Another UK Euromillions winner!

[Ace-T]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howabou...

Well done folks on getting more money from the EU back into old blighty.

I really must buy one of these tickets one day.

Trace

[anonymous-user]

or you could say that more people from the uk are buying the poor tax in this current climate, a quest of greed when for 99% of the population 100 k would make a hell of a difference.

The amount is pretty obscene when you release over 80 million has been spent in tickets sales, when camalot have made over 200k profit in the last few weeks of sales leading up to this one draw alone. Camalot are guaranteed 0.5 profit on all sales, not a bad business really.

I think it is actually very sad, like a sad clown.

[turbobloke]

It depends on whether folks are buying tickets to have fun with money they can afford to lose, or not. If not is it anybody's fault but the individuals concerned?

Either way it's great news for the latest rollover winners and good to see yet another big prize come to the UK.

[turbobloke]

12 bus drivers from Northants got about 3.1m each. News of the win stopped at least one bus in its tracks.

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[ExChrispy Porker]

good for them

[Shaw Tarse]

turbobloke said:

12 bus drivers from Northants got about 3.1m each. News of the win stopped at least one bus in its tracks.

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I'd just read that & was going to post the same link

[Corsair7]

Get off my bus you fekin losers!

[Blue Oval84]

Pleased to see they've responded well, none of this "the money won't change me, I'm going to keep on driving buses" bks

[Funk]

Am I alone in thinking that dropping your employer in the st is a bit off?

I suspect that many of the winners will need their jobs back in a few years time - commonly known as 'doing a Carroll'.

[turbobloke]

Funk said:

Am I alone in thinking that dropping your employer in the st is a bit off?

You're probably not alone, after all leaving work to enjoy the money is one thing and as commented on already is good to see in many ways, but walking out on customers or clients is another matter.

[Frankeh]

They're bus drivers. They deal with f*ckheads day in, day out. It's no surprise the reacted how they did.

[Blue Oval84]

Frankeh said:

They're bus drivers. They deal with f*ckheads day in, day out. It's no surprise the reacted how they did.

Agreed!

[Funk]

Frankeh said:

They're bus drivers. They deal with f*ckheads day in, day out. It's no surprise the reacted how they did.

So it's OK for a number of bus drivers (not just one, it was a syndicate) to drop their employer and customers in it, but other people should work their notice?

They were happy enough to do the job, I'd say it's a matter of integrity to do the right thing and not leave the employer with a sudden massive staff shortage. I'm sure there will be people willing to do their jobs, but I can't imagine there are huge numbers of trained bus drivers sat around in Corby twiddling their thumbs waiting for a job to come along.

What if you were the employer? If it were your business? Would you feel the same way?

[Wetwipe]

Perhaps the employers are s and the group decided to kick them in the nads for the shoddy treatment meted out in the past?

Always more than one side to a story.....

[Frankeh]

Funk said:

What if you were the employer? If it were your business? Would you feel the same way?

I'd be disappointed in myself that I'd nurtured a work environment where all 12 (?) of the bus drivers who won felt no moral obligation to keep working for even a week so I could find replacements.

That's just me, though.

[RichyBoy]

How did camelot get the idiot tax contract on a profit making basis when the other bidder I think was doing it not for profit? Should be not for profit, more money to good causes and investment, less money for prizes.

[Pothole]

RichyBoy said:

How did camelot get the idiot tax contract on a profit making basis when the other bidder I think was doing it not for profit? Should be not for profit, more money to good causes and investment, less money for prizes.

Please try and avoid jumping on the 'nobody should make a profit' bandwagon.

For every pound spent on the National Lottery, it is split in the following way:
50p → Prize Fund
28p → Good Causes
12p → Government
5p → Retailers as Commission
5p → Camelot
(4.5p → Camelot for Operating Costs
0.5p → Camelot for Profit)

I'd be having a go at the government myself. 12% tax?!?!?!

It appears euromillions breaks down the same way, but obviously Camelot only get a piece of UK sales.

[turbobloke]

Frankeh said:

Funk said:

What if you were the employer? If it were your business? Would you feel the same way?

I'd be disappointed in myself that I'd nurtured a work environment where all 12 (?) of the bus drivers who won felt no moral obligation to keep working for even a week so I could find replacements.

That's just me, though.

It's the attitude to the passengers that seems wrong. Sure there may be some difficult people on some journeys but walking off the job mid-route is going to cause inconvenience to say the least. Ten seconds before getting the news the driver was basically no different to them, acting that way so soon after becoming wealthy is to my mind the type of arrogance that a bus driver would probably have been only too quick to slam as unacceptable in others.

[Pothole]

turbobloke said:

Frankeh said:

Funk said:

What if you were the employer? If it were your business? Would you feel the same way?

I'd be disappointed in myself that I'd nurtured a work environment where all 12 (?) of the bus drivers who won felt no moral obligation to keep working for even a week so I could find replacements.

That's just me, though.

It's the attitude to the passengers that seems wrong. Sure there may be some difficult people on some journeys but walking off the job mid-route is going to cause inconvenience to say the least. Ten seconds before getting the news the driver was basically no different to them, acting that way so soon after becoming wealthy is to my mind the type of arrogance that a bus driver would probably have been only too quick to slam as unacceptable in others.

So he should have kept driving while possibly crying/about to have a heart attack, etc. etc?

I think there a a few high horses in this thread which should be dismounted from before we go any further.

[turbobloke]

Pothole said:

turbobloke said:

Frankeh said:

Funk said:

What if you were the employer? If it were your business? Would you feel the same way?

I'd be disappointed in myself that I'd nurtured a work environment where all 12 (?) of the bus drivers who won felt no moral obligation to keep working for even a week so I could find replacements.

That's just me, though.

It's the attitude to the passengers that seems wrong. Sure there may be some difficult people on some journeys but walking off the job mid-route is going to cause inconvenience to say the least. Ten seconds before getting the news the driver was basically no different to them, acting that way so soon after becoming wealthy is to my mind the type of arrogance that a bus driver would probably have been only too quick to slam as unacceptable in others.

So he should have kept driving while possibly crying/about to have a heart attack, etc. etc?

I think there a a few high horses in this thread which should be dismounted from before we go any further.

Not to mention the fairytales about drivers crying and having a heart attack, unless that was comedy in response to horse riding?