Nice people thread part 7 - a thread in its prime

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

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

Remember .... JS would probably have passed an advanced CRB check

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

Remember .... JS would probably have passed an advanced CRB check

Oh sure, you can't weed out the people who haven't been caught yet. If you are going to have systems for weeding out the people who have already been caught, though, then you need to do it before they are left alone in charge of some kids.

PasturesNew

If you go in on Monday and the school caretaker's quitting, having given a month's notice last Friday ..... how long does it take to replace him?

misskool

PasturesNew wrote: »

I bet poor Chewy feels uber-stalked now

Not me, I don't know where that is

Exhausted. Went to London for a meeting yesterday then met a friend and then went out on a guest list free bar thingy.

Then we have weekenders and then a week of going out to random gigs (Joan Armatrading and Dara O'Briain) and the weekenders are back for a return visit.

I am going to enjoy sleeping in 2 weeks from now :rotfl:

PasturesNew

I decided to wash my trousers... as I've a job to go to. They're Peacock's black polyester (probably?) trousers.

I've washed them before and when I get them out of the machine I just hang them up and they're fine. However - this machine must have a super-fast spin or something as they've come out creased to farq.

So ... I had to iron them. I figured that ironing them while still damp would be great as it'd be like steaming, but better.... so I've now just wasted 30 minutes trying to iron them.

I've ironed them lengthways on the board, across the board; legs singly, legs doubled up.

I am now at the stage where I have a crease that's passable (if you're aged 12), there are still loads of crinkles in them .... and I just gave up and hung them up, hoping it might drop out.

Along the way I also managed to trip over the leg/foot of the ironing board while holding the hot iron....

I am definitely ironing fail. They were sliding all over the place, I was having to hold the top of the crease in place with one hand, while trying to get the rest of it lined up, then, without daring to let go of the "top", getting the teatowel and getting that over straight and without it disturbing the line and reaching over for the iron ..... to then iron the small bit that was OK to iron.... nightmare.

I doubt I'll be wearing trousers for work to be honest..... this has put me off the idea.

Maybe I need a bag of 100 pegs to pin them down before I iron them....

kabayiri

Generali wrote: »

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.

In the early 90s I had let my hifi interest lapse. I just didn't enjoy going into HMV and the like to search through CDs all presented in the same fashion. Every branch seemed the same, it was all a bit dull.

Then a new posh shop opened in my village. They sold about 70 LPs as a token music offering - I know this because I must have bought every single one!

They would let me wander into the back room when it was quiet and play a handful of lps, no pressure. See what I liked. This was all on a very nice Linn record player.

It was no wonder I would come out with Blues n Jazz records under my arm, from artists I had never heard of.

It still ranks as my best music buying experience. If I didn't like something I knew I could take it back.

So today we have iEverythings and music on tap on the end of a wire. But is it really progress ?

My music room is an escape, an indulgent time to listen to stuff I like.

kabayiri

misskool wrote: »

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Then we have weekenders and then a week of going out to random gigs (Joan Armatrading and Dara O'Briain) and the weekenders are back for a return visit.

I am going to enjoy sleeping in 2 weeks from now :rotfl:

Joan Armatrading Sounds fab.

I'm going to dig out her debut lp now, after reading that

chewmylegoff

PasturesNew wrote: »

Had to have a look ... yes. Most bizarre/pointless... What's that all about I wonder?

Probably a Gadget Cupboard....

It does look stupid- but thankfully it is not here any more. We rented it unfurnished, so nothing in the pictures is actually here. We have got a corner sofa but it is against the wall rather than in the middle of the room and that cheapo LCD tv is thankfully gone as well.

kabayiri

silvercar wrote: »

Off the ground, fixed to wall not floor. Designed to make the floor space and hence the room look bigger. Also makes floor cleaning easier as no dirt gets beyond the kick-boards.

Also works in bathrooms where the toilet and sink are attached to the wall rather than the floor.

I think you are quoting from the sales brochures there SC

The real reason for things like floating cupboards / fancy cooker hoods / illuminated kickboards ?

They are all fads! They keep the consumer interested, looking to find out what's hot and what's not.

Thank goodness . If we didn't have an element of individuality / lunacy in our lives, we would all wear the same clothes; drive round in a square box on wheels; live in square boxes with standardised windows etc.

I prefer the world described by Kevin & the Grand Design's team. "Next week - we meet Derek and Jane; who think they can live in a converted water tower "

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

If you go in on Monday and the school caretaker's quitting, having given a month's notice last Friday ..... how long does it take to replace him?

No idea, I'm afraid. Appointment of support staff is not anything I know anything about. But I would guess that for that kind of job you'd only take a couple of weeks to appoint, and then hope the person could start straight away, or else have to manage a bit of an interim if they had to give a month's notice. Caretaker CRB check might take a bit longer, but you'd let him start work while waiting for it, with limits on what he could do - he wouldn't be allowed in the same room as any kids unless there was a CRB-checked adult in there, but for a caretaker that wouldn't be too hard to manage.

Teachers have to give half a term's notice (state sector) or a whole term's notice (private sector). Most job moves happen over the summer. So if you're not going to come back in September, you need to give notice by the end of May (state) or the end of April (private). The general expectation is that you will give notice as soon as you know you have another job to go to, to maximise the time they have to replace you, so people generally don't leave it until the final day to hand notice in. If you do leave it until the final day, then your school can't appoint someone working in the same kind of job, because they can't give notice. So private schools then appoint people from state schools whose notice period is shorter, and state schools appoint people from PGCE courses or career breaks or doing supply teaching, who don't have to give notice at all.