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    Partner in labour

    It's better to unload the gun than rely on bulletproofing...
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    Partner in labour

    No need to drive fast if he's got time to post about it on the internet...
  3. Does it matter if collar and cuffs match, I mean what if it's shaved?
  4. Hate to burst your bubble, but the legal profession is not made up of wonderful people who know everything. Copyright law is a fairly specialist area, and most solicitors tend to specialise in a particular discipline leaving their knowledge of other subjects paltry in comparison.
  5. Photo copyright is a minefield, photography mags are full of pieces about it. Take the money, the fact you have asked them to put it in writing shows they have shown "reasonableness" in attempting to resolve.
  6. Licencing wouldn't solve any problems, just increase hurdles. If you think that it's a good idea then I've got a suggestion for where you can stick that rifle.
  7. It was only the first hall and foodcourt that was really overcrowded, the rest of the halls were ok. I agree that the traffic management and parking provisions were terrible, they were lining up the cars one at a time rather which caused the delays getting traffic off the road.
  8. We were travelling back from a job in the van and my mate moved out to avoid a cone in the road. Some woman on the other side crossed a double white into our side and both mirrors got completely smashed. Being in a liveried van we pulled over, only to see her disappear into the distance. Mate still ended up getting investigated by our transport manager because we didn't get her details.
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    Superbowl

    Football? No sir, with football you use your "foot" and a "ball". The Superbowl is the hand-egg championship final.
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    Job rant

    I also wouldn't lead with the fact you've worked in business expansion, that only works on a CV if you are pro-actively moving on to bigger challenges from a thriving business. Otherwise it just looks like you were **** at it.
  11. That's a shame, although it is the workforce that appoints/elects a rep rather than the union.
  12. Bloke just spent all his wages in William Hill. He walked out despondent, closed his eyes, clasped his hands together and said "Jesus, send me a sign that you want me to stop gambling".
  13. No they don't have to "offer" it. One of the reasons I switched from GMB was that I couldn't opt out of any affiliation.
  14. I'm in UNISON which allows me to opt out of Labour Party affiliation/support, one of the few that do so. As for "playing politics" that's the route that has to be taken sometimes. Strikes don't make laws and regulations, Parliament do.
  15. Shows how out of touch you are. People do get dismissed for their sickness absence. Rather than dealing with the **** takers most organisations now just attempt to apply a carte-Blanche approach regardless of reason. The situation you describe is "unfair dismissal" not constructive dismissal, and a tribunal payout would be unlikely to pay the bills for long. I'm glad that you can hold your own in a meeting with management, the majority of employees can't do that and usually assume that their manager knows what they are doing and plays by the rules.
  16. That isn't Unite's fault, that's the fault of the reps at her workplace. Hence my comment about how organised they are in the OP's workplace.
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    Ideas needed!

    Or a Delboy style yuppie? Red braces etc...
  18. The biggest point to consider is how active the union is in your workplace, and whether they are successful. There's no point joining a union if they don't have many reps (although that's the fault of the membership for not electing from within the ranks). To answer those who say policies are there are policies to protect workers so"keep your nose clean and you will be fine", I've recently defended a member who was disciplined for their sickness attendance. She had four short instances of absence whilst undergoing exploratory surgery and then a hysterectomy following the discovery of cancer in her womb and ovaries. The management response was that they were "just following policy". Without a knowledgeable and confident rep behind her she'd have been on a written warning and may have lost her job for catching a cold, despite almost 15years with an immaculate HR record.
  19. I think KW got a finger stuck in him during a strip search or something.
  20. I haven't read the article in question (mainly because I won't grace anything published by that rag with my time or interest) but I've heard tell that there are pictures. If a fox was attacking my child he/she would be up on my shoulders and the fox would have a footprint on its head or up it's '*****, I wouldn't be taking bloody pictures.
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    my day

    Ouch. I believe the jury is still out on that one... Mine's the same mate, but it's our first so I leave her in bed and was out with gun or ferrets to "give her plenty of space to relax at her own pace"
  22. If you've got a set of keys, get 'em in your hand and make 'em count.
  23. Got sent there by work for a 4x4 training course with work, had lunch in the hotel too. Didn't get to shoot on the clay ground because we had to hurry back West as soon as the course finished
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