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Why FTB should Resisit buying now and Save instead! explained

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  • Maisie11
    Maisie11 Posts: 206 Forumite
    Many many years ago the company I worked for had a customer who complained constantly and told us he knew everything about everything. He only spent a small amount with us but evenutally one of the service people went to see him. He turned out to be a 14 year old boy working from the back bedroom of his parents house....

    I think there is a case here for thinking this might be the same sort of chap.

    It is very very naive of Pandamonia to think he is immune from redundancy and the like if he has the job he says he has. No one is immune and being so young he is unlikely to get much of a pay off. However good he thinks he is I suspect in this current climate no one will want to be bothered with someone so difficult and prickly to manage.
  • Really2
    Really2 Posts: 12,397 Forumite
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    pandamonia wrote: »

    im also 6 years younger than anyone my level. which is why my package seems like overkill

    Yes most story tellers/fiction writters do tend to be over 24.
  • chucky
    chucky Posts: 15,170 Forumite
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    pandamonia wrote: »
    West Midlands

    how much percentage do you think property will drop in your area?
  • Maisie11 wrote: »
    Many many years ago the company I worked for had a customer who complained constantly and told us he knew everything about everything. He only spent a small amount with us but evenutally one of the service people went to see him. He turned out to be a 14 year old boy working from the back bedroom of his parents house....

    I think there is a case here for thinking this might be the same sort of chap.

    It is very very naive of Pandamonia to think he is immune from redundancy and the like if he has the job he says he has. No one is immune and being so young he is unlikely to get much of a pay off. However good he thinks he is I suspect in this current climate no one will want to be bothered with someone so difficult and prickly to manage.

    i said earlier i have a 9 month notice. im not immune to reduancy but i am immune to this house price crash haha how much is your house worth today?
  • chucky wrote: »
    how much percentage do you think property will drop in your area?

    some areas have dropped 17% from peak so far. im just looking at some of the nice areas and the house prices are mixed.

    wishful thinking and realistic
  • Really2
    Really2 Posts: 12,397 Forumite
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    Maisie11 wrote: »
    Many many years ago the company I worked for had a customer who complained constantly and told us he knew everything about everything. He only spent a small amount with us but evenutally one of the service people went to see him. He turned out to be a 14 year old boy working from the back bedroom of his parents house....

    I think there is a case here for thinking this might be the same sort of chap.

    It is very very naive of Pandamonia to think he is immune from redundancy and the like if he has the job he says he has. No one is immune and being so young he is unlikely to get much of a pay off. However good he thinks he is I suspect in this current climate no one will want to be bothered with someone so difficult and prickly to manage.

    Also with his attitude no education and poor people skills I can't see this chump in a good job.(even i he was his company must think !!!!!! did you buy a M3 for.)
    I would not employ him that is for sure.

    PS Pandamonia I bet your "erm employers" have fun insuring a 24 year old on the company insurance on a M3

    Hello pinhochio.
  • Really2
    Really2 Posts: 12,397 Forumite
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    pandamonia wrote: »
    i said earlier i have a 9 month notice. im not immune to reduancy but i am immune to this house price crash haha how much is your house worth today?

    So you are a rep with 9 month notice.
    :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

    Wake up mate do you think no one on here works or runs companies.:rolleyes:
  • Really2 wrote: »
    Also with his attitude no education and poor people skills I can't see this chump in a good job.(even i he was his company must think !!!!!! did you buy a M3 for.)
    I would not employ him that is for sure.

    PS Pandamonia I bet your "erm employers" have fun insuring a 24 year old on the company insurance on a M3

    Hello pinhochio.

    My boss drives an M6 and his boss a Porche, company policy is fleet and just states that i have to be over 21. i fit into this company pretty well, infact they said they would sack me if i drove a crap car lol.

    just because i live in a different world to you and your sad little life doesnt mean im not telling the truth.

    and the reason i dont own my home yet is because i spent most of 2008 traveling across the world for work.
  • Maisie11
    Maisie11 Posts: 206 Forumite
    I think we are beginning to see flaws here, final salary pension scheme for free. I get a FSP and it certainly isnt free, I get private healthcare but you pay tax on the benefit. My BIL who is CEO of a large software company gets about £1000 per month as a car allowance but earns £300k plus share options. All of this sounds like a load of rubbish to me. Also the attitude that he could do alot of damage if he left his current company, well people moving from competitor to competitor all the time.
  • MORPH3US
    MORPH3US Posts: 4,906 Forumite
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    pandamonia wrote: »
    Now if instead you held fire and continued to save for the next year or so and you managed to get 20% rather than 10% which would be 26k instead of 13k

    Maybe I am the exception to the rule, but when my GF and I were renting, there was no way in hell we could have saved £1100 per month....

    I don't know many FTB's who could either....

    Thats about one persons wage on £20k a year....
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