Mundane facts about your day: Part Deux.

Theresa Green

Theresa Green

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PeterD said:
A fleeting visit to Sainsburys this morning, I like a particular corduroy trouser they sell and bought them in two other colours. Going full geography teacher. I dont get over that side of town too much these days but it struck me how civilised Sainsburys is compared to the other supermarkets.
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Needle, Elephant, Pinwale ?

Wales per inch?
 
staffordjas

staffordjas

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tek-monkey said:
Having trouble understanding quite what the Latvian immigration office are telling me, but apparently I haven't met the requirements for a residential permit but I'm getting one anyway. I just have to prove I don't have TB first.
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Thinking of you @tek-monkey ....I'm watching The Hairy Bikers in Latvia :D

Good luck obtaining your residential permit 👍😊
 
Lucy

Lucy

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Glam said:
Where you gone babb?
We had ours at Manchester Central last Sunday. Was ok, but for the money spent, I could feed me and Great Unwashed for at least a month!
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They turned a pretty much empty building on site at work into a pretty good night club, then we had a karaoke band in the marquee on the car park. Free bar too, was a great night.

For the record I work in the private sector but would never begrude a public sector Christmas do because why can't they have a night out? Taxpayers may pay for them but they also pay for me by buying our products...
 
Carole

Carole

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I’ve just realised that I have never worked anywhere that’s had a Christmas party.
 
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PeterD

PeterD

ST16 Represent.
Get you @Glam paying for a Manchester do out of your own pocket. My wife works at St George's and she only paid for a meal at The Wayfarer out of her own pocket.
Private sector me, my employer paid for my Manchester do. I was well behaved.
 
Trumpet

Trumpet

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Ours is at The Moathouse this year, all booze included, rooms paid for for non Stafford staff.
Some people will still find a reason to moan.
 
Glam

Glam

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PeterD said:
Get you @Glam paying for a Manchester do out of your own pocket. My wife works at St George's and she only paid for a meal at The Wayfarer out of her own pocket.
Private sector me, my employer paid for my Manchester do. I was well behaved.
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I probably know her @PeterD I was well behaved in Manchester too. Unlike some in our group xx
 
Glam

Glam

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Trumpet said:
Ours is at The Moathouse this year, all booze included, rooms paid for for non Stafford staff.
Some people will still find a reason to moan.
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It was £80 for the full entertainment package, all you can drink of the basics, wine,lager,cider and soft drinks, rest you forked out a fortune for. Not too bad for a Christmas do. Add on top the hotel, £73, breakfast £10, train fare £26 + what ever get up you wanted wear. Mine was a £10 green sequined top from Asda cos I already had the rest. It doesn't come cheap, at least not on NHS wages!
 
Trumpet

Trumpet

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She's going masked up and keeping a distance away from granddaughter.
Wedding in Liverpool and boy has taken over Fazenda for late afternoon, early evening. Gurly driving us up in my car as she's not currently drinking.
 
SketchyMagpie

SketchyMagpie

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Random question, does the Newsletter still publish job vacancies? Felt too awkward to stand and thumb through it for too long in ASDA yesterday to see.
 
Mudgie

Mudgie

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Glam said:
It was £80 for the full entertainment package, all you can drink of the basics, wine,lager,cider and soft drinks, rest you forked out a fortune for. Not too bad for a Christmas do. Add on top the hotel, £73, breakfast £10, train fare £26 + what ever get up you wanted wear. Mine was a £10 green sequined top from Asda cos I already had the rest. It doesn't come cheap, at least not on NHS wages!
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Glam,
£200 is six times ( at today's prices ) what my colleagues and I, also public sector, would pay for a Christmas dinner and a few pints.
Each paying for the more extravagant Christmas do often experienced by private sector employees suggests that you must all get on well at work.
 
tek-monkey

tek-monkey

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Mudgie said:
Glam,
£200 is six times ( at today's prices ) what my colleagues and I, also public sector, would pay for a Christmas dinner and a few pints.
Each paying for the more extravagant Christmas do often experienced by private sector employees suggests that you must all get on well at work.
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I'm no longer public sector, but our lot are going out for drinks next week. For me that would involve travel to Manchester and a hotel, I decided against.
 
proactive

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
Our joint works do was last weekend, in Whitchurch. It was a great time. Wished it hadn't happened when I had to pick up the bill...
 
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