Yep, it's £64.95 a day maximum and that's only if they keep you there over four hours. If not it goes down to £32 something.
£5.71 lunch allowance too, I love the specificity.
Here you get nothing except lunch provided from the court service end of things but your employer is legally bound to allow you to attend and pay you as if you were in work. If you're self employed you will most likely get an exemption from it altogether.
Here, the employer is legally bound to give me leave but doesn't have to pay a penny. If he doesn't pay me (going to ask this morning), I will have to get him to sign a form saying so which will make me eligible to claim loss of earnings allowance (itself involving several more forms). I'll then pay everything up front while I'm doing it and get a reimbursement about 2-4 weeks later.
I looked into it a few years ago for some reason and couldn't believe how shit it was. No wonder there are so miscarriages of justice when the jury are probably desperate to get home and stop losing money.
I'd take jury duty over this week of work. It's half term, the office is quiet and there is no conversation.
My office has conversation, but it's all about Marvel films and phone upgrades. How do people live having this few interests?
Do you enjoy your job shinners?
Sounds pretty monotonous.
Any word back from your employer Jim?
I like to think I can talk at least a little about a wide range of things but most people in our office seem to only talk about football or serial killer podcasts.
Or occasionally, if they really want to bore the tits off me, politics.
At least the pathological liar in here has the decency to make up entertaining yarns about how he bumped into his now-lesbian ex-girlfriend who couldn't keep her hands off him.
The deep-fried Mars Bar was decent, but the Creme Egg was a shocker. It just turned into bird shit.
I don't think I've ever heard of anyone having a deep fried creme egg. You've gone off piste with that nonsense. Get a portion of deep fried Maltesers.
It was on ITV News a couple of years ago someone having a deep fried creme egg and then he bit into it. No, no, no. You don't even have to be a foodie to know that that is repulsive.
I should have got the Crunchie but the Creme Egg is seasonal so... There was a diabetes collection tin on the counter as well.
I'm not a fan of Creme egg at all.
I wouldn't mind trying to make them in all honesty. I'd like to think in time I'll start making sweet/deserts again as I used to enjoy that as a youngster. I used to work with a chef who was an actual chocolatier(?) on the side and some of the stuff he did was madness.
Kinda. The job is piss but if there's no craic then it drags. I'm opposite two boomers that live with their earphones on so it largely depends on who else is in. Sometimes you get some fun drama from a phone call (like claimants who've been waiting six months to be seen) which makes the day go quicker. It's piss and that's usually enough.
I would not have had you down as a Reese's fan.
Do yourself a solid, Giggles.
Worth every penny.
Found out the reason I was papped for that job was because I am not chartered.
Professional accreditation is such a waste of time, and yet now it’s not. Annoying.
My company is in transition AGAIN though and more job cuts loom. Thankfully I’m above average for my level (lol) so it won’t affect me, but it’s bloody annoying. CEO is pretty deluded too by all accounts which I hadn’t realised until now.
Guys, when you hear the phrase 'reducing footprint', what does that make you think of?
If you’re in a big industrial company - emissions/carbon.
If you’re in a call centre, p45.
Trying to persuade people to use the self-service machines in my new branch is proving tricky. One day I cheerfully walked up to an elderly lady queuing for the counter, said "hello! what do y..." "NO". Practically screamed in my face. Sorry mate.
I know as a big lefty loser it seems like I should be advocating people refusing to use the self-serve machines to SAVE OUR JOBS, but it really doesn't work like that. The bank reckons each transaction done at a till costs x, and each one done at a self-serve costs about 1/2x. When branch closure decisions are generally made on a profit vs cost analysis, it's pretty obvious that it's gonna be counterproductive for them to insist on it.
Plus, if we're spending our day withdrawing 200 quid for customers over the counter, we're obviously not free to flog life insurance etc. Like, I'm not defending the ethics behind the policies, but it's the reality of it. It's amazing how many people seem to think busy branch = profitable branch.
I've never hear of 'reducing footprint' used outside of eco-wankery.
Old people absolutely seethe with howling fury when you ask them to try anything new. It's just a fact of life.
Not just old people actually. People whose lives/jobs haven't required any form of progress. A lot of my customers (engine rebuilders) are like this. Some of them throw proper tantrums and cry with abject frustration when you ask them to check their emails for an invoice we've sent, or whatever. Didn't need computers thirty years ago, why do we need them now?
Someone at works been signed off with cancer. The atmosphere in the office actually felt better after it was announced.
I'm a twit
Went for an informal type of chat at a school where they’re advertising for a second in department. Used to work with the deputy so had a catch up with her and then met the head of history who seemed sound. Big school, surplus budget = they can actually afford stuff. I badly want to work there now. More money, slightly longer commute but not by much. Certain I can get an interview but just as certain I’ll stuff it up.
Holy shit, I nearly did double my wage afterall. Total taxable to date is 53000, from 35000 when I left engineering. So based on this month it looks like I'll finish on 58000.
Not bad for first full FY in sales.
'If this doesn't win her back...'
Wait don't tell me Magic and his new girl split
No course not. She met the kiddo too.
A few of us are having our positions upgraded at work (from their current joke level to merely being conventionally under-valued), which means having to re-apply and interview for these 'new' jobs. That ought to be a formality, but I've thrown some excitement into the mix by moaning like shit about the whole process. See you in the re-deployment pool.
Maybe they'll punt you back to the north of Scotland on a one-way ticket. Arctic defense.
Compensation day today and I'm at giggles normally assumed level of smugness. It's been a good day.
Post numbers or gtfo.
We’re hiring another new person and an apprentice. We didn’t even need the last prick they hired.
Actually, that’s just reminded me that the little ferret is off on holidays tomorrow so I can leave my headphones in the car
As you all know I'm a Graphic Designer but this week I was asked to 'look up and report back' someone that is protesting us 'because you're good at that internet stuff'.
In less than 10 minutes, I found out he was on a Sex Offenders list, had his mugshot, criminal record and an article from the 80s about his campaign advocating for branding people who had HIV/AIDS.
Productive day.
We're starting to finally get some new directives w/r/t coronavirus. Now we can all only enter through one (1) entrance of the hospital. Patients, visitors, employees....
Tomorrow is going to be a shit show!