A chicken is for life not just Christmas Dinner (An 11+ ELITE Thread)

Savvybuyer

purpledonkey wrote: »

Morning Savvy :rotfl:

:rotfl: Good morning and, now well afternoon!! This from 5.12 this morning - after I went to bed just before 5:rotfl::rotfl:.

Evangeline1971 wrote: »

Good morning everyone



Thanks for this Savvy I've been wondering why Morries still price collect rather than pulling the data from the Morries website. The first part of that article says this



I'm still confused really because surely they must know that the current method of collecting the data is less accurate than if they pulled it from the website :huh: or are they too stupid to realise that there are many many inaccuracies with the Morries APG comparison. Why do Morries care so much anyway about the APG being accurate :think:

Either way they ought to sack the price collectors for not doing their jobs properly. If they find repetitive work boring they shouldn't have applied for the job in the first place. I would love to have their job and wouldn't find it boring at all, in fact it would be very interesting and give me the opportunity to learn even more about grocery products and pricing

Hi there - thank you!:)
It's not Morries that is price-collecting: it's the agencies for A (and T).
That adjudication is from ages and ages ago, when M did not have online grocery.
The point about Morries caring whether the APG is accurate is because Morries were objecting to advertising by A, saying it was inaccurate. Obviously it affects M adversely if competitors make claims in their advertising that encourage people to shop at the competitors on that basis rather than shopping at M.

Thank you for your very direct and foreright view there (about the price collectors). It's easy (for you maybe;)) to be as bald as that, but when there are (or have been) fewer jobs around do people really have a choice as to what jobs to take? I could at this point launch into a very long and supported argument (debate) about autistic vs non-autistic workers and about how recruitment processes are to blame etc. Arguably they pick out the least appropriate people to do some jobs. Really the non-autistics (that is, virtually everyone) ought to stick to being bar staff or something. Social conversation is all that can really be done properly. Even then though they'll doubtless ring things up on the till incorrectly or not scan things properly (if the analogy to the SAs in my stores is anything to go by) - especially as they are just chatting and chatting away with their customers rather than concentrating. As for people not applying for jobs they find boring, do we really expect people to avoid applying when they were without a job and, at the end of it, perhaps looking for anything? As the song goes, "My job is very boring I'm an office clerk." Most people I suspect see jobs as boring necessities, just there to bring the wages in. How many of us really find a job we love (that's if we are lucky to have a job at all)?

The price collectors will almost certainly be non-autistic, because that's the pool that the employers (whoever they are) have to draw their workers from. When people generally apply for jobs, they try to make themselves appear suitable to the employers. In the non-autistic way this means gilding things in order to fit and telling little white lies that come naturally to most people. Unfortunately autistic/Asperger's are concenred with the truth, the technical truth even if it sometimes is socially incorrect. I have to bite my tongue (not literally:rotfl:). When you are assessing someone for a job, inevitably the people who've been able to 'sell', market, themselves are going to come out on top, whilst those who've got an inclination to edge everything in and qualify their claims to make them completely accurate are going to fail. The National Autistic Society says that only 15% of people with autism have full time employment (http://www.autism.org.uk/undiscoveredworkforce) - this is the lowest figure of any disability group.

Really yes, the people most suitable to jobs such as data collection are autists (the speigel.de page I linked to earlier about his people being wide awake on the 10th barcode scanning, we might adapt it to say) but, for the reasons including those above I suspect, they are the least likely people to get employment. Instead the workplaces are full of people who can market themselves, sell themselves in an interview setting and thus converse with other people effectively and that's what they spent their time doing once in the job, checking their phones and surfing on the net when they should be working. Sorry folks, most of you will hate it but it's TRUE!! (And we saying, truthfully, that it's true is likely instead to provoke further consternation. That's what being truthful and not telling white lies does. And that, too, is true yet again.)

:rotfl:

I'm going to cop out of any defending of what I've said though as I've a lot of things on to do today and don't have the time to keep posting lots on here!

It also depends on how autism affects you and autism is a spectrum condition. E.g. is it autism with learning disabilities or not? It doesn't always mean you sit and rock from side to side. Although I do love sitting in a rocking chair, I'm perfectly 'normal' in the vast majority of time. There was one guy who was on the TV with Reggie Yates, with 'quite severe' autism - non-communicative but loved his singing. They managed to get him to perform a song in front of an audience. He sang and performed perfectly normally but, immediately before and after was profoundly rocking constantly. That's how autism can affect some people - with me I'm almost normal and just a little quirky. However, in a way that also means people can't tell I am autistic and therefore I get overlooked and assumed that I am normal when I am not. I.e. the pharmacist at the counter in my A was talking to another customer recently - and, without intending to, I burst in with a 'quick question' - I didn't fully realise at the time that she was talking to someone else - I suspect (having thought about it later) that she thought I was being very rude (i.e. the complete opposite of what I actually am, as I often tear myself up about affects on other people when others don't seem to care about anyone else or let it affect them) but I realised, after the event, that it's all because I don't read body language. She wouldn't have known that though, when she was probably forming her opinion that I was rude, and I've no clue whether or not she felt I was rude as didn't get anything from her expression! It can be harder as I constantly have to think about these things when they come naturally to most people and, because I don't look 'disabled', people who meet me are unaware of that fact and therefore, like human beings:rotfl:, make assumptions all the time related to how things come across and any pre-existing prejudices (that we all have to some extent) etc.

bubbs

karlie88 wrote: »

Coca Cola Fridge Pack - 20 cans for £4.

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Gettin hot very quickly.

I'm all coked out so no use to me.

Thanks BUT
Bloody coke again, :mad::mad:
I WANT PEPSI MAX:rotfl::rotfl:

cheer1eader

bubbs wrote: »

Hello Nerfy and Cheery:wave:
Good luck with mot nerfy

hi bubbs :wave: i see you've been ironing today :eek: when you doing mine? :rotfl:

karlie88 wrote: »

Coca Cola Fridge Pack - 20 cans for £4.

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/coca-cola-fridge-pack-10-x-330ml-cans-4-bogof-instore-tesco-20p-per-can-1917715

Gettin hot very quickly.

I'm all coked out so no use to me.

thanks :T:T i prefer cans so will pick some up after the carvery later

karlie88

bubbs wrote: »

You mean this sentence:p:D
I'll be up yours in an hour with a massive basket of school uniforms for you to iron :rotfl:

Yes, that sentence.

:eek:

:rotfl:

ilovetoshop

Afternoon all

Couple of reports of coke scanning in store at £4 bogof thanks to op

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/diet-coke-fridgepack-10-x-330ml-bogof-20-cans-for-4-85-tesco-online-1917367?page=2#comments

Eta.. Sorry didn't see karlie had posted already

nerfdad

karlie88 wrote: »

Is it an independent garage? Or one of the nationwide garages?

Independent and it's £54 :cool: very happy as my car is a load of poo:eek: at least with ds3 's car we get a new 1 every 3 years:)

gocat

bubbs wrote: »

Yes them dogs are lovely:T:T
Hope you dont mind me asking do you have hearing difficulties ?

Yes. Think I posted about it before.
<<<<<<< is my hearing dog Tessa

fairclaire

karlie88 wrote: »

Coca Cola Fridge Pack - 20 cans for £4.

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/coca-cola-fridge-pack-10-x-330ml-cans-4-bogof-instore-tesco-20p-per-can-1917715

Gettin hot very quickly.

I'm all coked out so no use to me.

And I can't get out :mad:..........I'll have to send an SOS to DS1
Thank you :T

karlie88

nerfdad wrote: »

Independent and it's £54 :cool: very happy as my car is a load of poo:eek: at least with ds3 's car we get a new 1 every 3 years:)

Nice.

What car have you got?

:cool:

Hope the MOT goes well!

:eek:

David.

nerfdad wrote: »

Independent and it's £54 :cool: very happy as my car is a load of poo:eek: at least with ds3 's car we get a new 1 every 3 years:)

Mine was £27.40 :j:j