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Nice people thread part 6 - thrice by twice as nice :)

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  • michaels
    michaels Posts: 29,223 Forumite
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    Talk about above and beyond...I am having to entertain 11 16/17 year old Spanish girls this evening...and 1 lucky boy (Do I sound like CK?) They have reached the swimming pool stage of the evening....

    WE have also done BBQ (cooked first in the over to be on the safe side), kiddie cocktails and an ice-cream bar. Saintly DW has done a lot of clearing up. In compensation we are 'educating' them with Bob Marley and Jimmy Cliff.
    I think....
  • LydiaJ
    LydiaJ Posts: 8,083 Forumite
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    vivatifosi wrote: »
    Except me of course...;) and any other NPs in the public service.

    Of course. :)
    Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
    Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
    Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.     :)
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    vivatifosi wrote: »
    Except me of course...;) and any other NPs in the public service.

    I like the ideas recently of better more acxountable local government. I think it would make all th difference. Good, answerable councillors.:)

    Good public servants exist. I hope the system does not get that doctor who called me earlier, enthusiasm like that, commitment, it should be rewarded, acknowledge, captured and exploited.
  • chewmylegoff
    chewmylegoff Posts: 11,469 Forumite
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    PasturesNew wrote: »
    I remember the rules years ago used to be that if you took your chips outside, there was no VAT, but if you sat and ate them on the premises, there was VAT.

    seem to remember that it used to be the same for mcdonalds milkshakes when i was about 10.
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    misskool wrote: »
    anyone want to do my ironing?
    Top tip: fronts, collars, cuffs.... don't do the rest, nobody sees it if you keep your jacket on.
  • chewmylegoff
    chewmylegoff Posts: 11,469 Forumite
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    lostinrates wrote: »
    I like the ideas recently of better more acxountable local government. I think it would make all th difference. Good, answerable councillors.:)

    Good public servants exist. I hope the system does not get that doctor who called me earlier, enthusiasm like that, commitment, it should be rewarded, acknowledge, captured and exploited.

    i used to work for the SFO. i would say about 10% of the staff there were really good, really committed to the 'cause' and really trying to make a difference. amongst the other 90%, about half were competent but didn't really care one way or the other - they would do their work properly but never stay 1 minute past 5, or go out of their way to help with anything they didn't have to, and the other half were incompetent, or competent but lazy/workshy.

    i reckon this was exactly the same when i worked in the private sector, except that the handful of really (unacceptably) bad people did get fired eventually, and the 10% who were really committed were committed to advancing their own career and making as much money as possible, rather than being committed to the corporate mission.

    the real difference with the public sector was that the screamingly incomptent people were able to somehow get themselves promoted into relatively senior positions. and some of the senior transfers in from elsewhere in the civil service were just shockingly bad. in the private sector, the good people were just identified and promoted by management without the strange internal interview process you get in the public sector which seeks to ignore your actual performance and pin everything on a 30 minute interview with 2 people you've never met before and who won't have to manage you or deal with the consequences of your promotion.
  • PasturesNew
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    michaels wrote: »
    Talk about above and beyond...I am having to entertain 11 16/17 year old Spanish girls this evening...and 1 lucky boy (Do I sound like CK?) They have reached the swimming pool stage of the evening....

    WE have also done BBQ (cooked first in the over to be on the safe side), kiddie cocktails and an ice-cream bar. Saintly DW has done a lot of clearing up. In compensation we are 'educating' them with Bob Marley and Jimmy Cliff.
    You have a pool?????? POSH ALERT!!!!
    I've never known anybody with a pool!

    Bob Marley's Da Bomb. LOVE his stuff.
  • chewmylegoff
    chewmylegoff Posts: 11,469 Forumite
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    PasturesNew wrote: »
    Top tip: fronts, collars, cuffs.... don't do the rest, nobody sees it if you keep your jacket on.

    or just buy 10 white non-iron shirts from tm lewin or equivalent.
  • chewmylegoff
    chewmylegoff Posts: 11,469 Forumite
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    PasturesNew wrote: »
    You have a pool?????? POSH ALERT!!!!
    I've never known anybody with a pool!

    Bob Marley's Da Bomb. LOVE his stuff.

    at least 2 NPs have pools and one has a whole lake.

    please can the other NPs list all water features within the boundary of their properties (bidets do not count as a water feature of the purposes of this survey).

    i have no water features unless you count the puddle which sometimes forms on our tiny balcony, or the recurrent leak in the hallway.
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    Chewy you just answered a question i had abht where you worked. I am prettysure we must be only one person removed in the six degrees line of thinking,
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