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The desperation to bring bags on board is something I don't really understand. Fair enough if it's a laptop or something easily breakable but most of the time it's just clothes and in practically all airports I've been to you don't have to wait long at all to get your bags back. Just check the thing in at the gate and relax.

I use Knock airport which is tiny reasonably frequently and even there you are only waiting a minute or two for bags to come through. Big mad rush of eejits to grab their bags and get off the plane only for them all to lineup at the first available paystation for the carpark. There's another one 50 metres further on that just gets ignored so I tend to be out quicker than the people who are always rushing. Gobshites.

Whistling. I'm on the bus home and there is a man sat towards the back loudly whistling to himself.

Just sat down in Costa for a nice pot of tea while I wait for my mum and some incosiderate banana split decided to start using an e-cigarette in the toilets and set the fire alarm off so had to evacuate and leave my pot of tea behind.

Hope the old bitch I just heard own up to it chokes on her latte.

Lagamorph wrote:Just sat down in Costa for a nice pot of tea while I wait for my mum and some incosiderate banana split decided to start using an e-cigarette in the toilets and set the fire alarm off so had to evacuate and leave my pot of tea behind.

Hope the old bitch I just heard own up to it chokes on her latte.

I never thought I would say it but vapers are worse than smokers for being self centred banana splits about puffing away when they want to.

Errkal wrote:

Lagamorph wrote:Just sat down in Costa for a nice pot of tea while I wait for my mum and some incosiderate banana split decided to start using an e-cigarette in the toilets and set the fire alarm off so had to evacuate and leave my pot of tea behind.

Hope the old bitch I just heard own up to it chokes on her latte.

I never thought I would say it but vapers are worse than smokers for being self centred banana splits about puffing away when they want to.

It's amazing how many of them genuinely believe that "No smoking" doesn't apply to e-cigarettes. Even when e-cigs are explicitly mentioned there seems to be this belief that they're fine to use absolutely anywhere.

Lagamorph wrote:

Errkal wrote:

Lagamorph wrote:Just sat down in Costa for a nice pot of tea while I wait for my mum and some incosiderate banana split decided to start using an e-cigarette in the toilets and set the fire alarm off so had to evacuate and leave my pot of tea behind.

Hope the old bitch I just heard own up to it chokes on her latte.

I never thought I would say it but vapers are worse than smokers for being self centred banana splits about puffing away when they want to.

It's amazing how many of them genuinely believe that "No smoking" doesn't apply to e-cigarettes.

There used to be an a grade gooseberry fool cannon that would puff away in the audience at a theatre I volunteered at whilst the show was on.

Errkal wrote:

Lagamorph wrote:

Errkal wrote:

Lagamorph wrote:Just sat down in Costa for a nice pot of tea while I wait for my mum and some incosiderate banana split decided to start using an e-cigarette in the toilets and set the fire alarm off so had to evacuate and leave my pot of tea behind.

Hope the old bitch I just heard own up to it chokes on her latte.

I never thought I would say it but vapers are worse than smokers for being self centred banana splits about puffing away when they want to.

It's amazing how many of them genuinely believe that "No smoking" doesn't apply to e-cigarettes.

There used to be an a grade gooseberry fool cannon that would puff away in the audience at a theatre I volunteered at whilst the show was on.

I remember when e-cigarettes started getting popular every smoker in my office at the time got one and would just start puffing away at their desks.
Fortunately HR were on it within 48 hours and declared it no different to smoking a regular cigarette at your desk as far as the company was concerned and using an e-cig inside would lead to gross misconduct dismissal.

But the amount of people who use e-cigs in No Smoking places like train platforms is still disgusting. strawberry float off with that gooseberry fool. Even if it's not harmful (Which is beginning to be thrown into doubt now as well) it still stinks and the smoke is still annoying.

Lagamorph wrote:

Cuttooth wrote:

Lagamorph wrote:At least in this case they're comparing the same type of jobs, unlike that Tesco bullshit one where they're claiming unequal pay despite doing totally different jobs in totally different locations.

That doesn't really make it bullshit though. The argument (from what I could gather) was based on whether the two different roles in different locations are being correctly and fairly valued by Tesco, as well as whether there's crossover in what each role entails.

The argument was that frontline supermarket staff still do a lot of physical labour on top of helping customers and handle money, and the disparity comes from a cultural acceptance that it's seen as a more 'feminine' role because the majority of staff are women.

The fight is for all staff in that role, regardless of gender, to be given the same value as warehouse staff if it's accepted the current evaluation isn't fair.

Basically if you were doing a job for a company that was paid less than another role but you felt was incorrectly undervalued, purely based on assumptions surrounding the type of work you do, what would you do about it?

But on the other hand, you knew exactly how much that job was valued when you took it. And the jobs have been valued at the same for everyone doing it. The male supermarket staff are being paid exactly the same as the female staff as far as I can tell, whilst the female warehouse staff are being paid exactly the same as the male warehouse staff.
Just because one job happens to have more women than men and the other job happens to have more men than women doesn't seem to me to necessarily mean that there's any pay discrimination on the basis of gender going on. If Tesco are undervaluing their Supermarket staff then it doesn't seem to have anything to do with gender.

I would love to know if you asked the employer you work for what salaries other roles in other departments were on when applying! Or even whether you currently know the salaries of most roles in other departments? You know directly how much your employer values you work via your paycheck but not necessarily how much they value you compared to your colleagues. If you do then I think it's fine to question whether you believe you're being fairly valued, especially if you believe their are similar aspects between two roles that are being paid differently. I really don't agree that a difference between jobs and departments means a comparison is impossible and I think this is partly why there's such an obsession with job titles in working environments.

These people may have known how Tesco valued their role against similar positions in other supermarkets but there's no way you can expect anyone to know what how every part of a company is valued. I don't think it's particularly unfair to question whether a possible disparity between two roles with overwhelmingly different gender make ups is causing unequal treatment because of those unfair proportions, considering similar historic inequalities.

<]:^D wrote:regginator has recently read the Wikipedia entry for John Locke and wants everyone to know about it

I stopped reading the Wikipedia page when it mentioned he was a liberal

Google removing the functionality of the backspace key acting as the back button from Chrome
It's been gone for a while but I still end up trying to do it out of old habit/muscle memory.

Lagamorph wrote:Google removing the functionality of the backspace key acting as the back button from Chrome
It's been gone for a while but I still end up trying to do it out of old habit/muscle memory.

There is an app you can install to put it back in the store.

5 button mouse mate.

PuppetBoy wrote:Whistling. I'm on the bus home and there is a man sat towards the back loudly whistling to himself.

100% this. Whistling is one of the most inane activities in existence.

Lagamorph wrote:Google removing the functionality of the backspace key acting as the back button from Chrome

Good! Can't count the number of times I was composing a post on here, clicked off the text box, hit back space to delete and found myself out of the post page and my post gone.

Google removing the "View Image" and "Search By Image" buttons on Google Image Search is a lot more annoying.

Alvin Flummux wrote:

Lagamorph wrote:Google removing the functionality of the backspace key acting as the back button from Chrome

Good! Can't count the number of times I was composing a post on here, clicked off the text box, hit back space to delete and found myself out of the post page and my post gone.

This.

Plus backspace was always a crutch for those who didn't know that "Alt+Left" is the correct (and pretty much universally applied) shortcut for navigating backwards!

Today's annoyance for me: People who don't respond to work emails. I've emailed someone at work about something fairly important on several occasions this week and have had nothing in response. It's not urgent or life threatening (hence why it's only being dealt with by email rather than face to face or on the phone) but even if they don't know the answer or just don't want to deal with it they could at least respond to say that!

I swear if I get one more phone call saying I've been in a car accident I'll scream. I don't drive or have a licence. I haven't been in a car in ages. I keep getting PPI claim calls too.

Tsunade wrote:I swear if I get one more phone call saying I've been in a car accident I'll scream. I don't drive or have a licence. I haven't been in a car in ages. I keep getting PPI claim calls too.

I had an accident in 2013 but still get calls about it. Unfortunately they aren't traceable because in one where I made it totally clear there were no injuries, the guy was trying to get me to claim anyway.

Add to contacts as PPI and just block the number. Unfortunately answering it logs it as an active number to be resold for more spam or actually put back in rotation.

Which is why I don't answer most calls if I'm not expecting anything and then Google the number. If it's the bank etc I'll call it back. And any customers or people I give a gooseberry fool about are I my phone book.

It'll be an area code from some random city or tariffed code and never a mobile.

They are probably using an internet phone that generates a different number each time that can't be called back. I make it a habit now to ask the caller to give me the number they are calling from before discussing anything. Usually brings the call to a swift end.