I hate

Viewing that hotlinked image in your post has been enough for it to appear in adverts on various other sites I've visited (xcweather.co.uk for example) and on my mobile (since they'll be sharing my home broadband IP address).

credited me with £11 after I bitched to them on twitter

Haven't bitched yet. I was delayed ~2h20 from starting my booking, so I'll be looking for a good chunk back from them for that.

Also never noticed the change in the Zipcar pricing structure for London, we should have moved onto the smart plan now that we don't have a car at all.

However, I don't condone filling the sink in the first place

Pure golf-club fishing with current energy prices

All slogan T-shirts without exception are awful but aggressive woke demands are winding me up the most

consider ME most!

Is the usual message...

"Stop sleeping!"?

"Woke Up, Sheeple!"

Politicians using 'I have/She has/They have...been absolutely clear...'

Fuck off you dissembling cunts.

^^ ©®™

I saw one of these marching about with purpose this morning which triggered my rant. I reckon i could still read that from 20 meters which seems a lot of personal space to expect on a 2 meter wide pavement during rush hour

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Whereas, ironically, if you were cheek-to-cheek on a rushour tube you wouldn't be able to read it.

Button-up fly. God knows shopping is tedious enough if you are one of those people who is miss-proportioned enough to struggle to find the right sized clothes on a rack. But then, joy of joys, there’s a pair of trousers that’s the right material, colour, cut and size so you grab it quick, and travel smugly home only to find, AAARRRRGGGG! its got a bloody button-up fly! THE most clumsy, arse-clenchingly crap way to release and cage your wanger thats ever been invented. Every bladder evacuation takes ten minutes longer than it should and several other urinators have been and gone to the adjacent porcelain (every one of them glad that they are not as pissed-clumsy as you are) before Percy is back in his curly nest.

Practice practice practice
Not all the buttons will fail at the same time like a zipper might
I’ve never got my dick caught in a button

I’ve never got my dick caught in a button

Hello, I'm Button.

I had a pair of button fly jeans that were constantly annoying but always made me feel more masculine in use.

Every wish has an answer on the LFGSS.

Thought the same until I (quickly tbh) mastered the unbuttoning in one smooth pull, either single handed from the top, or double handed in the middle, depending on need. Still use zippers but buttons are oh so satisfying.

While I am able to use button flys, they are a pointless affectation.

… so I'm not sure at what point toil would kick in if you've been drinking since 3pm.

5pm

Seriously though, yeh I’m dredging the TOIL chat. I get both sides. Absolutely don’t work for free, especially most of us are seeing a pay cut due to inflation. But at the same time, if someone is regularly working overtime and accruing TOIL… they probably need to work - I’ll be polite - smarter.

I did a 12hr day the other week, so started late the next day and did a turbo session (I’m on a 35hr week so 7.5hr days, but it’s generally “just get your work done and don’t be a piss taker”), but I have colleagues who are serially ‘done’ by COP on Wednesday so they don’t turn up Thursday/Friday (or barely) or they’re amassing TOIL.

I don’t know what they’re doing. I’ve spoken at length about this with our gaffer. She also has a private sector/consultancy upbringing so it causes her the same consternation.

Work smart; not hard.

No. I meant 3pm. 12noon at Xmas.

It also depends which side you're coming from doesn't it?

If some people can do the job in 3 days an others in +5 days, then it suggests that their managers aren't doing their job.

I think a lot of your view is shaped by where you've worked. If you've been in large organisations then ime people are often a lot more, "that's not my job", "I'm not working for free". Whereas if you're in a small business where you can literally see all of the work distribution and you don't have the head count for dedicated roles for every task you muck in a bit more.

Overall though it's about openness and consistency. I the job I mentioned before it always grated when the boss made a dig at time keeping or attendance. We'd often get paid late and the nature of the work was that you'd routinely sit on your hands for most of the day/week and then have to work flat out once whatever dependency you were waiting on came through.

I think you misunderstood. 5pm is the time from when you start claiming TOIL. :-D

It does depend on the job and the headcount, I agree that in small organisations you’d muck in more. You’d also probably expect to see a more generous share of any profits…

The people in my example, doing their work in three days… they’re still clocking 35hrs.

doing their work in three days… clocking 35hrs

I know a couple of people on these sorts of arrangements. For example, in the civil service you can choose to cram 5 days' hours into 4 and take an extra day off a week.

Even though the maths makes sense, somehow four 10 hour days doesn't feel of the same value to the team as five 8 hour ones. Particularly WFH, where the extra 2 hours Mon-Thu can be spent walking the dog in the morning or cooking dinner in the evening.

I work 10days in 9. So every other Friday off. Full time, so “compressed” hours. It was that or a nervous breakdown and long term sick leave!

The people I know cramming into 3days… this isn’t an arrangement, they’re just putting in too many* daily hours because they’re not working smart, and then barely showing for the remainder of the week.

*11/12hr days are anything but efficient; they shouldn’t be a regular thing.

But Pure Blue Japan simply don't come with zips.

Speaking of which, I saw someone the other day in B&Q wearing a t-shirt with a Christian cross and the slogan 'No mercy for sinners'.

Which I found quite disturbing. I'm no expert but seems fairly antithetical to what I remember from RE.