I have literally never been in a Primark in my life. I’ve heard the stories. What level of hell does it clock in at?
Using Dante’s scale, I’d say the eighth cycle: fraud.
It’s got the usual hellishness of clothes shops, rows and rows of horrible ugly garments being picked over by huge groups of squawking teenage girls and tasteless middle aged people, added to that is the moral depravity of a planet destroying business run on squeezing profit from sweatshops in faraway lands.
I’ve tried using logic and reason, but it’s hard to compete with €2.50 t-shirts.
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Assuming that 50¢ of that will be VAT and the shop presumably makes some profit. The shipping costs will add up as well as someone growing the cotton in the first place even before you get to the poor bastard who stitches it together.
Cheap clothes are like a bacon butty. It’s usually best not to think about the pigs.
Well it’s GCSE revision in full swing here. Spent every dance journey of late listening to History revision, English poems and maths bollocks. Tonight was Titration for Chemistry tomorrow. Been fun to go back over all the old stuff, Paul Elrich and salvarson 605 etc. The look I got for mentioning that just before the teacher, priceless. Daddy ain’t all that daft 
Got to admit that 90% of it will only ever be used when the grandkids are asking for help years in the future but you can’t beat a good broad knowledge I guess . 4 more weeks then it’s Alton Towers time
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I bet she got jelous that you kept the reward and not give it to her
I’ve had a very ‘challenging’ week.
My son went over to Chile to ‘visit’ my daughter. They went on a short excursion to the north east desert/salt lakes. The Chilien part went very well at about 3000m unfortuneately they continued on to Bolivia. This meant ascending to 5000m which apparently was done very quickly and both suffered altitude sickness. My daughter, the only one of the 2 that speaks fluent spainish, was completely KO with problems breathing and blue lips. My son got to the stage of ‘hacking’ and tasteing blood.
The fuckwit Bolivians decided they had flu because they had temperatures and wouldn’t give them oxygen. (Btw pulmonary oedema can cause you to have a temperature). My son was very stressed (me too and I wasn’t even there).
So evidently 2 stressed Flobs familly didn’t go down very well together. I ended up having to try and calm my daughter as some very nasty stuff was said between them. That was a lot of text messages over a long period and after having discussing the situation with my son reassuring him (a pharmacist) that he was correct to be very concerned but to stay calm and rest as much as possible.
Thankfully they have returned back to Santiago and on feeling better things seem to have improved between them. Bloody hell I was so worried as was my son. We just don’t handle stress well! 
It’s not the 1st time my daughter has suffered altitude sickness she went on an excursion in Chile with a friend and had mild symptoms however her friend was treated with oxygen she got so bad (vomiting and all). Tour guides in Bolivia should know better!
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Glad they are feeling better in Santiago. Hopefully the relationship wasn’t too damaged, and they both learn from the experience too.
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Yes they seem to have calmed down and are taking the piss out of me.
It was probably my fault they went to Bolivia as it was something I wanted to do when young. So they are saying if I’d tried it I’d have died. 
I actually text them that as well so I’d say they are getting on ok now.
Recovery from altitude sickness isn’t long once you descend however above 2500m you need to climb slowly and acclimatise (can take 3 days). They didn’t have this opportunity and apparently the tour was a lot of running about to get all in (not a good idea).
Thanks!
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I suppose this is a what’s happening event.
What’s happened is that full fibre is now available to my property.
Currently paying £165 a fucking month for all of my broadband/TV/phone line services.
Planning to trim down my Sky package to the very basic one, and use my Firestick for sports and movies.
Thinking of going Vodafone, to also trim down our mobile packages
Anyone with Vodafone able to comment on their reliability, or recommendations for other broadband/mobile providers?
I know mobile coverage is location dependent, but broadband is estimated to be super fast (compared to my current 10 mbps).
Fuck, I’d be happy with 200 fo the 900 they claim I can get.
Would I need a VPN constantly running for Firestick?
Update on my ‘work’ situation.
I’ve been sacked!
Quite relieved, yes it was convienient as so close to home however it was so disfuctional.
They even started to try and impose greater disfunctionality with the summer coming up, at least I won’t be involved trying to calm clients down whilst being stressed to the hilt myself.
So now very actively searching a new job!
Btw they pushed another to demission, she was a nutcase but good worker, she just had enough (I couldn’t demission as I wouldn’t get unemployment benefits I suppose she’s in a more secure position than me). It was mentionned another has ‘left’ as well. All before the summer. All of us deal with reception of the ‘shitty hotel’ even if my ancient post situated me in the ‘other hotel’.
Place has gone nuts the manager is calling people in left, right and center to pressure them. As if being under staffed for almost a year isn’t pressure enough.
I hope yhe place sinks!
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Good luck with your job hunt!
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Not sure whether congratulations or commiserations are in order, so I send both 
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Congratulations are probably in order. I was pushing for either a change in functionality (not forthcoming just getting worst) or the sack so I would be eligible for unemployment benefit. Under the circumstances the sack was the best option.
Thanks. 
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Okay @Flobs , congratulations on getting removed from the toxic work environment you shared with us.
Wishing you the best of luck in a better job with nicer people and less stress.
I hope you are okay though.
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Congratulations on being sacked
Fitting for a football forum I guess. From now on I shall call you Jose.
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Just been through something myself, went working from home, consulting, the head office couldn’t service public loos, caused me huge stress and a few mistakes I had never before seen. Im just winding it down now and off to Newcastle for a 3-6mth temp contract end of June. Quite looking forward to it. its good to escape these travails. They have such an impact on mentality sounds like the place you have got free of was Toxic. Dont look back, look at an employment tribunal claim instead!
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Yes it’s been very stressful for me. Add to that my daughter having problems with her boss far away (Chile) and trying to ‘comfort’ her at the same time.
I hadn’t had a break for over 8 months due to under staffing, others going on holiday and sick leaves and their replacments just buggering off at will. I asked for some consideration and all that happened was more changes and more difficult conditions and circumstances.
I blew a fuse and just refused to do what caused me the most stress and didn’t consider within my contract bref. I also knew I couldn’t do another summer ‘season’ under such conditions.
I’m considering going to an employment tribunal however it won’t change much as they are patron dominated. I will get my unused paid holidays paid which is more substantial than I’d get from a tribunal.
I wish you well. I’m going to take my time to try and find a more reasonable employer.
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You still in France right, or back in UK. Only there are quick time limits here, 3 months, in which to take a claim. But is it worth it, sometimes you do right to just walk away and make oneself good. Ive no clue about French law (or English ) but mostly, the work I do, employers often, if they are clearly in the wrong, will pay off to save face and risk. its worth a go! Also, so is a visit to the Doctor to add to the impact of the breach wink wink.
I presume you peed in the foi gras before you left
In truth tho I imagine both you and I could be hard to manage 
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Hey @Iftikhar , hope you are safe after Remal downfall
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