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I shall miss it. Moving to a 7am to 11pm store instead of my current 24hrs store.
Our shifts run from 10pm to 7am. We usually get a delivery around 12 midnight/00:30hrs and the next three hours are spent stocking up the fresh goods. Then the bread and milk arrives around 4am and gets stocked up and the last few hours are spent working any dry goods in the back stock, filling the juice shelves and fronting up the store for the 7am start day shift.
The only down side is that it is only three nights over a Friday to Monday every fourth weekend. Just as your body rythym gets used to it, it's a day off then back to my usual 4pm to 10pm or 7pm to 1am backshifts. Your day off is usually "wasted" sleeping!
Oh aye, I'm at
You coming to Wishaw.....it could do with sorting out....
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Think it depends on what job your doing. I work in a Engineering plant in Aberdeen repairing compressors and fans for the rigs and 12 hours on the night shift can be a long long time. In an office though I can imagine it being an absolute canter.
A 12 hour nightshift is no harder than a 12 hour dayshift though - in either environment - and Id rather be on my four on four off pattern than work 5x8s.
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In 35 years of working in the construction side of the petro-chemical industry, I can confirm that the majority of people that enjoy nightshifts are the lazy useless b*****ds in the industry.
I'd never work a nightshift if given a choice. Fucking hate having to do them occasionally.
....they are getting paid more than you and you are upset about it huh?
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A lot of people I know can't handle it but I actually enjoy working it, No one there to bother you. Can finish early most nights all going well and It's a great feeling going home when everyone else hasn't started.
Generally sleep a lot less when working nights. About 4 hours a day does me.
Me, litres of coffee and Absolute Radio tonight.
Anyone else enjoy it?
Aye me. I love it. It's a great contrast to my home life, but it also compliments it beautifully.
iPlayer and Kenco are my friends.
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I'm looking forward to this afternoon. At 9.30 we are taking my youngest son's football team down to Eastlands to watch Manchester City v WBA. If the bus arrives on time and we are there for 1.15pm we've been invited to go through the players entrance, and through onto the pitch for a wander around before being introduced to one of those old favourites of mine - Mike Summerbee - Man City's club ambassador who was one of the players in Escape To Victory. He's got a signed Man City strip which he is going to present to one of our players who had a bone marrow transplant a couple of years ago.
Hopefully it'll be a fantastic day that the kids will remember for the rest of their lives.
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Anyone know how to print excel(2007) spreadsheets off landscape(is that the view that's more horizontal than vertical?). Basically my spreadsheet is being cut off in print preview and I would rather have it the other way about.
You can change it in print properties.
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What does it have to do with Scotland/UK? Perhaps you should vent your fury at the band's record label for not releasing the single outwith North America?
What's stopping you from downloading it from Amazon.com?
It doesn't work. You get all the way to the download then it tells you you can only get it if you live in one of 48 states in the US.
And what's it got to do with Scotland or the UK? Well our music buyers are so busy buying the shite Simon Cowell produces that decent bands with decent original songs don't even bother to try the UK market these days. I should have bought the track when I was in the States where the decent music is.
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I'm pretty certain that you can change your itunes to America by clicking on the Uk flag at the bottom of the itunes store. Then just search and purchase the usual way. I struggled to find a few songs a while ago and that was how I managed to find them.
That sounded good Ayrgirl but when I signed in it said I could only buy from the UK. I tried setting up a new account but my billing address is in the UK which again means I can only buy in the UK. I have a US bank account but that's registered to my UK address too.
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Grrr!!! This fucking backward country does it again!!!
The first decent tune I've heard this year - played wall to wall in the US for the last three weeks was
. I come home planning to order it on Amazon or on iTunes only to discover that once again it's not available and you don't appear to be able to download it legally. I've done the search on the internet for news of when it might be getting released here and I can't find a thing on it.Anyone know where I can purchase it?
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So there I was, visiting my Gran in Glasgow's Southern General Hospital - where all the nurses would break the scales if they simply rested their massive bingo wing arms on them. Around the bed we're all having a bit of a laugh and a joke about how nurses training these days appears to be limited to a course on how to stretch their stomachs to the stage where they can cope with the copious amount of Cadbury's Heroes that they eat, when the woman in the next bed sets off her alarm.
Through the glass partition we can see three nurses stood - I would say looking like Michelin Men but that's too kind. They all had really bad skin that made them look more like Mr Blobby. As part of the fun I started my stopwatch. Do you know it took so long for the nurses to respond I had forgotten I was timing them. Indeed after what must have been fully 10 minutes my Sister attended to the lady in the next bed and then went out to tell the nurses what the old lady needed.
However the story doesn't end there. A few days ago I took my gran in some of her favourite biscuits - Borders Chocolate Gingers. They had gone so I asked my Gran if she enjoyed them and if she had been eating them with her tea. No she said. What actually happened was she asked a nurse to open the packet for her. As the nurse did my Gran said she should take one as a thank you, which the nurse duly did. She then asked if she could give one to each of her colleagues on the ward. My Gran looked and saw four, she said ok.....she never saw the biscuits again.
Isn't it a sad day when lazy overweight, overpaid public sector nurses have to resort to stealing chocolate biscuits from their 92 year old patients. I guess this must be how their feed their lard addiction in an era where patients families are refusing to reward their shite standards of service with big tins of Roses.
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1. You should only get one attempt at the driving test.
2. Fatties should pay for the cost of their health care.
3. Religion should be taught in schools.
4. There hasn't been a great album made this century.
5. Modern school qualifications aren't worth the paper they're printed on.
What's unpopular about that?
1. I agree
2. I agree although would add so should everyone else.
3. Disagree, just to be difficult.
4. I can't think of one either.
5. I agree. Not only that I don't understand them. Credits, Intermediates - what a load of bollocks. Sit the fucking test and either pass or fail. Simple.
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Yes it is.
I think present day pipefitters are thick as pigshit who don't know their arse from their elbow.
Call centres are a modern day work of genius
Lanarkshire should be carpet-bombed towards oblivion. So should America for that matter, in particular Florida.
Well at least you are on topic - certainly more than I could ever be in a topic such as this.
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Clearly I don't have any unpopular opinions as everyone seems to think the opposite view is the unpopular one. I don't think anyone could argue with any of the following which are already on record as being my heartfelt opinion.
For example I think Margaret Thatcher is the UK's best post war leader bar none, like everyone else does.
I think the NHS is a monumental waste of money, it's grossly inefficient and ineffective and that a private sector healthcare system would be much better value for money
I think our education system should be radically reformed, and taken out of taxpayer funded status. The public sector should only offer scholarships to those who have shown the right work ethic, enterprise, endeavour and ability and who will dedicate themselves to a lifetime of public service.
I think all people from Greenock are deformed inbreds, mentally retarded and socially inept
I think all people from Paisley are unwashed drug abusers with a paranoia level that goes off the scale. - edited to add a note that Ralston is NOT in Paisley.
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I really don't understand this craze to be honest. Fair enough I only had it for 1 day but it just seemed like a poorer version of Facebook. Follow celebs, update your status, etc...
Same here. I tried it to see what all the fuss was about. I made two posts, realised I was talking to myself, and gave up leaving the account dormant. I went back three months later only to find I now had over 100 followers who were reading me not say anything at all. At that point I cancelled my account. It just seems like a ridiculous waste of time.
I can't remember who the comedian was who claimed he posted from a train that he was hungry and a load of his followers turned up at a train station on his route to give him pizza. He was obviously a w**k, but it said it all for me about the kid of people that use Twitter.
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Simple meals are the best. Last night I mashed some potatoes and mixed in some brie and some spring onions. Served that with pea's and a pork chop done on a hot griddle for a couple minutes on each side. A little dollup of apple sauce and we were done.
Tonight it'll be a prawn stir fry made with sweet chilli sauce.
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New Suspect in Maddie Case
She's pretty famous and married to a little girl
Yeah just seen that on telly. I guess it was only a matter of time. Victoria Beckham gets blamed for everything else.
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Ant Music - Adam and the Ants
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Shut Up by Madness
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This is very true.
Many of our graduates dressed like tramps and continued to go out on random weekdays for their "usual" sessions, leading to being burst baws in work the day after.
Words were had.
The same is true in some of the companies I've worked at, and it's one of the reasons I've come to the conclusion that many graduates are hopelessly ill prepared for the working environment - alongside the fact that they are often very poorly educated by people who failed in industry, taught out of date practices and methods, and unable to use more modern technology because their university didn't have the appropriate funds to equip themselves. Often, when a company takes on a graduate, they need to start re-training the individual - something that is becoming less and less attractive as the years go on - as we see in the current figures that prove that there are now more unemployed graduates out there than ever before.
Arab Joes debunking his debate quite seriously too when he claims that university makes him a more open minded, rounded person than someone who went straight into employment. Perhaps he doesn't quite get the irony of his prejudices.
I've got to love Max's take on the class system too. Especially the bit about how money doesn't come into it. I'm sure he'll change his opinion the minute Mummy and Daddy stop funding his lifestyle...
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I was repeating my points in reply to your first paragraph because nothing that you said had contradicted anything that I'd said. I thought that maybe repetition would drive home the point. Hope this helps.
You still haven't explained what constitutes a "better" person. Personally, I think that how rounded or open minded an individual you are depends on the individual, not the circumstances. Certainly, you aren't a very good example of this open mindedness that you're trumpeting.
Whilst uni can undoubtedly help, it's also a very sheltered environment. You have to grow up much more quickly in full time employment. You're a good example of this, actually; your social life suffered when you had to work a 40 hour week? Seriously?
Totally agree with you. He even said that he was "too tired" after working to socialise. I hope he gets the odd shag in University cause clearly his sex life will be fucked when he finally has to start working for a living...
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There are as many working class people in Britain as there have been for many years - the only difference is that somehow they have been convinced that they are middle class. OK Max?
Exactly. What Max doesn't realise is that many of his "middle class people" are earning less than the national average wage, topping up their income with child tax credits, and their kids are only going to school because they get EMA. He also conveniently ignores the fact that many of his "middle class people" are maxed out on their credit cards, mortgaged to the hilt and remortgaging yearly to try and stay afloat living the Labour dream. Can't blame Max for his lack of knowledge though - he's a student...
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Salty, he's just looking for £100,000 government funding for his research...
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Ahem...
Tradesman in short supply?
Is that why they are all sitting on their arses doing nothing because they cannot find work.Most people on this thread are just jealous that they never got a chance at a university education. Point is that working class Britain is dead and with this more people will look to higher education as it is more affordable and attainable.
So one graduate thinks that there's no working class in the UK any more, while the other thinks that graduates don't commit crimes. And they still claim that universities are good preparation for the working environment.
In the real world there's a skills shortage in the UK and a stark realism that many of the 430,000 students in the UK are discovering that employers don't want them. Never mind though - hang in at Uni Maxi. I'm sure your parents don't mind supporting you while you squander your £1,200 per annum on the fantastic social life.
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Okay... with all due respect, isn't that a bit contradictory? I don't know what work is like but you know that Uni isn't the be all and end all?! (That is assuming that you didn't go, if you did then fair play, but how you would know the ins and outs of leaving school for work is beyond me...).
For what it is worth, I've worked a couple of full time jobs between my attempts at Uni. Working at least 45-50 hours a week certainly left me a lot more tired than my Uni classes, and I suffered socially as a result... Anyone who can realistically argue that the leisure/free time you have in Uni is even close to being matched by employment has certainly had a lot better paid jobs than me!
As for the funding part, I think its money well spent. Personal development leads to better people, in my view. A country full of people who lacked the Uni experience would be, in my view, worse off. Besides, the money repaid by the higher wages earned make it an absolute bargain.
Ach balls.
We've got more students now than ever before and yet the crime figures keep on rising.
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