inflation, money and houses

Generali

chucky wrote: »

oh please don't!!!

i guess i must have struck a cord... ooops...

don't forget you weren't the only one that worked in the back office at Fleet Street...

I have never worked on Fleet Street. Presumably that's meant to be a veiled, 'I know who you are' comment. Goldman Sachs has buildings on roads other than Fleet Street.

napoleon

chucky wrote: »

ooooops.... not only i have upset the HPC Ghetto but now the Happy Clappy HPC Family... shame

Oh dear. poor old chuckey has gone into full meltdown mode.

The men in the white coats will be around shortly to take him away.

It's sad. Very, very sad.

chucky

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

about as constructive as a brick through a window.

as constructive as this post??

chucky

Generali wrote: »

I have never worked on Fleet Street. Presumably that's meant to be a veiled, 'I know who you are' comment. Goldman Sachs has buildings on roads other than Fleet Street.

don't be silly, i was going somewhere else with that - not there...

Generali

chucky wrote: »

don't be silly, i was going somewhere else with that - not there...

As the children say in these parts, 'Busted, Custard' (they rhyme in an Aussie accent).

What was the Fleet Street comment supposed to mean then? Clearly nothing to do with journalism as you've mentioned my 'failed City career'. There are no other investment banks on Fleet Street that I can think of.

How long did you spend [STRIKE]trolling[/STRIKE] trawling through my posts to find that I have worked for Goldmans? A quick Google and Bingo! they are on Fleet Street. That'll put the wind up that Generali for calling me names. I can pretend that I know who he is. Only you don't because you got it wrong and the Old Bill have warned you about directly threatening people on the web so you have to use obtuse threats.

napoleon

chucky wrote: »

as constructive as this post??

poor old chuckey is lashing out at all and sundry like the demented man he is.

He's totally lost his marbles. It's quite sad really

Dithering_Dad

Hi Gen,

Just wondering how things were going in OZ? I know it's early days yet and you'll still be finding your feet, but was interested in the employment situation down under and whether you have lined anything up yet?

Generali

Dithering_Dad wrote: »

Hi Gen,

Just wondering how things were going in OZ? I know it's early days yet and you'll still be finding your feet, but was interested in the employment situation down under and whether you have lined anything up yet?

I applied for my first job today with one of the regulators as I figure they need all the help they can get right now! Things are pretty tight over here although much less so than in the UK.

The papers are full of job cuts at the banks and there is a big 'story' about Macquarie (sp?) spending a fortune on the staff Xmas party while sacking people.

From a pretty facile look at things so far I'd say that there's more work here than in London in my line but that just means that there's not a lot rather than bgger all. Things aren't helped by the fact that Christmas and the aftermath is a total shutdown over here as it's the long summer holiday too.

As we're staying with the in-laws and the Aussie benefits system is very generous towards women with young kids I'm not going to be starved into taking a job. If I don't get anything before Christmas I might get a job cooking in a bar or something, just to get me out of the house. It'd be good to go back to cooking for a living.

WTF?_2

Generali wrote: »

As the children say in these parts, 'Busted, Custard' (they rhyme in an Aussie accent).

What was the Fleet Street comment supposed to mean then? Clearly nothing to do with journalism as you've mentioned my 'failed City career'. There are no other investment banks on Fleet Street that I can think of.

How long did you spend [strike]trolling[/strike] trawling through my posts to find that I have worked for Goldmans? A quick Google and Bingo! they are on Fleet Street. That'll put the wind up that Generali for calling me names. I can pretend that I know who he is. Only you don't because you got it wrong and the Old Bill have warned you about directly threatening people on the web so you have to use obtuse threats.

Do you think Chucky really is Bruno? He's certainly mental enough. Still, you could say that another poster too who has a very similar style.

Dithering_Dad

Generali wrote: »

I applied for my first job today with one of the regulators as I figure they need all the help they can get right now! Things are pretty tight over here although much less so than in the UK.

The papers are full of job cuts at the banks and there is a big 'story' about Macquarie (sp?) spending a fortune on the staff Xmas party while sacking people.

From a pretty facile look at things so far I'd say that there's more work here than in London in my line but that just means that there's not a lot rather than bgger all. Things aren't helped by the fact that Christmas and the aftermath is a total shutdown over here as it's the long summer holiday too.

As we're staying with the in-laws and the Aussie benefits system is very generous towards women with young kids I'm not going to be starved into taking a job. If I don't get anything before Christmas I might get a job cooking in a bar or something, just to get me out of the house. It'd be good to go back to cooking for a living.

December is always a recruitment dead zone, so you should enjoy the break before you climb back onto the job treadmill.

When I was a DFW (pre-contracting), I worked a bar job in the evenings to help our finances. I have to say that I really enjoyed the bar work far more than my 'joe job'. Gets you out from under the missus' feet and it's a free night out.

Not sure about cooking though, it always seemed a bit stressful in the kitchen in the pubs I've worked at. The time passes quickly though.