A96 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 35 minutes ago, Mark Connolly said: ...and it's no wonder I spent most of Xmas Day sleeping that year. So what was the downside ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19QOS19 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 Worst job I had was the late shift on a zero hours contract at an aerosols factory. Waiting until 3 pm each day to be told whether you'd be needed. Arrive at 5 pm, work until 1 am, putting the lids on shaving foam or wiping the outside of make up tubs. They'd expect you to be at work 15 mins in advance to be told where in the factory to go. Taking shit from utter bellends with not a management instinct (or SQA Higher) to their name, who naturally assume you too are a thicko for ending up somewhere like that. Dinner involved sitting for an hour in a canteen surrounded by broken middle aged men and eastern european girls (no lookers) reading red tops and looking depressed. Fucking horiffic.My last job tried to pull this shite as well. They wanted everyone in 15 minutes before they were due to start. If you did that then it worked out I'd spend an extra 5 hours a month at that shithole and not get paid for the displeasure. Needless to say I used to go in a maximum of 5 minutes before I was due to start. The management were gutless at the best of times so the most I ever got was "you're pushing it fine aren't you?", to which I'd respond with "I don't start until..." The only exception to this would be when I went in for a nightshift and liked the person who I was taking over from. I would go in early to let them away early. I don't see any problem with people liking to get in early but for management to try and enforce it and not pay you is just bullshit. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highland Capital Posted September 18, 2019 Author Share Posted September 18, 2019 "I'm not British I'm Scottish." You'll still be British after independence m8. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Jo Jo Junior Shabadoo Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 3 hours ago, Mark Connolly said: When I was 18, I worked in a hotel during the Xmas party season. I'd do the full 12pm-2am function shift, breakfast shift 6-11, then back on the function room. The hotel would lay on a room for anyone doing this to have a kip/shower in between, and you were only allowed to do 3 days in a row of it, but that generally got bypassed if they were short of staff. Very occasionally you could also end up doing a couple of hours in the residents bar in between as well. Looking back it's absolutely mental, and it's no wonder I spent most of Xmas Day sleeping that year. Que será, será. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 22 minutes ago, Highland Capital said: "I'm not British I'm Scottish." You'll still be British after independence m8. If you were born in Dublin in 1921 you would be British by your reckoning even though you would hold an Irish passport and be born in the geographical area called Ireland? I would say you could in that situation choose to be Irish or British? No? What would you call people born in Belfast today, not British surely as their country is part of the United Kingdom and not part of Great Britain? Again some may see themselves as British due to their heritage but other will see themselves as Irish. I always tick the white Scottish box when asked my ethnic group, what the problem with people choosing themselves I don't think that makes them a moron. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmic Joe Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 55 minutes ago, Highland Capital said: "I'm not British I'm Scottish." You'll still be British after independence m8. This is complete nonsense. What defines someone as British? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
velo army Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 I think it's in terms of being on the island of Great Britain. I'll still be British in the way that Spaniards will always be Iberian. Although that's not as politically loaded a term as British is. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highland Capital Posted September 18, 2019 Author Share Posted September 18, 2019 This is complete nonsense. What defines someone as British?Scotland is on the island of Britain. Someone from a place on the island of Britain, is British. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerberus Posted September 19, 2019 Share Posted September 19, 2019 I’d like to see someone refer to an Irishman as British. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highland Capital Posted September 19, 2019 Author Share Posted September 19, 2019 “I’m not from Ireland. I’m from Ulster!” You’re from the island of Ireland m8. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted September 19, 2019 Share Posted September 19, 2019 5 hours ago, Highland Capital said: “I’m not from Ireland. I’m from Ulster!” You’re from the island of Ireland m8. But they are from the British isles? Your logic is confusing, shall we just stick to being European? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hk blues Posted September 19, 2019 Share Posted September 19, 2019 1 hour ago, Adam101 said: But they are from the British isles? Your logic is confusing, shall we just stick to being European? Better still, we're all Global Citizens. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stellaboz Posted September 19, 2019 Share Posted September 19, 2019 People who have cars where the boot door opens horizontally rather than vertically. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dons_1988 Posted September 19, 2019 Share Posted September 19, 2019 3 minutes ago, Stellaboz said: People who have cats where the boot door opens horizontally rather than vertically. Say what now? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin.Hood Posted September 19, 2019 Share Posted September 19, 2019 Say what now?What 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stellaboz Posted September 19, 2019 Share Posted September 19, 2019 Cars. Meow 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hampden Diehard Posted September 19, 2019 Share Posted September 19, 2019 The wallopers who stand behind politicians with wee cards with the name of a political party or the politician. Gormless prats. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pandarilla Posted September 19, 2019 Share Posted September 19, 2019 Oh absolutely this.The wallopers who stand behind politicians with wee cards with the name of a political party or the politician. Gormless prats. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The OP Posted September 19, 2019 Share Posted September 19, 2019 Tattoos of your children’s name(s). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highland Capital Posted September 19, 2019 Author Share Posted September 19, 2019 Becoming a member of a mainstream political party. Looks genuinely awful and really uncool. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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