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When quitting a job is your employer required by law to pay any unused holiday hours?

Thanks @aggi and @mattioats - I shall see what an initial conversation with Virgin results in. Will see what sort of price I can get one of those boxes for too. Cheers.

Can vary from contract to contract unfortunately.

I found this:

The only time someone can get paid in place of taking statutory leave (known as ‘payment in lieu’) is when they leave their job. Employers must pay for untaken statutory leave (even if the worker is dismissed for gross misconduct).

https://www.gov.uk/holiday-entitlement-rights/taking-holiday-before-leaving-a-job

With my contract, I'd be paid what I'd accrued up to that point in the year. So if my exit date was 6 months into the financial year and I'd accrued 2 weeks of holiday and taken 1 week off so far, I could be paid 1 week in lieu (arbitrary numbers).

Yes, in most places that's how it will work.

The alternative is booking up that remaining holiday after your intended last day at work and then handing in your notice timed so that your last day being the end of your booked holiday.

i.e. if you had a one month notice period and 2 weeks remaining holiday by the end of Jan and want to leave end of Jan

a) resign end of December with last date being Jan 31, work up until the end of Jan, collect paycheck plus 2 weeks unused holiday payment

b) resign mid January with last day of employment being mid-Feb, use unused holiday to book first two weeks of Feb off, last actual day at work is Jan 31 but you're paid until mid-Feb

The latter may get you an extra day or two holiday payment too, since it may push you into the next month and so you will have accrued an extra month's worth of holiday entitlement.

Not sure how much you can force scenario (b) though, especially if you have a sizeable chunk of holiday remaining (which is the reason most companies won't allow you to accrue too much - I'm constantly hassled for holiday plans as I get almost 8 weeks a year and I'm only on a months notice).

If you're going off to start another job then you're technically still employed until mid-Feb if you do scenario (b) though, so be careful with that.

Anyone able to recommend me a lbs thats able to carry out helicoil repairs for stripped / damaged crank arm pedal threads?

Alternatively, if someone has a 170mm NDS campagnolo crank arm that they would be willing to part with I'm in the market. Its the more recent record track crank they make:

What's a Rumbler??!

I stand corrected, it is a Rumblers even in the singular. Cereal+milk in one convenient package:

Edit: Actually I think they have now exited the out-of-home convenience breakfasting space.

Ha!

Utter MADNESS.

What trauma would drive a person to this? Just have a pain au chocolat or something instead

Does the r8000 front mech work with 6800 chainset?

A Travelodge without attached breakfast facility, or nearby « pain au chocolat » vendor, plus lack of forethought. As per original comment.

Yeah I get that. But I'd rather have no breakfast and wait a couple of hours

Have you ever had a hangover?

Struggling to find a 10 speed SRAM rear mech that will work with a 11-42 cassette.

Needs to be exact acctuation

I don't mind mods like goats link etc but most I've found only seem to work with Shimano

Does anyone have experience/know what will work?

Yes. http://productinfo.shimano.com/download/pdf/com/2.3/en . Page 16.

Loads of them work. X9 and X7 and I think X0, they're like <£20 on eBay.

Do you mean that they aren't officially rated by SRAM to take a 42 biggest sprocket?

You can't really get fast broadband for under £30-£35 a month

How fast do you want? Vodafone 38Mb/s is £22.50 at the moment, or £20 if you already have a Vodafone mobile contract.

I'd say 100Mb/s, although the bigger issue is the upload speed on the cheaper deals I find.

If one had two sets of bars and shifters, could one use S&S-cable-coupler-type-things to switch between them on a whim? I'm thinking flat bar with MTB shifters and road-pull levers, and drop bars with STIs. Flat bars to go to the supermarket, drop bars for a 100 mile sportive. You could even have two stems, permanently clamped to the bars; it'd only take 5 mins to unscrew the cables, pop the stem out, tighten up the new stem, then screw the new cables on.

Why does no one seem to do this? Is the performance worse? Would it require constant adjustment? I've never used the couplers so I don't know how well they work.

Get two bikes.

I have 3, and I don't like flat bars except on MTBs. I don't want to do it, I'm just wondering whether it's a good idea or not.

If you were only allowed one bike for example. A monstercross bike with clearance for 2” could probably (barely) manage as a tourer, gravel bike, MTB, commuter, slow road bike, etc.

I guess you 'could' do it with 10 speed sram as both road and MTB have the same pull ratios. But i suspect you'd have to re tune the gears every time

100Mb/s, although the bigger issue is the upload speed

I suppose it depends what your internet is for. I was never bothered by only having about 700kb/s up on ADSL, and I now have way more down at 40Mb/s than I really need to stream 1080p60.