Off Topic Compare the cheese to no 10 thread

Yeah right

 

I was approached by a headhunting firm in September 2017. I thought I would listen to them and they offered me the same position with a new company, but an extra 14k and same bonus system and a better car, an Audi. I thought why not as a change might do me good. Handed my notice in and the director in charge of my division came back to me and offered me 16k and an E series Mercedes as a company car.

I was a bit cheesed off as it had taken me ages to decide to go and now I had another decision to make. The Mrs suggested "better the devil you know" so I stayed.

I have had a good year with fees so should get a healthy bonus as well.

The point I was trying to make was that the grass is not always greener elsewhere, we have had people leave our company, burning their bridges with the way they went, who have then tried to come back to us once they realised they had been sold a "pup" by the new employer. Needless to say we have not had them back. I know of one who was on about 135k with bonus plus a decent company car with us, who is now working for about 40k and no car, after the new job he went to for more money disappeared overnight when the firm went belly up, and has had to cash his pension in early to make ends meet as he still has a large mortgage.

 

I'll come back to this on Monday. I have to go to the alehouse now

 

I love the way you say "have to go to the alehouse now" it is not compulsory!

 

I was headhunted last year too.
It's tough in parts of rural Wales.

 

Come on now, remember who you were talking to.

 

Personally i would have loved to take a pay cut down to £110k

 

A week or month?

 

oh sorry naturally i assumed this level of renumeration referred to the daily rate.

 

It's hourly for some...

 

This page calculates what certain people earn per hour, minute, second, etc.

http://www.salary-money.com/paul-mccartney-salary-38000000.php#.W-dVd5P7TyQ

 

i think "earn" may be pushing it in certain cases.

 

There was an 80s fancy dress night in the Cheese on Saturday night. I didn't go

 

Apparently after last Christmas, they badgered me into being 'Bad Santa' for the adults on the night of the kid's Christmas party at the Cheese. I was pissed / stoned at the time and had totally forgotten. Apparently the adults come to me with notes saying what they want for Christmas. I have to comment on their requests and tell them if they're getting it. Might actually be quite enjoyable. License to be brutally horrible to people I dislike and they can't do ****ing anything

 

Skol on tap?

 

That the one with the bear?

Follow the bear or something. That was an eighties drink wasn't it.

 

Skol goes back at least to the 60's.
The bear thing was Hofmeister, I think.

 

"You ain't going to **** right for a week"

What an opening (pun intended)

You can say that to all the females and see which wants it in the wrong in.

 

Grunhalle

 

If your boss thought you were worth the extra £16,000 and a merc, he should have been giving it you already and not having to receive your notice to give you the rise and car.