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  4. Mini stick welder

    in Craft and DIY Section

    Posted

    On 21/11/2023 at 23:41, Dave-G said:

     

    I've noticed warm rods spark up better than new one's.

     

    When using portable welders in the Army we had a "pie" box in the generator which was where you kept your rods and the occasional NAAFI pie, this box was kept warm so your rods didn't absorb any moisture while welding, you can place them on a radiator for a while to get the same effect, as ditcy has said , run on and off plates always a good idea.

    And i would get a little book, write down all the information for each weld that works, metal size ,rods used, setting on machine, always handy.

  12. Junior Doctors Now About To Start A Six Day Strike ?

    in Off Topic

    Posted

    24 minutes ago, Lloyd90 said:


    My wife doesn’t work there she works in the private sector like I said. 

    Apologies i misread
     

    I work there because I can genuinely help people and get satisfaction but I am regularly asking myself if it’s worth it, as are friends of mine in the NHS, Police, Ambulance etc. 

    And yet you are still there as are all your friends, the grass isn't greener believe me
     

    Whilst there are some individuals that you appear to be friends with who are abusing the long term sick, I manage a team of 20+ and we don’t have anyone in our team abusing the sickness. 

    There are 1.27 million working for the nhs, your group of 20 are a miniscule amout to gauge by, but there are statistics that show the nhs have a bigger sickness rate than others, and please don't tell me that is because you are all overstretched and stressed.
     

    Those agency jobs you speak of don’t come with the NHS pension or the sick pay so if people are quitting their current roles to go into agency posts for better money that just shows the brilliant pension ain’t all it’s cracked up to be. (Some) People would rather be better paid now. I imagine she’s already paid in for many years so doesn’t need to add much more. 

    No they don't come with a pension, but you can retire early with a nice pension and then do agency work with way better pay, that is exactly what my friend is doing, so she is a statistic of leaving the nhs, and yet works for them in the same role getting paid way more.
     

    I know many people in private sector who retire from their main role and go back consulting or doing project work 2-3 days a week on good money, it’s no different. They contributed to their own pension, they didn't have a nice pension scheme like the nhs provides.
     

    You can continue to state what you will but the staff are the biggest resource (and expense) of the NHS and public demand just continues to increase. You won’t get better services by putting in less staff with worse pay/conditions, that’s for certain.

    And you won't get a service that improves without major changes in the way the nhs is structured and run, but as i said there is no political will to do that. 

    The NHS is not the best system, it is far from it and ranks out of the top 10 consistantly in terms of best healthcare and that is because of the way it is structured, if it were a private business it would have been folded long ago, like it or not it must change to survive,close to a third of tax we pay goes to healthcare in the uk and yet we have poor results compared to other countries, and our waiting lists were large, and now thanks to to doctors striking they have increased.

    I think we will have to agree to disagree on the subject, you are in the system, i am looking from the outside.

     

  13. Junior Doctors Now About To Start A Six Day Strike ?

    in Off Topic

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    12 minutes ago, Lloyd90 said:

    If it’s as good as you say, why are there so many vacancies? 
     

    Why are they leaving in droves? 
     

    Why aren’t the public queueing up to leave their private sector jobs and take up the easy life in the public sector? 

    If it is a bad as you say why do you and your wife still work there?

    People are not leaving in droves, otherwise the nhs would stop in a few weeks, What does happen is people in the system know how to play the system, a friend who is a nurse retired because insted of working 5-6 days a week she went on bank work and now works 3 days a week doing the same job but for much better pay, but as long as the nhs is happy to pay for these agency nurses then people will leave and work for agencies.

    Another person i know a plaster tech takes at least 3 months sick a year, she gets full pay for months then half pay for more months and then no pay, starangely she never makes it to no pay before coming back to work.

     

    There are many vacancies because it's the biggest employer in europe.

    Welcome to 2024, Today's headlines "THE NHS IS IN CRISIS", oh hang on wasn't that last year and the year before and the year before and the year before............ you get the picture.

    Until the model is changed then it will always be in crisis, but no political party has the balls to implement the changes needed, so it will be propped up always on the brink of a crisis.

  14. Junior Doctors Now About To Start A Six Day Strike ?

    in Off Topic

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Lloyd90 said:


    Yes the payment to CEO’s and shareholders is from profits but it just shows the huge shift in priorities from employees, workers are told there’s no money for pay rises whilst those at the top are being paid significantly more. 
    I think you generally find that ceo's get large bonuses because the company is doing well and in general the workers get pay rises, i have said on other threads that i have had 3 pay rises over the last 2 years as our company contiues to grow and do well, Trying to compare what happens in a company run by individuals who put their all into the company to make it grow and prosper with the NHS is mad, there is no individual risk or your house on the line if you fail, in fact there are many instances where failure in the NHS just means you are moved sideways or even promoted, the worst is you "retire" with a full pension.
     

    I understand more than most the risk and burden starting a company takes on but it’s gets to a point where it’s just perverse. Especially with public utilities like the water companies as an example. Paying massive bonuses and profits whilst doing an awful job. 
    Again there is no comparrison, they are run for profit, they have shareholders, We all know what would happen if any political party announced that the NHS was going to be run as a company with shareholders, and therin is part of the problem, reform isn't going to happen, money will continue to be thrown at the NHS and it will just get swallowed because it is old and not run efficiently.
    (I ran my own company for 15 years, my wife had hers for 5)
     

     

    I understand that over the past year or two even the private sector pay rises have been low, but we’re looking at pay erosion over the past 20 years. 

    Everyone is in the same boat, but most don't have that lovely public sector pension to look forward to, and the generous holidays and sick leave the nhs provides, Doctors in particular have a lovely pension scheme.
     

    There were many years my wife in the private sector was getting over inflation rises whilst in the public sector we were on a pay freeze or +1-2%. 
     

    Some will (quite childishly) say, don’t work in the public sector then. 
     

    I didn’t go into that work based off the financial reward, but I still hold the right to complain when the pay is eroded year after year. 
     

    Similarly in other fields, and there are plenty who are saying “fair enough” to such childish comments and leaving in droves. 
     

    What age can you retire? what pension will you get? how much sick leave can you take before you go onto half pay and then no pay?

     

  15. Junior Doctors Now About To Start A Six Day Strike ?

    in Off Topic

    Posted

    33 minutes ago, Lloyd90 said:

    Once again a sad attitude shown on here regarding the NHS and public sector workers, yet we see other threads complaining about how services are crumbling, not working and letting the country down. 
     

    UK workers both public and private have seen significant wage stagnation for many years now. 
     

    Look at similar wages abroad and the UK is well behind for lots of fields. 
     

    Add in fairly high taxes, inflation, constantly rising house prices and cost of living. 
     

    We don’t have enough Doctors, many doctors (as well as nurses and similar) are moving abroad for better pay and quality of life. 
     

    The idea that those who choose to remain in the UK rather than jump ship should therefore have to shut up about the pay and conditions and be blasted for fighting for better pay and conditions is madness. 
     


    Similarly in the private sector: 

    We continue to hear “we can’t afford better pay”… 

    CEO pay vs average worker pay in 1989 was 59:1… these days it’s almost 400:1. 
     

    There seems to be plenty of profit for CEO’s, big bonuses and share holder bonus payouts. 

    I read an interesting article on doctors moving abroad, the overall concensus was although they were paid more, they were also taxed higher and the cost of living was generally higher, in particular a doctor who moved to australia who admitted she still worked long hours had better pay, but offset against the cost of housing and the cost of living and tax she was no better off if not as slightly worse off, although she was happy about the weather, she said she felt she was fed a dream to entice her there and it wasn't all it was cracked up to be.

    To give pay rises means the public purse has to be squeezed, and at a time when most in the private sector are having to accept small pay rises it is not acceptable that doctors should get the 30+% they want, they have been offered a rise in line with others, when you factor in that the public purse will give them a very generous pension pot and they will also go on to do a lot of private work and earn very good money then they are doing better than most.

    Your argument about CEOs is misleading, their rises and payouts are funded through profits the company makes not the public purse.

    The irony is by these strikes the doctors are damaging the NHS ,creating huge waiting lists, and people on those lists are deteriorating so there is a future health cost to be met because of their actions.

     

     

  17. Junior Doctors Now About To Start A Six Day Strike ?

    in Off Topic

    Posted

    11 minutes ago, marsh man said:

    Do you think this have dragged on far to long now ? , this have got to be sorted out before long as many lives are at risk and countless hospital appointments and operation are been cancelled . this have got to be resolved and as soon as possible .

    This is not about pay, it's political, and shame on all those doctors who are happy to strike.

  19. Looks like the public is waking up 🙄

    in Off Topic

    Posted

    Just now, owain said:

     

    Priceless, “ you can’t say 2000 people are representative”. 
    Next breath “ well I’m alright Jack”.

    Typical IQ of the average brexit voter 😂😂

    And here it comes, strange on all the sites that i talk about brexit, the remainer usually resorts to the average IQ slur, and while i wasn't one for university i have a pretty good IQ and ran my own company for 15 years earning very good money, my son on the other hand has two degrees, he is not in the remain camp, my other son works on complex systems in the military that would blow your mind, he isn't on your team, my wife ran her own company and then went on to run another, she's not your fan.
    If all you can say is "Typical IQ of the average brexit voter" then you have well and truly lost the argument.

    Respond how you want, i won't be answering you.

  20. Looks like the public is waking up 🙄

    in Off Topic

    Posted

    11 minutes ago, owain said:

    I think it is you who cannot accept that brexit has been a failure. And as you have not got any logical way of proving otherwise you have to result to childish remarks. I have posted links to back up what I am saying, something you seem reluctant to do, I wonder why? 

    Lol good luck getting labour or the tories to commit political suicide by going back in, they know which side their bread is buttered on.

    Oh and in the last 2 years i have had 3 good pay rises, and the company i work for has grown nicely and will continue to grow, brexit has not affected my work.

     

  21. Looks like the public is waking up 🙄

    in Off Topic

    Posted

    10 minutes ago, owain said:

    You are sitting at your computer, or on your phone now. If I am so wrong, everybody is loving brexit and all that goes with it. Please find something, anything to back it up! 
     

    Tell me who will stage that referendum you want? labour and the tories won't go there, they both know the reality is that it might go wrong for them again, and they both know it's a vote loser.

    But it is strange that even after all these yrears you cannot accept the vote that was democratically taken and which the majority of those that voted said they wanted to leave. 
    There will be no return, but you carry on crying those remainer tears, it brings a smile.

  22. Looks like the public is waking up 🙄

    in Off Topic

    Posted

    33 minutes ago, owain said:

    We know the result of the vote, public opinion is now that it was the wrong move. Unless you can demonstrate otherwise. 
    It has also been said that other countries will follow our lead, that is yet to happen. And judging by the link above, there is very little public appetite in other countries to do so. Again unless you can provide some information to the contrary. 
    I can almost imagine members of this forum sitting at their computers with their fingers in their ears shouting “LA LA LA” 😂

    Public opinion taken from polls is not that accurate, go to a town that voted mainly to remain and you will get a poll skewered to the answer you want if you support remain.
    The fact is that any side of the argument is highly unlikely to publish results that are counter to their desired outcome, so you take lots of polls until one that you like pops up, then you publish.

    But to keep on that the country made a mistake and realise it, is the same old argument rolled out by those who did not get what they wanted in the referendum and now years down the line still cannot accept that things did not go their way.

  23. Testing insta 360 on Spyder

    in Motoring Section

    Posted

    Got an insta 360 for Christmas, actually had an afternoon where it isn't persistently raining so clamped it to the trike and tested it out,need to figure out other mounting points but the trike is very limited in that area and the editing is a steep learning curve for someone like me who hasn't got a clue what to do.

    But here's my first video while riding the Spyder.i am very impressed with the camera and the different views and angles you can use when editing, it captures everything.

     

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