Nice people thread part 7 - a thread in its prime

LydiaJ

silvercar wrote: »

4 in a row! Are the rest of you suffering with o2 network outtage?

I've been catching up. Last time I was on here, we were all still on NPT6, so it's been a long haul, but I'm up to date now.

michaels wrote: »

Lydia glad you are back in the land of the healthy, DS has his second flu of the term ( is starting school at three really such a good idea?) and I have it too, again

Thanks michaels. Hope you and your DS get over it quickly, and your DW and DDs don't get it.

PasturesNew wrote: »

It all happened so quick, we hardly ever saw the same person twice as we were dealing with a constantly moving target. Nobody knows us, or me, or what went on because it all happened in a flash.

Bother. Oh well. Hope you sort something out that keeps them happy enough to proceed.

zagubov

Generali wrote: »

A good friend of mine is a DJ (of the non-kiddy fiddling sort) and so his boyfriend threw a party for his 33 1/3 birthday.

I love this.I used to be a hifi buff when there was such a thing and I used to dream of owning Nakamichi, Linn and other products (but had to settle for B&O , Dual , technics and so on).

When I left my last job someone gave me a book about old hifi, and I stumbled across an old fact that humbled me. I lived though various "platform wars" eight-track cartrige vs, Philips musicassette, DCC vs DAT, VHS vs Betamax, PC vs Mac,

What I'd totally missed was thet our parents generation had platform wars between 7-inch 45 RPM discs and 12-inch 33 rpm discs and they both won and for years record players played both platforms often automatically registering which one to adopt.
There haven't been many conflicts that ended up this way:beer:

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

Bother. Oh well. Hope you sort something out that keeps them happy enough to proceed.

I'll start, then give them the refs.... there's nothing whatsoever to hide, so there won't be a problem. The only problem is that I have a lack of refs - I guess it's a problem for a lot of older people who are 'returning' from self-employment as most bosses have been older and companies no longer exist and previous bosses have retired etc.

Once I start they'll know how amazing I am anyway, so it'll become a non-issue.... it's not like the tick-boxing public sector

PasturesNew

So ... LL's gone on holibobs .... shame to waste the freedom of relaxing, so I've got up super early

Alreadty had two coffees and laid on the sofa.

Edit: Well, that seems to be the end of the dodgy freeview/telly ,..... not sure what button I pressed but now I get nothing

Edit: Full of win ... turning it all off and on at the wall fixed it

Edit: What is annoying though is that the freeview box etc only ever seems to give 5 channels, rest have always said "no signal". And ..... it's just kids' stuff on. Well, that's the end of telly watching then....

Generali

zagubov wrote: »

I love this.I used to be a hifi buff when there was such a thing and I used to dream of owning Nakamichi, Linn and other products (but had to settle for B&O , Dual , technics and so on).

When I left my last job someone gave me a book about old hifi, and I stumbled across an old fact that humbled me. I lived though various "platform wars" eight-track cartrige vs, Philips musicassette, DCC vs DAT, VHS vs Betamax, PC vs Mac,

Whati'd totly missd ewas thet our parents generation had platform wars between 7-inch 45 RPM discs and 12-inch 33 rpm discs and they both wonand for years record player s played both platformsa obften automaticlallhy registering which one to adopt.
there haven't been many conflicts that ended up this way:beer:

I spent a year working in a posh Hi-Fi shop.

It could have been one of those jobs that sounds better than it is but is wasn't. It was fantastic. We'd get sound engineers coming in who would spend half an hour chatting about speaker design or the best crossover configuration and setting up amazing systems then on a Saturday we'd sell a gazillion components and clean up.

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'll start, then give them the refs.... there's nothing whatsoever to hide, so there won't be a problem. The only problem is that I have a lack of refs - I guess it's a problem for a lot of older people who are 'returning' from self-employment as most bosses have been older and companies no longer exist and previous bosses have retired etc.

Once I start they'll know how amazing I am anyway, so it'll become a non-issue.... it's not like the tick-boxing public sector

That seems strange to me. If you are going to give somebody a job before the references arrive, then why bother getting references at all?

But then, I've always worked with children, so obviously all possible forms of checking happen before the job starts. There's plenty of time for that, though - the majority of private sector teaching jobs get advertised in March/April (or May at the latest) for a September start, and state sector ones in May/June (or possibly July), also for a September start. I don't know if things have changed now, but certainly when I started it was usual to take up references before short-listing for interviews.

PasturesNew

This is great.... had a bath, washed my hair, been to Mr T and got a pizza for tonight and eggs/bread/beans .... and am now at home eating beans/scrambled eggs on toast with brown sauce

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

That seems strange to me. If you are going to give somebody a job before the references arrive, then why bother getting references at all?

But then, I've always worked with children, so obviously all possible forms of checking happen before the job starts. There's plenty of time for that, though - the majority of private sector teaching jobs get advertised in March/April (or May at the latest) for a September start, and state sector ones in May/June (or possibly July), also for a September start. I don't know if things have changed now, but certainly when I started it was usual to take up references before short-listing for interviews.

Well, they wanted somebody ASAP - and I talked the talk, clearly better than the rest (and in a technical subject I couldn't have faked) .... so they either wait, or trust. And, employers can boot you instantly in the first year (or is it 2?) and private employers have NO qualms about doing that.

In the private sector, somebody hands in their notice - say 1 month - and the employer's got to write a job advert, wait for applications, interview somebody and choose/start somebody .... with that month ticking down all the time. They're having to balance the person in front of them against having nobody in the seat in 1-2 weeks' time.

LydiaJ

Well, if booting you's that easy, it makes sense to do it that way if there aren't any kids involved.

Spirit_2

LydiaJ wrote: »

Well, if booting you's that easy, it makes sense to do it that way if there aren't any kids involved.

It is that easy. No unfair dismissal rights for 2 years.