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james_s:

--- Quote from: pcprogrammer on August 21, 2022, 05:28:10 pm ---In the courting rituals the consent often is indeed visual, but I can also see a problem then when one of the participants changes it's mind and says no, it does not always sit so well with the other participant. And then it possibly gets ugly. In my case the wife would not be that happy if a nice lady came up to me and started kissing me ;)

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Well yes, but it has always been complicated, there is no way to prevent someone from not taking rejection well other than to teach them ahead of time how to handle rejection. At least where I'm from, polite people don't just walk up and start kissing somebody they find attractive out of the blue, let alone married people. For those who wish to cut to the chase, there are people whose career centers around providing such services.
paulca:
This might tell you why I stick it.

On enumerations, tax, et. al.  It's pretty good here.  Starting with the highlights.

30 days paid annual leave.  Additional sick days as you need, don't take the piss.  37.5 hour week (40 hours basically, but they don't pay you for 30 minutes of the day, lunch).  US Companies here put that to a 40 hour week, which forces them to provide a full hour for lunch making it a 45 hour elapsed week.  That's not nice in winter this far North, you don't see daylight from November till March!

Private company group medical policy (BUPA).  By using a group policy they can turn the bells and whistles on and it still only costs about £300 a month 'each', obviously some use it more than others, but the group premium seems to work... especially as I have been a smoker as they don't even require any medical history beyond the usual "duty of care" questions for HR you don't have to answer.   A personal medical insurance quote for me alone was £700 a month for the most basic plan and about £1100 for an equivalent one! 

The health cover is "benefit in kind" or something, meaning while the company pay it for me, I still have to pay tax on it.  So it get's added back INTO my salary for tax and then removed!  Works similarly for other things. 

I'm allowed to earn something like 14k tax free.  After that it's 20% until you get to around £50k when it jumps to 40%.  Then there is "national insurance", which is more complicated, with you and the employer paying half, it's like 13% after tax.  This "banks" unemployment benefit credits basically - or its supposed to.

If I get a £1k bonus, I usually only see about £550 or it.

Pension contributions are tax free, up to a fairly high ceiling.  Employers usually give between 3-5% into your pension and will match you up to 7-10%.   It's actually worth considering shifting anything in that 40% bracket into your pension if you can.  You do pay tax on draw down, but only at the rate you draw, so you can avoid the 40% completely....   if you can wait on the money.

A clatter of other little perks and benefits.

Obviously Im not saying my actual salary, as it would be 90% meaningless anyway, it's all relative to the cost of living where you work.
MT:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_03D1iaFJzw



PlainName:

--- Quote from: Nominal Animal ---I've heard time and time again, how people first buy cheap tools, become dissatisfied with them, and end up having to buy the expensive tools anyway.
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Yeah, I do that. Generally I have two modes of buying:

1. Know exactly what I want, the precise features it must have, the features I definitely don't want, and sometimes even the manufacturers exact model reference. It costs what it costs.

And I know all that because the other buying mode is:

2. I don't know precisely what I want (maybe it's a new tool) and I don't want to spend all my money on something that isn't right but I can't change because it was so expensive. So I buy a cheap one to find out what all that stuff is so I can then revert to 1 if necessary.

Sometimes the cheap one is just fine anyway :)
Ed.Kloonk:

--- Quote from: MT on August 21, 2022, 06:17:18 pm ---https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_03D1iaFJzw



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Penis envy. Nothing more. Nothing less.
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