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It’s “you’re an important man Trig.” No matter… I’m a wee cog in a big wheel. I’ve stated this repeatedly Mull. But to grind for 30 years for yourself and not be able to retire? To be someone’s bitch now? Geeeeez. Bet you wish you kept this home truth to yourself, eh? This is the kind of dirt you have to pay to dig up. 🥃🥃🥃Mull just hands out Easter Eggs. And again, to preempt. Don’t give me the “Im just keeping my hand in” BS.

I’m happy to admit I’m a small cog in a big wheel Mull. I’m a number and nothing more. Ergo I’m employed and paid in a direct relationship in what I can offer a multi-billion dollar company. If I don’t self invest and diversify my knowledge base I’ll be left behind with the dinosaurs. I keep myself relevant and if not irreplaceable as financially as close to that as possible. But Mull, you’re washed up. 30 years in the game and still out hawking with cap in hand? I knew your where a 🥃 but it’s sad to see you need to keep asking the boss how high to keep the fix. There is nothing someone who has sucked so hard at life that I could consider wisdom. apart from “don’t do drugs”.

You’ve yet again missed the point Mull. The balance of power swings in both directions. It really matters not the size of the business nor the number of employees. Sooner or later the balance of power will tilt in either direction. As an employer you need to be astute enough to gauge to market closely enough to feel of you have the scope to punish minor infringements severely enough end them or see the disciplinary action have an unexpected detrimental effect on the company. It’s a fine line HR, Managers and Legal tread in big boy works. Small potatoes could grab their coattails for free, Its an interesting side note to how your career of 30 years was so ineffectual (inefficient?) that at the point of when it’s generally expected of someone to have run their own business for so long that retirement and a daily fat cigar is expected. Fore give me for preempting your retort of “ I do this because I want to” because we both know it’s BS. So with that excuse out if the way why do you think that after 30 years of working for yourself and now having to be someone’s bitch do you think you have any authority to voice your opinion? it has to be the drink talking?

The word decimate comes from the Roman times. In short when serious reprimand was in order one in ten of the enlisted men where killed. Now killing one of the lads might be going a tad far would a sacrificial culling of the worst offenders be out of order? Sends a strong message and gets rid of the vocal trouble maker.

I’m not denying that. But there is always a balance of power. If there is scant companies offering work then the lads can be told to sort their shit on their own dime or GTFO. Conversely, if there is money and work sloshing around then the ball is in the employees court. If the employer does not bend the rules (if forced into it) then the employee holds the cards. This is economics 101 Mull, you know this as much as anyone.

I’ve heard the same with multi-billion dollar oil service companies only to watch them shrink to insignificance then a total withdrawal from the shelf or at best suffer a very marginal market share. I’m witnessing this very problem right now. Who needs who more?

Everyone is expendable. Be it the company owner or the employee. Who needs who more? In my humble line of work the initial years of an employee working for the company sees the employees training costs equal their yearly wage.

I agree with your initial assessment not so much the latter (obviously) Again, who needs who more? This is the decisive question in how a company administers discipline.

Make them make the customer happy on their dime. They’ll not do it again. If they dont like it then time for them to walk, that’s unless you need them more than they need you then you best just suck it up.

No need to double down. 🤣

But better than a master of one. Many seem to have forgotten the real meaning of this rhyme.

I completely agree that there should be personal responsibility for our own health. There is simply no reason to be morbidly unhealthy with the wealth of knowledge and help freely available today. Funny you should mention stricter alcohol restrictions, the SNP has done just that by introducing a minimum alcohol unit price a few years back that means we pay the most for booze in the whole of the U.K. did it work? Of course not, it’s been proven that the very people it was introduced to “help” simply bought the same amount of booze and spent less on necessities. In my opinion the modus operandi of the SNP is “free stuff” for their voters. They encourage state dependency and not personal responsibility. Taking personal responsibility in Scotland is getting more and more costly to the point it’s simply not worth trying to better yourself. Solutions? Well vote the clearly failing SNP out, but there is significantly more dole bum types than there is those who are personally and fiscally responsible. A system more akin to Norway is in my mind the solution. Entrepreneurship and hard work is rewarded. Even such matters as evicting a tenant is far simpler in Norway, again enforcing personal responsibility. Child benefits are paid regardless what you earn, again encouraging people to not reach a threshold in pay then coast. Pushing on is not punished with punitive taxation. I’m already taxed £8-10k in Scotland over what I pay in Norway with very little to show for it. With the further penny increase in tax over the U.K. to 2p more now and the drop of the 47p threshold dropping from £150k to £125k I’ll be in serious trouble resulting in me cutting my work right back to hopefully not pay anything to Scotland at all and enjoy more free time. I don’t think I’ll be alone in this kind of action which will potentially result in less tax coming into Scotland instead of more. I certainly hope so anyway.

This is true. But the SNP has been in power for 15 years now with absolutely no indication of where they extra tax the take goes. We’ve still the lowest life expectancy in the U.K. and the highest drug deaths in the U.K. if not Europe. I guess the extra penny they’re taking off of us on top of the extra penny they already do will soon solve this. 🙄😁

The SNP doing Scotland proud. 🙄

Torque?

Thorpe pesky moonbats getting it right yet again.

Did someone drop the Ban Hammer on Kimosabi then? His name does not show on his posts now.

Would have been funny if every reply was Welsh cleaning services. 🤣

My Grandfather traced his side of the family back about 500 years. I’ve the printout somewhere. Interesting to glance at, that’s about it. The whole family name dies with my Mother since she was an only child.

Ok Eggs I’ll bite. I’ve no idea how you’ve attributed this nonsensical comment to what I’d stereotypically post.

The people who need told this are most likely out buying a pack of crayons right now.

They don’t sleep much anyway and don’t have a job to get up for either. 🤣

Ive sent numerous parcels, packets and letters to Norway, both to private individuals and government agencies and generally they are tracked. They all leave the UK promptly and then enter the 3rd world limbo for days on end when they get to Norway. Its quite baffling really.

But do you really need physical letters delivered more frequently than that?

There is that I guess. Time will tell I guess.