I've just bought 3 PCs for my Language School classrooms. They have Windows 10 Pro installed. My tech guy (aged 7 and 3/4) reckons there is so little interest in Windows these days they will be OK for 6 years!
Forget 3 billion dollars to go to Mercury, how about 20 billion dollars to build a bridge between Hong Kong and China and private cars aren't allowed on it? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-43779631
Who said anything about cleaning them? I like to point out when people notice things wrong because it irks her. Window cleaning is my job. Apparently. And we have a rule here: you take us as you find us, or you don’t take us at all
Been there, done that...sometimes successfully. Nothing better when it works out than that moment when you scrawl a resignation letter on a post-it note, slap it on your boss's computer screen and just stroll away without saying anything to them(or is that just me? )
My best moment came when I knew a company I was working for, were looking to reduce the number of middle managers. I knew I was in line to be made redundant owing to my being too honest and speaking my mind, so I started looking for a new job. The day I was made redundant, with a £12k pay off (not too shabby in the 90s), I received a phone call offering me the job I had applied for. I was unemployed for about 3 hours .
That is what I am planning on doing - We know they are shutting our company down and we are definitely being made redundant in the next 6-8 months. Got loads of feelers out, so hopefully I will get just shy of a year's salary in redundancy and walk into a new job the next day ...about time I had the luck
Not everyone gets lots of redundancy money...if the company folds the government pay you the minimum based partly on how much you earned, so better paid people get more. Helpful, but not a fortune. And it's reduced if you go straight into another job.
Spot on Fran, the last time I was made redundant, it was 1.5 weeks money per year if service, up to 20 years maximum iirc. It was only 1.5 weeks per year because I was over 40 as it's 1 week per year if you are younger.
I'll be ok though - the parent US company is closing us down - the satellite company. We aren't bust, just my area is in rundown now. Once we have no need for the IT or they move it to the US/Europe data centre I'll be gone. The company used to employ 600 staff, we are down to 80 now, so just keeping the lights on atm
In my contract it is 1 month for every year worked - been there 9 years so with the 3 month's notice I am on I'll get the full 12 months practically. I answered up above - we are not bust, just the parent company is closing down my division, so the government won't need to step in.
Yep that is the Plan A. Take the money and my daughter's husband can sort me out with a role in his company. Just the two doggies to worry about though Luckily he is setting up something this side of the pond in the next few months so timing may be good In the words of Hannibal from the A-Team "I love it when a plan comes together"
This week, I have mostly been making a model of Scar from the Lion King...for a scarecrow trail. What I'm most pleased about, is that it used to be a shark!
