MSE Pregnancy Club IX

Glamazon

mountainlioness wrote: »

Sorry to hear about your DH's work - mine's not that much better. They made him take holiday for his gran's funeral so that probably says enough (my boss let me go 'for free' even though it wasn't my gran - he knows I do my work, trusts me and is happy to be flexible) Luckily his immediate boss has 2 small ones so is showing a totally uncharacteristic generosity with regards to scans (altho I think he knows he shouldn't push DH on this one!) DH is one of the best performing salespeople so boss knows he's earning his salary for him :rolleyes:

The main problem is the 2 guys he work with don't have kids and aren't family orientated, 1 has a girlfriend who lives 100 miles away so thinks nothing of staying until 10pm and the other one is just weird!

He gets 25 days hols but can only take them in a block from 1st June and not at any other time of the year, his current contract says he must work 40 hours (more like 50) and must have 2 consectuive days off though these won't be Saturday and Sunday. He's lucky to get 2 days off a week let alone 2 one after another.
Now they want him to do more work for the same money - we'll see how it goes I think. For the work he does and the money it generates it makes him sick that he's earning less than everyone else.

Sami_Bee

searching_me wrote: »

am i the only one who has to have cooked meat its my idea to why people get ill from meat... coz its not cooked it was even proven (i'll have to search for it) that is one of the reasons why more ill from meat is spread because over the years people have chose to have rare ... sorry but theres no way in heaven hell or earth i would eat undercooked meat and red to me means undercooked x

I've only had food poisoning once and it was from out of date turkey _pale_

Krystaltips

Don't think I've ever had food poisoning... But I do have a cast iron stomach... Still like my meat cooked though lol... I don't like the flavour of rare steak... Or the fact you have to chew it for days... I like my beef stewed so it just falls apart in your mouth...

searching_me

luckily sami ive never had it but OH has and it was not a pretty picture bless him... my mother and step-dad have actually hospitised my brother from food poisoning but they were never good cooks to begin with the things my mother use to feed us its a suprise all 4 of us (i have 2 step-bro and a half sis) are still alive x

searching_me

same here krystal x

mountainlioness

Glam - he has to take all his holiday in one long block?! wow that is prescriptive. Don't think I could manage without some regular time off (at least once every couple of months, if only for a day!)

SM - I wonder how you'd react if you had a blindfold on and someone fed you some really good quality medium steak? Maybe it's the look of it you react against?

searching_me

ML i know my meat and the feel of a good cooked piece of steak to the way i like it anything else... is a no go .. to me undercooked is undercooked you can risk it if you want but my meat is going to be cooked then cooked again if i still see red x

mrsapple_2

re flat viewing: mmm had a look on street view ... i am not moving off the council estate but then again converted and modern purpose built flats are all tiny so who cares what the outside is like and lets see the inside. It is a five storey red brick block.

As for food i had a runny egg at home the other day but when i was out i insisted it was well cooked - i know my own standards!

mountainlioness

lol SM - you win!

DH has left work and will be home in 10 mins:j I think he must be even more nervous than me as he asked if we had time for lunch - bless. There is ALWAYS time for lunch in my book!

1 1/2 hours til the scan

aless02

actually, not to stun everyone, but nowadays you can actually eat pork cooked medium and up (i.e., it doesn't have to be well done). The reason everyone thinks you can't is because pork didn't use to be as clean, etc. or have as many regulations. Ignoring the swine flu situation, technically you can undercook it and there's no innate harm.

of course, i find it gross, but as I used to work in steak restaurant and people would give me weird looks when asking how they wanted their pork chops cooked!!!