Nice people thread part 7 - a thread in its prime

vivatifosi

silvercar wrote: »

The view from our balcony:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8524/8500088658_7b2cb2e1c8_b.jpg

Sunset last night:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8382/8498982235_31b882428e_b.jpg

That's beautiful silver. How lovely to have such views in winter, when it is snowing here.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

£612 to £375.

Blimey ..... sometimes I am staggered how others live. Your new, reduced, rent is more than the pre-tax basic wage on the job I last lost

The wonderful thing is we have on mse people from all strata posting fairly 'real' SOAs. What is appropriate depends on so much. If I had kids at home and worked I would want one of us to be able to be with them very quickly, in case of illness, emergency, whatever. In a city that restricts where you live, a lot.

Otoh, I am pretty sure if I had a kid it would find itself wanting to board at some stage,:o. And in that sort of situation I would deem it appropriate for them to be further away. ( depending on ease of journey to and from school)

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

That's beautiful silver. How lovely to have such views in winter, when it is snowing here.

Snow? Snow???

It's not snowing here... I've been out in the garden a few times this morning in just a short-sleeved T shirt and shorts!

It snowed once here - for a few hours, next day it was gone.... and it's not been back.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Otoh, I am pretty sure if I had a kid it would find itself wanting to board at some stage,:o

When I was growing up, the only thing I knew about boarding was that they did it in the St Trinians films - and they do it at Borstal

vivatifosi

CKhalvashi wrote: »

I would object to this, seriously!

It is commonplace and I'd do the same. It comes back to the whole thing of 'if you don't want to be caught out, don't lie'. I know that people big up their CVs a bit, but I've been told before (not sure if it is true as not from an HR background) that if you lie on an application form it has far greater ramifications.

Companies House will list both current and past directorships and are easy to look up. Anyone not telling the truth can be banged to rights for £1. If you have access to a companies database, such as FAME, looking people up and where they've been is very easy.

LinkedIn profiles are interesting, not just in terms of what people have written, but what others have written about them. If I was checking someone out on LinkedIn, I wouldn't stop at what someone has written, but the credibility of the recommendations (whether they are from clients or peers), then looking up those people to see whether they can be trusted.

Then of course there's how people present themselves under their real names on things like facebook.

zagubov

Generali wrote: »

Cute Alert!
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Beware. Much of that website is most definitely NSFW. I can highly recommend their email as an antidote to the nice gossip mags.

We went house hunting today for a rental as the current place is bigger and more expensive than we need. We looked at this place which we're not going to take unfortunately. It's great fun! It would have been a suburban palace when it was built.

Does it work if you shorten the links by shortening them in here first then posting on this thread?
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Edit- no it clearly doesn't! :rotfl:Maybe the last one will do it!

vivatifosi wrote: »

It is commonplace and I'd do the same. It comes back to the whole thing of 'if you don't want to be caught out, don't lie'. I know that people big up their CVs a bit, but I've been told before (not sure if it is true as not from an HR background) that if you lie on an application form it has far greater ramifications.

Companies House will list both current and past directorships and are easy to look up. Anyone not telling the truth can be banged to rights for £1. If you have access to a companies database, such as FAME, looking people up and where they've been is very easy.

LinkedIn profiles are interesting, not just in terms of what people have written, but what others have written about them. If I was checking someone out on LinkedIn, I wouldn't stop at what someone has written, but the credibility of the recommendations (whether they are from clients or peers), then looking up those people to see whether they can be trusted.

Then of course there's how people present themselves under their real names on things like facebook.

I always warn my students applying for uni to be careful about what's on their facebook page as admissions officers allegedly look up profiles of candidates.

I always assume future employers always do this just as applicants check potential employers first on friendsreunited etc.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Snow? Snow???

It's not snowing here... I've been out in the garden a few times this morning in just a short-sleeved T shirt and shorts!

It snowed once here - for a few hours, next day it was gone.... and it's not been back.

Snowed here. Light powdery dry snow. I live this weather.

lostinrates

zagubov wrote: »

I always warn my students applying for uni to be careful about what's on their facebook page as admissions officers allegedly look up profiles of candidates.

I always assume future employers always do this just as applicants check potential employers first on friendsreunited etc.

I know of employers who have Facebook accounts for just this purpose, obviously not in real names or their own names anyway.

PasturesNew

zagubov wrote: »

I always warn my students applying for uni to be careful about what's on their facebook page as admissions officers allegedly look up profiles of candidates.

I always assume future employers always do this just as applicants check potential employers first on friendsreunited etc.

The whole point of CVs and application forms is it gives a standard set of information, in a set layout.

The danger of people mining is that selectors start to choose based on lifestyles. If you're looking at the facebooks of two people and one's posting their horse and skiing holidays ... and the other's posting photos of them and their mates on the swings at the local recreation ground ... you'll start to form opinions which are in some cases elitest.

It's a recipe for disaster really on many levels as it's no longer a level playing field and you'd find yourself being judged on "how fun you seem to be on facebook", which isn't a desirable business trait in most roles I'd imagine.

Generali

PasturesNew wrote: »

£612 to £375.

Blimey ..... sometimes I am staggered how others live. Your new, reduced, rent is more than the pre-tax basic wage on the job I last lost

Part of that is the crazy FX rate.

The average salary here is $50k/yr. Average taxes are about 25% less than the UK. I earn 2x median salary in Sydney (almost, not quite but it's just a few bucks less). That's a fair bit but not huge riches.

It's not really possible to compare Aus and the UK; they are very different places. For a start if I was to move from Sydney to the next place (Newcastle) I'd be moving almost 100kms, Newcastle is the next place up the road. The next city is Brisbane which is about 500 miles further on.