Today I'm neither Angry nor Happy about....

[Lost Leopard Spot]

2 % annual pay award. Is that about the norm just now?

that's about the norm for the private sector - many were predicting 2.5% for 2013

Well apparently I've had average private sector wage rises for last five years and this year was 3%

[bobo the clown]

2 % annual pay award. Is that about the norm just now?

Sort of, dependant on a lot of factors.

Meanwhile some Scousers I know well are threatening strike action against an offer of 6.25% .... demanding an additional 5% as well as some odds & sods. Though to be fair they have come down from their original demands of 29% !!

I have explained my view of Scousers elsewhere I believe.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

I have explained my view of Scousers elsewhere I believe.

I must have missed that thread.

[Worthy4England]

2 % annual pay award. Is that about the norm just now?

that's about the norm for the private sector - many were predicting 2.5% for 2013

Well apparently I've had average private sector wage rises for last five years and this year was 3%

4% here for the second year in a row, but diddly for the 3 years prior to that.

[Montreal Wanderer]

2 % annual pay award. Is that about the norm just now?

that's about the norm for the private sector - many were predicting 2.5% for 2013

Well apparently I've had average private sector wage rises for last five years and this year was 3%

4% here for the second year in a row, but diddly for the 3 years prior to that.

8% in two years??? You're one of those greedy products of Thatcherism!

[Worthy4England]

2 % annual pay award. Is that about the norm just now?

that's about the norm for the private sector - many were predicting 2.5% for 2013

Well apparently I've had average private sector wage rises for last five years and this year was 3%

4% here for the second year in a row, but diddly for the 3 years prior to that.

8% in two years??? You're one of those greedy products of Thatcherism!

As Glenda said - too many Thatcherites know the cost of everything and the value of nothing. I'm obviously worth it.

[89bwfc89]

Getting the drinks in at work resulted in a trip to A & E after scalding myself with a cup of boiling water. Clearly not cut out to be a waitress!

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Getting the drinks in at work resulted in a trip to A & E after scalding myself with a cup of boiling water. Clearly not cut out to be a waitress!

Were you following the one cup on a tray rules advocated by Crazy Hoss's ex-employers though?
If so then sue them, but watch out for Sralansugar (he's on the case).

[Bruce Rioja]

Getting the drinks in at work resulted in a trip to A & E after scalding myself with a cup of boiling water. Clearly not cut out to be a waitress!

Ended up having to go to hospital from work once to have a chunk of my (now slightly deformed) right thumb sewn back on. Decided to chance my hand, quite literally, at multi-tasking: Holding a conversation whilst at the same time opening a tin of corned beef. Disastrous consequences.

Hope you're ok and not all blistered up.

[89bwfc89]

I was on cup three and putting them in a box lid! H & S will have a fit! And I was under pressure from people who had gathered around the drinks machine with their eyes boring into me, rather than forming an orderly queue, it clearly all got too much for me! Thank you, don't think it's blistered, bandages off later to check!

[Lost Leopard Spot]

I was on cup three and putting them in a box lid! H & S will have a fit! And I was under pressure from people who had gathered around the drinks machine with their eyes boring into me, rather than forming an orderly queue, it clearly all got too much for me! Thank you, don't think it's blistered, bandages off later to check!

Thank gawd it wasn't a tea-rage incident! But what were you thinking 89? a box lid You don't think people my age lived through the Thatcher era and invented H&S just so youngsters could go about willy-nilly transporting hot cups of tea on a box lid, incredible.

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

I was on cup three and putting them in a box lid! H & S will have a fit! And I was under pressure from people who had gathered around the drinks machine with their eyes boring into me, rather than forming an orderly queue, it clearly all got too much for me! Thank you, don't think it's blistered, bandages off later to check!

Thank gawd it wasn't a tea-rage incident! But what were you thinking 89? a box lid You don't think people my age lived through the Thatcher era and invented H&S just so youngsters could go about willy-nilly transporting hot cups of tea on a box lid, incredible.

Some of them boxes that contain reams of paper actually tell you to use the lid as a drinks tray! Motif were the brand. I'd sue if I were you.

[mrkint]

I was on cup three and putting them in a box lid! H & S will have a fit! And I was under pressure from people who had gathered around the drinks machine with their eyes boring into me, rather than forming an orderly queue, it clearly all got too much for me! Thank you, don't think it's blistered, bandages off later to check!

Thank gawd it wasn't a tea-rage incident! But what were you thinking 89? a box lid You don't think people my age lived through the Thatcher era and invented H&S just so youngsters could go about willy-nilly transporting hot cups of tea on a box lid, incredible.

Some of them boxes that contain reams of paper actually tell you to use the lid as a drinks tray! Motif were the brand. I'd sue if I were you.

Undoubtedly making the whole thing as secure as a hymen in a south London comprehensive!

[TANGODANCER]

Some of them boxes that contain reams of paper actually tell you to use the lid as a drinks tray! Motif were the brand. I'd sue if I were you.

"Them" boxes. THEM BOXES! Nevah....

[Annoyed Grunt]

I was on cup three and putting them in a box lid! H & S will have a fit! And I was under pressure from people who had gathered around the drinks machine with their eyes boring into me, rather than forming an orderly queue, it clearly all got too much for me! Thank you, don't think it's blistered, bandages off later to check!

Thank gawd it wasn't a tea-rage incident! But what were you thinking 89? a box lid You don't think people my age lived through the Thatcher era and invented H&S just so youngsters could go about willy-nilly transporting hot cups of tea on a box lid, incredible.

Some of them boxes that contain reams of paper actually tell you to use the lid as a drinks tray! Motif were the brand. I'd sue if I were you.

Undoubtedly making the whole thing as secure as a hymen in a south London comprehensive!

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

Some of them boxes that contain reams of paper actually tell you to use the lid as a drinks tray! Motif were the brand. I'd sue if I were you.

"Them" boxes. THEM BOXES! Nevah....

I've had the odd run in with them boxes of paper. Dangerous stuff I tell thee

[Montreal Wanderer]

Some of them boxes that contain reams of paper actually tell you to use the lid as a drinks tray! Motif were the brand. I'd sue if I were you.

"Them" boxes. THEM BOXES! Nevah....

I've had the odd run in with them boxes of paper. Dangerous stuff I tell thee

The contents can give you nasty cuts too.

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

Some of them boxes that contain reams of paper actually tell you to use the lid as a drinks tray! Motif were the brand. I'd sue if I were you.

"Them" boxes. THEM BOXES! Nevah....

I've had the odd run in with them boxes of paper. Dangerous stuff I tell thee

The contents can give you nasty cuts too.

Precisely. I also nearly had a pallet of the stuff drop on my foot once

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Some of them boxes that contain reams of paper actually tell you to use the lid as a drinks tray! Motif were the brand. I'd sue if I were you.

"Them" boxes. THEM BOXES! Nevah....

I've had the odd run in with them boxes of paper. Dangerous stuff I tell thee

The contents can give you nasty cuts too.

Precisely. I also nearly had a pallet of the stuff drop on my foot once

Paper is inherently dangerous. I was alerted to this fact after I'd read the novel Fahrenheit 451.
It is the main reason why as sustainability champion (I shit you not) I have promoted a paperless office environment. [That and because, as a member of a large multinational civils business that does its best to cover the planet in concrete, I can't think of anything else that is in the least bit sustainable]

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

Paper is inherently dangerous. I was alerted to this fact after I'd read the novel Fahrenheit 451.
It is the main reason why as sustainability champion (I shit you not) I have promoted a paperless office environment. [That and because, as a member of a large multinational civils business that does its best to cover the planet in concrete, I can't think of anything else that is in the least bit sustainable]

I used to buy millions of sheets of the stuff every year. I was not popular with the warehouse when I used to have lots of it delivered at once They got me back when they put about a hundred boxes of the stuff in my office