General Chit Chat

[TANGODANCER]

All brings back the famous "shove halfpenny" football to mind. All we needed were two pennies, one halfpenny a comb each ( could be any flat stick) and a board for a pitch with goals marked. Many happy hours of fun on wet days.

[Harry Genshaw]

you don't have to flick your man with this one - it has levers!!

Ah, mine was much less sophisticated. And the men were wooden , most with broken limbs, in fact it resembled a paralympics football table game!

Are the men magnetic?

You're game sounds remarkably like one Bijou Bob had in the mid 70s called 'Big League'

I'd like to tell you more about it but the git never let me play on it

[Bijou Bob]

you don't have to flick your man with this one - it has levers!!

Ah, mine was much less sophisticated. And the men were wooden , most with broken limbs, in fact it resembled a paralympics football table game!

Are the men magnetic?

You're game sounds remarkably like one Bijou Bob had in the mid 70s called 'Big League'

I'd like to tell you more about it but the git never let me play on it

I did. Once. You broke 1 and lost another

[LeverEnd]

I had a mini table football game from the 82 world cup, pictures of England players all round the sides of the box. Still had it when Phil Neal was our manager (his pic was on there), no idea where it went.

[General Mannerheim]

just found out bloke at work is Jehovah's witness - he seems like a nice normal fella, footy fan, likes a beer etc. and i knew he was kind of religious as he's mentioned the church in passing a few times, but he just refused to sign a girl in the office's birthday card because 'celebrating birthdays is a pagan sin!' i couldn't believe it! the penny's dropped as to why he never eats the birthday cakes that get brought in or comes to the pub on birthday dinners! absolute maniac.

ive also just learnt a wicked new excuse for not sending birthday cards!!

[General Mannerheim]

he's got two young kids silmilar ages to mine, they never get birthday presents or a party or even allowed to attend their friends parties.. im astounded.

[William the White]

They don't celebrate Christmas either...

[Harry Genshaw]

he's got two young kids silmilar ages to mine, they never get birthday presents or a party or even allowed to attend their friends parties.. im astounded.

Poor sods. What a miserable existence

[boltonboris]

Ok..

In the role that with the company I work for, I'm always in and out of the office and have been given a mobile, laptop and the usual bits expected.

Anyhow, back in July, I had a proper bad case of the shizzles and there was no way I was leaving the house. Phoned my director and said, "got the shizzles, working from home, will see you tomorrow", so there I was at home, doing a full days work, no different to what I'd do in the office when I'm there, except my colleagues had to phone me instead of coming into my office.

Got back in work the next day and signed an absence form, but claused it saying "worked from home with company provided equipment".

Check my online payslip today out of curiosity and lo and behold, a days pay deducted.

Spoke to my director and he reckons there's nowt they can do as I "declared myself sick".. To my knowledge, I only signed myself absent from the office and my email trail and phone records will show I worked a full day.

so, HR bods - What can I do? Not gonna kick up a fuss or owt, but would rather have the money, than not have it

[bobo the clown]

Ok..

In the role that with the company I work for, I'm always in and out of the office and have been given a mobile, laptop and the usual bits expected.

Anyhow, back in July, I had a proper bad case of the shizzles and there was no way I was leaving the house. Phoned my director and said, "got the shizzles, working from home, will see you tomorrow", so there I was at home, doing a full days work, no different to what I'd do in the office when I'm there, except my colleagues had to phone me instead of coming into my office.

Got back in work the next day and signed an absence form, but claused it saying "worked from home with company provided equipment".

Check my online payslip today out of curiosity and lo and behold, a days pay deducted.

Spoke to my director and he reckons there's nowt they can do as I "declared myself sick".. To my knowledge, I only signed myself absent from the office and my email trail and phone records will show I worked a full day.

so, HR bods - What can I do? Not gonna kick up a fuss or owt, but would rather have the money, than not have it

Thee person who's able to sort it out is the boss who told you tat you could work from home. It's fair enough that the record has you as absent, he can instruct them that you were not, in fact, absent.

I can see no reason why he's not willing to do that. It shouldn't be difficult. If he blames "the system" or "HR said ..." then he's simply saying he can't be arsed and it's him that should be tackled not HR or "the system".

'Sick', per se, says nothing. It's "too sick to fulfil your duties or any reasonable alternative". You were abled, and you did. So that's not sick. Again, I assume no self cert form was completed.

I take it you don't get sick pay, or at least less than a day in the office.

[boltonboris]

Cheers Bobo.. Exactly right with the excuse given that "HR have a sick note, that you signed, so sling it" without so much as even looking into it..

Probably not going to get anywhere without pissing someone off, so will probably just leave it to be honest.

I was docked full pay pro-rata'd, which pisses me off. I know what to do next time I'm ill anyway. Put my feckin' feet up.. Been here for over a year and the only day off I've had save 4 days holiday

[Beefheart]

Ok..

In the role that with the company I work for, I'm always in and out of the office and have been given a mobile, laptop and the usual bits expected.

Anyhow, back in July, I had a proper bad case of the shizzles and there was no way I was leaving the house. Phoned my director and said, "got the shizzles, working from home, will see you tomorrow", so there I was at home, doing a full days work, no different to what I'd do in the office when I'm there, except my colleagues had to phone me instead of coming into my office.

Got back in work the next day and signed an absence form, but claused it saying "worked from home with company provided equipment".

Check my online payslip today out of curiosity and lo and behold, a days pay deducted.

Spoke to my director and he reckons there's nowt they can do as I "declared myself sick".. To my knowledge, I only signed myself absent from the office and my email trail and phone records will show I worked a full day.

so, HR bods - What can I do? Not gonna kick up a fuss or owt, but would rather have the money, than not have it

Makes me realise that I do sometimes take for granted the flexibility I get in my job. If I mentioned I was working at home as I was too ill to go in, the hours would still just get charged to the client I worked on in my timesheet. People aren't arsed if you occasionally piss off a couple of hours early on a Friday either, for example.

[thebish]

i often piss off for the whole week - who'd know! I have an ace employer!

[bobo the clown]

Makes me realise that I do sometimes take for granted the flexibility I get in my job.

If I mentioned I was working at home as I was too ill to go in, the hours would still just get charged to the client I worked on in my timesheet. People aren't arsed if you occasionally piss off a couple of hours early on a Friday either, for example.

... aaaaand there you have the nub of your case in point.

[Worthy4England]

i often piss off for the whole week - who'd know! I have an ace employer!

I believe the CEO will make some deductions on the day of reckoning.

[LeverEnd]

Very strange case. No idea what to make of it to be honest.

89-year-old Breightmet World War Two veteran cleared of stabbing neighbour in neck
http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/114 ... ?ref=var_0

Alleged Breightmet throat slash victim: 'I'm lucky to be alive'
http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/109 ... e_/?ref=rl

The guy was clearly cut in the throat, but it was dismissed after,
'Recorder Jeremy Lasker directed the jury of eight men and four women to clear him of both counts due to “inconsistencies in the evidence” on the third day of his trial.'

Self defence?

[Bruce Rioja]

Just gone to buy a CD off of Ebay, which I haven't bought anything via in yonks, and it's asking me to reset my password. Am I being fished-in here or is it genuine? Anyone?

[Prufrock]

Think it's legit. They or PayPal got hacked a few months ago so made everyone reset.

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

Just gone to buy a CD off of Ebay, which I haven't bought anything via in yonks, and it's asking me to reset my password. Am I being fished-in here or is it genuine? Anyone?

Probably legit. I think they were affected by the heartbleed thing a while back, so probably doing a forced reset on everyone. Check with their support to be sure.

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

PS - CDs? They're so last decade