Just been suspended, disciplinary tomorrow.
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Eric Mc said:
I'm more concerned about how the OP is feeling. He's gone very quiet.
Indeed, but it's hardly surprising considering the 'good going over' that he's received here, much of it from PH regulars who seem to really enjoy putting the boot in. One wonders what it is about their own lives that makes them so keen to kick somebody when he's down (even/especially if it's his own fault). Let he who is without any mistakes in his own life cast the first stone.
afternoon all... I am very much still on here, but have taken a review of my online anonymity, I have been watching this thread with interest. Am currently at home, licking my wounds, searching for a job. Will very much live to fight another day.
Peoples concern for me is not needed, but is very much appreciated.
Peoples concern for me is not needed, but is very much appreciated.
chiswick67 said:
afternoon all... I am very much still on here, but have taken a review of my online anonymity, I have been watching this thread with interest. Am currently at home, licking my wounds, searching for a job. Will very much live to fight another day.
Peoples concern for me is not needed, but is very much appreciated.
No I am hounslow1967.....just kidding, good luck with finding a new jobPeoples concern for me is not needed, but is very much appreciated.
KrazyIvan said:
chiswick67 said:
afternoon all... I am very much still on here, but have taken a review of my online anonymity, I have been watching this thread with interest. Am currently at home, licking my wounds, searching for a job. Will very much live to fight another day.
Peoples concern for me is not needed, but is very much appreciated.
No I am hounslow1967.....just kidding, good luck with finding a new jobPeoples concern for me is not needed, but is very much appreciated.
chiswick67 said:
KrazyIvan said:
chiswick67 said:
afternoon all... I am very much still on here, but have taken a review of my online anonymity, I have been watching this thread with interest. Am currently at home, licking my wounds, searching for a job. Will very much live to fight another day.
Peoples concern for me is not needed, but is very much appreciated.
No I am hounslow1967.....just kidding, good luck with finding a new jobPeoples concern for me is not needed, but is very much appreciated.
Keep questionable things that are to do with work away from any permanent media... especially media that can be googled!
Dave
Jerry Can said:
Eric Mc said:
This is a new phenomnenon actually. Most people who move away, or even just move jobs, gradually allow old friends and aquaintances fade away as their lives are now following different paths. This has always been "the norm" and entirely natural.
its only a new phenomenon due to the requirement for worker mobility. back in the day, probably at a time you remember, most people grew up and lived and worked in the same town/area all their lives, and so never lost touch with their friends from school etc.Bookface just redresses this balance in a 21st Century kind of way.
Go back to the days of more or less a working class and a ruling class and yes, working class people would've stayed put their entire lives, whilst the ruling classes would've migrated between city and country depending on the time of year.
Move on into the 20th century though - especially the latter half of it - and the middle classes very much did have to move to get work. I grew up as a middle class kid in that era. We moved - always to move my father's career forward, and never less than 150 miles at a time - whilst my mother was pregnant with me, then again when I was 4, 11 & 15.
Now, however, despite having a very similar career to my father's, I can move jobs regularly without having to move locations. I will be able to give my kids the settled upbringing that I never had, and the only reason for this is improvements in technology which mean that I can work as part of a virtual team, rather than having to be in the same office as everyone else.
Yes, people need to be somewhere with decent transport links and broadband speed, but once you've got that, I'd say job mobility (the ability to do your job anywhere) has largely replaced worker mobility.
chiswick67 said:
Sheets Tabuer said:
So is there anything in your T&C about social networking sites?
Don't wont to go into the long and short of it, but lets just say, there was more to this than meets the eye. I will not post full details on an open forum for obvious reasons....
Jerry Can said:
its only a new phenomenon due to the requirement for worker mobility. back in the day, probably at a time you remember, most people grew up and lived and worked in the same town/area all their lives, and so never lost touch with their friends from school etc.
Bookface just redresses this balance in a 21st Century kind of way.
Bookface just redresses this balance in a 21st Century kind of way.
Maybe the English have been reluctant to move around to look for work but the Irish have done this for centuries. My dad (born 1928) worked all over the world on ships and worked for a number of years in London. Many of his generation emigrated - as I did in the 1980s.
So, my memory is of a time and people who were quite willing to move about to find work.
Eric Mc said:
Jerry Can said:
its only a new phenomenon due to the requirement for worker mobility. back in the day, probably at a time you remember, most people grew up and lived and worked in the same town/area all their lives, and so never lost touch with their friends from school etc.
Bookface just redresses this balance in a 21st Century kind of way.
Bookface just redresses this balance in a 21st Century kind of way.
Maybe the English have been reluctant to move around to look for work but the Irish have done this for centuries. My dad (born 1928) worked all over the world on ships and worked for a number of years in London. Many of his generation emigrated - as I did in the 1980s.
So, my memory is of a time and people who were quite willing to move about to find work.
Pothole said:
Eric Mc said:
Jerry Can said:
its only a new phenomenon due to the requirement for worker mobility. back in the day, probably at a time you remember, most people grew up and lived and worked in the same town/area all their lives, and so never lost touch with their friends from school etc.
Bookface just redresses this balance in a 21st Century kind of way.
Bookface just redresses this balance in a 21st Century kind of way.
Maybe the English have been reluctant to move around to look for work but the Irish have done this for centuries. My dad (born 1928) worked all over the world on ships and worked for a number of years in London. Many of his generation emigrated - as I did in the 1980s.
So, my memory is of a time and people who were quite willing to move about to find work.
I'm not THAT ancient. I don't come from a time where people spent there entire lives in a village and married their cousins.
Pothole said:
ongratulations! Do you truly believe the rest of the world should be just like you, or are you prepared to entertain a little variety?
Interestingly, it was fear of being just like him (living in Farnborough) that made me hand in my notice at the Royal Aerospace Establishment, move to London without two brass farthings to rub together, and start all over again.It's a bit funny that I now find myself being looked down on as "a bit sad" by someone living my nightmare.
Eric Mc said:
Pothole said:
Eric Mc said:
Jerry Can said:
its only a new phenomenon due to the requirement for worker mobility. back in the day, probably at a time you remember, most people grew up and lived and worked in the same town/area all their lives, and so never lost touch with their friends from school etc.
Bookface just redresses this balance in a 21st Century kind of way.
Bookface just redresses this balance in a 21st Century kind of way.
Maybe the English have been reluctant to move around to look for work but the Irish have done this for centuries. My dad (born 1928) worked all over the world on ships and worked for a number of years in London. Many of his generation emigrated - as I did in the 1980s.
So, my memory is of a time and people who were quite willing to move about to find work.
I'm not THAT ancient. I don't come from a time where people spent there entire lives in a village and married their cousins.
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