Sherrif John Bunnell Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 My work uses a website called Wider Wallet for various perks and discounts. A lot of the discounts involve having to buy gift cards via a third party, but there are some decent ones like a permanent 10% discount at Halfords. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 48 minutes ago, Bairnardo said: 51 minutes ago, Dee Man said: Is this supposed to be aux fait? Tout a fait "lah di dah", Monsiuer Con Français FTFY 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dee Man Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 1 hour ago, Bairnardo said: 1 hour ago, Dee Man said: Is this supposed to be aux fait? Well lah di dah Mr French c**t Do not be jel of my multi-linguistics. And it's 'le French c**t' to you. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Jean King Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 Ayr Advertiser actually [emoji57] i haven’t actually watched the news in days. Social Media is bombarded with it. It’s hard to avoid it. Just felt it was crazy that people (Ayrshire folk but so be it) would be so open to another lockdown knowing the implications the first one hadImplications wise BBC now reporting that retail sales gave returned to pre lockdown levels already. I find that mighty hard to believe up here. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeTillEhDeh Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 Absolutely, he now thinks we should delay the return of schools as they are only being "rushed" back (after 5 month off) to provide their parents with free child care. The guys a grade 1 fruit loop. You say black he will say white. If another post made the point they shouldn't be going back so soon he would be all over it with lazy teachers blah blah blah. Schools back = freeloading parents. Schools out = freeloading teachers. Thoroughly contrary c**t.c**t would have done. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd_is_God Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 11 minutes ago, Billy Jean King said: 1 hour ago, Thereisalight.. said: Ayr Advertiser actually i haven’t actually watched the news in days. Social Media is bombarded with it. It’s hard to avoid it. Just felt it was crazy that people (Ayrshire folk but so be it) would be so open to another lockdown knowing the implications the first one had Implications wise BBC now reporting that retail sales gave returned to pre lockdown levels already. I find that mighty hard to believe up here. Depends over how long, though. No doubt there will have been an initial rush, but no guarantee it will be sustained. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itzdrk Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 2 hours ago, ICTChris said: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-53514524 Jesus f**k, it was class when Tony Macaroni were doing free pizzas for NHS staff but they were offering this. Demanding it from somewhere that isn't is a total riddy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 I think all government policy should be based on Facebook and polls in local rags IMO. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeTillEhDeh Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 Just FYI as well, the two biggest teaching unions in Scotland - the EIS and the SSTA - report feedback from their members of an average of 9 hours (EIS) and 10 hours (SSTA) unpaid overtime each week for their members, which ties in roughly with what I do. Nowhere near this mythical 30-hours extra that apparently every single teacher is doing.That's about right I would say - an hour or 2 a day - sometimes more with a deadline like getting prelim marking done for reports. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeTillEhDeh Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 1) Again we ask the teacher because the teacher cannot answer a basic question ( which in itself is poor teaching). Do you think Mr teacher that teachers that spend their free time to help others and go above the call of duty are in your words "shite teachers"? 2) You fail to comprehend that some teachers can - for reasons of technological skills - get the job done quicker. 3) What's the paperwork to talk about. Most dedicated teachers are preparing lessons. You are digging a hole here. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeTillEhDeh Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 PE is for folk that can't teachAka Drillies. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itzdrk Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 The Ayr Advertiser struggles spelling Ayr. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd_is_God Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 8 minutes ago, itzdrk said: Jesus f**k, it was class when Tony Macaroni were doing free pizzas for NHS staff but they were offering this. Demanding it from somewhere that isn't is a total riddy. Particularly now, when the stress & workload is probably at the lowest it has been in their entire career. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itzdrk Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 1 minute ago, Todd_is_God said: Particularly now, when the stress & workload is probably at the lowest it has been in their entire career. Depends how long they've been there, student nurses are (mostly) all working as nurses on a paid placement just now so it's the opposite for them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
effeffsee_the2nd Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 I jokingly said a month or two back telling people you work for the NHS will become the equivalent of the 'telling someone you're in the armed forces within a minute of meeting them'. It's probably now true. NHS loveheart flag is flying next to the union jack and the red hand of ulster at redding & westquarter unity club in falkirk, our local bigot hall. No joke 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd_is_God Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 8 minutes ago, itzdrk said: Depends how long they've been there, student nurses are (mostly) all working as nurses on a paid placement just now so it's the opposite for them. Fair. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirty dingus Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 58 minutes ago, Melanius Mullarkey said: I think all government policy should be based on Facebook and polls in local rags IMO. Law and Order in Inverclyde is handled via social media. Suspected beasts are usually subjected to quick judicial punishment with homes and cars getting bricked. The murder detective curtain twitchers on twitter usually have the perp identified and photos of them the weans the granny the motor the workplace and the bird on the side are plastered for quick reference before the polis or press are even out of bed. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd_is_God Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 20 cases today from 16,000 tests. Obviously it would be more ideal if these numbers were going down, but over the last 3 Fridays now they have at least been stable which probably highlights that whatever is being done to isolate and contain is working. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
super_carson Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 Asking for discounts because of your job is cuntish behaviour of the highest order. However, if it's on offer then why not take it.My issue with all the clapping, discount giving, fundraising etc. is that it's been normalised, as if all these virtue signalling gestures somehow make up for chronic underfunding and austerity. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyrshireTon Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 (edited) 14 hours ago, pandarilla said: Gaz is a teacher and he's right. Teachers regularly put in time in the evening to prep for the coming days but 6 hours is a huge exaggeration. If you're doing half of that then you're doing much more than most, in my experience. New teachers do have to put in more time, but it's not as much as you claimed, and this kind of thing only gives more ammunition to those who like to think we've got an easy ride. It's really not. My subject is one which sees classes daily and requires daily lessons, rather than the one-per-week subjects which can assign a week long task. During lockdown my mornings were spent getting my own kids to do their assigned work for that day (or previous days' work if their mother hadn't put any pressure on them). During this I'd be dealing with questions sent by my own pupils, many of which would need a written solution which had to be scanned and uploaded. By the afternoon I'd be fielding more questions and starting to mark the work which had been submitted. Given that some households may only have one PC, I set a submit time of 5pm, although would send apologetic messages saying it would be handed in later. The evening would be spent reviewing how each class had coped and using this to prepare the following days lessons. This would mean typing out the full lesson. adding in diagrams or scanned scribblings (and trying to anticipate the kind of questions that might be asked) and then uploading all the pdf versions with a Google Doc for them to put their work onto - and set it all to be posted at 9am the following day. Add in the compiling lists of non-engaging pupils and communicating this to SMT, there were a number of days where a midnight finish was not unknown. My only real free time was Friday evening and Saturday (where I refused to look at anything related to education). Despite being in the Sheilding category, I am absolutely prepared to start back in a full school. Really not wanting to work from home again - and the pupils will be of the same opinion. Edited July 24, 2020 by AyrshireTon 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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