Why is someone getting toast with marmite in a coffee shop?
Why is someone getting toast with marmite in a coffee shop?
In fairness if someone ordered that and I was serving I would probably give them something else (on purpose) too.
The world seems to think India is the solution to all problems. My gaff are starting to try and utilise the “high quality untapped engineering resource” and it has annoyed me more than it should.
Marmite is tremendous.
It's not but that's not the point.Originally Posted by Ben
Toast and marmite is not exactly a hard thing to do at home.
You don't need to pay a 500% mark-up at a coffee shop for it.
You could say the same about coffee.
I appreciate that businesses like cheap labour that is happy to be taken advantage of, but you have to wonder how these useless Indians even get the jobs in the first place given their English is almost always shit. The only explanation is that Tesco actually do just ask people whether they are prepared to be taken advantage of, and that only requires a bit of head wobbling.
The Ayatollah's mate - who was an architect back in Iran, so is useless merely as an English-speaker rather than on a genetic level - works as a lifeguard at a leisure centre, and she admits that she doesn't tell kids not to piss about because half the time they don't understand her. How does that pass muster in duty of care obsessed world?
Not really because coffee can be elevated.
They're just getting Hovis white sliced, putting it in a toaster and giving you a pack of marmite (or marmalade) to spread on it yourself.
You don't need to pay a 500% mark up for anything in a coffee shop, but many do every day. So it is the point.
The pool over here hires local (ALL-AMERICAN) teenagers and they also do fuck all, so I am guessing that is considered normal for the role.
The point I was trying to make, is that if a person is trying to order marmite on toast in a coffee shop, I imagine it's because they need to grab something on the way to do something. Work, seeing friends, etc. Which is largely why coffee shops exist in the first place.
Well, that and giving Bamster somewhere to look important with his new Macbook Pro.
As for the marmite thing, if you order something, you should get that and not something else. Pretty obvious who is in the wrong here.
It's diverse, m8.
Local Jewish bagel place is quite busy and everyone is nice enough except for the two black women, who always have that face and god forbid you ask them for anything. Why they keep them around, I do not know, but they sure don't make themselves any favors.
Even if they don’t have it on the menu?
Then, obviously, you're told they don't have it on the menu.
Having worked with quite a few Indian software engineers, I wouldn't want to work with any more if I could avoid it. My work used to have a handful who were actually based in the US (so you'd assume they were the better ones) but they were all shit and they would never take responsibility for anything. Things were never their fault even when you could point to the evidence showing that it was. They'd throw anyone under the bus to defend themselves.
Oh, there was one who was actually in India as well and he was completely useless.
Their work culture just seems terrible. Blame anyone and everyone else rather than take any responsibility. They were all hired by our former (Indian, Indian-American maybe, I dunno) CTO. Bit weird that he only ever hired Indians.
The Indian doctors I've worked with have been excellent. As far as I can remember, universally so.
Maybe software engineering just attracts dickheads. Or there's so many of them over there they can be replaced very easily and the threat of that makes them blame others for their mistakes.
As have the Indian doctors that have treated me and my family over the years.
Now, the 12 Indian students that we found subletting a 2 bed house in Barking a couple of months ago... they're less excellent, unfortunately. Unless you like mould and mess, anyway.
The best doctor I've ever worked with was Indian. He was also Indian national quiz champion at one point.
I've got to understand India better in recent years having worked with a couple of them who are quite forthcoming. Basically everything in India is dictated by the fact that there are 1.5 billion people and very limited desirable jobs, university places, homes, wives, whatever. This means that work ethic is off the charts (compared to us anyway) and it also breeds a ruthlessness when it comes to elbowing people out the way, be that on a train or in the employment landscape. Presumably that is why they are belligerent in throwing other people under the bus and defending themselves. It also means that you'll do all the work for a quarter of the money, because if you don't there's a queue round the street filled with people who will.
They are an unscrupulous CEO's dream for basically all the reasons in the previous paragraph. 'Business' must have fought so hard for these quarter of a million student visas to be issued last year.
I worked with a few Indians in a distribution place. The lad that started the same day as me could not speak any English. He needed a lass to translate. Everyone else has been fine but I just can't wrap my head around someone getting past an agency with legitimately no English skills.
I noticed the other day that the Albanian car wash workers in the dodgy place nearby have all been replaced by Indians, and there is also a gang of 20+ Indians who hang around outside the gates of a local farm every morning, presumably hoping to be picked for a bit of cash in hand menial stuff. I wish them luck with their degrees.
Has that insane immigration agreement with India been tightened up yet, or are they still flooding in?
The Chinese say that India has 400 million people and a billion cattle. That also explains a lot about them.
Didn't really fuck me off so much as just not make sense but today when I was out for a wander around the park at lunchtime, I saw a man wearing a ski mask thing (is that the right term? like a balaclava but with one big hole for eyes and maybe nose) but also shorts. Surely if it's cold enough for that up top, it's cold enough to put some fucking trousers on.
Legs don’t really get cold. As long as the arms and hands are warm I’m alright
Got to show off those gains, lad.
My mate (white, English, and vaguely Hitler youth looking) got fired from his lifeguard job when he fell asleep on the big lifeguard seat thing after spending a weekend doing speed in Berlin.
Vintage.
I'm sure it's always been like this but I swear it's gotten worse recently - every time I minimise an app on my phone (especially web browser), when I go back onto it, it insists on refreshing the page, which ranges from mild inconvenience to totally rage inducing.
My favourite trope of this is when I'm signing into something which insists on doing 2fa, usually something pathetic like a takeaway app or something, I click into the thing, copy the authorisation code, go back to paste it into the box, nah sorry, refreshed, now we have to send you another code. Cunts.
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Do you use Chrome? They introduced some kind of "optimisation" bullshit on all platforms. You can turn it off in Settings on Windows, so I guess you can on mobile too.
Applied for a loan from Tesco as they had the best rate. Offered the loan online, took a few minutes to double check before accepting and it had timed out. No problem, I had an email confirming the offer. Unable to bring the offer back up, was told I had to ring. Rang up, apparently if you don't immediately accept a loan offer online then your offer is only available over the phone and instead of being paid out in 24 hours they send you paperwork to arrive in 5 days and sign and return
@Ben
Tried your M&S theory out. Firstly, it was like Supermarket Sweep at a care home. Secondly, Ł135 for a weekly shop. Tesco is anything from Ł70-90 depending on what household stuff is needed. Fucking hell
I've never spent that much.
My M&S is class. It's at a retail park though so the old dears don't dare venture that far.
I didn’t even buy any juice or household/cleaning stuff which usually puts the prices up.
Just teas and lunches until next Thursday for 2 folk. Snacks as well but off the top of my head: 2 share bag of crisps with dips, bar of chocolate, croissants and prosciutto sharing platter thing.
You must eat well. I mean, I can see how you would easily spend that much but we rarely go into 3 figures even. We get snacks and cleaning stuff from Home Bargains but everything else is M&S.
Amazon delivery driver just left my package by the back gate in the pissing rain instead of knocking the door even though all the fucking lights are on in the house.
Came to the door to tell me he'd left it around the back when he saw me looking out for him though. Prick.
'Thanks, mate. Have a good day!'
*Awkwardly waves*
My DPD driver left my SSD directly in front of my front door today because I wasn't in. The website was saying they wouldn't be able to leave it if nobody was home. Legend
I hate those 'signature requested' deliveries.
I've largely gone back to just buying things from shops. Deliveries do my fucking nut in.
Did manc Sean hack your account Jim?
Today I was forced to play a frame of snooker against someone who was such a rabid Celtic fan that he referred to the blue ball as 'Sevco' and refused to hit at it.
I won, obviously.
This is obviously nothing new, but who was it that came up with the idea that all traffic light pedestrian crossings should have no sound and ostensibly no visual cue that you can cross? There's a new crossing here which catches people out all the time as the stupid button thing is facing away from where you are meant to stand to use the fucking crossing. Who is this helping?
I'd heard that sound is out of fashion now among urban design legends, because if there are two crossings near each other then beeping at one can be confused for beeping at another.
Relatedly, a white van drove through [audible] red lights this morning while I was on the school run and about to cross. Luckily he was doing about 40 (in a 30) for his entire approach so I hastily grabbed both kids to stop them “going when the beeps beep.” One is old enough to stop look and listen but the other was a certified dead toddler in tomorrows local newspaper, if it wasn’t for his heroic dad.
I appreciate your thoughts and prayers in these trying times.
I'm a twit
The general standard of driving from vans is genuinely atrocious. I don't know if they're just all on coke or if they think that their next job nailing one plank of wood to another is so vital that arriving for it 18 seconds earlier will make a huge difference to their livelihoods, but the level of aggression is just ridiculous.
I'm glad I only got hit by a Mini.
Quicker you get work done, quicker you can get down the pub. Pie and chips. Pint of Fosters. 2 squashed toddlers. BOSH.
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