OT. The futures Bright, the Futures Brexit!!!

[SithHappens]

Vaguely on subject, but none the less interesting. A client of mine is currently arranging a free staff Xmas party for their employees on an evening before the festivities. They employ a corps of zero hour staff. These staff have evidently refused to go unless they can charge the host for the time spent attending the party.

What's anyone think - offered a freebie and it's not good enough!

Cant see why it would be different for zero hour, unlikely to be in works time either way. I'd say come or dont if I was the employer.

[Andy_Faber]

Vaguely on subject, but none the less interesting. A client of mine is currently arranging a free staff Xmas party for their employees on an evening before the festivities. They employ a corps of zero hour staff. These staff have evidently refused to go unless they can charge the host for the time spent attending the party.

What's anyone think - offered a freebie and it's not good enough!

Leave the option open for them to attend. Whether they do or don’t the cost expended is the same. I’ve experienced similar where a clique demanded that a traditionally subsidised bash became fully paid for or they wouldn’t attend. It wasn’t, they didn’t, it was an absolute banger.

[Trickytreesreds]

Yes we do expect more of our politicians, for the simple reason I’d surmise that it’s our lives they are messing with

Wouldn’t it be great to have a politician with integrity who’d still stand up and say ‘get a life it’s just a bloody bit of clobber’…seemingly not in their nature (any of them)

Alternately, I see MP's are getting abusive when a fellow MP, who doesn't actually want his salary and gives it away.
Do something nice that upsets the apple cart and the natives get rattled.

https://www.ft.com/content/1524138f-585a-438a-a467-b1cae523f3e1

[Geoff Parkstone]

Are you on commission for FT subscriptions, Tricky?

[Trickytreesreds]

Are you on commission for FT subscriptions, Tricky?

I wish.
Perhaps an MP not on the cadge deserves recognition though

[Geoff Parkstone]

So why post links that are behind a pay wall?

[Trickytreesreds]

So why post links that are behind a pay wall?

It wasn't behind a pay wall when I clicked it?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgr5qvpy2djo

so soes he deserve scorn from the takers ?

[Ramshank72]

Vaguely on subject, but none the less interesting. A client of mine is currently arranging a free staff Xmas party for their employees on an evening before the festivities. They employ a corps of zero hour staff. These staff have evidently refused to go unless they can charge the host for the time spent attending the party.

What's anyone think - offered a freebie and it's not good enough!

I think it's funny! Beats making a parents evening excuse

[SithHappens]

It wasn't behind a pay wall when I clicked it?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgr5qvpy2djo

so soes he deserve scorn from the takers ?

Article doesn't really say he's been getting pelters for it.

I wouldn't criticise him for it, nor would I hold him up as some sort of hero either, I'm sure his multi million pound fortune will keep him going.

Maybe some of those affected by his role in putting southampton into administration would have been grateful for some of his 'charity'

[Trickytreesreds]

IS THE £ still in freefall?

[Geoff Parkstone]

No but Us dropped interest rate earlier

[swaledale]

Article doesn't really say he's been getting pelters for it.

I wouldn't criticise him for it, nor would I hold him up as some sort of hero either, I'm sure his multi million pound fortune will keep him going.

Maybe some of those affected by his role in putting southampton into administration would have been grateful for some of his 'charity'

Given I suspect he will be doing a bare minimum as an MP, then its honesty not taking the salary.

[MadAmster]

IS THE £ still in freefall?

In the past 6 months, my UK pension has, when paid out in Euros, gone up by 1.6% thanks to the change in exchange rates. I wouldn't call that freefall by any stretch of the imagination. Quite the opposite in fact.

[SithHappens]

It's still got some way to go to recover to the amount it was before it fell off the cliff after the brext vote.

[MadAmster]

It's still got some way to go to recover to the amount it was before it fell off the cliff after the brext vote.

Oh how I wish we still had the exchange rate from when I moved here in 1984 of £1 = 4.2 Dutch Guilders, which is 1.90 Euro rather than the €1.19 it currently is. That would mean another 4 or 5 holidays a year. Come on UK sort yersens aht