Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

OH has an incredibly complicated bonus formula. It's meant to be fair. This year it collapsed on itself, you can't increase turnover of sub-company X by 3% if you sell half of it off! You can't increase an areas profit if you re-invest instead of releasing the profit.

Or maybe the formula did work, from the company perspective. If they had to sell half off to survive, then there's nothing in the pot for bonuses. If they've re-invested, theoretically that'll bring a long-term higher bonus, retaining the interest of the worker in the long term.

It just doesn't work for him to actually get cash this year.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

Ideas for 18th birthday present please.

Eldest had a laptop for his 18th, but somehow youngest already has one. He's got an iPhone too. Plus he drives the car that officially belongs to his brother (whose away at uni most of the time). Doesn't want jewellery. I'm stuck.

Cash works....

I got £10, which in today's money is about £40.
Although my sibling, 2 years later, did monumentally better than me (favourite) as they secured a gift at 14x my amount

PasturesNew

Being recently bereaved, I now realise I have no items of significance as a reminder to the departed. No gift that was bought, nothing they thought of and gave me. It's kind of like a big hole of non-connection.

Maybe you could try to get something he'll still have when you pop your clogs, so they're reminded of you.

PasturesNew

Davesnave wrote: »

Anti inflammatories, like ibuprofen, reduce the cause of the pain & don't just mask it. Worth having some in, considering the piddling amount they cost.

I didn't even know this. I know so little about drugs that I thought all those things were "like aspirins, with different names - so you take them if you have a headache".

michaels

What about a 6 month working visa, 6 month ticket to the US and 1000 USD?

Ibuprofen doesn't just mask pain it all reduces swelling allowing the injured bit to move again.

I think toes are easy to break and if not set properly can affect walking for ever after.

When I grew up even though we lived in the biggest house in the village my parents were very against conspiciuous shows of wealth, something about those with the most don't know what it feels like to worry about money and thus would find it vulgar to display or discuss money or possessions. I follow the same ethos for the same reson, with most of my money tied up in property I have no option but to live a paupers lifestyle.

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

Maybe the OU's changed then - I studied with them in 94-97 and got just two short tutorials in a year. Without the Internet either, it was all a bit of a desperate study method as there wasn't the chance to ask questions easily etc.

I've not studied since as I was moving about/couldn't make plans and couldn't afford it. Although, I now find out (through MSE) that I could probably have got funding ... everybody else seems to have been funded, but they'd kept the income rate low and my wages had dropped and I didn't know.

It was always my plan to continue ..... but the cost stopped me mostly. Now I don't know if there'd be a point. So what if I got a degree (which'd take another 3-4 years with them) .... I'd be unemployable due to being a new graduate of a certain age.

I think if you did a unit, you did four assignments, two of which were followed by tutorials.

Some people do it to boost employability, but others do it to keep thier minds active. I seem to remember there was a study that seemed to link studying in later life with delayed dementia.

I strongly believe it's never too late to learn. I know lots of people who retrain for new careers after retirement in their 50s.

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

When I grew up even though we lived in the biggest house in the village my parents were very against conspiciuous shows of wealth, something about those with the most don't know what it feels like to worry about money and thus would find it vulgar to display or discuss money or possessions. I follow the same ethos for the same reson, with most of my money tied up in property I have no option but to live a paupers lifestyle.

Not a worry for me, I've nothing of value to flash about. I think my most valuable asset (apart from my car) is either my PC or camera, which'd be worth probably £50-70 second hand if I could find a desperate buyer.

Thinking really, really hard.... no, I have nothing that's worth more than that.

I think I could replace everything I own (except the car) for £1-2000... possibly for £1k.

PasturesNew

zagubov wrote: »

. I know lots of people who retrain for new careers after retirement in their 50s.

The thing I have is that I've never had a first career, I've always "had jobs". And what do people retrain to? I've no real confidence/interests to be able to pick something and say "I like this... I'll retrain and there'll be a career at the end of it".

I do seriously lack confidence... majorly. And it's got a lot worse in the last 5 years.

michaels

I'm with you - if anyone broke in here they would be so disappointed.... and I am always quite amused when the minimum contents insurance you can buy is 25k

PasturesNew wrote: »

Not a worry for me, I've nothing of value to flash about. I think my most valuable asset (apart from my car) is either my PC or camera, which'd be worth probably £50-70 second hand if I could find a desperate buyer.

Thinking really, really hard.... no, I have nothing that's worth more than that.

I think I could replace everything I own (except the car) for £1-2000... possibly for £1k.

lostinrates

We have some nice stuff, but not much stealable. E.g. Big pieces of furniture. Apart form macputer nothing of value is technological.

In the london break in recently dh's stuff was left because it was not interesting and there was not much of it. His tv was the only one left, a huge one, not flat screen, but a huge boxy one, which he got via free to collect. . We have that one here atm, and also a hand me down one also boxy, that was my parents, i think they got it about 15 years ago, maybe more....not sure now.

We worry mopre about farm theftfs. And We leave the horses out. Thats some value just munching and mooching aout out there. The dogs worry me, particularly as each of them is half a disrable lurcher and they are female. The cats too.....some things cannot be replaced by insurance value.


I reckon to repllace our books and cds would be a hefty chunk of money. Maybe when we have bopok shelves i should keep an inventory of stuff. I keep meaning to check our house hold stuff against what we are insured for.

If we had an accident..flood fire or whatever, the house would certaonly look better for any insurance redecorating, buit the furniture would be hard to replace i think.