to interview me I kind of didn't want to work with them. That's really disrespectful, I'd arrived 10 minutes early (well, 25 minutes, but I didn't want to go in too early), least she could have done was sort out her lunch arrangements.
I'm better than this, I'm gonna graduate with a decent BA (very likely a 2:1) from a top 15 (and now Russel Group!) uni with great interpersonal skills and some good, relevant job experience. I think the least I deserve (or the least I will take) will be a salaried job, even if it's 16-17k a year.
snoopeasystreet
Member
anyone have any podcast recommendations? Here's what I have on my phone right now:
Bombcast
Idle Thumbs
This is Only a Test
My Brother My Brother and Me
Stuff You Should Know
8-4 Play
My friend was telling me about a podcast where people make predictions about the future, that sounds pretty interesting but i can't remember the name. I think it was the forecast or something like that.
Bombcast
Idle Thumbs
This is Only a Test
My Brother My Brother and Me
Stuff You Should Know
8-4 Play
My friend was telling me about a podcast where people make predictions about the future, that sounds pretty interesting but i can't remember the name. I think it was the forecast or something like that.
That is also illegal. Unpaid placements are only legal if being done through an educational institution, or being arranged as a four week "work experience" type deal.
Far too many media companies think they can just get free workers by calling them "unpaid placements/internships". It's in violation of both UK and EU law and the government has recently started cracking down on it.
They're doing it to their own downfall, apart from the execs the people who were milling around looked like fucking morons who didn't give a shit.
Pay peanuts, get monkeys.
RibbedHero
Member
Job market is pretty shit nowadays. People really undervalue a quality employer and are often too concerned with pay (I'm saying this generally, not to you in particular). A company that respects its employees and potential employees gets an A in my book. Say what you want about the City, every company I went for an interview with was professional and respectful.
Ravensmash
Member
I had my card declined in Iceland of all places, then I ventured to the bank and saw I had £1 to my name.
That was subsequently spent on a Chicken Mayo in McDonald's, so needless to say I'm eating pasta tonight.
Life is good bros
That was subsequently spent on a Chicken Mayo in McDonald's, so needless to say I'm eating pasta tonight.
Life is good bros
I had my card declined in Iceland of all places, then I ventured to the bank and saw I had £1 to my name.
That was subsequently spent on a Chicken Mayo in McDonald's, so needless to say I'm eating pasta tonight.
Life is good bros
Im pretty much living of cereal, rice and pasta. Sucks being a student arggh
J Tourettes
Banned
This made me laugh a fair bit.
Tell 'Em Steve-Dave. Start with Episode 21: The Uninvited.
Ravensmash
Member
Yeah, this term has felt so bloody long.
I haven't budgeted that well, so I can learn from this. I live pretty close to home though, so I can nip back at the weekend to get some goodies no doubt.
Musha_Soturi
Member
The Infinite Monkey Cage is really good, it's a BBC Radio 4 show with Prof Brian Cox and Robin Ince, and various scientist/comedian guests. Funny and informative, what more could you want.
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
Some cool podcasts I like:
Geekbox - Ryan Scott and co talk geeky shit. Can occasionally be terrible when they get talking about WoW but can also be spectacularly funny when a drunk Adam Fitch tries to explain something or talks about sex. Or does a Japanese accent.
Comedy Button - from the ashes of the Gamespy debriefings comes a podcast where 5 men shout over each other and compete to be the most obnoxious. On paper it shouldn't work, but it's often hilarious.
WTF with Marc Maron - bitter Jewish comic Marc Maron interviews the great and the good in the world of comedy. spectacular. Listen to the Todd Glass episode where a respected comedian comes out on the show as being gay, it's fantastic. Also notable would be great interviews with Russell Brand, Bryan Cranston and Stuart Lee
Joe Rogan Experience - you know what, Joe Rogan is a total twat but his podcast is often hilarious. Go back through his feed and find anything with Joey Diaz on it, the guy is maybe the funniest human that has ever lived. Imagine a 60 year old Cuban American who sounds like a psycho gangster and tells crazy stories about selling coke to Whitney, eating monkeys and life in Aspen. Other episodes can range from boring as shit to fascinating, especially when they get counterculture people or fringe scientists/writers on there. But Joey Diaz is a fucking force of nature.
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
Great suggestion! Love the ball busting that goes on in this show. The lastest podcast where they said 'cunt' at least a hundred times was also classic. Some real characters on there.
StealthGoblin
Banned
This changing of the goalposts happened to one of my friends at a marketing firm in Southampton. Totally bang out of order.
Got any other options on the table?
Nothing as yet, got some hard circumstances to work with.
Me and my GF both want to work in the same area so we can live together, but it'll have to be somewhere with good public transport because she hasn't got a driving licence.
That pretty much nails us to (we both want to live in the NW):
Manchester
Liverpool
Chester
Warrington
She'll also need a sponsored job because of the visa system, which basically restricts her to really big companies, so that'd be either Manchester or Liverpool realistically.
We've both got good CVs, and she's probably gonna graduate with a 1st in BA Management which will look good (on top of her speaking absolutely perfect Mandarin/English and good French/Cantonese).
As long as she gets a job I'll be happy, I'm sure I can talk my way into something, I've got the gift of the gab as my mum always says.
Until then there's graduate schemes, but my thinking is that these things are fucking stupid, because the people with the best CV's/applications are probably getting accepted onto 3 or 4 of the things, meaning that say, every 100 grad places are being taken by 25ish people, who will, very late on tell the companies that they've got a place somewhere else, by which time the rest of the grads will have moved to other jobs/master degrees/abroad.
The system sucks but I think I can game it.
Yeah, but my girlfriend would prefer to stay here. It's much easier to get a job when you've got your foot in the door so to speak.
Plus the pay for clerical jobs isn't as high in the far-east, although that will change in the coming years.
J Tourettes
Banned
Dump her and enjoy yourself, Chinner can comfort her.
RibbedHero
Member
I hear there are quite a few jobs in the south east...
In all seriousness, good luck to everyone looking for employment, no matter where.
I hear there are quite a few jobs in the south east...
In all seriousness, good luck to everyone looking for employment, no matter where.
haha thanks, but I don't like the south east. If we had the choice between Taiwan and London we'd choose Taiwan.
She doesn't like London either, I've taught her well
You ran out?
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
I hear there are quite a few jobs in the south east...
In all seriousness, good luck to everyone looking for employment, no matter where.
I just found out today that I have an interview at a very prestigious private school on Monday for their exams officer position. First interview in about 2 years despite having sent off dozens of applications, but this is the first one where I know I can nail the job.
I'm a bit nervous though since it is proper posh and I am totally not posh at all. I know I can do the job, but I just hope they're not too judgemental about my bog standard comprehensive education. Still, it's a very exciting proposition and means a good 8 grand pay increase if I get it. Come on universe, come through for me on this one!
He could always turn to Phoenix Wright gifs.
Hot Coldman
Banned
Exactly what the internet needs to see more of! (I keed, they're good gifs)
The litany of Phoenix Wrong rip-offs have forever ruined PW gifs.
dublin too amirite. don't forget guernsey
J Tourettes
Banned
Yeah, it's not the hilliest although there are still some very pretty places. I love Beachy Head and the Sussex downs but they do pale in comparison to some other areas of the country.
I'd generally agree, but they have the White Cliffs:
quite stunning.
NW isn't the best when it comes to natural beauty I must admit (although parts of the pennines/mersey/cumbria are great). Clearly the most gorgeous parts of our country are North Wales and the Scottish Highlands.
quite stunning.
NW isn't the best when it comes to natural beauty I must admit (although parts of the pennines/mersey/cumbria are great). Clearly the most gorgeous parts of our country are North Wales and the Scottish Highlands.
The NW has The Lake District which is the most beautiful part of the country.
CHEEZMO
Obsidian fan
The most beautiful vista I have ever seen in person was in the Lake District, so I'm inclined to agree.
That EU states thread was hilarious, everyone forgets the Walsh.
I'd generally agree, but they have the White Cliffs:
quite stunning.
NW isn't the best when it comes to natural beauty I must admit (although parts of the pennines/mersey/cumbria are great). Clearly the most gorgeous parts of our country are North Wales and the Scottish Highlands.
I dunno man, what about Exmoor
'hear hear' (you pedantic twat
for the Lake District, people are a bit reserved for my liking. But it is beautiful, skydiving up in Cark is always a treat must do that this year.Video for you lot.
Here's the lake district the way I've seen it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBfDHo-WvYY
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
Not really. I live near Guildford, and having cycled around the Surrey hills just a couple of weeks ago I can wholeheartedly say the area can be downright mountainous. There's a place called the Hog's Back that I had to push my bike up and the view was astounding, lush rolling hills as far as the eye could see. And the ride down was brilliant!
RibbedHero
Member
New page new question:
What sports do you spectate and play?
Spectate: football, international cricket, six nations rugby, f1
Play: volleyball, football, golf
What sports do you spectate and play?
Spectate: football, international cricket, six nations rugby, f1
Play: volleyball, football, golf
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