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

zagubov

misskool wrote: »

I'm unemployed :eek:

LydiaJ wrote: »

Me too

And me

Us educational NPs are surplus to requirements. Sniff - still, what do we care? There's plenty of more threads where we'd all be welcome. (Thinks hard and struggles to think of any).

PasturesNew

fc123 wrote: »

I think she can hold 27 Maltesers in her mouth at once........but I could be mixing her up with another poster

Definitely getting mixed up .... I've never tried ... and probably never would as maltesers have to be eaten one by one in a particular way

Generali

A question for the nps about whistleblowing.

My ex-employer doesn't have a 'client money' policy in place, that is to say that it mixes up their money with their clients' money. That means that if they go bust their clients could lose all their money.

Should I go to the regulator about this? I think I should.

PasturesNew

Generali wrote: »

Should I

Yes..... definitely.
Always "grass up" I say.

zagubov

Generali wrote: »

A question for the nps about whistleblowing.

My ex-employer doesn't have a 'client money' policy in place, that is to say that it mixes up their money with their clients' money. That means that if they go bust their clients could lose all their money.

Should I go to the regulator about this? I think I should.

As long as it doesn't stir up enough trouble to endanger the ex-employers finances and his entangled clients money, then yes.

SingleSue

MiddyMum wrote: »

Pastures New, you popped into my mind today. I was reminiscing with my friend about a time when I worked at a college with some kids who had Aspergers and they had the most spectacular memory. One kid could remember the entire Inspector Gadget film, word for word...it was quite the thing. Do you have any special talents? My cousin has autism and he has a remarkable mathematical ability, I find it all really interesting..

With middle son (Aspergers), he can listen to music and then pick any instrument up and play it perfectly...I sometimes feel I have enough instruments in the house to be worthy of an orchestra! Music also calms him, take away his ability to play music and you can expect him to blow into an aspergic rage.

Youngest son (complex autsim) has amazing maths ability...unfortunately, he doesn't show it at school as he doesn't feel 'safe' doing so. He also has an encyclopeadic knowledge of Star Wars, Hitler and Lord Alan Sugar!

He doesn't show any of that either at school......

SingleSue

PasturesNew wrote: »

I used to be able to do mental maths quicker than a calculator ... and win free drinks in the pub for doing so .... but I lost that ability when I was about 21-22.

I count everything .... not really a talent.... but everything has to be counted, all the time. Everything from the number of bricks between windows on buildings, to the number of branches in trees, to the number of seconds between cars passing, to ... well, everything

So no .... my 'talents' are just very annoying things nowadays.... and, everything is a system. There has to be a system for everything and it has to be followed. Although not everything in the system has to be done "now"..... thank goodness.... so, e.g. washing up has to be done in a very particular way, but there are two dishes beside me that have been there 1-2 hours ..... but once done they'll be done in "the way".

Everything I do, I try to optimise.... making every action into a countable process. Even walking down a street, if there's a bend in the road, I like to take the straight route across the road... then mentally calculate how many steps I think I've saved.

P.S. I'm not a loon.... I don't twitch

I had to keep my maths skills up because to keep youngest calm, I had to give him harder and harder maths questions (he was working into the thousands at age 5 - he couldn't have a conversation with you but he could give you answers to maths questions!) and at speed too...so there would be me driving the car whilst giving him questions and working them out whilst doing so....not the safest thing in the world :rotfl:

SingleSue

LydiaJ wrote: »

I couldn't do that either. How much does it take to get over the limit for HB and CTB? And how many hours a week would that entail in your line of work, if that's not too personal a question?

Erm........not a scoobie to be honest!

I have no idea of the cut off and trying to work out their scales is like some weird alien maths, plus I have no idea of the going rate now for salaries in my sector and with the length of time I have been out. I am working on the assumption of minimum wage, any more would be a bonus.

Previously, I was being paid more than double the minimum wage with a generous pension, medical, life insurance, bi annual bonuses and increasing holiday allowance per year worked package.

LydiaJ

Generali wrote: »

A question for the nps about whistleblowing.

My ex-employer doesn't have a 'client money' policy in place, that is to say that it mixes up their money with their clients' money. That means that if they go bust their clients could lose all their money.

Should I go to the regulator about this? I think I should.

Yes.
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vivatifosi

Generali wrote: »

A question for the nps about whistleblowing.

My ex-employer doesn't have a 'client money' policy in place, that is to say that it mixes up their money with their clients' money. That means that if they go bust their clients could lose all their money.

Should I go to the regulator about this? I think I should.

I have been a whistleblower having discovered a fraud at work (my then boss was sacked as a result) and I don't know if you've done it before, but you need to expect that if you do it and are identified as such, you will spend a number of uncomfortable months knowing whether or not they are coming after you, either as a company or an individual.

Overall, I think the answer is still yes, but with a caveat. Is this something that they've unintentionally neglected in their processes (along the lines of the recent Blackrock fine), or is it a deliberate act? If it is the former, you may get further by writing the procedures and putting them in place, or suggesting that to someone you know who is still there and who you trust. In that case its a win win. It's right for the company and good for you to be seen as the good guy. If however there's a more gung ho attitude and there is a genuine risk to client money, particularly if there's any potential for failure that you're aware of, then you must. Either way, things can't be allowed to continue as they are.