eggsarascal
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This^, we were working on a site just outside Swindon last week, the bloke doing the induction didn't even ask to look at our cards, just asked us to write the number on the paperwork.
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Sorry for your and your friends loss, bud. They don't make 'em like they used to.
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I'm with Rouhgy, the Green card will get you on any site ime.
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Plan ahead, Keith!, always get by but..
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Strange, we're only a few miles apart and it's 23 degrees in the caravan I don't live in on a building site.
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Probably because they are interested in grafting?, I can't get my head round why Mark wouldn't pay more money, one of them (at least) will go on to good things. Treat people how you want to be treated!
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Today I've been talking to a fella that I do quite a bit of contracting for, two of his lads have jacked to start up together, these are good lads, one's been with him 8 years, the other a couple of years, they've asked for more money and got turned down so, they are on one. I've spoken to the lads today they are on £12/hour, company van, and all the other perks of being employed. Mark, the fella I sub to charges these lads out at £48.50/hour. Could he have given extra, or was he right?
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I spoke too soon, a fella I do some work for just rang, two good young lads that work for him have asked for more money, he's turned them down, they've just jacked, (going to start up together),Seems there will be a good run of work for the time being.
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It's a classic.
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I'm always the same either feast or famine, last week there wasn't enough hours in the day, this week I've got two long days unless the phone rings.
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You really do have a problem with the word we're or the words we are.
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Ask anyone who's been here if I live in a caravan in a work yard/ building site, Mr Johnson, or AHHP to name a couple. lets get back to you spinning things, please answer some of the questions I asked you last night, in order without BS if you would be so kind. 1, How do in work benefits make the low paid equal to highly skilled people or doctors? 2, Who would do the menial jobs if everyone was highly educated? 3, How are people that work full time in distribution hubs as Pickers & Packers lazy and feckless?
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I've not been living in a caravan on any building site and I did sell a house, (well it was a bungalow actually) in the countryside, and I was not turfed off anywhere so, I'm afraid I've not been caught out. You'd need to get up a lot earlier in the morning to do that. If you don't believe me ask any of the 'real' people from this forum who know me.
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Never said that, you're making it up as you go a long. Servicing/routine maintence doesn't involve fixing anything. Like I said earlier you've more spin than Alastair Campball.
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You must have, if you want to check me out on the electrol roll I'll pm you my home address here in Sudbury.
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Not really I've asked you this evening to answer some questions, you haven't been able to, or have chosen not to. Now, back to who's been living in a caravan, can you give us an answer please?
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Moving up in the world! I sold a place in Suffolk that would buy that pile you've got up there and still have ready money to spare. So, I'll ask you again who lives, or has lived in a caravan in recent years?
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Cheers b0D, thanks for educating the village moron. There's some long roads between Swindon and Telford when you have to zig-zag in between.
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Who lives in a caravan?
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Ok, we all know you are the sharpest tool in the box.
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Yes b0D, I understand that. What you've just done is stop me tying Andy in knots. We have to subsidise wages, he doesn't like that yet he wouldn't like to pay more due to mass unemployment. I was playing the long game! What pisses me off with Andy is he thinks everyone left of centre is a bone idle fucking moron. I'm not blowing my own but I've earned (what I consider) good money this week, to get it I've done just over 1000 miles before I've done the graft, I've worked on systems that would have a lot of pump lads scratching their heads, to me its bread n butter but, because I'm left of centre I'm thrown into the bone idle moron category.
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Another cracker, Si.
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I'm not so sure companies like Acado/Waitrose (for example) would get away with putting their prices up if they were forced to pay more, people are shopping more and more in the cheaper supermarkets, fact. I agree some of the things Corbyn is proposing are sheer lunacy. Have you heard/read me supporting him?
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That's one way of looking at it, the other way would be to not let companies get away with paying rubbish money while avoiding paying tax and making huge profits. That way we the tax payer wouldn't have to top up wages, Labour have suggested this many times but the Conservatives have said no way. The other thing you've seemed to overlook is who would do the menial jobs if everyone had a great education, foreigners?
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You've got more spin than Alastair Campbell, working tax credits don't put people in low paid jobs on anything like a highly skilled person or a doctor, what it does is put someone on low wages ie the minimum wage of £8 odd/hour on maybe £10/ hour, how does that make everyone equal? Now lets have a look at the other side of the coin, this week I've been working on Acado sites (the company that deliver Waitrose food) up and down the country. On one site between Oxford and Swindon there are 1500 people working a three shift pattern = 4500 people on any given day, let's say they were all on minimum wage and each of them get an extra £2/hour in in work benefits, Acado would be quids in whilst making vast profits. We the tax payer on the other hand...
