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Tis the season to see Fungi, fa la la la la....
peds replied to David Humphries's topic in Fungi Pictures
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Thinking about having a part time employee
peds replied to carsmarco252's topic in Business Management
Don’t worry dude, I agree. I’ve had a bunch of uni students work for me over the years when they’ve found out their degrees are worthless... lazy fucks, mostly, no effort to put the hours in. -
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peds replied to carsmarco252's topic in Business Management
Thanks eggs, I’ve worked since leaving school. Good to catch a hint of your anti-education bias, though. -
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peds replied to carsmarco252's topic in Business Management
I don’t disagree with a word of that dude. My point is that it isn’t the people voicing their concerns about the future who are to blame (as they are not the root cause), and chastising someone who has worries that they (or the person they are advising) might not be able to pay an employee isn’t exactly constructive. You could just as easily argue that a gung-ho attitude with no regards to the realities of the situation is just as damaging, or possibly even more so. But I wouldn’t know about that, I mean I was managing kitchens and not an arb company. So I probably don’t have a clue. -
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peds replied to carsmarco252's topic in Business Management
My main responsibilities were feeding unnecessarily-fancy food to Russian oligarchs and their film star wives whilst hiding behind a fake smile and trying not to die inside. But what I, or any other individual, was doing at any moment in the past doesn’t mean a thing, and it seems pointless to bring it up. The point is that it isn’t people expressing their concerns about impending financial turmoil that causes the financial turmoil. You can put a brave face on it as much as you want, but a stiff upper lip isn’t really going to put food on the table when things go belly-up. Anyway, best not derail this thread any further. Apologies, carsmarco252! -
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peds replied to carsmarco252's topic in Business Management
I’m not 100% sure that that’s a prerequisite to hold an opinion on the matter to be honest mate. -
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peds replied to carsmarco252's topic in Business Management
Haha, no it isn't. It's the fucking up of the country that will fuck the country up. Don't shift the blame! -
No job, just hanging around.
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I’m 32, just done a career change, I got CS30/31, 38, and 39, plus stump grinder and woodchipper tickets on a 4 week course. I picked up a trial day with a dude easily enough even though I had essentially zero real-world experience, and was offered a job off the back of it, but I seriously doubt that I would have had any success, or at least so quickly, without at least 30/31. Personally I’d recommend that as a bare minimum, and if you can spare the time and cash for a bit more, then go for it. Two other guys on my course had similar success, albeit with a fair bit more practical work experience than I’d had. If nothing else, it gives you a chance to make some really stupid mistakes (and learning from them) in the relatively-forgiving arena of an educational environment, instead of next to a paying customer’s greenhouse. Good luck dude!
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Definitely not recorded by the drone! They are noisy buggers.
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They aren’t strapped to me, they are all strapped to the dog. He was practicing his rescue techniques. Anyway, Ashley isn’t allowed any more fancy toys until he’s spent another decade climbing DRT on a Blake’s hitch.
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Get back on the prusik you pansy.
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That makes a huge amount of sense, I hadn't considered that. Thanks.
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Then again, I speak solely from the experience of working in kitchens and catering, where hours and conditions are notoriously shitty, where you’re up two hours before breakfast and get home three hours after dinner, do that seven times a week, let the owner jizz on your face every now and then and you’ll still say thank you and beg for more hours, because we (the whole industry) had this stupid machismo bollocks going on where you’d assume you were better than everyone else because you could put the time in and get the job done to high spec for no money without complaining. It’s bullshit, and a huge reason why I’m not doing it any more. So yeah, I’m all for people putting their foot down and not working silly hours in exchange for pennies, because it’s toxic.
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He said a 25 minute drive, but all the same, if you are at the stage in your career where you are earning a tenner an hour what difference does it make if you start at 5, 7, 9, 11? You don’t earn danger pay for owning an alarm clock.
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I don't see what the problem is, to be honest. You called off a job because you don't like getting up early? Do you get itchy feet at one minute past usual finishing time, too? In my previous life 6am starts were normal, and working around the clock wasn't anything special. I have no way of counting the number of times I've left home in the dark and arrived home in the dark, summers included. The job dictates the hours, and if you can't hack it, then sod off and give the job to someone who can.
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Hugely impressive, thanks for sharing.
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Well, a fence and a license seems a small price to pay for a good rasher every now and then. It does seem a little unnecessary to suggest that you’d want to fence them in to be honest, wild boar have never struck me as the kind of animal who’d stick around under their own volition. The clue is in the name. And yes, they do cause damage. We have them in the forests here, wild wild ones. The evidence they leave is pretty impressive.
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Do it, plant a good range of trees, get some fruit trees mixed in there as well, and then release some wild boar into the forest when it’s old enough. This is my retirement plan for bacon.
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^^ Very interesting. Any landscape or long shots of the bunker?
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Brilliant, thanks for the recommendations, I thought I had put Tree Climbers Companion into my basket the last bit of shopping I did at Northern Arb Supplies, but I was wrong. I'll definitely get that, and at least one of his others. The Andrew Hirons book sounds interesting, I'll look into it. Cheers.
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This is Baldric Wonderdog at home in Chamonix, in the Alps. I might be biased, but I tend to think he's pretty freaking rad. He's a bit of a local celebrity, he even has his own instagram page. https://www.instagram.com/baldricwonderdog/
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