Haha funny that janesy....i use the central and jubilee as well but coming from the east end ie live in east and work in canary wharf and yes there are delays but they are seldom although the other day i was raging....it was monday and the central line was severely disrupted...i just jumped on the overground train and caught a bus to get home...sure i was almost an hr late home but no biggie.
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Haha funny that janesy....i use the central and jubilee as well but coming from the east end ie live in east and work in canary wharf and yes there are delays but they are seldom although the other day i was raging....it was monday and the central line was severely disrupted...i just jumped on the overground train and caught a bus to get home...sure i was almost an hr late home but no biggie.
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Leave for work half an hour earlier. Problem solved. *Bows*
I didn't go to university out of choice. I spent 6 years trying to crack the music industry as a songwriter. Had a small amount of success but not enough to give me the lifestyle I coveted. During this time I gave myself to the age of 24 to 'make it' and if I didn't then I would get a full time job.
When the ripe old age of 24 came along, I promptly phoned my manager and agents and told them enough is enough, walked into a Debenhams store and marched up to the store managers office and asked him for an interview. He interviewed me there and then and gave me a job that and I started the following week. I was paid £14k.
I was with Debenhams for one year during which time I worked my arse off, got promoted twice and won employee of the year. I then found out about a senior management position at a local Tesco store. I made some noise and managed to find out who the director of that region was. Contacted him and he invited me for an interview, gave me the job. My pay then moved up to about £34k I think. A year and a half later I was promoted to Deputy manager on £46k and a further year on I promoted to Store Manager on £75k basic. Last year including bonus they paid me just shy of £106k plus company car and fuel and other benefits including shares etc.
It's been a pretty fast rise so far (three years since joining Tesco), I expect the jump to the first level of directorship (work level 4) to take a little longer but with the rate the company is expanding the opportunities are mind boggling.
Wow, good job man. Gratz \m/ Just shows what you can do with hard work, dedication and all that.
and millions more who can only get part time hours when they have familys to feed and rent to pay
surely OPs company would know this which is why i was always sure it was a troll thread , especially in london.
[FnG]magnolia;18479001 said:OP, tell them about your findings on the moon landing being fake. Distract them
Bahahaha
And don't he fail at the last concept in person brilliantly huh?
After reviewing everything since yesterday (also groen, posting at work?)....
I have to say it again.
lol groen.
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Many people drink during the week (i dont have an issue with it) and many people struggle to get up in the morning. Just been a bad combination of delayed trains and me not leaving enough lee way time and me over sleeping occasionally due to me going to sleep to late.
I value you my time outside of work and I would rather stay up an extra hour than sit at starbucks in the morning
But i know it is my fault and i can't blame anyoen else, will try to sort my time keeping out. thanks for input.
Well, good news. You can stay up as late as you like and lie in for as long you like when you get sacked.
No email system in your office?
Don't work in an office! We do have email, but since its machinery, you cannot draw little pictures and explain, point and reference drawings and programs through email!
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I reckon he should be banned if he's fired? Fair? 
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Christ, still going on about your tesco job that mummy got you.
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Many people drink during the week (i dont have an issue with it) and many people struggle to get up in the morning. Just been a bad combination of delayed trains and me not leaving enough lee way time and me over sleeping occasionally due to me going to sleep to late.
I value you my time outside of work and I would rather stay up an extra hour than sit at starbucks in the morning
But i know it is my fault and i can't blame anyoen else, will try to sort my time keeping out. thanks for input.
Go to bed earlier then.
No bloody excuse mate. What you are moaning about is what most (all? Hopefully) posters in this thread have to put up with DAILY.
At my place of work, some lower jobs are contracted to start work at 9 am and finish at 5.30. Read that carefully. START work at 9 am, not arrive at work at 9 am.
If someone was consistently 30-40 mins late, and didn't make any attempt to rectify that or make up that time, I'd consider kicking their arse. Literately.
They wouldn't like it if I docked their wages (can't be legally done, I don't believe - I'm no HR/legal bod though) by 30-40 minutes though. They expect 100% of their pay for delivering 70% of the expected work (attendance).
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Even if that was the case, he's clearly doing ok without "mummy" as she's not at work holding his hand.
Furthermore he was asked about his job...
Jealous much?! :/ Or are you generally this unpleasant with people?
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Don't let this put you off but.
A friend of mine, her dad once oversees all of the South of England operations for Asda, he worked 80 hour week and hardly saw his wife and children. That lead to divorce. He then got a new family, and quit his job in ASDA, pulled in a few favours and got a deputy store manager in Sainsbury's, he moved around a bit and now he is a store manager in M&S in one of their London Stores.
He is so good at it, he pulled that store's ranking within M&S's own league table, from 100+ and something to 3rd within the space of 1 year. He can move up to Director level and do it easily, but he know he doesn't want to. He now sees his family, and he has a decent wage, lives in a nice part of outskirt of London with a nice house
and nice one about your career (sightly jealous
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Absolutely mate, that is quite literally how it is. I'm not married and have no children so for now this lifestyle suits me. Will I want a better work/life balance at some point in the future? Quite likely. But until then i'll continue to give it all i've got.
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Thanks mate but he's just trolling, why he would think my own mother got me a job is beyond me.
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GordyR: Good to see people willing to work hard for a living! The amount of losers who start on that £14k and stay there is incredible!! I see nothing wrong with earning a low wage, provided you are progressing (which you are doing awesomely well!).
No end of senior management at my placement company have no qualifications. Does it matter? Not really. Some people have it, some people don't, regardless of qualifications.
Obviously good qualifications help, but there is no substitute for hard work.
Unfortunately it took me getting kicked out of uni to realise that, but upon reflection it was the best thing I ever did, because I learnt from it - big time!
May be the OP should be sacked as this is the only way he is going to learn?
No end of senior management at my placement company have no qualifications. Does it matter? Not really. Some people have it, some people don't, regardless of qualifications.
Obviously good qualifications help, but there is no substitute for hard work
.Unfortunately it took me getting kicked out of uni to realise that, but upon reflection it was the best thing I ever did, because I learnt from it - big time!
May be the OP should be sacked as this is the only way he is going to learn?